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Forum: Planetarion Discussions 24 Apr 2015, 20:11
Replies: 17
Views: 7,179
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Planetarion Meet UK 12/09/2015

I'll come to London. I'd rather avoid Wetherspoons too but it's not a deal breaker
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 25 May 2012, 00:43
Replies: 15
Views: 4,796
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Hidden Agenda R47

We shall crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentations of their women!
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 18 Mar 2012, 18:09
Replies: 6
Views: 2,982
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Hidden agenda returns

The thing flopped, half-formed, gasping from the water.
As its eyes flickered open under the new sky they beheld an alien landscape spread before it.
Driven by a terrible hunger, it lurched forward...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 25 Mar 2010, 19:49
Replies: 0
Views: 4,497
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Late Sign Ups for Private Gals - Round 36

We've been asked this a few times now so maybe this will help a few people.

For private galaxies, the number of planets you had at shuffle determines the number of late sign ups you can have at PT...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Mar 2010, 14:50
Replies: 53
Views: 14,375
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: "this is a special round"

From what I remember, we didn't. Must've kicked the bottom people when we had full tag but otherwise didn't bother except for a couple of trouble makers.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Mar 2010, 14:37
Replies: 53
Views: 14,375
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: "this is a special round"

I think only in round 29 did we not come close to the alliance limit but let's be honest, we accepted just about everyone, regardless of ability :)

Edit: Mz beat me to it but are those limits...
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 4 Jan 2010, 23:55
Replies: 29
Views: 7,312
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: ODDR round 35

Go go ODDR! Good luck to all the lovely people you have, hope to see you fighting well.
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 21 Oct 2009, 10:23
Replies: 16
Views: 4,088
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: ODDR Round 34

Good luck everyone.

I hope you all have the fun :)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jun 2009, 20:15
Replies: 57
Views: 8,007
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Planetarion Banner

This is terrible, I don't know how anyone can like it. The font on the Planetarion logo is shockingly bad and the perspective on the space station(?) is all wrong. All in all it looks like the sort...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 16 May 2009, 15:59
Replies: 2
Views: 3,094
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: bcalc get

Although I am obviously not Cin, I know a little about this. Hope this helps.

For ships you do something like this:

def_1_0=1000&att_1_1=1000

Where, in general, the names are:
...
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 9 Apr 2009, 13:38
Replies: 26
Views: 6,251
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Hidden-Agenda

Good luck guys and gals, make sure you have some fun :)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 10 Mar 2009, 16:49
Replies: 112
Views: 17,606
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Keeping new Players / new chat

Maybe if you talked to the people running Mibbit you could come to some arrangement
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 19 Jan 2009, 22:04
Replies: 3
Views: 3,449
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Hidden Agenda - still going XXX

With over 18 rounds of experience, you sure are in capable hands at Hidden Agenda.
If this is your first time, or you're a little rusty, we can lubricate your passage into the game.
We have the...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 5 Nov 2008, 02:26
Replies: 6
Views: 3,385
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Changes to governments and races

I would also like this, so I can keep some calcs up to date

Edit: Yes I'm too lazy to read the manual every time
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 3 Nov 2008, 10:00
Replies: 5
Views: 3,034
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Round 29 recruits you to Hidden Agenda

For many rounds HA have been providing a rich seam of highly trained players who have been hungrily snapped up by alliances who appreciate that players come in all shapes and sizes.

Famous for our...
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 9 Sep 2008, 23:18
Replies: 3
Views: 2,728
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Recruiting For Terran Alliance

Good luck fellow players
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Aug 2008, 16:55
Replies: 64
Views: 521,165
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: New Covert Op Changes

It is a bit confusing but you don't pay for the security guards on the population settings.

The security guards you pay for are on a new covert ops page and you specifically train and fire them...
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 9 Aug 2008, 13:04
Replies: 12
Views: 3,605
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Out of the Closet - Hidden Agenda

We'll have to send some UN inspectors round to make sure they're being shoemanely treated :p
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 8 Aug 2008, 19:45
Replies: 12
Views: 3,605
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Out of the Closet - Hidden Agenda

Every 37 seconds a pair of Fiery's shoes get consigned to the oblivion of the closet, never to be seen again.

HA's inspectors and shoe collection officers (SCOs) are the frontline men and women...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 22 Jul 2008, 19:50
Replies: 22
Views: 4,914
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: New Quest Structure

I like it, easy to implement, loses the light factory for ETD, and above all understandable.

Some of the details might have to be tweaked but that's fine. A slight change I would suggest is to...
Forum: General Discussions 11 Jul 2008, 22:22
Replies: 5
Views: 2,706
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Podcasts

It has to be SModcast

http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2008/07/06/smodcast-56/

SModcast is the meandering palaver of a pair of dudes whose voices are so dull, they don’t deserve to be on...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 11 Jul 2008, 10:03
Replies: 6
Views: 4,740
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Opera v9.5 unable to reply to or create forum posts.

Somebody has put on their pointy hat and worked some magic; Opera 9.51 works with the forums.

Thank you, whoever you are
Forum: General Discussions 28 Jun 2008, 03:26
Replies: 11
Views: 3,990
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Book Review

I haven't read this particular book and I don't really know much about it but here goes anyway.

Russell, with Alfred North Whitehead, was trying to prove the internal consistancy of mathematics...
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 25 Jun 2008, 20:32
Replies: 15
Views: 4,457
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: TGV is considering coming out of retirement R28

I hope to see TGV playing next round. Go Viking!
Forum: Alliance Discussions 14 Jun 2008, 11:41
Replies: 89
Views: 14,559
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 31 May 2008, 12:41
Replies: 12
Views: 3,292
Posted By SpaceMonkey
What's in your Agenda? - Round 27

The Hidden Agenda is a UK based charity working worldwide to improve conditions for retired military and NASA chimpanzees.

Founded early in 2005, Hidden Agenda has taken care of over 250 chimps.
...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Apr 2008, 14:46
Replies: 38
Views: 3,514
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Incoming Report

If you change the status from Reported to say Open or Covered, that message goes away.
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 12 Mar 2008, 22:26
Replies: 9
Views: 3,605
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Smile What's the Agenda for round twenty six?

After twelve or thirteen (who cares?) long rounds it is time to reveal our true agenda.

At Hidden Agenda, we have been participating in government sponsored research into 'game therapy'. Through...
Forum: General Discussions 18 Feb 2008, 21:48
Replies: 58
Views: 8,406
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Top 5 Comedians

Trying not to mention someone All Systems Go has already, even though I agree (except Woody Allen - not funny).

Eddie Izzard
Emo Philips
Jeff Green
Alan Davis
Lucy Porter

With a special...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Jan 2008, 18:36
Replies: 22
Views: 3,194
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Forum: Strategic Discussions 15 Jan 2008, 02:08
Replies: 28
Views: 61,364
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Useful Links: Round 23

Found a couple more things that can help out.

This is an all over calculator, does covert-ops, production, research, construction. not sure if it's a mirror of something already there....
Forum: General Discussions 3 Dec 2007, 14:34
Replies: 18
Views: 3,967
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Math

I just found out about this site so I don't know how good it is but it might help you

http://cnx.org/content/col10343/latest/
Forum: Programming and Discussion 2 Dec 2007, 21:43
Replies: 7
Views: 4,296
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: mIRC code for Planetarion dumps

Here is some code to parse the dump and handle rankings. Probably not the greatest but it's pretty fast.

Call the parse routines from the sockclose portion of the code above


;
; ...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 14 Nov 2007, 21:30
Replies: 6
Views: 2,689
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: SPQR is having a break

Put your feet up and return refreshed :)
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 Oct 2007, 21:05
Replies: 32
Views: 6,454
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Hidden Agenda Drops!

Head ->:o
Stick -> |

Shall I just put it next to yours, what with Insomnia finishing so well and all?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 Jul 2007, 15:28
Replies: 24
Views: 3,629
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Combat Report does not agree with published Combat Formlae

From what I could make out the stealing is something to do with relative fleet values similar to roid capping. As JBG said the same thing happened last round.

The roid capping is still bugged as...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Jun 2007, 11:48
Replies: 28
Views: 4,285
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Alliance limit needs to be upped: Admittedly I was wrong.

A dynamic limit is at least a step in the right direction. I mean I know this round is a special case but I'm getting tired of turning people away. The last few rounds it wasn't that many people...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 24 Jun 2007, 23:04
Replies: 11
Views: 3,126
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Round 23 rumours

Quoted for truth
Forum: General Discussions 27 May 2007, 12:26
Replies: 20
Views: 3,345
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Calling All Wii Owners!

I stand up for Sports and Smooth Moves although I don't play that very much. It would probably be easier to stand up for Spiderman 3 but I haven't tried yet
Forum: General Discussions 26 May 2007, 02:10
Replies: 94
Views: 12,095
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: What should my home drinks cabinet contain?

Kahlúa, Pernod, Curaçao (couple of different flavours), Angostura bitters, Noilly Pratt, schnapps, spiced rum, polish vodka and Aquavit.

And get something with a dead animal in it for show :)
...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 May 2007, 13:03
Replies: 15
Views: 3,313
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: The amount of piggybacking this round. Are galaxies too small?

I remember seeing this suggested before and I say yes.

In a similar fashion to the population changes, perhaps you could have a feature to roughly set the focus of your attacks more to defenders...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 19 Apr 2007, 23:47
Replies: 12
Views: 5,611
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Population...htf does it work?

I wrote a calc, seemed easiest

http://blern.gotadsl.co.uk/popcalc.php

Mining is missing because it's 1 for 1, research and alert are in 5% increments or they'd be too long.

Tbh it might not...
Forum: Programming and Discussion 15 Apr 2007, 11:19
Replies: 19
Views: 5,096
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Are you Agile?

Can someone point me to a good source of free information about the various agile methods?

I'm trying to get a case together to promote some software methodology in the company I work for and...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Dec 2006, 07:13
Replies: 26
Views: 3,832
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: We Want You - Portal Columnists & Round 20 Skin

Leshy, I might be talking out of my arse but don't you need a display: block; to make IE (6 at least) expand the anchor to fill parent element rather than stick with the text, which is normally...
Forum: Programming and Discussion 6 Dec 2006, 00:19
Replies: 15
Views: 2,354
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Java Project

The trouble is the condition on your loops in the questions:

while (!answer[1].equalsIgnoreCase("yes") || !answer[1].equalsIgnoreCase("no"))

it should be && because:...
Forum: General Discussions 3 Dec 2006, 15:02
Replies: 45
Views: 4,387
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Celebrity Mercy Killing

Yeah, sorry to Keith's shade. Keep rocking.
Forum: General Discussions 3 Dec 2006, 14:26
Replies: 45
Views: 4,387
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Celebrity Mercy Killing

Roger Daltrey and the rest of The Who.

They once sang 'I hope I die before I get old' and then didn't. Now the clean living ex-rockers are inflicting their middle-aged mediocrity upon our ears....
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Nov 2006, 19:16
Replies: 79
Views: 7,132
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Fleetcatch

With your first point, wouldn't this lead to red defence? Fake attacking each other so no-one else can get in? If fake attacks didn't count then you could tell a fake attack by trying to attack and...
Forum: General Discussions 23 Nov 2006, 10:32
Replies: 7
Views: 12,321
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: [Phones] Advice please Blasto (anyone)

I haven't had any trouble with 3 and the 3g coverage seems pretty good but I guess that depends where you are.
http://www.three.co.uk/three/coverage/coverageChecker.do

The thing that upsets me...
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 21 Nov 2006, 13:53
Replies: 6
Views: 2,600
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Hidden Agenda - Round 19

Have you recently suffered a personal injury?
Are you suffering from emotional distress or permanent planet disability?
Maybe you have been kicked from an alliance so they can merge with someone...
Forum: Programming and Discussion 17 Nov 2006, 02:12
Replies: 12
Views: 2,283
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Arrays

You might want to use links so that after a question, depending on the answer, it links to the next question.

I don't know Java but in C I would use something like:


struct QandA {
char...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 12 Nov 2006, 16:31
Replies: 11
Views: 2,601
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Working out EXP

Max bravery is 2 + 2 - 1 = 3
Producing 30 XP per roid for someone with twice your value and twice your score (no point attacking larger because it's capped here).

Since score = 60 * xp + value...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Nov 2006, 02:20
Replies: 19
Views: 2,530
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Quit changing planet names _or_ publish unique IDs in DB dumps

If a unique ID gets added to the dumps also add it to the alliance members list please, removing the ruler and planet from it really messed my shit up
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Nov 2006, 16:09
Replies: 49
Views: 6,433
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Alliance Limit 50 in Round 20 (All those in favour)

But you are not allowing them to be more picky, you are forcing them to be more picky. I don't have a problem with reducing the sizes for the top alliances but forcing it on everyone will just...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Nov 2006, 13:45
Replies: 49
Views: 6,433
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Alliance Limit 50 in Round 20 (All those in favour)

I think having changing limits based upon rank, similar to Wakey's suggestion, is a good idea. There was a similar system a few rounds ago, what was wrong with it?

To reply to Zo0f -
Training...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 23 Oct 2006, 10:37
Replies: 28
Views: 61,364
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Useful Links: Round 18

Here are some links I keep.

PA Toolbar
http://patoolsbar.com/

Alternative PA Addresses
http://game.planetarion.com/login.pl
http://p45.planetarion.com/login.pl ...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 23 Oct 2006, 09:39
Replies: 9
Views: 2,409
Posted By SpaceMonkey
New Player Guide?

Although I appreciate the thought and the effort that went into adding this to every galaxy forum, I think the advice isn't particularly good.

There already are better guides available on the Wiki...
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 6 Oct 2006, 12:02
Replies: 13
Views: 4,768
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: War-Disney Recruitment

Have fun and good luck :)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Sep 2006, 14:19
Replies: 15
Views: 4,073
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: online irc....help

I've only used talshiar but here are a couple more

http://www.polarhome.com
http://www.mouselike.org
http://www.talshiar-alliance.com/WebIRC.html

I thought there was a thread somewhere...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Sep 2006, 16:31
Replies: 35
Views: 3,632
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: 3 way battles

Sounds like a good idea.
With the firepower being split on the number of ships in each class, like it currently is, it has the benefits of being relatively easy to code and easy to understand.
...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 29 Aug 2006, 23:26
Replies: 21
Views: 2,316
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: The Universe vs Terran calc

Cat CR do not target Scarab, which fire before them. Okay so they don't kill them and Ziks can't really take advantage of them but there they are.

From a purely tagetting point of view, Ter BS...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Jul 2006, 20:13
Replies: 1
Views: 2,147
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Cov-Op ranking change

It should not be like that because the type of operation is not proportional to the difficulty, for example Sabotage only requires 5 agents but Network Charting takes 15. Why should we score twice...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 29 Jul 2006, 00:36
Replies: 29
Views: 3,668
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Alliances

I thought there were alliances that operated like this. It is the rough idea behind Hidden Agenda at any rate. We obviously aren't an elite crew but the idea is to help people help themselves and...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 5 Apr 2006, 22:43
Replies: 1
Views: 2,024
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: New XP formula

min picks the lowest of the 2 numbers while max picks the larger.

If I'm looking at the right formula and know what I'm doing:
new_bravery_factor is a number between 1 and 2

survival_factor...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 Mar 2006, 16:02
Replies: 25
Views: 2,908
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Bash Limit.

I am cat this round with a fleet of spiders and fr, what a coincidence.

Although I did build anti-de and bs to try and put off the unthinking terrans repeatedly raping the same people in the...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 Mar 2006, 13:25
Replies: 25
Views: 2,908
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Bash Limit.

I played zik for 3 rounds and was very good at crashing fleets thanks :p
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Mar 2006, 14:19
Replies: 25
Views: 2,908
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Bash Limit.

I don't see what can be so hard about crashing fleets to keep a low value
Forum: Alliance Discussions 6 Mar 2006, 13:01
Replies: 55
Views: 7,226
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Discussion of non-Top 10 alliances

Yeah, keep it up Rock :)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Mar 2006, 12:47
Replies: 27
Views: 2,539
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: XP formula ;p

Just a suggestion, I think I've seen something similar before...

bravery factor = 10 * (target value / your value) - 5

possibly (re)move the bash limit and reduce max bravery to 15?

The idea...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Feb 2006, 16:56
Replies: 42
Views: 3,119
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: A Great Sollution to XP 'exploiting'.

How? Are Cat more likely to freeze than Xan or Ter are to kill?
Besides they are already biased against defending because of the lack of salvage.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Feb 2006, 11:26
Replies: 41
Views: 14,890
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: a research/construction queueing system

How about making so once you set the next one it can't be changed? Potentially a big downside to balance out the benefit.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 Feb 2006, 13:32
Replies: 10
Views: 2,782
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Production Cancel Confirm

I like it for production, but where would the tick box be on research and construction? I guess next to the one you are doing to be consistant with the others.
Forum: General Discussions 17 Feb 2006, 03:14
Replies: 25
Views: 2,408
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: The Perfect PA Player

I seem to remember a similar story about a mexican woman. One day she yawned and heard a pop, then didn't sleep for a bunch of years. Still needed to rest her body a few hours a day but never slept...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 17 Feb 2006, 01:52
Replies: 55
Views: 7,226
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Discussion of non-Top 10 alliances

Thanks to Teargas and boo hiss to PaLiNDRoMe

Tick 484 has:
9 Angels 18442 37 1,230,049 45,511,830
10 [BIG] 15508 46 841,292 38,699,435
11 Tides of Fire 20226 58 662,792 38,441,957 ...
Forum: General Discussions 16 Feb 2006, 00:36
Replies: 282
Views: 15,996
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Total smoking ban passed (previously "Get in my son")

You are not forced to leave but you may choose to do so, unlike smokers.
Forum: General Discussions 15 Feb 2006, 23:07
Replies: 282
Views: 15,996
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Total smoking ban passed (previously "Get in my son")

Sorry I was replying to meglamaniac's use of statistics and didn't realise they didn't match to the BBC poll. I wonder what happened there.

Your reading is rubbish.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 15 Feb 2006, 19:56
Replies: 20
Views: 2,884
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Combat Question?

It is on number of ships 2500 + 5000 + 10000 = 17500

Fireblade = 32000 * 2500 / 17500 = 4571 damage
Arrowhead = 32000 * 5000 / 17500 = 9142 damage
Thief = 32000* 10000 / 17500 = 18285 damage
...
Forum: General Discussions 15 Feb 2006, 12:31
Replies: 282
Views: 15,996
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Total smoking ban passed (previously "Get in my son")

Sorry to be pedantic but if 9 people were in favour for every person objecting it would be 90% in favour. You mean for every person objecting there are 4 in favour.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 Feb 2006, 12:21
Replies: 12
Views: 2,399
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Outboxes

This would be a great idea. Have it for alliance mail too please
Forum: General Discussions 14 Feb 2006, 23:18
Replies: 282
Views: 15,996
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Total smoking ban passed (previously "Get in my son")

First off, I am a smoker and have been for sometime.

Although I agree with Ste that:


but I would like to point out that pubs, clubs, bars whatever were never forced to allow smoking. If the...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 14 Feb 2006, 22:42
Replies: 7
Views: 3,171
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: for the bcalc

It's quite long and very dirty but here it is:


/*
GetShipStats

Returns list of ships
UTY_List is an implementation of a double linked list
*/
UTY_List *GetShipStats()
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Feb 2006, 14:55
Replies: 16
Views: 2,384
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: "Advanced" Battlereports

My bcalc http://blern.gotadsl.co.uk/bcalc.html produces a simple report divided on init.
I could have another look and see how easy it would be to divide on ships, when I get time.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 Jan 2006, 23:07
Replies: 6
Views: 1,949
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: MonkeyCalc updated for R16

Yeah it does, the counts are a bit off because if you add that many more they don't all get stolen but it gives a rough indication of the overkill so you don't send way too many ships
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 Jan 2006, 20:27
Replies: 6
Views: 1,949
Posted By SpaceMonkey
MonkeyCalc updated for R16

Rather than totally hijack Altor's VisioN bcalc thread (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=189310)

I have updated my bcalc http://blern.gotadsl.co.uk/bcalc.html for Round 16.
It...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 Jan 2006, 16:16
Replies: 30
Views: 5,586
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: VisioN bcalc updated for r16

Thanks for that.

I use similar thing for my debug output so it shouldn't be too difficult, only problem being getting the time to sort it properly. I'll see what I can do but I doubt it'll be...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 Jan 2006, 16:02
Replies: 30
Views: 5,586
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: VisioN bcalc updated for r16

I don't know about the logs, could someone show me an example?

Cheers
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 25 Jan 2006, 15:22
Replies: 19
Views: 4,962
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: ---===Still Ain't Xxcellent===---

Good luck dudes and dudettes :)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 Jan 2006, 14:42
Replies: 64
Views: 6,122
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Planetarion Slogans

Planetarion - where having 'roids is a good thing
Planetarion - because you would have chosen the blue pill
Planetarion - in webspace, no-one can hear you scream
Planetarion - even though it's...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 20 Jan 2006, 12:58
Replies: 7
Views: 3,171
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: for the bcalc

Although I don't use the same code base, use only ANSI C, and parse the stats with every calc; if anyone is interested I can post the dirty routines I use to update the stats every week from...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Dec 2005, 16:31
Replies: 56
Views: 6,259
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: The free events between r15 and PAN....

This sounds like great fun but I'm confused, is it a league or a cup challenge?




I'm not a sports fan but don't they usually solve this problem by having a qualifying round at the start? A...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Dec 2005, 16:13
Replies: 22
Views: 2,799
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Galaxy Setup ftw?

I think the gal system is looking better than it has for a while. Slightly smaller galaxies feel better and having slightly smaller alliances too probably helps.



Speaking as a noob HC, I have...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 28 Oct 2005, 10:41
Replies: 20
Views: 5,560
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Can't set an avatar

Thanks Apppoco
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 27 Oct 2005, 00:27
Replies: 20
Views: 5,560
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Unhappy Can't set an avatar

When I go to the edit avatar screen I only get an empty space because I have no avatar and a button saying 'Do not use an avatar' I don't get the use custom avatar one. Tried in Opera and IE
Forum: Programming and Discussion 20 Oct 2005, 16:23
Replies: 18
Views: 2,407
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Java stuff

Wouldn't it be easier to test the variable before calling the constructor? I'm not a Java programmer but it seems pretty obvious, like:

int x = 4;

if ( x == 3) {
object1 = new...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 20 Oct 2005, 15:25
Replies: 4
Views: 2,334
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: More than 9 roids init'd

Upgraded your account yet?
Forum: Programming and Discussion 24 Sep 2005, 15:30
Replies: 37
Views: 5,045
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: What Language is the "best" to learn?

I would say it depends on what you want to write.

Each language has it's own strengths and weaknesses and there are the different methodologies to consider. Once you know one language it is...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Aug 2005, 15:55
Replies: 71
Views: 6,748
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: A necessary evil?

I disagree, an extra fleet for gal defense would greatly reduce stealing due to being able to prelaunch any ships you had to leave behind. This might suit some people but it seems a bit silly after...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Aug 2005, 19:41
Replies: 71
Views: 6,748
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: A necessary evil?

I think I agree with Arfy but I'm not entirely sure why, it just feels right to have smaller galaxies with the smaller player base. This would also lead to smaller clusters which might encourage...
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 21 Aug 2005, 19:29
Replies: 11
Views: 2,946
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Freeware recruiting

I wish you all the best of luck, it probably won't be easy.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 28 Jul 2005, 15:32
Replies: 69
Views: 7,156
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: New players will always be exiled unless...

Well said Wakey. I'm getting a bit tired of people complaining about the lack of community and suggesting changes to the game, when they should be out there building the community.

If you want...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 28 Jul 2005, 12:56
Replies: 15
Views: 2,688
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Battle Calculators

I've never had any mails about my bcalc, maybe you should have tried harder Freedom :p

If anyone gives a monkey's, my calc is a c cgi written from scratch. It bears no relation to Joror's or...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Jul 2005, 10:06
Replies: 7
Views: 2,200
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Bcalc anyone ?

The blern bcalc grabs the ship stats from the game server every Sunday so should always be good.

- SpaceMonkey
Forum: Alliance Recruitment 9 Jul 2005, 18:49
Replies: 11
Views: 2,839
Posted By SpaceMonkey
Re: Hidden Agenda Recruiting for Round 14

Sorry to see you go Selmac, gl mate :)

I'll be in the public channel #hidden-a as much as I can be for those who want to (re)join
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