User:Smong

My website http://toktok.sscentral.com/ has some ASSS and MERVBot plugins with source code. There is also some other misc stuff related to SubSpace.

Programs written by Smong

• a map editor called DustEd
• a conf cleaner confclean
• a chatnet client (ChatNet)

Misc ASSS 'you should know this'

• In the packet callbacks the buffer has been allocated plenty of space, so you can read past the indicated length safely.
• When using amalloc() it will set the memory to all 0's for you.
• When using per-arena/player data that is also all 0'd for you.
• adkey and pdkey are often used as the arena data and player data keys respectively
• Functions with names_like_this() are probably local (ASSS uses local inplace of the static keyword)
• Functions with NamesLikeThis() are probably from an interface
• All your base are belong to us
• The ShipChange callback is broken, despite several requests for grel to fix it
• game_timer/Misc:TimedGame is not fully supported yet (shh)
• The default modules.conf doesn't have scoring:points_periodic, objects or messages
• *arena has been changed to ?a, *log to ?lastlog [<lines>] [<filter>] and esc+c with ?quickfix [<filter>]
• There is a glitch called lag coma where reliable packets get stuck (30+ players?)
• Downloads do take longer than subgame (needs tweaking)
• Autowarp/moveto does screw up your aim

Contact

• MSN: mp564 at hotmail
• ICQ: 123727323

some notes on soccer:capturepoints

capturepoints: positive
each goal starts with this many tokens
scoring a goal takes a token from the enemy goal and puts it in your goal
win by all enemies having 0 tokens
enemy has no tokens left: <team goal!> 'Enemy goal had no points to give.' <arena ?score>

capturepoints: negative
when you have this many tokens you win (soccer game over)
each goal starts with 0 tokens
scoring a goal gives you (team/freq) 1 token

capturepoints: non-zero
all modes except mode0: output from ?score sent to whole arena on goal
end of game message: (ding) 'Soccer game over.'

capturepoints: zero
just reward points given
?score does not work
game never ends

?score: mode0, mode3, mode4, mode5, mode6
SCORE: Team0:%d Team1:%d Team2:%d Team3:%d
SCORE: Warbirds:%d Javelins:%d Spiders:%d Leviathans:%d

?score: mode1, mode2
SCORE: Evens:%d Odds:%d
SCORE: Warbirds:%d Javelins:%d

special case: mode0
just reward points given
no tokens lost or gained
game never ends

special case: mode1, mode2
freq's are odds/evens, so spider = warbird etc.