Spring RTS Engine

Btw, there's been another user recently having trouble with the registration process for the forum

tizbac
— Yesterday at 7:48 PM
yeah unfortunately i can't register at all
nor restore password on my account
seems like forum IP got blacklisted or something similiar

Today my PC rebooted due to a win11 OS update, I open springlobby and i'm unsynced on my game room (metal factions) for some reason, despite engine, game and map being on my file system. Then I check my springlobby version, it reverted from 0.274 to 0.273 for some reason. I downloaded the 0.274 inst...

I see this trend of "we need new blood" that becomes "new blood must displace old blood" because old blood did something wrong. The "new blood" of today will likely become the "old blood" of tomorrow. In this context the discussion isn't about firing some high...

Use common sense when drawing lines. Coil is a recent fork and more compatible with existing spring games than 106.0... you can't use ta3d to run any spring games. The push to rebrand/rename would have been much lower if the official spring maintainers were more open to it instead of being standoffi...

+1 to Sprunk's arguments. Don't get stuck on bad past decisions without very strong reasons. In early January Abma removed BAR from the list of games on the wiki . This a mistake and not just because it's hostile. Even if they use a rebranded fork of the engine (it's a shallow rename and backwards c...

I don't know what BAR/coil is currently giving back, other than taking Games as well as players away from Spring. An improved spring engine that's more compatible with the official 105 than the official 106. Both them and ZK make new maps and related tools. People asking for help regarding engine, ...

new version(s) out! You can download it here or here . Also available through the "metalfactions:stable" rapid tag, and by joining the nebula game rooms on the official server. Battle along the highway... https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=11961 VERSION 1.97-2.0...

discord's not that important, or shouldn't be. I am going to let the comparison between how the fork is doing vs how the official engine is doing be the judge of that. You might counter with things like "oh but the fork just has more people" but that is downstream of removing low hurdles ...

I agree there's failures of communication, but discord's not that important, or shouldn't be. Abma being active on discord would help. Imo he should at least be more available in this forum and the lobby server itself (namely channels which are mirrored across servers and into discord), perhaps more...

I tested starting spring 105 and bar105 1478 from skylobby, from springlobby and directly 5 times each and checked thread info using ps --pid PID -O tid,lwp,nlwp,%cpu,psr -L taskset --all-tasks -p PID mf v2.02, lonely oasis v1.1 map ----- skylobby 0.9.26 skylobby itself has mask "f" and it...

Ah, it does install 0.274 after running that command and then using the "flatpak run com.springrts.SpringLobby" to start it, and then it was able to download and run the various engines etc.

Thanks

I've had people tell me the new version runs slow on linux. Ximes (old laptop with 2 cpu cores (4 logical), 4 GB ram and gentoo linux) built BAR105 1478 locally and he's able to play, although sometimes runs out of memory. He noticed a strange issue: [.....:32] <ximes> <raaar> so what settings did y...

There's extensive contributions by Abma on the official spring repository with merges and fixes on various projects. He's been silently keeping things running and we're grateful for that! It'd be nice if these conversations led to some understanding that leads to convergence of the engines, which wo...

I've done some testing setting up spring on a desktop pc nearby ubuntu 22.0.4 gpu nvidia geforce gt 1030 (GL 4.3 compatibility) 8 gb ram amd 1-10 7800 radeon r7 cpu kind of a toaster by today's standards. With 1920x1080 fullscreen and spawning 100 aven_magnum on MF v2.00 on DSD, I get 15-20 fps on b...

What's the recommended way to get an updated springlobby on a linux distribution? I've tried to follow the instructions on the springlobby website I've tested installing on a computer with ubuntu 20.0.4. Using "sudo apt-get install springlobby", it got me SL 0.269 and there's no apparent w...

Yesterday I put out a new MF version and made the change to BAR105 build 1478. I've also added a few records on the springfiles DB to allow it to be downloaded from springlobby (which most people who connect to the official server still use). Release the 3do2s3o script, it was already given to ZK an...

I think they still fit here as part of a "wider spring community" (same as ZK), because: - they use a recent fork of the spring engine that's MORE backwards compatible with the official 105.0 (and most games) than the official 106.0 - many of the people involved are the same that have been...

Dealing with recurring negativity and drama can be very draining for devs and players alike, but....For what it's worth, I agree. I think permabans should be reserved for special cases that are more destructive (like deliberately breaking infrastructure, disabling servers and such). It might be a go...

0.273 is the latest springlobby version.

Release the 3do2s3o.lua script needed to migrate to the new engine. I just downloaded the latest BAR105 engine release here https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/releases/tag/spring_bar_%7BBAR105%7D105.1.1-1420-g99dd383 (it's from today) ...and started a battle of metal factions 1.96 (uses al...