Spring RTS Engine

If it's in a separate bot, protocol could be same for ZK and spring instances and I would also implement it (improve to match specification) and run it. It would mean lobbies that want to use both servers wont need duplicate implementations. And btw imo anything that does mysql should be kept out of...

I would recommend implementing these non critical features using separate bots so that main server isn't clogged by this. If it works that way some "reservername" bot can be used for that (even if implementation optionally resides withing uberserver itself, like chanserv). And btw, NW does...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/204076271/springprof/simframe%20total.png Entire ZK dev team is "insane" as is the player community... It might well be game/engine interaction but it's consistent across ZK versions and happens since 92.0 .. thats the reason we didnt ugprade *back then...

Battle and channel passwords wont be encrypted even in Kloot secured uberserver so this point is invalid. (Also there is no point supporting locked battles/channels, this is about basic functions) Banning, ID conflicts were covered in the proposal.. but ok, it is some work .. Also melbot will solve ...

It does make sense if the federation does not exchange any senstivie data... Read my proposal there is no LOGIN info exchanged does not contain password/hash things.. only ID because in federation servers would trust each other. How servers would be authenticated is another thing and it can use IP a...

Well I talked with all of them later real time in #zkdev and nobody asked me to stop ...

I would still like to add federation feature to connect servers together - or merge ZK fork into springrts.com uberserver.

ZK decision to move was discussed in numerous threads on ZK forum, github tickets etc...
They failed to generate much interest.. I took it that nobody is against and moved forward.

I have seen those but I also saw direct link...

Ok I guess it was my brain failing and there was no one.. Nm then ...

Ok but I would swear I saw some news item just days ago linking from spring site to ZK news.

I stopped asking for donations on spring page when it was covering server cost some year and half ago I think.

From then links were only on ZK site. I will try to estimate excess.

Well decided by who? I accept that though and I removed all references to spring from ZK donation page.

Also gajop, nothing changed yesterday ... donation situation changed when Abma moved things out months ago on dansan server.

Please bring it back, it benefits both communities.

Tehcnically I would still be happy to host springrts things, Abma moved things on his own will against my will ..

At one point i implemented forcejoin which simply sent the correct sucession of commands to clients. I admit it was done by directly modifying protocol.py on server because i treated it as a test. Maybe it got overwritten/never commited. Anyway its trivial to do it so .. its trivial to make a specia...

It will say stuff like "Game will start in 0:40"
or "Need 2 more to start".

And because queue is actually "fake" battle room (as in open battle) - it has its own chat.

Btw ZKL is hardly a closed cycle.I believe it has more contributors than SL and stuff is discussed, just in #zkdev and not here..
For example original proposal is here https://code.google.com/p/zero-k/wiki/MatchProposal
It has been discussed meanwhile in #zkdev extensively

Each queue has its own settings - you get what you see in queue room.. If you join 1v1 queue it wont ever start 2v2 game.. Map normally cycles there after each battle starts, but to give people time to load the map it stays same while people wait in queue. When someone new joins the queue and there ...

Btw. ZK also has a working matchmaker independent of lobby rooms - planetwars matchmaker where you join by attacking/defending planets. But that is built completely independent of lobby protocol (does not have any "queue room") and supports only ZK planetwars games. Planetwars matchmaker, ...

Work on matchmaker is already in progress. We will make it work without needing to change lobbies at all. You simply join "queue" battle room and when game starts it starts "outside" the queue room automatically. It can all be achieved without touching lobbies or protocol. It wil...