Springie the AutoHost

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 09 Dec 2006, 19:41

Third through fifth place are totally sad. First is annoying because that map may as well be considered incomplete, and second is overplayed by everybody on Spring.

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 09 Dec 2006, 20:02

http://www.unknown-files.net/stats/db_dump.php

That's what Maelstrom done to data so far :)

Myg · Post by **Myg** » 10 Dec 2006, 15:29

Download link aint working for 0.90b

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 10 Dec 2006, 18:59

you can try this (works only sometimes)

http://pc2.licho.eu/download/springie.zip

grumpy_Bastard · Post by **grumpy_Bastard** » 12 Dec 2006, 09:28

Licho wrote:you can try this (works only sometimes)

http://pc2.licho.eu/download/springie.zip

hmm, both of those links do not work for me. If you need a place to host that springie.zip, I have ~8gb of bandwidth per month that im paying for.

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 13 Dec 2006, 19:13

Ah sorry I upload to more stable unknown files now :)
Thx for your offer, it's np, I dont need a big hosting, springie is just 70k file, but my current hosting sux thats all (well it's completely free thats why it sux:))

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 26 Dec 2006, 00:03

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SPRINGIE 0.92b
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- fixed spring start bug and improved !start speed
- fixed !cbalance (clan balance command)
- fixed bug in stats reporting (some games had both teams as winners :)
- fixed auto-unlock bug
- fixed start empty exploit (it was possible to start empty game and crash spring in host)
- springie now sends more data to central server allowing more interesting stats interaction

More changes will follow very soon for smurfs and stats commands (those are server side so no springie upgrade will be needed).

!stats and !smurfs can now be executed without any parameters. If springie has some peopel in game lobby, it will display stats or smurfs for those people.

Note - I have given up ability to upload demos - there is no reliable way to determine which demo belongs to which spring game instance. (For example you have 2 springie servers and your own game hosted from same spring directories - several demo files are being created and modified and there is no reliable way to determine which demo belongs to game that just finished).

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 28 Dec 2006, 01:14

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SPRINGIE 0.93b
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- changed !cbalance logic to give higher priotiy to clans playing together than rank balance

YHCIR · Post by **YHCIR** » 28 Dec 2006, 19:19

It would be good if !smurfs displayed the players rank, so you can tell if they are smurfing or just using an alt.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 28 Dec 2006, 23:05

Licho, I would contend that !smurfs is getting out of hand. If people want to smurf, they shouldn't be consistently subject to scrutiny, after all, it is their decision... and this command makes smurfing completely pointless. Do smurfs throw games? Perhaps at lower levels of play... but when you get to the upper tier, the command has no relevance.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 29 Dec 2006, 01:46

I personally don't smurf, but if I did, there are plenty of ways to avoid being found out.

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 29 Dec 2006, 01:49

neddiedrow wrote:Licho, I would contend that !smurfs is getting out of hand. If people want to smurf, they shouldn't be consistently subject to scrutiny, after all, it is their decision... and this command makes smurfing completely pointless. Do smurfs throw games? Perhaps at lower levels of play... but when you get to the upper tier, the command has no relevance.

Anyone with a copy of notepad and a ctrl, shift, and f6 key can find out...

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 29 Dec 2006, 02:15

That really doesn't make the command any more necessary. Ah, I'll just drop it now. It isn't like I smurf, after all!

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 29 Dec 2006, 07:22

I don't think we need to protect smurfers. It's not like it's publicly broadcast when a smurf logs on. If someone is going to be enough of a problem to get people checking weather they have smurfs then they don't deserve the anonymity of a smurf anyways.

AF · Post by AF » 29 Dec 2006, 07:30

What do you intend todo with !smurfs once 0.74B1 is out? At that point you'll only get IPs if they play a game with an autohost.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 29 Dec 2006, 07:35

AF wrote:What do you intend todo with !smurfs once 0.74B1 is out? At that point you'll only get IPs if they play a game with an autohost.

Integrate it into chanserv

Or opp one bot for the purpose of keeping the feature active.

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 29 Dec 2006, 21:41

WARNING, this version is for the latest lobby and spring version about to be released, update only after TasClient upgrade! Autohosts that wont upgrade wont work correctly with new protocol version!

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SPRINGIE 0.94b
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- updated for new lobby protocol version released by Betalord. Lobby server now doesnt send player IP by default, this means that smurfs service is now less powerfull. Also only servers with Gargamel mode enabled will be able to ban by IP address. Those servers will appear as using NAT traversal method in server list. Gargamel mode servers will still report IP of users to central server for smurfs, but only players who join server.

- fixed map change bug (springie didnt reflect map change in status bar and didnt advertise new maplink). This fix also fixed missing *locked* and *unlocked* chat messages from springie.

- springie now reports player ranks to central server (it displays it in smurfs command now)

SirClickAlot · Post by **SirClickAlot** » 30 Dec 2006, 14:30

I've been running springie for a few days and it generally works really well. I noticed today, however, that the CPU consumption of the hosting spring process went to 99% (and stayed there) after I enabled the spring window (from the springie menu bar) and disabled it again.

Is it the intention that the host (me) can drop in occasionally and spectate the battle?

Whenever I put up the spring window, it does show the battle in progress, but the cursor is stuck in the upper left of the spring window. Am I missing something?

Thanks again for all your work on this great project, Licho!

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 30 Dec 2006, 14:45

It's oprimized for people who don't want to observe hosted battle by default.

If you wish to observe hosted battle, make sure hosting spring priority is set to normal or lower. Spring (if visible) always eats 100% cpu.

Stuck cursor is caused by the fact that hosted spring window has 2x2 pixels by default. Go to main settings and increase default window size to something higher, like 800x600.

When you wish to stop observing your hosted battle, minimize spring window manually. That way CPU usage should go back down.

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 01 Jan 2007, 00:16

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SPRINGIE 0.95b
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- added automatic self-update - springie now upgrades itself automatically
- added automatic spectator kicking (configurable in "game" settings)
- added !kickspec [0|1] and !votekickspec to enable and disable automatic spectator kicking
- springie now starts game automatically when server is full, people ready and in teams
- minor bugfix for servers with stats disabled
- it's no longer possible to kick springie

Please upgrade your springie to this version, especially owner of [CoN]ServerBot which runs 22 version old springie that was designed for 2 versions old Spring and lobby! It's spamming central logging system with errors ( http://springie.licho.eu/errors.txt )

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