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Engine v.97, Scripts v.202

*sam* The Salthill Sluggerz Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Lead Developer Posts: 16,782 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 * Improvements to the process that decides to call a pre-emptive timeout in the wilderness when all players drop unexpectedly * Improvement to the NPC decision to let you escape, in the wilderness * Some extra checks to make sure that dynamically patched decals and custom skins have been received properly, before attempting to use them in-game. It might also be an idea to add an option to skip dynamic texture patching altogether, if you?re persistently having trouble with it? * Efficiency improvements to the AI ?run away? pathfinding, which I think is the major cause of the lag/connection drop problems in some recent events. I have other ideas to implement in the next few days to reduce the lag/drop problem further. ......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013 Posted Jul 25, 2008, 5:21 pm

*jimmylogan* MADHAT Darkwind Guru Civs Faction Group: Marshals + Rule Council Posts: 5,605 Joined: Jun 11, 2008 Thanks for these Sam... Once again you are being proactive as well as reactive. :-) JL ......................... vet marshal deathrceL1 wv community combatL1 Posted Jul 25, 2008, 5:41 pm

*sam* The Salthill Sluggerz Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Lead Developer Posts: 16,782 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 No problem ... Lag/connection drops and decal-related crashes are pretty serious so I had to prioritise them. ......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013 Posted Jul 25, 2008, 5:44 pm

Lord Foul .-^-HellRazors-^. Darkwind Guru Mutants Faction Group: Rules Council Posts: 3,543 Joined: Jan 12, 2008 Thanks for diving right in and making these improvements Sam. Much appreciated. ......................... vet race1 deathrce1 wv zom circuit1 pvp1 northernsummer community circuit3 paintball55,204,126 Posted Jul 25, 2008, 9:38 pm

Flaming savage Mirrored Pain Darkwind Guru Deathrace Mafia Faction Group: Members Posts: 1,788 Joined: Jan 21, 2007 Grascias. ......................... vet wv raceL1 pvp2 combatL1 Posted Jul 26, 2008, 9:20 am

4saken The 4saken Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Members Posts: 2,282 Joined: Jan 1, 2008 last few games i played had almost no lag, about 1-3 seconds maybe, so looks like you nailed it. ......................... vet combatL1 wv1,0,0 Posted Jul 27, 2008, 3:14 am

*sam* The Salthill Sluggerz Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Lead Developer Posts: 16,782 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Quote: last few games i played had almost no lag, about 1-3 seconds maybe, so looks like you nailed it.  Cool. I will be making more improvements too.. at the moment the AI 'thinking' is all done just before the move is simulated (hence, lag , which sometimes caused connection drops). Really this should be done while the humans are making *their* decisions. ......................... marshal vet deathrce1 paintladder combat1 wv ped1 cont slay2013 Posted Jul 27, 2008, 11:41 am

Jety Cuddle Fiesta Darkwind Guru Badlands Truckstop Faction Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: May 8, 2008 Actually this raises a really interesting point. I've often wonder if the AI 'cheats' by one move. I've wondered if when you hit the spacebar the AI then makes it's next move by looking at the move you just made, which would seem pretty unfair. This is usually most pressing when you're playing chicken and need to decide to swerve left or right to keep from getting rammed. It will be nice to know that the AI made up it's mind and committed to it's move before I hit the spacebar and enter my own move..... ......................... vet wv Posted Jul 27, 2008, 5:02 pm

Crix Makin Knights Of Cydonia Racer Renegade Group: Members Posts: 111 Joined: May 22, 2008 I don't think the AI looks at what you've done. For a start, it regularly crashes into me. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it acts on where it 'thinks' you're going to be, much as we do with Ctrl+G. That would explain why if you do something unexpected, it crashes into you. ......................... vet wv Posted Jul 28, 2008, 4:52 pm

Nekojin Cats Laughing Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Contributors Posts: 1,039 Joined: Jan 19, 2008 Crix Makin said: I don't think the AI looks at what you've done. For a start, it regularly crashes into me. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it acts on where it 'thinks' you're going to be, much as we do with Ctrl+G. That would explain why if you do something unexpected, it crashes into you. I'm pretty sure that it does look at what you're doing before it sets its move. Sometimes, at the start of races/deathraces, I'll swerve left or right to try to do a PIT maneuver on the next driver. I've had many instances where the NPC car will start swerving to avoid me on the SAME turn that I start MY swerve. ......................... vet deathrceL1 wv cont Posted Jul 28, 2008, 10:22 pm

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