Your good...online talk is hard by what peeps type now and again...due to the fact that text doesnt always express how one is truly speaking...

---Stixsmaster

AH I beg to differ about rifts in MP...as I hosted a MP game with a friend with rifts and he never mentioned to me about rifts looking awkward at all...or any obscure graphix...

EDIT: my friend who I am trying to double check with on this...is having sum memory issues so I am currently playing another MP with him...to just check...

---Stixsmaster

May I suggest to make it easier for steam users to mention that...

to get things working to instead of using a shortcut way like the non steam users may have to...just do the following...

Go to your "Games" tab then right click the game then click on the "Properties" button in the menu that pops up...then after that click on the "Set launch options..." button under the "General" tab...in that add the command line "--dedicated-server" and then click on "OK" and that is it...

---Stixsmaster

ok...well I am just trying to help sort things out for you...I aint trying to make things harder...

---Stixsmaster

Well I apparently this entire time in my options.ini file have had under the General section: servername=Stixsworld's Server...yet when I host the dedicated server it appears as just "." without the quotations...

So sumthing is up with it still...

---Stixsmaster

P.S. I am curious tho...if I run server via steam...it runs the mayhemig.exe in the background of PC and barely uses any cpu but...would be possibly then loading the game again but without the command line stuff to play it...be changing the server name?

If so that is where I say that the dedicated server should not be just a command line...but instead a whole new .exe file to help make it so users on steam can easily run a dedicated server then also load the game on the same rig and be able to play on the server without the dedicated server being messed with...for example the changing of the server name...

ok I did test it just now...and I got it working...

so it works...and well now I am trying to figure out how to change the name of the server...as I have it changed ingame for when I run it that way but that doesnt help for when I host dedicated...

EDIT: I searched in my C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\mayhem intergalactic\data\english folder and found the strings.txt file and find in it this:

%1's server

So I am guessing if I alter that to what ever I want that is what the server name will be when I host dedicated...

If so...be nice to post this sumwhere for all to easily find...for both steam and non steam users...

---Stixsmaster

Well seeing as I am too lazy to reread what I posted before...

I will try to remember to the best of my knowledge...and I read the response to what I said...

I would like to say tho...if I didnt already...the point and click of this game would help to provide and make it a decent wii game none the less...and I myself also approve that I did not mean to start a console war thread so I am glad you decided to be proper and acknowledge that...

---Stixsmaster

I think a cool feature would be...well this would only work with steam users...but to have chat only be via steam chat...not ingame...so when you hit enter you start a chatroom just for that server and everyone joins and you talk that way...

This would prevent people talking so much that the text scrolls up over all the gameplay in the middle of the screen...which I find very annoying...

---Stixsmaster

P.S. the chat going up over gameplay in the middle of the screen happens a lot...and trust me I easily run the game highest quality in the highest rez I can...

Meh...more than half my friends have a wii...any game on it...gets played for like 1-3 days then the system gets put up...the wii...is just a weekend playing system...

If you really think you would enjoy this game...the PC is the way to go...

I am sorry...just giving my opinion I guess you could say...and well truly if I could get my 360 back online I would say that is the dominant system to own...but no...now my PC is...hence I go with it now...

---Stixsmaster

Hey all,

I found that I can clearly host for the game and well I wouldnt really call this a bug but the game still seems to struggle much at sending a bind to a socket or sumthing when I host...and I have no firewall restrictions or anything for it...

How do I know that no firewalls are restricting it or anything because I know how I can get the game to host a server properly...for peeps to join because I already did it once with a friend I gave my guest pass to...

The only way I am able to properly host a game most of the time...sumtimes it gives this socket binding error still...and well the only way is to shut game down when I get the error completely and then reload it up again and then try to instantly host real quick after it loads and most of the time it works...

But if I leave the server for sum reason any reason and stay in the game...say I am altering sum option settings or sumthing...then I try to host again it gives this error...

I have this error popup when I tried how I said I could get hosting a server to work MOST of the time...hence the MOST...

I also noticed that when I open up my steam menu to my games tab...and then I right click the game and click on "Properties" then click on the "Set Launch Options" button and add -dedicated to it and then try to launch the game...all it does is real quick when I view from my taskmenu run the program for like a second then shut it down...without giving any errors or anything...

---Stixsmaster

Ah I bought a legal youtube clone online...that I use on my website...

Why you may ask?

Because youtube just loves to rob you of the quality that your video should truly have...so I gladly convert my vids myself into high quality flv files...that way...you never have to worry about not being able to see anything...

---Stixsmaster

Hey all,

Just thought I would announce about the new ingame vid I am making...

The vid is going to be using the song by "30 Seconds to Mars" that is called "93 Million Miles" and...well it will just be edited footage of 1 game I recorded that originally is like 17-18 minutes long but I am cutting down to be like 3-4 minutes...

I am sure itll be nothing new really that the current trailer shows...but I know a lot of good friends via steam and what not that like it whe I make my own game vids because I sumhow have the magical touch to do a great job...so yea...

I will gladly if allowed post the url to it...when I finish editing then getting to become a .wmv then converting it to a .flv then uploading to work on my website's flash video player...

---Stixsmaster

Ah yea...see I know...there is much to take into account...to be able to guess the proper pattern...but I was just stating a lil sum sum of information that many do not like to believe...because they just assume that computers are capable of randomness all the time...

Basically my 10 cents of info for free...

But yea...I understand about the AI level not being a factor and appreciate the info on that...

---Stixsmaster

Well if I can...when both of you are done...I will gladly redistribute the 1 software version...and then if I can get a copy of the code for the java version...I would also add that to the website...for those that are not very fond of downloading software...even tho I am very much sure that many will 1 way or another accept the software download...

---Stixsmaster

Chris you make a good point but then you have to ask yourself in the first place..."Why did the user leave in the first place...it technically is no one's fault except theirs...so the idea in my opinion still would be a good 1...

---Stixsmaster