Many of you will have played a similar mission I wrote some time ago. This mission is completely new, making use of my new embedded languages. Unlike the earlier mission, this is group-enabled; even if no other players take the mission, you will have some NPCs on your side. The new mission is also generated for Bastions and the Stronghold. And a little taste of things to come: for these larger battles, you'll find a Capship there to fight with you (though it is still the gimpy capship of the sedina battles).

There are still a couple bugs I know about, but it is complete enough that all feedback is welcome. You can currently only find the mission in Sedina K-13. Have fun, and leave feedback here :)

w00t!

I think we need a day in December to appease Murphy. I made Zarniwoop do too much work, and then:

[Fri Dec 30 01:03:02 2005]<Nerde Verde> The fact that the server platform runs while you're compiling something else in the background is amazing
[Fri Dec 30 01:03:03 2005]<momerath42> i love that we can chat even though im stuck loading your sector:)
[Fri Dec 30 01:03:14 2005]<StarFreeze> lol
[Fri Dec 30 01:03:32 2005]<StarFreeze> there we go
[Fri Dec 30 01:04:37 2005] Connection to server timed out

I'm pretty sure I killed it dead (no ping) :( I'm afraid it will be down until tomorrow morning, when I or someone else gets there. I'll post again here when it's back up and I'm ready for testing. Sorry everyone!

I'm sorry! I taunted the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet, Murphy!

All melting servers aside though, the new Hive Hunt is great. Can't wait to try it out again once zarniwoop is back from his intergalactic cruise.

Murphyeth law ith ath Goth

I couldn't wait until morning to have zarniwoop back up, so I'm at the office now. I'll make the mission available for testing again shortly.

Poor Zarniwoop. *sniffles*

what the fuck happened to zarniwoop?

too much load and it's pretty warm in the office- was hard-locked when I got here.

"and it's pretty warm in the office"..
O_o holy moly sizzle?
evoli

Little tidbit of info about Murphy's Law...

Murphy was a pilot. (Or someone who worked with aircraft.)

Need me to get Ray out of Bed??

I went in and rebooted it sarahanne- no need.

is it wokring???

More or less. Less than I thought, unfortunately.

Damnit ! we were so close !!!
GO FOR IT MOMERATH WE'RE ALL WITH U !!!
at least in mind...

Can't wait to test that ! Npc groupmates yoohooo
/me can't wait to appear in the hive sector and watch my npc buddies being killed by the evil bots ...

GREAT FUN IS COMING LADIES AND GENTs !

Hmm. It's not working so well right now. mr_spuck's NPC capship rammed the levi, destroying both ships. My NPCs never even spawned. :(

Dang, and I turned the heat down before I left.

There's some pretty major bugs that didn't show up until we got several people taking the mission at the same time. Also there are more than twice the number of hive bots there are supposed to be in most sectors, and zarniwoop doesnt do too well with that. I'm finally going to sleep now- but I'm confident that, by the end of the weekend, it will, at least, be as solid as I thought it was last night ;p

OMG dev spam....

Ok, I want A1k0n and momerath42 to stopp spamming this thread an go get some rest so they can actually finish this ;)

Great work btw !