Getting to know the Developers ***Dev replies inside!

[SZ-4]

Good work Developers!
Your doing a great job!

[Valheita]

Here's a real serious question for the devs:

You sealed up the ring cheat, but are you going to seal up the invite cheat as well? (Entering an instance, using one person to kill off the grunts then inviting the rest of the crew and getting them to team up on the boss)

[Aeryn Nox]

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[XVF]

I'm guessing they're busy

[Sensual Soul]

Well you have to understand it is a holiday weekend for them too and they, or some of them have Fanime to go to as well. And bron-bron is home sick with a bug, so don't be surprised if you don't get many replies this weekend. But I'm sure they will stop by again.

I did learn something more about pathfinding. halzy tried to explain it again..hehehe, I feel really stupid that I don't quite get it. Anyways, he's has 5 kids so he's awesome at explain at my below level, and this is how he explain it.

Pathfinding is like untangling a ball of yarn, if you pull one string and it's the wrong one it make the string in another area bunch up and not run right, making a bigger mess of knots. You have find the right string and the carefully untangle it. Sometimes there is just a bigger tangle that you don't see and more then one knot to undo. 3nodding No straight lines like I thought. xd I love how he explain that!

[Aeryn Nox]

eek Aaaaaaaahhhhh.. so thats what it means.

[Sir Leto]

I have a question for developers.
Why doesn't zOMG! work natively in Linux? The game loads, but it times out before the map loads.
Currently, the only way to play zOMG! in Linux is through Firefox in WINE. WINE is used to run Windows programs in a Linux environment.

[Aeryn Nox]

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[halzy]

Sensual Soul

halzy

I have not, and I refuse to play goof until I finish reworking pathfinding. :p
--Halzy

Well when will that be? Just Kidding. But what is pathfinding? Is it what is sounds like, just a path for info to travel? Could you explain for the general public?

Well, it's something that we do all the time without realizing it. How do you make it to the front door from where you are? Is the couch in your way? How do you go around it? Pathfinding even takes into account the different costs associated with different routes. So if you had 4 different paths to the front door, it would find the less costly route.

For even more fun check out Graph Theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory
Pathfinding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinding
And a simple tutorial for A*: http://www.policyalmanac.org/games/aStarTutorial.htm

Cheers,
Halzy

[halzy]

Kuga Natsuki-chan

To all the devs:
What's your best way to relax when you're under pressure?

I like to read, and to program on other things. smile

Cheers,
Halzy

[halzy]

Apple Blossom19

To any and all devs:

We all know that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, so what was the best moment you had while in the office with your buddies/coworkers/minions.

~Apple

I like to play foosball. wink We've had some epic foos games. We also did some Left4Dead at one point which turned out to be a lot of fun. Oh -- and Fanime was pretty sweet last night too!

Cheers,
Ben