Recent posts by Nikc10 on Kongregate

Topic: Game Programming / Senior Project Questions (Unity)

To bounce of UG here, I don’t think hardware is really that much of an issue. I use VPSes for servers (granted, not flash player servers, but things like TF2 and Minecraft), and if you shop around well, you can get quite powerful servers for less than $10 a month. I can’t speak to software, but hardware could be an issue.

The only real issue here is that Photon server appears only to run on windows, which really limits your options, as windows licenses can be expensive and will come close to doubling the price of a low cost server just for the license. Finally, you could try a free Windows Azure instance, but I’m not sure that will be powerful enough.

Topic: Platform Racing 2 / how to beta test pr4?

That’s because there isn’t a beta test of pr4, so you can’t.

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate ERROR AUTHENTICATION, all the online games are inaccessible!

Originally posted by trickyrodent:

Hey guys— We’re really, really sorry about all that. Our DNS provider dropped out on us. D:< Looks like “find new DNS provider right this second” is going to be the next order of business.

Round robin DNS it using multiple providers?

Topic: Kongregate APIs / Question about grabbing chat data for a program

Originally posted by SReject:

kongregate uses a flash object as the relay between Browsers and it’s server. It looks to use the XMPP protocol with a few addons.

Ugh, that would be a royal pain to implement in a server, if not pretty much impossible.

Topic: Kongregate APIs / Question about grabbing chat data for a program

So I was thinking about making a chat bot that could respond to various queries and perform automated functions, such link title parsing and such.

Since as far as I know there isn’t any API for grabbing the raw chat data, especially from outside the confines of a flash game, is there any other way to do this?

I was planning on simply having it run on a server instead of having to make a flash game that ties into it or something like that.

I suppose I could just do everything manually, essentially grab the raw HTML and parse it as it comes in, but that is a very messy way of doing it and I’d like to avoid that if at all possible.

Topic: Platform Racing 2 / Folding@home client Version 7

There should be no real difference in the amount of points you get, however, the v7 version has a much better user interface, is generally easier to use, and will generally give more information to the user.

Topic: Platform Racing 2 / GROMACS and F@H

Well, its a lot easier if you just download the latest verion of F@H, v7. It usually is much better about saving checkpoints, and its much easier to pause it when you log off too.

You can find the link here: https://fah-web.stanford.edu/file-releases/public/release/fah-installer/windows-xp-32bit/v7.1/fah-installer_7.1.52_x86.exe

Topic: Kongregate / Graphs of Kongregate User growth

Originally posted by Captain_Catface:

I’d say that if you removed alts; half (if not more) of that count would be gone. There are some users who have literally hundreds of alts piled up… And a huge amount who have 2-5.

But while it would change the labeling on the axes, the slope would remain the same.

Topic: Kongregate / Graphs of Kongregate User growth

Okay, I’ll grant you that it is technically the number of accounts, but the graphs would probably look pretty similar even if we removed all the alts. For one, most kong users don’t create alts (I’d assume the vast majority), and those that do usually only create one or two.

Topic: Kongregate / Graphs of Kongregate User growth

Originally posted by riddleschool:

this site does not have that many users

There are currently 8716974 users on kongregate. (Note: this is total accounts, not users online.)

Topic: Kongregate / Graphs of Kongregate User growth

I did these when I was bored, so they’re not perfect, and are missing a few data points, but overall they show kong’s growth pretty well.

Here’s one with a log scale:

And one with a normal scale:

Topic: Platform Racing 2 / Wannabe Mods. (read first)

Its called trolling, I thought you’d be familiar with it.

Topic: Platform Racing 2 / Ask a Moderator

Originally posted by VforVendetta:

Originally posted by aqworlds12345:

vforvendetta can u tell jiggmin to read my god dam email

I don’t see how I could help you there, I’m not Jiggmin. :P
We don’t have some sort of magical connection with him where we can communicate telepathically.

Though that would be pretty cool, to be honest.

Topic: Platform Racing 2 / Mods alts

I think vforvendetta has an alt called Live2Die. Jiggmin has one called Jacob (also one called aaaa). Asilva has one called asiiva93.

Topic: Platform Racing 2 / Temp Mods.

Okay, that’s clearly NOT what I stated. I stated that if words aren’t censored by pr2, you are generally free to say them, which is correct. However, other rules, like being nice, may also apply.

Topic: Serious Discussion / "Secret" Government

I think the idea that the government should keep SOME information secret is pretty clear. If the government didn’t keep any secrets, getting intel on other countries and keeping top secret military technology, we wouldn’t really have any advantages over other countries. On the other hand, I think a lot of governments, including the US, keep many more secrets than is good and more than they should.

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate getting worse?

I’m not quite sure about this. I think that the social features are eventually going to detract from the overall gaming experience. Just the fact that they have taken away the “recent games” on the frontpage and replaced them with what my friends are doing isn’t exactly progress to me. I don’t particularly care what badges other people are getting, but I do want to access the games I’ve played recently, because they are ones that I might not have finished.

I’ve been here for quite a long time, and I think I liked the site more when it had more of a specific focus, good flash games, mostly single player ones, not MMOs. I think the turning point is when they put Runescape on here.

Topic: Off-topic / I deleted system 32 lol

I deleted /dev/sda. I win. (props if you even get that.)

Topic: Anti-Idle: The Game / [Guide] Battle Arena: Medals (Update (PARTIALLY) to v1,476)

I’m not sure, but I believe the four leaf clover counts as a medal for this too. It has the banner below the character, and occupies the same slot. It is a rare reward from the gambling crate.