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Howdy,

just a question I had lately. Since we all play in aprox. the same timezone, we are ‘famous’ in our normal play-hours (let’s say between 9AM and 12PM, OK.) I’ve never been playing on BB any later or any earlier. This means that at ‘night’ , when no LAME member is online, BB changes with…maybe Brazilian, American, Japanese, Chinees, Russian, etc…players or even clans! I don’t have a clue about such a clan, and probably these ‘aliens’ don’t have a clue about our existence… since we’ve neve seen each other! Only one way to check it…Anyone has been playing very late/very early once on BB? Are there different clans ruling BB at night! And tell me, do they have two arms and two guns!? Are they really human? what does there BB graphs tells us? (not much perhaps, since my graph was pretty alien/bot too :D)

Cheers

Based on BallerBude stats.

(Click on image for full size).

A bit of explanation.

In BB site you can see a player’s skills and a player’s ratio history clicking the tab “History”. In both graphs there are weekly markers for a whole year. Of course if someone changes PC/installation, the graph starts anew.

It’s difficult to compare graphs of different players because the X-axis has the same length no matter how many weeks it holds and the Y-axis of the graph is relative to the player’s skills (for example, it can go from a value of 1000 to a value of 1400, or from 1450 to 1750, and so on).

So I scaled and stretched our own curves and put them in an “absolute” grid.

It’s so messy that it’s difficult to read. What is clear is that –if you needed a confirmation– Jippi stands apart from us… too much skilled.

Don’t know what happened to ZaPaTa around February, his curve got totally flat (ZaPaTa are you a human??) 🙂

Update: In the first version of the graph I mistakenly downgraded ZaPaTa using data from his old installation. Now corrected with the most up to date data.

Normally, Skills have a very irregular progress. I’ll design a similar graph for Ratio next month (I expect a much more simple and legible graph).

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As you probably already seen, @spi expanded the number of slots available in Terra Nova (http://www.smokin-guns.net/viewtopic.php?p=21432#21432). From 8 to 12. This is what we asked him, to allow more people joining our Thursdays’ Clan Deathmatches (you know… SNH and @aspi often joined, and Donut had wished, but wasn’t able to). Due to summer holidays, Clan deathmatches are suspended now, they’ll be back in September.

Thank you very much @spi!

I’d like to see more clan members in Terra Nova during the whole week.  TN maps are great fun for old bone collectors as we are.

You know, I like to play SG with a picmip of 9. If you’ve never tried the magic of a high picmip, this is how it looks.

Mine, the Goldiggers’ Town. from SG Biondo on Vimeo.

My first video in absolute. 5 minutes of stream, 1 week of work (learning how to use software included, in spare time).

For those who don’t know what picmip is:

You can adjust how much details you want to see in game tweaking the configuration file (q3config.cfg). Replacing the default seta r_picmip “1” with seta r_picmip “9”, you almost remove any texture from objects and models. This way, the game is cleaner and looks more like a cartoon.

Alternatively, you can change picmip from SG console:

• open console and write “r_picmip 9” (without quotes)
• restart SG video: in console write “vid_restart” (also without quotes)

Credits:

Edited in: CinelerraCV, cinelerra.org
Titles: Inkscape, inkscape.org
Vimeo’s optimization: Kino, kinodv.org, and Avidemux, avidemux.sourceforge.net
Music (under Creative Commons license, creativecommons.org/​licenses/​by-nc-sa/​3.0/​us/​):
– “The Recruit”, by reaman, be.electrobel.org
– “El fefefè”, by Space Mariachi, pitjamajusto.com
Electrobel is a real mine of CC music, and they have the best on-line music player I’ve ever seen.

Thanks for Cinelerra tutorials to Raffaella Traniello, g-raffa.eu/​Cinelerra/​HOWTO/​index.html.

There are players that don’t know how to recognize a bot from a human. Strange, because it’s easy.

Here are some simple rules for the noobs.

Bots are devoted to a peculiar religion that force them:

• to move in weird way during their rituals
• to meet all together in the main street of Dry Gulch, dancing and celebrating with gun shots
• to stare for hours at closed doors in Tillian
• to commit suicide in Coyote Bluff

Still confused? Then you need a pair of X-Ray glasses!

See also: FAQ.