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- From: chris@inconel.uucp (Christian)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
- Subject: Re: Bronco dB
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.223743.11212@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 04:37:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.101950.3133@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1992Dec31.150027.754@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- In article <1992Dec31.150027.754@uoft02.utoledo.edu> frankc@.cse.utoledo.edu writes:
- >Not a bad idea to beta test your server with the Bronco database, but once it gets
- >going satisfactorily, your best bet is to blank the 'base and start fresh. A couple
- >of established servers did that the end of summer... worked out pretty well, one
- >actually has one (possibly more) admirals... You've probably heard of it,
- >netrek.ulowell.edu...
-
- Yup... played there a long time ago. Hope I can do the same...
-
- >If not, you're bound to end up with losers like chi... admiral chi in most places
- >it seems... leeches like this tend to creep out of the older databases and try
- >to dominate the other players 'under' them. Chi for example will use language
- >UNHEARD of on most servers, some will do an automatic ban on these types when the
- >language starts... oh-well, up to you... and GOOD LUCK! Glad to see another
- >server coming along... RSA or standard?
-
- inconel is RSA (embrace the new ways, right??), other than that, its vanila bronco.
-
- Now about wiping the dB, yeah, that might be the way to go eventually. The
- thing is, I need players! I have yet to see a full game. Being this is break
- is probably the major problem, but getting people off of their comfy seats
- of power and to start new characters on an unknown server is not gonna be easy.
- (Take me, I'm on bronco all the time, sometimes on rwd4, when I'm silly I'm on
- servers with mods from hell. But its usually bronco.)
-
- > newbie kid
- >.signature <=- wow... neat, eh?
-
- -Chris
-
- PS. Thats a damn nice .sig there, I must say.
-