Saturday, August 31, 2013
House Forsaken in BNT
As it happens, the now dead House Forsaken multi-game clan never played BNT as an organized force. To be sure, there were some HF members who various games of BNT as individuals, such as Bakito, Sgili & myself. Perhaps its just as well that HF never did get around to acting on the idea of getting its own BNT game up and running.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Aaron Swartz was a Scumbag
Hacking is the same thing as breaking and entering one's home. As Declan McCullough wrote back in the late 1990's, there is no such thing as "hacktivism", only vandalism.
What gets me about this case is the way that his father has been acting. He talks as if MIT committed a great sin by alerting law enforcement to his son's crimes.
He was recently the subject of an article in the Chicago Sun-Times as saying that MIT needed to apologize for its actions and to do what his son wanted them to do: make journal articles and academic journals free of charge. Given the fact that academic journals are pretty expensive to publish, if they were made free, pretty soon there would be no more academic journals around.
Aaron Swartz was a scumbag no different than kidnappers and other kinds of violent hoodlums.
What gets me about this case is the way that his father has been acting. He talks as if MIT committed a great sin by alerting law enforcement to his son's crimes.
He was recently the subject of an article in the Chicago Sun-Times as saying that MIT needed to apologize for its actions and to do what his son wanted them to do: make journal articles and academic journals free of charge. Given the fact that academic journals are pretty expensive to publish, if they were made free, pretty soon there would be no more academic journals around.
Aaron Swartz was a scumbag no different than kidnappers and other kinds of violent hoodlums.
House Forsaken is Dead
In the early days of Solar Empre, June-October, 1999 House Forsaken was the mightiest clan in the game. At least that is until the likes of the Evil Empire, TalkHouse & the Trex Mercenaries showed up. Even then, HF's position was strong enough that in January 2000 SE creator/developer/operator Bryan Livingston awarded them their own SE game that was admined by HF members. HF was also a multi-game outfit that also had strong clans in other major online games such as at Battle.net and in Everquest.
However, HF succumbed to hubris and became too big for its britches. This happened in March, 2003 in the game of TDZK that was created/developed/operated by HF members Jerle & Hotaru. In that game 2 HF members, one of whom named Hyperion had played SE under the name of HY and who had originally been a HF recruit in SE (and if a certain story is true played SE with HF back in late 1999 under the name of -=WindKull=-), were caught brazenly cheating. In a related incident in the same month, Hyperion committed treason by destroying a HF planet (Planet OMGN).
Since HF prided itself as being a clan that claimed to have honor at the very core of its being and repeatedly used the idea that it was a honorable outfit in its recruiting that was firmly opposed to cheating, one have thought that the HF leadership would have come down hard on the cheaters. Instead the opposite happened. The leadership acted as if nothing bad happened and that, if anything, the real culprits were those who brought the cheating to the attention of the clan. Additionally, the leadership failed to provide even the slightest discipline to Hyperion for his SE treason.
The end result of all this was the mass resignation of almost every member of the HF Browser-Based Gaming Realm and with that the single most active unit within HF ceased to exist. From that point on, HF went into a state of decline and fall and after years of being little more than a glorified "forum clan" has ceased to exist.
However, HF succumbed to hubris and became too big for its britches. This happened in March, 2003 in the game of TDZK that was created/developed/operated by HF members Jerle & Hotaru. In that game 2 HF members, one of whom named Hyperion had played SE under the name of HY and who had originally been a HF recruit in SE (and if a certain story is true played SE with HF back in late 1999 under the name of -=WindKull=-), were caught brazenly cheating. In a related incident in the same month, Hyperion committed treason by destroying a HF planet (Planet OMGN).
Since HF prided itself as being a clan that claimed to have honor at the very core of its being and repeatedly used the idea that it was a honorable outfit in its recruiting that was firmly opposed to cheating, one have thought that the HF leadership would have come down hard on the cheaters. Instead the opposite happened. The leadership acted as if nothing bad happened and that, if anything, the real culprits were those who brought the cheating to the attention of the clan. Additionally, the leadership failed to provide even the slightest discipline to Hyperion for his SE treason.
The end result of all this was the mass resignation of almost every member of the HF Browser-Based Gaming Realm and with that the single most active unit within HF ceased to exist. From that point on, HF went into a state of decline and fall and after years of being little more than a glorified "forum clan" has ceased to exist.
The current main website BlackNova Traders at http://www.blacknova.net/
Welcome to Blacknova Traders.
I would first like to say sorry for the long downtime, we never gave up on the game but we all had very important real life stuff that needed to be done, most of us was hoping to have this resolved a lot sooner, and after several discussions Ron and I have decided on moving the site over to this new current Rack Server located in Data Centre based in Germany, so hopefully the games should run more smoothly than it did before.
When I get around to setup the games I will only be running BNT1 which runs in Turbo Mode which will last for 1 Month, and yes I know not all players like the 1 Month game, but this is only until the game is fully setup and running as I wanted without issues.
I am starting to setup services one by one which is taking longer than I had planned, so this may take some time, anyhow I am starting to setup the following services listed below one at a time.
If you have any issues with our services then let me know at TheMightyDude@gmail.com
| Service | Status | Link |
|---|---|---|
| • Forums | Running | Link |
| Well the forums is up and running and should all work ok, but if you have any issues using the forums just let me know. | ||
| • Games | Running | Link |
| We currently only have running a test version of our next release of BNT. | ||
| • Developer Blogs | Planning | Link |
| I am in the middle of deciding on the software to be used and haven't yet decided which one to use. This would be where the developers can post what they are working on (BNT Related) | ||
| • Development Section | Planning | Link |
| This will be all for development stuff and for downloading Hot Patches etc. | ||
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©2013 Ron Harwood and Blacknova Development.
The current main website BlackNova Traders Games Running at http://games.blacknova.net/
Site News
We have been working really hard the last few months to get the code to where it is and we are nearly ready for the first release of BNT (Original), to make this release better we need your help in testing the game as much as possible before the release.
If you find or have any issues in the game like error messages, missing images or text then let us know on the forums.
We are aware of some issues that are still in the game, but we would still like to know about all the issues you find to make the game more better to play.
Please Note: Do not use any passwords that you use else where, bugs and exploits can expose this information, so its better that you use the default random generated password that has been given to you.
So have fun playing the game.
Running Games
We have the following running games:
Stable Game 1 [Turbo Mode] (1 Month Round) Rev ~2725 - [LINK]
This game is in testing mode and may be a short run game or even reset for new changes.
Stable Game 2 [Normal Mode] (1 Month Round) Rev 3089 - [LINK]
This game is in testing mode and may be a short run game or even reset for new changes.
All games are known to be of a stable state, however in some places unknown to us there maybe some issues.
Last Updated: 01st April 2013 Blacknova Development
©2013 Ron Harwood and Blacknova Development.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The current main website BlackNova Traders Forums at http://forums.blacknova.net/
It is currently Thu Aug 29, 2013 7:20 am
Running Games |
- These games are to locate all the error, notice messages, there may be loads of these message pop up all other the place while you are playing, this is due to a lot of code was changed, so please report these on these forums and not in-game.
- This game round is to locate all the error, notice messages, there may be loads of these messages pop up all other the place while you are playing, so please report these.
- This game is running the latest stable code from SVN which is updated daily at midnight (currently frozen), there maybe times where this becomes un playable, so please remember that.
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