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CCP Logibro
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Posted - 2015.07.17 17:15:52 -
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Hey guys, thought I would give you an update on where we stand with regards to practice areas for Alliance Tournament teams.
At this stage, we are not planning to bring back passworded systems. The old system was very special snowflake, running a custom build that was created and deployed entirely by CCP Veritas. That code was never checked into source control, and we have no idea where it is. If we wanted to recreate passworded systems, we would have to start from scratch. Additionally, supporting that sort of functionality creates a lot more work as we wouldn't want to integrate that into the main Tranquility branch, and would have to reintegrate it manually each time we want to make an updated client and server if something changes in the game. So we've been working an alternative.
At the moment we're working on a new deployable exclusively for use when practicing for Tournament Practicing. It will in it's final state we're aiming for it to have a few functions. No guarantees that all of these will make it into the final version.
- The Practice Unit, and any ships on the same grid and within 3000km will not be able to be detected by D-Scan or Probes, similar to the current D-Scan inhibitor. Note that unlike the D-Scan inhibitor the Practice Unit itself will not be able to be detected
- The Practice Unit will be able to spawn ship fittings on demand either from your saved fittings, or by pasting in either a DNA string or an EFT-format string with the fitting. We're aiming to do the first
- The Practice Unit will be able to clear the grid of any wrecks/drones
- The Practice Unit will either notify you if you fly outside of the boundary, or destroy you if you fly outside of the boundary
- We're open to adding some more functionality where it makes sense, but the above are the main priorities in order at the moment.
The idea would be that in the future, we will distribute a number of these items to team captains and they will be able to deploy them as they wish to conduct practice session on any accessible test server, without the need to special versions of the client to be maintained.
Unfortunately we haven't had things go as smoothly or as quickly as we would have liked, and it's not quite ready yet. We will likely deploy it to Singularity as soon as the first function above is ready so you can at least practice with some secrecy, with further updates to functionality coming over time as they are completed.
I'm sorry that we couldn't get something done quicker, but we're looking to make a solution that works, and will keep working in the future so that we don't have any delays for future tournaments. As before, I'm still able to spawn arenas in systems and I'll try to provide assistance where I can. If you need something, please email me at [email protected].
If you have further questions or thoughts, please let me know in this thread.
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Posted - 2015.07.22 17:39:08 -
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An update on where we're at now:
The first stage (D-Scan/Probe blocking) is working properly, and the item is authored, it's just waiting for QA to check it won't blow up your computer. Aim is to have it on Singularity by the end of the week, if not very early next week.
For anyone using Singularity, there should be a sync skill command that will allow you to update your character on Singularity to match what is on Tranquility. Messing with skills otherwise is an issue that is a bit trickier, but it's something I would really like to solve. Just need an option that isn't exploitable (even though it's a test server, we do still care about giving out skills otherwise we would just give everyone all skills on the test servers).
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Posted - 2015.07.23 14:43:41 -
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Hsu Li wrote:I really like this module. If it prevented cloaking then it would be even better.
We've got that as an idea on our list, but it will come later if we work out a clean way to do it.
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Posted - 2015.07.24 16:12:03 -
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IGÇÖm pleased to inform you that all team captains should now have 2000 Tournament Practice Units in their redeeming queue on Singularity. They can be redeem these just like any item.
In their current state, the TPUs only provide scan blocking (including for themselves). They wonGÇÖt block anything else not normally blocked by a Mobile Scan Inhibitor. While they do feature fitting services and cargo capacity, they are currently only accessible by the person that deploys the TPU. The TPU cannot be unanchored or destroyed, and will expire after 8 hours in space.
If teams need extra TPUs, or encounter any bugs with them, please let me know by email ([email protected]) and I will do what I can to help.
Please note that any abuse of TPUs, such as using them against other players testing on test servers or to interfere with other teams will result in severe penalties. As an aside, if you ever encounter a TPU on Tranquility, immediately file a ticket under stuck to inform Customer Support, asking them to bring it to the attention of CCP Logibro and CCP Bartender. Anyone found using a TPU on Tranquility if they somehow manage to get one will be banned immediately, along with anyone else that uses it.
On a separate note, Singularity will be undergoing downtime tomorrow (Saturday 2015-07-25) at around 10:00 UTC to allow us to apply updates. This will last for around 3 hours.
As always, if you have questions, feel free to ping me.
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Posted - 2015.07.24 20:00:08 -
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Skyler Hawk wrote:Thanks very much for this, logibro. Just to confirm, is the fitting service the ship spawning ability you talked about earlier, or just the same fitting service you get in a station or with a carrier?
Same fitting service you get from Mobile Depot (which is the sub-component that it's currently using). This will eventually be removed in favour of ship/fit spawning service. Same goes for the cargohold.
Greygal wrote:Very nifty! Thanks for these, Logibro!
When you get some time, can you get faction and officer modules seeded for us on SISI? At least in S-U8A4 (where about a dozen teams are regularly practicing) and maybe in Jita?
Thanks!
GÖÑ GG
We are not spawning any faction, deadspace or officer modules at this stage. Same goes for any tournament ships that are unavailable at the moment.
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Posted - 2015.08.05 18:39:06 -
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Due to the edge cases (such as people disconnecting and warping off grid), we're currently testing a change that will make the TPU block scanning across the whole system. This means you won't be able to use probes or D-Scan from anywhere in the system in exactly the same way that you can't probe or D-Scan when inside the radius of a scan inhibitor. We'll send out a mail to all the team captains when it's deployed to Singularity.
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Posted - 2015.08.07 16:16:35 -
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New version of the TPU is now on Singularity. Let us know if you find any issues.
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Posted - 2015.08.08 20:01:05 -
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You can use them in wormholes, as long as there isn't someone else living/using in the same system before you got there. This includes Thera, as you can use the moveme bot to get in/out of the system.
This is subject to change if we feel that it's having too much of an impact.
I will however say that using TPUs in 6-CZ49 is (now) not permitted. Don't be that guy and try to use one there.
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