February 24, 2009, 11:56
After waiting months and months for the 1.5 patch. I’m just going to cut the March date of short. Not a single bit of community interaction from the developers on the EA UK forums. All has went silent, and no responses. There fore, I am just pondering when I should just dump playing BF2 all together. More over to the fact, never buying an EA published game ever again.
EA has made a great example of how to:
- Royally piss off the customer base.
- Ignore the community
- Inject adverts into games for further money.
- Add on Punkbuster (which doesn’t do crap) to every FPS.
- Ignore community even more. To the point of deafening amounts
- Extort the gaming community by releasing expansion packs of which have very little content to add to the game. Let alone activation system half the time malfunctioning.
Did I miss any? Let me know via a comment!
February 16, 2009, 01:18
So, the week after Valentines day. ( I never got a valentine. 
) But aside that, SGW Weekly’s new website is coming along fine. Some code modifications and other fun stuff needed to be coded in just ot rid of some browser bugs. They should have the Archived show on line on their website soonish. ReplayIRC won’t be hosting the live casts anymore since they will be hosted on SGW Weekly’s file repository now.
Next up, Hackers in BattleField 2. Yes, any game will have hackers, that’s not what I am getting at here. Electronic Arts and DICE since June of 2008 have promised a patch for BF2, dubbed the 1.5 patch. However, It is now February 2009 – seems like vaporware of a patch now. The entire community has waited for a patch to stop the commander asset hacking, let alone the crash to desktop errors that are being caused by the hackers and exploiters. More over so, I would put BF2 down if it wasn’t for the internal team work that happens on the servers that I play on. Just that at this point, I feel as if the 1.5 patch won’t happen and is just false hope and gimmicks to keep the game on a light life support until BF3 or so.
February 15, 2009, 05:10
There’s a lot of code here! Honestly, I did. A bunch of the plug ins created by other individuals out there have HTML code that does not comply with xHTML standards. That got me thinking, how much of this fluff code could i condense or plainly trim out? Quite a bit actually! Much of the internal code used by Joomla if you ask me can be trimmed down by quite a bit too! When i mean trimming, I’m talking about white space, useless text, and CSS/JS that is not used on pages. You have to admit, while I am just starting this little clean up task, I feel it’ll be saving about 2 to 4KB per each page load. And in honesty, that can add up a lot after a few months time. More to come…
February 13, 2009, 02:16
Well, since this is my first blog post about SGW weekly, I might as well take the time to explain a little about the show!
SGW Weekly is a Video/Radio show made up of the dedicated fans over at the Stargate Worlds Official Forums in reaction to the latest upsurge of daily information. This show is composed of a round table discussing the week’s cache of information given from CME and the community surrounding. This show was also created to help promote the new upcoming MMORPG called Stargate Worlds.
I have been helping Dec0y and Utopian Hok’taur get this show on the road by allowing them to use our shout cast media service and web hosting on the server. It’s a new service overall, but I honestly do hope this group grows to a larger audience in the community.
Currently the server is set to allow 250 users at one time at a maximum streaming rate of 192kbps. So as far as I am aware, the server should cope just fine with what is needed.
Their website is still a work in progress, but it’s a start: http://sgwweekly.com/joomla – Please note that if you get a 404 error with the /joomla part on it, remove it as the site might have been moved to the root domain.
February 12, 2009, 09:19
Overall, nothing too much new. Just been working on the server securing it, trying out new security and random applications for it. mod_security has been great! Been able to monitor all hack attacks, some are c99 shell attacks, while others are RFI and XSS and some very few SQL injections. It’s quite the nice and powerful little plugin for apache httpd!
Next up, we have SGW Weekly! Been helping dec0y out with it for the group to get a head start on live casting in the community. You can view the progress of the work by going to http://sgwweekly.com – Should have doubled all them letters because of the two w’s! 
And that… is about all!