Orxonox

True... And I mentioned it above: greylisting is getting less ans less effective. I am looking into some alternatives: spamassassin (as addition), turning the server into a virtual tar pit (c't has a pretty promising solution) I mainly installed greylisting, as I knew that it has some effect, and is...

Greylisting delays all mail - except those which are white listed. Delaying happens by rejecting all first attempts to send a mail (421 error - service not available). If the sending server is an "average" mail server, it will try again later, if it is a spammer, it probably wont, because retrying w...

I c/p that stuff over to the wiki, and added some explanation from the Humans page.

The ideas is to keep the discussion here, and the timeline in the wiki - if something is set.

cheers
nico

I added the most important parts from the Humans-page of the wiki...

Complain, if something is missing, or does not add up.

cheers
nico

I know, why I did not come up with that idea... The other day, we were talking about using artefact/alien-tech to upgrade ships. What stops any fraction (esp the government for that matter) from stripping your ship for possession of "illegal" hardware. Or did the military try to control/contain thos...

The more I start thinking about the story, the less I can fit the ASSF as human-alien-hybrid into it. - If the alien technology appeared in a later stage of the history, why do the other fraction not have access to it. - If we use the "Roswell Incident" as an excuse, it the ship then advanced enough...

Not necessarly... Though the colonisation was a joint project, the different settlers grew pretty fast apart - return to their roots - and instead of one big marsian nation, some smaller ones established themselves...

I think for simplicity, that it might be a good idea to create some sort of timeline. that way, we can easily assess if our story works out, or if enough time has been planned in. 2016 : Switzerland abolished their army 2018 : Switzerland becomes a full member of the EU 2030 : Switzerland drops its ...

Well, the first space race it what happened during the cold war - Americans and Soviets trying to be the first in space, then on the moon. the second space race is something similar... it started with the idea of colonizing the Moon, to harvest its resources, and in a second step to reach Mars. What...

Thinking how to create/introduce a military fraction into Orxonox, I came up with the following idea. After the second space race in 2100 and a brief war - basically the UCA vs the rest of the world, and the others won - some sensible men (or women) came up with the idea to create one single Organis...

(My account is clean for the moment, so I cannot tell how much it will improve. please send some feedback)
From the other server I maintain, the spam rate dropped from several mails every day to a few every week.

I do the best I can, wonders take a little longer

cheers
nico

I installed postgrey - postfix greylisting plugin - and as far as I can tell it works. Any mails coming from the outside get delayed, but I whitelisted the eth-smtp servers. spamassassin is installed, but I had no time to configure it properly - esp because it won't to add my spam list... cheers nico

Fair enough...

And how to create a large ship without sacrificing to much of the texture still needs to be solved... maybe one could split the model into submodels, parts that a just close together (and may overlap). I need to discuss this with nowic

cheers
nico

Impressive design... I thought it looks a little small. But if the fighter some short range type (i.e no hyperdrive engine), then the carrier could be some sort of jump ship, which gets the pirates near their target, attack, salvage, getaway... OTOH i love the consistency... there is nothing worse t...

It's one of my favorite subjects... It is not a typical mission, more sort of a side-quest, and when done correctly the player ends up with a highly advanced ship (i.e ASSF). The Player hears rumors about some abandoned fighter program which tried to combine alien technology with their own. Most peo...