Question Hour 1
9th September 2003
With : Zorg, Mehean, Fiction
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<Zorg> Right, this is the start of our first Question hour
<Zorg> although it wont last an hour
<Zorg> and it is 4 hours late
* Zorg nudges Mehean
<Zorg> say Hello
<Mehean> Hi all, I'm Mehean :)
<Zorg> There...now lets see if we can do this in record time, its 1am and I need sleep
* Mehean grins
<Questions> AzBaR - Can i buy a Tooth brush?
<Zorg> No
<Zorg> Holy Tooth Brush was added as a joke, it has 0 stats and cannot be used by any players.
<Mehean> Why not?
<Mehean> every user must want one :)
<Mehean> user/player
<Questions> winterking - Is there any plans to develop some game play where you could have some sort of gang warfare :-)
<Zorg> There were such plans, but not really anymore. Such large scale fighting would be hard to 
arange when most of the game is online at different times
<Zorg> Maybe one day in the distant future though
<Questions> eLz182 - What does revive mean in this game? is there an other way to get exp aside from attacking others?
<Zorg> Revive is when most of the game is automatically brought back to life
<Zorg> it happens every 12-13 hours deppending on which revive it is
<Zorg> and no you cant get exp from anything except fighting...yet
<Questions> powerofme - Why is there a point thing now?
<Zorg> Any idea what that is refering to Mehean?
<fiction> it couldn't be stat points could it?
<Mehean> Hmm.
<Zorg> stat points have been here for a long time so I dont know...
<Zorg> Points on the side bar refers to stat points...not a game point system
<Zorg> I giveup next question
<Mehean> Point thing.. the only type of points I know of are stat points... but I've never seen a total.
<Questions> viper2013 - Will this game ever run any faster and if so when what dose it take to make it run faster.Thank you
<Mehean> Ah :) A server question.
<Zorg> Errr no
<Zorg> lol
<Zorg> Servers can run fast enough already, it is just a case of me optimizing all the code to run through MySQL faster
<Mehean> No? :P the game runs faster when the web server isnt being stupid. :p
* Mehean pats the web server on its back
<Zorg> I already optimized alot of things..but more could be done if I had the time. 
Maybe ill look into optimizing it again to try and get revives to run quicker
<Mehean> Hmm.
<Mehean> Yes, thats on a lot of players minds.  People still come up and ask me why the revives are so slow.
<Questions> Rutiger - Why do we have to sit and wait for jobs to be done? They could be instanteously
 finished and turns removed by choosing your turns option - instead of having to wait 15   minutes.
<Mehean> Gangsterz 1 had a system like that :)
<Zorg> because if you didnt have to wait for jobs you would have nothing else to do
<Zorg> Attacking is instant..if working was instant, playing Gangsterz 2 would be a 5 minute job...
<Mehean> Money was too easily obtained, and I think Zorg wanted to make it a little more realisitic
<Mehean> Yeah. :)
<Zorg> You know it is very rude to talk about someone in a 3rd person when that person is here
<Zorg> ;)
* Mehean frowns
* Mehean sulks in the corner
<Zorg> Anyway yea, because there is not enough extra things to do to waste your time yet to make Jobs instant
<Mehean> Fine, I dont think HE wanted it so easily obtained :P
<Questions> chwaza - i don't get my 200 turns afther 1 hour
<Questions> is it because i live in belgium ?
<Questions> ach
<Zorg> wasnt ment to come out on 2 lines lol
<Mehean> That happens :)
<Mehean> MIRC is like that
<Zorg> I assume that question is ment to be a joke? lol
<Mehean> I sure hope so. I get all of my turns :)
<Zorg> You do get your 200 turns every hour upto a maximum of 5000 and no it isnt because 
you live in belgium it is probably because of the 5000 limit
<Mehean> Wait, its 5000? I still have 6000 turns :)
<Zorg> lol
<fiction> umm the limit is 6000 :-P
<Zorg> shows how much attention I pay
* Mehean bonks Zorg
<Zorg> yea i uppd it to 6000 when i increased turns per hour
<Zorg> *upped
<Mehean> Yeah :)
<Zorg> when i was writting questions for my trivia bot I had to check information page because I wasnt
 sure if you got 200 or 100 turns an hour lol
<Mehean> lmao
<Zorg> oh well it is 1am Im allowed to forget things
<Mehean> Yep!
<Zorg> next question ;)
* Mehean smirks
<Questions> Marishaten - Three times today I did the hacking job, let it complete, was told I got 8 credits in the bank,
 but instead got no credits (no lost turns either.)  Any ideas?
<Mehean> Ah. This is a common error.
<Zorg> Oh god...lol this seems more like a bug report than a question
<Mehean> Well, I think that person wants some advice on something that was posted 528930 times in the bugs forum :p
<Zorg> strange...maybe it could be do with working during high lag....but i really have no idea
<Mehean> yeah
<Zorg> verytime i test jobs it works fine for me so i have no basis for comparison
<Zorg> *everytime
* Zorg goes to get coffee
<Mehean> A lot of times, its the person trying to open a new window while working, and that always will cause the job to fail
<Mehean> there are also a few other factors that can cause that
<Zorg> ill do last question before I get coffee
<Mehean> lag is one
<Mehean> okay :p
<Questions> Glover - We need some kind of drug dealing or something of that nature so that we can make more money, quicker
<Mehean> Ack.
<Zorg> oh no we got 1 question from Mehean after this
* Mehean giggles insanely
<Zorg> Yea we need drug dealing but not to get more money just for more fun, just hard to get across the drugs bad message
 to 13 year olds playing the game while incouraging drug dealing
<Mehean> Agreed.
<Zorg> I will only end up with angry complaints from parents....again
<Mehean> He pretty much sums up my thoughts on the subject
<Zorg> Last complaints were about my mad doctor outfit, and the chainsaw massacre head lol...must have to much blood :P
<Mehean> Maybe we could come up with another type of selling thing
<Mehean> maybe so, the chainsaw massacre head was cool though :)
<Questions> Mehean - What are your future plans for Gangsterz 2?
<Mehean> and since i asked this next question, ill let zorg have the honors
<Mehean> ;)
<Zorg> I'll let Mehean answer this one
<Mehean> D:
<Zorg> :) lol
<Zorg> errr
<Mehean> well if I knew, I wouldnt ask, now would I? ;)
<Mehean> And if I dont know, I doubt the rest of the game knows :p
<Zorg> Optimize code so it runs faster, make a training area for fighting none player characters
....after that I can only guess and what I will be making
<Zorg> attack script is really long and complex...it confuses me, and to make training i would have to change loads of it
<Zorg> so making training sort of gets put off...but ill do it eventually
<Zorg> I guess thats it then
<Mehean> yeah :)
<Zorg> I wont cut out anything from the logs, because it is always more fun to read unedited logs than ones with Question - Answer format
<Zorg> Anyway, Thank You and Good Night
<Mehean> :p
<Mehean> Tune in again next week for random tiredness of zorg version 2.o ;)