serious errors in the swamp.
hi Jeremy.
much time has passed when I wrote to you.
long absent a reason for this.
Now is the time because a serious error has become a problem for the players.
things found in the game continue to disappear!
when transferring items to another player beats the game often, it is again necessary to enter.
so yesterday there was a problem on a mission. urgently needed to transfer a thing.
thing passed, but then the player who passed knocked out of the game.
I had a similar problem, only when attacking the fort.
I handed the gun to a friend volcano, and then transfer the character knocked out!
Please seriously pay attention to these errors, many players are angry about it.
serious errors in the swamp.
hi Jeremy.
much time has passed when I wrote to you.
long absent a reason for this.
Now is the time because a serious error has become a problem for the players.
things found in the game continue to disappear!
when transferring items to another player beats the game often, it is again necessary to enter.
so yesterday there was a problem on a mission. urgently needed to transfer a thing.
thing passed, but then the player who passed knocked out of the game.
I had a similar problem, only when attacking the fort.
I handed the gun to a friend volcano, and then transfer the character knocked out!
Please seriously pay attention to these errors, many players are angry about it.

Okay, firstly a SCS question that may be a bug or a misunderstanding on my part.

I'm setting a number like so:

set var rand=[random/1/10]
debug=[rand]
if rand>2 then if rand<5 then radio=Something happens

My understanding is that this should execute only when rand gets set to the numbers 3 or 4. Am I right? This isn't the way it's working currently.

Also, regarding someone addressing the issue of storage characters and such like. How about a space in the armory on map 5? So you have to go to map 5 to begin with, something not everyone's brave enough to do. Then there could be an option on the safe zone menu to store items in the armory. Even if it's only 3 or 5 slots each, that could be somewhere to store each player's most valuables. Just an idea I had.

I'm not exactly sure if that's doable in the language. I'd probably end up doing something like the following:

//defining variables:
//Take extra care to not put any white space between the variable name, the equal sign, and the value.
new var rand=0
new var randa=0
//randomly assigning:
//same rule as above.
set var rand=[random/1/10]
debug=[rand]
if rand<2 then radio=Something happens

I could probably help you more if you gave us an idea of what you're trying to accomplish.

O come on Kat this isn't the very first time that you've agreed with me on something... right?
I distinctly remember saying, at one point, that "bitches be crazy" and I also remember you agreeing with me...

What's really sad about this whole thing is, these days, I get along way better with the foreigner players than those on English channel. maybe it's due to the language barrier, makes it harder to cause fights when you can barely understand what they're saying right? but somehow, I doubt that. you can tell those guys are in the game to actually play the game. just look at their stats and the fact many of them are high ranked and you'll see where I'm coming from. English chat though? these days, it sorta reminds me of the Zone BBS. Drama at its finest. Which is sad. I think the major issue here is, most of these guys are so sick of seeing each other's face so to speak, on a daily basis and having the same pointless conversations over and over, that eventually, the smallest thing will set them off. So soon as someone disagrees with them? FIGHT! cause trying to take people down is about only entertainment they get out of the game at this point. People that were once decent, are now self-centered and sellfish, the things I've seen done to people in this game is disgusting, even to chowy, a guy that's helped the swamp community so much over the years, but hey, now most of those guys don't need him anymore, so who cares right? Once a person isn't needed, discard them, move on. when you once again need them, then you suddenly remember they were once your friend. "hey chowy buddy, I need help with this mission? mind helping me out pal?" This is why Swamp is dying.

hahaha Aprone. tough bug to fix huh? Only way I can think of is to modify game features in such a way that team work is mandatory, and not merely encouraged. course that could possibly make things worse, no way of knowing for sure. For starters, I still think my mission reward idea was a good one. the more people that join, the more xp we all get. soloers only get a few k xp. Perhaps double the xp amount each time new person joins? if someone from your team is kicked, xp will decrease. only  way this won't happen is if they die naturally. I think this could encourage teamwork, I don't see any negative side. Any thoughts guys? This probably won't fix drama, but it'll encourage healthier gameplay.

All that needs to be fixed, is the lag on maps/missions, items disappearing/empty inventories, and improving drop rates for Composite armor, Hard hats, and Leather jackets. Then the game, in my opinion, be perfect.

I'm not online enough to witness too much douchbaggery, really. You'll occasionally get people getting a little rowdy for lack of anything better to do. And I think that's the heart of it.

Disclaimer: The following is just my opinion and may well be the ramblings of an ill-informed madman. I do hope however that I have correctly identified and explained what I perceive to be the issues. A bit of an essay ahead. Tl;Dr at the end

Swamp is on a league of its own when it comes to combining gameplay, emersiveness and an online community. The fact that we have accessible iPhone games is all great and that, and that's where most accessible devs seem to be going for a headlong charge. Probably for profitability reasons - there's still no reasonably ubiquitous Windows desktop app marketplace. The iPhone games though lack community and the raw power that just comes with having more to control it with than a 4 inch touchscreen. And with that being the direction that developers are flowing, fans of audio games lack choice and Swamp just really doesn't have much in terms of MMO competition IMHO.

Some people are trying to do it, there's several new games on this forum that are trying to be the "Call of Duty" of the blind world, with varying levels of success (I've not played many of them). So they're going after gameplay. But community has never been the strong point of PvP FPS games, CoD and other mainstream games in particular are famed for having foul communities. Swamp, being a mostly cooperative game, again wins hands down there against the new and upcoming MMO challengers.

There are other games that do community. RS Games and such are the only examples that spring to mind, though I admit I've not kept abreast of every new audio game out there so there may be better. But there's such a difference in genre there, that it could attract completely different people.

So, Swamp has a pretty good position now. That's good, right? Well, no, not quite. Some people are playing Swamp day in, day out. They've mastered the game to the point where they can solo the hardest missions, have all the latest gear and have seen and done it all. Now what? Some choose to help others, which is admirable. But what when there's no one to help? There's no reasonable competition as far as an audio gaming MMO of this size, complexity and communal strength (well IMO), so playing something else isn't an appealing option. But they want to be there, to hang out online and see if anything new comes along. Boredom ensues. And boredom causes trouble. I think, at least, this is why some people are getting a little narky.

As to injecting some team play back into Swamp, that would be great. I'm not sure just outright incentivizing with experience for dragging people along on missions is necessarily the only way though.

Here's a few suggestions I can think of, feature wise that might help. You've probably all already thought of these, I'm just putting them out there in the discussion.

* More "Defender" type missions, where it is almost impossible to solo. Sure, some level 2,000+ players probably could, but I'm not sure if there's really anything you can do about them.
* Cooperative campaigns: SCS is a great feature and could go far. Cooperative campaigns would allow the community to make its own cooperative adventures. I'm starting to see some interesting single player SCS things happening, though most of them feel a bit like experiments. But I think it's starting to grow as a feature. Long shot, granted. I don't underestimate the size of this undertaking of course, but that could be a fun and expanding thing for groups to do. I'd be happy to try writing one.
* Some kind of in-game events where players must work together to defeat impending threats or doom, or achieve/earn something together. I saw a few before, once, where some raiders were, well, raiding on map 2. This was a 1 off event. Another was the Halloween event where people were scouring all over for pumpkins. I was working with a few others, keeping map 2 checked. We had to work together to find them for mutual gain. Of course, some people piggy-backed, but they probably weren't having any fun. Things like this tend to get people involved, maybe it would get the jaded players out of their warehouses too?

Okay, I've talked enough and you probably all hate me for taking up so much space on the page. Aprone, please don't take any of this as an insult, if anything it's because this is arguably one of the best of its kind that it has this problem.

As for perhaps a new game coming along, as Sneak suggested. It's an idea worthy of thought at least. Though starting a game to get to this size is a daunting prospect.

Tl;Dr: Perhaps Swamp as a community is a victim of it's own success as a great gameplay and MMO experience, with not enough competition offering all that Swamp can. There's a few things that could be tried to try to inject some team spirit back into the community and break up the power players's boredom and to give everyone some fun.

And hey, maybe we as players can do our own bits to try to fix some of these issues within ourselves as a group. Just a thought

hello all,        aprone have a suggestion,        i think that is should be nice,       you doing solo 200 crates mission, you get 800 k xp,  but you are going 5 people you can get more xp and rep,    i think that can be help the low levels players,          and  it is possible,  you can low level players for easy missions?   i think you already can tell me lol,  type 40 zombies, and 10 crates, but that's giving 200 xp, or more,        i miss the older swamp,    we are did already the 60 level 35 crates,    now see, zombies is very powerfully,     nobody can't low levels with mission,       i'm seeing some players doing quit for that,   them dying and leaving,    we are don't want lose  swamp,       that game is is great,     people saying iphone android for accessible game have,  show me now,    have online game, and missions,   of course not,    just aprone is first developer the he's did online fps game,         i don't want arguing,     just i'm saying not another developer,   only aprone does the stable online game and the stable server,        it's have more android for card games, or iphone,   that's not funny,       we are loving the fps, and war games,     that's is my opinions!    and could be possible just player can the solo mission is limit,    you can only a per day for 5 the solo missions,  i think that's help can be others,         and yeah.

hello guys.
I'm wondering something.
Why do you think sup1, sup2, sup3, and map3, map4, map5 empty abandoned?
map1 and map2'y to why people are stuck?
I think these maps were produced in vain.
another question.
too bad extreme freezing warehouse mission..
to delete the game sound on and off and does not give any excitement.
again it will be very nice to hear the sound.
I did a test.
I'm hit with an ax ..
dire zombie killing three strokes.
ar 15 gun had to complete seven shots.
in this case the ax stronger.
zombie game will bring back the old power loss, and again it becomes very great excitement.
yes, I 've listened to this recording you mentioned weapons.
You can listen if you want to see.
download weapons test link.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/984 … 20test.mp3
here have some useless weapons, that's is see,   winchester,   browning citori,  glock 19, glock 17,  marlin, remington, shortbow, longbow,,  m16's bayonet,
and ak47's bayonet, is killing just 5 shots a dire,    we are   wish   zombie's power lower,   but i think you can the increase weapon's power, that's
is doesn't work,   game is could be more  freeze
Greetings from Turkey.

1. Rewarding more based on increased participation in missions makes sense. Consider, though, the times you've logged on to solo a couple missions. You're near your next level, so you just need this one big mission to get one or two levels (obviously, this is higher-level players). Or, you put up a mission, but no one is around, and the only people that join are people who don't speak your language, and end up not doing anything? My point is that solo missions are sometimes a good thing, and practically removing their usefulness might be just as bad as leaving them alone.

2. Forcing player interaction by kicking players for just chatting seems like a bad idea. Sure, some people come on Swamp just to make trouble, but others simply like to check in with friends, or offer help to newer players by explaining things. To anyone saying that people should just grab their friends' contact information and get off the game, I think we can all agree that chatting elsewhere is different. The dynamic is gone, no one new is going to wander in, and there's a completely different feel to it.

3. Yes, the quest system needs to be redone. Expand it on map 3, fix it on the other maps, and then offer a lot more puzzles. I've written before about my ideas for quests, so I won't do so again here, but essentially I'd like to see more puzzle-style quests instead of just running out, grabbing one item, and running back. Again, this is for higher-level players. When you're a level 1 through maybe level 15 or so, quests are fine and can really help. After that, they're just a small diversion. If you don't want to mission, a drastically expanded quest system could be just the thing, and might draw players back to the game. No, it's not going to help with inter-player cooperation, but as others have said, what will?

4. Yes, more server events would be cool. Raiders, group quests, perhaps a special map where Tide is allowed…

CTF is great, and is by necessity a team mission. Defenders and LMS missions are the same. I don't know what else can be done, but then, I also don't see this as quite as big a problem as others do. I love missions with a bunch of people, but I'm just as happy to hang out on a multi map with people. I've never bene able to chat and perform in a mission at the same time, so it's not a huge thing for me. Has inter-the amount of solo missions gone up? Sure, at least I think so. Were group Stripmall missions fun? Absolutely, we'd all take a part of the map, and it was fun to work together to finish. Then those missions got to be incredibly hard, and people stopped going on them. Now, the only ones that do are those who could handle the harder (pre-3.4) difficulty, so they crank up the numbers and difficulty and no one else wants to join in. This seems to me to come back to the old problem that no one runs lower-level missions anymore. What if the server ran missions from time to time? Anyone could join, so long as they are below a certain level, and if they survive, they get some reward. Just a thought.

Sorry... more SCS blips.

I'm trying to use an include to separate out my warehousing code from individual campaign files. However, it won't work if I try and do this.

I get: "Unknown error. Main menu"

If I comment out the include line, the campaign works (though it obviously lacks the helpers my system has). If I copy+paste in the contents of that file, it also works.

I'm trying to extract the "make it work like a warehouse mission" type logic into a separate file, since I would probably use it in several places. I also hope that others might find it useful, too. Eventually, I'll try and add in some customisation and such like. So it would be sort of a reusable module. I've just got to be frugal with the variable count is all. As I'm assuming the 100 variable limit is shared between campaigns and includes. Would people be interested in using this kind of thing? Or should I just shut up and keep it to myself