Ellert van Koperen

Also replying to http://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,2246.0.html The last post. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Post

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you probably meant to say "or fewer large turrets."

Having a worker thread or process (windows or linux) for each active sector/starsystem is definitively the logical way to go about things. On top of those there must be one master process that keeps an eye on things and can arrange the transfer of assets between the workers (assets as in ships, stuff, connections etc) , and can start up and kill off workers as needed. (a form of garbage collection. systems that have no players in them for n minutes can be stored (to a file?) and closed.) This would both stabilize the load per starsystem and make much better use of available resources. I for example have a server in my basement with 2 hexacore xeons and 144 GB of ram. Nice machine. But if everything is ran on one thread then 11 out of the 12 cores will be useless.

Attaching images is bothersome and can not be done inline, it does not integrate well with simple things like gravatar, the tiny pagenumber buttons are hell to click on from a mobile.. etc etc. does its job well ? no, not in my opinion.

Hi. I stumbeld accros Avorion via a tube episode of mrFruit. I am limited to mac and ps4, you can observe my attempts to get avorion going on my mac in other threads. Cheers.

try sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libjpeg libjpeg-dev

If possible, try elliminating wifi and test with a direct cable.

Attempt 5: multiboot OSX / Mint / Ubuntu Time to get serious! I installed the refind bootmanager and started the (usb stick) installers for both mint and ubuntu. This involves a process of converting the iso to a dmg and using dd to get it onto the stick. Anyway, they both seem to be using the same grapthics driver, and both to be very unhappy with my graphics hardware. Both hang on the same point during startup, when switching from generic vga to AMD/ATI. Pff.. i give up for the moment.

Attempt 4: CrossOver Crossover is supposed to be like wine but better. It refused to run, I get some silly error. CrossOver is unable to initialize a critical component. Failed to import cxutils module into Python. See console for errors. The program will now exit. Ok...

Attempt 3a: Mint in virtualbox Eventhough virtualbox does not use hardware graphics accelleration very well i still wanted to give it a try. I got an error that some library can not be found. I forgot to write it down. Attempt 3b: Ubuntu in virtualbox Avorion runs, kindof, and very very slowly. 3fps on the login screen and similar in the tutorial. (And i do have a 3d card in this computer, an AMD Radeon HD 6750M, it just does not seem to use it very well.)

Attempt 2: Wine Using Winebottler setting up wine is easy. Wine comes prepackaged with a steam installer, very neat. Steam however does detect the computer it is running on as a mac, not as windows, so that is a dead end. Running the demo-installer with wine does seem to work, files get placed somewhere etc, but running the program itself does not function. If i start the exe directly (in wine) I get the following in the console: 10/02/17 10:46:47,160 Wine[754]: /test/AvorionDemo/bin/Avorion.exe Hm, not a lot. Same for the server.

In this thread i will share my experiences. Attempt 1: Liquidsky.tv Liquidsky is a remote windows host with a decent graphics card. Avorion runs pretty well on it. There is just one slight issue, well actually two issues. First off the service is in beta, so you can not simply sign up and use it, and you need to pay for it. Basically € 0.50 per hour, so that is doable. But the biggest issue is that the host does detect the inputs from the client (as in mouse and keyboard work) but it has an inactivity-timeout to not keep your machine running if you disconnect, and for that timeout it does NOT detect your inputs. This means that after a pre-set amount of time (default 30 minutes, maximum 60 minutes) the host will shut down ! without warning or anything you can do about it ! This is so irritating that i have stopped using it.

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Hmm, astroid launcher ?

And then scavenge the debris ? Funny tactics :)

ze_robot, 'off the bat' is an expression, meaning 'from the start' or 'at the beginning', it does not refer to windows batch files. It should be possible to compile Avorion for OSX, making it a native application. Wine is a road towards disaster that everyone should stay away from, specifically for applications that lean heavily on openGL.

In fact SDL2 runs fine on OSX since 10.5 , which was a very long time ago. Freetype works, (lib)Png works, sndfile works with homebrew and through other routes, GLEW is an interesting case, is it really needed ? OSX provides all GL functionality out of the box. But it seems possible to get it to run, see this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12229714/building-glew-for-mac-osx So, no huge problems off the bat. For sure I would not mind a mac version.