Yes, administration votes were resolved once per week, every account had 7 votes. If 2 candidates end vote with a draw the old administrator won, don't know what would happened if two new candidates end with a draw as highest votes.

Sharepoint bidding: The bidding cycle ended all 3 hours (8 cycles per day) at 0:00 GMT, 3:00 AM GMT and so on. Choosing the bid entry (or was it called administrating?) on the cycle menu of a sharepoint showed a list of the stuff Tau offered. The amount per item avaiable per voting cycle differed, blueprints were offered 1 piece/cycle, tools 5 and biomatter & Co 1000. If you bid you entered the number you want to 'buy' up to the max amount avaiable per cycle and your bid per piece from 1 AP to whatever amount you thought necessary or your admin stash could affort. The AP were subtracted from your admin stash immidiately after you placed the bid, that ensured there will be enough AP to pay the bid avaiable at the end of the bidding cycle. Once the cycle ended the highest bidder got the amount ordered, if some was left for auction the second highest bid got the wanted amount and so on. If you lost an auction the bid stayed up for the next cycle, don't know what happened if you got only partially of the entered amount, but I guess the left amount stayed up as well. If you cancelled a bid you got your prepayed AP back of course.

To build a factory or sharepoint you chose add factory from the cycle menu of a empty hardpoint. After that a (structure) repair job was spawned on that hardpoint and once finished a factory/sharepoint spawned there.
To add a function to a factory you chose the admin entry on the factory ringmenu and you got a list of all addons with the ones highlighted that could be installed (that means the addon is avaiable in the admin stack, the still avaiable amount of energy, CPU power and waste is sufficient for that function addon and it doesn't need a 5th function bit, a factory could only hold 4 different bits). While every function addon has to be bought and added independently to a factory 3 of them shared the same function bit, noticeable they had the same visible model showed on a factory and if 2 of them are added to the same factory still only one addon model is visible on the outside. If I remember right Micro Assembly, Sorting and Weaving belonged to that Anthill bit.

If someone bought something from a sharepoint the AP payed were added to the admin stash, if someone sold stuff the AP were subtracted from the admin stash until it hits the zero, people could still sell stuff then but the AP came from Tau (or nowhere).
With that part some admins wished a change, for example a saying what stuff and to what amount a sharepoint would accept stuff (there still were the for players non avaiable Tau sharepoints at garden and Canyon A to sell everything else if you want to) or a sharepoint only accepting stuff up to the amount of AP avaiable at the bit (or maybe some kind of debt to Tau).

Awesome, thanks guys! I hope I get this right. I may ask for some clarification down the line. I also had some changes in mind to the system that was in place for Seed, tell me if anything doesn't seem right, or what you think.

I was thinking it might be nice to be able to form "Parties" for repairing. Sort of like most MMO's, except anyone can invite someone to join.

Second, what do you think about letting the Admin set the price for goods at their sharepoint? And then fixing the sell back value at half of the asking price, so if an admin charges a lot, they have to be prepared to pay a lot too.

Also, I'll probably put in that Admin setting maximum payout on donations, after which donators will be warned that all donations past that point will be for 0 AP.

What do you guys think?

What was needed in seed was a basic supply and demand system for materials. That would have been awesom imo.

*lowers the head in shame* You're right, should spend more concentration on what I type while browsing through memories.

From an administrator viewpoint setting buy and sell prices would be a nice feature. From a 'Seed' viewpoint the thought spawns some feeling of 'wrong' about it I can't put the finger on it right now why. Well, if an administrator goes over the top it's easy to show it to him by vote at least.
Anyway, if prices stay fixed the difference between production costs and basis price may have to be rethought. I don't had much time to view the new prices with 'batch production' but the difference beore was a too large.

If I remember correctly, Luu's wiki had a nice table and formula for training time, I will look for it and Edit it in this post if noone overtakes me in the meantime

Ah, I did download the dump of that, I'll have to spend some time getting it into a wiki so I can extract all that info.
I plan to run a public beta for it as soon as it's close to ready.

Currently, I'm approximately 40% done. I have repairs, sharepoints, and most of the skill system in place. Factories are my next piece. After that, we'll do a beta.

Prepare for a very small image intensive post (which sounds really weird)

Started by making a small male model

Next was the medium, then the large

And now I started editing the Large model by clothing it in a dark grey workersuit

Pants! (Miho is excepted from these)

And the shirt

And all together now!

And now for hair (wonder who Im making...)

Not amazing, but I didn't really spend that much time on it. The torso is probably just a little bit too long, and the large model doesn't give much space for hair, but I think they're okay. Tell me if you want to see more, or if I just completely messed up and you wanted something that filled the entire space (cartman as a da vincian?).

Sir, I am MASSIVELY offended by your implication that this character is a woman. Albeit I messed up his dreads, but thats because I didn't leave enough room.

Anyways, I'll get right on the four directions once I wake up today/tomorrow, should be easy. For a while I was worried you were going to ask the spriter to do eight, which would've been a bit of a pain.

Seriously, Sterling =/= Chick.

Other than that though, looks pretty good. You should get on the IRC channel by the way. That's where it's at.

3rd, 4th AND 5th Edit:

1. I'll probably do a five or so frame walking animation for each direction, and I might possibly do eight directions depending on how the game uses the sprites. In the PSD files I have of the sprite I've made I had all of the clothing on different layers (as well as the hair) so they could be switched out quickly, but I have no idea if it's going to be as simple in the game. Reason I did that was if people wanted to switch their appearance around like we used to in Seed, but if there's no support then I'll make more generic looking sprites.

2. Those icons remind me of an old Win32 game I used to have, so I'm going to update them a bit for the heck of it. And, I mean no offense, cause it might just be me, but the more I look at it the more the sharepoint looks like a blue gandalf.

Again, not a chick:

Last edited by Sandling (2006-11-18 08:12:16)

Mh, Neoskye, there's always someone on, Sandling and me, if no one else. Sure you're looking the right place? Server irc.mkc.fr, channel #seed?