Back To Plan "A"

"Auto Godlike" was just a bit too much.

Some players are going to have nightmares tonight because of it. They went home crying their little eyes out.

Sorry about that.

Plus for some reason it seemed to be a little "sticky", meaning it just wouldn't reset itself between games. I know I've seen that before. Godlike has a mind of its own sometimes.

And when everybody's getting beat, no one wants to hang around. It really cleared the place out, which is not the point.

So it's back to "Auto AutoAdjust", which is capable of Godlike if it has to be. The spread is hard-coded to ten instead of half the high score. That way, Classic ]I[ will never go into AutoAdjust (the high score is only 10). There are better ways of doing that but for now it's a quick fix.

I need to put a little finesse into it as well. It shouldn't kick in if a bot is winning, only a human. That might take a little work, but bots are pretty obvious because they have a zero ping.

When the admin says "KICK OUT THE JAMBS" that's when everything kicks in, so watch out for it.

Bahrain Bloodbath

I promised to move all the proxy news off to another page, and I did, but I have an update on the news I posted in June concerning the explosion in Bahrainian proxies.

A couple weeks after that post a second wave hit. At one point The List had no less than 17 pages and more than half were Bahrainian proxies. Pages and pages and pages of that annoying little red and white flag.

Part of the reason that happened in the first was that I was raiding Chinese proxy lists heavily for about four days, checking tens of thousands of address:port listings. I think it's safe to say China was the source of all those proxies in the first place (the usual, non-Chinese proxy lists never really caught up with them, and if they did they probably saved them for their "premium" customers).

As of today, they are all gone. GONE. The List is down to four pages, the shortest it's ever been. In fact I'm thinking of taking the number of proxies per page down just to get a higher page count (heh).

Infuckingcredible.

Considering I predicted it would happen in the first place, I'm not sure why I'm so surprised.

Plucky little Bahrain Telecomm finally got their shit together on this one.