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I'm not talking about your site being on top or not. Indeed if all would be based on the quality, then I would be fine. However if you check you will see that google do some oddies from time to time, and either remove some sites or move others above (check on the net and you will find enough evidences). Not talking about my site. For the ISP, they will certainly be relatively fair at the beginning. But once the other ISP will be dead (due to some dump on the market), be sure they will do whatever they want. Why do you think there is laws against monopoles? For flat rate plans, sorry but I don't want to pay a lot for my phone. So my plan is as basic as it can... and I pay actually 4$ per month XD

No google doesn't always offer good quality. Google chrome for example doesn't render the pages like FF or IE, so yet another annoying browser to check to see if you site works. Android phones have the bad habit to connect to the network without asking you, nice for the phone companies not for you. Etc etc... sorry but I don't think google is all good and nice, actually I start to dislike it more and more. If you thought Microsoft was evil, well think of how much Google is dangerous by controlling internet. Yes as it does it, if you don't appear on a search engine, you are as good as dead, and guess what, if they become an ISP they could actually even slow down other concurent websites if they want to. Nice...

scarry... I hope it will not be the only internet provider out there.

Dayo released a mod for wsIRC not long ago: http://www.cddesigns.org/mods.php?dl=chat

I love the look of your website, seems really professional (IMO).

Well for the voting sites, I can tell from my own experience that very few users do vote if there isn't any incentive to do so. Even with some reward for the voters, there isn't that many voting. And... finally, if you check the top of certain voting sites (if not all) you will see who is on top, and then check what kind of game those are. If you are smart enough you will quickly find that those top ranked are certainly not the best games of the sites. I have more proofs if you want to know them but then contact me by PM.

No I mean that a lot of the traffic on those vote sites are not actually human...

Well all depends on the operations you do on the tables. A single row query (which means you do a select for example on the primary key) will be fast even with million rows. Now if you need to do grouping, it will be slow. So just like that it will be very hard to answer.

Voting sites do NOT work in reality, and I can prove it any time you want ;) however I would prefer not to do it in the open forum.

you use a different flash file for each sound or music, right? Why don't you use something like http://www.schillmania.com/content/projects/soundmanager2/ ?

Any reward system (voting or others) have a HUGE chance to be cheated either by the players and/or by the owners. So if you tell to your player, go play a bit on that game and I will reward you in game money, they may do it, but will do it only for the money, and nothing else. Even worse, they could even try to create multiple account or other tricks to yet get more money. It will be extremely hard also to find an agreement of the value of action A against action B, so hard in fact that it should be judge by an external party in my mind. Beside this issue, I see how many (or how few) web sites want to share even newsletter to invite players to go visit another friendly web game, so I doubt such system will really work beside in a very closed network of games. For the open source of the system, I don't mind. Honestly you will have anyhow an hard time to make it copy proof as people will be able to recode it in case your network starts to work well.

Yes the IF should work. Not sure if it makes sense however performance wise and certainly doesn't for readability. However good thinking ;)

Not as far as I'm aware of... due to the 2 different where conditions.

Well it's certainly something inside your code. But without giving more info, there is no chance we could help.

Great! Thanks Dayo!

Great! If you give me the URL I'm willing to put a link from the site

As somebody (kindly) pointed me out, this mod uses a script from here: http://code.google.com/p/jixedbar/ Copyrights MUST be kept.

What's the exact error message displayed? If we know it maybe we can find a way to avoid it... without hard coding a wrong time zone.

It's an open source project. And you can already download the current sources. More work will be put on it if some people starts to be interested (more than simply saying yes I'm interested).

yes we do have a lot of info ;)

So you have two roads: 1) Start with very small scripts you write all alone, and then from there slowly grow. 2) Pick up an open source engine, check the sources, and see how things are done, and try to modify pieces to see the effect, and then try to add you own things inside. I would personally pick road 1 as it will really be at your level all the time, where if you pick an existing engine you may be overwhelmed at the beginning. In both cases google is your best friend ;)

or disable notice reports.

I'm willing to pay 20$ to the person creating an McCode plugin (must have some config) to use wsIrc. The plugin will be then offered free on this forum as well as in our integration page (of course with the credits of the author)

You know, you should really do it yourself, or with some partners and not ask somebody to do it for you. There is a few reasons for that: - If somebody does it for you, you learn nothing. - If something break or there is bugs (as always) you will not be able to fix them alone. - If you find somebody doing it against payment, it will not be cheap (unless it's not going to be really good as it mean you found a kid which just start in this business too) - You will not be be able to improve it over the time (which is needed if you want to keep people on board). So you should ask yourself a few questions like (and maybe post the answers here): - Why do I want my own game? - What will my game offer that the others don't already? - What are my skills, and are they enough to handle the project? - Am I prepared to work hard enough for it? - What's my overall budget (as beside the development, you have the marketing to take in account, and of course the hosting)?

so you have two paypal accounts and both pointing to the same site? BTW try first with the paypal sandbox, you will be able to do all the tests with it. And once it works, you can switch to the production.