Yes, this is indeed a big issue. Since people have been on 0.75 for so long, any changes are met with huge hostility and/or disinterest. New attempts are constantly made, but nobody even cares so it's not a surprise the devs soon give up. I improved the map load times 4-8x in the recent piqueserver ...

Sound great! I'll make sure to be there!

I'm not sure about how this time is for US users though, considering the community has a bunch of those.

I'm curious, have you tried merging you changes into the main OpenSpades repo? I'm sure YVT would be glad to add them.

Arena If you want to play CS you can just play it. There's no real reason to play a gamemode where you can't actually build. Now, if you are suggesting arena with building/destruction turned on, that sounds fun. Kind of like Due Process or Rainbow Six: Siege. Speaking of Due Process: Onigiri upload...

you can just type into chat

You can set an admin password in the config file.

Will you be running the server off of your desktop computer? If so, you are about to hit an issue due to the you (very likely) having a dynamic IP.

This means only people in your LAN will be able to join. You will also likely have to forward ports.

You can check the aos:// address that the server is using in the server console. However, you can also use this tool to turn any IP address into an aos:// link. If you are hosting the server locally, you can use the following address to connect: aos://16777343:32887 (or whatever port you are using)...

If you want to help, you can propose changes to the site at https://github.com/BuildandShoot/builda ... .github.io

Many people have not seen the reopening of these forums yet and generally, few people will read the news page. It would probably be a good idea to add some kind of header to the site that links to the latest blog post to keep people up to date.

You need to install PIL, the python imaging library.

Did you mean aos.party?

NOTE Since these forums were not online during the first release, which was done on aloha.pk, here is a short summary of what piqueserver is: Piqueserverver is a fork of pysnip/pyspades aimed at making substatial improvments to the servers we love. We were unsatisfied with the lack of progress on P...