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[Waffle(est)]

1. what does w3m stand for?
2. which year was warcraft 3 released?
3. what is JNGP and how is it connected to fortress survival
4. what does vJass stand for?
5. what does ZINC stand for?
6. are you in the fortress survival community chat?
7. where does the FS dev team keep its working files?
8. what does EST stand for?
9. how many cores does nevo's awesome server have?
10. what is the most game-breaking bug that got fixed between 6.42 and 6.43
11. there are other domains for fortress survival that Nevo owns, what are they?
12. who is Nestharus and how is he connected to the fortress survival map
13. who is the original creator of the fortress survival map?
14. what is a memory leak? how can memory leaks happen in warcraft maps?
15. what is the official forum for the ghost bot
16. what does hcl mean and how is it used
17. there is a windows registry value for warcraft3 called "Allow Local Files" what does this effect?
18. what software does this forum run on?
19. what do we use JassHelper for?
20. what is the return bug?
21. who is the first person , to reply to this thread, who is not on the dev team?

 

also please reply with any suggestions to improve this thread, any questions to add?

[Baby Michael]

1. w3m = open based web browser?

2. Warcraft was released in 2002 I believe.

3. JNGP = Jass Newgen Pack.. using for keeping the editor up to date.

4. vJass.. I'm thinking Very Jass, as vJass allows us to do some pretty awesome things.

5. ZINC?.. Well it's an element lol.

6. I am in the FS cummonity chat.

7. We keep our files in a cloud called Sugar Sync, everyone on the team has access to these files.

8. EST?.. Eastern Standard Time? lol.

9. I forgot how many cores he has after the multiple times he has told me XD But his server can host just about anything!

10. Game breaking bug.. we fixed so many.  But it could be the lumber system, the pretty flower, or the Beheomth Wings bug

11. East, West, Europe

12. Nestharus.. I dont even know

13. Maddawg101

 

I love the trivia

 

I don't even think I got them all right.. ignoring the ones I didn't know -.-

[Zer0o]

1. Warcraft 3 RoC map files
2. 2002
3. JassNewGenPack; inproves the editor in many ways e.g. Grimiore and additional extensions
4. A scripting language
5. Another scripting language
6. Nope
7. On you guys harddrive...? Lolol
8. Estonia?
9. How should I know that... o.O
10. Either the WoB invulnerability bug or being able to upgrade level 5 mills to level 6 I guess
11. A halo site where he played Halo: CE multiplayer but thats all I know / remember
12. He is a legend in terms of wc3 coding and developed the codeless save and load along with other very useful and complex systems. The codeless save / load was implemented in FS for a while but it caused problems which could not be avoided with the setup back then [E.g. The system had to preload data at the beginning of a match which froze the game and players would have needed to wait like 1-2minutes which is just way too long].
13. Maddawg101

 

14. What are memory leaks and how to avoid them? [Regarding triggers and code in JNGP and the normal editor]

 

EDIT: You were like 10seconds faster than me Michael

[Waffle(est)]

thx for the memory leaks question

 

I got to give more ppl time to anwser before i reveal all tho

[123HELLO]

Oh boy a trivia with no questions that someone who just plays fs will be able to answer at all so I'll probably get them all wrong!
Assuming I didn't cheat by Googling or using other peoples my answers would be about this wrong.

1. WARCRAFT 3 MAPS?
2. I'd have to ask Google.
3. Uhm that's a image opening program isn't it? >.>
4. Version Jass
5. Zombie Pest Control Incorporated. Oh wait that doesn't fit. Zombie Infestation Neutralising Corp.
6. Yes
7. HOW THE !@#$ WILL ANYONE OTHER THAN PART OF THE DEV TEAM ANSWER THIS? UNLESS YOU HACKED INTO A DEV TEAMS COMPUTER. Or looked at someone elses answer.
8. Estern Standard Time would be my first thought... Since this is on a FS forum Elemental STone?
9. I'm going to guess 2 cuz dual sounds cool.
10. Well immah check changelog, mill upgrades from 5>6?
11. uhm Secretforums.com is the only forums i know other than this owned by Nevo.
12. A guy. Trick question hes not connected at all! *absolutely no idea*
13. Maddawg
14. I think some guy taught me about this. A memory leak is like lag except lag is server based and memory leaks are computer based. Memory leaks can happen from overuse of stuff like spells like with the old lumbering system.
15. Somewhere on Google
16. HCL is used to input modes on bots before they start. I'm gonna guess it stands for High Command Line.
17. Uh... This effects the files of wc3 on the computer. Hence where local comes from! Possibly the stuff like replays and codes in specific.
18. C++, The second plus is to show my positiveness.
19. To code stuff.
20. The bug that keeps on coming back. It's like Pheng but hes a mammel.
21. Zer0o he's a retired dev hence not on the dev team atm.

[Krehara]

I'll take a few guesses...

1. Warcraft 3 Map

2. 2002

3. Jass Newgen Package, full of useful dev tools

4. Vexorian Jass

5. 

6. Yes

7. SS (sugarsync)

8. First thing that comes to mind is Eastern Standard Time... though it could stand for multiple things

9. 

10. Invulnerable Glitch

11. 

12. He is a code-monkey who has made a lot of neat things. I believe the save/load system is based on his work. 

13. Maddawg

14. A memory leak occurs when an action is performed, but the data is not dealt with after the action is finished. In a warcraft map, this can occur when a trigger is not destroyed after its use, meaning that if the trigger is part of a spell, then every time you cast that spell, the memory leak grows more severe. This can lead to lag. 

15. 

16. Hardware compatibility list? I think it checks to see if your computer is capable of running software

17. Allowing local files can let a map scan for something on your computer. This can let you set automatic save/load systems or spoof checks. 

18. 

19. ... something that helps with jass? 

20. 

 

Blanks are answers I couldn't even make guesses to 

[oufo]

1.what does w3m stand for?

.. No idea

 

2.which year was warcraft 3 released?

2002 as far as i know

 

3.what is JNGP and how is it connected to fortress survival

A program that alters World Editor allowing usage of more Extensions and using additional compilers.

 

4.what does vJass stand for?

a Compiler for Jass .. Vextorian Jass Compiler ..

 

5.what does ZINC stand for?

No idea .. dnt think ur talking about Zinc as a metal

 

6.are you in the fortress survival community chat?

Yep

 

7.where does the FS dev team keep its working files?

On Sugar Sync .. "SS" for short ..

 

8.what does EST stand for?

EST either location .. ( Estonia ) or Time "Eastern Standard time" .. dnt know maybe it stands for something else.

 

9.how many cores does nevo's awesome server have?

Dnt know but prolly more than 16

 

10.what is the most game-breaking bug that got fixed between 6.42 and 6.43

Ability to harvest Stats from killing own units Via Elemental Stone

 

11.there are other domains for fortress survival that Nevo owns, what are they?

Dnt know

 

12.who is Nestharus and how is he connected to the fortress survival map

no idea

 

13.who is the original creator of the fortress survival map?

Maddawg101 i believe

 

14.what is a memory leak? how can memory leaks happen in warcraft maps?

Memory leak .. is when PC resources gets exhausted for no Apparent useful reason due to repeated usage of a faulty spell or a trigger. ( As far as i know )

 

15.what is the official forum for the ghost bot

Codelin something

 

16.what does hcl mean and how is it used

Not Sure what it means exactly .. but as i understand it's a String that is Written or Run on Game Start

 

17.there is a windows registry value for warcraft3 called "Allow Local Files" what does this effect?

Allows Warcraft to use tokens .. how it works exactly i am not sure.

 

18.what software does this forum run on?

No idea

 

19.what do we use JassHelper for?

Compiling map using External Compilers not present in Original World Editor

 

20.what is the return bug?

dnt know

 

21.who is the first person , to reply to this thread, who is not on the dev team?

i Would Say 123hello .. since Zer0o used to be in Dev team

 
 

[Can't delete profile]

1. what does w3m stand for? = Warcraft 3 map
2. which year was warcraft 3 released? = 2002
3. what is JNGP and how is it connected to fortress survival
4. what does vJass stand for?
5. what does ZINC stand for?
6. are you in the fortress survival community chat? = of course
7. where does the FS dev team keep its working files? = No idea? :<
8. what does EST stand for?
9. how many cores does nevo's awesome server have?
10. what is the most game-breaking bug that got fixed between 6.42 and 6.43 = Probably the lvl 6 mills bug. That was rly unfair
11. there are other domains for fortress survival that Nevo owns, what are they?
12. who is Nestharus and how is he connected to the fortress survival map
13. who is the original creator of the fortress survival map? =maddog or something like that.
14. what is a memory leak? how can memory leaks happen in warcraft maps? = if u fail to code properly?
15. what is the official forum for the ghost bot = http://www.codelain.com/forum/
16. what does hcl mean and how is it used
17. there is a windows registry value for warcraft3 called "Allow Local Files" what does this effect? = it allows maps to save things on your wc3 Or it allows wc3 maps to look into your wc3 files.
18. what software does this forum run on?
19. what do we use JassHelper for?
20. what is the return bug?
21. who is the first person , to reply to this thread, who is not on the dev team? = Zer0o

[sHs(Fattony)]

1. Warcraft 3 Masters

2. 2002

3. No idea

4. No idea

5. No idea

6. Was, until it escalated quickly into spam

7. Harddrive i guess

8. East Stockholm?

9. Dono

10. Mill bug

11. Dono

12. Dono

13. maddog

14. something with fail of triggers/codes?

15. http://www.codelain.com/forum/ and https://www.ghostpanel.net/bot.php i guess

16. Dono

17. Allows wc3 to save things on ur pc

18. How should i know....

19. Help Jass singers?

20. A bug that returns after being fixed?

21. My guy Zer0o

[Waffle(est)]

ok.. ill give away some..

 

1. what does w3m stand for? ---> warcraft 3 map, it is the standard extention used for warcraft 3 ROC maps.  (w3x used for TFT)
2. which year was warcraft 3 released? ---> 2002 originally in the use, some places 2003
3. what is JNGP and how is it connected to fortress survival ---> the Jass New Generation Pack. a bundled set of extentions to Warcraft 3 World Editor. the de facto standard for warcraft 3 maps development.
4. what does vJass stand for? ---> VeryJASS, vjass itself is a superset of the JASS2 programming language with advanced abstractions such as object classes, modules, libraries and scopes etc.
5. what does ZINC stand for? ---> Zinc Is Not C, it is an alternative to the vJASS language. vJASS and ZINC code is compiled by the same software and they can be used interchangeably, most notable change is more symbolic C style syntax.
6. are you in the fortress survival community chat? --> yes!
7. where does the FS dev team keep its working files? -->  as of when i posted this question it was a shared SugarSync archive.. but cuz they are bitches (and i really miss revision management.. ) we migrating to git.
8. what does EST stand for? --> Estonia
9. how many cores does nevo's awesome server have? --> 24
10. what is the most game-breaking bug that got fixed between 6.42 and 6.43  --> possibility to make units invulnerable with wings items i would guess.. tho there are other good candidates..
11. there are other domains for fortress survival that Nevo owns, what are they? --> http://www.sc2fs.com/   http://www.wc3fs.com/
12. who is Nestharus and how is he connected to the fortress survival map  --> he as a proficcient coder, who made the save/load system as well as many other critical resources we use for the map.
13. who is the original creator of the fortress survival map? --> Maddawg101
14. what is a memory leak? how can memory leaks happen in warcraft maps? --> memory leaks as an incident where some RAM is no longer used but is not freed. there are many ways it can happen, mostly:
    • blizzard fucked up the scripthing engine for JASS so it just failes to reclaim freed memory where it should..
    • there is some complex object, (often called a handle type), this consists of a set of data (what the object is) and a pointer( where it is). if you fail to manually destroy the object the memory will never be recycled till warcraft stops. if you fail to remove the pointer then you get most of the memory back.. except... warcraft will think that it still exists so you still lose some resources.
    • The most common/simple to spot cases are when in the trigger code a temporary object is created but not disposed of properly (Location for instance) GUI triggers are often blamed for memory leaks because they obscure the creation of these temporary variables and often use the poorly written standard library ( BJ-functions).
15. what is the official forum for the ghost bot --> www.codelain.com is where it used to be.. now it seems to be down or broken or sth :'(
16. what does hcl mean and how is it used --> Hostbot Command Library.
    It enables Ghost bots to send a tiny bit of data to a warcraft mapp by mutilating the player handicap values. used via bot command: !hcl <commandstring> where <commandstring> can have max length of 1 character per player/computer in game.
17. there is a windows registry value for warcraft3 called "Allow Local Files" what does this effect? --> it allows local file system to be used as a source of resources that are dynamically loaded from within a JASS script. (it is impossible to read data from a file that is not in a super special format tho). it is allways possible to write files, the registry flag only affects reading.
18. what software does this forum run on?--> Invision Power Board
19. what do we use JassHelper for? --> JassHelper is a preprocessor for the vJASS language that translates it into valid JASS script.
20. what is the return bug? --> huge type safety fail that caused warcraft to be vulnerable to all sorts of exploits. many popular maps used it to convert between a handle type (memory pointer) and an integer . the integer is a simple data type u can do math with in JASS. the handle is only used to serve as a reference to something else and not to be done math with. this enabled some horrible exploits so blizzard fixed it and broke a ton of some really awesome map at the time (patch 23 i think it was?)
21. who is the first person , to reply to this thread, who is not on the dev team? --> 123HELLO

[TheFilthyRat]

Think you know a lot about Fortress Survival? Please know that most of these questions apply to 6.42 and all of the various 6.43 betas but some may also  be from previous versions
1. What is the main spawn building called?

2. What is currently the easiest difficulty you can select and how much lumber do you spawn in with when you select it?

3. How many official bases do not have names? Answer with a description

4. What's is currently the smallest base in FS?

5. How can you kill invisible units without any direct damage?

6. Besides the mysterious librarian and woman builder are there any female NPCs/units in the game?

7. What other word that's relevant to Fortress survival can be made with NARJOT and what was the NARJOTs' name before it was changed?

8. To the nearest 100 how many charges of wings of behemoth would it take to fly completely around the map in the largest square formation possible?

9. Who is streets_of_rage and how is he connected with Fortress survival?

10. Including the free tiers how many tiers of wall upgrades are there between barricades and devils braizer? How many between the first and last tier of energy wall?
11. Are fortress defenders stats effected by difficulty?

12. Which air bosses can be polymorphed by wizards? Which ones can not be polymorphed?

13. How many bosses spawn in before LT stealer enters the fortress?

14. Between all 3 tiers of mercenary tent how many different mercenaries are available for hire?

15.  What different passive abilities do you gain as you upgrade through tiers of bunkers?

16. how many different bases have a bonus of some form?

17. How many minutes/seconds does it take to upgrade a level 1 goldmine? How much to upgrade a level 2?

18.  What is the longest waiting period between any two official releases of Fortress Survival?

19. Not including boss timers or kills how many global messages are in announced in a game of Fortress survival?

20. Why are you not in the fortress survival skype group?

21. What was the shadow snipers Critical strike ability like before it was changed?

[TheDwarfLard]

FS Question Answers:

 

1. Basement Passage.

2. Very Easy; 12 lumber (I know for a fact it says that when you win in it).

3. Not many, if you include names like z-88, x-51, and so on; here's your descriptive description.

4. The Hideout, near northern Portal.

5. Spiked Defences.

6. Tyura?

7. Trojan is made from Najort (I forgot to answer this). Relentless Avenger; I couldn't remember the name right away, been so long since really anyone has played those versions.

8. Why do you know this? And it's around 1200.

9. streets_of_rage is a donator and a very very large sheep. Some people liked his boss ideas and implemented them (I see tons of people say they're too hard, but they ain't).

10. 20?; 13?

11. Nope.

12. I know Korruption can be, not sure about others.

13. Well this depends on modes, but assuming no air or invisible: 6; if they're on: 7.

14. 19?

15. Regeneration when below 50% HP I think and spiked defences free? Also the ability to cheat the game-ending nuke.

16. 3: Security Room with its quest, Fort Harbor with its quest, and Science Lab I think it's called for increased tower damage.

17. Don't know either, probably over 200. But, why would I, when I generally forget to upgrade them in the first place .

18. About two years, six months; between 4.8 and 5.00.

19. Well there's the annoying starting commands and stuff that everyone uses -clear on, player deaths and revives, claiming, unclaiming, and two quest completion messages; so 7?

20. What you talking about?

21. Constant 5% chance, but each level added an extra x to the critical damage; so 5% chance to 20x critical at lv 20.

[TheFilthyRat]

3. Not many and c-99 and stuff count as a name obviously so where there would be a name of some sort its just blank

13. Everything just defaults at NM air and invis for me so yeah..

[Zer0o]

1. Basement Passage

2. What Dwarf said: Very Easy, 12 lumber

3. Actually every base has a 'name' aka a region, sometimes its just not displayed ingame cause dev's are too lazy to change/add the trigger line which displays the hovering text above each base.. the only base which doesnt have a  region is the little base above the harbor and below the torture chamber.

4. The same unnamed base as in 3.

5. Spiked Walls, Passive Nuke

6. Eh.. honestly the various marines could either be male or female, same with most of the enemies, but Tyura has the female Warden model so I guess she's female

7. Najort = Trojan but written backwards; I think the Najort was always the Najort, there werent any other names for him as far as I remember O.o

8. ...? o.O

9. One of the two Super Donators and has his own boss. A custom base was planned as well but that was changed at the last minute

10. Normal Walls = 20 in total so 18 in between the first and last tier

      Energy Walls = 13 in total so 11 in between the first and last tier

11. Not at all

12. Im pretty sure that no air boss has any kind of magic immunity so every one can be polymorphed except Eternia

13. What dwarf said: 6 if air is disabled, 7 if its enabled cause of Hanulla

14. Tent = 4; Camp = 5; HQ = 9 so 18 in total

15. The 'Spiked Bunker' ability which returns 10% of incoming damage. The description of the latest tier also says that the bunker regens health when its hp is under 50% but Im quite sure that that doesnt work?

16. Well tbh most bases since you get free starter units (Including the Boberto / Harbor / Riki & Bara quests, just have to wait a few mins) and that counts as a bonus Imo... but other than that only the science lab

17. 90 secs for both in 6.42, havent played any 6.43 version so Idk whether it was changed

18. What dwarf said, but 4.9 instead of 4.8 

19. How many in a whole game? Jeez.. well the "Suggestions? Complains? etc etc" message is displayed every 225 secs, in the beginning there are several ones and another message is displayed at every boss entry. Oh and also the "Prepare to die" messages after a defined amount of time and also almost every command displays a global msg.. its different in every game so how can someone answer that O.o

20. Not interested in talking about a map I havent played since months tbh

21. No clue

[TheFilthyRat]

12. Some air bosses cannot be poly morphed

16. There are other base bonuses

3. Some of the bases don't have a visible in game name such as c-21 ETC

[Zer0o]

12.: No idea, the infos I have are from 6.42 and in that ver every air boss except Eternia is polymorphable aka isnt magic immune.

 

16.: Bases like..? Not counting any base which gives the player who claims it a unit like the Harbor / Sec Room / Riki Bara room / Waterfall Base / Garden Eden / etc. Only bonuses which give the claimer something that is not a unit (Like the science lab) counts as a bonus for me in this case cause every claimable unit, whether its a sniper, rocketeer, alchemist or marine would count as a bonus then... 

 

3.: Like I said; almost every base has a name aka a region in NewGen cause its required to make the -claim trigger work for that specific base but its just not visible ingame cause sometimes dev's are just too lazy / busy to implement a new line which creates the visible text so honstly it doesnt count Imo. Of course only dev's who are able to look into the map (Or hackers *cough*) can see whether a base, which doesnt have a visable ingame name, does actually have a region or not.. but in 6.42, every base has a region and therefore a specific name, except the base I mentioned in my post up there^. Or ofc bases which are not really designed as bases like hallways and stuff like that.

[TheFilthyRat]

Don't know if baneful angel with air and invis enabled is considered an air boss because it does fly... but it's immune to polymorph