StellarAgent wrote:

Umm, I'm under the impression that DeathSheepFromHell, is no longer with the team, that is why he signs his post: Ex-Emeritus? Not that he doesn't have some good insights, but he is technically speaking Ex-Cathedral.

Hmm, emeritus's definition is of someone who has retired but was allowed to keep their title or such, so an ex-emeritus would be someone who has come out of retirement and gotten their former job back, right?

Yes, Sheep is Emeritus. I'm not sure what Ex-Emeritus means. I still talk to him whenever I can but he just doesn't have the time and patience for the project anymore.

Me.

Felix
http://cityoftitans.com/user/4605/track

Ashenfall is heavily involved in making our maps, yes. It's been his main task for a while. He's in the Art department.

Fred tests animation and combat, and also does a lot of world construction tests and such work.

In addition to community management, I'm an Interior Architect just now getting started on helping with floor plans for our landmark buildings.

New Sighting: [url=https://cityoftitans.com/users/treed]Treed[/url] posted [url=https://cityoftitans.com/comment/154403#comment-154403]here[/url].

What? Who? It wasn't me! The check's in the mail!

Yep, I'm back. Kinda forgot my password for a while.

Anyone know if Segev is still part of the team? We haven't heard from him in a long while.

Cinnder wrote:

Anyone know if Segev is still part of the team? We haven't heard from him in a long while.

Yes he is. He handles more of the business end now and not as active in development.

Grimfox wrote:

I have added new peoples. 5 new devs have been identified and added to the list. Some need job titles and some need to at least convert their sig to HEX so that it doesn't take up so much space. Some are old friends who now have an orange badge and others are new friends. I've also heard rumors about a dev in the wild called Sith Rose, but I couldn't find her tracking information. If you know or have seen this dev please call 1-800-REPLY-HERE. (for the love of all that is holy do not call that number. Just leave a message.)

Thanks Foradain and Avel for the tips. Have a great night.

A whole mess of question marks is actually a fairly accurate job title for us so far, I'd say.

Foradain wrote:

What is meant by "HEX", and how does one go about converting one's .sig to HEX?

In the most simplest of terms, hex is just an easy way to interpret a series of 1's & 0's.

hexadecimal / hex
It is a compact representation of information for use in binary code. Conceptually, it helps a little to understand how binary code is stored & transmitted. At a base level, information is stored as a positive charge or an absence of charge. For humans, that translates to a 0 or a 1. One unit of information has two states, 0 or 1. So that one unit of information could represent two distinct things. Two units can represent four distinct things/states. Three units >> eight distinct. Four units >> sixteen distinct things. Eight units >> 256 distinct things. And eight units is a happy little sweet spot in hardware storage terms (a byte).

In English, we have twenty-six distinct characters that are used to form words. But each character has two states, capitalized and lower case. So we need fifty-two distinct states to represent all of the characters in the English language. But that isn't all we need. We also have to account for punctuation, spaces, numbers, etc. And for data storage, you also need to understand things like when does a block of information start / end. So those 256 distinct states get used up pretty fast.

One bit is a 0 or a 1. One byte is eight bits. One byte is a collection of two hundred fifty-six distinct states. This is going to get a little obtuse, but hang in there, i'll loop back around. If you looked at half of a byte in its binary form (only sixteen states), they would look like the following.

Binary representation of half of a byte wrote:

[list][*]0000
[*]0001
[*]0010
[*]0011
[*]0100
[*]0101
[*]0110
[*]0111
[*]1000
[*]1001
[*]1010
[*]1011
[*]1100
[*]1101
[*]1110
[*]1111[/list]

Now that is not exactly easy to parse with the human eye. It is however very efficient and hopefully you can see the pattern. Most of us were taught how to count using the decimal system (0 to 9, powers of ten, etc). We want to be able to count zero to fifteen and that is a simple ask. The problem is how do you represent that efficiently on a computer? Numbers zero to nine are simple, it just takes a single character (0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9). Ten to fifteen is where we hit difficulties (0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15), it takes two characters to represent those characters.

What if we just fabricate six numbers to represent those difficult ones? That is essentially what hexadecimal is, six fabricated numbers to allow us to efficiently represent six extra states. So using hex we can represent the sixteen states using just one character's worth of space (0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-A-B-C-D-E-F). let's revisit the half byte, but this time in hexadecimal form.

Hexadecimal representation of half of a byte wrote:

[list][*]0
[*]1
[*]2
[*]3
[*]4
[*]5
[*]6
[*]7
[*]8
[*]9
[*]A
[*]B
[*]C
[*]D
[*]E
[*]F[/list]

That is must easier for the human eye to comprehend. Sixteen distinct states represented by just one character. Easy peasy. Now we can represent two hundred fifty-six states (one byte's worth of information) with two characters. That way the letter 'a' can be represented in one byte of information as 61h (the h at the end is used to indicate that it is in hexadecimal format when you are communicating in mixed formats like this sentence).

[b]TL;DR version:[/b]
You can go about converting by googling a hex to ascii table and do your own decoder ring thing. Or (on Windows at least) you can open up a search window or command prompt and launch CHARMAP. If you hover over the ascii character, a tooltip will appear with the hex conversion. If you select the character, the hex code will appear in a field at the bottom of the dialog.

That's how you get things like "Soon™". There is no "™" button on your keyboard, but there is a hexadecimal representation of that character and the text engine for this site knows how to interpret that value.

TLDR: "HEX" is short for hexadecimal, with which as an old school little-black-and-red-box [I]Traveller[/i] player I am familiar. I also did a bit of BASIC programming in high school, so I'm familiar with bits, bytes, and nibbles and the concept of character mapping to ASCII codes. Which is how you can get "Soon™" into a smaller number of bytes than using the BBCode, which lets you fit what looks like more information into the character limits of the site's .sig field.

Thanks for the tip about the CHARMAP cmd!

PS: "Hero not found"? lol

Why am I unknown? Sigh...story of my life...

JWBullfrog wrote:

Wolfgang8565 wrote:

Why am I unknown? Sigh...story of my life...

Well , there seems to be a mask over your face...

Ha! :D

Pssst ;p