Hi all,

I've been contacted today by a family member of a fellow Worms player. The player in question has been spending a lot of time playing the game, as well as participating in competitive events, up to the point where it began to affect their health and personal life, ending with an unfortunate situation.

So, I'd like to ask all of you to keep in mind that there are many, many things that are much more important than some 1999 video game about worms. Your health and family come foremost. Also, remember that every hour you play video games, including Worms Armageddon, is one hour you could have spent doing something productive or improving yourself (fitness, skills, career, etc.).

Additionally, as ESRB puts it... "Game Experience May Change During Online Play". Our community is generally nice, but can often be abrasive and unfortunately sometimes even vindictive and harsh. As much as I wish it could improve, there is little I can do about human nature.

It may not be easy to realize the full spectrum of outcomes from our decisions. Right now there are almost no limits on who can play online and no filters on what they can say once in-game, so it's not possible to predict what kind of person you will play against tomorrow. So, if you feel like playing online, or entering an event, might affect you or your life in a negative way, please just don't do it. It's not worth it, and there are better ways to fill your time.

And everyone else, please remember that the people behind the screen are also fellow humans, and might be more sensitive to some words or actions than others. Some people are more susceptible, some people may not realize when it's time to stop. It may not be easy when the other person is just some pixels on a screen, but please try to keep an element of humility and compassion in your online interactions.

Thank you.

Perhaps disable the hotkeys, then?

It's a victim of the server move, started long ago

The code was a huge mess, and I've already started writing a replacement.

Here's a list of WxW bit maps: (copy-paste the whole url, forum BBC has trouble with brackets inside urls)

There's always percent-encoding: https://www.tus-wa.com/maps/WxW/?;maptype%5B%5D=bit

Playing W:A online should use negligible amount of data except for color maps. Its' entirely plausible for color maps to use a lot of data, especially if the host is e.g. spamming !map. You can use very little data if you host games yourself and never use color maps.

TUS is pretty resource-heavy - the default theme loads many images, and people post a lot of large images or .GIF files in the shoutbox, and in their signatures and avatars (guilty as changed). You can disable those TUS features to use less data.

That said, it still shouldn't add up to 500 MB. It's possible something else is eating your data, so I'd follow Tomi's advice.

Hi,

Do you still have problems connecting to WormNET?

None of the DNSBLs that WormNET uses have active listings for your IP.

Actually the fix might take a while to take effect...

OK, it's in effect.

I found the problem, it was on my side. Surprising that you were the first one to run into the problem. Should be fixed now.