by Zachary Read

Sius is configurable SubSpace/Continuum biller that allows you to connect as many zones as you would like, edit message limits, change the greet message and specify as many chat channels as you want to allow. It safely stores passwords and salts them, supports user banners, logs events, and also has full cross-zone chat, messaging and squad support.

It is designed specifically to work with the game server "A Small SubSpace Server (ASSS)".

This application is written in C# and was designed for Windows, though it's possible to get it working on Linux. You will need to open the project and build it using a tool like Visual Studio. The project is also reliant on SQLite: https://www.sqlite.org/.

To use Sius, simply double click on the file named "Sius.exe". To close the biller, simply press any key while the console window is active.

Note that this biller uses the TCP Billing Protocol (version 1.3.1), as proposed by Grelminar for the ASSS server. It is therefore not compatible with Subgame. For ASSS users, make sure that you load up the module entitled "billing" in your modules.conf file.

The full protocol is detailed in the file "new-biller-prot.html".

To have your zone successfully connect to the biller, make sure that the respective billing information matches. Open up the configuration file entitled "Sius.exe.config" (any text editor will suffice), and edit the port value and password value as needed.

<add key="port" value="500" />
<add key="password" value="password" />

For ASSS users, you will have to match those two values in your global.conf file, along with the biller's IP address (127.0.0.1 if running on the same computer) and your zone's name under the billing section as so:

[Billing]
IP = 127.0.0.1
Port = 500
ServerName = My Zone
Password = password

You may edit other settings as needed.

ASSS users should also make sure that, in modules.conf, you are running the "billing" module and not the "billing_ssc" module.

?message, ?messages, ?chat

?squad, ?squadcreate, ?squadjoin, ?squadowner, ?squadlist, ?squadkick, ?squadgrant, ?squadleave, ?squaddissolve, ?squadpassword

?buptime, ?btime, ?bversion, ?bzones (?zones), ?bzone

?find, ?password, ?userid