town crier talks about overview of upgrades
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town crier talks about overview of upgrades
town crier is talking about something along the lines of an overview of upgrades shown on the forums, but I cannot find anything on this in the forums.
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Re: town crier talks about overview of upgrades
Re: EXCELSIOR DAILY
Postby +Colibri on Thu Jul 11, 2019 10:57 pm
Recent and upcoming additions
Past few months were quite productive!
- We have created a quest system from scratch - we currently have 2 quest systems (the classic RunUO quests and the Xml quest books), each have their own benefits and drawbacks, the new system combines all of the benefits with a few additional improvements. All classic quests are already upgraded, and +Arden is working on upgrading the remaining book-based quests. The new system will make it much easier to create or edit a quest, so that making a simple "go there and fetch that" doesn't include rocket science.
- A month ago, we formed the Mentor Society - a group of players who help newbies in their first weeks of playing here, with advice as well as covering them as they go into dangerous places. The group right now has 7 members, and we will be accepting new members in a few weeks.
- We have an overhauled logging system, that goes well beyond logging into text files. Not only are they searchable much easier, I can now also give access to those staff who would need it, to for example research a bug or view log entries related to a certain feature of the shard.
- Automated staff services: recovering a lost corpse is now availble right on the corpse stone - no need to wait for me to do a recovery anymore. If you forget a password, you can now reset it at http://www.uoex.net/resetpassword - without waiting for me to reply to your email.
- Just a week ago, we got a new topsite voting reward system. The old one has it's roots back in january 2014, and it's been patched a few times to compensate for unreliable confirmations coming from the topsites, as well as to compensate for those who figured out how to do the least clicks or votes to still get the reward. It's now recoded from scracth and will be much easier to maintain, so we no longer get tickets every few days about the reward level going down despite voting on all the sites.
We still have a lot of technical things to tidy up, so until then game development and events are on hold. But in the next 2 months, you can expect the following:
- Housing placement system overhaul - the ability to place, move and merge (maybe even resize) houses, without help of any staff. We're bringing back monthly IDOC events, as well as a new housing facet (the facet will be after the house placement system is fully tested and also used for a few weeks, since everything has to work perfectly for the land rush).
- Auctions - with a back-end system so we can track all of the various items, which will make organizing an auction easier, and the goal to host monthly small auctions and quarterly grand auctions.
- Donation bonus in the next few weeks.
- As well as a ton of infrastructural upgrades that will form a foundation for future game development, and upkeep.
Stay tuned!
+Colibri, Administrator of UO Excelsior Shard
Postby +Colibri on Thu Jul 11, 2019 10:57 pm
Recent and upcoming additions
Past few months were quite productive!
- We have created a quest system from scratch - we currently have 2 quest systems (the classic RunUO quests and the Xml quest books), each have their own benefits and drawbacks, the new system combines all of the benefits with a few additional improvements. All classic quests are already upgraded, and +Arden is working on upgrading the remaining book-based quests. The new system will make it much easier to create or edit a quest, so that making a simple "go there and fetch that" doesn't include rocket science.
- A month ago, we formed the Mentor Society - a group of players who help newbies in their first weeks of playing here, with advice as well as covering them as they go into dangerous places. The group right now has 7 members, and we will be accepting new members in a few weeks.
- We have an overhauled logging system, that goes well beyond logging into text files. Not only are they searchable much easier, I can now also give access to those staff who would need it, to for example research a bug or view log entries related to a certain feature of the shard.
- Automated staff services: recovering a lost corpse is now availble right on the corpse stone - no need to wait for me to do a recovery anymore. If you forget a password, you can now reset it at http://www.uoex.net/resetpassword - without waiting for me to reply to your email.
- Just a week ago, we got a new topsite voting reward system. The old one has it's roots back in january 2014, and it's been patched a few times to compensate for unreliable confirmations coming from the topsites, as well as to compensate for those who figured out how to do the least clicks or votes to still get the reward. It's now recoded from scracth and will be much easier to maintain, so we no longer get tickets every few days about the reward level going down despite voting on all the sites.
We still have a lot of technical things to tidy up, so until then game development and events are on hold. But in the next 2 months, you can expect the following:
- Housing placement system overhaul - the ability to place, move and merge (maybe even resize) houses, without help of any staff. We're bringing back monthly IDOC events, as well as a new housing facet (the facet will be after the house placement system is fully tested and also used for a few weeks, since everything has to work perfectly for the land rush).
- Auctions - with a back-end system so we can track all of the various items, which will make organizing an auction easier, and the goal to host monthly small auctions and quarterly grand auctions.
- Donation bonus in the next few weeks.
- As well as a ton of infrastructural upgrades that will form a foundation for future game development, and upkeep.
Stay tuned!
+Colibri, Administrator of UO Excelsior Shard
Re: town crier talks about overview of upgrades
Link to the post: http://www.uoex.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=73510#p73510
+Colibri, Administrator of UO Excelsior Shard
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Don't know what the purpose of your life is? Well then make something up!
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