To all of our followers, Happy New Year :).
The new year goal for this project is to get this pserver done so that you can play!
We have got it working in node.js with login, char create, delete, game start. And are now coding a secure transition to the zone servers. Since we don't want dupe or account/character stealing happening.
We have programed scripts to help us transfer our existing source code into the new server code. So we already have existing packets in. We do have to recode some things of course due to language differences we have to go over everything manually and make sure its sutible. After we are in world and have monsters spawning again we will be focusing on the fighting system, so how we damage enemys or other players and how monsters attack. This will probably take the most time to get working as we don't know how every monster preforms and there is a lot of math to figure out or guess if anyone happens to know any of the formulars it would be apreciated if we could know about them.
Thanks to all of the people who have signed up to be testers. You may be randomly selected over the next few months to test what we have in a prior CB state. We estimate and hope to have a Closed Beta avaliable by March or May it depends on how much free time we have to develop :P. (As you know I hate estimates... its so hard to estimate a date and time when you can't see future events like some sort of psychic.)
The closed beta will be hosted in New Zealand so there may be problems with latency for those of you whom are overseas. We hope to save enough cash to rent dedicated server(s) in other parts of the world for the opening but for now testing will have to be done on what we have. Close beta accounts will have access to some gm commands over the time they are testing, with selected groups dedicated to monster spawns. By that I mean they will be able to work together to decide where monsters should be added or removed before the open. Characters and accounts will be wiped after the CB of course but participants names will be added to our website's thanks list when we get a website up and running. I will give an estimated quota for Closed Beta once we can do some tests to see how well the server will preform on our hosting we hope for a nice number like 100 or 300 though to keep it small. *Yes there are a lot of people interested hopefully they still are if we don't get a reply from people we email within a few days we will choose someone else.*
We will do a live stream somewhere in the near future to show progress.
Thank You~
for your support and encourgment over the development period and for the future.
Hope you all have a great year!
