Latest update (03.09.09)

Renatus · 03-09-09

Hey all, sorry I've not been about much (barely had any free time outside of developing ideas over the past week or two), I trust that Prov and Cerby have been taking good care of everyone who's been on the closed Beta server. I thought I should update people that aren't on it and are wondering how things are going.

We've got everything to level 200 tested, still a few minor tweaks to do, but all in all it seems to be pretty decent. 200-250 is also pretty much done, but it does need further testing to polish it off. The Tainted and Pure caves are done, but need some time put in to testing them and then a polish to finish them off (meaning people so far have a viable way to get to 300, we also have a cave aimed at 2-5 level 320-350's done, just need to redo stats and it's sorted).

We'll be looking at making a GG and Pet NPC, but they're both low priority, so might get bumped off to a later date (we've designed the server so you can level without pets and we won't be taking any donations until the server is live anyway).

Things in general are going really well, I guess we deserve some good luck after the amount of time we had to wait around for one thing after another in the beginning. Loads of credit to Cerby for working his ass off and Prov for (unhappily

) testing for us for hours upon hours, also a big thanks to our testers who've found lots of tiny things that needed changing.

We'll be discussing the thought of going in to open Beta in a week or two with Jamie, but we need a new server (using a low specc testing one at the moment, which is fine for 5-10 people, but we'll have 20+ on when it goes open, which will mean lag), they only take 1-2 days to get though, so no worries there.

**Provectus** · 05-09-09

A small update to this; I spoke to Jamie today about getting us a new dedi sorted out (test one is a storage dedi with low ram, which is great for a few players, but fail for Open Beta), he said it should be np, but he was wasted last night and I think the pint I forced in to him earlier put him back in to the 'drunk' zone.

I'll remind him tomorrow about it, so we're looking at 2, maybe 3 days from now, at which point we should be good to try Open Beta out, 2-3 weeks should be plenty of time to make sure everything is working as it should be, there won't be a wipe unless we get a major problem that can't be solved with a rewind.

**Tsarin** · 06-09-09

How will we Connect when it does become open Beta or will we find out when you get the new Dedi??

**Provectus** · 06-09-09

We'll ask Jamie to put our details in to the Autopatcher, so it'd just be a case of running that and you'll then have 4 servers at login, rather than 3.