Does the GST still exist? If so go chase them down (Skyld etc)

GST are, I hate to say it... not very much help. Sure they might stop by to fix a script or finish one script I'm having trouble with... but they aren't a very long term solution. They aren't going to dedicate hours each day to complete the scripting for the server.

The problem with 2k1 is that you can't just fix a few things and release it... It won't attract players that way. We've made a lot of progress... in fact I'll share some:

Player body sprites and clothing for male characters are completely done. All that is needed is a lot of different clothing which isn't hard to make. 95% of the ganis are done.

Completely scripted movement and damage system is pretty muchd one... probably also 95% done.

The overworld has had a lot of reconstruction... probably 40% done with leveling.

New tileset is about 80-90% done depending on if I think of any more tiles to add... Also need to make seasonal tilesets and graphics but that isn't much work.

New bomy pets with new scripting and graphics and ganis. Just need to make a lot more bomy pet graphics for the different types...

New weather/time/day-night system which is really nice... only thing that needs to be finished is getting the weather tweaked and adding it into the system so that it generates by itself. We've worked out a great calender system which works on going twice as fast as normal time. So each real day is two graal days, each real year is two graal years, etc...

New fire effects, smoke effects, new ganis and graphics for nearly everything... We've also rescripted some jobs. Mining for rocks is about 95% complete also but we haven't started on crafting them yet. Baking is about 90% complete we just need to fine tune things and make some more graphics and add more items to bake. Farming... it works but it's not quite set up the way that I want and hasn't been tested much at all.

Most all of the old tools have been rescripted and regfxed and redone completely. They all work nicely.

Things we need to do yet: Kingdoms, Quests, Events, Shops, and Playerhouse things.

It's mostly just a lot more content work to do and it requires that all of the basic systems are organized and fully completed. (don't want to go make quests to find out that we don't have a pull system finished so that players could pull a block, or that damaging hasn't been totally scripted so that a trap in a quest won't do any damage yet...)

But releasing it now would be a disaster... There is quite a lot of stuff to do but honestly it would only keep people entertained for a few days right now... Just running around and checking out the new graphics and using the new tools and checking out the levels... that's pretty much all you can do right now.. well not really but it's not ready for release. =P

YOU LAZY ASS NATS WORK FOR KONI! >_<

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I'm pretty sure a lot of the old players would come back, probably some new ones. Gain some attention, grab some scripters.

KuJi had a lot of players on there for a few days when it was hidden. All we wanted was some updates and some new things to do. :/

Seems your down a scripter, eeh

KuJi is a good scripter. Sern is not a very dependable person, he disappears a lot. No offence buddy. :P

Twinny is a good scripter too. Why not hire him?

Also you have Eye of the Beholder. You didn't mention him in your posts. :O

That's because Eye is great staff and does a lot of work and is always around when I need him.

I applied for NAT but contiga turned me down when i couldnt answer his complex math problem in 15 seconds :)

Yeah but you never said what he's working on ;)

Haha. Contiga is good, but I hate his styling =(.. confuses the hell out of me and isn't very readable =(

He does a lot of things. Mainly graphics and ganis. I would say he's done the most work aside from me on the server. He's done a lot of graphics for items and clothing and characters, as well as at least half of the player ganis, and has edited just about every player gani when it's needed it.

He's also messing with scripting right now trying to learn gs2 so that he can help in that department.

Yeah Eye is amazing. One of my all time favourite scripters + developers in general.

Mkay so hire KuJi and some other people Koni, you obviously forgot most of Graal's current good scripters.

Eye is great, he's been around for a long time too. Someone like that is good to have.