Maloria goes Hosted!
 

Maloria is a Class based server which brings with it the feel of old Maloria with its looks and attracts the newer player with its updated playing style. Although the general idea behind it will remain the same as will most the images. It will eventually include both single player and party based activities but only single player is available now.

It has attractive yet non invasive GUI's that replace the old Q menus that can be so cluttered. The plan is to have all GUI's manueverable through your keyboard. No mouse controls will be used.

It has modernized by the use of Automated event bots and a nice weather system that is far superior to the old style of Graal. Minigames will be added shortly as well.

Go check it out, its still small and only a couple quests are available but I think you'll like the old skool feel of it.

I still support this. Congratulations :)!

Being able to PK in the starting level should probably be fixed, it's very easy to spawn lame.

The map isn't explained very well at all, unless it was in a quest description but seriously who's going wanna take the time to actually read it.

Overall it was alright.

Yeah, I realized as much - disabled it a couple of minutes ago, as well as in the blob area.

I definitely agree. There used to be some temporary text saying how to use it, but since I removed that level and made it a little more newbie friendly, that got deleted. Going to add some better explanation regarding the map as soon as I can.


Cheers for some constructive criticism :)

Overall I think It's pretty nice. It took me a few minutes to find how where to go and what to do because I didn't read the quest log but after that it was fine and I love the quest system enough to finish the first 4 - 5 quests but I might go back on later when I have more time.

There were also some moments where you'd finish a quest or get one, and it wouldn't return focus back to GraalControl. I imagine you'll get that all sorted out with your keyboard driven GUI plan.

Definitely.

Focus is the most annoying thing to deal with, random stuff constantly steals it.

I couldn't really play past the first quest due to v6 but good luck.

Ill have to hop on a friends computer and check it out.

Can't get past the class selection screen, and even that took a long time to actually get to come up.

Looks pretty good so far. My constructive criticism would be that you could tweak the hit detection on the sword a bit and try to reduce some of the cpu usage in a few of your scripts.

Hmm, I managed to get by the Class Selection and now I'm stuck in the beginning.
Looks like a all green level with a few doors, presumably missing the tileset?
Here is a Snapshot
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...go/maloria.png

Besides that the server is looking awesome..

We were having some huge lag spikes yesterday that Stefan helped fixing. Was something with disabling PRAGMA in SQLite queries that he said should be off by default but wasn't.


Scripts such as?

hmm i couldn't get past the first level lol

I like it, the levels are cool monsters are fine.
Being able to tell which town is which on the map is difficult, maybe when you mouse over the icon will "magnify" and the text could be larger?

My only problem is the CPU usage in there, what kind of CPU do I need to get a solid frame rate in there? Granted 2.8 GHz single core isn't that great, but still I don't think I got solid framerate anywhere except in a race event.

Well I tried Maloria on my other PC (that has windows XP), I got the same results.
So I tried Maloria on my PC with Windows 7.
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...iago/test2.png
So I'm thinking it has something to do with windows xp? Anyone else having this same problem with XP?
Ziro is thinking it has something to do with Gonstructs transparency tiles and Windows XP?
Hopefully in V6 this issue will be fixed.

I use it on XP and it works just fine.

The framerate lag seems to have reduced significantly now that the weather rain effect stopped (I disabled it in f3 earlier but it didn't stop eating me alive until it oficially stopped raining)

The map system is very basic right now, I have a few features I'd like to add to it and quite many changes I want to do.

There are two issues as far as I've been able to tell:

* Tilelayers lag A LOT in v5. It's supposedly fixed in v6, but until then, there's nothing that can be done about it.
* Two GUI codes are causing weird lag - Party menu (when opened) and the general HP/MP interface.

I plan on looking more into it as soon as I get some spare time.

How do you CLOSE the party window? I opened it somehow and it has no close button and I couldn't figure out the key to close it.

The main party frame is currently always shown. There is an arrow button on it to toggle displaying the members in the party or not.

Can hosted servers be Classic enabled?

Especially one that was classic before :confused:

I actually had some fun on Maloria. I got all the way up to level 7 and killed the big spider and I figured that was the last quest.

I feel the hit detection between monsters is kinda odd which shouldnt be that hard to fix. All in all keep up the good work! :D

Good work guys. :)

Looks nice, though there were some script problems. Reconnecting three times fixed it for me.

Lol. I like how in both of those screenshots Soala and I are both goofing off on Maloria XD

Care to elaborate?

They need to get Stefans approval to be Classic enabled.

Has that ever happened, and how would one go about getting that?

Stuck at the class/nation selection screen. Selecting a nation would do nothing for the first two times. On the third reconnect it was fixed. The interface elements also displayed wrong the first time (because the profiles weren't downloaded).

Yes please. >_>

I logged on...waited and waited until the observer mode went away...then I was warped into a black room and couldn't do anything, then waited until observer mode popped up again. That was fun.

Hmm, I've tried doing fresh installs a couple of times, and haven't come close to anything like this. Might be Mac related? Not happening on Windows 7 or Ubuntu at least.

I was on XP. It might have been the lag problems?

I got this in fullscreen mode on Vista.

The only times I know of it happening are when he's given them dev servers but every situation is different. Its not very likely he will but the worse that can happen is he'll say no. Contacting him via email is probably the best. It may be awhile before he responds though since he's been pretty swamped working on V6.

This ^ me too

I don't see why he wouldn't, what's there to lose exactly? Noone's going to pay to play a very small sample of maloria :P

What's so bad about waiting for Observer Mode to end? Or are trial accounts not able to go on Hosted servers?

People just really don't enjoy it :P

where is my cupid bow