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Yeah unfortunately we did not make our release date for private release because of the explosion of ideas especially with interaction with the playerworld with the player. So much has been integrated to be more realistic and more entertaining for players. I spent all day making new interaction features that I am sure your all going to enjoy very much. :)

Were hope to release for private viewing as soon as possible. :D

Sad Panda... =(. We need a buddy icon for a sad panda.. =o

Dude not making one release date is nothing rember your getting the server from Lance...It cant get any worse.

Missing the release for those reasons is ok. I am very excited!

Yeah we are working hard every day on this server and that's a promise. :) Right now I'm going through every overworld level and cleaning up/updating npcs and stuff. We have new items being added to the database each day, new graphics, new levels, new scripts, every day... So the amount of content we will have at release will be mind-boggling. >_<

There will easily be over 1000 items at release, dozens of quests... all the old jobs + new jobs. Totally revamped overworld. New fun systems to enhance gameplay. All of the old events + some new ones. Bomypets combined from all of the different version releases. Many new animals/creatures/races.

It should be a ton of fun. We'll keep you updated on the progress for sure.

Sounds like it is going to be good, yet the playercount might be a bit lacking..

Anticipation has the habit to set you up! :(

I hope once G2k1 is released again that it wont die in less then a few weeks and then go down off the server list completely, that made me sad. =(

I didn't mind the new/old 2k1, it just got boring...

This server is getting me really anxious :oo:

It should LoL, I do a jig around the PW before I ever start working :)... Yeah its like that...

Could you be more specific on what you class as items? Also are you saying something like each hat is a different item, because I hope not.
Hopefully these new jobs/remakes are going to be how you explained, and not the mind numbing repeativeness of the old system.
Revamped? This scares me. Is everything redone, or did you dump the old stuff and start from scratch?
Thats cool.
I'm hoping we don't see a long delay, you were ready to release yesterday, I hope you don't delay for another 2 months.

Did you originally play 2k1 in the year 2001? z.z

I remember logging on 2k1 on 9/11 (or I think it was 2k1 or classic)

It was 2k1 i was there too, i got home early from school because i live in ny and telling people about it.

Your Graal life... Good old days hahahaha

Well each hat *is* a different item. Each clothing article is a different item. But more importantly, there will be new tools, food, instruments, minigames, etc. :)

They will definitely not be repetitive and boring. We're also evening out the amount of money you make from jobs so that they are all roughly even. This way you don't just have to do one job because it pays the most. The only jobs that will really pay less are the ones that require no initial investment. (like baking bread and cow milking) But you'll be able to bake a lot more things now so only bread baking will pay less.

It's still the same overworld. We've just been going through the levels and giving them a freshening up. Better tiling, cleaner and easier to move around the levels... some new graphics in the levels, and right now we're working on making way better fire for torches and stuff. My next project is to better place lights in levels to give more ambience and less of a feeling of just a bunch of glowing circles randomly thrown on the map. I mean, you'll still be able to recognize the levels... they will just be updated and some levels modified to be more interesting and fun.

Me too. We weren't actually ready to release yesterday... I planned a private release a month ago because I wanted to try and get something released on my birthday, but unfortunately I didn't really consider how much we actually had to make.

I don't think the delay will be 2 months. We will definitely get it released this year. I don't want to rush too fast though and take away from the quality. I really can't even estimate a new release date because there are just so many unknown factors.

sounds good

coming from me i know i put down all projects i see but damn, this sounds good :O

I played in the old g2k1 and when the new one came out I came on a few times, but I had to make up school and everything because I skipped so many classes and I couldn't play graal. Meow ^^

"Join Date: 2006"

Please proove yourself.

I forget if you told us already, but 2k1v2 is going to be classic, right?

i demand the server's official name be 2k1v2

It would be pretty sweet if it went gold *pokes stefan*

I joined in 2006 but played this game in 1999 back when 1.37 rev 2 was o.0

I also remember seeing you on 2k1.. what happen to your other account Androk? (or was that not you?)

1.37 rev2 was released in mid-2000.

Androk's a legend :O

I joined Graal on September 2000. :]

I joined in June 2000. :]

Dont remember exactly when but i remember working on Sanstrata as my first NAT job when RC's were crap looking like they've been made in vb with no gfx haha and my staff account was Sanstrata_NAT12 , before that i played on Dolphina and UN a lot. So this is going back a good 6 or 7 years....

Delphi most likely @ above post.

I don't recall seeing UN on the serverlist in 2000.

I believe I started after UN got put online :]

I'm really looking forward to this, please don't make it gold :'(

I started UN when it was actually fun and not lame, all UN is now is a hang out its not fun really

lol when did this turn into a "when did you start playing graal" thread? >_<

I don't think the server will be gold... I'd prefer that it stays classic. But it's really up to Stefan to decide. If he wants to make it gold then he can... though he doesn't show much interest in the server anyway.

You started earlier... o-O

playercount would be screwed

Yeah I know... I'm trying to avoid having to go gold if possible. I don't mind the "2k1 newbies" flooding the server. I'm planning out the gameplay in such a way, that it encourages not being a "dbzpikanarutochu2006" noob. :D

The punishment system will also be different. There will be a new rock breaking jail and pretty much all rulebreakers will stop breaking rules and start breaking rocks. :cool: There will no longer be timejail or any nonsense like that. Also I'm going to avoid banning as much as possible. Only hackers will be banned immediately (and that's if they actually can hack anything...). There will be a profanity filter in place so that won't be much of a problem either.

Sorry the proper term is now "narutoboi -lokin 4 g/f- -moder of son-"

Lmao :D

I know that you are doing new bodies and such, but can you make the sword swing gani as close to "normal" as possible? Us PKers don't like to have to get used to new ways of pking ;(

Well the bodies aren't technically new. They are just updated versions of the classic bodies. The sword gani is identical to the default sword gani. :) In fact, all of the ganis are identical to the old classic ganis.

I've hired another gfx person to help out, Sage has now buckled in for the ride. He made a very nice trumpet to replace the old one... which was simply horrid. The staff team seems to expand every week. I just hope we can keep up this rate of progress.