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Today, Storm and I sat down and had a long debate (and most likely this thread was why), concerning several topics such as the new hit detection and movement VS the old, and why there was a lack of anything for updates.
For the new systems, it was a basic "Pro, Con" scenario. He explain why he felt it was necessary, how by rescripting the bombs and arrows he needed to in turn rescript everything else. Any suggestions I made to how he could have redone the items without scripting an entirely new system were ignored. I told him of several different severe bugs / issues with his system, but it didn't appear to get through to him. The new system is anti - lag, meaning it hurts anyone who lagged in the first place. Remember when you'd see someone running, and they'd stop and 'lagged out', and then jump from point A to point B? With the new system, this still happens, but thanks to serverside hit detection, you can PK a person when they appear to 'lag out'. It didn't sound like that point got through to him so I told him about another related topic. Moving between levels. You know how a person on a slowed connection would lag going through doors, and links? Still happens, but now you can kill a person if they lagging when they're moving to another level. More of the same can be done. This isn't fair to anyone on a slower connection/computer, his system barely works for stable connections, but even worse for those or bad ones.
As for lack of updates he decided to show me some baddies he got around to making. They work pretty smoothly, but I'd expect more, we have NPC server and some of the best scripters. Utilize them. From his mouth he did admitt he wasn't planning on any major releases, only bug fixes, [edit]and working on various things behind the scenes.[/edit] He wants to wait until everyone has access to V4, which hasn't even had a release date set. How long will we have to wait? 6 - 8 months? A year? I doubt Classic will be able to hold out for that long. The majority of people use V2, why not make something, and rescript it to support V4 when the time comes. Sure it'll be more work but hell, wouldn't you like to see someone updated on the server?
I demand that something happen on Classic. Update something, do some work and make a quest, make something. |