08-17-2010, 04:24 AM
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Hiding under your bed.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 30
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Server Plan
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Attention Era,
I realize that many of you expect a prompt server plan from any new management. I however was not prepared to take over management and therefore am required to write a plan without fully realized ideas. In regards to the immediate future:
As you may have noticed Geovanni Cassini with the help of Icarus and Exolia is in the process of balancing the guns on era to make PKing and raiding a little more enjoyable for new and old players alike.
Dargaro, Tim, and Rachel are in the process of updating gang bases so that they are a little more PK-friendly. Hopefully with better layouts raiding will be much more enjoyable, and frequent.
Vulcan and I are currently going through all of Era trying to weed out as much of the outdated and/or redundant NPC's as possible. These cause much of era's server lag.
We are working diligently to complete a new job on era. We hope to, by the end of next week release a new fishing job on era, one that we feel is both fun and challenging.
We are currently in the early development stages of a fun little thing to make PKing a little more interesting. At the moment we call this hardcore mode, after every 100 kills you may activate hardcore mode once. When in hardcore mode you will deal more damage yet also receive more damage and should you die your hardcore mode is lost. However for every kill you gain in hardcore mode you earn points towards perks, which may range from silly little player effects to permanent boosts of HP.
This concludes our plans for the immediate future, as for our long term goals.
Elk and the graphics team are working on a new tileset which we hope will be completed by early October. This new tileset will be selectable by you the players. If you like the new tileset you may use it, if you prefer the old then no problem its still there.
We realize that Era's overworld has not truly been updated in nearly 6 years now. As such we feel its time for it to receive an overhaul. Dargaro and his team of LAT's will be working with Angel to create a new overworld while still remaining true to the original spirit of era. In conjunction with the new tileset we hope to bring era out of the 20th century and into the 21st century.
We are in the process of planning out checks and balances to help keep era's economy stable no matter what may happen to it in the future. When planning is complete we shall begin to implement these systems in the background in such a way as to disrupt gameplay as little as possible.
Though generally people have mixed feelings about this we feel with the various unscrupulous activities that have occurred over the last several years era is in desperate need of a reset. I realize that many resets have been promised and even planned. But the issue has been technical difficulties preventing a reset taking place in the traditional way. As such we have been working hard to come up with an alternative means of resetting without damaging Era.
As some people seem to be confused about the current management system of era I would like to take this time to explain exactly what is going on. I am the Server Manager of era, this does not mean that I like previous managers am the all powerful dictator of era. No, though that option may be open to me I truly do not wish to take it. Instead I am supervising the administrative team, I am leaving the respective team leaders in charge of finding new members for their teams and deciding what their members will be doing. Icarus (xTcDiabloxTc) is the Server Admin, generally his job is to cover for me when I am gone, but he also has the duty of selecting the Player Relations team. Vulcan (Vulcan) and Dargaro (kuhujiowa) are the Development Administrators, they are in charge of selecting members of the development team as well as assigning said team tasks to complete. Last but not least Geovanni Cassini is in charge of all player-related service issues.
I now leave this open to suggestion. If you disagree with, propose a change to, propose an addition, or propose an alternative to any of the aforementioned plans please let me know in this thread. Should you leave a message it should be clear, precise, and as detailed as possible so as to avoid the issues of ambiguity. I do recommend for the sake of others that before posting you think about what you are going to say. A thread filled with drama and spam is easy to ignore thus rendering this proposed openness useless.
-kinetaro (Server Manager of Era) |
Last edited by kinetaro; 08-17-2010 at 04:27 AM..
Reason: Spelling mistake(s) and mistyped sentence.
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