Era - The new beginning?

[Velox Cruentus]

Good day folks...

As most of you know it, Jenn, the former manager of Era, has renounced her position as manager of Era. Since then, roughly two weeks ago, when Snakeandy7 became Manager, Era started to revive.

Since then, he hired a numberous amount of staff, all of which I'm rather satisfied to work with. I initially joined to help Era (not quite as a staff, but a helper), although when I decided to come as staff as Era, I was promoted to Assistant Manager. Personally, I'm still quite uncomfortible with the position, and this new 'power' intimidates me. Anyhow... I do feel, as Assistant Manager, that it is time that I open up a few clear notes on you all. There are several great things that either have to be redone, or reworked.

The first thing that comes to mind is the Website. The Era website isn't quite in our possession yet, and we are trying to contact the former webmaster to regain access to it. If that is impossible, I will see to get a server which would provide both Forums, and a general database of Era (showing different aspects of Era). This has been delayed long enough, and I'm anxious to see it finally working out.

The second thing is the Hit-Detection. This side is rather quite complicated because Jenn scripted the hit-detection into the NPC-Server. I could easily fix it, but I do not know the total implications this might cause. At all moment, it could easily fail, or leave some glitches opened for player exploitation.

The third thing is Businesses. This is a rather harsh job on my part. Most of the weapons don't work, and I repair the items on the spot. I'm still a little unfamiliar with Jenn/Chrisz/Former Scripters way of working. Sometimes I spend a great amount of time just searching for where they put a particular event. In all cases, Businesses are going to be opened when I can get around to it -- It's not worth asking me if you can own it, or remind me you were the former owner of it. When I come accross the particular business, I'll probably come accross your name in one of the NPCs. Elsewise, I'll mass for help/reference to it.

Fourthly, I'm trying to get Gangs back onto Era. This seems to be just as complex as Businesses (if not even more!). There are several things I want to confirm with Snakeandy7 about it.

All in All... I'm trying to get GS2 version of Era wrapped up and ready to go. This will involve an overhaulment of all the major systems. To reduce my work, I am trying to get things organized in a sophisticated manner so that I can easily add items, such as a shotgun, without having to reprogram it entirely. This is encountering more problems then I dare accept because several functions in which are used are not availible. To get around it would be pretty complicated (such as the shoot command).

At last, to conclude: Durring the weeks I've been at Era (quite new at the time), I amassed a numberous amount of things that the players want done. When I work, I reflect to this list to see what needs to be done next. I wish you have a great time at Era, and perhaps withstand some of the delays I do.



Old Era
- Clientside Shooting [ DONE ]
- Businesses [ DONE ]
- Old Gangs
- Remove Gmap
- Old Guns
- Old Quests
- HP System
- Sewers [ DONE ]

Economy
- More well rounded [ DONE ]
- Minerals Selling [ DONE ]
- Free Hats
- Reset (Aren't you tired of resets yet?)
- New Jobs
- Cheaper to own Gangs

Events
- More Events
- PK Oriented Events
- "Cool" prizes
- Night Events

Quests
- Cooperative Quests
- More Quests

New Era
- Finish Jenn's Work
- Cars
- Better Transportation
- Aussie Friendly

Other
- More Weapons
- Less Lag
- Gang Staff supervision.
- Chrisz's Censor system

- SG552 Back
- Upgrade system (houses/business/etc)
- Gang/Business supervision
- Old Health System
- Cars (Jenn Work?)
- Old Weapons
- Customizible Weapons
- Furniture SystemHrm..
- * Party System

Work Needed Done
- Rescript Era Bank
- Minerals Selling [ DONE ]

Edit: Added "DONE"