Trial accounts

[Tyhm]

I think this game needs a Newbie Server again. Limited for trials, but not as limited as it was - and official too, so there's a sponsored hub, somewhere you can meet your cousin from Wisconsin and introduce him to the game. Naturally my preferences run towards nominating Classic/The Adventure, but G2K1/Bomy Moon would be a good one too - a nice, preferably stable(ish) server with a low learning curve designed towards being newbie-friendly while remaining sufficiently quest-heavy that there's a big enough hook. The hook size is terribly important, as if they spend 14 hours questing they'll have to experience the awesomeness of Graal (and start wandering onto Graal's other worlds), whereas if they spend 1 hour getting everything they can close the game with a sense of accomplishment - "I beat Graal, what else is free?"

Originally Posted by Stefan

Well even on Classic the player count was only above 250 for a few days, on July 4th 2000 there were around 400 players on it. Actually there were already playerworlds/subservers at that time, but the player count was added on top of the Classic player count (Kharlia and my test world).
I would say that an online community cannot be much bigger, people are forming groups. It's our goal though to bring the people from the different servers together, make it possible for people to easily communicate with players from other servers, globally announce events and such.

*coughSO-GIVE-US-GLOBAL-STRINGScough*

[zim5354]

Originally Posted by Tyhm

I think this game needs a Newbie Server again. Limited for trials, but not as limited as it was - and official too, so there's a sponsored hub, somewhere you can meet your cousin from Wisconsin and introduce him to the game. Naturally my preferences run towards nominating Classic/The Adventure, but G2K1/Bomy Moon would be a good one too - a nice, preferably stable(ish) server with a low learning curve designed towards being newbie-friendly while remaining sufficiently quest-heavy that there's a big enough hook. The hook size is terribly important, as if they spend 14 hours questing they'll have to experience the awesomeness of Graal (and start wandering onto Graal's other worlds), whereas if they spend 1 hour getting everything they can close the game with a sense of accomplishment - "I beat Graal, what else is free?"



*coughSO-GIVE-US-GLOBAL-STRINGScough*

Alot of servers would be nice it would breath life into some of the less player heavy servers.

[Andy0687]

Originally Posted by Tyhm

*coughSO-GIVE-US-GLOBAL-STRINGScough*

I wish I had seen this post like a week or two ago. I was trying to work on something similar where I sent data down to an SQL server and requested some Data back up.

It was going to be used for the exact same reason you pretty much detailed in the post but would have been less intensive and we wouldnt have had to worry about hooking a ton of data onto the player globally (how would you need to choose to load all this data anyways, would it be intensive?)

The main problem ive seen is my php codes that I requesturl cant send data back up to graal, and thats really the biggest problem.

its continually returning 0 (when not starting with http://) and will return a "weird string like http:__www.somesite.com__80__path__to__file" when including the http:// but when returning data from the php, which is what I needed most to finish, nothing worked.

Would like some more info on this if anyone has tried, I want to finish up my project

Was also why i was looking for a player.world identifier to make sure the correct world is always sent.

Also I wanted to say that entire story thing was so great.

[Tyhm]

Originally Posted by Andy0687

I wish I had seen this post like a week or two ago. I was trying to work on something similar where I sent data down to an SQL server and requested some Data back up.

It was going to be used for the exact same reason you pretty much detailed in the post but would have been less intensive and we wouldnt have had to worry about hooking a ton of data onto the player globally (how would you need to choose to load all this data anyways, would it be intensive?)

The main problem ive seen is my php codes that I requesturl cant send data back up to graal, and thats really the biggest problem.

its continually returning 0 (when not starting with http://) and will return a "weird string like http:__www.somesite.com__80__path__to__file" when including the http:// but when returning data from the php, which is what I needed most to finish, nothing worked.

Would like some more info on this if anyone has tried, I want to finish up my project

Was also why i was looking for a player.world identifier to make sure the correct world is always sent.

Also I wanted to say that entire story thing was so great.

Glad SOMEbody liked (or Read) my idea...

Hm, a 3rd party server could be a good idea...but of course I'd rather see it straight up integrated. I mean, given that you can only realistically be on one server at a time, it only has to read your global strings in once, then treat them as completely normal strings stuck to your player/account on that server...
and I had such hopes for the Global Gralats...