Server requirements?

[Bell]

These requirements aren't up officially although we're now currently using them for new inspections. Obviously those weren't the requirements when those other servers went up. While we've asked them to retrofit to GS2, all that takes time and massive reconstruction. Some things have to be grandfathered in or there won't be a server left on the list.

[Hatred89]

Originally Posted by Bell

These requirements aren't up officially although we're now currently using them for new inspections. Obviously those weren't the requirements when those other servers went up. While we've asked them to retrofit to GS2, all that takes time and massive reconstruction. Some things have to be grandfathered in or there won't be a server left on the list.

Er, its been like 4 years roughly since GS2 has been introduced. All servers on the classic tab should have transfered everything from GS1-GS2 imo. Doesn't take 4 years to even make what they have on any of those servers with the amount of staff they have o.0

[Bell]

In theory, no, it shouldn't take that long but the reality is some may never be fully converted. They all have massive overworlds with gs1 scripts tied into many things. We've asked them to convert but this usually comes at the expense of creating new content. When this happens we all know that players don't see improvements so immediately begin to complain that the staff are doing nothing.

The new will eventually replace the old which will in time no longer work. Not a perfect scenario but we're pretty much asking Ancient Rome to retrofit an entire city to modern day standards.

[LoneAngelIbesu]

Originally Posted by Hatred89

Er, its been like 4 years roughly since GS2 has been introduced. All servers on the classic tab should have transfered everything from GS1-GS2 imo. Doesn't take 4 years to even make what they have on any of those servers with the amount of staff they have o.0

Valikorlia, for the most part, converted over to GS2 in late 2007, I believe. However, 90% of the content on the server is GS1, because 90% of the content is made up of level NPCs created by players. Despite my endless tirade against GS1 when I was LAT Chief, nobody bothered to learn GS2 because all GS1 required was copying-and-pasting existing level NPCs in to a level.

So, it's much more work than you make it to be, especially if your server is old and established (Valikorlia is ~10 years old, if I recall correctly; been here since before playerworlds, when you had 8 people per 'server').