Graal Free To Play on Facebook and Android

[Sonniku4]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

They want to convert the current servers over to a similar system that iPhone/Facebook is using but they're kind of leaving that in the hands of the server managers... A few servers already have, like Zodiac. But until it's all done they can't really advertise it like that.

Hmm, can you elaborate further?
Systems as in a economy system and such similar to what iP and FB are doing?

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Sonniku4

Hmm, can you elaborate further?
Systems as in a economy system and such similar to what iP and FB are doing?

Removing the trial(observer) limitations, getting rid of subscriptions, and letting people pay gralats to buy stuff.

There's also the problem though that most of the servers currently on the PC don't have gralats as an in-game currency, and that there's no way to securely integrate them(when you're converting currency, eventually it will let staff be able to spawn it, which would mean loss of revenue for Stefan and Co since that's their only means of income with this system). The appeal of iPhone Classic is that if you work hard enough you don't have to shell out real money.

How they plan to overcome this I don't know... then again I guess Era iPhone is doing something about it since they don't have Gralats in-game.

[Sonniku4]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Removing the trial(observer) limitations, getting rid of subscriptions, and letting people pay gralats to buy stuff.

Boy will that be a breath of fresh air.

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

There's also the problem though that most of the servers currently on the PC don't have gralats as an in-game currency, and that there's no way to securely integrate them(when you're converting currency, eventually it will let staff be able to spawn it, which would mean loss of revenue for Stefan and Co since that's their only means of income with this system).

Very interesting conundrum. And nearly every server has a colorful history of staff abuse spawning and script spawning. The only answer I can come up with is that there would actually have to be spawn logs sent to Stefan or the others whenever the staff (or script) creates something that is normally sold for Gelat. There's a lot of micromanagement that has to be done and a lot of systems rebuilt. But I hope they don't give up on us...

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Sonniku4

Very interesting conundrum. And nearly every server has a colorful history of staff abuse spawning and script spawning. The only answer I can come up with is that there would actually have to be spawn logs sent to Stefan or the others whenever the staff (or script) creates something that is normally sold for Gelat. There's a lot of micromanagement that has to be done and a lot of systems rebuilt. But I hope they don't give up on us...

Servers that use their own currency are able to do so because they have scripted their own currency. There's no way Stefan could really middle-man scripts like because servers need to be able to work with currency. What comes to mind is Stefan laying out a list of predefined secure variables and functions for each server that work together and log it for him. Though the problem with that is the sheer about of work to rescript everything, and the bugs that could arise from missed scripts... but like I said it'd be interesting to know what Era does for this.