Graal's next Big thing!

[coreys]

Thats the thing...the current tools...aren't that good.

[Prozac]

Originally Posted by TedHead2k

Wait wait wait. I have an idea.
hey could USE the tools they already have to develop things that normally appear in a video game! You know, like quests, missions, a storyline... Then maybe I can stop chatting and PKing with nerds and start going on challenging missions and quests! Then my Graal life would have purpose!

it's like you know what i am making with my server, Argos!
give people something to do besides pk and attempt to hack w/e
reward them for exploring etc.

the only thing is i gota learn to do it mostly myself
becasue, as i am sure many other private pw owners know,
the cycle 95% or more of the time is:
1. person wants to be staff, you review and if you decide to hire them
2. you give the person a task and they do it, and perhaps a few more tasks
3. the person knows of the dozens and dozens of other private playerworlds and goes on to one of them - or now that their skills are better from helping you out, they get hired on a hosted or classic tab server
4. they become inactive and either never bother to log in rc on your server again or if they are polite they will tell you that they quit

and the real stinker is that the server owner ends up finishing half-done projects of any type - levels, npcs, graphics, ganis, quests, whatever they may be.

You just gotta accept that if you buy (rent) a gserver space that you should expect to do almost all the aspects of it - levels, npcs, graphics, ganis, whatever it needs - pretty much by yourself.
levels and graphics can be made offline, then when you get to making the npcs, that is the time to get a server becasue gs2 does not work offline - every other part of development does work offline.

even when making Sanstrata half a decade ago, when you could make everything offline and there was not gserver, we made like 75% of the levels npcs quests and story offline, then through the right connections, got it hosted. there is a certain distraction level to developing a server online, becasue people from other servers can message you, or when a new player logs in to your osl, you can say hi to them or they will ask to be staff, etc.

anyways ... ya watch my argos server, its gona rock your socks off when it gets ready to be hosted. which may be sometime this summer.

[Lord Sephiroth]

Lower costs on Playerworlds/Account upgrades so we can play said G3D.

Oh wait i'm being unrealistic.

I want to see a pig playing Graal, that would make my day.

[coreys]

wtf o_o random

[Spark910]

I want to see a new world, that isnt 3D.

[Galdor]

the new graal 3d will be cool i hope =)
spark wtf 3d is cool

[Angel_Light]

3D needs to come out of winter time. =P I've been playing with the A6 Game Engine and creating tiles arnt that hard. I still dont understand why it's still winter there.

[Skyld]

Graal3D already has non-winter tiles. However, the preview server is a Christmas (y'know, winter) preview.

The currently developed version of Graal3D is much improved, and is being actively developed.

[coreys]

I hope it at least has somewhat better graphics than the winter preview. And more fluid movement, not as glitchy, etc, etc.

At the least, I hope its better.

[Spark910]

Originally Posted by Galdor

the new graal 3d will be cool i hope =)
spark wtf 3d is cool

I think it will take a lot of time to get anything people will want, and I doubt anything made (however cool) will be that popular as it takes far more time to get the same amount of content into 3D.

[excaliber7388]

Originally Posted by Tom

I want to see the Graal 3D tools finished, or a good server released. I hate most servers up now, graal currently sucks ¬_¬

Make a cool platformer serv... um...nvm

Anyway, I'd love to see graal 3d tools, maybe even a way to convert 2d levels to 3d format
and an offline editor that can use GS2!

[brock128]

The funny thing is that people assume graal still has anything big left.

Graal is on life support. It has no more surprises yet. Everybody is either too lazy or too unfocused to get anything done. myself included

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

Make a cool platformer serv... um...nvm

Anyway, I'd love to see graal 3d tools,

They already exist.

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

maybe even a way to convert 2d levels to 3d format

I do not see that happening. They are far too different.

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

and an offline editor that can use GS2!

I do not see that happening.

[Codein]

I'd like to see a world much like Relic or Oasis released. If no one would consider start such playerworld project again, I might take a crack at it myself.

[Admins]

Originally Posted by brock128

The funny thing is that people assume graal still has anything big left.

Graal is on life support. It has no more surprises yet. Everybody is either too lazy or too unfocused to get anything done. myself included

And you are on drugs I guess ?