Updates?

[Luda]

hello

[Mark Sir Link]

Originally Posted by Gos_pira

Wouldn't having lots of npc's on screen cause massive lag? Isn't the regular bushes good enough?

this was not a concern 4 and a half years ago so I doubt it is a concern now.

[alskdjfhg]

Huh, I came to this thread to see if this server had any updates? None according got the posts I guess. :[

[ff7chocoboknight]

You should all keep *****ing about how we are doing things because that obviously helps.

[Mark Sir Link]

u mad

[xnervNATx]

Originally Posted by Mark Sir Link

u mad

hi

[BlackSolider]

Originally Posted by Mark Sir Link

u mad

Actually, I'm glad. Nice to meet you!

[xmann]

Please, make my 36 dollars more useful than posting on forums!

[xmann]

so do you think the Playerworld Administration will "allow" such history pass their inspection, hopefully less strict from 2 years ago.... What kind of updates does it take to upload levels that have already been created.... I mean everyone has the old levels..... What else besides transition from Old Graal to New Graal?

[maximus_asinus]

Originally Posted by xmann

so do you think the Playerworld Administration will "allow" such history pass their inspection, hopefully less strict from 2 years ago.... What kind of updates does it take to upload levels that have already been created.... I mean everyone has the old levels..... What else besides transition from Old Graal to New Graal?

Basically the main issue regarding reuploading old content has been compatibility. The jump from GS1 to GS2 would be hard enough but Classic's management insisted on throwing multiple custom systems ontop of that so really conversion has been dubbed "more trouble than it's worth" (though you have to laugh at the fact that a full conversion would have been completed if management kept at it for all these years).

Then there is quality. Visually, the levels of Classic cannot hold a candle to those seen on other servers. Things have changed, the server might have been acceptable in 2004, but does not meet the standards of 2009. Though I don't entirely agree with that, it is what the management has insisted.

[xmann]

Originally Posted by maximus_asinus

Basically the main issue regarding reuploading old content has been compatibility. The jump from GS1 to GS2 would be hard enough but Classic's management insisted on throwing multiple custom systems ontop of that so really conversion has been dubbed "more trouble than it's worth" (though you have to laugh at the fact that a full conversion would have been completed if management kept at it for all these years).

Then there is quality. Visually, the levels of Classic cannot hold a candle to those seen on other servers. Things have changed, the server might have been acceptable in 2004, but does not meet the standards of 2009. Though I don't entirely agree with that, it is what the management has insisted.

Yes, but like I said, having History has far more meaning then the quality they expect. The server many people grew to love wasn't because of quality, It had a meaning to a lot of people. It had meaning to me, when Graal 2001 came out, there were many reasons why I started playing on the Gold Server, but after a while, everyone except for newbie players went back to Classic. So their expectations may not change, but the fact of the matter is, it's not a playerworld. It was the beginning of Graal, it shouldn't have been removed in the first place.

[DarkCloud_PK]

Most of the people that the server holds meaning to are long gone by now. They were either initially drawn away when the game became P2P, or the ones that stuck around were repelled by the stagnation and failure that has existed for over half a decade.
Combined with how the state of the entire game and development community is now, there hasn't been any hope for the server beyond those who still cherish their positions on it.

[jacob_bald6225]

Originally Posted by maximus_asinus

Basically the main issue regarding reuploading old content has been compatibility. The jump from GS1 to GS2 would be hard enough but Classic's management insisted on throwing multiple custom systems ontop of that so really conversion has been dubbed "more trouble than it's worth" (though you have to laugh at the fact that a full conversion would have been completed if management kept at it for all these years).

Then there is quality. Visually, the levels of Classic cannot hold a candle to those seen on other servers. Things have changed, the server might have been acceptable in 2004, but does not meet the standards of 2009. Though I don't entirely agree with that, it is what the management has insisted.

I'd bet old quests could be converted in a couple days of work and the overworld could be done in large chunks of 'find and replace' on the old scripts. The old LAT team didn't hand code every little thing so there is no reason to convert everything one by one; there is a ton of overlap and copied scripts that could be converted once and found and replaced over the entire set of levels.

I like the old levels

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[xmann]

Originally Posted by DarkCloud_PK

Most of the people that the server holds meaning to are long gone by now. They were either initially drawn away when the game became P2P, or the ones that stuck around were repelled by the stagnation and failure that has existed for over half a decade.
Combined with how the state of the entire game and development community is now, there hasn't been any hope for the server beyond those who still cherish their positions on it.

It wasn't really P2P either that hurt Classic. It was more of the new servers. If It was just Graal 2001 and Graal Kingdoms, Classic would still have over a hundred players during the day. The fact of the matter is that when the new servers came out, there were quite a few people who went from Kingdoms and 2001 to places like Era and UN, I can't remember all the new servers that came out in that point of time. Then all the newbies were going to the servers with the most people. Still happens today. Theres usually over 500 people online, the top 3 servers are Era, UN, and Zodiac (What the hell is Zodiac?) I think the last time I played was 2007. Maybe early 2008.

[ffcmike]

Originally Posted by jacob_bald6225

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Something like this was tried in the first place before the NPCserver was introduced, it wasn't close to successful.