Posted October 13, 2018
Leroux: Tarot Redhand sent me a link to trello as well; I'm a bit embarrassed I have to ask, but how do you read that page? Where do I have to look or click to see what they're actually working on or what they're planning?
On the page, check out the right-side where it shows what they're actively working on. You can click each item for more info and history. You can scroll with your middle mouse wheel. Interesting ones for me right now:
New tilesets
Updating character models
64-bit
Separate "hearing" from render
Improve audio system
And when I ran my own persistent world, these would be incredibly invaluable:
More data in character .bic of persistance support
RFC builtin database replacement
Improve visibilty of class and race selection
I had a lot of long-winded scripts to manage the above stuff.
I also had a very complex player-store where you could build a store clerk, stock your shelves and set overall % profit on all items. I'd love to see something that automated that a bit more. Mine had some vulnerabilities that, with a lot of time, people could generate a lot of gold. I had a small regular user-base, though, and most of them didn't abuse the system. And those that did found themselves regular targets of pickpocketing DMs. :)
Anyway, I've given it a try with single player and playing on Aribeth. Aribeth is still horrendously laggy. So it's still not able to cope with really large groups of people. I was hoping the new efficiencies would kill all of that. Dialog windows still have major pauses in them during high use periods.
That said, I found more fun in the smaller servers anyway. There's nothing like a DM and three to six players interacting in a story.