{"id":3029,"date":"2014-01-09T10:41:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T00:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:43:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T00:43:56","slug":"milestone-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2014\/01\/09\/milestone-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestone 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, there were some pretty good bug reports from the Milestone 3 build.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve now fixed the most important of these;\u00a0 that is, the ones which aren&#8217;t going to be completely tossed away in Milestone 4 due to big system changes.\u00a0 Big thanks to Joe and ZipBark for reporting these issues!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the changes between milestone build 3 and 3.1:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pausing now correctly stops the clock.\u00a0 (Previously, pausing stopped the clock, but the clock jumped forward after unpausing, to make up for the time it had been paused.)<\/li>\n<li>You can no longer build in midair by clicking outside of the world.\u00a0 This fix also seems to fix the occasional terrain-edit or other tool affecting a strange position on the map, which I had noticed sometimes occurred while doing intensive terrain editing.<\/li>\n<li>You can now place any building in any order &#8212; all building restrictions have been removed.\u00a0 (Previously, you had to place a respawn spot before any other building).<\/li>\n<li>As part of this, a couple of &#8220;buildings-which-never-unlocked&#8221; have become unlocked for placement.\u00a0 These buildings are:\u00a0 the tavern, the dungeon, and the capital.\u00a0 None of these have interesting visual models yet, and only the Tavern has any effect.\u00a0 Players who wish to socialise will prefer to travel to a tavern, if one is present, and may linger there for some time.\u00a0 For the moment, I recommend against placing any of these three buildings;\u00a0 none of them (currently) contribute toward players gaining levels, so they don&#8217;t help you with that part of the challenge in this milestone build.<\/li>\n<li>You may now no longer place a building in an inactive region, or in the ocean.\u00a0 (You may still place them in a lake formed by a chasm which is placed near the ocean.\u00a0 But PCs shouldn&#8217;t be able to reach such buildings, if my pathfinding code is working properly.)<\/li>\n<li>Found and fixed a problem with the frequency that new subscribers join your game.\u00a0 This is now working a little better.\u00a0 Note that as a result, you&#8217;re now in much more peril of having your region server crash due to overloading.\u00a0 The game is probably too hard right now, since you really need to have an optimal layout for users to gain levels as fast as new players join.\u00a0 Remember that if your region crashes, you must select the region&#8217;s tag and click the &#8216;Restart&#8217; button in the context matrix to bring it online again and let people resume playing.\u00a0 Potentially helpful hint:\u00a0 You can ban a bunch of players in order to generate negative buzz about your game &#8212; this negative buzz will tend to help slow down the rate of new users joining.\u00a0 (Unless nobody is talking about your game at all, in which case negative buzz will speed it up.\u00a0 Marketing is complicated!)\u00a0 To ban a player, click on him and select &#8220;Ban&#8221; in the context matrix.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Downloads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.vectorstorm.org\/MMORPG2-MS3.1-Win32.zip\">Windows MS3.1 build<\/a>. (requires Windows XP or later)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.vectorstorm.org\/MMORPG2-MS3.1-OSX.dmg\">OSX MS3.1 build<\/a> (requires Mountain Lion or later)<\/li>\n<li><del>Linux build<\/del> (None yet.\u00a0 Want one?\u00a0 Comment below!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unless there&#8217;s something catastrophic found in these builds, this is going to be the last set of milestone 3 builds, and I&#8217;ll move on with developing toward the next milestone.\u00a0 Broadly speaking, milestone 3 was about terrain and regions.\u00a0 Milestone 4 will be about buildings and placements.\u00a0 More details on that in a future post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, there were some pretty good bug reports from the Milestone 3 build.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve now fixed the most important of these;\u00a0 that is, the ones which aren&#8217;t going to be completely tossed away in Milestone 4 due to big system changes.\u00a0 Big thanks to Joe and ZipBark for reporting these issues! 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