{"id":3629,"date":"2015-02-04T20:24:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T10:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2015-02-04T20:24:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T10:24:55","slug":"mmorpg-tycoon-2-milestone-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2015\/02\/04\/mmorpg-tycoon-2-milestone-9\/","title":{"rendered":"MMORPG Tycoon 2 Milestone 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Builds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.vectorstorm.org\/MT2_MS9_win32.zip\">Win32 build<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.vectorstorm.org\/MT2_MS9_OSX.dmg\">OSX build<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So it&#8217;s been just a little over two weeks since the Milestone 8 build, and I&#8217;m absolutely exhausted.\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n<p>Milestone 9 is almost identical to milestone 8, except that it adds very (<em>very<\/em>) early support for saving and restoring game state.\u00a0 And milestone 8 was almost identical to milestone 7 in terms of gameplay mechanics, so if you&#8217;re new, you&#8217;ll want to check the instructions in the <a title=\"MMORPG Tycoon 2 Milestone 8\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/2015\/01\/16\/mmorpg-tycoon-2-milestone-8\/\">milestone 8<\/a> and <a title=\"MMORPG Tycoon 2 Milestone 7\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/2014\/12\/07\/mmorpg-tycoon-2-milestone-7\/\">milestone 7<\/a> posts, or you won&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>Some notes on the save game support.\u00a0 There are a small number of things which aren&#8217;t yet being saved\/loaded:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The amount of cash you currently have available is reset whenever you load your game.<\/li>\n<li>The current &#8216;game time&#8217; is not saved\/loaded.<\/li>\n<li>Your MMORPG&#8217;s current technological state similarly isn&#8217;t yet being saved.<\/li>\n<li>The specifics of PCs&#8217; current activities.\u00a0 After a load, they&#8217;ll make a new decision about what to do, instead of necessarily continuing what they were doing before.\u00a0 This often can lead to (for example) social groups spontaneously breaking up after a load.\u00a0 This is a TODO to fix at some point in the future.<\/li>\n<li>Any PC which is currently traveling will lose the path they&#8217;re following, which means that they&#8217;ll happily move in a straight line to their destination, ignoring all obstacles in their way.\u00a0 This also is a TODO to fix.<\/li>\n<li>The costume used for each PC\/NPC\/monster class is not yet being saved.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll likely be generated as different colors each time you load a save.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everything else should work &#8212; map layout, region zoning, edited terrain types, roads and passes, building placements, towns, monsters and players and subscribers and etc.\u00a0 Should all just work.\u00a0 Please bang on it a little and let me know if you spot anything misbehaving!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that in this build, the saved game files are in a plain text format, and should be viewable\/editable in any text editor (which understands UNIX-style line endings.\u00a0 Sorry about that.)\u00a0 RIght now, a saved game tends to clock in at about 1.5 megabytes, but could get larger as an MMORPG grows.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t really tested saves very far into the game, yet.<\/p>\n<p>Under Windows, you should find the saved games in C:\/Users\/&lt;your name&gt;\/AppData\/Roaming\/VectorStorm\/MMORPG Tycoon 2\/save\/sandbox\/<\/p>\n<p>Under OSX, you should find the saved games in ~\/Library\/Application Support\/VectorStorm\/MMORPG Tycoon 2\/save\/sandbox<\/p>\n<p>Under Linux (if you&#8217;re me, since I haven&#8217;t worked out how to set up the linux build so anybody but me can run it.\u00a0 If there&#8217;s demand for this, please let me know!), you&#8217;ll find them in ~\/.local\/share\/VectorStorm\/MMORPG Tycoon 2\/save\/sandbox<\/p>\n<p>In the future, I&#8217;ll be compressing these save files so that they take up less hard disk space.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that games saved when playing a scenario (such as the tutorial) will go into a different directory, and won&#8217;t be available to load, in this build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Builds: Win32 build OSX build So it&#8217;s been just a little over two weeks since the Milestone 8 build, and I&#8217;m absolutely exhausted.\u00a0 :) Milestone 9 is almost identical to milestone 8, except that it adds very (very) early support for saving and restoring game state.\u00a0 And milestone 8 was almost identical to milestone 7&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/m2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-Wx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3630,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/3630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}