Info Progress Update 11th April

Gfx and crashes are mostly caused due to the fact that the v83 client is nearly 10 years old and doesn't support new hardware very well (NVIDIA cards specifically it seems), new source has nothing to do with that. Sure, the server's still lacking some features, but the features it does have are mostly stable, and saying "chn 1 is down every other day" is a bit of an exaggeration. New source definitely had a shaky start, but at least give them some credit for getting it to where it is now.

 

There was only a brief period of relative stability in the last months of old source. Still PQ's randomly crashed, Timers weren't working, neither were boatrides, and ofc the infamous crash when two people hit the same reactor. Before that, the server seemed to get stuck and cause mass DC about 3 times a day.

 

Not to mention, as a whole, the server is more stable. The last time the channel locked up, from how I understand it, is because the the channel 1 harddrive was holding 50% more data than all the other channels combined. It's completely different than in old source when all channels would start crashing people, and server checks were done on a often. The majority of new source, the chunk, the largest chunks, of all server checks were to unstick people and to do normal SC stuff like process name changes and stuff, and it wasn't related to server stability.

As Kai said, there's lots of good stuff coming, and as Kevin works on stuff a lot is being done on the side that doesn't require his help. Update 54s note list is over 13 pages long. To give you a comparison, 51 was 3, and 50 (which was pretty big on words) was 7.

 

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From what I've seen Kevin working on, the excitement when he speaks in his foreign programmer language, this update is going to resolve a vast majority of any leftover stability issues that the new source didn't fix. Not only that, but adding a ton of new content, events, bug fixes, and stuck character fixes.
But I think the best change is how they are implementing new features in the backend to find out what will cause crashes or other issues, and to fix them much more quickly.
To go slightly off topic, but to answer the issues about GFXing, the issue does not lie within Royals alone. It plagues any old school server, because it's how the client works with newer DirectX versions, and more specifically for NVIDIA cards. If you have Intel HD or any AMD/Radeon graphics, you shouldn't have to use the GFX method at all. I know I never do.
If GFXing is that big of an issue for you all, I suggest picking up a cheap $30 Radeon card and installing it in your computer. Disable your main GPU when you're playing Royals, and use the cheapo to have much good fun.

 

-Bucc and other classes are weak and almost nobody play them:
Let's keep them like they are who cares anyway

-FP mage finally becomes a viable and somewhat popular mage class:
Let's nerf it so nobody will play it and the game will become bishopstory again

 

Are we going to have option to delete characters soon?

 

Yes, next update.

 

New updates:

Kevin has finished working on PIN/PIC and some account security stuffs. He will be tidying up some loose ends before doing some backend loggings etc for account security purposes.

On the other hand, View-All-Character and Character Deletion is already fully functioning! So that really brings us much closer to an update. Other than that, all we have left is some event stuffs to do, more testing and we're good to go. I'll bring you more updates as we get closer.

 

Are skill (number) changes something that staff could adjust without bothering Karven?

 

Tldr: Brb 6 months we will update you guys again then

 

See you in 6 months!

Even though we have been updating on the status of this patch every few days...

 

Yes. That's what Andreas does.

 

Will there be any changes aside from holy shield preventing stun and mage nerf?

 

I don't think we should ask for more information since any information leak can have unintended consequences.

For example, after Andreas announced the Arch Mage will be nerfed, and after Kai said skeles spawn will be improved in this post, people started merching gen20, and now new Bishops are stuck with 1.2B gen20 even though the update hasn't come yet.

I will just wait. The updates won't change simply because we asked about it

 

I don't think it was really bad, saying arch mages will get nerfed allowed people to prepare for it and get higher magic. Suddenly nerfing them without saying anything is actually more unfair and could cause people to quit since they had no time to prepare.

And the increase in gen prices isn't really bad either, I actually talked about how zak is unrewarding with the low drop rates and cheap gene and having the book being expensive actually gives people more reason to do zakum.

 

Not that I know of.

 

Will there be gachapon update

 

Good work guys! Just a quick question: should I save up some points for assassinate 30 or is gpq fix something for later?