State of the Bane Update 08JAN10

[claymore1977]

Ladies and gents,
It's been a while and I'll admit that I'd rather be working on the code vice writing an update, but I need to keep the community happy!

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The month of December has met Team SBEmu with some highs and some lows.

In December, the SBEmu team rallied and sprinted to the finish line of the LoginServer. Not only was this a huge waypoint in the development path, but it was a wonderful way to kick off the Holiday Season. To date, 4967 Accounts and 9010 Characters have been created!

Now, to the average users, 'just a LoginServer' may not be a big deal. But as programming goes, it takes the first 75% of the time to make the first 27% of User Visible content. On the flip side, now that we have a bulk of the server framework in place, the last 75% of content and features should come quickly!

Right after the release of the LoginServer, the holidays hit. Team SBEmu pretty much took the remainder of the month off

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Now that the new year is here, most of the SBEmu team are back and Development has once again picked up to a really good pace. Fast enough, in fact, that we are rapidly approaching Alpha on WorldServer. If the inertia holds, Closed Beta will closely follow that.

I am sure you have all heard the rumor about the End of Jan release date not happening. I'd like to re-iterate that that date was, and always has been, an estimate. We are currently researching various things that will determine if/how that estimate will change. I will say that there is a high probability that it *will* change.

As has been discussed both internally and with the community, the SBEmu team will chose to push back the release date rather than release an incomplete/faulty product.

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We are working on a way to show off ScreenShots and Recordings in a gallery attached to the site. Stay tuned for this!

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We hit 2000 commits to the SVN repository recently!

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A Note from Konrad:

Even though dev team took a christmas vacation, the design team was on their feet, working steadily towards gathering more documentation.

As a result we have compiled microzone population data for Aerynth and Vorringia mapsets (layout of microzones in macrozones, microzone maps, and mobs that populate those zones, including their ranks).

Progress has been made in determining things like HP growth with constitution and trains-to-stats dependencies. We are ready to get in there and start building the ingame objects. For this purpose we will be requesting as many recordings from the community as you guys can give us. Places like noob island, oblivion, maelstrom, mines, camps - all have to be manually recreated from recordings.
I know not many people record noob island or farming, but those are the vids we need.
If you decide to contribute a recording, make sure it's one of the existing zones. Recordings that depict player built cities do not help us at this particular task.



Discussion Thread:
http://community.shadowbaneemulator....hread.php?t=70