Project 2002 - The Age of Al'Kabor - Release Date 3/20/15

[Torven]

Originally Posted by Wharhog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Once you have a working codebase.....lua is the only code that has to be updated to release expansions(the quest code)

Xpac's are just a pile of pathing/roaming/database work.......but if you have a few people working on it diligently....6 months is all it should take to put out xpacs. Luclin/PoP will take the longest for sure.....but I still think with the codebase 6months is a very real expectation.

You casually mention 'database work' like it's a trivial bullet point on the level of making roam boxes. I suppose p99 taking 4 years to push Velious was entirely because of code issues?

You barely had to touch fear/sky (if you did at all) because I spent weeks doing both zones. I parsed all NPC types in both zones which took roughly 3 hours each. Not to mention the time spent writing the custom parsers to begin with. In case you missed it, scareling procs are causing them to teleport themselves instead of the player btw. The difference between you and me is I want this fixed before launching the zone.

You can pull numbers out of your ass, or you can take the time to find out what they really are. I spent a full year gathering min/max hits, max hp, attack delays, special attacks, spells, resist values, num drops, even health regen on some for most of the raid bosses in the game. I'm adding trash mobs to this as we release content. It's extremely time consuming. Hate wasn't done not because of laziness, but because it's a revamped zone requiring much more research.

Do you have any idea what spell forsaken revenants proc? What their proc rate is? Do you care? This stuff ain't on allakhazam.

Originally Posted by Wharhog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Iance is a bit ocd. The incompleteness of the database and how it was an act of congress to get basic flaws changed caused a loss respect between he and the staff which eventually led to a mexican standoff with Iance holding a squirt gun.

Changes were made when evidence was presented. 'I remember' is not evidence.

eqlog_Nester_52.txt 3039310 [Thu Jul 26 22:56:27 2012] You have slain a guk ghoul knight!
eqlog_Nester_52.txt 3039544 [Thu Jul 26 22:58:59 2012] The ghoul lord has been ensnared.

You can put them back in as a lord guard spawn now.