04-28-2007, 02:30 AM
For accounts it is easy: just merging the 2 account files together.
But this means that there won't be any characters.
Since I doubt that IN:R and XUO had the same serialization data and order for playermobile properties, I can't just merge them together.
The solution is to export the common data that is needed into a text or xml file and read that back in on the new shard. This requires extensive testing, or things will mess up badly. If everyone would just start from scratch, it would be far easier.
The next big thing is to implement a nice gump when you first login, so you can choose your starting skills. Probably i will make a not nice looking but effective one. First you choose which shard you did play on and then you decide what kind of skills you want to choose. So you can decide of you want to start as XUO or IN:R player - choose wisely.
The next next things are the many bug reports we got - some are easy to fix, some are already done. Since almost nobody cared so much to actually test the economy and report back any possible imbalances/exploits that will have to be done by us (us is the staff) before Beta 3 is up. That will probably prolong the time before next beta by at least two weeks as this is the most important part.
If I should name a date for Beta 3 - I would say end of may.
But this means that there won't be any characters.
Since I doubt that IN:R and XUO had the same serialization data and order for playermobile properties, I can't just merge them together.
The solution is to export the common data that is needed into a text or xml file and read that back in on the new shard. This requires extensive testing, or things will mess up badly. If everyone would just start from scratch, it would be far easier.
The next big thing is to implement a nice gump when you first login, so you can choose your starting skills. Probably i will make a not nice looking but effective one. First you choose which shard you did play on and then you decide what kind of skills you want to choose. So you can decide of you want to start as XUO or IN:R player - choose wisely.
The next next things are the many bug reports we got - some are easy to fix, some are already done. Since almost nobody cared so much to actually test the economy and report back any possible imbalances/exploits that will have to be done by us (us is the staff) before Beta 3 is up. That will probably prolong the time before next beta by at least two weeks as this is the most important part.
If I should name a date for Beta 3 - I would say end of may.