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Sir-Alucard
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Inscrit le: Jul 07, 2004
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Allez je me suis décidé 
Apres une bonne pause, je me relance sur Horizons 
Je profite de ce message pour présenter un petit peu ce qui a été fait entre temps:
A chaque début de mois, nous recevons un petit apercu de ce qui est effectué du coté du dévelopement.
Ce mois ci, nous avons eu les descriptions suivantes:
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The Year of the Phoenix comes to a close.
Greetings My Fellow Istarians,
I hope you've each enjoyed a memorable, fun, last few weeks of 2007 - both in real life and in Istarian life. I know I partied like it wasn't 1999, but still had a fun filled end of the year. For Istaria, 2007 will be known as the Year of the Phoenix, because just like the phoenix, Istaria rose from near ashes this past summer when the company behind the game became Virtrium, LLC. In this, my second edition of “From the Desk of the Developer”, I'd like to take a sentimental look back at what the later parts of the year included. Then I'll take a sneak peak at some developer created new year resolutions.
The first order of business when Virtirum bought the game was to ensure that billing for game payment was both secure and accessible. To that end, one of the first things they did was set up a billing system through Paypal, and while this system was working for many, it didn't have all the features we wanted, and required our subscribers to have an active PayPal account. So, with a little more work, we added support for direct credit card billing through payment processor Auth.NET. High on the priority list was also getting the Blight test server back up and working. We knew we'd be needing this server to test future changes to the game, but it also allowed our dedicated testers who previously had made Blight their home access to their characters. With Blight back, we were able to finish testing delta 119 and then release that patch to live. We've since also tested and patched 11 other deltas (that's right - each and every week has us making progress), bringing us up to delta 130 that was released just before the Christmas holiday.
A few highlights from those deltas included two brand new events. Our first was the Hammer's Rest event. This event brought back some of the favorites of previous fall festivals such as costumes, special confectioner recipes, candy, and of course, Trick or treating. We also introduced special cargo disks that look like floating kegs as new artwork for the game, as well as new foods for the celebration. Hammer's Rest is now planned as an annual fall event.
Our second annual event was brought to us by the Gnomes of New Rachival. Gnomekindle is the celebration of when Istar gave the the First Spark of Ingenuity to the Gnomes. The gnomes created new clothing for the festival, brought back long awaited dragon masks, and even introduced their own special currency for the event in the form of Istarian Express Checks. Of course, no winter festival would be complete without quests, presents, and winter treants, so Darsenia was brought back to give out shoulder buddies to any who completed her quest, and many of the other residents of “Gnomekindle Town” had special quests for adventurers.
These are just a few of the many things we accomplished in the final months of 2007. Soon we'll be announcing the winners of our first Chronicles of Istaria contest, the Hearth and Home contest.
But now it's time for me to give you a peek into what's coming in 2008. One of the biggest issues with the game itself has always been that in populated areas players experienced too much lag when loading graphics. Toward the end of the year our Art Director put together an art internship program. Those interns have been assigned the task of cleaning up graphic models in the hopes of reducing loading lag. We've also made improvements to the game client for both how and when it loads items, and will continue to make improvements through 2008 with the goal of addressing the lag issue.
Our new world builder is getting up to speed and has already been making minor fixes to terrain and world object layout. Throughout 2008 we're going to be releasing updates that fix or improve accessibility, improve aesthetics, and of course some new areas to explore. Part of world building is also to manage plots and lairs. We know a lot of the small plots are not very useful and we're looking at what we can do to revise their configuration.
As I mentioned in my last “From the Desk of the Developer” email, we also have set early 2008 as a goal for bringing characters from the Unity database to our live servers at the request of the account holder. In order to give these characters a home on our live servers, we will also be restarting plot reclaims from any character that is not tied to an account with at least one active subscription. Another lofty goal for 2008 is to make Horizons compatible with Windows Vista. We know that many players would like to join their friends in Istaria but cannot at this time because their new machine came pre-loaded with Vista.
On the content side of things, confectioners will be happy to hear that the revamp of their school is coming along well. Many resource areas were laid out in the final deltas of 2007 in preparation for releasing the revamp. A behind the scenes look has revealed that new quests specifically for confectioners are already written and being entered for testing in the first quarter of the year.
I want to leave some surprises for you to discover through the year, so I'm not sharing everything I've seen, but I will say that having seen the list of goals for 2008 has left me walking out of the office with a smile. The developers have some significant surprises for you in the coming year. If 2007 was The Year of the Phoenix, 2008 is truly looking like it will be The Year of the Dragon where Istaria soars to new heights.
Until next month, I bid you all happy times in Istaria.
Your faithful behind the scene's gal,
- Amarië Ancalímon
Horizons Development Team
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Ce qui nous donne pour les flemmards 
- Statut sur l'ensemble des opérations effectuées:
-Reprise en main du jeu par Virtrium, groupe essentiellement composé de developpeurs
-Correctif sur la passerelle de paiement avec ajout de la possibilité d'utiliser un compte paypal
-Mise en place d'un systeme de paiement direct avec systeme auth.NET
-11 deltas réalisées, testées et mise en production(ils en sont à la delta 130 aujourd'hui)
-Deux events
- A venir pour cette année:
-Optimisation du client sur le chargement des models
-Correction des models existants
-Ajout de nouvelles zones
-Import de la base de donnée de Unity sur les serveur existants
-Plot reclamation
-Compatilité avec Vista
-Revue de l'école confectionner
-Choses supplémentaires vues, mais on nous laisserait la surprise...
"The developers have some significant surprises for you in the coming year"
Je terminerai ce petit post par ce qui a déja été mentionné, et qui laisse entendre les prétentions potentielles présentées:
If 2007 was The Year of the Phoenix, 2008 is truly looking like it will be The Year of the Dragon where Istaria soars to new heights.
Direction... Order ! 
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Welogas
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est-ce que les monstres passent toujours à travers les murs ?
et ont-ils upgradé les elar ?
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Sir-Alucard
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Toujours oui 
Les elars ? Comment peuvent ils les monter ?  |
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Welogas
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bein un sort permanent d'invulnérabilité ça m'éviterait de mourir mais bon ça ne me permettra pas plus de buter des mobs alors ...
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Sir-Alucard
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Tiens voila un truc que je devrais faire
Dés que je récupere mon perso de Unity, je monte elar dessus |
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Dim Jan 20, 2008 7:11 pm |
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Looping
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elar en verlan ca fait rale.la welo classe vraiment
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Jhiin
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Bonjour à tous !
je viens vous faire petit coucou d'istaria 
j'espere que vous allez tous tres bien et que vous passerez nous dire bonjour sur istaria !
sur ce bonne continuation à vous la team |
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Sir-Alucard
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Je suis pas trop présent ces jours ci, mais mon abonnement est toujours actif
Dés que les persos de Unity seront de retour ceci dit, je vais reprendre dur |
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Jhiin
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| Oui je suppose que tu as bien envie de te remuer un peut et de faire un saut sur les iles blighted |
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Sam Fév 23, 2008 8:58 pm |
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Sir-Alucard
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Notamment
J'ai hate aussi de pouvoir reprendre le housing et je dois monter elar |
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Welogas
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qu'est-ce que tu appelles le housing ? ils ont implémenté les meubles ?
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Sir-Alucard
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J'apelle le housing tout ce qui touche aux terrains.
Il y a quelques meubles mais pas encore dispo sur les terrains des joueurs. |
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Welogas
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oui bein ça n'a pas bougé koi
ce qui me gêne le plus de reprendre Hz c'est que ce qui est le meilleur dans un mmo c'est de découvrir le monde en même temps que les autres et pas arriver et ramer alors que d'autres sont déjà level 100 partout.
La progression en groupe c'est plus sympa
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Sir-Alucard
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Ceci nécessiterait la mise en place d'un nouveau serveur.
Probablement pas à l'ordre du jour actuellement...
Personnellement, je continue à penser, qu'un changement de moteur, pour le rendre plus rapide et avec moins de ralentissement changerait de maniere importante le gameplay.
J'ai pu lire il y a quelques temps, que des travaux probables allaient être faits pour créer de nouvelles zones.
De l'exploration donc de nouveau à l'avenir...
Bref des discussions qui ne datent pas d'hier, c'est vrai.
Mais toute personne ayant joué à Horizons ne peut nier la présence d'un potentiel évident
Enormement de malchance et maladresse qui le laissent à son statut actuel.
Et puis, si le WA reprends du service, les groupes pourraient être clairement indispensables |
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Looping
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le jeux auquel j ai joué qui a le plus gros potentiel.
On peux etre un maxi geek avec une vrai vie sur ce jeux.
A chaque recall tu peux aller au toilette, mettre un ti coup a ta femme, prendre la douche...
Vu la facon dont il rame encore sur des gros pc avec de grosse connection je me demande comment je faisait avec mon p4 256mo et ma connection en 512!
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