Upcoming future plans for AoV

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:53 pm

Right now we will be taking a break of coding major systems and mostly concentrating on smaller stuff as well as fixing any bugs/issues as they rise. However there is still enough left to do such as:

-more events: maze, treasure chest, mob race, free for all etc - pvp tourney was probably the hardest of those to code, and I'm actually very surprised at how well it turned out, very little issues on live. Still a few to sort out but none are major, and none have caused a crash or emergency state.

- ML zoo system / artifacts

- ML libraries / artifacts

(we don't have plans yet for those, but may or may not add them)

- Race/gender change stuff

- Quests - these are partially started

Though before all that even happens I have plans to revamp some major core stuff in the system. RunUO has TONS of really bad code design throghout all of it, such as how items/mob properties work and are applied. The "database" system is lacking in scalability and performance, as well as Windows being native platform is well, not exactly the best idea for a server application.

So some major back end system changes I plan to start on over time are:

- Make shard run fully on Linux
- Use Mysql as the storage engine for everything
- Redo AoS property system so that it is at core level, not hard coded into every equipment type (you should see all the typecasting required for aos props - BRUTAL)

Those 3 things right there will majorly improve code and performance, making it easier to code more stuff. Using mysql will require no world saves if done the way I have in mind.

I barely looked into any of these things, they're just ideas thrown in the air at this point, and they are rather involved.

Also non aov related plans include me starting a hosting company. I want code a full blown hosting control panel (like cpanel) and do some webhosting. I'm going to need to revamp my custom C++ libraries before starting on this project, but I hope to get started by September on it. I will host my own sites on this server and see how that goes then start hosting other clients, if it works out then I will get another dedicated server and go from there. I want to ensure my hosting app is extremely easy to deploy so I can fire up a new server in less then an hour and start to setup hosting. The idea behind it will be scalability to span accross several servers, and ease of use. This will of course mean extra cash coming through. Who knows, if I make a fortune I could do without a full time job then really zoom through this shard.

But I will most likely keep my full time job anyway for the job security aspect.

Only danger though is my parents are now trying to get me hooked up with a girl friend, so if that happens none of this will actually happen, and I will not be able to even fix any bugs anymore. But hopefully I can postpone the girl friend thing for as long as possible so I don't have to drop all my hobbies.

: Not willing to throw away my life and independence, just yet. This shard is my passion and I can't believe myself all the work we've put into it.

So yeah, thats the jist of what is in for AoV's future.

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3297, old post ID:21042

DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:19 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:Only danger though is my parents are now trying to get me hooked up with a girl friend, so if that happens none of this will actually happen, and I will not be able to even fix any bugs anymore. But hopefully I can postpone the girl friend thing for as long as possible so I don't have to drop all my hobbies.

Red, if you need advice on how to piss women off just let me know.

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3297, old post ID:21092

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:24 pm

lmao, I can probably manage that, just would not have the guts to do it.

"Maybe we can go out tomorrow, I'm working on this C# class and all the modifiers are working great but the inner cycle loop still needs work, I'm hoping for it to go live tomorrow night, so I'll call you then, k?"

or worse, *in movies with GF, get page on pager* "Honey I got to go, server just crashed, we'll just go rent it after"

(I don't have a pager or cell, so that's good

)

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3297, old post ID:21093

DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:29 pm

I can let you borrow my shirt that says "The Legend" with an arrow pointing down. Its good for first dates.

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3297, old post ID:21095

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:39 pm

hahaha, or I need some super geeky shirt, like these:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/itdepartment/9e4a/

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3297, old post ID:21096

DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:01 pm

the sad thing is, I understand most of those shirts. Not the computer ones, but most of the other ones.

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3297, old post ID:21097

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:20 pm

haha same, the computer ones mostly, specially the coding ones, like the to be or not to be one, or simpler version 2b || !2b though the regex one is better since it makes people think and they'll stare at you with silly faces as they try to make out your shirt. I need to buy one.

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3297, old post ID:21099

DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:32 pm

Let me give you a little advice, I only date married women now. Its more simple and you can't get too attached, so you don't get hurt.

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3297, old post ID:21100

Death · Post by **Death** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:34 am

Red Squirrel wrote:2b || !2b

There was a question like that on one of my exams:

twobe || !twobe

Had to say whether the expression evaluated to true or false.

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3297, old post ID:21130

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:30 pm

Just had a wicked thought, with the mysql system I could actually have a web based interface where one can search for specific items and it would return the results by player vendor. So say you enter "longsword" then enter ">15HCI" in the property options, it would find every longsword on vendors that matches that creteria and list the full stats, price, and x/y coordinates of the vendor.

Oh the possibilities. Don't think even OSI has stuff like this.

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3297, old post ID:21239

Nexus Graveheart · Post by **Nexus Graveheart** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:35 pm

There's a site somewhere out there that does something like that for OSI. You pick a shard and you can search for any item, whatever intensity for whatever property, prices, etc. Then it analyzes every vendor in Luna and gives you a list of the items that match what you are looking for.

Only problem was it only searched vendors that were within Luna walls, where prices are the most absurd. Regardless, it's cool.

EDIT: Found it. www.searchUO.com

Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:3297, old post ID:21240