Developer Meeting - Minutes from Today's Meeting

[foxmajik]

Here are the notes from today's Developer Meeting at the Hurnsacald Inn:

-Development team is looking for pixel artists. Check on the forum in CR1 Development and in the IRC channel #tmw-content to help.
-IRC server is "platinum" (check the mana world main page right upper corner)
-If you want to be a pixel artist see the #tmw-art channel on IRC to help.
-There are other public channels on the IRC server:
-#tmw-dev
-#tmw-gm
-#themanaworld
-Things said on #tmw-content have to stay there to avoid spoilers!
-Fother is working on a quest called the "bee keeper quest." It will take some more time. It involves bees and flowers in other colors.
-Fother did the changes to the sea slimes. He also made a spider that looks like the ones we have but is the size of a scorpion. It is not yet on this server but it is on the git version of the client for those who use that. Spiders should be replaced with the new spiders in the next update.
-The sprite format will changed to indexed png to boost performance.
-The devs are working on fixing the shading for the slimes.
-The devs are desperately in need of a playerset (animations) for two handed weapons, after they get that there are about 20 new weapons.
-Mouboos will have a fur drop.
-Fother also mentioned something about troll baiting/hunting and a slightly large boss.
-A host is needed for CR2, the next version of The Mana World. They need someone who is, in their opinion, trustworthy; who will not interfere with dev work. If you have any suggestions talk to Jaxad.



-Grumpy Bear

[Matt]

An ingame developer meeting?
I am not suprised that I can't spot any main devs in there. Or me.

[Jaxad0127]

If you have any suggestions talk to Jaxad.

Please take suggestions to #tmw-dev on our IRC network or make threads in the appropriate forums. PMing individual developers with project ideas isn't very useful.

[foxmajik]

A better title may have been "meeting to provide information from developers to players," but that would have been somewhat unwieldy.

On the other hand, if you think the information wasn't provided fully or correctly, you could post requests to the forums yourself.

-Grumpy Bear

[foxmajik]

Kind of pointless meeting. Leela could of just made a forum topic as it was pretty much her just telling everyone what the DEVs want and are doing.

Not everyone who plays reads the forums.

Besides that, it's nice to get players involved in world -- it creates an environment that encourages social interaction.

-Grumpy Bear

[Crush]

I think it is a nice initiative that Leela wants to improve the knowledge about what's going on among the part of the player base which doesn't read the forum. Maybe this will reach a larger audience of potential developers and get some people to consider contributing to the project.

[Platyna]

-A host is needed for CR2, the next version of The Mana World. They need someone who is, in their opinion, trustworthy; who will not interfere with dev work. If you have any suggestions talk to Jaxad.

So, shall I understand that I do not meet those conditions?

Regards.

[foxmajik]

-A host is needed for CR2, the next version of The Mana World. They need someone who is, in their opinion, trustworthy; who will not interfere with dev work. If you have any suggestions talk to Jaxad.

So, shall I understand that I do not meet those conditions?

Regards.

Leela mentioned that the devs wanted a separate host for CR2, possibly for redundancy.

-Grumpy Bear

[Dude]

thanks to Leela for trying ot keep the players in the loop. that said, it was a bit of a cluster due to some people screwing around while she was trying to talk (causing me MAJOR lag). I just gave up and left after a bit....

[Speiros01]

For crying out loud!!! Whinge whinge whinge. Why do people have to complain about things all the time??

Thank you for the information on the meeting Grumpy Bear. It is appreciated for feedback. What is wrong with the other player who doesn't think it was useful?? If it isn't useful, then just pull your head in and play the game. Next time the article comes up, don't read the flaming thing.

I think it is a good idea although it mightn't have been the official meeting, or if it was. I have no idea. Still, the points brought up were obviously from somewhere.

No wonder people don't help on places like this. It is the element of the whinging minority that walk around vomiting out their miserable expressions on everybody else, and coating them in misery too. I hope their grey clouds come really fast for them. A bolt of lightning might wake them up.

[Platyna]

O'rly? I did not interfered with development after I quit being the content manager, that's just pathetic. Anyway I don't care.

Regards.

[Speiros01]

For crying out loud!!! Whinge whinge whinge. Why do people have to complain about things all the time??

Thank you for the information on the meeting Grumpy Bear. It is appreciated for feedback. What is wrong with the other player who doesn't think it was useful?? If it isn't useful, then just pull your head in and play the game. Next time the article comes up, don't read the flaming thing.

I think it is a good idea although it mightn't have been the official meeting, or if it was. I have no idea. Still, the points brought up were obviously from somewhere.

No wonder people don't help on places like this. It is the element of the whinging minority that walk around vomiting out their miserable expressions on everybody else, and coating them in misery too. I hope their grey clouds come really fast for them. A bolt of lightning might wake them up.

STFU Speiros you just complained more than anyone in this thread. Put yourself in check.

Yes, I do complain about things. True.

Still, it isn't to bag out anybody for their genuine attempts at doing things correctly. Actually, it is due to the discouragement that is given to others is when I whinge. Never about someone's good ideas. People don't need any more discouragement. They need help. I only whinge about when people harass others, problems that harm others feelings come into play, or other things like this. I don't try to play the devil's advocate with everybody (a troll).

So, Saint Fu yourself.

[Speiros01]

I don't claim to be a saint I can be very outspoken in my opinions but I didn't come in guns blazing either did I? I pretty much stated a dev meeting without devs was pointless. The meeting was simply a news update which could of been done by a simple forum post. Most dev meetings in the past the devs actually came and people could exchange ideas or have a chance to discuss things with them. I even stated it wasn't a bash and the news Leela provided was useful. But anyways, If you have a problem with my posts my suggestion to you is open wide and pick a nutt.

Yeah. Well, you enjoy how you do things mate and I'll do things mine mate. I'll see you on the game man, and we'll have a ball. No hard feelings, we are just different.

[Leela]

Wooooo whooooo

calm down everyone.

I did not say all the things Grumpy posted here. He gave you an overview about the news AND the conversation between the players after the news.
@Grumpy: you mixed up something with the rooms. about pixeling you will not go to the content channel but of course to the art channel.

please check my topic in the offtopic section - where i will always update what I get or don't get from the devs.

about the hosting (as this seemed to offend someone). I heard that a new host is needed and I asked what he should be like. As this conversation did not happen in the content channel i guessed it is ok to tell the community. I did not say that Platyna is not "trustworthy".
@Platyna: you said you don't care, but as you think that devs think you are not trustworthy shows pretty clear that you do care. Why should they think you aren't when you hosted this for such a long time?

@Amun: It was not a dev meeting. The threadstarter just called it so. I started the meeting with "I talked to some devs..." which made clear that I am no dev.

again, for the news that came from me, therefore from the devs, check my topic in the offtopic section.

cu ingame
Leela

[Bertram]

Hi there,

I shall not comment about all the rant out there. Leela made it just fine.

To Platyna:

O'rly? I did not interfered with development after I quit being the content manager, that's just pathetic. Anyway I don't care.

I didn't follow the whole thing but I can say for myself I do not believe in such a big MMORPG free project The Mana World is without having the hosting quality you brought to us for so much time, Platyna. (Thanks)
That's why, IMHO, CR2 will have to remain where it belongs: Here on platinum, just as Rotonen asked for.

The real current question is that we need a dev.themanaworld.org, and we still have to deal with the details about
adding this new manaserv-based dev server, with its own update server, and access rights, ... if you agree about creating it and giving us access to it.

Best regards.