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I hate to be underinformed. What is new about the new client?

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I really think that TMW should stay about the same. The stupid changes that were on the new server (increased health, but far increased monster damage) should never be put into use.

I like the idea of new quests.

I don't like the idea of having to become a noob (more than I already am). Again. And this new "improved system" of fighting, which you have to pay more attention to, will take away the social aspect of the game. Instead, it will become a dystopian society of one-man-upsmanship, where the only goal is to gain pennies to make a meager living.

That would make an interesting book.

I think that the new server should be almost exactly like the old one. Maybe I'm just being sentimental. But that's my opinion. I wouldn't mind being with everyone, who I consider my friends.

On that subject, I've found that a couple of them are my friends. The rest of you chumps just hate me.

The Mana World, to me, was a world. A world of conflict and resolution, and one that I could meet my acquaintances from around the globe. Somewhat like a global internet cafe.

And if you are upgrading your server, consider the downside of having The Mana World turn away from being a casual game.

If the changes are permanent, I hope that they are good.

If not, I'd like to see them. Beside the changes that have to do with health, duh.

If you are going to turn TMW into a game *hyperbole alert* that consists of a world of four classes from largest to smallest - the serfs, who work to achieve the next class, the royalty. These players control a good portion of the game's wealth. The gm-gods, who can either knock out for an undefined time, or kill, and finally the all-powerful Developers, who control the very fabric of the game.

No, more like the classes we have now, except the upper class will be a lot smaller.

More later.

A new client version always means mostly technical changes which don't affect gameplay much.

Are you using the Mana Plus client? Then there won't be much new for you, because ManaPlus is based on the latest development version and not on .29.1.

Just some bugfixes? Or something?

Any new features?

No new content?

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to run around in circles for the next five minutes. Or until my bf comes and kicks me out of his living room.

Why should a new client release imply new server content?


---Freeyorp

In commercial game it work like that sometimes, but its more because the new content are not suported by old client I think... not like the present thing

Client software updates and content updates are decoupled at TMW.

The reason is that contrary to other MMOs we are not closing out people who use outdated clients. We wish we could do this so that we can use new client features as soon as they are available, but we can't because of our homogeneous player base. There are the windows users, the different linux users and the mac users. All have different ways of updating software.

Windows users could be told to go away and come back after they downloaded and installed the newest client. They are used to that. But Linux users are used to installing software through the central software repository of their distribution, and it can take a while until a new version is accepted in these. And we always have trouble to release a mac distribution on time because mac developers are so scarce.

For these reasons new client features are usually not required by the content on the server until the vast majority of the user base has updated to a client version which supports them. Map background images are an example. http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9250 This new feature allows some pretty awesome stuff, but when you use an old client version which doesn't support them, you just have a very ugly graphic bug instead. So we won't be able to use this feature before .30 is used by almost everyone.

Will it be released for Mac, Windows, Linux and all the other ones or just one of them?