heRO 2.0

[Adrillf]

Just for the sake of clarity, and to help people try to understand where Pandora and crew sit on the problems that lie with the requests to 'just update the SVN' and/or 'just adding renewal'.

To do either of these there is a very long checklist of debugging that has to happen. You have to remember just how far HeRO's customization goes. To simply update to the next SvN you have to go through a large majority (preferably ALL) of the customizations (custom monsters, custom gears, custom quests, custom maps, etc) and make sure they all work without any glitches or bugs. Not only that, but then you have to check ALL of the new material to make sure that none of the customization from the past will modify any of the new quests, gears, monsters or maps. If I remember the story right, the last SvN update was mainly done by Ayu and Panda through a series of binge all-nighters that lasted for some crazy amount of time. Not to mention the dedication of a serious amount of people in T&D who put in a lot of hours themselves. That's just for updating to the next SvN.

To update to renewal with all of what we have right now, everything has to be reconsidered and rebalanced. Part of renewal is the addition of new mechanics behind the game. Stats work different, exp works different, skills are a whole new game to play with, and so to make things balanced the GM team would have to address every single custom gear and balance them against the new renewal mechanics. The goal for these is to make each item similar enough to the traditional mechanics, but without making it too strong or too weak compared to the renewal mechanics; and enough stress can not be put on just how much testing would have to be done with items just to make sure that they're not too OP. And most importantly, there would also be a 99% chance of there being a server wipe, which Pandora has said would never happen, which means that renewal would never happen.

Then onto the thought of creation of an additional server-
For everyone who thinks that our GM team is not as active as you would like, this would cut any GM activity in half. Not worth it. Not worth it for Pandora considering she's paying out of her own pocket to keep this server up.

TL:DR-
To even do something like an SVN update takes a ridiculous amount of time, and there hasn't been a person in YEARS that has been masochistic enough to finish the job. If you think that you're up to the task, and you won't back out like the previous 4+ GM's who tried to tackle it, step up, and help because I'm 99% sure that Pandora and the GM team would love the help with something like this.

To think about going to renewal is down right insane with all of the scripts and codes that would have to be checked and fixed.