I know this has been long awaited, but lots of problems and my own humble inadequacy with linux and technical server stuff prevented us from changing it.
What is a svn? Basically it's a subversion of the emulator that runs Ragnarok, our emulator is called eAthena and we run on a subversion made for linux with SQL. When problems occur, some stuff can be fixed by us (GM team), but the stuff that is hardcoded can only be fixed by the Devs at eA and they released new version of their emulator with bug fixed, the new releases are the SVN. In clear, it will fix some bugs and bring to our server the new stuff from gravity. It's good to update SVN often, unfortunatly, there are a lot of complications associated with updating, specially on a project that included as much as 7 people in the begining and where each can or has modified stuff.
So, we are currently working on the new svn, I cannot tell you when it will be ready, but I can let you know what will probably happen when it is. There are 2 possible situation, but either way we will be needing your help. I will first put the new svn on a test server (high rate) so that we may together try to find any problems, conflicts or bugs related to it. It's been a long time since we updated, and like last time I'm sure there will be a lot of changed stuff that everyone will be either happy or unhappy about. This is why it will be important to give us your opinion about it, if you decide not to come test it, it means you fully accept any changes that will come with the new svn and I don't wanna hear any complaints afterwards!
Here's how it's going to be, either one of those situation depending on the set up that we can do:
Situation 1 : heRO will close up for
a day and I'll put up the test server up for that day with a fresh database, and I hope everyone will come and help us iron it out, if it's sucessful the next day heRO will have the newest svn with the normal database, aka you will not lose any information don'T worry (if it doesnt work we will keep working on it and repeat the process again later).
Situation 2 : heRO and the test server will run simultaniously for
a week and again I hope for everyone's cooperation to come and check it out and identify any conflict present, once all the testing is done we will close the high rate server and switch heRO on the new svn.
The high rate test server will most likely include:
- Ninja/Gunner
- A NPC that will sell lots of custom items (for easy testing)
- A warper and a job changer (like the last high rate server)
- Some extra player commands for easy testing
However this stuff will not all be included on the real heRO server, wings and custom helms will still require quest/toh and such and I don't plan on adding a free warper/jobchanger to the real server, so don't get used to it!! As for Ninja and Gunner, I plan to add only Ninja at first. This is a personal choice because I'm not too fond of how Gunner look in the RO world. I might try to modify the job sprite and weapon sprite a little to make them fit somewhat better.
Comments/Suggestions welcomed!
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