{"id":161,"date":"2008-05-25T21:29:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T11:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=161"},"modified":"2008-05-25T21:29:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T11:29:55","slug":"more-development-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/05\/25\/more-development-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"More development diary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-161 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/05\/25\/more-development-diary\/mmorpg7\/#main'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mmorpg7-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/05\/25\/more-development-diary\/mmorpg8\/#main'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mmorpg8-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been doing a bunch more development on my MMORPG Tycoon project, and wanted to put up some new screenshots.<\/p>\n<p>These screenshots were taken about twenty seconds into a new game.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll see that I&#8217;ve got about 300 subscribers (most of whom are currently connected), and have earned a little money on top of the $1,000,000 starting loan (mostly from the purchase price paid by my subscribers).<\/p>\n<p>The first shot is a zoomed in view, and shows the build toolbox which lets me place towns, respawn points, and starting areas.\u00a0 Or move them (top icon), or remove them (bottom icon).<\/p>\n<p>The second shot is zoomed out more, and shows me placing a mid-levelled area using the new zoning interface.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not 100% happy with it yet, but it&#8217;s better than it was.\u00a0 You can see the level range for each zone drawn in the middle of each region, for easy reference.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the work has gone into UI stuff;\u00a0 making buttons work as one would expect, etc.\u00a0 But there&#8217;s also been a lot of work on closing the loop.\u00a0 Players are a lot smarter, and are now unsubscribing when they&#8217;re unhappy, leaving forum posts even while they&#8217;re still logged in, and new players joined based upon how much buzz the game has, and how positive\/negative it is.<\/p>\n<p>So my next task is to find a way to communicate to the player what problems players are encountering;\u00a0 as an MMORPG grows, it becomes harder and harder to figure out what the problems are.\u00a0 And worse, once you&#8217;ve identified the problems, it&#8217;s not always obvious how to fix them.\u00a0 I need to make players try to avoid heavily congested regions;\u00a0 that might help some of the problem.\u00a0 And of course, I still need to let the player place key quests, to move players around.<\/p>\n<p>But in general, I&#8217;m pleased with progress.\u00a0 And tremendously scared that I only have a week left to finish the project!\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been doing a bunch more development on my MMORPG Tycoon project, and wanted to put up some new screenshots. 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