Discussing Weekly Community Newsletter: Quality of Life

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@Jens_Erik

This week, our primary focus has been making further developments and tweaks to the pet system

Somewhat worrying but still…

@Jens_Erik

If you match a thrall’s preferred diet when feeding them they will gain a bonus buff. This way, if you care about the specifics of each companion type you can give them a short-term advantage. You can still feed them whatever you want to prevent them from decaying, but if need be you can give them a buff right before battle, for example. A server setting (disabled by default) will allow you to make diet matching mandatory, if that’s what you prefer.

We also added a special hunger animation for pets, to tell you when you need to feed them.

Ok, we now have a buffed thrall who runs around without a brain, who does not attack when he needs to(all those saying the thralls work: I invite you to EU1 Testlive, come to my base and I will lure some world monsters in, grab some popcorn and observe. After finishing your popcorn, then tell me if you think they work ok) who still follows you backwards, who still teleports to his own death, runs away from a fight, etc etc

@Jens_Erik

If you’re interested in checking out a preliminary version of the pets system, the new Jhebbal Sag religion and the Midnight Grove you can try it out it in the Testlive branch. Go to our forums for a rundown on how to access Testlive .

they are unplayable… they need a daily server restart and correct settings, I know… monitoring, stress testing, complexity and underlying system etc… but still, before inviting players on your test servers, please make them testable first? Ty

@Jens_Erik

Keep in mind that not all bug fixes are immediately making it into the Testlive build and that a lot of our bug fixing efforts are primarily focused on making the pets system ready for release on the live builds. That doesn’t mean existing bugs and issues aren’t being addressed, only that you might not see them in our Testlive builds.

Could you explain this a little bit more? can we have a list of bugs being worked on? FYI Issues Status - PC - #5 by Tascha has not been updated for 1 month now.

@Jens_Erik

There is still work to be done, bugs to fix and numbers to tweak, so keep that feedback rolling in.

Is there a list with a status? Can you give an overview of fixes being included/investigated based on the posted bug reports?

@Jens_Erik

We’ve also been working on improving the Event Log.

Very nice, altho enhancing/improving is maybe not the right way to describe it. Ty for completing the event log mechanism.

@Jens_Erik

Finally, we’ve been making some headway with optimizing and improving building replication, fixing a couple of bugs in the process. This is to help building pieces render faster, lowers CPU usage, lowering the amount of network data to transfer, and a host of other things that makes the game experience better for players. We’ll go through a more detailed explanation in a separate blog post.

@Tascha

We’ll have updates coming for the Purge with the next TestLive patch, which is either tomorrow or Saturday depending on how much additional fixes we can finalize and want to be included

We’ve also been working on a write-up about the Purges to clarify. We’ll post that as soon as it’s ready.