Daomei and all other patient Rangers Aspirant.
You are correct that we are almost certainly not going to make it by the end of June. I am hoping for July.
Work on the Rite has been actively going forward, but my vision for it is straining the available Dev time (which is interrupted frequently by such things as the F2P accounts modification, keeping the server running, etc.).
My vision is also straining the capabilities of the interaction between the Ryzom programing and ARK programming, so that workarounds are constantly needed and the result is suffering from project creep. Riasan, who is my primary coder, curses my name daily.
However, a detailed outline IS in place, the background regions and NPCs for the Rite have been successfully created, and the rewards (Title and Map) for completing the Rite are very close to done. (The title is the easy part. No, I'm not going to be telling you the details about the Map. That's going to be a surprize.)
The hard part is the logic of the Rite itself -- making the NPC interaction with the players "realistic" and consistent with Lore and roleplay. Conceptually that is simple. Translating it into code is significantly less so. Riasan has worked minor miracles already. More are in the works.
I promise another (OOC) update at the end of June unless we somehow manage to complete it earlier. Thank you all for your patience.
-- Cerulean
Event Team
P.S. How long did the Berlin airport take? I want to know what kind of a deadline I have.
-- C
You are correct that we are almost certainly not going to make it by the end of June. I am hoping for July.
Work on the Rite has been actively going forward, but my vision for it is straining the available Dev time (which is interrupted frequently by such things as the F2P accounts modification, keeping the server running, etc.).
My vision is also straining the capabilities of the interaction between the Ryzom programing and ARK programming, so that workarounds are constantly needed and the result is suffering from project creep. Riasan, who is my primary coder, curses my name daily.
However, a detailed outline IS in place, the background regions and NPCs for the Rite have been successfully created, and the rewards (Title and Map) for completing the Rite are very close to done. (The title is the easy part. No, I'm not going to be telling you the details about the Map. That's going to be a surprize.)
The hard part is the logic of the Rite itself -- making the NPC interaction with the players "realistic" and consistent with Lore and roleplay. Conceptually that is simple. Translating it into code is significantly less so. Riasan has worked minor miracles already. More are in the works.
I promise another (OOC) update at the end of June unless we somehow manage to complete it earlier. Thank you all for your patience.
-- Cerulean
Event Team
P.S. How long did the Berlin airport take? I want to know what kind of a deadline I have.
-- C