DISCUSSIONS AROUND ONGOING PROJECTS

Thank you for your suggestions, Naema.

There will be a Path entrance/exit in each of the Prime Roots areas and also on Nexus, in addition to the Paths currently known to the Apprentice Pathfinders.

Although Path entrances/exits are not guaranteed to be safe, as you well know, the Prime Roots entrances are not going to be significantly more unsafe than those you currently know.

-- Cerulean
Event Team

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

Thanks, Cerulean. Btw., to beat Berlin Airport, a delay of 7 to 9 years would be necessary :). From conception to completion it even beats Heathrow Terminal 5.

[OOC/HRP]
To all Ranger Aspirants, both patient and impatient, I promised you an update at the end of June and this is it.

Work continues on the Ranger Rite, but the chances of having it fully tested and in place in July are looking less and less likely. Summer is a time when the teams are free from some of their burdens in the world outside Ryzom, but it is also the time when the volunteers plan vacations with their families. (That includes myself, I'm afraid.) Development continues, but is slowed.

Three of the five modules needed to make the Ranger Rite work have now been completed and partially tested. The other two are being worked on. Art assets are 2 out of 3 finished.

There will be a Rangers Assembly Scheuled in mid July as soon as I clear it with the rest of the Event Team. Please continue to act as good Rangers to be.

-- Cerulean

((P.S. - If anyone feels like translating this to other languages, please feel free to do so.))

[[/OOC/HRP]]

As you may have noticed, there has not been a Ranger Meeting, but there does continue to be progress. Art Assets are now 3 for 3 and several "impossible" things have been done.

I praise Riasan for creating miracle after miracle. We also now have additional help from the Level Design Team.

Enjoy your vacations. Mine will be interrupted by periodic sessions of testing and development, but that's OK -- I like my work.

Work has not ceased. It's going to be amazing and it is going to test your responses to all the Precepts, so keep them in mind.

Thank you, as always, for your patience.

-- Cerulean
Event Team and Ranger Responsible.

((P.S. - If anyone feels like translating this to other languages, please feel free to do so.))

Well, we have September now, and as the Event Calendar shows, there will be no new development until October. Then, the preparations for Anlor Winn will interfere, and afterwards, those for Atysmas.

I would welcome some realistic information about the state of the project. At least, the developments roadmap, project #36, has changed from 50% to 75% completion. Given that this took about a year, it does not seem extremely likely that the project will be finished (meaning open for players' bug reports) before 2018.