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  2. V2 - "Official Release Week"

    in Asylum V2

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    22 minutes ago, Bikstok said:

    I don't know how you guys find the time, but great job to all the developers working on it. If I could give some advice, it would be to have several days of testing with admins and smaller parts of the community before you deploy anything to the live servers. It's better to wait for a quality product rather than having a broken mission that needs several hotfixes immediately on release. Of course you know all of this already.

    We've actively been testing stuff ourselves of course and staff members have been testing stuff as well as fit.
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    3 minutes ago, Nic Rage said:

    Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

    I am getting tired of these constant change in the release date, I personally think it is a poor business practice to suggest something is releasing at this time or that and continue to push it back. Perhaps you are all working your hardest to get this done and the schedule just isn't working out as planned. But I would think that at some point you would just give the community a solid release date and say we can have a vote if we would rather play it with bugs or wait until it is finished.

    This is a game dude. Not a business. If I didn't have a job and other commitments this would've been done a long time ago. People don't want to be left in the dark, so I try to give the best possible estimates that I can. I said the date was not set in stone. We're trying very hard to keep to our commitment. If you were here in the days of Paratus, you would be thankful. We could just leave you all in the dark forever and then just randomly drop something. We're trying to be involved with community as far as active development of things go. I mean we can just stop communicating and you can all wonder. We're trying our best for a group of people working on this, especially when THIS IS NOT OUR JOB. It's merely a hobby. My real life stuff comes first 100% of the time. I use to put Arma in front of that stuff and I got to a real shitty point in my life. Never again.

    11 minutes ago, Scrubby said:

    @Bikstok exactly, a test server would be great for those who volunteer to test new things not only for v2 but for future updates, patches, etc. Also the server can be run by admins and developers obviously. 

    See above.

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  3. V2 - "Official Release Week"

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    We're currently working around the clock on it basically. We'll see where we're at tomorrow. We wipe a few things off the list and several more pop up. Nearly all server code has been re-written for current stuff in. Also, a lot has changed clientside code wise to improve readability, functionality, and making stuff more scale-able.

    However, we are in my opinion about 24hrs - 36hrs behind where I expected to be. Not necessarily that many development hours, just a day and a half behind schedule. Which is pretty good considering I gave the week almost a month ago. It does look like we may need to push it to release next mid-week (Which if we do that, we'll release with the contact stuff and such at the same time). However, we could do it Saturday. Really depends how our testing continues and what we realize we're forgetting and what is missing as we go. I also work Sat-Mon, so I'd really rather not release it then leave for work in the event issues crop up while I'm working, I wouldn't be able to do anything.


    You can see below we literally have timestamps at all times of day... 3AM, 4AM, 12PM, 1PM, etc...

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  4. Cartel Poll for V2

    in Asylum V2

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    13 hours ago, Dust Runner said:

    Ok, what if we used a different word so it could be a few ways for player convenience.

    Ex. with Gang Name - Donut Cartel:

    -----------------------------------------------------------------

    Drug Cartel - Donut Cartel (Active) [1-99% cap]

    Drug Cartel - Donut Cartel (Inactive) [0-100% cap]

    Drug Cartel - Donut Cartel (Contested) [1-99% cap]

    [Optional] Drug Cartel - Donut Cartel (Owned) [100% cap]

    -----------------------------------------------------------------

    This way, players know what's going on for player feedback.

    • Firstly, you know what gang currently owns, or is winning the cap. Whatever gang is on the positive percentage of the cap has their gang name on the map always.
    • Secondly, (Active) notes whether or not there any ANY players within the circle (with a illegal firearm & rebel license, up to change though). This will always display active if the players are in the circle meeting criteria whether in the winning gang or not.
    • Third, (Inactive) of course marks that there is a winning gang on the cap, but there are no players meeting rebel license/firearm critera (or just any players at all depending on dev choice) inside the cap.
    • Fourth point, (Contested) means there are at least 1 player in a gang/firearm meeting criteria, attempting to capture, and another 1 player from opposing gang in cap as well. More information so you know when there are enemies around specifically, and to give more player feedback for an evolving fight.
    • Fifth point, but optional. (Owned) displays for two reasons, when a gang has fully capped a cartel whether in a fight or not, this overrides other statuses, and the cooldown for Cartel capping begins. It also display owned if nobody is around, and the Cartel is waiting to be capped.

    I don't see any flaws with this currently at 11:53PM at night making this post, but it sounds great to me on paper. It also gives more feedback for cops/captains to understand when they can try and track a fugitive to a cartel, or whether or not active pursuit is a good idea. Could be great for policies to not allow active pursuit if it's (Contested) as you'd be interfering in a gang war outside normal territories so cops don't mess with Gang vs Gang activities in an unhealthy manner.

    Would be glad to hear anyone's feedback.

    Too complex maybe?

    That's a lot of potential updating to the marker and check wise it's a bit heavy. I made it so it's pretty instant to show contested or not. If someone is capping it whether up or down it shows contested. If they go off it, it displays the owner of the cartel and doesn't display contested. 

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  5. Cartel Poll for V2

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    37 minutes ago, Mayhem said:

    Can it also be fixed you NEED an illegal firearm and rebel license to contest a cartel other than a SDAR? I’ve seen BHs and pistol bangers contest a cartel I’m capping because they have a gun. They can’t capture it themselves, but they can prevent me from continuing my capture

    Done. To now even be considered you have to have the rebel talent and a license(training) from rebel

    TRYHARD, The Boss, Bherky and 3 others like this

  6. V2 Gang Ranks

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    Just now, Mayhem said:

    Obviously but I meant, will they go to gang house, and a new menu pops up for gang logs, or through the ATM

    Idk. It might not even be a thing. Who knows. Does the specifics matter? I mean it could really be anything.. The ATM would probably make the most sense. Could be available on the web too. Who knows.

  10. What should be done with gangs?

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    On 7/2/2019 at 9:40 AM, Mayhem said:

    @Jesse would that mean once a gang is created on server 1 for example. It’s automatically carried over to 2.

    1)How would a gang house be selected on the second server? - Gang leader sets one of their buildings to be the gang house?

    2)Would it pick a house at random or would it be like question 3. - You pick it...

    3)Would it give you the option to continue the gang once you click “create gang”. - No? Because there are 3 different gangs essentially... We'd have to ask what one you'd want. Make dialogs, etc. Way easier for you to just make one.

    4)Would gang perks carry over as well? - No, due to some people having different gangs or exp/perks per server it'd be impossible to transfer that way. We'll just add the gang bank to the leaders account and allow you guys to fill out compensation requests for the experience value the gang has.

     

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  11. What should be done with gangs?

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Revenant said:

    just copy Olympus mission file

    That's not what we're trying to do. It would affect aspects of administration that would make things more than likely a lot easier. It would also make certain things in-game easier for players. Instead of having the same gang on 2 or 3 servers and having to invite someone 2 or 3 times, it'd be just once. Don't have to worry about setting ranks on 2 or 3 different servers. Just a lot of stuff that would be simplified.

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  13. What should be done with gangs?

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    Hey everyone,

    Something we've discussed among staff is if we should maintain the gang per server method currently which is a gang per server or if we should move to a single gang across all servers? Curious to see what the community thinks on the matter. You would be able to have a gang building as normal per each server and have the same stuff you have now. It'd just be you're apart of the same gang across all servers.

    Thanks!

  15. V2 - Follow up 7/1/19

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    Hey all,

    During our staff meeting some members expressed that they'd like me to put out an update to you guys and address some commonly asked questions.
     

    1. When will V2 be released? - Sometime on the week of July 14th - 20th. Probably the later portion of the week either Thurs at midnight or so or Friday. In my opinion we are on track to meet this goal and we have a bit of additional help to make it happen even more now. See this thread for more details -> http://www.gaming-asylum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/106404-v2-official-release-week/
    2. Will my shit save? - Yes, majority.
    3. Will I lose my housing? - No, all housing inventory and locations should maintain.
    4. Will I lose my current loadout? - Yes, due to a defect in existing code we are going be wiping all active loadouts and global compensating a general dollar amount for everyone. If you require additional money put in a compensation request for it at that time. We'll have a log of what everyone had so please don't try to bullshit us... You could get "comp banned" or something along those lines...
    5. Will I lose my talents? - Yes, your talents will get reset. You'll maintain your EXP and x amount of talents, however you'll have to re-insert them to the tree.
    6. Will the server issues be fixed? - I would hope so... However, we can't be sure until it goes live. The goal of V2 is to have a very basic Asylum mission without the glitter essentially. Some features will be disabled and added at a later date. This way if the issue is there upon release the amount of things we have to check and figure out will be extremely minimal and we should have resolved in a few days ideally.
    7. Will my gang bank go away or anything gang related? - No.
    8. What will happen to infamy/honor? - Maintained or refunded. May need to re-enter like talents. However, you'd be comped essentially the amount. This will not be implemented immediately on release.

    Any other questions just ask.

    Thanks!

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  16. What is unused / not needed?

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    Hey everyone,

    What are some things or features to something that you feel are just pointless or really make you go why is this in the game? Looking to bring some of the stuff you guys feel are pointless, etc to the staff meetings to find out if we can remake them to be pointful or adjust to be better and more popular.

    Please keep this thread clean... We're trying to improve the game/community.. not get mod queued or fight each other.

    Thanks!

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  17. V2 and crates

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    5 hours ago, Ari Petrou said:

    Did Jesse work for Olympus or some shit? @Asylum V2 @Olympus Server 

    I did development there for over a year. Some say I revived it and brought it to what it is now. We added a server when asylum took away a server. 

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  19. V2 and crates

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    3 hours ago, MetelChest said:

    Dude they have to go to everyone on the sever look at all the crap they have and the make a new code for V2 its going to take a lot of time man, i only know a little about arma coding but so i may be wrong but im pretty sure they have to do something like that.

     

    Yeah you're wrong. I can script it so I just run a script on an empty server and it'll convert it. Did it for Olympus. I'll do it here too.

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  20. V2 - "Official Release Week"

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Madlibs said:

    There is already a huge drop in player population. The biggest issue that anyone has right now are the lag spikes. V2 is gonna fix that right?

    I mean we don't have 60+ players to test that....? That's the whole point of all this though is to remedy it.

  21. V2 - "Official Release Week"

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, Dust Runner said:

    Is it possible for the new DLC to cause unintended issues with the mission file just a week after V2's release? Mainly the possible downtime associated with releasing V2 and having it (the DLC) cause issues just as V2 could be off and going successfully? I'm not a developer so I don't know if it would cause issues for certain, but I know DLC's have in the past. Just seems like bad timing when performance and availability being improved is the flagship concern of V2.

    Also because it's a massive undertaking with V2 and you about having JUST released V2, should we expect any content additions from the DLC to be severely delayed?

    We'll have to update the servers which is triggered by just clicking a batch file and we'll have to drop an update mission. Only like 15 min process. I've never had a dlc prevent my updates in the past. Sure sometimes there was something like sounds got lowered so we had to increase volume. That was about it.

    Regarding DLC I don't even know what they've all added. As far as that goes it all depends on how the weapons function on release. Also how non dlc owners see and interact. The last "Community DLC" was very non-dlc owner friendly. Tanoa was also very non-dlc friendly until they were releasing Malden then the object assets were made available for everyone. Before that you had to have the dlc to even see the houses.

  22. V2 - "Official Release Week"

    in Asylum V2

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, Dust Runner said:

    Why a week from the Contact DLC?

    Not really following what you're suggesting? I wouldn't expect a huge drop in player population or anything. Maybe a bit but it's nothing that won't come back honestly. Mind going more in depth here?

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    V2 - "Official Release Week"

    in Asylum V2

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    Evening all,

    I wanted to give a slight update to the new mission related stuff. I unfortunately got hit with having to work 3 weeks of 66hrs /ea week at work (Starting this week). This has pushed back my estimated done date pretty hard. I took off two days of work (Jul 14/15) to make a longer week and prevent being forced to do overtime that week. 

    The "Official Release Week" will be the week of July 14 - 20. The date is not set in stone yet. However, that will 99% for sure be the week we release on. This will allow us to get in 2 more staff meetings before releasing and also to finish up related projects required to release such as our new web based admin/moderator controls. As far as progress goes on the mission I'm happy where we're at and confident we can reach the goal set. As long as my house doesn't burn down or something in the meantime. I just want to be sure we have a good release and that we have enough time to do the things we want to get done.

    If you guys have any questions or anything feel free to drop them below.

    Thanks,
    Jesse

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