Evil Trout Posted:

What’s boring to you isn’t necessarily to someone else. I have heard “xxx is the best aspect of Forumwarz” about all of those “boring” sub-games.

We made the decision after launching Episode 1 that we’d focus on multi-player interactivity before tackling Episode 2. You can breeze through a content update in a matter of weeks, but multi-player games last forever. Looking back, I don’t regret that decision at all.

Sorry if you don’t like it, but you’re getting a content update that will more than double the current content size soon enough.

We can’t be everything to everyone.

I found INCIT to be a lot of fun, but that’s about it. Forumbuildr is a nifty way of getting new content, but the fact that there’s never any new additions to the game from CZ makes it look like a crutch to add stuff to the game for them.

I gotta admit, I still haven’t finished the last forum of Episode 1. I’m waiting for better equips, trolls to be buffed, or an increase in the level cap (What kind of MMORPG forbids me from leveling past 10, eh?). I suck at the game.

I’ve played a carp-load of MMOS, and most of them aren’t updated nearly as frequently as FW. Frankly, I’m just grateful the blog is updated more then once a month.

inks Posted:

And the problem is?

I can’t remember what database you’re using and of course I’m an amateur expert but I don’t think it adds anything to not null a column unless you’re indexing it. And the only reason to index an additional nine columns would be if they’re foreign keys I’d have thought, which is possible of course.

Ho hmmm anyway the database coped all is well!

The new columns weren’t indexed, that’s true. I think it’s more like it had to go through all 1.2M records 9 times. Adding each one seemed to take about 2 minutes at first, but then people started fighting for write access to the table (because I was doing it live) and the whole thing barfed.

Still, 15-20 minutes of downtime total isn’t bad.

Good luck with the rest of the updates, EvilTrout – or perhaps as this is forumwarz: Hah! I hope you trash your servers, post buggy code and are driven off the net by pitchfork wielding flaming torchbearing haxorz.

Big Brother Posted:

Around when is this content update being released?

Two weeks?