Official Magicbane Beta Thread
by Artyom » Thu Mar 20, 2014 1:34 pm
Hello Magicbane Players!
At 11:59PM 21/3/2014 St Petersburg we for to shut down Magicbane Server for Shadowbane and begin next phase of project. We expect process to take less than hour.
This posting is for to help with thinking of what to expect as we move into beta and to look behind at our footprints.
Project metrics
Commits to repo since project start: 1790
Commits to repo since players showed up: 408
Current number of server source lines: 88,342
Average server utilization: 50% of one cpu (10% per 100 players)
Average bandwidth utilization: 5-11Mb (1Mb per 100 players with streaming spikes)
Maximum server uptime: Just under 48 hours
Current number of sleepless nights 30+
Number of characters created: 22834
Reported bug details squashed: 90
Squashed wrote:-No xp from pet kills
-Unable to loot pet kills
-Flying up 3+ tiers still taking damage
-Vendors filling up, unable to sell to them
-Mana/stam/health not synced
-Sit to resync if issue
-Buffing pets aggros buffer
-Pets able to attack in safeholds
-Inventory randomly disappearing until relog
-Planting tree’s not using guild seed (Dupe)
-Warehouse seneschal missing from builder
-Repledging to safeholds not making full member
-Mobs not respawning
-Building rotations off
-Unable to train traveler gates
-Able to cast AOE on noob
-Hermit of Fortune not proper model
-Improper inventory and/or hair/beard in inventory
-Gold identifiable
-Unable to trade certain items
-Warlock can heal buildings
-Unable to use /stuck
-Timer on effects
-Vorg HA drop rates off
-Unable to change vendor prices
-Depositing gold/items into warehouse not working
-Unable to bind to tree
-Stone Legionnaire’s hitting WAY too hard
-City owners able to manage other cities they don’t own
-Runemaster being spent but not placing
-Summon destination not displaying
-Friended to buildings but unable to access management
-Unable to remove buildings/assets
-Building upgrade costs too high
-Armor not displaying properly in game
-Randomly dying while flying
-Spam selling items (gold DUPE)
-Unable to leave building when logging out of it
-Vendor prices not correct
-Logging in without stam
-Heartsblood Offering too high
-Wall placement conflicts
-Mines showing with 1hp
-Hammersmiths not rolling items properly (Vampire still stubborn)
-Unable to withdraw or trade gold
-Walls using protection slots
-Mines not displaying proper
-Unable to claim mines under subguild
-Demolishing spell not working on mines
-Bursar’s not showing when slotted, height issue
-Invisible seneschals
-Changing Guild Leaders gave both title but only 1 access
-Group recall to runegate only porting caster
-Buff timers disappear on crash
-Random disc droppers missing
-Random rolling batches not working
-Group form not working fully
-Windlord stats on other armor pieces
-Steal working in safeholds
-Tree’s able to upgrade to R8 with just gold
-Training costs and profit slider not working
-Global bane messages not displaying
-Heals on vamps doing damage to them
-Throwing weapons unable to be rolled
-Resources with enchants
-Vamp drains working in safeholds
-Draw nature’s fury causing crashing
-Mystic bolt not returning stam from mobs
-Necro pets granting xp/loot
-Water buckets causing crashes
-Water buckets not healing banestones
-Bard invulnerability not working properly
-Command siege engine from commander not working
-R8’s losing their runemasters and teleporting to them put you inside tree
-Able to claim NPC buildings and runegates
-Runes not using proper stat points
-Disbanded guilds still show as subbed
-Unable to claim mines
-Vendor deeds disappearing on double-click
-Unable to roll R8 banescrolls from R7 sage
-Trebuchets auto-rebuilding and reclaiming when destroyed
-Rubble not disappearing when new asset placed on top
-Tree invisible when upgraded to R8
-Unable to set prices on vendors
-Bulwarks on defenders asset protection list, able to unprotect and destroy
-Invisible trebuchets
-Unable to loot graves
-Mines producing wrong resource
Lessons we learned so far
When players show up suddenly development plan took vacation to Turkey and never came home. Workload was no problem for first days, but soon Olga and Me are drowning in torrent of bug detail reporting. No time to post on forums. Olga saying she feels like princess locked in ivory tower.
We announce following mechanics for to help with managing changes more effective as we move forward in beta.
Magicbane Bug Vote!
https://magicbane.uservoice.com/
Trying to pick one bug detail for to fix out of full page is hit or miss. Detection of game breaking issue is Olga looking for posting with many pages in forum? We can do better! Magicbane Bug Vote will give power to users vote bugs up to the top and make sure bug is addressed.
With server wipe we also will wipe current bug forum of posting details for fresh start.
lua_version()
Players in beta will have scripting command for to see what branch is running and what bugs those branches fix. Olga and Me hope for to allowing users to follow their bugs and see into process as fix moves through development process. Every day players will know what is being worked on. Olga has window in ivory tower and players can see inside too!
Hacking Reporting
reporting@magicbane.com
Me and Olga do not have time to be server police or want to. If some guild is cheating we prefer players get together and bane them instead having to interfere. Claiming cheat and hack when losing tree is Shadowbane expected. If we chase every post no time to code!
In beta we will take stronger stance towards cheating than was necessary in alpha. If you have proof of player hacking or controlling 20 characters in form of recording send with explaining to above email and we will take action. If you discover dupe reporting email to report dupe details in private.
We also are announcing Magicbane is expanding team and looking to add two additional team members. If you feel like good fit for position send application to recruiting@magicbane.com
Quality Assurance / Community Liason
Interface with community and Me and Olga. Q/A will be responsible for monitor (not moderate) forum and listening to community. If something needs to be brought quick attention or players have concern this person will be go to guy. He is there to throw rocks at Olga's window in ivory tower.
We thought for to allow community to vote for this position every month. No way though to make sure large guilds just vote in own players every time. Unless community has better thinking will we make this applied position and change player often.
Developer
We are looking for 3rd hand to help push through beta. Position requires some or all of following:
-Experience with managed environments
-Experienced with OO (Observer, factory and visitor patterns)
-Experience with git
-Berkeley Sockets
-Gamedev experience
-PerconaDB or Mysql
-Concurrency in transaction environments
-8086 OllyDbg, Cdecl calling convention etc.
-Able to sign legal contract
-Real programmer (Can download and implement whitepaper, not a google guy)
***Jobs will not come with free items, free gold or even conc pot. Reward for hard work will be only our thanks and a Magicbane server further towards finished!
Alpha went fast how long beta will last?
That is up to magicbane players. You tell us when game is completed. Olga and Me keep working hard until you do!
by Artyom » Thu Mar 20, 2014 1:34 pmHello Magicbane Players!
At 11:59PM 21/3/2014 St Petersburg we for to shut down Magicbane Server for Shadowbane and begin next phase of project. We expect process to take less than hour.
This posting is for to help with thinking of what to expect as we move into beta and to look behind at our footprints.
Project metrics
Commits to repo since project start: 1790
Commits to repo since players showed up: 408
Current number of server source lines: 88,342
Average server utilization: 50% of one cpu (10% per 100 players)
Average bandwidth utilization: 5-11Mb (1Mb per 100 players with streaming spikes)
Maximum server uptime: Just under 48 hours
Current number of sleepless nights 30+
Number of characters created: 22834
Reported bug details squashed: 90
Squashed wrote:-No xp from pet kills
-Unable to loot pet kills
-Flying up 3+ tiers still taking damage
-Vendors filling up, unable to sell to them
-Mana/stam/health not synced
-Sit to resync if issue
-Buffing pets aggros buffer
-Pets able to attack in safeholds
-Inventory randomly disappearing until relog
-Planting tree’s not using guild seed (Dupe)
-Warehouse seneschal missing from builder
-Repledging to safeholds not making full member
-Mobs not respawning
-Building rotations off
-Unable to train traveler gates
-Able to cast AOE on noob
-Hermit of Fortune not proper model
-Improper inventory and/or hair/beard in inventory
-Gold identifiable
-Unable to trade certain items
-Warlock can heal buildings
-Unable to use /stuck
-Timer on effects
-Vorg HA drop rates off
-Unable to change vendor prices
-Depositing gold/items into warehouse not working
-Unable to bind to tree
-Stone Legionnaire’s hitting WAY too hard
-City owners able to manage other cities they don’t own
-Runemaster being spent but not placing
-Summon destination not displaying
-Friended to buildings but unable to access management
-Unable to remove buildings/assets
-Building upgrade costs too high
-Armor not displaying properly in game
-Randomly dying while flying
-Spam selling items (gold DUPE)
-Unable to leave building when logging out of it
-Vendor prices not correct
-Logging in without stam
-Heartsblood Offering too high
-Wall placement conflicts
-Mines showing with 1hp
-Hammersmiths not rolling items properly (Vampire still stubborn)
-Unable to withdraw or trade gold
-Walls using protection slots
-Mines not displaying proper
-Unable to claim mines under subguild
-Demolishing spell not working on mines
-Bursar’s not showing when slotted, height issue
-Invisible seneschals
-Changing Guild Leaders gave both title but only 1 access
-Group recall to runegate only porting caster
-Buff timers disappear on crash
-Random disc droppers missing
-Random rolling batches not working
-Group form not working fully
-Windlord stats on other armor pieces
-Steal working in safeholds
-Tree’s able to upgrade to R8 with just gold
-Training costs and profit slider not working
-Global bane messages not displaying
-Heals on vamps doing damage to them
-Throwing weapons unable to be rolled
-Resources with enchants
-Vamp drains working in safeholds
-Draw nature’s fury causing crashing
-Mystic bolt not returning stam from mobs
-Necro pets granting xp/loot
-Water buckets causing crashes
-Water buckets not healing banestones
-Bard invulnerability not working properly
-Command siege engine from commander not working
-R8’s losing their runemasters and teleporting to them put you inside tree
-Able to claim NPC buildings and runegates
-Runes not using proper stat points
-Disbanded guilds still show as subbed
-Unable to claim mines
-Vendor deeds disappearing on double-click
-Unable to roll R8 banescrolls from R7 sage
-Trebuchets auto-rebuilding and reclaiming when destroyed
-Rubble not disappearing when new asset placed on top
-Tree invisible when upgraded to R8
-Unable to set prices on vendors
-Bulwarks on defenders asset protection list, able to unprotect and destroy
-Invisible trebuchets
-Unable to loot graves
-Mines producing wrong resource
Lessons we learned so far
When players show up suddenly development plan took vacation to Turkey and never came home. Workload was no problem for first days, but soon Olga and Me are drowning in torrent of bug detail reporting. No time to post on forums. Olga saying she feels like princess locked in ivory tower.
We announce following mechanics for to help with managing changes more effective as we move forward in beta.
Magicbane Bug Vote!
https://magicbane.uservoice.com/
Trying to pick one bug detail for to fix out of full page is hit or miss. Detection of game breaking issue is Olga looking for posting with many pages in forum? We can do better! Magicbane Bug Vote will give power to users vote bugs up to the top and make sure bug is addressed.
With server wipe we also will wipe current bug forum of posting details for fresh start.
lua_version()
Players in beta will have scripting command for to see what branch is running and what bugs those branches fix. Olga and Me hope for to allowing users to follow their bugs and see into process as fix moves through development process. Every day players will know what is being worked on. Olga has window in ivory tower and players can see inside too!
Hacking Reporting
reporting@magicbane.com
Me and Olga do not have time to be server police or want to. If some guild is cheating we prefer players get together and bane them instead having to interfere. Claiming cheat and hack when losing tree is Shadowbane expected. If we chase every post no time to code!
In beta we will take stronger stance towards cheating than was necessary in alpha. If you have proof of player hacking or controlling 20 characters in form of recording send with explaining to above email and we will take action. If you discover dupe reporting email to report dupe details in private.
We also are announcing Magicbane is expanding team and looking to add two additional team members. If you feel like good fit for position send application to recruiting@magicbane.com
Quality Assurance / Community Liason
Interface with community and Me and Olga. Q/A will be responsible for monitor (not moderate) forum and listening to community. If something needs to be brought quick attention or players have concern this person will be go to guy. He is there to throw rocks at Olga's window in ivory tower.
We thought for to allow community to vote for this position every month. No way though to make sure large guilds just vote in own players every time. Unless community has better thinking will we make this applied position and change player often.
Developer
We are looking for 3rd hand to help push through beta. Position requires some or all of following:
-Experience with managed environments
-Experienced with OO (Observer, factory and visitor patterns)
-Experience with git
-Berkeley Sockets
-Gamedev experience
-PerconaDB or Mysql
-Concurrency in transaction environments
-8086 OllyDbg, Cdecl calling convention etc.
-Able to sign legal contract
-Real programmer (Can download and implement whitepaper, not a google guy)
***Jobs will not come with free items, free gold or even conc pot. Reward for hard work will be only our thanks and a Magicbane server further towards finished!
Alpha went fast how long beta will last?
That is up to magicbane players. You tell us when game is completed. Olga and Me keep working hard until you do!
