Initiate Phase 4

[ilythor]

Hello again!

Just wanted to fill you guys in on whats happening around here. As you might have seen from the title we have managed to split the project into phases! Here's the best part; We are up to Phase 4! We have a lot of items (over 100,000!) and plenty of them are working as intended! Preparations for expansions are down pat, plenty of new zones are being polished just for you guys, not to mention the spell and database editor. These guys will hit Open Beta in no time!

That's it for now guys, check back here in a few weeks!

[ArcVNDT]

Terrific news, and couldn't be better timing. As I just started 'working' here

[ilythor]

One last thing for this update; Groups!

[Layor]

ahh beta, so much better than alpha

[ilythor]

unfortunately... we aren't in beta yet! but if we get more and more people helping, that gonna happen much faster

[Astal]

well i tried to help but I dont wanna test the same stuff others have tested also the servers havent been up much, i really shine when we can start runnin our own servers that will be fun

[John Adams]

TessEQ2 is up 24x7, with the very infrequent outages due to my personal nightmares with connectivity - but it is up way more than it is down.

Testing what others have tested, you cannot tell me that 100,000 items have been tested, every quest has been tested, every spawn evaluated for correctness, every zone point works, every script talks properly, every hail works, every merchant has the right items, right price, right appearances when you put stuff on. And there is no way to tell you what someone else has tried. This is ALPHA, which means, everything SHOULD be tested - same stuff, by many people, over and over, while we evaluate the server and it's data.

If you do not want to test, don't test. But don't make excuses. This is not a professional R&D department with 20 people working or getting paid, so sorry we do not have a detailed test plan for you.

And, you can run your own server. Do it. Show us how it's done!

[Auum]

Very nice progress guys Keep up the hard work! /bug reports incoming

[Terminator520]

xD yaay here comes beta
as the end ever slow slowly draws near... (hmm i never checked back here for a while lolz)

[John Adams]

Well, there's a lot of talk about "beta" as if it'll be any different than "alpha". Sure, it'll have guarenteed features working instead of just testing development phases... but really, we can log into servers now and test/play with current functionality today - and we all should be. The more bug reports we get, the better our "beta" code and data will be.

FYI, EQ2Emu "Beta" I do not expect to see for at least 12 more months (that's 2010 for those without 12 fingers), and that's just being generous. We're in 0.6.5 now, that means 0.7.0 has to come, and LE has plenty of stuff to implement before that. Then when 0.7.0 comes out, there's a long list of other stuff before 0.8.0 (Beta). LethalEncounter, our principle developer on the project, has a very full schedule... so please don't get your expectations up that tomorrow will be any different than today.

Do what you can to test and enjoy today, because right now is when we need the input. Not in 12 mos.

[primalrage74]

I will do my best to break everything and anything i can then report anything wrong.. " in my spare time "
Keep up the GREAT work, that goes out to ALL of you working on this in you spare time.