With the Queen's Colony and the Outpost of the Overlord nearing completion as far as spawns and quests/scripts go, I wanted to lay out what I feel is the next most important task - and as usual, it starts with me getting off my butt and getting Spawns done =)

Phase 1 of our work was basically to get "all our ducks in a row", so to speak on how the DB/Content teams will be proceeding. It was a rough learning experience for us all, but after months of slaving, debating, and beating LE to death for server support (grin) I am happy to report:

• We have a solid solution to how our spawns and their data will be laid out
  SpawnScripts (interactions and basic movement, conversations) are fully understood
  Spells structures (organized by Classes) with data and scripts defined on how we will proceed
  Quest functionality is very extensive, so a majority of the server code work is behind us - time to script!
  Items, while needing additional server support and another complete reload, work. Yes!
  Zones have been cleaned up and given friendly names for ease of travel

What this means in short is hopefully, we can speed up the process on how we develop content, since we're not "inventing" our methods anymore. There will still be hiccups when we encounter things we have not seen on the Islands, but generally speaking - I think we're ready for the next phase.


Phase 2:
This will consist of populating the last 3 "newbie" areas of Greater Faydark, Darklight Wood and Timorous Deep - at least to cover the first 20 levels of game play that these zones offer. We're not going to work on anything above level 20 til Phase 2 is complete (DB Milestone 1 - Newbie Content). Another part of Phase 2 will (hopefully) be finishing the Qeynos and Freeport city zones, as well as their suburbs and newbie areas.

While I will not give an exact ETA, I am hoping these zones will be completed before EQ2Emulator Beta 0.8 release (TBD). Understand, this is a TON of work, so as always, if you want to see it done faster, get involved. Join a team, help out where you can.


Here's a list of target zones to complete for Phase 2:

Greater Faydark
Darklight Wood
Timorous Deep

The Baubleshire
Castleview Hamlet
Graystone Yard
Nettleville
Starcrest Commune
Willowwood

Oakmyst Forest
Forest Ruins
The Caves
The Down Below
The Peat Bog

Beggars Court
Big Bend
Longshadow Alley
Scale Yard
Stonestair Byway
Temple Street

The Graveyard
The Ruins
The Sprawl
Sunken City
Thieve's Way

East Freeport
North Freeport
South Freeport
West Freeport

Qeynos Harbor
South Qeynos
North Qeynos
Elddar Grove

**IF** we have time:
Antonica
Commonlands
-- and adjoining zones

As you can see, I am not exaggerating when I say it will be a TON of work. The Content Team is probably going to kill me for laying all this on them for the next couple of months - but the good news is, they cannot start until I get them data - so I guess I'd better stop posting and get parsing.

Any questions/concerns, feel free to ask!


Update: 2009.07.08 - FYI, I updated this overly zealous list of TODO's since there was no way we could get all that done in a single phase. Hence the birth of Phase 3 and 4 - see appropriate postings for details.

Let's rock and roll!

Stickied and bumped so the new team members know what we're working on.

I think nearly all these zones are spawned on Dev.