NEStalgia

[TacoTaru]

Ran across this today. Anyone else heard about this and/or playing it? I did a search of the title but didn't run across anything. Looks rather fucking awesome to kill time with friends.

[arus2001]

Gave it a peek out of boredom. Laggy as hell. Not so much an issue for combat, but moving around is hell.

[CableMonkey]

The game has been around since March 2010. The game is indeed laggy, mostly due to a problem in the server-side code that has yet to be traced down. Up until today, there was virtually no real issues with what lag there was, then SilkWizard sent out 8 emails to the media not realizing just how much of a response he was going to get...which obviously the servers (which are only designed for up to 60 players) couldn't handle. What use to take about 5 or 6 days for the lag to build up to a semi-annoying level now takes a matter of minutes.

Facts:

• BYOND, the engine the game was written on top of, is mostly at fault for alot of things.
• The programmer is self-taught in the ways of programming; though he's came a long way since he release the fan game Dragon Warrior Online several years ago. He and Tenkuu (also known as SpSpiff) work on the code in their spare time.
• When the storm of new players slows down drastically, things should become more enjoyable.

That said.. I am the server administrator of the main sever (called Shrenwold), and one of the four "admins" from Silk Games. I spend most of my time in FFXI, but the other three are much more active in that community than I am.

[arus2001]

Small world, then.

Lag aside, I almost feel like the grind is a bit too harsh for acquiring EXP and Gold. I think I did most of the beginning area quests aside from killing Reghor, which seemingly requires a party or good stock of the second tier potions. Compared to the Bandits in the cave which could hit me for 1 with the best gear possible from the starter town (which I got as drops, not actually bought ;_ he wound up doing like 14+ to me a round which meant, by the time I got to him from a fresh rest, I was somewhere between 50-65 HP. Either way, I put him on hold for now and went toward Balzackia, just to find mobs that can use spells/breaths for like 15 a pop. I can one-shot the butterflies, but other mobs can take 2 hits. Still, TNLs are like a few hundred+ and your basic random encounter in the area might be lucky to give you over 20 EXP while Gold is even fewer and the new gear costs like 700+. Needless to say, I took a break for the night after progress felt kinda glacial.

I know grindy is a bit of an old school staple, but I'm curious if there might be mobs out there like DW's metal slimes that are skewed more toward high EXP or cash. I can stomach hunting down such things in spurts, but if you're looking at like 30+ minutes a level on top of lag issues early on, I feel like something's off. Nonetheless, I can understand servers getting overwhelmed with a bit of media exposure. Bit of a blessing and a curse, I suppose.

[Trichocyst]

This not only reminds me of my NES days growing up, but my early days playing graphical MUDs. Gonna have to try it.