DarkLife

Good news for people playing DarkLife, I'm going to work on it again with Crash Prefect
First thing we are going to adress is the Lag. I have a few good ideas that will help with the lag, but will also change the gameplay a litte, and it will also add another feature.

-I'm going to use llOwnerSay for all messages from the backpack to reduce the chat a little (not sure how much that will help the lag, but it's good thing anyway)
-You can choose to swith to channel 1 for commands. If you enable it, you can use /1<command> to give commands, and it will stop listening on channel 0, so it won't have to check all the talking you do to see if you gave a command.
-I'm going to remove the elemetals, because they are not really used or contribute much, but they are being calculated every time you attack.
-The speed stat will change. Now if you have high speed you attack every 1.5 or 2 seconds and SL just can't handle that. So in the new update everyone will always attack every 5 second.
The speed will then contribute to both attack and defense. The higher your speed, the better you are at both attacking and defensing (although the actual attack and defense stat are more imporant in general fighting).
-I'm also adding a new command that uses the speed. It's called 'blitz' (unless somebody comes up with a better name). If you use blitz you try a quick, but strong attack. If it succeeds you'll do 2 times more damage then normal. If you fail (miss) you do 0 damage. If you succeed depends on your speed, and the speed of the enemie. If you have equal speed stats your chance of success for blitz will be 50%, but if you have a higher speed stat then the enemy, your chances will increase, if you have lower your chances will decrease.

Crash is doing some other changes. He's going to redesign some monster, and he will make a bigger verison of all monsters that will be spawned if you kill enough small monsters (and it will give you good loot) and he will be redesigning the city (you know why when you look at Minerva). And in general he'll be in charge of the graphical side of DarkLife. If you want to help building, designing etc. you talk to Crash

These changes will come soon, we also have other plans, which we will do in the following order


-Materials as loot
-Materials are used to upgrade your weapons and equipment
-More and diffrent magic
-Quests
-Materials are used to create potions (possibly custom potions)
-Pvp
-Guilds
-and more...

And ofcourse more content

I'm not giving any timeframe but we'll be working hard.

Have a good time playing! And remember report every SIM crash to LindenLab!

Hey everyone, *waves*. Sorry Mark and I have been gone for a while but were going to try to make up for it.

and if anyone can help me figure out why my forum title is always guest that would be cool,.LOL.

just checking my title.

Doh!

Still guest?

Guess im stuck in guest status folks,..you all know who i am so it doesnt matter,.LOL

btw folks crash will be working on the DL technology as soon as he figures out forum titles

did you try logging out then back into the forums?

Well.. if Crash needs a build-monkey to build creatures and such, I can be of some assistance, which will allow him to focus on other things.

you can change your forum title in the forum control pannel. i'm glad to see that the two is going to be reworked, what will be expected of me and my little house?

Ok, I admit it. I am a closet DLer in the wee hours. I have brought over so many friends that I think I should be recognized as some sort of hero, or dare i say goddess?

Here are my small suggestions

Shrine should be replaced with a statue of me

Potions should be renamed "kaia juice"

Best of luck with the evolution of the game you two. I had the pleasure of chatting with Crash for a couple of hours one night and I am confident anything he puts his mind and creative talents to will be grand.

Rawk on

Greedy greedy, kaia. You already have a shrine!

For shop owners: the first update won't change the shops much, unless you have equipment that have elemental stats. Those equipments will be altered or removed.

The second update will change a lot for equipment shops. Instead of just randomly add new weapons, we will be making an 'equipment plan'. We will probably collect all weapon designs and see how they fit in the plan.
So there might be weapons that we don't want to sell anymore, and there might be new weapons required. The stats of all weapons will change too.
For new weapons that we will need... I think we'll ask the shopowner first if THEY want to design the new weapons we need, but I'll have to talk with crash about that, since he's in charge of the visual part of darklife.

Good to hear that DL is happening again. I am really looking forward to the changes.

All I need now is a list of equipment. Mine is a bit old...and now it will be out-dated soon.

Thumbs up...I wish I could help, but I am a bike builder...and that's the one thing you do not want there.

Let me know if you'd like some orcish flavor to some of the weapons or armor.....I'm sure me and da boyz can put some stuff to gether!

Greetings to our legions of devoted fans.

Were on the lookout for any talented texture artists for a paying job within secondlife in support of the RPG darklife. The pay wont be a tremendous amount of lindens/usd to start but when the game picks up so will the wages, (pay is negotiable). Please only serious replies. CV and resume a plus. Please have a presentable portfolio to show as well.

Thank you and we'll see you all out in the metaverse.
Happy hunting

The Darklife Team.

As an addition to my last post. The items needed textured are organic builds requiring experience in texturing life like builds.

Hey Crash ... Give me a holler ... some consider me the best in SL, but you be the judge of that, cause I am sure there are others out there more worthy of that title. But, I am good, and easy to work with, and dependable.


Tessa

opps .. repeat ;p did i mention i coudl have blond moments? *giggles*

I have been playing DarkLife a lot and have noticed a few things about the lag.

Lag is so much more prevalent when you have people wearing excess prims, particle throwers, and AO's. I know it is almost impossible to get people to stop wearing things they don't need in order to play. I have no idea what the answer is. The recently added sign at the shrine about this goes un-noticed.

I was playing the other night, 9 people in the game. Lag was so horrific, I couldn't even purchase Mana! I looked around and lo and behold, I saw a group of 4 players. 1 had on a constant particle thrower, and AO. Another had a pair of guns he was shooting off. Another was wearing a pony avatar with wings and flying around the others.
I found that even asking them to remove the guns, AO's and particle thower was of no use. These people don't care.

Maybe if Mark or Crash could come in, unannounced (Different sim name) and play for a bit to see how this really affects the people who want to play the game?

Anyway, I look forward to the improvements your working on! If I can help in any way just let me know.

By the way, is the "Blitz" something in progress or is it available now?

Can the owner of a whole sim set it to disable scripts other than those specifically authorized by the owner? I've seen similar things in other sims, where bling-happy folks grind everyone to a halt so that they can be flashy. Some just kill the script capability, I hear, to reduce the problem.

Not sure how that would work, I know nothing at all about scripting...lol

But your right, apparently some people cannot kill off monsters without looking sexy and flashy, with no regard to the fact they are lagging people and cause them to die.

Frank, I like the idea of banning outside scripts/scripts not owned by Mark. The only thing that jumps out at me from this would be, things like the "DarkLife Titler", teleporter, and other DarkLife "addons" made by people other than Mark would not work... But thanks for bringing it up.

Banning scripts I don't own? but don't the players officially 'own' the scripts inside the backpack they bought? I don't think it's possible to only allow scripts I MADE... or is it?

Not sure Mark....but sure would help if its possible. Had people in Darklife with helicopters and stuff....talk about lag!

Ah Dark Life without bling and AO's my dream come true!
Sure hope you can ban other scripts!