I agree!

Yeah but you guys are just going to close it again in a week, and then it'll be down for another 3 years. I'll make sure to get everyone deathly excited though. :rolleyes:

I know there were a lot of words in this thread, but I am confident you can summon the strength and willpower together to decipher them!

Oh so this is just a code I'm supposed to unlock?
This isn't gonna be like the Ovaltine hoax is it?!

there are 23 people viewing this forum section at the moment. me and 22 guests....must be a glitch?

Probably not because there are 90 guest accounts logged into the forums right now.

how done i obtained guest account?

:noob:

Yeah, that would be your paparazzi following you around the forums

just got on graal v6, it works for my computer unlike the last version. does 2k1 have a lobby or something or is it staff only or what

I miss G2K1 so much.

I really hope this works out, I will be there to play. Got a release date in mind?

Date is a bad idea imo

Setting deadlines prior is bad because things arnt even planned...and youre thinking of a release already? How simple minded :)

For someone working on the project, you don't seem to voice yourself very much and If things goes bad, guess who has small blame? ;)

The server is staff only right now.

hey, are you cutting down on me just because im blonde!?

I will have partial blame :) yes.

is it still moving forward?

no, and GDT is dead too, the only reason it's still around is because they ignored ben's request to have it disbanded.

Can't wait :)

?

niiiiice

Lance pops in with beautiful promises then just leaves us high n dry :<

He may have to rescript everything from square one because it's either...

1) Done using an outdated style scripting.

2) Messy and not worth using what several other managers have tried to string together.

3) Not up to the standards that only Lance knows about for some odd reason.

Lets wait for 5 years for him to tell us "things are being worked on." before we bother him again. :D

osnap

what does this mean!!!

That G2K1 efforts will continue to never be seen.

G2k xi

rip :cry::cry:

2k1 is outdated because it is 10 years old. i still think it was thebomb.com
all managers and devs, including what i did, could never amount to what birdbird/koni/other ballers did.
Lance has a good heart but it truly did die when birdbird left :(



boom :(.

It's primarily the scripting and possibly general standards that are out-dated, not the concept.

General standards? Koni put out what seem to me like very impressive graphics, in the meantime servers like zodiac have the spotlight with much less on visuals, and i'm certain scripting can be used well enough since you show your skills with it on classic.


I'm sure someone would agree, just get creative with the graphics, like you did on classic (proper shadows on the bushes/signs when you throw them) Something similar to atlantis with the gralats being changed (it does not have to be just like theirs, but change it somehow, it would be new and probably welcome by lots of players) and many other small ideas that could bring a new look to an old but well liked server.

Don't be afraid to ask questions, get feedback and show little bits of your work here and there like atlantis does, nobody can steal it if they wanted unless the want to get into trouble for using graphics limited to one server.

This may mean nothing or just go unnoticed, but if an issue is broken scripts or GS1 scripts, I will gladly help convert and update scripts to current standards of Graal Script 2.

if the scripts worked back then how do they not work now ?_?, maybe they don't work with the new client :0?

i miss a server with a booming economy with an equally booming kingdom sector. perfect mix :F

people would kill for a white gangster hat...and for a bomy. people would work 100's of hours for stupid items/status....it was so great QQ.

birdbird was the original engine of incorporating lights into levels, visual feasts...he truly mastered it more so than any developer, to this day nobody can make a a level/map/whatever shine like that fool could.

A lot of people are militant against Graal2001's birdbird style in this day, though.
Go talk to Rufus about that.

Anyway, I can verify that almost everything works on Graal2001 right now.
I think that it is all scripted in an older style and language. But it all works exactly the same as it did the last time anyone stepped foot on Graal2001. It actually works the same as it did when the server was on the serverlist and slowly dwindling.

You can:
-farm apples
-rent a market stand
-mine
-ride the train (which works perfectly well but needs touching up)
-bake bread
-ski
-kart racing works same as ever
-play hockey
-play kingdoms event
(all the events pretty much work I believe)
-fish quest works
-zalactic labs is in ship shape
-you can still use the fireworks you get in the slums
-i bought all the musical instruments and tried them out. they could use updated sound effects

you can't:
-ride the boat at silverstun's sea
-go to dustari (lance seems to have made it so that you get disconnected over and over if you go there. i actually am stuck because of this and can't log in)
-go to Zormite (this location seems kinda screwed)

If anyone is wondering about the state of anything else I could tell you.
Basically if the old code is used, then the game is near completion. If new code is to be implemented then my guess is that I would probably need to pay someone before that seems like a possibility (which I would consider).

its not hard to convert stuff - i don't get why its taking so long? o_O

Probably because of the sheer quantity of stuff. Old servers weren't really able to take advantage of the efficient methods we use today, and more importantly they were around long enough to end up with piles and piles of stuff scattered scattered everywhere.

It's a management/leadership issue that's affecting development. It's entirely up to Skyld or Lance on what gets done on the server and they aren't exactly making their intentions or plans clear to those that want to help.

I guess it doesn't really help that the public expectations of this project are very high. I'm sure people wouldn't want to see this server have a Maloria style release either.

Back to waiting indefinitely on this project though, at least people got a look at some of the assets when they were available.

Honestly, how much longer will PC Graal be around? Is it worth it to spend all this time developing a server when the game might be shutting down soon? It's difficult to stay motivated for a project like this when you are unsure of the future of the game. So far, no one has succeeded in bringing back Graal2001, and no one probably will.

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