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Update today 12-13-2009
Chests are now mainly for chest pulls. Its still possible to get non drop non trade items but they will be much more rare. Low level NDNT items are the same to help newbs start out.
Pets should have the betrayal points of the owner and -enemies should work better and not allow you to hit things that would cause you to lose alignment. TEST THIS before trusting it becuase its not easy testing on my own here but it seemed to work.
The last bit of programming of the old anti pk system is gone now.
Spawn times have been adjusted. Slow areas should be faster and the constant spawn areas should be a bit slower.
People were abusing the ability to change guild names at any time, so now you lost that ability and guild name changes will cost 50g.
I fixed some bugs with the game client that might have been causing crashes when exiting.
I am seriously considering merging x1 and x2 and changing the name of x3 to x2.
Polls about the game 11-29-2009
If you have not already voted then please take a look at these polls about future changes to the game.
Good / Evil System poll
Chest pulls poll
Email is working again? 11-13-2009
If your still having problems sending me emails from the website make sure to hit refresh a couple times and if its still not working send me an email at ejthayer09@comcast.net and let me know what happens.
I had to move the entire website over to a new server, my old hosters were hosers not hosters.
Website Email problems 11-9-2009
I know the email system on the website is not working. I didn't change the code at all so the people that host it must have changed something on their end. They can be so stupid sometimes and just change things on their end without telling anyone. I will get it fixed asap.
New message board 11-6-2009
The xenimus FP message board will now also be used for TD also. New areas have been setup for posts on TD. I have been reading posts and posting on this message board for a while now if anyone wants to participate.
Obviously the people running Xentales have proven beyond any doubt that they have no ethics are are promoting the theft of the game by someone else.
The update today 10-31-2009
This update has a few minor changes for game play. There is a -home and -closest command now so you can set your respawn town where you want or always appear in the closest place.
There is also a new packet encryption system. Some of you know about this new server that some people have setup. They have stolen copywrited material and changed it, obviously this is not legal. The packet encryption has been changed to put a stop to these other servers. If these other servers are not shut down I will be talking to a lawyer.
New spell graphics 9-18-2009
I just finished up the spell graphics for the new fire and cold based spells. Those were the biggest thing holding up the update. New graphics is always trail and error, finding the right look so its cool. The first couple things I tried sucked. I have something now that looks good but isnt the same as any other spell and works similar to a beam style.
The update should be out soon but I'm not giving a release date, it will be out when its done.
Update on the balance update 9-9-2009
I wanted to let you know what is going in so far. These things could still be adjusted! After looking at all the emails from people these are the things that most people agreed should be done.
Wizards need another primary damage type.
Druids should lose Noxa.
Clerics need better damage and an additional spell (probly Noxa)
Bows will have HP/MP steal added for rangers.
Paladins will get more HP and possibly another spell.
Barbarians will have resists lowered, their weekness should be magic.
Hit amulets will not be 100% chance anymore, they will give a bonus to hit so agility will be worth something again.
Noxa in general will not reflect as much damage for magical attacks and will not reflect multiple times for weapon attacks that have other damage bonuses.
I will be taking a look at rings and probably toning down their power for all of them.
Big change like this are dangerous for the game so I am being careful.
New email is setup 8-25-2009
Password changes and other emails from the website are working again.
Sorry about the down time 8-20-2009
I made the move to Tennessee and now live in a town called Hermitage just outside Nashville. The hacker crashed the servers while I was moving so there was nothing I could do to get the servers up. I don't even have an internet connection here yet. I'm doing updates from a free wifi area.
Balance update 8-8-2009
I will be doing the class balance update soon so please send me your ideas on what should be balanced. Make sure to keep an objective opinion. If your email looks like you are asking just to make your own class more powerful instead of trying to help the game be balanced I will delete it and your ideas will not be considered.
Don't assume that someone else will tell me something. If you have something to say then say it. I will be reading them all and considering everyones opinion. Please make the subject line dealing with this be 'Balance update'.
Anyone who only cares about making their own class more powerful and does not care about game balance should go here. I should be a god!
Hello! 8-5-2009
I have had a lot to do recently. I might be moving again. This time to Nashville Tennessee! We had a XenCon there once and it was a cool place so we shall see what happens. In this economy I'm being forced take jobs where ever they are. Still working on FP of course and things are working great. I will be doing an update soon for TD to balance some class issues.
Update problems 6-23-2009
Some people were having problems with the update where the game would just quit for no reason. I just uploaded a new update that should fix that problem.
PVP changes 6-19-2009
I did a server side update to make some changes to the PVP system.
Spin attack does not make you auto hittable, your enemy has a bonus to hit instead.
Betrayal points will now make a player appear as an enemy when doing a sensus. That player can then be killed by either side for PVP points.
BE CAREFUL!!! Test this new system carefully and let me know if there are any bugs.
The daily backup and monster reset should happen about 2am from now on.
People need to understand 6-9-2009
You need to understand why I can't return gear that was traded for duped gear. Here is what happens. Some dishonest jerk dupes an item, then it gets traded possibly multiple times before it gets deleted. If I reverse your last trade the last person you traded with might be an honest player and now they are losing legit gear, and who knows how many times the duped item was traded and many of those trades could have been for multiple items and then other trades might have split up those items to any number of other players. So trying to reverse trades becomes a total nightmare.
Even if your trade was directly with the original duper and could be reversed its not fair to do it for some people and not others. I'm really sorry that it happened, we all hate the asshole dupers. I am working on trying to find the bug and fix it.
On a side note the duper has come forward and tried to black mail me for revealing the method of doing it. So far he wants his character back, a ton of NDNT gear including a sun staff and the 25 mil exp. This guy has also told me that he has a degree in computer science. That is very disturbing because it means he's not a kid. I expect a certain amount of dishonesty from some high school kids, high school sucks and there are a ton of people who will rip you off in a heart beat so dishonesty becomes a way of life. Your supposed to actually grow out of that when you get older. Having a degree does not mean jack, I have met people with masters degrees that were morons and some of the best game programmers in the world have no degree at all.
Characters deleted for cheating are NOT restored. The most the duper can get is a new character with 25 mil exp to start, and that's after the method is revealed, tested, and fixed.
Happens every time, the duper/cheater tries to black mail me for something.
Duped gear 6-7-2009
I checked several commonly duped items today and deleted them from the game. People need to keep in mind that duped gear will be deleted no matter what. I'm sorry if you traded legit gear for the duped gear. I cannot restore the legit gear that you traded for duped gear, it gets traded and re-traded in no time and I can't be trying to reverse that many trades. The dupers accounts have been deleted.
If anyone wants to be honest and tell me how it works so I can fix it that would be great. I will give 25 million exp to anyone who can tell me how it works and I can get it fixed. The very last post on this page explains more.
Of course I'm trying to guess at how they are doing it but its hard to tell.
Current work 6-6-2009
First I'm sorry for not posting in a while. My work currently focuses on Xenimus FP. The FP world designer is done and ready to go, so now I am working on getting the game client and server working properly and that is going very well also.
Soon I will be taking a break from work on FP to do an update for top down. The way things are looking, the top down update will be pretty good. I have made quite a few notes on things that will be going into the next update.
Quest EXP Adjustments 4-18-2009
Recently I adjusted the EXP given by some of the new quests down some. This seems to have made some players mad. That is typical I guess, any time I reduce something like that almost everyone will fail to understand or even consider the possibility that it was a necessary change. Lets face it, if some people had their way Imps would drop spirit gear and be worth 10k exp each and everyone in the game would have a Sun Staff or Vis Gladius.
These quests didn't even exist in the game until recently. If I had put the quests in the game as they are right now everyone would think they were great, but because there were higher at first and I reduced them people are all freaking out about it.
All quest EXP will stay as it is for now and if adjustments are needed I will make them in the future.
Rings 4-15-2009
Have been getting a lot of e-mails lately from people saying that the game is completely based on rings. The fact is that I allow people to wear six rings in this game. So of course rings have a large effect on the game. If you could wear six helmets then people would say it was helmet based, or if you could wear six pairs of gloves it would be glove based. So the game is not really based on rings, it's just that the number you are allowed to wear causes them to have a large effect.
One possible solution I have been thinking of is adding leggings and boots to the game. Those two additional slots would be taken from the ring slots. Then you would only be able to wear 4 rings. This will very likely be a future change.
FP progress 3-30-2009
Going very well. Just did a engine stress test and it was doing over 650,000 polys at 45 fps. This time the test was done with regular polys, sprites (trees and bushes), and some transparent polys to simulate particles and spells. This also had the shader system active. Old FP used to drag down to 30 fps and only be rendering a short distance from the player, this test was done while rendering 1/4 of the map. A second test showed that at double the standard distance of old FP I was able to stay around 60 fps. These tests were also done with no LOD (level of detail) system in place. So in other words small items that would normally not be rendered at long range were still being rendered.
VERY good results.
Emergency server maintenance
I was notified by my ISP that they will need to take down the servers for a short time. The DS will be down on the 18th from about 11:30 to 12:00, X1 and X2 down from about 11:00 to 11:30, then X2 again on the 20th from 11:00 to 2:00. All times are central. Its not the servers themselves that have any problems, it has to do with the connections to the servers and the backup power units.
A couple small changes 3-9-2009
There is now a 5 second delay after doing a cross server transport before you can do another cross server transport. This change is to stop the duping bug people have been using. I know this will be a bit annoying but its the best solution. Other changes had to do with some minor quest bugs.
Just to be clear! 3-4-2009
There have been some rumors that I'm giving up on TD! That is total BS! In fact I have a lot of plans for TD. A few characters need balancing yet and the professions system is one of the things on my mind lately. The thing is that its time for FP to get a turn so I'm working on that right now.
Not sure if anyone is aware of this but the game company I was at lost all their contracts because of the stock market crash. Investors are very tight right now so the company is going through some hard times like the rest of the country. I did talk with the owner of the company today and he is very interested in helping me find funding to turn the FP engine into an on line game. I'm not sure yet where all that will go.
Venture Capital and FP 2-24-2009
The graphics engine is getting integrated very nicely. So far there have been almost no problems during the conversion. Not sure when it will be out but I'm certainly working on it.
I have also written up a business plan and started trying to find venture capital for development of FP. Xenimus FP is mostly done and with some funding I could finish it and professionally publish it. That would be the ultimate goal. I'm very serious about getting investors and have been submitting the business plan to different venture capital investment companies.
I just don't have the time to do all the work in FP like I did in TD. I have calculated the costs of starting a company and working on FP for 2 years and it will cost between 1.5 and 2 million! The up side is that even with a tiny player base of like 25000 players the investor would make back about 3 times their money. No recently released game is below 300,000 players and if Xenimus FP was to get that many an investor would make back about 90 million. Figuring the investor gets half the gross profits for 5 years charging 10/month. I want to keep the price under all the competition. It could probably be done for about 1 million if I cut a lot of corners but I would rather do it right.
Just imagine if Xenimus was a big hit! The amount an investor could make would be huge! Venture capital investors look for exactly that type of investment. Something with high potential for payback and this would certainly qualify.
With my recent 3D programming jobs I have really sharpened my graphics engine programming skills. Five years ago I was not ready to do this, but now I know I am.
I considered offering the ability for YOU the players to invest in the creation of FP, but that seems like it could be messy. I have had offers from people to buy TD Xenimus. Recently someone offered me 50k. If any of you happen to know of someone interested in that kind of investment let me know. But make sure they are serious, it will take a lot of money to do it.
Current FP work 2-5-2009
The first person update is currently my main focus. I am now working on the shaders for FP engine. I did a benchmark test of the FP engine the other day and I was trying to get the frame rate to drop below 60 frames per second. The frame rate finally dropped down to 57 frames per second at 1,090,000 polygons. Needless to say that totally kicks ass. Keep in mind that this test was done with no other overhead. In other words just straight polygons with no particles or monsters running around. It was still an extremely successful test however.
I do plan on putting out a quest update for Xenimus TD soon. Eric and Ben from Green Bay have been very helpful designing new quests for people to do. I am currently looking over their scripting code.
Today's update 1-3-2009
I figured out why fighter classes were not getting the extra HP from the last update and fixed that.
Wizards needed some alternate types of magic damage to compete in PVP. I'm not going to make large adjustments in this area at a time. So to start I increased the strength of adgredi, fire, and ice projectiles for wizards and cut the magic cost in half. Give those spells a chance. OK, I forgot that wizards don't even have ice ball. I think wizards should have energy as a primary, with a secondary of fire or ice. I need to think on this more.
Obviously there has been some duping problems in the game. It has been very hard to track down but I did find an area that could cause a problem and fixed it.
The XENCON item drop 15 days was very interesting indeed. The server dropped a total of 10 Xencon helms and only 3 were found! In fact I know that there was a skeleton on X3 that had a helm for 2 days and on X1/X2 DS there was a pix that had one for most of December 26.
Animation bugs 12-12-2008
Someone reported a bug that female barbarians were not using proper animations. If you have this problem I need to know what race/class/and armor you are wearing when the bug happens so I can find it.
If you get hacked!! 7-14-2005
First of all it is your responsibility to protect your own account.
- Do not download programs to "help" you with the game.
- Do not open attachments to emails.
- Do not talk to people you cant trust on instant message programs.
- Do not log into the game at a friends house. They might put a key logger on their own computer or they may have a virus and don't know it themselves.
- Do not give out your account info!!!!!! (nobody ever listens to me on this one)
If your account gets hacked keep in mind before you email me that it is 100% your own fault that it got hacked and that I will help you if I can but it is not my responsibility to do so. In order for me to do anything I have to find proper proof that your account was logged into.
Also keep in mind that you are responsible for what is done with your account. So if you let a hacker use your computer or your account you risk getting banned or deleted.
Official info on 25 mil exp 12-18-2004
It seems that I need to be clear about this reward of 25 million exp for reporting a dupe bug.
1. Once the info is given to me on how it works I must be able to confirm that the bug exists.
2. The bug cannot be related to the servers going down in any way. I am well aware that in some situations it would be possible to dupe an item if the server was to go down at the proper moment.
3. After the bug is fixed the 20 mil exp can be given to any character or if multiple people discover it the exp could be split up.
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