Lmao

[norman]

We have more active users on this forum then ZHA5 has on their fully operational server.

[Prometheus]

We shouldn't mock it until we have a server that doesn't crash once every two days in testing hehe

[abyss]

Problem is david (drogman, snocks, jester, goof) killed the zh community, fantasia didn't pick up many players either I' m with a few on UOGamers hybrid but thats about it... It would be nice to see a functioning zh shard up and running but Im posistive the general zh community feels swindled for their time investments in the past, at least I know I do. You need more information available about where the server is going to be hosted, future visions for the server, goals for the staff and the level of their commitment so players have something to scout out, because lets be frank when you review last 100 posts on your forum there is a good few posts with norman and dekar bickering like children. Would be cool if you could be honest about the commitment from staff such as "I have a busy life so development will be rare" instead of the usual bullshit about a commited staff team and ongoing development with great scripts etc etc etc.

[Prometheus]

Sept 7, 2010 19:48:26 GMT @abyss said:

Problem is david (drogman, snocks, jester, goof) killed the zh community, fantasia didn't pick up many players either I' m with a few on UOGamers hybrid but thats about it... It would be nice to see a functioning zh shard up and running but Im posistive the general zh community feels swindled for their time investments in the past, at least I know I do. You need more information available about where the server is going to be hosted, future visions for the server, goals for the staff and the level of their commitment so players have something to scout out, because lets be frank when you review last 100 posts on your forum there is a good few posts with norman and dekar bickering like children. Would be cool if you could be honest about the commitment from staff such as "I have a busy life so development will be rare" instead of the usual bullshit about a commited staff team and ongoing development with great scripts etc etc etc.

That's true. I should make it, and I had planned to make it, part of the website I created.

Just to give a quick overview:

• Server's hosted in Derby, in the UK.
  
• Future versions? The spec is pretty good as it is imho.
  
• Not sure what you're referring to about goals for the staff...

Staff committment is a slight issue for me at the moment. I'm fairly sure Dekar and Mappi will be deeply involved once people start playing, but so far they've not done a great deal. That's forgivable though from my point of view because, since I work full time, this project has been a development over many months and it's not like there's been any particular thing for them to latch onto and get involved. Noah's always busy, I haven't even created an account for him yet, but a seat is always open for him, he's a brilliant staffer.

In some ways it might be a good thing, in other ways it's not, but I'm only able to get online 1, maybe 2, hours a day during the week. I do not intend to have much of a character in-game, though I may have a RPer I train up. As in the case of Sciuride back on ZHSweden though, an absent host is sometimes the best host.

Me and Mappi both have access to the server and to the scripts, so attention will always be able to be given on that side; to testing, to fixing bugs, to tweaking stuff, to restarting etc.

I have control of 100% of the shard's functionality. I don't know if you know me or my history/personality, but when I get involved with projects I don't let them slide (I wouldn't count ZHChronicles because, in essence, I didn't "hold any of the cards" over there; I didn't host, I didn't script, I just did the best with what I had). I've been operating a fantasy basketball league for four years now, I devote my time to political activism in real life (anti-war, anti-torture etc.), and both of those are long-term investments of my time, which pay off more as time goes by. I've made a few script changes on the ZH POL093 base that will ensure that this shard only gets more interesting as time goes by, rather than the usual build character/hunt/pvp/repeat of ZH. I don't give up on anything I start unless the odds are really stacked against me.