I have switched over to Wordpress for several reasons and feel that it fits better for what I am doing. So if you are interested in reading more about my blog and my adventures please forward yourself over to
www.FuismGaming.com and there is a link on the site for the blog!
I hope you all enjoyed this and I will be transferring everything soon.
So get this, I bought a domain and hosting and what-not! I am now doing the website design and working with someone who unlike me knows about websites ! Things are going well and I am doing all the work and things are slowly moving forward. However the site is not live yet, and I am talking to my guy about how to setup the Blog Style on the website and if it all goes right I’ll be moving the Wordpress and Blogspot forwarding to the website blog!
Sadly I do not have everything setup perfectly yet but I do at least have forums!
http://www.FuismGaming.com/Forums
Enjoy!
After a few hours of reading books and what not and completing some ad’s for other people. I decided that the first ad I made was not only too short, but also did not have enough UMF! so I decided to make it a little longer, and extend some things about it. However, I think the overall ad for at least a while Is complete and I will not be updating it any longer, unless I find a new technique that I need to show off haha. ^_^ Anyway Enjoy! and welcome to Fallen Lords
Well after, making the TGM alliance ad, I figured you know what?! Why not fallen lords?! so I went out and started doing some more research on how to use Adobe After Effects and I ended up making the following ^_^ Now Fallen Lords have their own AD as well!
Last night (03/07/2011) Xsyon made the official launch date announcement. The game will launch in three phases. The three stages will course over three days long that will hopefully lessening the land rush and lessen the lag for the game. Xsyon has over the last few days made number of statements regarding server wipes, two servers, promises,deals and retractions. However, now we are here the official launch. Player base is still strong as ever and even stronger with this announcement, this also includes the arrivals of “Clans”. This one player is extremely excited and cannot wait!
Launch Phase 1 - March 10th 6:00pm PST - : This stage will allow players, to login, group up and forms their Tribes, Clans and Homesteads.
Launch Phase 2 – March 11th 9:00AM PST – : This stage will allow players to place their totems, and is requested that once you place log off so traffic can be lessen.
Launch Phase 3 – March 15th – The game will officially launch and creatures will be unhidden.
Well it only took a day for Xsyon to go from One Server, to Two Servers, back to one server. I am getting whip-lash with all the deal changes. I have spoken to a few people and they all feel somewhat the same. I wonder, how lunch will be with these new rules set, as such here is below the updates.
I early await for lunch, haha
I am trying to figure out video editing, since it is a subject I know even less than AE (After Effects) I’ve downloaded a few books that might help me but heh not much I can do tomorrow. ^_^ I am trying to push through the night and do this work. I came up with something for the TGM and I hope it came out right. ^_^ enjoy.
I may end up editing it later on again but, at least for now the TGM has a intro video for people to view, I wonder if the soundtrack goes well lol. – Music updated and placed, and in the end this is all I could come up with, so much for my lack of skill.
I was reading the new updates and I think that Xsyon made some positive decisions and made some good decisions and we now have our full server wipe. However, my big problem is now two server?! It is not big enough player base for two servers ^_^ sigh… here is the Update notes:
Update March 4
Hello everyone!
Before arguments get out of hand I will make some sure things are clear up front. I see already many misconceptions about the War and Peace servers.
The differences between servers will be slight. This will not require a lot of additional development, just a matter of settings and switches in the code.
Update March 4
Hello Xsyon citizens!I'd like to recap what's been going on for the past two weeks and give an update on what we're working on and what he have planned for the coming week.
On February 18th we attempted a final year zero wipe. As our dowload server shared a connection and firewall with our game servers, the heavy download traffic reached our bandwidth limit, interfering with game traffic and causing severe lag. This lag exposed various exploits and problems with tribe and totem placement which in turn led to crashes and bad data being saved. On the 19th, we decided to push forward the official launch for two weeks so that we could resolve the problems that surfaced. The major issues were as follows:
Heavy lag due to bandwidth limit:
This was resolved a week ago as we set up two new download servers separate from our game servers.
Tribe and totem exploits:These were fixed and confirmed throught testing.
Corrupted data saving:The saving system was revised with additional error checking, double back ups and automatic shut downs in the case of bad data being created. After a few days of server crashes and shut downs, both forced and due to problems in the code, we corrected all issues and since then the saving system has been running smoothly and rollbacks, if needed, are small and without data corruption.
Built up lag due to simultaneous terraforming activity and terrain actions:After some optimizations we haven't been able to reproduce this lag in the past few days. We are wary that it may happen again, however. We've added some additional checks and measures so that if lag does build up again, we will be able to pinpoint the exact cause much easier in the future.
With all this out of the way, we are nearly ready for the final wipe and real start of Xsyon!
Here's what is currently in motion:1) We will proceed with a clean slate for the Year Zero start.
The totem survey that we sent out resulted in over 70% of players that placed totems and roughly 90% of players that responded in favor of a clean start. In addition, many totems were not saved properly or were missing from the saved data.2) The game will start with two game servers: War and Peace.
The main reason for this is to handle our current game population and anticipated growth over the next few months.Although the lands beyond the green mist were created a long time ago, we spent a lot of time this past year improving the central active Tahoe zone. Our terrain artists are currently revising and improving the outer lands to match the central zone. The first expansion zone should be ready by the end of April. Currently, however, we can't clear the mist so we are limited to the Tahoe starting zone.
This limitation along with the recent addition of homesteads is crowding the starting zone with our current population. This is driving creatures too quickly into the green mist and not allowing enough active wilderness areas for creatures to breed. We have some additional changes to creature AI that will help resolve this issue, but at this point a two server solution is necessary.
Additionally, this solution will help with the land rush and reduce lag when the servers are full.
With an obvious existing split in the community between players who want more of a construction game and players that want to focus on PvP, we decided to use this as an opportunity for War and Peace servers.
- Both servers will allow for PvP.
- Both servers will retain our anti-griefing policies.
- Both servers will start off the same and change over time.
- Both servers will evolve with the player community.
- Players will have the option to create characters on both servers.
The War server will have safe zones removed during the Prelude. The plan is to evolve this server to focus more on tribal warfare and conquest as quickly as possible.
The Peace server will retain its safe zones with tribes having the options to engage in tribal warfare or allow PvP on tribal lands. This server will evolve more for the crafting and building community.
3) The final wipe and land rush will proceed in a controlled manner.
On the day of the final wipe, players will be able to enter the game and form their tribe charters, but not claim any land. This will allow tribes to form their groups and find their locations and then log on.On the second day, players will be able to claim land, but terraforming will be turned off and combat will not be allowed on the Peace server. This will allow players to claim their lands without entire tribes being online, and once totems are placed, players can log off to reduce stress on the servers.
On the third day, everything will be turned on as normal and game play can begin.
We will do this do reduce potential lag and chaos. The goal of the early entry is for tribes and players to settle in, while the game will officially start with a creature reset on the 15th.
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What's next:We are currently preparing the War and Peace servers. These are at a new location that should provide us slightly better connectivity to players around the world. This won't result in a huge difference from our current game server, but any improvement is welcome. These should be completely set up by tomorrow.
A new launcher is almost ready but needs to be testedonce the game servers are fully prepared.
I'm working on a few fixes and changes that I want done before the final wipe. If we encounter any built up lag in game tonight or this weekend, we will have to take some time to work on it as well.As of now, I estimate we'll be ready by the middle of this coming week. I will post an update tomorrow to keep everyone informed of our progress.
Well as most of you know, I am no graphic designer. Even though I did goto a tech school last year for 3 months for graphic design. I do not think I picked up anything but none the less this is my attempt at playing with adobe after effect cs5. (only good thing I got from my school was the adobe collection haha)
I am still changing it, so tomorrow it might end up 100% different !
I finally got my interview with Pandemic Tribe and Hopi Tribe together. The Interview explains a lot and some of the views that Hopi Tribe has, I kept objective and asked fair questions.
