/jp/ - Otaku Culture

It's been a long time since I've given any sort of "development report" on the progress of the server and my general mindset of things going forward, and frankly I just wanted to share what I've been thinking about different aspects of the server.

Generally speaking, compared to initial launch, the server is in a very good position. 90% of bugs have been fixed at this point aside from the Assault mode one which is particularly tricky, and needing to have everyone leave a turf if the timer freezes (don't think there's anything I can do about this one, at least presently there's no solution I can think of that would solve this). The other thing is something entirely out of my control - MTA's memory leaks. If you've been around for a particularly long server run from start to finish you may notice the server will sometimes quickly begin to slow down to the point of requiring a restart. I have a hunch something causes this to kick in faster than usual as two weeks ago it happened very early in a run, around 30 minutes in.

Otherwise, as far as new features goes, I'd like to focus on new gamemode maps and perhaps adding more to do in freeroam. Freeroam stuff and other etc gameplay stuff is pretty tricky to handle because too much of it will overload the server and start to lag out slower PC's, assuming it hasn't already. Especially if it was a poorly made script. Presently, there are 211 scripts on the server, not all running at the same time of course. I probably won't mess around with turf stuff or gang-related stuff much more though since I have noticed the competitive nature of it can make some anons take it a little too seriously, so instead I'd like to focus on fun stuff like updating poker and chess, or maybe some map changes for a while.

Another thing I wanted to bring up is that with the release of TH17 we'll probably be getting some shitposter tourists from other boards, so while I've been pretty lenient about it so far, I will be cracking down on new players in particular for a few weeks. This is a /jp/ server first and foremost, if you don't know anything about the board culture then don't whine about it if you end up getting perma-banned.

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Cool! I might also suggest the character skins, although I haven't updated them in a while, there's a few hard-to-find/lost models in there.
https://mega.nz/#!UhFglCZL!RHmb_QvTpJ576OQkzLpI7wDPdp3QJ5ymhpb4aB5qgiI