Rhialto’s Working Snapshot: 9/14/17

High prio features:

Redo the Post Explorer quest to be a fixed, linear path that tours around the overworld.
New mission(s) for gearing up / training up new characters for their preferred build.
Death ray is broken. PvM will need a cooldown, and MvP needs to reduce your max health.
Add Saana code for summons, so they will follow you around.
Auto-LQs and raid bosses. (Have design finished, and initial artwork.)
Instance more high-traffic maps (e.g. minath ruins).
More training/loot maps for players level 7-15.
Instance demon hordes quest.
More VIP RDs, and more high-level RDs in general.
Auction tiles in player homes (exchanges item for gold in same square).

High prio bugs:

Wood elves cannot ready tutorial wand; their bow is in the way.
Monsters are being marked as dead but not actually dying, which causes many problems.
Resists cast on summons don’t dispell on summon’s death => pile up to 500+ in cast list
“flee on”/”flee off” commands seem to have disappeared.
Leveling up in ninja guild screws up the bonuses until you log out.
Report that you can no longer link gates/levers in builder mode.
Mission board allows player overlap, but you can’t use tapping to do it.
Killing zombie generators makes you evil.
Lootsplit is not working at all.
Misc reported exploits that need to be closed up.
Selling in VIP shop w/ 10 merchant gives lower value than regular shop.
Older wraps/sashes have different AC than newer ones.
“get all” doesn’t support autobag rules.
autofire issues (lag, freezes, etc.)
builder mode glitches – can’t remove certain items like mountain/forest borders
player image often doesn’t show on login until you move

Priority game infrastructure:

Dup-item detection/removal phase 2 (see reddit post)
Bags can sometimes/rarely lose their contents due to 1 bad item. Need finer-grained saving.
Put the new DPS, XP/hour and gold/hour counters on players.
Need a way to disable broken items in-game, so they all just stop working. (E.g. when vorpal was instakilling everything due to a bug.)
Need a way to ban an entire subnet or IP addr range.
Need direct support for temp banishments.
Admin tools for designated players.
Deleting a character doesn’t delete their home.

Priority cloud/client infrastructure:

Will force an upgrade of the iOS client in a few days, as part of a mandatory backend migration I’m being forced into.
Have made progress on “Android requires GMail + Contacts Access” issue — should be solved in < 4 weeks.
Upgraded server to more expensive machine, which has reduced crashes to about 1x/day.
Still working on trying to extract crash logs from servers that die.
I have a support-ipv6 deadline from Apple on October 1st, need to figure something out.
Still trying to launch PC client this year, lots of work left to do.

Medium prio features:

add more builder mode stuff every now and then
“junk room” for donating items that can be used by new players. (no-sell, no-give, disappear-on-drop).
Appraising weapons should show what skill the weapon uses.
Have some high-level hostile monsters occasionally teleport to random player in same map.
Dart spells should go through allies.
Enchant tokens should stack.
Player-enchanted armor prices need an overhaul.
Change it so you cannot give gold across accounts, but can give crowns. Requires changes for enchanting and other services.
“eat all” command that eats any available food.
finish tail socks (have the artwork)
some way for archers to remote-target neutrals.
group members should overlap allied summons
add 3rd per-player event queue, just for firing
generate missiles with +durability (reduces loss-chance)
key ring (“bag” for keys)
lunchbox (“bag” for food)
artifacts need to be time-based.
cone spells should scale better with element skill
builder mode – set object layer
builder mode – can’t set map lighting level
option to turn off equip messages
stackable scrolls
autodrink
autoloot
RDs change music track every 10 levels
dual-wield skill
buff unpopular/useless skills (e.g. zoology turns animals into summons)
monster fight arena with persistent rankings
some way to auto-attack fleeing monsters
resist poison should reduce damage