Server Population Chart + New Site Developement

I'm officially announcing that I'm going to be slowly working on a new website layout. I've also got an... interesting little add-on that's quite spiffy: a server population chart. It records the population count every thirty minutes on the server (through an NPC, so if the server is offline it won't show zero players for an extended period), and a php script reads that data and displays it as a simple line graph. This is nothing super amazing, I just thought it was pretty neat. Anyways, here's a temporary link to it: chart. This is just temporary. It'll be integrated into the new website design, but I'm still just in the planning stages, so nothing definite yet.

New Control Panel

I haven't posted here in a long time... but I felt like posting about this in case someone stumbles upon our blog.

For about a month or two, I'd been working on a new Flux CP off and on to replace the old, limited Ceres CP. The new CP has a lot more features, and is a lot easier for me to work on to add or change something as needed. There's also room for expansion in the built-in functions like a new donation system that will automatically credit and account when a donation is made. This will require some testing whenever I can get around to it, and it's not like I'm getting so many donations that I can't keep up, but the update will make things easier for me. The problem is the system built-in to the CP doesn't use the same tables and formats as what we already have.

Well, I won't go into any more details about that for now, but the CP can be found here.

Staff Changes

Do to busy lives some of our staff haven't been able to be active or have had limited activity.

We would like to announce 2 staffing changes

First off I have now been promoted to Admin

Secondly we would like to congratulate Yuuki on becoming a new trial GM (one of her roles will be helping out with getting the RP up and running)

The full staff list can be found here

Been Awhile

Not sure what prompted me to make a new blog post, maybe just because it's been so damn long. Anyways, as there's been a lot since the last posting on here, I guess this update should be rather extensive... If that's what you're expecting, prepare to be surprised~

RP World Development

Since Oden announced it on the forums, I'm gonna go ahead and announce it here. There's an entire RP world under development for the server. I'm not gonna post all the details, as I'd just be repeating what he said, but you can see all the details on the forum post, and you can follow his development log on his blog page here, or under our Staff Blog links to the side of the page.

New Mob and New Wiki

The Ultima mob has now been finished and added. Still looking for maps to have the new FFTA mobs spawn, but I've heard good things about them from the people I've shown them off to.

I've also been working on a new wiki for the server, one that's hosted on the website. This is mostly because I absolutely hate the skin wikia forces everyone to use. It's ugly, wastes half the screen, and crams a ton of extra crap on the pages, giving the actual information very little room. You can find the new wiki here, or, if you still like the crappy old one, you can still find it here. The old wiki will no longer be updated, but all the old information is still there.

Next Up: Ultima

With the Malboro and Tonberry mobs finished, and clearly a huge success (especially Tonberry), I now turn my eyes to Ultima from FFTA. I've actually already completely finished the animation including sounds. All I have left to do is resize it and test it out. This boss is not to be confused with Altima from FFT.

After this enemy, I'll likely be adding in a Malboro King and Tonberry King, though they may end up with different names. I have two sets of palettes for both from the sprite sheets I used, but I doubt I'll be using the names they have: Big Malboro and Dingleberry. What kind of names are those? Out of all the possible names Square could have picked from their past games, THOSE are the names they went with?

Anyways, that's all I have to say at this time. There will likely be more custom mobs to follow after these, but I can't say for certain what they'll be. I'm gradually working up in difficulty, so probably not something too complicated.

Player Post: Yuuki's Challenge

Here's the first of our player posts: Yuuki's Forum Challenge.

Intro
HELLO KITRO! Yuuki/Rune here. For those who don’t know, I’m a member of the Support guild and one of my jobs as a member of the support guild is to hold events for everyone to enjoy. And for those who couldn’t already tell, I’m the top poster here on the forums. That being said, I’m here to hold an event and issue you a challenge! As a forum whore, I like to post and see a happy healthy forum, sadly, the forum is not quite that… That is why I’m here to issue the challenge!

Coming Soon: Tonberry

With the Malboro mob finished, it's time for me to start working on the next FFTA mob: Tonberry. I know a lot of people have been looking forward to this particular mob, and the Malboro was more of a test for me. It was easier to create than I thought, so I'll be working on the Tonberry mob in the next few days. It's more complicated than the Malboro, so it'll likely take me two or three days off and on.

New Mob Update

I've started working on the act for the new Malboro mob, and it's coming along nicely. I have everything but hurt and death animations finished, then I need to start working on the sounds. Shouldn't be too difficult, but it's kind of time consuming. Well, just thought I'd let everyone know my progress, and also know that the blog isn't quite dead.

I still need to enlarge the sprites, but I'll do that with the magnification function of the program.

New Mob Concepts

I've mentioned this briefly the other night, but I've started working on some new mobs for the server. I'll be making these from scratch, and it's not so easy making an act file, so it may take some time. For one, an act file cannot be made from scratch, it has to be editing from an existing file. Anyways, that's not the point of this post. The point is to show off what I'm working on =D Also, a size comparison with official graphics.

Now, down to the meat of it. I started this to make a Tonberry mob for the server, but also found decent sprites for a Malboro as well as a little somethin' else from FFTA: Ultima. If you've never played it, Ultima was a boss that consisted of several immobile crystals. Well, anyways, here's what I've got along side a player character and a basic-sized mob:



Obviously... they're a tad on the small size lol. Luckily, I can scale them up when I make the act files. Many more mobs to come if these turn out well.

Equipment Set Release

So hey, found this blogger app thanks to Nyamo, so now I can update when I'm away from the computer. Why am I updating away from the computer? Well that's none of your business mister =_=

Anyways, one last update about the new equipment sets: I've come up with what I think is a fair price and will be adding the sets in the morning. For those that don't know yet, they're all on the wiki. Just look at all the "themed" armor and their headgear for the effects. Also remember that many of the headgears are just placeholders, and I've been given some ideas already for replacements.

Well, that's about it for this update. Night.

Back in action :D

I know I haven't really been active with hosting events, and being on for the past few days. Now that all the stresses from school are finally off my back I shall be more active now. :)

Everyone don't forget to read the rules (found in the forums) and also don't forget to have fun!

Server Rules

Forum Rules

Also a new event~

Guess the Monster

If you have any questions, feel free to PM me ingame: Aesir Rika

or if I'm not online...

Add me to your Skype : Rikaax3

or PM me in the forums~

Have a nice day!

-Aesir Rika

Past Headgear Update

I finally added a bunch of the headgears belonging to the equipment sets that I've heard the players have been looking forward to getting. Some of the headgears are just placeholders and will be replaced with better looking sprites later on, but the sets should become available shortly.

New Gears

All the new items from last night's patch have been added to the wiki. Check the Armors and Weapons pages to see them. I think the most wanted right now is the new Novice equipment set. None of the new items are available yet, but hopefully I'll change that soon enough. Right now I'm working on card illustrations for the new set of cards added a week ago. I've got about half of them done already.

Blog Going Public

Not really sure what to say for my first post, but I gotta say something, huh? Well, me and Nyamo have been working on the blog since the other day when it was suggested on the Facebook group, and now it's about time we made it public. The staff will be making their own posts here at some point, and we'll try to keep this thing updated.

This isn't going to replace the forums, website, or anything like that, but it is a much simpler way to keep things up-to-date as I don't have to edit and upload the html files for the website every time I want to add/change something.

Our First Post

Welcome to the KitsuneRO Blog