FallenSwordIRC

Well, christmas has come and gone, and the new year is here! So, the question becomes, what shall we do with it?

Here at fsirc we have tried lots of tweaks and toys, everything from customised sigs to AI stat analysis, some things worked and some things didn’t.  We also spent a lot of time before christmas performing significant upgrades to the technology that runs everything, and now we are left with a good stable platform we can expand on… but how to expand?

This is where we need a little feedback, what do you want to see improved upon or re-implemented?  what toys have you seen that you liked and want to see more of?  feel free to leave a comment and let us know where to head.

not sure what we mean?  well, how about some ideas…

• RSS feeds of your player log, guild log, other things, the titan log…
• IRC stat updates.  when is your stam going to be full, is there a titan on the loose, AH searches…
• Bamboo laptops so that pandas can come on to irc…
• Channels for other HCS games, gothador, sigmastorm…
• Databse Tools.  Automatically search for a best set for a set of stats, compare items, find sets based on gold price, fsp price, holiday specials, common drops etc…

I’m sure you guys get the idea, so go wild, see what you can come up with!

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Yay!  it’s back up folks, it looks like someone fed the hamsters powering the database server and the game is back up and running.  Admittedly, it is a little slow right now, but that’s expected, it takes a little while for the datbases to get up to speed and for the caches to refill.  Bear with it, it’ll be back up to fll speed before you know it.

Have Fun!

That’s right folks, the game is down again.  Unfortunately, it looks like one of the hamsters powering the database server went crazy and ran off to seville for the weekend.   Still,  Whilst you are waiting, you can always come and chat.

Well, it would seem i haven’t updated in a whole week!

As much as I would like to say shanina has been keeping me busy, unfortunately the truth is much less exciting.

I’ve pretty much been working, standing beside bonfires in the rain, watching fireworks and throwing myself into an awesome fsapi xmlrpc server design, which is going to be the backbone of the shiny new services I keep promising.  With a little luck and a following wind, i’ll be able to get some interface details up onthe labs this week and we can see what we can do with it

Well, as expected the halloween event is live!  And the lag is live too

The event is actually pretty easy, two quests, one for level 15 and one for level 150.  You can find them in Mountain Path, down in the bottom right at 20,16.  That’ll take you right on into Oidhche Shamhna.  Once there, head up to the top left (9,5) for the entreance to the Frightning Fort, or to the middle right (20,12) for the Horrifying Haunt.

The Quests are pretty easy, and I was planning a nice little writeup of both, but unfrotunately life intervenes and I just spent the last five hours dealing with work crap, so good luck on those quests (they are pretty easy), and don’t eat all the candy at once!

Good lord what a week! Between work, shanina and the auction house I’ve hardly had a moment to spare.

Slowly but surely things are coming together. We now have a very shiny help section which, whilst incomplete, should be finished off over this weekend… if i can scrape up enough motivation to write all the help files.

We also have the labs up and running, it’s pretty bare at the moment but over the next week I’ll be migrating the development over to the labs so we can work on things there and hopefully get a little feedback from you guys.

stay tuned folks, strange things are afoot!

ZidaneT

Groovy Code Monkey

Ok…  well, it’s been up a day and i needed something to post, so here goes…  i just finished fiddling and ran a stress-test on the webserver…

Requests per second:    1913.75 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       2.613 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.523 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

Oh yeah baby.  With a little tinkering, the website is now capable of serving 1913 pages every second. One thousand, nine hundred and thirteen pages per second baby!… Not bad, even if i do say so myself.

Feel free to tell me how awesome i am, and with any luck i’ll have the dev labs up soon (so people can see, and take part in, the funky stuff we are working on behind the scenes).

Well, here it is folks.  No more orange and brown, yay!

Since so many of you complained about the vomit coloured website, we have a shiny new one.  It’s powered by WordPress, which is proving itself to be very shiny indeed, and some rather awesome custom plugins I had to write to get all the IRC stuff wedged in here.  check out the ever-so-stylish chat/stats/qdb!

The new format and software means that I can keep you up-to-date on the various things i have planned and you have requested, like fsweb and the api.  With a little luck and a following wind, it will enable us to have some of our more experienced players and chatters to be able to post their own peices.

So, feel free to poke around, leave comments and generally make a nusciance of yourself.  Please keep it clean though, i really dont want to have to spend all day moderating comments….