T4C Development

Syluna

Moderator

Testing Progress, Stability Concerns, and Personal Insights

Testing Period and Status Update

The 15-day testing period will end on Sunday. Here's a brief progress update: Since Mestoph's latest fixes, testers have exclusively been using Althéa with this new client. Feedback has been positive, and very few new bugs have been reported. The last reported bug dates back to Monday.

Stability and Extension of the Testing Period

However, a stability issue persists: a client crash whose cause is difficult to identify. Testers are intensifying their efforts to pinpoint the causes of this crash. This issue forces us to postpone the originally scheduled end date of the test to Sunday. We prefer to extend this testing period by 15 days to address these remaining known issues.

A Personal Message

For this first publication on my behalf, I wanted to address you with a slightly more personal message. Most of you may not know me or have never heard of this pseudonym. I used to be a player on GOA (like many others) on Feyd-Ehlan, where I had some excellent moments. Like many, I was captivated by the richness of the game, and although the graphics weren't spectacularly 3D, the gameplay and building possibilities remain unique in the realm of video games.

This gaming experience inspired me to make it my profession, and here I am, a developer for a few years now. A few years ago, nostalgia for T4C led me to wander around Mémoria and then Neerya. What drives me today is to develop and improve things. Given that the development team prioritizes total transparency, I wanted to do the same. I had already tried to contribute to T4C in 2004/2005, but unfortunately, the experience I had with the team in place at the time didn't allow me to bring what I had hoped for. I'm not judging anyone by saying this; I'm simply sharing my feelings.

For a few weeks now, I've come across this updated website and the posts of a developer whom I knew by reputation. Their enthusiasm and the sharing of ongoing work have instilled in me a real passion for this project, led by a team that starts from scratch and doesn't just think about its own promotion. I contacted them via private message, we were able to exchange, and today I'm given the chance to prove myself to help this amazing team and the server development teams.

You may not realize the amount of work that has been done by the development team over the past few weeks. The foundations have been revisited on the client to start afresh. For example, a bug with checkboxes revealed code issues that required an 80% recoding to ensure everything now works correctly and optimally (within the limits of the graphics engine, of course). We commit to keeping you informed of the progress of the work as often as possible.

See you soon!