Created
May 18, 2022 01:14 AM
Insiders Update
Why We’ve Been Quiet With Build/Ride Updates
- After toontown, started working on random spots, and a lot of things are being adjusted to fit together
- some rides are being slightly adjusted, some rides are being refurbished, some new rides
- Big rollout happening hopefully in the next few weeks
- Downtown disney and Retro have been put aside due to server events like April 1st and higher priorities
New Ride System
- Complete own ride system in the works, Moving away from public traincarts plugin (creates a lot of lag)
- Almost complete with having every ride work in the new system, just have to work out a few issues with animations
- Goal: by the end of 2022, traincarts will be gone entirely
- Pixar Pier Wheel will be released with it
- no swinging
- Armor Stands also creates a lot of lag
- Working on a solution to that as well
- Screen reliant rides (like Soarin, Smugglers, etc) will be done through physical sets
- Tried to use map animation and it was just no good
1.17/1.18
- NOT ABANDONED
- Major breakthrough: Solved and built a way to convert player inventories
- Once all rides on the new system, can confidently make the switch
- don’t want to make the switch while still using traincarts (and the lag that comes with it)
Quests
- How it’s made
- whole concept from brainstorming to output is about a month
- people that write, build, test, etc
- Quests planned for summer and beyond
- Questbook released! /q
- Daily Quests in the works
- DVC+ will have more daily quests
- June will have Pride Month Quests
- Beginners Quest for new guests
Parties
- New commands based on a thread!
- /Party Promote - let people invite other members
- /Party Leader
- /Party list will show who can add people to the party
- Open parties - 3 levels
- Friends, closed, open to all
- Party AFK notifications
- party mutiny???
Clubs/Guilds
- Permanent parties
- Limited to 1 club
- What features would you want? (Open thread to guests)
- Not sure how many people will be allowed in a club
- Will put out a #questions thread when clubs are further in development to get some more feedback! Be on the lookout
Balance
- Item Tiering
- Team of staff went through items and gave everything a rarity
- Updating pricing based on that rarity
- Shops
- changing how shops work
- Makes it easier for new guests to find items
- Goal: Shop per land, and when visiting that shop, has a global view of all shops
- Sorting, filters, etc
- certain shops will still only be in those sections (not in global)
- food shops will be excluded
- Larry Lockers’ Price will drop to be a little more friendly
- Will send refunds of the difference to the people who already bought them
- Will be sometime in the next month (want to do everything in one big go)
- Richie Rank’s price will be increasing to make it more accurate
- he will no longer be a scam
- Rank Notes
- it’s own item now (have nice icons)
- Rank Notes now expire after 90 days
- will expire even if on the market
- 90 days from yesterday, all legacy notes will expire
- Can be sold to Richie even if it’s expired
Item signing
- wanted to make it cleaner by only having it in the book, but we realized people enjoyed signatures on items
- When a character signs your item it will also automatically go into your book
- Strictly 1 item per person per visit
Longer purchase ranges for DVC+
- Playing around with it
- 3 month, 6 month, 1 year
- Currently an issue with the store, will be reintroduced once fixed
- Will not make it a permanent rank
Walle Well
- His well has raised 10 million kingdom coins, now what?
- All 1,500 who donated get some prize
- Top 3 donators will get a custom item of their choosing
- Participation Awards to all:
- Some prize that will not be revealed yet
- Lounge Pass - only way to enter the Private Lounge
- Magic Crate, maybe exclusive shop items, etc
- Will be able to sell/trade the pass
- If Pass is in your inventory (not locker or storage item) you can enter
- Releasing pretty Soon(TM)
Hotels
- Everyone wants them but in different ways, need to figure out how to satisfy all
- Not off the table, some things built for it, long-term project
- Longer than Soon(TM)
Events
- Pride Event! (Pride Parade, Staff Pride Tour??)
- Summer Events
- Event like the winter/halloween event?
- event tokens, things to unlock
- Your input: https://discord.com/channels/876704684855926806/976320410314498106/976320413040783450
Toys
- Moon Knight Toy Video pinned in meeting chat
- Advanced Toy settings in /settings
- Turned off by Default, toggle ability to see the more disruptive toy effects
- Boba Fett Jetpack
Storage Items
- Will be able to name storage items soon (will be released with next newswire?)
- Loungeflies will have 3 item slots
- Prices will rise
- Old loungeflies can be upgraded for a fee
- New loungeflies cannot be put in storage containers (no nesting), old loungeflies can
Moe Keys
- He’s back, with a spot on Main Street!
- The Night Market system will be used with Moe (the 4 slots on the right)
Questions
- Do you know the date for the next Newswire?
- hahaha no
- More Country Pins?
- If you don’t see the country you want, make a suggestion! We made the original countries based on the amount of players on the server, and slowly have been expanding from there
- Will not give away DVC
- Will not have an NFT collection
- Meet and Greet Server/Hub scrapped, felt that it is already more integrated and better experience to do it in the parks
- Can we have more ___ items?
- Maybe! Highest priority is rides and map items, then it’s what Mouske is into and willing to make
- Make suggestions on the discord!
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