NEaB Today

6 Mar, 2010

Every now and then I do receive this question on the chat. What will you do next Garg? I tend to avoid to answer it as I'm kinda butterfly when it's about working on some pieces of NEaB. There is multiple reasons why I work like that. One is that as NEaB is really huge, but still would require LOT of work to make it even better, I don't want to be bored and tend to choose either something which has an high impact or is fun to code. If the 2 conditions are met, then the better but it's rarely the case.

Yet, if I shall answer your question about what next, I would say we have a lot of work to do on the following areas:
- The chat is not yet 100% working and there is some glitches I should try to fix.
- The card game should really be reworked and Jones started some preliminary work on it.
- Clan PvP should be implemented at some point (not really that funny so it may get delayed).
- Try to solve some issues for new players not being able to see the game (so try to make it more fault resistant).
- Try to improve the pre-loaded and the skip pre-loader in case it is too slow.
- Add new monsters (up to level 1600).

As you see there is still a lot of things which could be improved... and this is really a small list of what could be actually done. So my never-ending list doesn't seems to reach any end point.

1 Mar, 2010

Even if not all is clearly working, the IRC chat is there for all. Sure some stuff need to be improved, or even yet ported to the new IRC chat, however a lot of work has been invested to make it a safe, stable, and friendly chat. From this move we gained the advantage of having an IRC compatible chat, which means any IRC client will do the trick, as well as the possibility to host IRC bots.

Also this move allows me to use the IRC client I'm working on, and share the workload across multiple projects.

New features from this move include:
- Infinite number of channels
- Better whisper / private messages handling
- Self written scripts for the chat
- Faster feedback
- Lighter on the server (as well on the network)
- Clan channels
- Channel topics

Things which are still missing:
- A good player info page
- Some handling for clan channels