Why does everything take so long?

[Wolfie]

It's been 6 months since the game was released, and ~3 months since the new developer lead has come in, and the game's development still moving at a snail's pace.

Monster redesigns involved increased size, when most complaints were that they had boring designs.

Combat effect redesigns involved, again, increased size of the effects, when most complaints were that the effects were boring and too similar to one another.

The devs are still investigating how to implement jump/AH, and their effects. Really? You can come up with a workable database schema for an AH in less than a day, and the queries and services to add or remove entries in less than an hour. Why is this taking so long?

There have been NO new levequests introduced, and the side quests that were introduced are extremely basic, light on lore, and few in number. Is anyone even writing lore for this game?

Devs still investigating map collision for getting hung up on ledges?

Market Ward search is still elementary and not flexible. Seeking items is still extremely difficult to work with.

Why does everything take so long? What's taking up all the dev's time?

[Jennestia]

They're redesigning the game, that won't be done quickly. They already stated they won't introduce content till they get the foundation fixed. Increase sizes = better display of detail which is basically adding in groundwork for the future, as they again mentioned. It takes longer to redesign a game than it does to create one initially.

They aren't investigating how to implement jump/an AH, they're investigating if it's even worthwhile to implement. The Market Ward search is the same basic search system AHs uses.

Since you feel you can come up with an AH schematics in less than a day, create the outline, create the code, setup a server and give us access to a virtual one so we can play with it to see how a "day's work" pan out.

Go.

[Corrderio]

^ This

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[Wolfie]

Since you feel you can come up with an AH schematics in less than a day, create the outline, create the code, setup a server and give us access to a virtual one so we can play with it to see how a "day's work" pan out.

Go.

Hi.

http://24.192.254.74/ffxivah

Although I can't prove it to you, it took me 5 hours to set up this server, which included assembling the hardware, installing LAMP, accounts, services, etc.

The page you see there took me 30 minutes to come up with, using JQuery/JQuery UI. It's not hooked up to a backend DB, but I have a MySQL database set up with tables for different item categories, such as "weapons" or "cloth-head"

It looks like this:

Database ffxivah
Table structure for table Weapons
Field
Type
Null
Default
Comments
MIME type
Name
text
No



Quality
int(11)
No



Optimal Rank
int(11)
No



Seller
text
No



Price
int(11)
No



Time Ends
datetime
No



ALC
tinyint(1)
No



ARC
tinyint(1)
No



ARM
tinyint(1)
No



BSM
tinyint(1)
No



BOT
tinyint(1)
No



CRP
tinyint(1)
No



CON
tinyint(1)
No



CUL
tinyint(1)
No



FSH
tinyint(1)
No



GLA
tinyint(1)
No



GLD
tinyint(1)
No



LNC
tinyint(1)
No



TAN
tinyint(1)
No



MRD
tinyint(1)
No



MIN
tinyint(1)
No



PUG
tinyint(1)
No



THM
tinyint(1)
No



WVR
tinyint(1)
No

[Paksenarrion]

^awesomeness.

[Elexia]

Hi.

http://24.192.254.74/ffxivah

Playing around with this it lacks full functionality of a simulation, which I believe was meant by "virtual AH to play with" as in we're able to "buy" and "sell" and populate the list, anyone can make a shell "in minutes", but full functionality, as well as throwing it into an MMO isn't just a "day's work".

[TonyMontana]

It's been 6 months since the game was released, and ~3 months since the new developer lead has come in, and the game's development still moving at a snail's pace.

Monster redesigns involved increased size, when most complaints were that they had boring designs.

Combat effect redesigns involved, again, increased size of the effects, when most complaints were that the effects were boring and too similar to one another.

The devs are still investigating how to implement jump/AH, and their effects. Really? You can come up with a workable database schema for an AH in less than a day, and the queries and services to add or remove entries in less than an hour. Why is this taking so long?

There have been NO new levequests introduced, and the side quests that were introduced are extremely basic, light on lore, and few in number. Is anyone even writing lore for this game?

Devs still investigating map collision for getting hung up on ledges?

Market Ward search is still elementary and not flexible. Seeking items is still extremely difficult to work with.

Why does everything take so long? What's taking up all the dev's time?

100% agree.

[TonyMontana]

Playing around with this it lacks full functionality of a simulation, which I believe was meant by "virtual AH to play with" as in we're able to "buy" and "sell" and populate the list, anyone can make a shell "in minutes", but full functionality, as well as throwing it into an MMO isn't just a "day's work".

This is one guy doing this in 5 hours, you mean to tell me if the SE devs divided up the work and really REEEALLY wanted to they couldnt give us a functioning AH in a week? I think they could. Blizzard would be able to do it.

[Paksenarrion]

This is one guy doing this in 5 hours, you mean to tell me if the SE devs divided up the work and really REEEALLY wanted to they couldnt give us a functioning AH in a week? I think they could. Blizzard would be able to do it.

Even though I'm not a fan of Blizzard, I have to say. I agree. This one dude did this much in 5 hours. That's not even a full day at work in Japan.

[Elexia]

This is one guy doing this in 5 hours, you mean to tell me if the SE devs divided up the work and really REEEALLY wanted to they couldnt give us a functioning AH in a week? I think they could. Blizzard would be able to do it.

I believe the original statement was it's less than a days work, not within a week's time.