[Dev 1024] Linkshell Administration Options

[Rhianu]

Huh? I quit long ago, but im not one to have just 1 game in my life. I play several...

I come here to look for a glimmer of hope this game can do anything but then I real the same old bullshit excuse "just wait longer its too hard!" for the most basic of things. It makes me laugh that SE struggle on such things.

I think you're underestimating how long game development actually takes. Try actually making a game yourself, and see how fast YOU can make even basic things.

Anyways I started a thread on the JP side a while back about the LS crest and I linked that image before after asking on this side that had that image on one of the threads and had some feedbacks in there but I don't think the reps responded to that one. Here: http://goo.gl/Y2otL

Oh wow, I had no idea you posted that! Thanks! ^_^

I'm kind of hesitant to ask, but I would really like to know what those people thought about my mockup image. But if you don't have time or don't want to translate all that, I understand.

[viion]

I think you're underestimating how long game development actually takes. Try actually making a game yourself, and see how fast YOU can make even basic things.

Oh I didnt know it was 1 man, on his own, without a previous mmo experience, degrees, money etc building XIV. But it would explain why its so poorly created!

So a stupid comment to even try compare...

SE has money, it has lots of employees on XIV, it has people with experience, working on it for years, specialing on specific things and they cant even do what most indie developers do in a extremely short time. Hell build the tools correctly and you shouldnt have problem but they cant even do that. So sad that SE skill and expertise lacks that of non-gaming "professionals" communities.

And I could probably make a guild like system in a very short time with any current *DK that exceeds in what SE have or even plan to do. Its not a 3d physics engine when making crud lists...

[AmyRae]

SE has money, it has lots of employees on XIV, it has people with experience, working on it for years, specialing on specific things and they cant even do what most indie developers do in a extremely short time. Hell build the tools correctly and you shouldnt have problem but they cant even do that. So sad that SE skill and expertise lacks that of non-gaming "professionals" communities.

And I could probably make a guild like system in a very short time with any current *DK that exceeds in what SE have or even plan to do. Its not a 3d physics engine when making crud lists...

But could you make one that fits within the limitations of PS3's memory while the rest of the game is running, one that works in 4 languages, that plugs into the auto-translate feature, that won't crash ever, but if it did, wouldn't take down the whole client or the whole server? Oh, and the linkshell needs to be extremely efficient at referencing a database filled with millions of characters in order to send all chat messages to all connected linkshell members server-wide because even the slightest delay could result in someone not getting an important message during an LS event in time. Oh, and you have to deal with unresponsive clients that are lagging so make sure your messaging can handle that. Make sure to make a graphically sound user-interface for administrative tasks that's easy to understand and works well with a mouse, keyboard, and/or controller. Oh, and it has to plug into an as-of-yet non-existent player search function so you can run some administrative tasks through it as well.

And oh, by the way, this thing has to manage hundreds of linkshells across every server, so make sure there aren't any bugs in it whatsoever? Because, that would be catastrophic and unacceptable to the players. I mean, like, how hard could it be, amiright?

Do you understand there's more involved here than writing a simple program that organizes a list?