Blog entries moving

From this point forward all progress of our shard will be available only on the forums.
Direct link to the thread: http://www.pangaea-world.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=34

And for those who haven't registered to the forums:
1) Register with your desired username and password
2) Keep an eye on the front page of the forum, when your name appears to the bottom where it says: "Our newest member.." then you can login with the details you entered.

If you receive error while registerating, you don't need to register again, we can activate the account even if you receive error.
Do not register twice.

See you on the forums.

House system + more!

Hey folks, been a few weeks since our last news release. Well in that time we have come a long ways with alot of the systems that are going to be present on Pangaea - New Age. Right now we will say that were pretty well into the house system and are coming up with some neat features that may solve alot of problems faced with Pangaea 1.

Namely putting carpenters to use! We are giving them an assortment of goodies to craft that makes not only decorating your house enjoyable, but functional as well. Such as exclusive chests that secure ingots or hides with weight limits to handle such large and heavy items while not encumbering your limits in chests for other things important too you. And a new and innovative way to decorate your homes that makes it not only more roleplayish to do, but less buggy and easier to move things around.

Then comes a patented "Friend/Domain" system which we will save the juicy details for your imaginations to wander! A more efficient and better coded limit to how much land a player can have per account, with the mathematical formula so streamlined and easy, even YOU could figure it out!!!

This is all being done while the rumored and very comprehensive Mayor/Faction system is being thought out. All of which will be tied together to form a close knit of gaming and roleplaying opportunities for you to experience!

Class sytem

The class sytem is finally done. I did put more time on it for future module I will need to complet in a near future. It is currently being tested and bugs will be fixed immediatly.

I will now start working on the housing system.

Update your bookmarks!

kontrol set up today a forum to our new domain:
http://www.pangaea-world.net/forum/ - is now functioning with phpBB3.
Welcome.

Commenting on the blog

I know it's a bit late, but, meanwhile the new forum is raising - I changed the settings here in the blog so that everyone can leave a comment to the messages. Before it was only those who have account on google.com.

Website purchased

We now own http://www.pangaea-world.net ! Please keep checking everyday to see when it is back up and the new forums are ready for your spamming of how you missed us!

See you all very soon!

Some backup

Hi,

Searching my personal HD today I found the website database, and we still have the latest website files. So in fact we didn't loose anything, as we were about to switch the forum to the newest phpbb.

We searched for website hosts, and we found 2 that would be perfect for our needs. No worries, this time these hosts are very reliable.

Patience

We are still working on a website domain. We have yet to have a real meeting since the downfall of needhost due to the holidays. We assure you now that the seasons are over we are going to get together and salvage what we can and get something up asap so that you all might contact us, and tell others where the new website is located.

Until then please be patient.

Needhost.dk out of business

It has come to my attention that the needhost.dk webhosting site has gone out of business! Apparently there is no way of getting our information and database back from them.

We will work on getting a new domain name asap with our forums and website back up. Until then wait patiently..

Merry Christmas :)

Enjoy your Christmas lads and gals.
Stay tuned for more updates to the upcoming #1 UO shard, let's keep the spirit alive.

- Pangaea Staff

Website down?

It has come to my attention that the website and forum seemsdown. I currently cannot explain it, but I have doubts it has something to do with the international internet lines that were cut last week. When I will have more detail I will inform you. If something happened to our web publisher we will simply move and buy a new one.

Armors peak

To keep you interested meanwhile we work our ass off (*grins*) here's one of the armors we decided to take into use. There will be some interesting things for many professions, which are achieved only through a quest and gives some kind of speciality to the class. Stat boost, extra spell, special weapon strike etc, something unique. But I won't reveal more at this point.

Armor restrictions are soon done, but I'm sure kontrol will post more details about it soon.

Class system - Updates

So here's few updates.

After a small break, I continued the class system. The class themselves and the GuildMasters are done. So I'm now working on the class armor restrictions, which shouldn't take much time.

After the armor restriction, I'll start coding the spells and books and or the housing system depending on what we have done on spells design. So it is the time to keep posting your spells idea.

Update on several issues

It's been a while since we have wrote here again, but it doesn't mean we haven't been developing/planning the shard. So lads, here's a update what we're currently working/planning with:
- Towns (how many, what type etc.).
- Basic idea of religions.
- Kingdoms (yes, there will be two different kingdoms, beside that you can choose to live as rogue leisure, more about that later).

Seraph also announced few days ago that the new forum (phpbb3) with the website design will come pretty soon, when the guy who designed the website has time to do it.

Custom spell designing started also few days ago, and will proceed.

On top of that, the assassin class (unique features) is under the task aswell.

I'll post a new version of the map when we have final decision of the amount, style and locations of the towns.

- Staff

Back on track

Ohoy.
We all had busy week last week so nothing fancy didn't really happen. I finished one work project which earned me some cash, and now I have time to continue on the map again.

We will hold a voice meeting with all staff members presented this week where we will decide some important general matters concerning the shard which haven't been fully decided yet.
We'll release a short report of the meeting here to keep you updated on the issues we think you need to know about.

Class system

It's going pretty well. Baseclasses are now working, and classes are almost done along with guildmasters. What's left here is to create the classes templates based on our design. And of course testing.

Skills adjustements/modifications and gainrates will be adjusted in the future, when I will review most of RunUO code to remove or comments most of the OSI stuff we do not want on Pangeae.

When I'm done with classes, I will probably start creating the spells. We estimated around 80-90 custom spells to create. We will redesign most of the spells creating totally new spells. We will take some of the good ones from Pangeae and rest will come from our ideas.

I will create posts for each classes spells, so if you ever dreamed of a class casting a spell you think about, it will be time to ask so. Remember, balance :)

New Age continents arising

Here what I promised, very first version of fully customized map.
It's just a peek, and version 0.01. But basic idea is seen; two bigger continents + islands, bigger and smaller.
You can probably hint something out of this.. or not! Time will tell. ;)

Welcome GM Mitzy!

Warm welcome to GM Mitzy for joining Pangaea - A New Age staff. Both a longtime GM/admin on former Pangaea with experience in many fields with respect and loyalty from her peers, we expect her to help us rise to the top with her unique perspectives and ambitions.

Base classes

I'm done implementing base classes. When you first create a character, you are send to a room, where you have to use the Character creation book. There you will choose your base class, your stats, and your starting skills. Most like you are used to.

Next step is implementing the classes themselves. Don't forget if you wish to see any changes to some classes skills, it is the time to propose them.

Currently I didn't touch the gain rates for the class systems, but will be one of my next task after classes.

All roads lead to the core

That's it. I tought I could avoid this solution for the whole project but It seem I'v reach a limit I wasn't aware of. No worry, that doens't mean RunUO is less flexible than we said, I'm just trying to do something they didn't think we would do. Also having the possibility to makes to modification to the core is great, as it give us even more flexibility.

I could have avoided this solution, but if I wanted the code to run the fastest as I could and avoid buggy bottleneck, I had to mod it. Only downside is when there will be new release, if we want to update, I will probably need to recompile the core manually and replicating my modifications. But well, if I can modify it, I guess that's an easy task isn't it?

Browsing the armors

Today I went through the all possible armor graphics there exist and made screenshot of them so we can decide what to use and what not. There were some pretty cool ones and some pretty ugly ones, but I'm sure you can expect some "new" armor graphics to be used.

Map progress

I have found a way to draw map with Photoshop, convert it and run there on my test shard.
Map is now progressing and next task is to draw the continents, shorelines and then try to find the bugs.

I will post a picture of it lateron. Keep coming here on regular basis.

Class system

Class system base structure is currently under the task of the staff. Basicly it follows the Pangaea 1 structure but there will be tweaks, fixes additions and secrets to ensure better working system where all classes are more useful and fun to play.
More info follows - stay tuned.

Pangaea blog published

Official blog of the developement of Pangaea - New Age is opened.
We decided this is easiest way to keep you updated of our progress with the RunUO shard, known as Pangaea 2 or more officially Pangaea - New Age.

We will publish here most of our tasks, but don't expect us to reveal even nearly everything what is meant to be explored in the game itself when it's open.

We wish you patience on the developement since it's going to be huge job, alot of customization will be done, but that's because we wish to ensure you unique and fun gaming experience but also preserve carefully the Pangaea - feeling as you know it.

- Pangaea Staff: Seraph, Monad, kontrol, Argon.