VKs Official Server - News

Hey nerds hope everyone is doing fine. What are you all up to nowadays? I am doing fine just working like usual. Either way wanted to give you all some short news. Here we go:

Vacation
I will start my vacation in the middle of next week and it will last until the mid of January. In that time I will be doing some more scripting probably.

New patch
A smaller patch is coming out next week. I was gonna do it this week but I thought I would take advantage of my vacation days and add a little more for it.

Bod 2
Due to budget reasons Bod 2 has been delayed another 5 years to 2030. But look at it in a positive manner, your kids will be able to experience bod with you at that point . But seriously though I am gonna try to get this shit done soon .

New Admin structure
With 5.6 released today, we changed the admin structure of the server and promoted a lot of people.

The ranks are as follows:

Manager & Forum Admin: Leaders of the management team and forum admins

Management: Leaders of server staff.

Experienced Server Admins: Experienced server admins with access to all admin commands.

Server Admins: Admins with access to /ban and /permaban.

Trial Admins: New people in training to the staff. Got access to /kick, /ajail and /mute. Some can have access to /tempban, but most don't.

With this new structure comes new admin rules and also badges by Umar. It's expected admins treat each other as well as the players with respect and provide a good environment in the server for everyone.

Promotions
DarkAbdo & DarkRazor: promoted to level 10.
Umar & Mo: Promoted to level 9
3more: Promoted to level 7.
Frozen: Promoted to level 5 (Level 4 doesn't exist

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Sorry for the delay
Patch 5.4 will most likely be released next weekend. It has approximately been 4 weeks since the last patch and I have to delay it to that time due to there being so much to test.

Why the patch is taking longer:
1. I added a variable system to properties so players can basically create anything they want now. There are some things missing from the system that I will add in terms of functions either this patch or the next depending on my time.
2. There is a database restructure to reduce the lag when DMing. I am not sure what the result will be on the VROcker host, but on my host the performance decreased by 90 %. While doing this I have to make sure everything works like it should.
3. There are a ton of suggestions and bug fixes that I wanted to get through.
4. There are scripts by Umar adding new amazing GUI features.

5. I need to moderate the forum.
6. Announce and do my events. The lottery answers will take some time as well.
7. I need to do my event …

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What is this topic?
It's basically me just giving you some news. I try to get to the point as fast as possible to not waste time and then go into more details for people who care.
Expect a lot of broken English and grammar mistakes. I don't usually review this topic. I just type what ever comes to mind and try to explain it the best way I can.

Next Update
For the next few days and since the release of 5.3 I have stopped making suggestions and bug fixes to finally improve the database. This involved completely re-making a database table to make the server faster where performance is as minimized as possible.

I've had great success doing that for the past few days. Decreasing performance by 10 times on the testing server (which is way slower than VRocker) so I am hoping the performance will be greatly increased there as well on VRocker.

The reason why servers like EU and LW is faster is because they had a solid building block they knew what they were gonna build. They could design …

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Like you guys know I like to make this topic just to repeat my plans and update you guys. I will keep it short so nerds can read it.

Patch 5.1
This patch will be released this Sunday 2020-03-08 at the latest.

Busy this weekend
The reason you didn't get it this weekend was because some family members stayed over and I didn't have time until sunday.


February scripting topic
As you know I posted this topic. Due to the delayed time in the release I have made 2-3 suggestions from there already. Will do a few more and finish the last testing this weekend. I will do the last testing this weekend plus a few more suggestions.


Future plans so far
Bod 2 most likely coming this summer. Not sure if I'll finish it on my summer break or before that.

I will be focusing on making suggestions and following up on those topics. Will also try to be more active on the server and talk to you guys more but I say that often.



That's pretty much it thanks for reading.



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Been a while since I've made any news. Well technically I made one last month but whatever.

Not dead
I'm not dead. I am still around. I still find it fun to script every now and then but I got a job now and it takes up a lot of time.

Bod 2
Bod 2 is still happening. I am scripting the end now and writing the end. I am taking my time with it. Will VC-MP be dead before then like many of you predict? Nah. No matter if VC-MP dies or not I'll still be able to script and at least release a video of it. But come on guys the whole VC-MP is dying thing started a million years ago. It's not dying. It will live in some way.

Bod 2 will get finished at least the writing for it will 100 %. But when that is I don't know. Bod 2 never releasing is turning into half life 3 xD. ¨

Holiday break
I also got a holiday break now during Christmas. I took out 5 days of vacation but I will get 10 days since a lot of holidays in our company is a free day as well.

New Forum Admin
Mason has been …

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New patch
There is a new patch in the work but it doesn't really have that much to be honest. 5.0 was a really big patch that took a lot of effort. The next patch will be 5.0.1, but its probably not going to be worth the 2 months wait.

Future
To be perfectly honest. I am currently out of ideas/directions for the server. Feels like I have kinda done everything there is just one thing left and it's bod 2. I get ideas to add more property commands. But I doubt a lot of people have many usages for them now. I am still gonna add them when i get ideas, because why not. There are a few coming up next patch.

Work
Apart from running out of ideas I also started working right now. I haven't worked on the patches as much. But I got some motivation to do it right now.

Trip
Going on a trip to stockholm next week on monday will be gone until friday for work. Will probably still have internet access.


Future scripts
The only direction I have left is bod 2. It's possible we will eventually …

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What's next
I will most likely release 5.0.1 at some point and continue to release small patches with more minigames you guys add.

Bod 2
I haven't scripted on bod 2 for probably a while thanks to 5.0. Eventually, I'm going to return to it and hopefully work on it side by side as I release smaller minor patches. Will it be done? Hopefully, it will be. More info on it in the future.

Future of the server
The playercount for the server has gone down not sure if its because people are joining other servers instead or gotten bored of VC-MP. It certainly doesn't help that the wiki is down as well. We still get 10-18 players at our peak though and I think it's mostly the peak that has decreased because the graph looks very similar otherwise. But once again I scripted this server when it had no players online for most of the time. I will hopefully always release patches. Not sure if any patch will ever be as big as 5.0, but I really want to get bod 2 out and that will be very big and …

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5.0
Patch 5.0 will most likely be released this weekend or the next one. I got some testing left to do and a few bug fixes to resolve. After that, I need to structure everything up into a patch update and make /propertyhelp that I'm sure no one uses anyway but I have it as a guide for commands. I am going to need the help of people to test it and prefer it to be admins or event staff members that I know or old people I know from my time. Hopefully, some people can help out.

It's gonna be a big one. I am pretty proud of this patch. I hope it is good. Sorry to release it like at the start of school year but it just turned out this way

After 5.0
After this patch, I will probably have some bug fixing to do, to be honest and will probably release 5.0.1.

Bod 2
I know a lot of people are excited about it and I, to be honest, am as well. Bod 2 is extremely big and final part to wrap everything up. I've made like the very first part a few weeks ago and had lots of fun. I am going to be …

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