This is very, very important. Every player should familiarize themselves with the 2.5 cutover process, as 2.0 is going away. 2.5 is not optional.
I do not know what the exact date will be, but it's coming up very fast here. We're rolling forward 2.0 changes, fixing a few last crash bugs we know about, then we're gonna try it. As I mentioned, it will be rough, and we ask your patience.
ALL PLAYERS NEED TO READ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
Before 2.5 Do's
Finally, please stay current on the FAQ. This will be critically important going forward:
https://shardsofdalaya.com/forum/threads/2-5-faq.29910/
By the gods, we're literally at the door now! Can't wait.
-t
I do not know what the exact date will be, but it's coming up very fast here. We're rolling forward 2.0 changes, fixing a few last crash bugs we know about, then we're gonna try it. As I mentioned, it will be rough, and we ask your patience.
ALL PLAYERS NEED TO READ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
Before 2.5 Do's
- Do set up a copy of 2.5. Do it now. If you run into issues, it will be WAY easier to help you now rather than once we're live and there are 50,000 things going on. See the FAQ (bottom of this page) for details on how, but a quick summary is: copy your 2.0 folder, get the new patcher from https://shardsofdalaya.com/patcher25/sodpatcher.exe and patch the game. Make sure you can launch it - as long as you can get to server select (even if it's down), your game works.
- Do check your AAs and Tomes on Fomelo. We will be using this tool primarily to handle discrepancies at go-live.
- Do join #25Testing in IRC to ask 2.5-specific questions
- Do ask Taryth's Little Helper in cities in 2.0 and 2.5 (when I get him placed) about 2.5 questions.
- Do consider testing in-game to see how it works. The client changes are significant. You need to re-buy AAs and set up your UI. This takes time.
- Don't wait until the last minute to get set up. Staff resources will be extremely limited come go-live.
- Don't ask questions that have been answered many times before. Check out the FAQ: https://shardsofdalaya.com/forum/threads/2-5-faq.29910/. Not to be a dick, but if you ask something that has been answered in the FAQ, we will just ignore it. I'm sorry to be a knob, but we just don't have the bandwidth, that's why I made a FAQ.
- Don't complain in 2.0 public channels about how something in broken. IRC/forums are the place to get things resolved.
- Don't petition 2.5 issues in 2.0.
- Do make sure your inventory looks accurate. If something is missing, /petition it and we will get it ASAP. If you say nothing is in your bags, we will close the ticket and yell to look at the FAQ - this is the most frequently asked question (hint: click Experiment and/or set the Right Click Tradeskill option in Alt-O)
- Do verify your AA count. There is a chance there will be a discrepancy - please let us know if this happens. Don't panic, we can resolve it.
- Do check to make sure your spells and everything else are present. I suggest testing them out of significant combat to make sure you are aware of any problems.
- Do /bug issues you encounter. We will be setting up a "common bugs" post upon going live - we ask you check there to make sure you're not reporting an already well-documented issue, but I'd rather have the report than not.
- Do petition things that require immediate attention. For example, missing items, critical mobs malfunctioning, dupes, zone crashes you caused, usual petition issues like disputes, etc. If it's something you think needs correction right now, petition and we'll figure out if it's a now-or-later issue.
- Don't have more than 2 boxes. As soon as we're live, the 2-box rule is in effect.
- Don't exploit broken stuff. If you accidentally found an exploit, please report it, you won't get in trouble. If you intentionally exploit it and don't tell us, you will lose the loot and may be jailed/banned depending on the severity. Take this seriously. Protect yourself, report exploits. Please. It makes for a better game.
- Don't repeatedly attempt to reproduce crash or dupe issues. You can retry something that may crash a zone if no one else is in there, otherwise it's just disruptive. Only reproduce a dupe if a dev/GM has given you permission to do so. We will be doing periodic dupe sweeps, I don't want this to be a problem. Dupes and crashes are definitely petitionable.
- Don't petition things that don't need a resolution right away. Examples include not being able to complete a quest you're working on, mundane mobs misbehaving, etc. That's a perfect time to use /bug.
- Don't clog up /ooc and other public channels with gripes. If you have a problem that players might know, great, ask away. But saying "man this sucks" is not helpful and makes it harder to sort stuff out. It's going to suck in the short term, everyone knows this, no need to aggravate the situation. If it's a matter that staff can help with, ask!
- Don't send direct tells to staff unless they say it's ok. Sadly we're going to be very busy I predict, and thus we can't be as open as we sometimes are. This will get better with time, just please understand we're swamped.
- Don't do things on 2.5 you wouldn't do on 2.0 with respect to rules. The rules have not changed.
- Don't complain about UI issues unless it's the default UI. We don't have time to debug peoples' UIs, if you use something custom, you're on your own.
- Don't talk about how 2.0 was better. It's very disheartening to put in years worth of work and hear stuff like that. 2.0 is not better. 2.5 just needs to stabilize, which will likely take a couple of months. Our goal is to get people playing and used to the new systems, not have everything at 100% on day 1.
Finally, please stay current on the FAQ. This will be critically important going forward:
https://shardsofdalaya.com/forum/threads/2-5-faq.29910/
By the gods, we're literally at the door now! Can't wait.
-t
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