Warhammer Online Daily News: 2/24/2009

[DarkGreenLord-WHA]

News on the WAR Front today is in plenty. Information on what's on the test server, new video blogs by Paul Barnett, and even something for the role players.

News from the Herald

• Public Test Server Online Character copy is working as well so get those characters transferred and ready for the 1.2 Zone Domination test tonight.
• Immediate Server Restart - Multiple Servers Phoenix Throne and Iron Rock were brought down for a quick restart to resolve issues players were experiencing with Guild Heraldry displaying properly. All should be working properly now.
• Account Center Update (directly from the Herald) Some remaining billing issues have been resolved. We're continuing to correct additional issues with the Character Transfer service and hope to have them resolved quickly.
  
  We apologize for any impact this may have had on your service. Thank you!
  
  
  Update - 2:55 PM EST: The Account Management Center is available again.

Straight From the Source

Throw us Role Players a Bone from the official forums, James answers a role player's plight:

Hey all,
Spoke to our animators, we're working to get additional emotes like /sit, kneel, sleep etc.

There are some technical snags that cause unwanted bugs (such as sleeping while fighting O_o) and we have to continue to iron them out from an engineering side of things.

We'll continue to work to add in actual animations to go with /slash commands but it requires a lot of time and energy to get it built in to every race1ff8 and model.

Look forward to more sneaking in overtime as we get them done, thanks all

So looks like the animators have been working on some additions to the emotes and animations. Good to know.

Around the Net

Paul Barnett on Youtube today goes over two lists he's been given the assignment to create at his developer conference; Historically Significant Games Designers Should Know and Games that Deveoplers Should Currently Be Playing. This was done to show the various aspects of design.

Anyhow, historically went from Zelda to Brainage to Starfox, and have to agree with most of them. The should be category had something from almost every genre from Rock Band 2 to Street Fighter IV. The only blaringly lacking category was an MMO...guess he must be saving that for WAR.

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Taiwan prepares for WAR as presented by the lovely and talented Carrie Gouskos, a resident Tweeter.

That's all for today, for now...

[Vanskapt]

I was looking forward to playing with the devs tonight, but the character transfer/copy deal isn't working... could just be something on my end though, because i haven't seen a herald post. Or it's getting hit with a lot of traffic. Either way, i hope everyone has fun with it tonight. Can't wait to read people's reactions tomorrow.

[DarkGreenLord-WHA]

FYI, from James:

Hey all,

The Character Copy system still has some bugs from our most recent update. We apologize for these setbacks and should have them resolved tomorrow morning.

We'll continue to work until they're cleared up as soon as possible. Sorry to those of you have were unable to come out tonight. If your character on PTS shares the same name as the character you're attempting to copy you may want to try deleting the character on PTS. While this does not work in all cases it may help others with the issue.

Thank you!

Source

[Bird]

I think the next WHA poll should ask if people are happy with there server, with all the recent server transfers going on... I guess Mythic thinks we need to move around unfilitered.

[Yip]

Thank god sleep emote finally the important stuff since running around with animation with responsiveness that feels like 400ms ping isnt costing you subscribers.

[Devrak]

Originally Posted by DarkGreenLord

• Public Test Server Online Character copy is working as well so get those characters transferred and ready for the 1.2 Zone Domination test tonight.

Any idea when EU players will be able to transfer their characters to the PTS?

Originally Posted by Yip

Thank god sleep emote finally the important stuff since running around with animation with responsiveness that feels like 400ms ping isnt costing you subscribers.

I LOL'd.

[Goldenheart]

Originally Posted by Yip

Thank god sleep emote finally the important stuff since running around with animation with responsiveness that feels like 400ms ping isnt costing you subscribers.

Wow, because the Animations team is also the Server stability team. /sarcasm.