Ready?

[Ramsey]

First off; Oru, ultyma, and TheAnswer deserve a BIG /hug for their work on Core3.

It's been an extremely frustrating, but fruitful day. I would like to remind those that still require technical assistance for their client to REREAD all guides posted on the forum, and ask for help inside topics on the forum BEFORE coming on IRC. IRC is NOT a live support center.

As some of the testers know, Core3 was plagued by disconnection bugs. One of which was fixed after ult constantly pestered Oru to fix :p But for the most part they have done a WONDERFUL job in building core3 to be a worth successor to our previous core.

Tonight we were able to get an enormous amount of people to help stress Core3 in preperation for the still TENTATIVE stress test on the 16th. It was common to see 21,000 bytes being sent out at one time just to sync a single client with the sheer number of people that were on the server in the same area. I personally believe core3 will hold up this friday, but let the shots do the talking ;)

http://swgemu.com/shots

THANK YOU to StarwarsFreak for taking some of the high rez shots seen in shots 4,5, and 8.

[Ekaika]

/hug

Don't know what to say. Logging in from Hawaii. NO lag, NO DC's. Maxed settings, 40 lightsabers flailing away.

Thanks guys, that was amazing.

Holy **** = Ekaika Forge (representing for posterity :) )

[Taaack]

/hug x2

[Gizmo]

Ran FANTASTIC! - Hardly any lag at all!


>.> - I see me.

[Smusatto]

Nice job guys. <3

[Naveed]

worked awesome no lag to speak of 1 disconnect better performance than the original. great job guys!!

[SqUiShEe]

Great news guys, keep up the great work

Its funny, I tested for 7 straight hours w/o even stopping to use the bathroom
and i go to eat for less than 30mins and I miss the 'big test' I need a hug too :(

[Ekaika]

I need a hug too :(

/wookiehug

[Soulbrother]

worked GREAT..cheers to the devs..friday here we come!

[scottyg2]

too much fun tonight.

[Colim]

Nice, gj keep up the good work.

[Iovid]

more stable than SOE ever made it. you guys rock!

[quasi]

/pimphug

VERY good work.

[StarWarsFreak]

It was fun today, i was MORE then enough happy to take the HIGH RESOLUTION pics, keep up the AMAZING work Ultyma and the rest of the SWGEmu team.

[fiz]

Pedobear is happy

[Sanctus]

Any estimate of the most people connected at one time?

[SqUiShEe]

From what I hear it was around 45 w/o lag or d/cs

[Spartacus]

From what I hear it was around 45 w/o lag or d/cs

Wow, pretty sweet that is awesome I wish I could have been there, oh well the 16th is soon :D GREAT JOB DEVS!

[Curse]

Keep Up The Nice Work Guys <3

[Gulkia]

out of all times to get on my comp and log in it was right when they got everything working. :)

[Soulbrother]

out of all times to get on my comp and log in it was right when they got everything working. :)
lol i was on fine last night..but today it decides to be retarted...i was gettin dc'd as soon as i logged in. So after an hour or two of fiddling around with no luck, i just reinstall everything and it does the trick :) just in time.

[Malady]

I lost my internet connection for only the second time since having cable for over a year. And would you bet! It happened tonight of all nights. :(

[Rudy]

Screenies look beautiful. I wish i could get Chatzilla to work so I could get onto IRC and see when things like this are going on.

Great work.

[Hermes]

Wonderful! Keep it up!

Mining Outpost brings back memories.

I've got a good buzz for the rest of the night :D

[Tadde]

Keep up the good work!:D

[Phoenix]

Looking at the screeny's.... /drool

GJ guys!

[Agi'nor]

was good to get on and see how it held up felt silky smooth and no lag importantly , fingers crossed for the main test

[Spheremaster]

good job guys grats !

[Runny]

Good Job, It was fun.

[Dantes]

Outstanding job gentlemen!! Congratulations on all your hard hard work!

[guide]

looks great, can't wait to try it in the 16th. it's pretty funny seeing so many people dressed the same

[Vastor]

Thank you Ramsey for the amazing progress report. I lol'd when I saw Gentaro picking on Seaseme.

[Magus Schneider]

All I can say is:
THANKS, from the bottom of my heart!!!

[Roidrage667]

Thank you so much.

[OccupationalSith]

Good job to both the testers and especially the developers. It is good to see that we are all one step closer to reentering the pre-CU world!

[Dialgo]

/salivate @ pics! Awesome job Emu Team!

[Valkyra]

Yeah, I must say, ever since the private first test of core3, up til now, I have had a great time helping to test out core3... Seems like yesterday Oru was still getting the kinks out of the double chat bug... As Ramsey said, the SWGEmu team has done a great job for this, and especially Oru, for staying up waayy past his bedtime for this. And a thanks to all the other testers who help him find bugs everyday!

[tonsters525]

This is such good news, good work Devs and everyone who was in the test, can't wait for friday and school will be a breeze till then seeing as how I haven't been there for the last five days lol.

[Waiko]

Thanks for the had work and effort.

[Enflorence]

Awesome Job

[Mason]

Oh man, it's getting closer and closer. Awesome!

[Zathus]

so excited!

[RegularJohn]

Exciting as usual, keep up the good work!

[exedra]

Very nice, Congrats to all !!

[Joekak]

*****

[nostyleguy]

great work as always

[banditt_adams]

thats freakin amazing. I dont know how you do whatever it is you do, but great work!

[Demented_Jester]

Any news on NPC spawns yet? Not manually spawned...

[DB101]

And they said it could not be done.

Nice screens, grats all!

[metin]

Great pictures,

Thank you :) I hope to be there on the 16th

[Empa]

Hell yeah, Good work all of you :D

[Bloodfin182]

Once again, amazing work guys!! Thanks for all the work you've put into this.

[Spike]

Thanks and big hugs to all the devs for thier amazing work so far. Can't wait to play this for real in the near future.

[manoman]

/huggggg

[Soapflake]

Thanks guys. Sorry Ultyma :p (pic 2)

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1246/screenshot0085iw4.jpg

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2247/screenshot0071ii2.jpg

[synapticAI]

Can't wait to play. Hope this goes GPL3 after all is said and done.

"That was a great game." ~ Lost boy
"Thank you for believing..." ~ Peter Pan

[Ramsey]

the project is better off closed source, as we've said before.

[synapticAI]

the project is better off closed source, as we've said before.

Without getting too off-topic, I think that once the emu is complete, in all aspects, and there are established servers in-the-wild, and it's proven to be a free, legal alternative to the evil-empires NGE drivel code, OSS'ing it would do well to catapult the project forward. If your into Linux, look at something like Beryl vs. Compiz. Compiz was closed source for the longest time, and then they OSS'ed it, and we got Beryl, which many many many will argue is much better than it's parent Compiz. That's just the way things work. Imagine if Vista was all of a sudden OSS'ed... Poof, there goes most of the security problems, and opens up a hell of a lot more opportunities for innovation that we'll ever see out of Redmond!

Case in point, let's look at the choice to code the Emu in C++ for instance. Good choice, but only because of the increase in development productivity. For sheer performance and stability (if you know the language well), plain ol' C would be a much better choice! I'm sure as hell glad they DIDN'T choose C though, because I'm greatly looking forward to playing pre-CU this spring, and not next winter!

My point is that once everything is established, why NOT open it to the world to let those who know how to really get down to the nitty-gritty and write a superior server-applet do what they do best? "There's always a bigger fish." :D

All in all, supreme props to the current Devs for giving us all a new hope (pun biatch) to play this dream of a game from a better era of our MMOG'ing lives. So mote it be!

[Geral]

Cannot wait for this! Is there a certain time you guys will be booting up the server?

[Soulbrother]

Cannot wait for this! Is there a certain time you guys will be booting up the server?
join the IRC channel and it will tell you the server status

[speedtouch]

Sweet! I'm on screenshot 31! (the one who poked and tossed "LordSniper")

Keep up the great work guys, I'm sure a lot of people are looking forward to the tentative stress test this friday.
You might be able to catch me on before I head out to semi, for at least 1 minute :)

[Raiyden]

nice

[Gulkia]

cool, any chance binaries will be released after the 16th?

[Nayre]

In a time like this I will let my Avatar do the talking...

[gtyron]

/bearhug

[Taaack]

1000th ****ing Updates post BIEOTHCEZ

[SUPERjedi4]

/wookieehug

[Ramsey]

Reasons for not open sourcing have been discussed. Even after its "100% complete" (never will be, its always in constant development like most software available)

[Rudy]

Was that a TK I saw in one of those Screenies?

[Smusatto]

cool, any chance binaries will be released after the 16th?

Of course they'll be released after the 16th. How long after is anyone's guess.

[Azhar]

Of course they'll be released after the 16th. How long after is anyone's guess.

hehehe

smartass

[synapticAI]

Reasons for not open sourcing have been discussed. Even after its "100% complete" (never will be, its always in constant development like most software available)

Link?

[exca]

Seems you have improved it a bit. Let's hope it'll scale.

[Azhar]

rofl thats Ramsey, one of the devs of the EMU. Why would he need to prove that the devs decided not to go open source with a link of a discussion?

99.99% of conversations and discussions take place in IRC anyways

[Malady]

cool, any chance binaries will be released after the 16th?

Of course they'll be released after the 16th. How long after is anyone's guess.


Expect it to be a very long time. How long is very long? My brother says it sounds like maybe 2 more years. Myself I don't think it will be that long. But I can say that I would be surprised if it came out this year. This is just my opinion. I hope I am wrong.

[DemolicCannabis]

un ****ing believable.

[Durka Durka]

Expect it to be a very long time. How long is very long? My brother says it sounds like maybe 2 more years. Myself I don't think it will be that long. But I can say that I would be surprised if it came out this year. This is just my opinion. I hope I am wrong.

Perhaps your opinion will change tomorrow.

[MysticMoron109]

I'm just curious to know how there was NO lag. Is it because there were only 50 or so people on? Or was it because the servers are that much better than the old ones?

[Reemus]

Damn, this sounds promising. I was drooling over the screenies. Looking forward to this weekend ;-)

[cable-odinson]

well done everyone. I'm speachless an overwhelmed.

[Soulbrother]

I'm just curious to know how there was NO lag. Is it because there were only 50 or so people on? Or was it because the servers are that much better than the old ones?
we got 70ish in last night and it was the same :eek:

[Geral]

we got 70ish in last night and it was the same :eek:

We'll see Friday, there'll be far more :D

[voltrox]

There were actually 80 people on at one point last night, with the server's cpu utilization still stupidly low. I had such a blast! I can't imagine how many people will be on this weekend when the real stress test starts.

[Vasarian Brandy]

Dusting Discs off now. :D

WOOT!!!!!

[Luinara]

my twi'lek senses are tingeling:o :D :D

[OmaddaSzool]

/hugs

Will SWGEMU be my valentine??


Hehe, seriously... looking at those screens... I went to scroll in the chat box for a sec...
LOL...
*tries to resume normal day and forget this for now*

...


Thanks so much guys!!


:D

[johnson swags]

I was on a little this morning and had no lag. but i did keep geting dissconnected. don't know if it's me or the server. still looks great and feels great to have SWG back

[BlazeHoliday]

I think i soiled myself! great guys, really great! keep up the great work. may godspeed my server wants to launch soon!

[Larholl]

Just wanted to give you guys a quick shout and say great work! Looks like things are goind well, I know no one likes it when we say it but...feels like were getting close (relatively of course :) )

Sorry if I sound like a broken record but thanks again for the continued hard work. You guys have been tirelessly been at it for a looong time and deserve conitued koodoos IMHO

[Hideaki]

I was on for about an hour last night. I haven't noticed any of the disconnection bugs or any of that, the game runs VERY smooth, with some minor lag at one point, but that was probably from my side.

[Geeno]

I've been lucky enough to participate in the testing and refinement of Core3 for a few weeks now, day in, day out Oru is at work, all props out to the guy (and the rest of the team ofcourse), he has done and I'm sure will continue to do a fantastic job.

:D

[blitzinger]

You are the wind beneath my wings devs!

[Garth]

Ramsey one thing I did notice from the pics where there where no NPC's at the mining outpost static or spawn, is that server related I take it? And not something from our game cd's?

Thanks

[voltrox]

The lack of lag is amazing, even with 70+ players all running around MO attacking each other and spamming like crazy. In that respect I think it has already surpassed the quality of SOE's servers.

I've only seen one bug besides the occasional disconnect... the combat queue bug. Is there a specific place where core3 bugs are posted/discussed ?

[chrischris]

is core3 out or is it out on friday i just dont get it i wanna know if i can get opn core3 today or tommarow????:confused:

[linkcenturica]

is core3 out or is it out on friday i just dont get it i wanna know if i can get opn core3 today or tommarow????:confused:

Get it from your nearest EBGames tomarow :D

Some of us sit in the #test channel in IRC and know if Core3 is accesible. And as its been said, "tomarow" the 16th is tentative... don't blow your horns if it doesn't make the date.

[Akelei]

looks about the same it did a while back judging from the screenshots.

[Soapflake]

looks about the same it did a while back judging from the screenshots.

Ummmmm. Whats your point? It isn't testing new features, its testing the stability and server load. Most of the features they've finished aren't in the stress test. Tell me when you saw 80 people on swgemu fighting with no lag :p

[Ekev]

/hug /cheer

You guys are awsome! Soon we'll all be having the time of our lives :D

[JDM4000]

At last you will reveal core 3 to the world at last we will have revenge

You can not stop it… SWGEmu will become more powerful then either of us.

Now SWGEmu arise and bring justice to the empire.

(goodie) NGE is evil!
(baddie) From my perspective SWGEmu is evil!
(goodie) Then you ARE lost!

(goodie) I’ve won; I have PreCU
(baddie) you underestimate my powers!
(goodie) Don’t do it
**SWGEmu slices out NGE’s player base**
(goodie) You were the best MMORPG! You said you would listen to your customer base not betray them! Make an unrivaled game not garbage!
(baddie) I hate you all!
(goodie) You were my game SWG. I loved you.
**watches as NGE falls apart**
**with sorrow goodie walks away**


http://shutter03.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/05/002/35/FB/CA/FD/wje5vAK4qU8PYOqY+05oDbxcMlDSwFrG01E3.jpg

[eapeih]

Don't mean to be a pest but is there a certain time that the test servers will go live at?

[Soulbrother]

Don't mean to be a pest but is there a certain time that the test servers will go live at?
it is unknown as of now but if you check in the IRC often (where you will have to go to get info anyways) you will know when it is on.

[EatsBabies]

yeah... its midnight... when is the test running? now?

[Smusatto]

yeah... its midnight... when is the test running? now?

No.

An announcement will be made on IRC and/or on the forums when the time is set for the stress test.

[Insaincat]

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o145/Insaincat/Kitty_offering.jpg

Good job guys :D

[delive21]

wooot :D

[alanbb95]

i dont no if anybody will reed this but can u telll me were i become a member for core 3 server plz i been trying to find out buy reeding things nd geting no were or is it jst for ppl on the creating teem ? thanks for u r help

[Volte]

Congrats guys! cant wait to login!

[shas-ke]

It really amazes me how talented you lot are. Keep up the amazing work!

[chrischris]

is there any core 3 server IPs??? if so can i please have a server IP

[Bleu]

Very, very nice work so far. Gonna be able to help test for a bit tonight before hockey practice, but I'm definitely gonna start following the tests more closely so I can help out whenever I can.

[chrischris]

Well i got the server IP and im all set i wonder i forgot does server go live at 12:00 PST its 10:43 here well just gonna have to play a bettter game like wii or somthing until its ready for more peeps to be on /hug EMU OWNS

[Izogi]

:( Dang I missed it. It took me to long to get SWGEmu files DLed.
Looks awesome reminds me of the good old days when SWG was fun
Hope it was as fun as it looked. Good luck on the rest of the build and I hope to
be playing the real SWGEmu soon.

[The Ewok Jedi]

Hmmmm... Well Im very very new here but Im glad to see this project is farther along then I though =P I am going to have a look at my systum specs and see if my computer can handle SWG without exploding, and if all goes well then great, if not I'll have to wait untill I can upgrade this thing. Regardless the whole project impresses me. I hope that I can meet to requirments and help out with the testing later on.

When I first herd about the NGE and how poorly liked it was I feared it might not be worth playing SWG, now it looks like I have some hope after all. :3

[EVILJUDE]

definitely good times was had. not only cause got another taste of pre-cu again, but also in seeing just how nicely the emu is coming along.

/deepbow to the devs

[Morial Tomiras]

:cool: :eek: :D goodjob