Mickey I have personally sent you a MASSIVE email of things to add into game that I personally thought would revive the game itself, yeah it would of been difficult and I know how much the coding means to you, sentimental value atleast. Though the response from the email was "Too long, put it in bullet form" I think at this point its clear the players themselves care about the game more then you do. You also claim people are bored with it, that might be.. But look how many of us are here posting, how many are still playing the "Boring" servers... All we can do is keep trying till someone gets it right.
Thank you for the backing there Rohkan, honestly at this point If i was guaranteed a reliable host I would kindly work on a new server. My original idea for the first part just so mickey can actually see a newish type server.
Then when people got bored of that I would have a Fun server for back up to switch around.
Unfortunately Mickey at this point charging to be put on the official list just pushes certain people away from the real rpgwo. Considering the fact of we know how to get around the whole VolumeID of the server.exe and even at this point some of us know we can make our own updater or hex your old one to do what WE want to do. So for the few that were cheap or didn't have the money they could easily get around that 50 dollar fine.
Mickey as far as fixing, there has been plenty to fix.
For one Missle.. that has been there for yyyyeeaarrrrssss MISSILE OR RANGED...
DE-Hard code the magics (I'm sure its possible) -- Last I knew if it wasn't White/Black/Red/Blue Magic it wouldn't update the magic attack.. That could of been fixed while i was gone for a while.
Party system yet again. Again would be a good amount of work.
Scripting for monsters. - I haven't fully went into testing this. But I think I speak for everyone that the repetitive is the fact that (last I knew) the monsters were limited to like blackhole and some other magic crap. Id like to be able to script a monster that when at 50% would spawn guards or adds or something. hell even adding something like that in the ini would be even efficient.
Magic system needs an AOE system added.. At this point even if you wanted to be lazy enough to add items with negative StandDamage= to heal, that would give us a aoe heal, could do that for stam and mana at the LEAST. -Nigrig pretty much, but it would just spawn like the firestorm type
V2 Interface.. Is just Wow... The first thing I told you was that the map should be put on a different form.. Reasons for this is one, it could be brought up and taken down as needed and it would clear up some of the room needed.. on top of that, I haven't looked at it too much but I think some of the tabs either have more space then needed or dont do anything OR dont have anything on them
V2 Chat Tabs - Instead of having 900 of them already open, give an option or allow a player to open a new tab and add what channels he/she wants on them.
Theres alot that can be added, alot that should be fixed. The fact is you sculpt the game in the manner of what you want or like, not the players mickey, Or you havent once showed an interest in what CERTAIN people want.
Oh and a side note on the 50 dollars or whatever.
I know your plans were to make some money off perks. That is why it went from 1 time payment to once a year, once a wipe, or whatever the hell it is. I'm a firm believer that none of us, should get money out of something that you have clearly coded as far as the game itself and its mechanics, that is partially why, I hate/hated Core, and how it was ran, when I found out the money was not being spent purely on the server and instead AsshatAsche was spending it on himself and his girlfriend, I flipped out. I bitched to Grim, and UT, If i had a way to contact other then email (Which I'm sure you discard ANYWAYS) I would of bitched to you. Asche claimed that the money he "earned" because the time put into the server, which again made me flip out. Which I think clearly shows how I feel about the game, that Im not some retard trying to capitalize on something you made. I personally do it cause its fun to me, It gives me something to do. But i think its disgusting that someone would take old ZH ini's and just move some wolf around and say "Oh I did work, here I'll take like 400 dollars+".. On top of that a server being Free Perks - Which I'm sure the reason for that is the fact there is no way to get a hold of the person with all the names, which at this point is you and UT if even that. But still you are supposed to be in charge. We all have lives man, but even to this day it amazes me that server is still up., considering the situation with it.
Now back to the 50 dollars. As i said before, your plan was to make money off perks which I'm sure you made/make money off em ever so often, but charging to get on an "official" list just seems like another leap to try and get some cash. You know as well as everyone else that the economy is pretty wolfty, so the chances of someone coughing up 50 dollars to get their server on your version connect.ini is pretty slim.
As far as the server.exe unless it has something just surprisingly new, I'm pretty sure one of us already have it. Considering at this point you've let about anyone just walk in and run a server, files get around. Specially with bribing and what not, It wouldn't surprise me one bit if someone had a v2 server, but they've been told hush hush with it.
So in the end, you can put the 50 dollars up, there will be a few that will try it possibly. But in the end yet another failed money plot.
Only reason I even remotely want the source is see If i can do anything with the game, the 2 main people with the source (Which I'm not sure who all has it) but last i knew, was Mickey and UT, have both been acting like they are burnt out completely. So i think at this point, I think it would be fair to talk to someone that is clearly here and trying and see if they can take a stab at it.