Imperial Gaming II Changelog - 6/05/2020

[Kumo 400]

As most of the community already knows, we recently purchased a new dedicated server to host our game servers off of, whilst we sacrificed a bit of clock speed on the CPU for a lot more RAM, a newer generation processor and more storage space, aswell as a more trusted hosting provider, you have probably wondered why it has taken so long to transfer over. We simply aimed to make the transfer experience from the old dedicated server to the newer dedicated server as optimal as possible with many changes to improve your experience on the server. Please see all changes below, we hope you enjoy.

NOTE: With the move to the new dedicated server some of your spreadsheets may break depending on how you set them up, the new server ip is http://139.99.144.130/ no longer 45.121.211.129.

This changelog will also be formatted differently compared to the usual (new/updated/removed) due to the nature of most of the changes.

Changes

• New HUD
  • Whilst many people liked the sci-fi feel of the current holo-hud and its customisable nature we have opted to introduce a new HUD which will ideally be as minimal as possible, increase performance (a LOT) and be mainstreamed (most people should like it). Big thank you to @Auzii and the Graphics Team for the unique icons that accompany the hud.
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• Quest System Changes
  • Its been a nice run with the quest system, as of server release the Quest System will be wiped.
  • Skills are now broken down into 3 branches (Combat, Profit, Utility) - these branches have skills according to their category
  • Some quests have been altered to make easier/harder or changed to effectively balance quest completion - find out these in games
• Credit Changes
  • An Armoury NPC is now available in the ILC - you may spend your credits to buy a weapon
    • This consists of a large payment (to buy the weapon), you then need to deploy the weapon by paying a smaller fee per life.
  • Food System
    • Hunger and Thirst have been added, whilst you do take damage when you hit 0 food/thirst it takes a VERY long time, and therefore will not interfere extremely with your experience
    • Food NPC and entities will be added to increase mess hall RP - some foods replenish more hunger/thirst and some may give special effects in the future.
  • Ammunition Crate
    • You may now purchase ammunition from the crates in the ILC, heavy's may now also drop ammo boxes
• New Disease System
  • The old disease system was made a long time ago and was one of my first scripts ever made, hence why it was subpar to the quality we wanted.
  • We have implemented and heavily adjusted the Zero's GenLab medical system. It is much more realistic, with little performance impact and should increase roleplay throughout the server thoroughly. (https://www.gmodstore.com/market/view/zero-s-genlab-disease-script for more information)
• Economy
  • We are trying our best to establish an economy that is as real to life as possible, as well as enjoyable to experience. This links to the Credit Changes previously mentioned
  • Salary has been added - You will now receive paychecks based on your clearance for serving the empire (a passive way to gain credits)
  • We have lots in plan for the near future to further this economy system, which mirror real world economies
• MySQL Gamemode
  • Backend change to how data storing is done, now being stored externally on a MySQL server, this way we can develop applications in the future to interact with in-game data such as Regiments/Ranks/UTime etc.
• Keycard Improvements
  • The way keycards are done on the backend is greatly improved, this may have a significant performance improvement
  • The new way this is achieved also adds versatility, including custom keycards and are very easy to change.
• Pilot Licenses
  • The out of date Pilot License menu has been updated to be modular, allowing for pilot licenses to be added on top of each other, rather than listing every possible combination on the menu. There has also been some slight changes to optimize performance based on this system
• Precaching
  • Precaching has been removed and now only occurs on server startup, whilst this may increase server startup times by a minute or two, we believe this is a lot better for the server than interrupting roleplay for 30 minutes.
  • Some other changes have also been made to stop Precaching from occuring on map changes when it is not needed
• Pointshop Sell Dialog
  • Self-explanatory to stop people from "accidentally selling" their items, there is now a prompt to double check you want to sell the item. There will now be no leeway if you accidentally sell your item, we will not return it to you.
• Net Message Handler (EXPERIMENTAL)
  • Should stop most net-based lag exploits, however this is heavily untested
• PAC3
  • PAC3 has been updated to the latest version, this should fix many bugs aswell as allow for many new features, we hope you enjoy pac users.
• TFA Changes
  • Updated TFA reworked weapons (resolving missing models)
  • Fixed TFA grenades
  • Changes to the backend to ideally increase performance (a lot)
• Other Changes
  • Here you will find a list of other changes which don't really justify their own category
  • Useless/unused content removed from content pack and server
  • Fixed dropships causing weird behaviour when passengers/pilots would exit
  • Updated Thermal FLIR
  • PermaProps optimized - you may notice many perma props have been deleted, we have done this unbiasly to all regiments and areas around the ships to reduce loading and lag. This should not compromise roleplay at all.
  • !swap models updated, more regiments should have models available to them.
  • Implementation of different Ammo Types
  • New Jumptrooper models and Jetpack Swep

Coming Soon

Ideally, we would've implemented all of the features that will be mentioned below before we released the server however, our development team clearly is not big enough and therefore it would've delayed release even further, which we do not want to do. Here is a list of soon to come changes (over the next few weeks)

• Heavy/Support Functionality
  • Rather than having a completely seperate rank in the regiment (requiring ranks to be stored in the players name) heavy and support will be handled differently, allowing for people to properly hold ranks, as well as be a heavy/support
• Mission System Overhaul
  • We aim to overhaul and fix the mission system to ensure it matches with the economy changes we have implemented this change log, aswell as fix any broken missions (I know there is a lot) and ideally revamp and breath life back into the system.
• Bug Report Review
  • We have heard your bug reports and we greatly appreciate you sending these in, they are unfortunately were not our priority and therefore we haven't gotten around to the non-vital ones. They will be adhered to shortly
• Find Server Bottlenecks
  • This will be a long and tedious process to find specifically what addons tax the server the most on startup, we unfortunately did not have the time to do this during the development stage.
• Mass-Optimization
  • Lots of backend stuff needs to be done, including removal of thousands of lines of code and optimising thousands of lines of code in order to make the server playable, we assure you we are trying our best, and we promise you will see a noticeable improvement of server performance throughout the next few months.

Finally, I would like to thank @Ragetank, @|Stryker| and the rest of the Development Team who assisted with this project aswell as @Auzii, @Atlas and the rest of the Graphics Team. None of this would of been possible without you all. 

Thank you for reading, have fun.

[Kristofer 1,021]

6 minutes ago, Kumo said:

PAC3

• PAC3 has been updated to the latest version, this should fix many bugs aswell as allow for many new features, we hope you enjoy pac users.

[Splonter 571]

Amazing work Dev Team! This is by far the most changes i've seen in a dev log yet!

[Storm 131]

Oh yes finally not having to grind quests for credits 

[Hyperion 246]

Truly great changes to the server and I am more then ever excited for the future to come.

Thank you Dev and Graphic team.

[yeff 96]

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Precaching has been removed and now only occurs on server startup, whilst this may increase server startup times by a minute or two, we believe this is a lot better for the server than interrupting roleplay for 30 minutes.

Edited May 6, 2020 by yeff

[Stryker 244]

Thanks for all your hardwork developers, its why I became a donator! to appreciate you guys!!!

[SiegeMonkey 246]

1 hour ago, Kumo said:

New Disease System

• The old disease system was made a long time ago and was one of my first scripts ever made, hence why it was subpar to the quality we wanted.
• We have implemented and heavily adjusted the Zero's GenLab medical system. It is much more realistic, with little performance impact and should increase roleplay throughout the server thoroughly. (https://www.gmodstore.com/market/view/zero-s-genlab-disease-script for more information)

I would like to apologize in advance for the actions taken by @Kristofer and the rest of the bio weapons division of AWR 

May the odds be ever in your favour 

[Rivers 381]

Was not expecting this much to be coming in this dev log. Really great job guys, seems like the whole dynamic of the server is gonna shift with these updates and I'm really excited and optimistic for what's been mentioned. 

[Shepard 354]

Will the points be updated?

[Bailey 3,287]

Nice work fellas.

Glad to see a better HUD, I thoroughly despise not being able to see another player’s HP

The litttle self portrait is a bit odd for my tastes but we’ll get there.

Thanks for the work put in.

[Delta 1,018]

Incredible work dev team 

All we need is a cooking system 

So I can cook food 

[Ragetank 408]

We have a very basic one ^

[Jye 142]

After seeing the QoL changes such as buying ammo without medics, the new quest tree, the armory etc, can definitely say I'm a fan of these updates. 10/10 for the zombie virus that makes you really fast.

[Verstappen 76]

Starwars DarkRp

[JMAN120 13]

Looking forward to getting my first paycheck

 

[Lister 34]

7 hours ago, yeff said:

 

 

[Kippy 64]

This looks really good

[Lister 34]

why did i lose 150k points and all my pointshop stuff ?

 

 

worked it out dw <3

Edited May 6, 2020 by Hardcase
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[[IG] Tackxo 310]

Does everyone with jetpacks get the new jetpack swep?

[Jman1308 300]

I have updated the content pack with the new items you will need for the server, make sure you download them before connecting. Note there has also been several items removed as-well.

[hypo 25]

where's my credit  @Kumo

Edited May 7, 2020 by hypo

[Bailey 3,287]

1 hour ago, [IG] Tackxo said:

Does everyone with jetpacks get the new jetpack swep?

Yessir.

[Delta 1,018]

3 hours ago, Ragetank said:

We have a very basic one ^

didn't even want to quote me bruh

also Nice show me now

[Lars 134]

Was our playtime purposefully reset or can we request our time back with proof?