Friday, May 4 @ 12:21AM CST
Hello, everyone! I sincerely apologize for the complete lack of updates over the past month and a half. At the beginning of April, I got very, very sick and could not go to class for two weeks. I am now in my final exams period and working to catch up on old work while also taking my final exams. I'm very excited to get my time with EI started and I will do everything I can to get this game online as soon as possible. I hope to announce when the game should be back online by next Friday.
Account Changes
Monday, March 26 @ 1:45AM CST
We're spending more time than we hoped taking care of the old showing information. The goal for this week is to finish information surrounding making a show, making classes, and entering those classes. We're also going to get rid of some files on the game that do not need to be there and hopefully make some changes to the bio and stable pages. Also this week, we're going to try and complete the guidelines for the new jobs feature and how riders will be significant to the game.
The biggest change we're going to be bringing this week is a restructuring of the user database, and this includes deleting thousands of accounts. As it stands right now, more than 50,000 accounts exist on the game. We'll be deleting accounts that meet certain specifications and then renumbering the database based on the accounts that remain. This should leave us with a much smaller set of accounts that are all more active.
Any account that is currently upgraded or have an account number below 200 will not be deleted. Accounts that have never been logged into will be removed. If an account has not been logged into for more than two years, it will be removed. If an account has only been logged into 7 days in the past two years, it will be removed. These are subject to change as we finish the process and see how many accounts are actually left. If we feel there is still room to delete accounts, we'll continue to do so. The old accounts of the game will essentially be "frozen" but still searchable, as will all old horses (as a reminder, horses will start from scratch when the game relaunches).
First Update!
Sunday, March 18 @ 3:30PM CST
Changes are now in progress! We've cut specialities down to six and removed some breeds from the store (but they'll still be available to those with a rare breed license). We've also made big updates to the backbone of the user and horse data; old information won't be touched and will still be searchable, but the new EI will start with a fresh set of horses and new account numbers (because a lot of inactive accounts will be erased and the remaining once will be renumbered). We've also started making major coding changes to the entire showing system and the breeding script.
Interested in helping out? We're looking for a new and exciting way to incorporate items into the game. Send us your idea (admin@equintium.com) and we'll take a look at it. The creator of the idea we go with will be rewarded accordingly. Ideas should be simple but interesting and present something of a challenge. We're going to try to have an update a day so we'll talk to you soon!