Small Preview of Things to Come

[Henhouse]

We're hard at work on Server Updates 4.1 and they are coming with a lot of cool new server changes!

Firstly the big thing is the moving of the battleground masters to a new location and familiar to some --- the old Horde mall, or the farm place left of Godzilla's Lair. Now, I've spent quite a little bit of time designing the Tauren farm, giving it purpose and feeling with NPCs, farm animals, etc.

The main purpose of this area is to drive players more away from the mall, spreading the out and to also help with lag. Inside the building there will be 3 pedestals, on which the battleground masters will stand. The pedestals can't be jumped on so you won't have to worry about people standing on top of the BG master once a game ends. You'll be able to turn in the quests when the BG is not in session and there will be auras on the BG masters when their battleground is available for queuing.

Some of the server updates are just normal MaNGOS fixes and addons, but two I am excited about is a new Chat-Color blocking feature. I'm sure many of you have seen it -- the people posting in blue, red, pink. Yes, it's a suspend-able offense and we hardly catch it. The new feature allows me to either block it, or block & disconnect the user--which is probably the one I'll choose.

The second is a little feature to disable arena rated queues. This is great for when the arena season is NOT in progress!


Now I'm sure people are wondering if we're going to revamp Godzilla's Lair, and to be honest I'm not sure about that. He would need to be revamped first of all, he is very old and bad scripting. I would lower him to about a 5-10 man and reduce his loot and stuff by a lot because I didn't like seeing 30+ people going into a 15-man raid. Just didn't work with world-bosses.

There's also a few easter eggs planted in the new area, followed by an in-game memorial I erected in dedication of my friend, Simon Zerner who sadly passed away recently.

I hope you guys enjoy the updates coming soon and I hope to work on them as much as I can!

Below is an alpha picture I took before some other changes were made, but you get the idea.

[Skriot]

Nice updates hen! got a question tho.

Will the new place also contain the arena master and where abouts? in same hut as battlemasters or far away or next door

[Syvar]

Arena Masters will stay place in the hut they are now. They will not change with it as far as I know.

[Henhouse]

Will the new place also contain the arena master and where abouts? in same hut as battlemasters or far away or next door

I thought about putting them in there was well, but then that just moves everyone to one location basically defeating the purpose so we decided to keep it separate. I still need a place for Hyjal O_O....

[Avronax]

Will the new place also contain the arena master and where abouts? in same hut as battlemasters or far away or next door

I thought about putting them in there was well, but then that just moves everyone to one location basically defeating the purpose so we decided to keep it separate. I still need a place for Hyjal O_O....

GM island! Or cast my vote for Hen's Place... I think Hyjal and Arena Masters should stay where they are.

[leopav1993]

I couldn't conect to the server for the whole day now , does this have anything to do with the implementation of the updates ?

I personaly think that separation of horde and ally will be a good method to reduce lags :).

And about 1 other thing.... i heard some rumors that you MAY add the warglaives back to both donor and non-donor mall . Is that true?

[Endania]

And about 1 other thing.... i heard some rumors that you MAY add the warglaives back to both donor and non-donor mall . Is that true?

There are currently no plans of adding warglaives back.

[Close]

Finally we heard something from hen xD
you could say this in that topic , i was worried hard about this DC
i just think its crashed but anyway happy to hear this , just say when its going to be online again ?

[Henhouse]

I hope everyone likes the updates.

[Crunkjeff]

eots isn't getting played. probably because it requires more people then wsg, more teamwork, but the same amount of badges per turn in.
is hentrivious the answer to what we should spend our honor on?