The Easter Event has begun! (イースターイベント開始！)

[Ender]

The Easter Event has begun! Event Eggs can drop from any killed enemy. These items can drop at 1/2000 in Normal, 1/1800 in Hard, 1/1200 in Very Hard, and 1/500 in Ultimate. Event Eggs also receive a boost to their drop rate in the RBR quests (+15% with 1 player, +20% with 2 players, and +25% with 3 or 4 players).

Note that The Egg Shop is currently offline. The shop needs an update with the servers, but we have a number of other backend changes that we haven't finished, and it's too difficult to split these changes at the moment. We will likely perform this update either this upcoming weekend or the next.

The event thread will be posted soon.

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イースターイベントが開始しました！
イベント期間中は「イベントエッグ」というアイテムが倒したすべての敵からドロップするようになります。
ドロップ率は、ノーマルで1/2000、ハードで1/1800、ベリーハードで1/1200、アルティメットで1/500です。
また、イベントエッグはRBRクエストにおいてドロップ率にボーナスが付きます（1人で+15%、2人で+20%、3～4人で+25%）。

なお、現在エッグショップはオフラインとなっています。サーバ側と連動してアップデートする必要があるのですが、未完了のバックエンド変更が複数あり、現時点でそれらを分割して適用することが困難なためです。アップデートは今週末、もしくは来週末に実施する見込みです。

イベントスレッドは近日中に投稿予定です。

 

[en4cer]

EGGS!!!!!

 

[pokeemrld]

Good luck egg hunting, friends! ^.^

 

[Twulfster]

Eggscellent

 

[Harborer of Hope]

The Easter Event has begun! Event Eggs can drop from any killed enemy. These items can drop at 1/2000 in Normal, 1/1800 in Hard, 1/1200 in Very Hard, and 1/500 in Ultimate. Event Eggs also receive a boost to their drop rate in the RBR quests (+15% with 1 player, +20% with 2 players, and +25% with 3 or 4 players).

Note that The Egg Shop is currently offline. The shop needs an update with the servers, but we have a number of other backend changes that we haven't finished, and it's too difficult to split these changes at the moment. We will likely perform this update either this upcoming weekend or the next.

The event thread will be posted soon.

EGG!

 

[Shiga321]

Yes! Event time, EGGs!!
Good luck everyone

 

[Brvcx]

Time for some Big Bad Bosses music to go with the event!

 

[BeauhLuna]

Love the egg texture for the boxes. Great work thank you. This will be my first active ephina event!

 

[Man]

Got my first egg last night!

 

[Harborer of Hope]

No Rush on the Egg shop! It's Worth the wait~! The ole' "Measure Twice Cut ONCE!" mantra, no~? <3!

 

[ProjectK777]

Just got my second egg!

 

[SoaringMoon]

?

I figured since they said on the 27th
> We will likely perform this update either this upcoming weekend or the next.

That would mean "likely" either the weekend of the 28-29th, or 4-5th of April.
So I then figured maybe they'd get to it the next weekend 11-12th.

It is getting to the point where I'm going to start criticizing about this.

People can be like "Oh give them time it will be done eventually.", but like, you did have the entire year between last Easter and this Easter to work this out.

 

[Harborer of Hope]

I figured since they said on the 27th
> We will likely perform this update either this upcoming weekend or the next.

That would mean "likely" either the weekend of the 28-29th, or 4-5th of April.
So I then figured maybe they'd get to it the next weekend 11-12th.

It is getting to the point where I'm going to start criticizing about this.

People can be like "Oh give them time it will be done eventually.", but like, you did have the entire year between last Easter and this Easter to work this out.

The EGG SHOP itself is most likely NOT the 'problem', it's prolly the unforeseen 'updates' or other settings that need to be negotiated....that or Hell, it might even be IRL stuff that's keeping the server gods away from being able to SIT at home in peace and FOCUS on our little world? But YES, can totally SEE where ppl would start to be chanting "WTF??". Little moar time....plz~? <3!

 

[SoaringMoon]

Hell, it might even be IRL stuff that's keeping the server gods away from being able to SIT at home in peace and FOCUS on our little world?

Sure, but this is why I said they had plenty of time before the event to work all this out.

There were plenty of options if they needed additional help getting the event prepared, including but not limited to asking the community for help.

If there is real life stuff going on with them preventing them from upkeeping the server or event, has that been communicated anywhere?

Not to mention that this is one of the reasons the server takes donations though right?

 

[Ender]

I figured since they said on the 27th
> We will likely perform this update either this upcoming weekend or the next.

That would mean "likely" either the weekend of the 28-29th, or 4-5th of April.
So I then figured maybe they'd get to it the next weekend 11-12th.

It is getting to the point where I'm going to start criticizing about this.

People can be like "Oh give them time it will be done eventually.", but like, you did have the entire year between last Easter and this Easter to work this out.

Sure, but this is why I said they had plenty of time before the event to work all this out.

There were plenty of options if they needed additional help getting the event prepared, including but not limited to asking the community for help.

If there is real life stuff going on with them preventing them from upkeeping the server or event, has that been communicated anywhere?

Events are usually planned at the last minute. Why? Because we're people doing this in our free time. There are only two developers for Ephinea at the moment: Sodaboy and myself. Not everyone on staff is a developer.

As an anticheat measure, every event shop and quest exchange has server support. A naive server for PSO/PSOBB would handle all of this in the quest script, which means the client has full control over the exchange. This is trivial to cheat and a surefire way to ruin the game for others, so the server has to do the work and have knowledge about the exchanges.

Some event stuff was made configurable in the past, but not everything. The Egg Shop is an example of one that has its reward list still hardcoded into the ships. It's unfortunate that we haven't made these all configurable, but the pain of doing a quick maintenance to make a change before starting an event is usually minimal. This year, we couldn't make that change when starting the event because there were a number of large changes in the client, ships, and login server that weren't ready. These changes all need to be done together for the next update. Some of them still aren't ready (pretty much just my changes to increase the capacity of the bank to 1000 items).

I can ask Soda to do the maintenance with his changes this weekend if he has time, regardless of the state of my work.

Anyway, there is only one planned change for The Egg Shop. The Seed Exchange Kit will be added to the 10 egg gamble.

Not to mention that this is one of the reasons the server takes donations though right?

All donation money goes to an account used to pay for all of the server costs. We do not receive any compensation, nor we do not want any compensation. Soda put up donations years ago because he was paying for everything on his own, and server costs were on an upward trend for a while.

 

[SoaringMoon]

All donation money goes to an account used to pay for all of the server costs. We do not receive any compensation, nor we do not want any compensation. Soda put up donations years ago because he was paying for everything on his own, and server costs were on an upward trend for a while.

I mean to say, you could probably pay someone to do some of this work so that it isn't just the two of you handling the backend code.
I don't think I said anything to imply you were taking money for yourself. Rather that money can go to more than paying for compute cycles and bandwidth. (Assuming the server has the funds to survive aside from that.)

I'm also sure there are people with the knowledge in this community that can help volunteer.

As the community and player base grows managing a server like this becomes less of a hobby and more of a jobby you know?

Some event stuff was made configurable in the past, but not everything. The Egg Shop is an example of one that has its reward list still hardcoded into the ships. It's unfortunate that we haven't made these all configurable, but the pain of doing a quick maintenance to make a change before starting an event is usually minimal. This year, we couldn't make that change when starting the event because there were a number of large changes in the client, ships, and login server that weren't ready. These changes all need to be done together for the next update. Some of them still aren't ready (pretty much just my changes to increase the capacity of the bank to 1000 items).

I can ask Soda to do the maintenance with his changes this weekend if he has time, regardless of the state of my work.

Don't rush if it needs to get done, but at the same time there weren't any updates being communicated. At least, there weren't any posts in this thread till today.

I'm also concerned that there is a general sentiment that discussing this is some kind of community taboo.
(I'll say evidenced that the original post I quoted has since been deleted by the poster.)

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It's not so much about impatience. Rather given a timeline and thus an expectation creates a promise to the community.

I don't actually care that its coming a little later that expected or planned, that's not important. It's that people are kind of left hanging wondering why that is. It sows concern that something might be happening. If there is an explanation as simple as "there is some anti-cheat stuff we need to do, sorry but it'll take another week or two". An update post in this thread have resolved that concern.

I'm not asking for an update of what you guys are doing every hour on the hour, but not 1 post a week after?

 

[Usagi]

As the community and player base grows managing a server like this becomes less of a hobby and more of a jobby you know?

It really doesn't though. Every single staff member does their best here and takes it seriously, regardless of visibility, but we all still have real lives, jobs, family, etc outside of this game.

I'm also concerned that there is a general sentiment that discussing this is some kind of community taboo.

It is not a taboo, but you have to come at it with a open heart, not with a criticizing tone. And the longer you're in the community, the more your tone is recognized too. As it stands now, you are a new member on forums, unrecognized and I see a majority of complaints in your post. I would love to get to know you better if your intentions are good, but please think of phrasing stuff similar to "hey, just checking in. is there an update?" instead of something like "this is your job. it should be done already."

I'm also sure there are people with the knowledge in this community that can help volunteer.

You would be amazed at how niche the role is to be a dev for this game is. It goes beyond those of us capable of making mods, lua scripts or the likes. Too many cooks spoil the pot too, some things simply cant be handed off, nor would it be safe to.


If I came off at harsh at any point, please excuse the way I type. I would love to see you become a well known member of our little community like many other familiar faces I love seeing, I just simply believe a little more tact is required when new to a community.

 

[Brvcx]

I understand people want to know what's up since the expected time of an update has passed, but that doesn't change the fact this isn't an official server being handled and paid for by some big gamingstudio with people working this as their day to day job. This is a labour of love, not a paying job. And I honestly thought this was common knowledge. People live busy lives as it is, so something as timeconsuming as maintaining this server is something that can be difficult to fit in, especially if LIFE gets in the way. And seeing Soda is a father of a young child now, life will get in the away often enough. As a father of a now near-five-yo I can relate.

And for every person complaining about it all, it won't motivate those involved getting it done faster. That's just not human nature. Wouldn't you rather have staff focus on this update, than having to write lenghty indepth replies? I know I do. I've been on this server long enough to know if the staff promised they'd do something, they're doing it. Maybe not in a mentioned timeframe, but I'd rather wait longer for it to work very well and than to rush it (you know, like plenty of Triple A studios do nowadays). They've always delivered quality and if that takes more time, then so be it.

All it takes is a little patience.

Edit: I didn't realise I said something funny.

 

[SoaringMoon]

It really doesn't though. Every single staff member does their best here and takes it seriously, regardless of visibility, but we all still have real lives, jobs, family, etc outside of this game.

It's different when hundreds of people rely on information only a few people can provide. Of course you have lives outside of this, but you also accepted additional life responsibility when taking your position as staff.

It is not a taboo, but you have to come at it with a open heart, not with a criticizing tone. ... As it stands now, you are a new member on forums.

I'm not speaking about myself, I'm sure there are others who what to know what is going on, but were afraid to ask. Thus a request for an update might have come off as also rushing someone to finish.

"this is your job. it should be done already."

I don't think taking what I said this way is fair. I'm pointing out that this could have been foreseen as an issue before the event was started and handled then.

You would be amazed at how niche the role is to be a dev for this game is. It goes beyond those of us capable of making mods, lua scripts or the likes. Too many cooks spoil the pot too, some things simply cant be handed off, nor would it be safe to.

Oh yeah for sure, but if they would be anywhere, you'd think they'd be here. XD

If I came off at harsh at any point, please excuse the way I type. I would love to see you become a well known member of our little community like many other familiar faces I love seeing, I just simply believe a little more tact is required when new to a community.

You're fine. ^--^; I'm sorry if I myself come across as abrasive. I promise there is no ill will here, it comes from a point of concern about the server.
(As someone who lived through both schtserv resets. ;--; )

I'm not new to Ephinea, to its community, or to the PSO community in general, just to this forum.

 

[Harborer of Hope]

Bottom line....if this were ANY other server... instead of Empathic detailed responses, all you would've gotten was "KEEP Complaining, it will TAKE LONGER!".

It will be 11 YEARS in a few months this Summer, mew for one is Grateful our Devs Haven't gone off Screaming Naked out into the Night, long ago! ♡♡♡