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Online Worlds => VFK - Virtual Family Kingdom => Topic started by: Disney Dreams on July 24, 2008, 03:30 AM
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... and the horse is on the loose!
Sooo funny! Here horse.i horsei. Here horse.i horse.i.
Now THAT'S good stuff, VFK! :clap1:
ETA: Oops, guess I was sleepy last night and forgot the photo. Here you go....
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i181/disneydreams/horse_map.jpg)
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Thanks for the update! Woot!
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See, even horses love the map! :rofl1: Thanks for the update Dreams!
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OK, Just a little more information here. For those of us concerned if the horses will only be tiny, here is the runaway stallion at the castle gate. It seems to be in perspective compared to the people size in this room.
(http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee162/ahdahl/vfkhorse.jpg)
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Just to be clear, I guess they have sitting fixed, and we see a horse but the problem now appears to be the fence in the stable room? :rofl1:
I have only jumped on the last few days to check for animated creatures and new items or rooms and I found neither so went on to other stuff. Apparently I should have wandered around a bit to try to russle up a horse. It will be like the wild west, we will have to catch it if we want to ride it. -starts working on a brand mark-
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/dssnave/nobshotbrand.jpg)
feel free to tag you a horse with this.
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Dreams and Princess thanks for posting a photos. I have not seen one of the horses.
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OK, Just a little more information here. For those of us concerned if the horses will only be tiny, here is the runaway stallion at the castle gate. It seems to be in perspective compared to the people size in this room.
I did not catch a picture of the horse off the map last night. It went by me too fast. Thanks for posting Princess. Yes, the horse is smaller when on the map, just like we are.
Seems that once the horse broke free last night, it ran away any time any of us got near us. The homepage this morning seems to explain how the programming of the horses is set up. It was really quite funny last night as we all tried to catch the horse!
Dreams and Princess thanks for posting a photos. I have not seen one of the horses.
You're welcome. It was about 3am last night (this morning?) that he was out and about. Sorry, you say, "sleep"? What is that word? :yawn: :hmmm: 8)
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A Note From The Developers
Well, one of our horses made an unexpected debut this morning. We were testing part of the AI for the horse, and VFK_MIntie’s horse got to a jump point in the paddock which led to the map. After that, the horse did what it was supposed to do, which was avoid people by either going to another jump point, or in the worst case if cornered it would teleport back to its home paddock.
Once back in its paddock, it would head to the jump point again, and we would be off chasing the horse once more.
Short of shutting down the server we were not sure how to corral it.
Finally, several developers blocked the jump point in the paddock, and the horse decided to stay!
We did have a lot of help from everyone up late trying to corral our wayward horse,
It was an exciting test, and we learned something about interacting with our new horse.
Your Development Team
Virtual Family Kingdom
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A Note From The Developers
Well, one of our horses made an unexpected debut this morning. We were testing part of the AI for the horse, and VFK_MIntie’s horse got to a jump point in the paddock which led to the map. After that, the horse did what it was supposed to do, which was avoid people by either going to another jump point, or in the worst case if cornered it would teleport back to its home paddock.
Once back in its paddock, it would head to the jump point again, and we would be off chasing the horse once more.
Short of shutting down the server we were not sure how to corral it.
Finally, several developers blocked the jump point in the paddock, and the horse decided to stay!
We did have a lot of help from everyone up late trying to corral our wayward horse,
It was an exciting test, and we learned something about interacting with our new horse.
Your Development Team
Virtual Family Kingdom
While this does sound cute and funny.. at the same time, it's sad. VFK appears to not really have any clue until they have "loosed" things on us players. They really should have a staff of testers, and it is done out of sight of players as much as possible.
The fact that they were not prepared to deal with the horse, and worse, their "sharing the story" with us.. admitting "we learned something about interacting with our new horse".. only shows how unprepared they really are, to meet any of their deadlines long ago promised and as yet unfulfilled.
Yes, I am still playing.. but the more that time passes, and more and more promises are made and unfulfilled.. they are losing my early on respect. Don't hire people to tell us your problems and make promises (communications), hire more programmers and testers. WHEN you have something DONE - THEN tell us. (Just this one duck's opinion.)
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Just to be clear, I guess they have sitting fixed, and we see a horse but the problem now appears to be the fence in the stable room? :rofl1:
I have only jumped on the last few days to check for animated creatures and new items or rooms and I found neither so went on to other stuff. Apparently I should have wandered around a bit to try to russle up a horse. It will be like the wild west, we will have to catch it if we want to ride it. -starts working on a brand mark-
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/dssnave/nobshotbrand.jpg)
feel free to tag you a horse with this.
Word on the street is there might be a live test with some horses tonight. Don't know if we will be awake - but gather up your branding irons folks... :rofl1:
Nice work on the graphics there Add. :thumb:
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Horsies! :yes!:
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Well they are live again (or still) at 6:45 am 7/25. There seems to be a crowd in the room of VFK_Ranger. Of course Ranger is not there.
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Many of us were hanging out with VFK_Legend (and, arg, there was another VFK in there with us for a while. I can't think of who) for a few hours in the middle of the night. Some topics that were discussed:
- Wings and a fairy magic that could let us fly places faster.
- Horses are very close and unicorns were mentioned. (LOVE unicorns)
- We were asked what we would like to see in a party room (interesting!). Many ideas were offered up, such as disco lights, music, and of course clothes.
- Horses are very close to being released and price will vary per type.
I think that's when I fell asleep with my laptop on the couch. hehe
Excited about unicorns!!
- Dreams
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Hugs Dreams - :hug: - Thanks for the update. Wings sound nice - perhaps they will be in different colors? Everything else sounds pretty exciting to us! I mean King can't wait to ride around on his very own unicorn. :rofl1: