Multi-housing Coming to Test Today…

Test and Test Copy will be brought down shortly in order to receive the new Multi-housing code which EQ2 code guru Zoltaroth has been beating on for the last several months. This is a substantial rewrite of the underlying housing code which will allow players to own up to 10 homes in different cities, jump from house to house, and also port to houses where they have been explicitly granted friend or trustee access.

Because there would be no way to reconcile the Live house data vs. the reorganized Test Copy house data, when doing a /testcopy of a character on Live to the Test Copy server, your house will not be copied over. Fortunately, vendors are being added to inexpensively buy houses just to allow testing.

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From Zoltaroth:

Test-Copy will get the code the same time as test. However copied characters will not retain their houses from live. You will be free to purchase as many hosues as you want and play with the feature on Test-Copy though.

All of the underlying DB data has changed so there is no way for the houses to copy over when Live and Test are out of sync on the housing code. Once Live is updated the copy script will again copy houses (after some updates).

When exactly?

We are shooting to update test around 3-4pm pacific.

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Some parts of the process are taking longer than anticipated. This will likely cause the update to be closer to 6pm than 4pm.

If you’ve been following Zoltaroth on Twitter, he’s posted some rather interesting and humorous tweets on the subject:

If you are designing some game or feature and it occurs to you to save some space using 32bit IDs instead of 64bit GUIDs dont, It’s a trap!

EQ2’s new housing is currently being QA’ed. I can’t wait to see what the EQ2 players do with this feature when it goes live.

Wait until you see the new GH amenity 🙂

Anxiously preparing to inflict housing on Test… soon.

Preparing the Test DB for housing changes. Won’t be long now.

From SmokeJumper:

WARNING!!! We’ll need to outage Test for a longer-than-normal period tomorrow afternoon (4/13/11), because this is a very large update and we need to make it during work hours so we’re here on-hand in case of any issues (we don’t expect any, but still…). /end warning We’ll get it done as soon as possible!

LATE-BREAKING NEWS: We just realize that most of you on Test probably don’t have Prestige homes, so we’ll be putting merchants in tomorrow afternoon also that will let you buy Prestige Homes and thus let you play with the system.