Sorry about the lack of updates on here, been busy on the server side of things.
Basically the server is ready to go, all the mobs are balanced, exp seems fine, drops seem balanced. The only thing thats holding the project back are the advanced feature files we are trying to put the server up on. For closed beta we have been using TD's 2.3 emu to get the Drops/Maps/Exp/file bugs sorted. Whilst we have been doing that we have also had someone working on the other files to remove a few code related bugs. Unfortunately the person who has been working on the files for us has had other larger real life commitments so hasn't been around for a long time. We have been in contact with him over the last week (via text) and he has assured us that he will have more free time to work on the files from now on, and is going to give us the source code and help us develop it.
However it is down to the team to decided weather we wait for these files to be 100% ready to start Open Beta, or weather we start Closed on TD's files and then try and transfer Character/Item info over to the new database structure the other files will have.
Hopefully we'll have come to a decision within the next few days.
- Lind