Entry 2

(I've decided to make an entry by every Monday 8am (PST, -8), starting after this entry. Be nice to have a hobby that helps in writing. The schedule may change if needed. I'll give an early heads up and an explanation as to why.)

So last weekend, Antilia just had a huge community boost and activity, which lasted for a few more days before dying down. According to one of the mods that announced in the community page, over 200 accounts were made in one day! This is good and bad in my view.

Good: Antilia is getting noticed by a community that is more than happy to play this game, mainly those that like anthropomorphic animals. The game is welcomed to those who do not like or not part of the fan-base however. Anyone is welcomed to join, try the game, and be a part of the community. At least two of the new users may possibly help out in the project. One seems to have a talent in making characters that I could see potential in making future NPC's. Another says has experience with development of video games. This person could also be useful for the small team as a volunteer, depending on what experience he has in coding or something. (Blue Sly currently envy's this person).

Bad: Antilia has been running alright, despite a few disconnects and crashes, under a low population. However, with the recent huge rise of players, only a few have made themselves known on the site forum, there is fear and concern the server may not be able to support that many people at once. Jeff and his small team, along with volunteers, have in the past few months done work on a huge update that everyone is eager to see and play in. With a lot of action expect to happen in the next test session, I am hoping the big update will prevent huge mounts of lag and low fps to some systems that expect to happen. I don't really know how many have logged in at once on average, but was told a few dozen people, 3 dozen at most maybe.

Don't get me wrong, I am PLEASED Antilia is getting attention and greeted with happy faces who really wish to try out the game, but I was expecting this to happen in Beta or close to Release. Still, nice to see new faces. (Just hope they give me fish... or they'll get the taste of grumpy LongSly and his mallet of pain.)