Public LVP 2.90 Beta Test

[Jay]

A few people may be wondering what has been going on with development. The last few days, most of you who connect to IRC and use the !progress command to check on the development status of 2.90 will have noticed it has been jumping here & there from 99.5% to 99.8%.

We've recently written a brand new derby handler which has many new features and fixes bugs from the current derby handler LVP 2.85 has. New features include dynamic creation of derby vehicles, proper usage of virtual worlds, the removal of forbidden area warnings, and an easy-to-use system, making adding derbies to the script really easy.

We have considered the popularity of RC vehicles and used the new derby handler as an advantage to expand upon this feature. A new derby known as RC Barnstorm has been added. Testing with the beta team has proven it to be one of the funnest derbies ever! That isn't the only derby that has been added though, lots of nice, fun, and interesting derbies have been added to 2.90 over the last few days. The development progress is currently on 99.8%. The remaining 0.2 percent is just some final preperations and changes to the code before we make 2.90 live.