Las Venturas Playground v2

[Sander]

In the next few weeks we will start rolling out a new platform of services for and around Las Venturas Playground. Some of you will already have noticed some smaller bits about this; required forum-account and user account linking, random countdowns and possible hints towards the LVP 2.91 release.

Tonight we publish the initial announcements giving an insight in our plans and ideas. While we won't spoil too much information yet (sorry, no links, test-servers or screenshots yet!), it is possible for me to say that the new website will feature user profiles for all 71-thousand registered players, lots and lots of statistics, automated online-player lists and the possibility to log in to your account and change your preferences and settings. We will host an exciting contest with a prize that will significantly improve your gaming experience and publish a really cool promotional video to display some of the core functionalities of Las Venturas Playground. Of course, all your accounts (In-game, on the forums, TeamSpeak and WhatPulse) will be linked and combined statistics will be available on various places.

For Developers it'll be a good time as well. One of the foundations on which we wanted to build our website was sharing; almost everything that can be found on the new website will be available as XML feeds, including online lists, statistics and user profiles. This allows third-parties to create image signatures, IRC Bots and statistical applications to display your details in real-time. Most of these XML-API's have ready-to-go examples in various programming languages.

As for our San Andreas: Multiplayer game-server, we will update our hardware to a more powerful Intel® Xeon® Quad Core processor with double the harddrive space and memory as we have now. Together with the efforts of the Development Team to optimize the gamemode where possible, this will allow you to experience Las Venturas Playground with more users, however, half the lag.

So stay tuned about the announcements we'll be publishing over the next few weeks, it'll bring some large, exciting changes which will change Las Venturas Playground as a whole.

[Sander]

[Sander]

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[Sander]

[Richard]

Today we moved Las Venturas Playground over to our new Intel® Xeon® QuadCore server. This means our IP address has changed to 85.17.220.2. Fortunately, this is the only change for today, and all your user accounts, money and other statistics have been transferred discretely without creating any unnecessary downtime.

Our new server is a powerful HP ProLiant box which matches the requirements of the updates we'll be implementing in the next few weeks. With double the cores, memory and harddrive space, the only thing required to improve your in-game experience by removing all lag are some major gamemode updates.. and that's exactly what our Development Team has been focussing on for the past six weeks! With many optimizations ranging from redesigning timers to changing our database model performance of the gamemode has improved dramatically since their hard work started. Tomorrow we'll explain more about the changes and features which have been implemented, and can be expected in Las Venturas Playground 2.91.

[Sander]

[Sander]

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[Wesley]