Change History
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Recent Changes
September 2009
- Finished coding for user shops. Available for public consumption soon.
- Updated login script - changed format of the news.
- Continued debugging of quest system.
--Sven 00:17, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
- Significantly reduced load time for HMail system.
--Sven 18:55, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
- Changed credit payment system to allow for very quick turnaround on orders, with processing taking approximately 15 minutes in most cases.
--Sven 03:28, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- Released a new chat channel for admin use - a global action channel.
- Fixed the item backup script.
--Sven 23:16, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
May 2009
- Released a major change to the chat system, which should reduce server load.
--Sven 19:55, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
January 2009
- Reintroduced alphabetization to inventory with less resource-intensive method.
--Sven 20:19, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
- Fixed some CSS that resulted in a menu still appearing in the 'printable version' of a wiki page.
- Fixed a glitch in the quest system that allowed you to finish a quest by typing in a space, then hitting enter.
--Sven 21:22, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
December 2008
- Fixed a glitch in the give system that allowed phantom items to exist.
--Sven 05:26, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
September 2008
- Bug fixes for quest system.
- Better wholist cache performance.
- Changed some back-end caching/session-handling that should lead to better server response time.
- Added a check on each page to prevent the page from loading when the server is under heavy load, automating some of the tasks that administrators perform during these heavy load periods.
--Sven 05:31, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
- Multiple script improvements for quest system.
--Sven 01:36, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
- Performed some optimization of the HMail system to try to help performance.
--Sven 03:52, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
- Adjusted wholist to try to help performance.
--Sven 02:38, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
- Upgraded wiki with minor performance fix.
--Sven 18:27, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
August 2008
- Upgraded to new version of wiki.
- Enabled image uploading in wiki.
--Sven 12:04, 23 August 2008 (CDT)
Previous Versions of Hollow
Hollow originated in December 1998 and went public April 1999, with Sven, Lore and Hind at the helm. Originally hosted on Hypermart.net, Hollow was later moved to the Barrysworld server. As Hollow grew, the server and bandwidth needs grew with it. Due to these added needs, Hollow is now hosted on dedicated servers.
Hollow was originally programmed in Perl but was changed to PHP shortly after the change from Barrysworld.
Hollow2 was open to the public from April 1, 2004 to March 31, 2007.
All of the characters of Hollow needed to have their statistics reset during the change over, due to the various changes made.
Hollow2 involved a massive change in the layout of Hollow adding areas such as Vailkrin and Trist'oth. Hollow2 also added extra places characters could wear equipment including the fingers and arms, extra races were added such as the Drow and Half elf, extra classes such as the bard and spell blade, the new classes were given new skills and the selection of class skills were expanded. Many extra items were added for the players to wear and use as the number of shops was vastly increased.
Current Version of Hollow
Hollow Trinity was made available to beta testers on September 17, 2006, and was released to the public on April 1, 2007. Trinity was reprogrammed from the ground-up, resulting in much more efficient code that decreases the effort needed to program new features. The code also decreased page load times significantly, especially for 'update-chat' blank queries. New features include:
- Shops are now capable of having a limited number of items, which will be replenished throughout the day, or as customers sell back items.
- HollowWiki was incorporated into the website.
- A complete redesign of the in-game messaging service, H-Mail, which now include paging (only display 50 messages at a time), along with more 'email'-type options.
- A more convenient command bar was added to the bottom of the screen
- More dynamic room locks added.
- Roaming NPCs and Monsters.
- Shout radius implemented (only hear people in a 10-room radius, etc.)
Upcoming Changes
New Features
General
- User-owned shops.
- Mob attack queue.
- Talk to NPCs.
Detailed Fixes
- More caching of inventory and mail screens
- Continued quest system development