New Progress + ScreenShots

Well, all is comming along nicely.

The stats page is complete, and I'm still in the midst of implimenting the abilities to increase stats and skills and pretty much that entire part of the game is comming together at once. It is about a third functional right now, but looks pretty good, have a peak!

Don't mind the 25FPS, I set my frame-limiter super low to 25 because this laptop overheats and is old. Actually I found out the other day that drasil defaults to Software rendering on my system because it's so outdated. Without a framecap, it runs at about 70FPS, but uses 100% CPU because of my system running 100% in software mode.

In my time between tackling this particular problem, I found 3 small optimizations on the server (places where some commonly used packets could be cached and stored in memory instead of built in realtime [uses a few bytes of RAM, saves 10+ CPU cycles]).. Also changed the way server stats are displayed on the server end to be more useful AND use less CPU (it used to update the tooltip text of the server's tray icon whenever anything happened that changed any of the stats, now it only builds a stats string when its really needed, as I've added a stats label to the broadcast message window of the server):

In case you don't know what the broadcast message thing is, its just a little feature where the server operator can send a world-wide message to all players that pops up an in-game messagebox type of thing to notify the world if the server is going down for maintenance, etc.

Also note the bandwidth usage for 1 player is on average about 0.2-0.5KB/sec, this is INCLUDING the overhead of the TCP header and the IPv4 header.

Well, its the weekend so don't expect any more updates until monday. I'm looking forward to getting back to work on Drasil next week.
Feel free to post comments, it would be nice to hear any feedback from the community.
- Tim