Small Performance Updates

Hey Lasoons,

There's been talk of users being randomly disconnected after the server has been running for a while, and we've done a few small changes to the server to hopefully improve performance. A few things have been rewritten for better flow.

While working on it, we've also re-organized the catalogue slightly. You'll now notice that items are ordered by name, as well as gold and silver prices. Instead of finding everything just 'thrown' in there, they should be easier to find what you're looking for.

Hopefully this update will reduce most of the lag that everyone has been experiencing, if not, please let us know and we'll work on it a bit more.

Thanks!

Events, Games and more!

Lately, Ambear's been running quite a few events and keeping everyone active. If you've been on, I'm sure you've seen her around. She's been running trivia games, red light/green light, and even having a few auctions!

We wanted to know what kind of games you'd like to see. We're trying to create a more active community, but it's not easy. Leave some comments on what games you'd like to see more of, or if you have any new ideas for games. As for the water-balloon game, it's work in progress.

Normality!

Things are almost back to normal in Lasuni and we're getting ready to release some updates within the next week or so. We've just finished the new VIP item, which is now the first of it's kind! It's our first-ever animated (and wearable) item!

You've probably guessed what it is by now, if not, there's a hint on the home page. We've also started updating the website by adding in more graphical elements to make it not so boring. Hopefully you'll all enjoy the updates :D

On another note, we've started planning more of the private spaces and even drawn some drafts, so we're one step closer to releasing.

As always, we hope to see you around Lasuni! If you have any ideas, let us know!

MySQL Blues

I'm sure many of you know what MySQL is, and if you don't, it's basically a program that lets you store data and run special queries to retrieve said data - it's also the system used for all of Lasuni's data (excluding actual files).

Now, we recently ran into a bit of a problem and our data is now corrupted though we're working hard to restore the services, it'll take time to fully get back to where we were.

All VIP members will get a free extension on their VIP due to this outage as well, and we're sorry for the downtime.

Anyways, we're putting a fail-safe system in place to protect against this again and hopefully we'll see you all soon.

Summer time

Hey Lasoons,

It's that time of the year again (for most of you at least ;P) the birds are singing, the sun is shining, and we're all suffering from extreme heat. Well, not quite, but it's getting there!

To have a bit of fun during the summer, we've decided to implement a small mini-game into all outdoor rooms in Lasuni. Hopefully this will keep you all entertained while we work on other updates.

We're nearly done with the salon as said in a previous tweet, though we still have lots of hair styles to create and bug fixes to perform.

On another note, we're enjoying the stories that everyone is sending in for the "Where's Gary?" competition, but we hope to see a few more before the competition ends (this Sunday, June 20th) so be sure to send in your entries if you haven't already!

Thanks, and we hope to see you around!

Status Report

Hey Lasoons,

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on the status of the Salon. We're nearly done designing it and have created an in-game demo to test out. Since this room contains some special elements (Slopes, Raised Levels, Tan [Skin Chooser], Hair Styling), it'll take a bit longer to fully develop. At the moment, Dasaii is working on the room design while I'm working on getting the slopes to work perfectly.

Once we're done with both of those, we'll focus solely on the Skin Chooser and Hair Styling. We really don't have any new styles of hair yet, so we'll also have to make some for you too. If you have any special requests for hair styles, post 'em in comments on here. Though we won't be able to put 'em all in the game, we'll try our best to pick out the most awesome ones that the majority of users would wear and/or like to have. It takes time to create and perfect each hair, so please bare with us :)

As always, we hope to see you around! Oh, by the way, if you happen to see Dasaii, don't forget to tell him Happy Birthday!