Future Areas
 

What do you think about them? Any ideas for names?

Here are some areas you probably haven't seen.

Bushtown below swamptown. Looks very un-bushy. Red seems to be the town's color.

http://i.imgur.com/sqd2znE.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Klt1zgZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/N1I8PH8.jpg

Below Deadwood, suggested name: Chasm of Aguzo :)

http://i.imgur.com/jTWgA8w.jpg

Yorktown, I don't know how I missed this...

http://i.imgur.com/MvByhtx.jpg

Below Belle/Balamb Island

http://i.imgur.com/Qva4WvY.jpg

Above Mod Town, Boat Docks? Lake to the left, probably related to zorbi dungeon.

http://i.imgur.com/h47TqwZ.png
http://i.imgur.com/7EYH3jw.png
http://i.imgur.com/rPpWbi0.png

More to the right. Lonely sign has no one to read it.

http://i.imgur.com/Lmd63eT.png

All 'off-map' areas on Classic have existing names.

Your really enjoying your iPad's zoom capability aren't you?

heh, yep.

Yeah I know, but their names aren't released for everyone. I don't know their names. All I know is that one of them will be named after me :)

keep up the good work ;)
also been having fun sparring you in the mixed room keep up the good work :)

the area below swamptown is destiny
but may be renamed if its released but il bet classic pc will release it first.

Ewww they suck.They are so bleak

These areas are over 10 years old.
Not quite your average future/new area.

I swear to god if the get all of this back i'll never complaint about how bad Classic is again.

The thing is we had that map somewhere between 2010-2012 and most of it was accessible using glitches.

Yea I have been in those areas before when you could glitch easily years ago.

If these areas are that old, then why have they not been released?

Itsm only there for decoration and a sense of immersiveness and mysteriousness

Because there is no actual content there.

They aren't realising them :p Maybe for a long time at least.

hmm, interestingg..

we need more hat shops

You are asking the wrong question-- not why they have not been released, but removed.

why? what would these areas really add.

New NPCs,buildings,areas to explore and just maybe... A new quest.Like half of the map has revoked access.Would definitely be fun if they got it all back.

Pretty sure none of these things are added, until players start getting bored and then BOOM new update (adds MoD town). Players get on more, exploring, after a few months get bored BOOM new update (adds blob). Same thing again BOOM (adds new island through ship, which I don't remember the name of since they might just change it either way like they did to my precious belle island). Imagine if they added new content every month... the server wouldn't be able to handle a constant 4,000+ players and rising. People would complain about the lag, Unimad won't be able to keep up with better server demands and everything collapses.

Just a possibility of why they don't add new stuff. It makes people stay on the game longer, because of the wait and enjoy the new content much more than they should. Hence to releasing new content every month, and people getting overwhelmed by too many updates, that they don't have time to do everything that gets released.

Also, these past few updates have been pretty high quality for graal.
Good non-rushed content is better than Rushed decent content.

That content doesn't just poof into existence. None of the old content for those areas is actually usable, or really all that great. Everything needs to be reimagined, redone, and tested. Most of the old content was boring/lackluster/not suitable for iClassic's design. For example, there were no "jobs." Also most of the content back then were "player houses." Just a ton of empty/pointless filler houses.

I was actually thinking about this too.I'm sure our dev and artist community would definitely like to help you people.There are loads of awesome scripters and gfx artists here on graalians.You could ask them for help.

You are probably right.I just don't understand one thing...why would Unimax not want a high count on the game that pays him.

I have a suggestion here.it's been suggested before but..meh!
There should be a blog or some website where the admins request the community to make something like a hat or somethingThen they chose the best of them all and upload it to graal.
This is going to increase the quality of Classic manifold.

He is working on setting up a new server somewhere.But,someone like a representative of him should at least keep us updated with it.We don't know when it's gonna happen or even happen.

Not unless you put it there.

Also, for those who want the areas click right HERE

You could have some kind of specific scripting/graphics contest thread... rewards and stuff. That could be cool.

Oh wait, they had the art gallery. That was real cool but got removed just like honor points... old deadwood... that random mausoleum that looked like it was bound to be awesome... many things.

But hats!

C'mon no need to rub it in. :'(

New areas get old after about a week. Id rather them just open CTF or some sort of event area.

#bring back art gallery
new areas do get boring thats why they need a meaning.
You need the area to be on the map and have a tower and many shops with unique items
and the shops update once in a while.
big city has no tower which is why it is so deserted

Yeah I miss the art gallery I used to hang round there all the time

said no one

Wouldn't be surprising to have a "hat gallery" of the oldest hats of Classic displayed since that's what the people want. With that said might as well sell them for 50K+ Gralats to see who's willing to buy it.

2016 players with their moms credit cards.

I wanted to post on the IMPERSONATION thread but it was closed before i came Lol.So i thought i'd quote you since you have that in your signature.

@bestest player-Just a single question tbh... how can someone make a legacy on an MMO...well you can if you get paid for it...do you?

Impersonation thread was funny.
That art gallery was the art and soul of graal, though.

Why haven't they updated the ships of Classic like the boat that takes you to Balamb Island?

I wonder why they closed it.

that thread reached 10 pages under 4hours with only 3-5 posters mainly.. probably for spam.
It closed right before I could respond :(

Probably because that graphic took a really long time for whoever designed it, and there was no harm in replacing the old graphics/tiles piecemeal. I could be wrong though. It's a very well done graphic, I might add.

I wouldn't mind a level where people are actually sailing and the ship has scheduled shops at ports like pre-NPC Server Classic. Maybe that's the plan? Maybe they want the ships to sail on the actual overworld instead? Maybe neither?

Yeah, it is.

Give us the good stuff staff.

thanks for informing this fool with facts

That was actually one of the scripts I converted on the Dev Server before the wipe for the NPC Server. However, I doubt it was in GScript2, and it was probably pretty ****ty code because I didn't have very much experience programming at that point. But hey, it worked, and you never learn if you don't try!

While I do see the point as to why none of these areas will probably ever be added, I am a little offset by all the excuses of no content added at all. However, I'd be fine to look past even that, had the staff not purged the map of all the cool, albeit "contentless" buildings (SNC, darkblade house, the little shack through the cave in snowtown, the society, air Asia, etc) , sure, they didn't have any "content" per set, but they still made great places to hang out with people and made the over world a little more fun to roam, especially the password protected places. Removing them would have been fine in my books had they been replaced with other content, but they were not.
A long time ago, me and some friemds/guild mates used buildings like the SNC one as an on map base/place to hang, now most of us idle in Graal City like half the population of Graal, which supposedly was supposed to be moved away from.

I apologize if this jumped all over the place, but the base point is that if no content is going to be added, stop getting rid of what we have until whatever content that could replace it is ready.