bomy island
 

ya it's back, in the development category

surprised there's no thread about it already

http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...hp?t=134270398

i maek zormite kingdomz

corals are animated and the light too, pretty fancy, gonna make it look coolbeans

It was cool exploring for a bit, but i still havent figured out what to do yet

Dusk is so beautiful
http://i.imgur.com/JnNov4U.png

It's looking really good so far, Cloud Strife taught me how to do the jobs and do some basic things on there, if anyone wants some help shoot me a PM on there :)

Bomy master race.

I'm the coolest Bomy in town.

woah

It's still only recently been revived so there isn't loads right now but there's a few quests you can do for extra health and a speed boost. There's also a bunch of jobs, baking bread being the starting one for humans. With the money you get from that you can buy and craft equipment which will allow you to access better paying jobs and items, the best job right now being baking apple pies.

It's in development. I doubt that there's anything to do other than explore, and even if there was I'd expect a reset likely.

That being said I think the developers of this server have done an incredible job fixing everything and I wish them the best of luck.

Spent 30 minutes and earned 2 gralats. Logged off. Forgot how massive the overworld was and how long it took to walk places. Top it off with how mazelike the overworld is and no maps at all and I got pretty frustrated actually exploring.

yeah there's a draisine i think but the server is SO grindy

I feel as if i wouldnt mind that so long as i had people to talk to

I think the ow should be remade to fit a smaller playercount. The jobs are ok so I could spend some time there if it wasnt for the way to big ow

It's ugly. >:(

Yeah i agree

initially i wanted to redo the starting place and work on the ow tileset, but kingdoms have a higher priority right now i think

to be fair it was the first economy driven server. most items aren't arent stupidly expensive.

ive never been a fan of grinding, though, but clearly millions who waste their time on MMORPGs would disagree with us.

Oh I know. I just prefer economies where you gain money fast, but items cost more to buy. It just makes it feel more rewarding than spending 15 minutes to gain a gralat, even though I know if things are priced higher it goes the same distance.

dat feeling when you saw a gralat since it was hard to find them. Always liked that

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

ive disabled toalls since 2001 cmon man

bruh you aint an oldbie you poser

where were u wen graal wus dead?? i am tru soldier i carried on

i was attempting to make america great again

What exactly is Bomy Island?

I agree I checked it out and I don't have a clue what to do. Also why is it so hazy and red?

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absolutely loving the new tiles
https://gyazo.com/433eec6fd4a625ae446d1f6b8d1730f6.png

Those tiles look awfully familiar.

geez that cop is racist to bomies

I think it looks cool, but the trees and bushes could use a reworking

hmmm

https://i.gyazo.com/b61485a541820522...d48fb7cf11.gif

updated the beach tiles

working on other animated stuff next

That looks really good :D

figured it out thanks to dusty's advice on mngs :)

holy **** that looks good

had to make a proper screen for my boyfriend, he didnt want to download graal for me to show him the tiles lol (i dont blame him LOL)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...slandwater.gif

I don't think the alpha tweening looks nice.

yeah im pretty undecided about it, i might turn it to a simple browner tone to indicate wetness, also elongating the waves a little further increasing the frames entirely

getting a result closer to this but definitely slower lol:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--sN6txslpM...oredwaves2.gif

the most troublesome problem i face is the gap between those tiles... i have to use 1 giant MNG to having it stay in sync, if i use seperate mngs, it desyncs :| and the mng has a restriction of 256 colors aswell, so i cant go and smooth the tiles inbetween...

but since the wave part and corners are simple walkables, i might be able to replace them with nearby walkables so i can make them compact in one place

EDIT:

me googling animated beach tiles for references...

https://i.gyazo.com/26304f0bd8d727c8...36b6da3152.png

this one looks nice:

https://67.media.tumblr.com/89e0b923...jafeo1_500.gif

is there an application of some kind?

just like all servers on graal, we are always looking for talented and mature people

but be aware, all of our staffs are older than 25 years

Are you using mng because gif tiles are not supported or because it's a moving image with transperency? Just wondering

Because MNG is better.

Graal supports GIF, but MNG is much more efficient than GIF is. A few GIF animated tiles will be enough to slow down the client, but you can animate the entire screen with MNG and hardly slows it down.

Or simply put, MNG is better.

Ahh thanks for the info, was just unsure of the benefits with mng instead of gif other than semi-transparency animations

mngs dont support semi transparency animations unfortunately

and transparency doesnt work at all for MNGs @ tilesets unfortunately

Hmm I thought it supported semi-transparency animations from some things I've seen on ol'west but ofcourse it could have just been done with the assistance of ganis etc. Oh well my bad

this server is moving incredibly fast

wish some of the iOS ones were progressing like this lol

im sure youre already aware elk, but just in case:
http://i.imgur.com/tbi3NFF.gif

this part will probably need to be retiled, as it was made with the old tiles in mind

A couple people in this thread have mentioned gralats being hard to get, Cloud doesn't have a Graalians account but here's what he said when I mentioned making getting gralats easier.

"That is what people say, but I think you should play the game more before making that criticism. The only people saying this are people who gave up on playing the actual game. I reset my account a few weeks ago and I already have 312 gralats.

Of course starting out it's hard to make gralats, but once you make a bit you can buy tools to do new jobs that make more gralats like mining, and by mining you can craft tools to do other jobs like farming. For instance if you farm 4 apple trees you get 48 apples, and if you use those apples to make apple snowcones you get 98 gralats I think.

So no, I definitely won't be making it easier to make gralats for two reasons:

1) it makes zero difference. the only difference making more gralats makes is that the number is higher, but this causes inflation.

2) the game is funner in the endgame if getting rich starts with humble beginnings. when you first grind up to 100g it is a huge rush because that is a lot of money. when it takes work to get items in-game and the items are tradable at the market, it gives the items a real sense of value and rarity and makes it possible for merchantry at the market to be one of the funner jobs on the server.

basically the only people criticizing the economy on Graal2001 are people who haven't actually played the server."

note: i'm going to be making a Bomy Island Update Log thread in a bit, stay tuned