The Mod Hit List, 1/23 Updates, and Stability Patch

The following mods are the ones my AI recommends we disable, but I am fighting to keep them since we are adjusting factors around them to make them work for us.

• Shemite City State 1.4.4
• Wings Of Valhalla (Valkyrian_Lands)
• Better Thralls v2.3.4 (Feature Complete)
• Endgame Extended Weapon Arsenal (EEWA) v0.29.19
• Wings Of Valhalla Equipment

Of these, I have been doing research, and we will likely be making another change to the mods. We are likely removing the first three to reduce spawn and pet errors, and keeping the last two. While we may get the balance right for two players, I am thinking about the stability for a dozen or more players, all in different areas of the world.

As Goddess Mysti would remind us:

The stability of the many outweighs the experience of the one.

The first of these two is an "add-on" mod for the map, and I am not feeling advanced thrall play will be as important on an RP server with a group working together, as it is on a server where the action is more single-player and building a city filled with thralls. The pets and spawn failures in these mods are killing us, in log errors, and every failed spawn and missing pet adds to the garbage collection woes the engine needs to keep up with.

EEWA still has the max level of 300, but Wings of Vahalla raised that to 600. Still, I think with the normal game only going up to 60, level 300 is still far more than anyone will ever play or reach. 300 is already godlike in terms of progression, considering power level and things to do. No big loss here.

Goddess Mysti would rather have a stable server than the entire server population getting kicked out every 90 minutes. This will give us the best baseline to continue testing as we prepare for a population increase in the near future, with more people expressing interest in joining us.

We keep the best-of-the-best mods here with all the items, which are the last two. Those have the least impact on server stability as well. I may add a few mods, such as extra spells and a few fun options, to make up for the loss. We are adding:

• Akihabara Design
• Domain's Magic
• Highmane's Arsenal

So increase the roleplay and magic systems in the game. The modlist page has been updated.