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[Operations] New patch – February 26
Dear Twinizens,
We just wanted to let you know that we’ve just deployed a new patch minutes ago. When you restart Twinity, the patch to the client will automatically run and update your client. This patch focused on bug fixing and resolves the recent issues concerning the inability to remove flatmates as well as some display issues on certain laptops.
Thanks,
Craig
Chris Abraham on Twinity
This is one of the more interesting first experience review of Twinity that I have seen.
News from the development department
Twinity is still in beta and we thus still need to improve many things. We got comments from members who want to learn more about what is going on behind the scenes. That’s why we are happy to introduce a new section in our newsletter with updates about the Twinity development progress.
I will post the same text here on the blog, to give you an opportunity to comment on the development news.
You might have noticed recently an increase in the number of patches. This comes from our new strategy to release bug-fixes and features as frequently as possible. To keep the disturbance to the community to a minimum, we try our best to update Twinity only within two fixed release windows per week: Tuesday and Thursday between 11 and 12am CET.
Last week the patches included fixes for a crash on Athon processors, fix for a freeze during teleport and faster city loading. Also, Twinity remembers your last position in the city now. The next patch will fix an error with flat-mates, should fix a bad freeze during chatting, and will improve the performance on machines with small video memory.
Also you might have noticed a couple of short server outages last week. We updated our MMO server two weeks ago and had some nasty issues with outdated configuration files. Since mid-last week no further server-crashes occurred, so we think we have caught the problem.
For the next weeks our main focus will be stability. We fight hard to reduce crashes, freezes and server drops. This requires some low-level changes on the thread-synchronization layer and our resource management. These improvements take time and some cool features (such as vehicles) unfortunately have to be put on hold, until we are happy with the stability.
Other things we are working on are better media playback, more reliable voice-chat, better performance with long friend lists, and a more beautiful female avatar. More about this in the next newsletter.
Chair in the Sky on Twinity
I love the name of this blog, and I like the new comments there about Twinity:
So any way Twinity continues to improve. this is my current av evolution, she is almost ok. The movement of av’s is still awkward and she seems stoned all the time as she has this way of constantly gazing into the netherland.
I am in my apartment here and I do like it. You are also now able to send postcards from in world, though I have not done that yet………….oh and my gallery has been featured a few times. I must go in world and change the exhibit though.
Taking your Twinity feedback seriously
Lately, we’ve been getting a lot of feedback about Twinity, not all of it positive, but we’re listening. I wanted to take a few moments to share some of the feedback, and what we’re doing to try to continue to make Twinity better for you. Read More
Twinity portraits
Have a look!
[Operations] Twinity update completed
Dear Twinizens,
We just wanted to let you know that the update to Twinity has been competed. When you login to the client, the patch will run automatically. I’m sure you are interested in what has been improved or added so here is a short summary:
– Improved the loading speed for Berlin
– Client remembers the last position where you were in the city
– Show map of place in the city before teleporting
– Improved quality and stability of VOIP
– General stability and UI improvements
– Removed world map from search menu
– Minor bug fixes on Twinity.com
Thanks,
Craig
[Operations] Twinity update Feb 19, 2009
Dear Twinizens,
Please be informed that there is small release coming in the next couple of hours (starting around 11:30AM CET). Twinity may be unavailable during the update. Please check back here for the release notes later today.
Thanks,
jeremy
[Operations] Twinity Server Update Today
Dear Twinizens,
We just wanted to let you know that we will be doing a quick update on our servers today at 11:20 CET. The update will take approximately 30 minutes and unfortunately, it will not be possible to log in to the client at that time.
Thanks,
Craig