Amethyst

We're back up, sorry about that

It's been restarted, sorry about that!

i appreciate u cass and yeah i have so many regrets i've committed to them, but regrets nonetheless i really appreciate everyone's patience here but have a snippet of one of starlight's maps just so you can see a little bit of what we're working on here. we're getting there.

i can see some problems if ame becomes president that is much better, but also still SpookyBig . . . . . . . . . . . i just need a small team, enough to take care of them, and maybe a fun environment for it. any more really isn't necessary ......................... no SpookyBig, responsibility scawy

Given recent events, I think it's probably best to not do this right now. No shade, but we're gonna close this.

hi guys! so yeah uhhhh i will say in the first place i get what why you're bothered by this. it isn't our intention to disparage the work y'all have done on the engine and fangame community. i hope that it's plain that i really appreciate all the effort y'all have put into this but, personally when i shoot the shit about essentials i am saying that with the understanding that this is a code base that has been maintained for, what, over a decade has changed hands multiple times in that time, including people of various skill levels (especially on our parts) and has to keep pace with one of the most convoluted, bloated battle systems in existence which has, itself, repeatedly changed over the years and (unfortunately) shows no signs of stopping thinking of it like this, i feel like there is literally no conceivable way that despite all human effort this will ever not be at least a little bit of a disaster. what my team and i are saying here is not meant to be an attack on the engine or anyone who maintains it, but rather sort of just venting frustrations/making light of the reality of the clusterfuck that this scriptset is by its very nature i recognize, however, that to many people it may not look like that, and i am so sorry if this has ended up spilling over into your communities or has led to you having to put out fires. personally i'm definitely willing to make an effort to clarify in the future so that that isn't an issue. we are well aware that a lot of the changes we're making here are reborn-specific. i have mixed feelings about some of those* but ultimately us doing those changes are something we're doing for our game, and talking about here to our community. most players of the game don't necessarily care about how efficient essentials itself is, but lag is a common complaint for reborn specifically (probably because some jerk decided to go and make unreasonably large/busy maps in a game with way too much content already who the fu--). we know that we're running on an old version, but the issues still exist for us, so the improvements we're making for our game here is relevant to the audience we're posting to. but like if we were going off and posting all this same shit in pokecommunity, i'd definitely be mega concerned too. * some of those mixed feelings are because i'm aware there are projects out there that base off of reborn directly rather than essentials. however, for that same reason, the optimizations we're doing here may be particularly relevant to those developers too. that's also why we've been posting them frequently. and yes, a lot of this is still in testing. i appreciate the catch on the ability issue! we'll make sure to take a look at that! there's still a lot of testing on all of this stuff that has to be done, but i think many people enjoy reading along for the journey-- especially since we do try to have some fun with it. we are in the entertainment business here, games or otherwise so i hope there's not too many hard feelings here. cass is gonna follow up with some more specific points i think.

myes mayhaps i shalt just REAMCH over this ledgst...................

worth

because no matter how crazy or garbled this world may be, i still u