8.6 vs 10.98

[leomarques]

Hello everyone, I’d like to ask for a bit of help.

For a few years now, I’ve been working on a personal project: an OT 8.6 with a custom map (source: Nekiro downgrade).

I chose version 8.6 because my scope is small, I have no plans to profit from it, and honestly, I neither understand nor have much interest in learning Tibia’s newer mechanics.

Overall, it’s a very minimalist project, but I’ve been really enjoying working on it lately.

However, I’ve started to feel that the lack of certain features is bothering me, specifically, the market, mounts, and modular windows.

So, I’ve been considering migrating my project to version 10.98 (TFS 1.4.2) while keeping the items and creatures from 8.6. This way, I can maintain simplicity and make my life easier, since I’m working on this solo.

Do you think this makes sense? Do you have any better suggestions for me? Is TFS 1.4.2 stable and free of critical bugs?

 

[Marko999x]

Hello everyone, I’d like to ask for a bit of help.

For a few years now, I’ve been working on a personal project: an OT 8.6 with a custom map (source: Nekiro downgrade).

I chose version 8.6 because my scope is small, I have no plans to profit from it, and honestly, I neither understand nor have much interest in learning Tibia’s newer mechanics.

Overall, it’s a very minimalist project, but I’ve been really enjoying working on it lately.

However, I’ve started to feel that the lack of certain features is bothering me, specifically, the market, mounts, and modular windows.

So, I’ve been considering migrating my project to version 10.98 (TFS 1.4.2) while keeping the items and creatures from 8.6. This way, I can maintain simplicity and make my life easier, since I’m working on this solo.

Do you think this makes sense? Do you have any better suggestions for me? Is TFS 1.4.2 stable and free of critical bugs?

If you haven't added anything special to your source then change it
If you got alot of custom stuff in your source then just take the code from tfs 1.4.2 and add it into your tfs 1.5 source

 

[leo18dff]

In my opnion nowadays is better to develop any kind of project on the newest TFS. Because if you decide to do any upgrade it will hold it.

 

[Codinablack]

Do you think this makes sense? Do you have any better suggestions for me? Is TFS 1.4.2 stable and free of critical bugs?

TFS 1.4.2 doesn't even compile, and it indeed does have "critical bugs", just to name one off the top of my head, the bug of item cloning through the mail is one that exists in 1.4.2. I agree with marko999x, if you already have a bunch source changes then just stick with the server you have... however if you haven't I recommend upgrading to BlackTek Server 1.0 or 1.1 (1.1 is better as it is just 1.0 plus more bug fixes)

In my opnion nowadays is better to develop any kind of project on the newest TFS. Because if you decide to do any upgrade it will hold it.

I completely disagree with this statement; Latest TFS is chalk full of bugs and broken code, and is basically missing most the newest features for the protocol version they target, the PR's are handled very slowly if at all, bugs last for days, code doesn't get accepted for aesthetic reasons...

The sad truth is TFS 1.4.2 IS known as THE most STABLE version of TFS, and yet, its still quite unstable and doesn't even compile without source edits.

You can say I'm bias if you like, but there is a reason I decided to make BlackTek Server's first release backwards compatible with 1.4.2 and made the announcement about releasing and "updated" server for 10.98

 

[leomarques]

TFS 1.4.2 doesn't even compile, and it indeed does have "critical bugs", just to name one off the top of my head, the bug of item cloning through the mail is one that exists in 1.4.2. I agree with marko999x, if you already have a bunch source changes then just stick with the server you have... however if you haven't I recommend upgrading to BlackTek Server 1.0 or 1.1 (1.1 is better as it is just 1.0 plus more bug fixes)


I completely disagree with this statement; Latest TFS is chalk full of bugs and broken code, and is basically missing most the newest features for the protocol version they target, the PR's are handled very slowly if at all, bugs last for days, code doesn't get accepted for aesthetic reasons...

The sad truth is TFS 1.4.2 IS known as THE most STABLE version of TFS, and yet, its still quite unstable and doesn't even compile without source edits.

You can say I'm bias if you like, but there is a reason I decided to make BlackTek Server's first release backwards compatible with 1.4.2 and made the announcement about releasing and "updated" server for 10.98
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I must admit, I didn’t have any trouble compiling TFS 1.4.2, I only had to manually add LuaJIT.

I wasn’t familiar with BlackTek, but I took a look at its goal list, and it seems quite ambitious (maybe even too much for such a niche open-source project). I’ll definitely check it out and give it a try.

As for the changes I made to my build, they were relatively simple, minor bug fixes and the addition of the ability to load map segments (OTBM) via Lua. These are things I believe would be fairly easy to implement in a new source as well.

 

[leo18dff]

TFS 1.4.2 doesn't even compile, and it indeed does have "critical bugs", just to name one off the top of my head, the bug of item cloning through the mail is one that exists in 1.4.2. I agree with marko999x, if you already have a bunch source changes then just stick with the server you have... however if you haven't I recommend upgrading to BlackTek Server 1.0 or 1.1 (1.1 is better as it is just 1.0 plus more bug fixes)


I completely disagree with this statement; Latest TFS is chalk full of bugs and broken code, and is basically missing most the newest features for the protocol version they target, the PR's are handled very slowly if at all, bugs last for days, code doesn't get accepted for aesthetic reasons...

The sad truth is TFS 1.4.2 IS known as THE most STABLE version of TFS, and yet, its still quite unstable and doesn't even compile without source edits.

You can say I'm bias if you like, but there is a reason I decided to make BlackTek Server's first release backwards compatible with 1.4.2 and made the announcement about releasing and "updated" server for 10.98
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I expressed myself wrong. I treat 1.4.2 as the much updated and acessible tfs actually. I dont realize how people love to edit, use, implement new things on tfs like 0.4 1.2 1.3 ... IMO is a total waste of time.

 

[Codinablack]

I expressed myself wrong. I treat 1.4.2 as the much updated and acessible tfs actually. I dont realize how people love to edit, use, implement new things on tfs like 0.4 1.2 1.3 ... IMO is a total waste of time.

On that I can agree