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 ==Project Activity==
-Arianne has ranked highly on activity over the year on SourceForge. For some weeks we've been ranked as highly as 2nd place, and are often in the top 25 each week. In 2010 we entered the top 50 all time activity ranks, too.
+Arianne has ranked highly on activity over the year on SourceForge. For some weeks we've been ranked as highly as 2nd place, and are almost always in the top 25 each week. In 2010 we entered the top 50 all time activity ranks, too.
 For another year we welcomed new developers to the project, this year <player>storyteller</player>, <player>Laguz</player>, <player>Bluelads4</player> and <player>omero</player>, all of whom started as Stendhal players. Other developers who continued to contribute in 2010 are <player>hendrik</player>, <player>kymara</player>, <player>kiheru</player>, <player>madmetzger</player>, <player>yoriy</player>, <player>plassy</player>, <player>tigertoes</player> and <player>axelf|martinf</player>.
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-Early in the year we introduced a [[NPC Harold|NPC]] facilitating delayed player-to-player trading. Later, a ''trade GUI'' was added for live trading. These long standing feature requests being fulfilled meant that finally the trading table in Semos could be removed and players can trade safely.
+Early in the year we introduced a [[NPC Harold|NPC]] facilitating delayed player-to-player trading. He [http://twitter.com/stendhaltrade tweets] new trades. Later, a ''trade GUI'' was added for live trading. These long standing feature requests being fulfilled meant that finally the trading table in Semos could be removed and players can trade safely.
-We try to add one new [[StendhalQuest|quest]] per release so there is always something new for players to try. Highlights include the Wizards Circle quest, automatic rat raids with their own Pied Piper, a meta-quest - the Ultimate Collector, and the Semos Mine Town Revival Weeks which had a new game. The Kalavan Orb and Haizen's mazes also provide new experiences.
+Many, many new [http://stendhalgame.org/npc/ NPCs], [[StendhalQuest|quests]] and [http://stendhalgame.org/item/ items] have been added, maps have been beautified and texts (such as descriptions of objects around the world) enriched. Highlights include the Wizards Circle quest, automatic rat raids with their own Pied Piper, a meta-quest - the Ultimate Collector, and the Semos Mine Town Revival Weeks which had a new game. The Kalavan Orb and Haizen's mazes also provide new experiences.
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 == Website ==
-Our websites [http://arianne.sf.net arianne.sf.net] and [http://stendhalgame.org stendhalgame.org] both saw a lot of improvements. A lot of information for example about the different [[StendhalAtlas|regions]] and [[Stendhal Dungeons|dungeons]] has been contributed. It is now possible to link multiple character together into one account with one password. A login history makes it easy to spot unauthorized access. We improved the character pages by adding details on equipped items and you can filter the hall of fame for your friends. Last but not least postman messages are now available on the website for all the characters of your account.
+Our websites [http://arianne.sf.net arianne.sf.net] and [http://stendhalgame.org stendhalgame.org] both saw a lot of improvements. A lot of information for example about the different [[StendhalAtlas|regions]] and [[Stendhal Dungeons|dungeons]] has been contributed. It is now possible to link multiple characters together into one account with one password. A login history makes it easy to spot unauthorized access. We improved the character pages by adding details on equipped items; you can check recent events in the game; and you can filter the hall of fame for your friends. Last but not least postman messages are now available on the website for all the characters of your account.
 ==Statistics==
-The graphs below demonstrate some of the year's statistics. All except the Ohloh codebase graphs (in blue) are for 2010 only. Downloads and [http://sourceforge.net/projects/arianne SourceForge] web traffic have been quite steady. The code base graphs are from project inception and show increasing year on year activity, with a particular increase on comment ratio in 2010. Comments are a sign of higher quality code and make it easier for developers to understand. Our continuous integration bot [http://stendhalgame.org/hudson Hudson] automatically warns us in {{irc-arianne}} of development code failures, and also automatically finds potential code issues (findbugs warnings). http://stendhalgame.org hits have increased over the year. The improvements to the engine Marauroa can be seen in the server side lag graph for 2010.
+The graphs below demonstrate some of the year's statistics. All except the Ohloh codebase graphs (in blue) are for 2010 only. Downloads and [http://sourceforge.net/projects/arianne SourceForge] web traffic have been quite steady. The code base graphs are from project inception and show increasing year on year activity, with a particular increase on comment ratio in 2010. Comments are a sign of higher quality code and make it easier for developers to understand.
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-File:Downloads2010.jpg|90,332 downloads in 2010, with a spike in March. Image: [https://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=1111&ugn=arianne&type=prdownload&mode=year&year=2010 SourceForge.net]
+File:Downloads2010.jpg|90,000+ downloads in 2010, with a spike in March. Image: [https://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=1111&ugn=arianne&type=prdownload&mode=year&year=2010 SourceForge.net]
 File:Projectwebtraffic2010.jpg|Project web traffic has been steady. Image: [https://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=1111&ugn=arianne&type=prweb&mode=year&year=2010 SourceForge.net]
 File:MarauroaCode2010.jpg|Marauroa's code base and particularly the comment coverage has increased. Image: [http://www.ohloh.net/p/marauroa/analyses/latest Ohloh]
 File:StendhalCode2010.jpg|Stendhal's code base and particularly the comment coverage has increased. Image: [http://www.ohloh.net/p/stendhal/analyses/latest Ohloh]
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+Our continuous integration bot [http://stendhalgame.org/hudson Hudson] automatically warns us in {{irc-arianne}} of development code failures, and also automatically finds potential code issues (findbugs warnings). http://stendhalgame.org hits have increased over the year.
+Website hits are a good indication of rising interest in the project and reflect advancements in site accessibility. The improvements to the engine Marauroa can be seen in the server side lag graph for 2010. Finally we show player count and IP statistics for the main server of the Stendhal game.
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 File:Findbugs20101207.png|Martinf did significant work on reducing the number of findbugs warnings in Stendhal's code. Image: [http://stendhalgame.org/hudson/job/stendhal_HEAD/ Hudson]
 File:Web-access_stendhalgame.org.png|Web page requests on stendhalgame.org. Search engine spiders and image downloads removed.
 File:Server-lag-2010-annotated.png|Marauroa improvements significantly reduced server side lag
+File:Gameserver-stats-2010.png|Online players and IPs at stendhalgame.org (Note, IP stats only since March 2010)
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 Later in 2011 or beyond, we plan to implement containers and a magic system, starting with simple spells. And of course there will be many more interesting quests and challenges.
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+Thank you for reading!
+If you enjoyed this review, perhaps you'd also like to check out <player>kymara|kymara's</player> talk [[Arianne_Project_Meeting_2010/Talks#Stendhal_:_the_past_three_years|Stendhal : the past three years]] which was written in March 2010.
+If you're inspired to contribute to the next years progress and beyond, please join us at {{irc-arianne}}.

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