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== 8. What has been your biggest challenge? ==
== 8. What has been your biggest challenge? ==


Stendhal is still under heavy development. This means that we constantly add new interesting features and in rare cases this may dramatically change the rp system.
Stendhal is still under heavy development. This means that we constantly add new interesting features. For example in the past there was the simple rule "the faster the weapon, the better". This had the strange impact that a light knife was more suitable than a heavy sword to fight a huge dragon. So in 2008 we added a new property: "weight". Now heavy weapons are more suitable against huge monsters. Light weapons are still useful to fight small monsters. As usual we put information about "weight" into the release announcement and even added some NPCs in game to explain it. But a number of players totally ignored it and went right into big trouble. It took a couple of days until the word was spread and the situation improved.

For example in the past there was the simple rule "the faster the weapon, the better". This had the strange impact that a light knife was more suitable than a heavy sword to fight a huge dragon. So in 2008 we added a new property: "weight". Now heavy weapons are more suitable against huge monsters. Light weapons are still useful to fight small monsters. As usual we put information about "weight" into the release announcement and even added some NPCs in game to explain it. But a number of players totally ignored it and went right into big trouble. It took a couple of days until the word was spread and the situation improved.


The lesson we learned is: When we add such features we have to be very communicative about the impact.
The lesson we learned is: When we add such features we have to be very communicative about the impact.