Non-Disney Online Games Virtual Family Kingdom Thread

[Blackfaer]

So I have spoken to people!

I have been able to talk only in the starting room...
then I came back into the garden and saw a conversation, but no people and I couldn't talk.
Then I left and came back, I could see people but they didn't speak and neither could I...
Then I found by Merlin's two other people I could talk with!!! It was very exciting. Then they both went out of the room, I followed, and I've been unable to speak or see anything anymore!!

Craziness!



It does make me wonder quite a bit exactly how the programming works that such odd problems would be created, and in such an inconsistent way!! Good luck to the tech team getting it figured out - it's certainly beyond my understanding!!

 

[the_jedi_master]

I Want My Name!!! Xd

 

[aengus]

I Want My Name!!! Xd

OMG I want my name too @_@

 

[astrogolfman]

I am in a Wild West room and I am talking to many people. Anyone know when we can change our clothes yet? I hate looking like every other dude out there

 

[the_jedi_master]

OMG I want my name too @_@

heh.

 

[NedsTJ]

It does make me wonder quite a bit exactly how the programming works that such odd problems would be created, and in such an inconsistent way!! Good luck to the tech team getting it figured out - it's certainly beyond my understanding!!

This level of programming is beyond me as well, but if I might take a stab at it from my own limited understanding...
You would think things are consistent, and from the programs point of view, they are. It is just reacting to inputs. "If this is true, then do that else do the other thing"...to put it in its simplist terms. Now take that logical statment and add things like "If this and this are true, but not this, then do this", then take those statements and nest them within each other. It's easy for the programmer to lose track or at least for them to think they've got it all covered....but when you have tons of inputs, you never know for sure how it's going to react. Hence you need to test...and test...and test...and you actually have smaller programs runnign within larger ones, etc ,etc. (one makes your character walk while another makes sure he's walking in the right direction!)

I'm sure others can explain it better...LOL (that's why I'm a Mechanical Engineer)

 

[NedsTJ]

Delurking to post about my experience on VFK so far.

For the first two days I never once saw anyone or was able to chat.

Today I am (mostly) able to chat and I see other people -- but not necessarily all of them! I was in a room with mileycyrus for a while, and though I clicked on all the visible characters, none of them seemed to have her name.

In one room (blacksmith room of the Old West) I could see chat but could not see any people. I could not chat there myself.

In some rooms I can't chat; don't know why.

My character's feet are getting tired. It would be nice to sit.

Bugs and other issues I am noticing:
The dictionary doesn't seem to allow you to type a person's name unless it's already a normal dictionary word. This can make it difficult to address someone in a crowded room.

People can easily block gates and doors and make it impossible to leave a room. (Also -- I hope they add markings to show where the exits are, soon.)

For some reason VFK is noticeably laggier on my Intel Mac FireFox than my Safari. However, I have FireFox using Rosetta, while Safari is not, so that might have something to do with it.

Other comments:

You can hide in Stonehenge, sort of like the Snow White forest in VMK.

I actually like the history theme, but I am getting a history degree so that may have something to do with it.

The size of the project they are building here is pretty amazing. I am actually really impressed with what they have done so far and the speed at which they are adding things. I think they do want to be careful when promising things to people on specific dates. That way lies madness.

I actually like that we can log in during closing hours and just not talk to or see anyone. Once the game has more features that could be cool -- you could log in at night and decorate your room, or do quests, and then socialize during the day. And as long as you can't see or talk to anyone there's really no danger in it. On behalf of West Coast night owls, I like this feature.

I hope it doesn't get too kid-centric. Family-friendly, yes, absolutely -- but I loved VMK because I am a Disneyland geek. I mostly talked there with other adults there who were fans of the theme parks, played games and quests, and ignored everything else. It was just my way of getting a little Disneyland into my life far away from the park. And VFK is not Disneyland or WDW, so it's going to have more trouble drawing that demographic, perhaps. If it ends up just being a kids' place I'll have no reason to be there.

I guess I posted a novel here.

(I was wenyeva on VMK during Beta and for a long time after. Then for a combination of technical reasons and real-world issues I couldn't log in for 6 months. When I came back I had lost all my stuff... my beta pin... my quest kiosk... my rooms... so sad. But I still had my money. So I returned as skycyangirl. I couldn't find my old friends so I never really got back into the social aspect that time; just played Pirates, quested, and slowly built my rooms back up. Now I am wenyeva on VFK.)

Welcome to the dis!

 

[disvaclub92]

(I was wenyeva on VMK during Beta and for a long time after. Then for a combination of technical reasons and real-world issues I couldn't log in for 6 months. When I came back I had lost all my stuff... my beta pin... my quest kiosk... my rooms... so sad. But I still had my money. So I returned as skycyangirl. I couldn't find my old friends so I never really got back into the social aspect that time; just played Pirates, quested, and slowly built my rooms back up. Now I am wenyeva on VFK.)

Welcome to the DIS, glad you came out of lurkdom.

 

[disfanalicia]

i found you redshoe i am BrightGreenApple

 

[Ms.Squeakers]

Question :

I signed up for Beta, yet they never responded to that, and so apparently you can still make a character even if you didn't get a respond to that, but every time I put my user name in, it says that it was already reserved by another player.

Seriously.
Did someone honestly take Ms.Squeakers? Or was it because I already entered my name in Beta?

 

[disfanalicia]

Question :

I signed up for Beta, yet they never responded to that, and so apparently you can still make a character even if you didn't get a respond to that, but every time I put my user name in, it says that it was already reserved by another player.

Seriously.
Did someone honestly take Ms.Squeakers? Or was it because I already entered my name in Beta?

its becuase you signed up with that name in beta.. the same thing happened to me.

 

[disvaclub92]

Question :

I signed up for Beta, yet they never responded to that, and so apparently you can still make a character even if you didn't get a respond to that, but every time I put my user name in, it says that it was already reserved by another player.

Seriously.
Did someone honestly take Ms.Squeakers? Or was it because I already entered my name in Beta?

I hate to say this, but send a message to the site and have them check into it. I would hope they are doing a validation of the pre-registration email to the secondary registration email to confirm that person is who they state they are. But do to the volumes of people, a confirmation like that maybe time consuming.

Still Guest2667, so if there is a Disvaclub title out there, it is not me.

Hugs Mouse, keep us posted.

 

[thesupersmartguy]

I have been able to talk to people by doing the following:

Step out of you room, then step back in.

Sit and wait for someone to come in and begin chatting.

 

[mickeyminnie123]

Can anyone confirm if we can change our clothing, or see our friend list yet?

 

[redshoe]

i found you redshoe i am BrightGreenApple

Woot!!! Now, if you had been able to say you were Disfanalicia, I would have known exactly who you were.

 

[Acemathfanatic]

well talked to Groovy for a bit, she's the only one i seem to be able to talk to now LOL. She seems nice

i've talked to some vfk ppl too cyre their very nice and very kind i think we'll have a great time with them but ill always luv hurry! Hurry 4ever




♥ So Aka Sophielouise

 

[Kasiks]

Has anyone noticed you cant use -_- anymore >_<

 

[redshoe]

i've talked to some vfk ppl too cyre their very nice and very kind i think we'll have a great time with them but ill always luv hurry! Hurry 4ever




♥ So Aka Sophielouise

Hurry is there! I haven't talked to him yet, but several have. Apparently there's a glitch that's causing him to show up as a girl.

 

[Bugdozer]

Has anyone noticed you cant use -_- anymore >_<

Hi,

That is because you can not use underscore anymore. Too many people were claiming to be staff using it with the VFK.

Bug

 

[Kasiks]

Hi,

That is because you can not use underscore anymore. Too many people were claiming to be staff using it with the VFK.

Bug

I see but -_- , >_<, >_>, _-_, .. are my favorite kind of smileys and I am sure i am not the only one in the case :|