Current Status of Development

[Nozemi]

Hello Dodian Community!

My Personal Situation
I know there is little to nothing happening right now, and Dodian is in as bad shape as ever. Personally I have a lot to deal with in real life at the moment. Long story very short; I'm in the process of working out some issues that made me unable to work, and will then be looking for a new job.

The same reason I was unable to fulfill my real life job, might also be the very reason I've been so unstable with Dodian. I'm quite certain I have ADHD, and I've gotten an appointment to get that checked out. If I can treat that I also hope I can focus on things I want more than I can at the moment.

Dodian's Status of Development
Despite my personal situation I've picked back up the website work for our new website. I know some of you might disagree with me on that being the right place to focus our energy at the moment. However there are two reasons why I do that.

Reason 1; the website is the face of the project, it's the portal that connects everything together, so to speak. Right now it's a nightmare to maintain. Resulting in lack of functionality, such as voting.

Reason 2; I'm a lot more experienced with web development than I'm with RSPS and Java development, which means it's also easier for me to focus on the website end of things while we still figure out what to do with the server.

Though when we have a new website with the most necessary features, we'll have a foundation for managing Dodian in a whole new capacity. This will allow us maintain our player base and community in a more professional manner than right now.

Staffing Situation
I also know some of you feel that staff is very absent, and that's a fact. We're not trying to hide that fact. The reason is simply because I personally don't feel like adding, removing or tweaking our current staff team matters much in the long run.

With the new website I'm planning to create a help desk system. Reason is mainly because I feel like we lack on the delivery of professional support. With a help desk system such as the one I have in mind, any action taken against a player will open a ticket automatically. If staff fails to provide evidence in said ticket, staff's action will be revoked. This also leads to a system where we can easily see history, handle appeals etc. The same system will be used in case staff members are inactive, the matter needs to be dealt with at some other time (for whatever reason).

I have not forgotten about Dodian, and probably never will. I promised to make sure it remained online, which is has since beginning of 2018. Even though that was my only promise, I've made some half-promises to make new things for Dodian. I intend to follow them up, despite the lack of activity from my side. I know it takes an awful lot of time, and I hope you can respect that voluntary work like this takes a lot of time, especially considering my personal situation.

New Website Sneak Peaks
Aside from what you can see at the public beta website (https://beta.dodian.net/), I've also done some additional work.





While it's not A LOT of work, it's some. It certainly is a good start, because the drop list is already an actual drop list (I just don't have the data on my dev environment at the moment). The highscores will receive an overhaul in terms of today's functionality. Also as you can see, we intend to introduce ironman modes to Dodian (though note that we might tweak them a bit from what we know from OSRS).