Wow, this year has been incredible. The time has really flown by for us in the development team! We are hopeful that this update brings some excitement and joy to the community as we reflect on 2024 and look forward to 2025.

Reflections on 2024

This time last year, we discussed how the new processes had been put in place. We had hoped they would enable us to provide quicker and more regular updates to Syrnia. A year on, and we feel confident that they have provided us the speed to release more stable, regular updates.

Secondly, we launched the new server in April, and have been very happy with the performance improvements this has brought to the game. This has been a fantastic step forward in Syrnia development, and it has given us the platform to look ahead at new features and content releases.

Thirdly, I want to look at bugfixes, as we have been able to provide over 300 bug fixes this year! Some of our highlights are:

• Technical limitations around clan SHs have been lifted, and we can now enable clan SHs at new locations!


• Switching between F1M and Fight All now registers the last click correctly.


• Shops no longer destroy items accidentally.


• Boss fights no longer cause server wide lag.


• Fighting a dragon at dragon spawn time no longer throws you into the next fight automatically.


• Grotto timer now remembers where you left off, and special tools can be used at grotto to provide a timer reduction.

Lastly, I want to look at new content over this year. We feel this has been a great area of improvement and are happy with the direction this has taken. Some of our highlights are:

• New gems added to bosses!


• New boss!


• Trading & Construction have been revamped!


• New Fishing Tool - Harpoon!


• A New Arch Caves (AC6)!


• Daily Login Rewards - a new feature to unlock something each day!


• Release Notes are now far more prominent and easier to read/find!


• New Force Botcheck donation option!

Lumara

This is where most of you instantly scrolled to, eh? Well we would love to share some exciting details with you today! We are aiming to launch Lumara Q1 2025, with it coming to the PTR a few weeks ahead of launch to help us iron out any bugs / issues with it.
We want to acknowledge that this may be disappointing to some, as it will feel like the new content is being spoiled before it even reaches the live game - but we feel getting the polish right with this launch is important. The PTR really helped us have a smooth launch of the new server, and we’re going to rely on it to help us have a smooth launch of Lumara too!
As we get closer to this time, the PTR will be taken offline momentarily - so we can re-sync it with a copy of the live game, this will allow us to have higher confidence in what we release to live & it will allow more of the community to jump in and help test. We will announce the launch of Lumara to the PTR closer to the time, please keep your eyes peeled for the news update!

Progress: 95%


Pirate Overhaul

All work over the past couple of months has been on bug fixing and Lumara, there hasn’t been any further progress made here….yet. As soon as Lumara has launched, a lot of development time is freed up, and we can make good progress on this project. I want to stress that Pirate Overhaul is a key goal for us for 2025. We have not forgotten, and we will continue to work on this to get pirates the update that is coming!

Phase 1 Progress: 50%


Brewing

Similar to pirate overhaul, brewing has had little progress made since the last update. As soon as Lumara has launched, a lot of focus will be on pirates and brewing to get these delivered. We will keep the community updated as to any progress made in the next roadmap update!

Other Projects in 2025

We would also like to touch upon some other projects coming down the pipeline that we're excited about, but not quite ready to share the full details. These include modernising the home pages, more bosses and post lumara content!

Final Notes

Our goal for 2024 has been to focus on player retention, to address this we have wanted to add new content for players of all levels with things like Daily Rewards, AC6 and Lumara coming imminently. We feel this has been a successful mission, and have been very pleased with everything that has been released.

We would like to add that we are dedicated to the long term strategy of providing improvements to Syrnia. This includes a myriad of other things as well as the major 2 topics listed above. Whilst we don’t touch on them directly we would like to mention that work is still on-going for these other projects.

Whilst we don’t always hit the mark, or are slower to provide content/fixes than we want. We hope this provides an outlook on where we are, and where we want to be!

Thanks,

The Syrnia Dev Team

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Hello, is there anyway to add a feature to trade in crystals (voting for syrnia) to count for the daily rewards?

This would help people who only lost one or two days in a month.

Thank you for the transparency and most of the updates.


Removing the forced botcheck and monetizing it was in poor taste.

Instead of adding more bosses to the large pool of 6 that we already have, why don't you look into increasing the accessibility of them so that more people can fight them? I'd suggest making the timers between fights 26 hours, so the fight schedule rotates throughout the days, instead of the same time slot every day, or make them individual 1v1 fights.

Appreciate the update. Can we make punishable for those on the PTR of leaking the details of Lumara into the live game version? Not everybody wants to be spoiled, like I get it cannoted be stopped in clan or whispers, but could we have some enforcement done on forums and world chat?

Agreed with Cast.

And Goosh, just some insight from someone who disagrees...

Changing the botcheck frequency causing a botcheck update was an unintended consequence of the feature—a bug. It was in the game so long that it FELT like a feature, but it was, overall, a bug.

It would be nice if everyone had access to the force botcheck function from the get-go, but I also understand why they added it as a donation option. You likely wouldn't be unhappy that it was had the game been launched with it as a donation option, but the fact that we had it so long and it was taken away unless you pay money is what sucks. I get that. But looking at the game overall, I think it's a good decision. Just my two cents though.

+1 Cast. Implementation of NDA would be quite great.

I think it would be nice to increase the bot check fro like 15mins and half hour to like 4 hours or have it so u pay premium points to have like maxed 12 hours but for free play people have it at 4hours instead of 15 mins. As I feel this would encourage more people to play the game and keep syrnia alive.

botchecks over an hour are dumb if you want a idke rpg go to one of those

I know enforcement is difficult in a sense but I would love it if there was some form of discipline for Lumara information being leaked into live chat.

PTR is an option for players who want to help with bug checking and getting a look at content before it comes to live, however not everyone wants to be spoiled, we worked hard on Lumara and I am excited for pople to get a glimpse at it and make sure it is ready for Live, however I do not want players excited for it getting spoiled by people from the PTR.

Are there any plans to bring the Force Botcheck to the main interface? I am considering purchasing it, but I use Chrome Remote for most of my play time and navigating to the Force Botcheck option as is would be a pain.

Also, might want to rethink the trading update.

@ner0 - enforcement is pretty hilarious. We barely get enforcement in trade chat. If you dont want people talking about it, dont put it on PTR, go test it yourself.

^ +1

+1 Raw

Thanks Akk for putting in the work - Syrnia has gone from stagnating to making real progress since you joined the team. It can't be a coincidence that all the bug fixes/updates/server migration only started upon you joining the dev team.

Couple of bits;

- Can the force botcheck be added as a button somewhere in the main interface? It seems beyond silly to have to click Options - Force Botcheck - Force Botcheck.

- Trading update - Have you considered gold sinks for the increased market sell prices, tied to trading level? Just so we don't get an ever increasing amount of gold in circulation due to natural level progression and poor forward thinking?

Edited on 03-01-2025 13:01

Funny because I've spent more time on Lumara than I have seen friends and family but sure yeah I'll just go test it and add to the god knows how many hours that's already gone into testing it.

Nice advice bro 10/10

Edit for Savage*

He stated why don't I go test it if I didn't want it on the PTR, I Do want it on the PTR because further testing is always good.

However the post seemed to state that it had not been tested to which I responded with how long I had spent on the island already testing it.

Edited on 04-01-2025 01:05

You volunteer to help, no one is a holding to your head telling you to not see your family and friends

You volunteer to help, no one is a holding a gun to your head telling you to not see your family and friends

You missed the point being made but it's you so it's ok.

However the post seemed to state that it had not been tested to which I responded with how long I had spent on the island already testing it.


That wasn't intended, i just had to point out that you wanted to make up a new rule when you place content on a public test server, that's laughable. As savage said, you volunteer.. if you didn't want to volunteer, allow others that do want to invest time into making the game better. No need to be defensive or hostile.

There's probably a lot of people who want things to remain a surprise, there might or might not be an enforcement of spoiler keeping. However it's very disrespectful to call it -hilarious- for whatever reason, to someone who is merely trying to flock with players who want to unearth new content without everything already being known just because the PTR version -leaked- everything.

You're saying an enforcement of things not being spoiled is -hilarious-, because -you feel trade chat is not governed in the first place-. You must be blissfully unaware of how silly that sounds.