Public Stage Call #5

Welcome everyone!

This call is being recorded so that those who can’t make it will be able to listen in. The recording will be added here as soon as possible.
Given the abundance of questions in advance this week. We’ll try and keep our topics short to make sure we can get through all of them.
Quick celebration shoutout for hitting 500k guests! 🥳

Valentine’s Event

What did everyone think?
- Cool items, would like more
- A little too easy (turned it up a little too much as a rebound from how difficult it was the first day)
Did you enjoy the event?
What did you dislike / like about it so we can know for future

Park Updates

Few random spots around the park have been spiffed up, like signage
Indy preshow has gotten a refurb to use our new screen system, should be releasing later this week
Rise progress + Teaser images
Devs built us some new tech to use for Rise to make the effects even cooler
Signs would say release is this year
…there is a ride we have secretly been working on. It’s been very long-awaited. Can’t say what it is, but we think you’ll be really excited. May be the biggest game-changer of the park 🤫
- Hint: not IASW

Events This Month & Next Month

March 9th: Barbie Day fashion show
St. Patrick’s Day
Spring/Easter
April Fool’s Day
Lots of exciting stuff in the works!

Dev Updates

Have changed the entity loading system so entities don’t load in unless you’re in that area, which has greatly improved FPS
- Still implementing throughout different rides, Ariel next on the list because of how many models are in that one giant room
Mat & Cam have been hard at work getting the ride update ready — Mat has put in a ton of work to get almost every ride ready
- We’re redoing the ride system and improving it yet again to be more consistent, reliable, and less laggy
- Example of desynchronized rides fixing themselves

New Leaks

Some new toy types are on the way!
Ride Skins
- So you can customize the look of your BTM train (if you are the one who spawns it, it’ll spawn with your ride skin equipped)
  - If you have the candy cane BTM train right now it’ll be redeemable in the new system
- We plan on adding a ton, Racers would be so cool with Lightning and Sally. There’ll be tons of variations of unlockable ride skins (e.g., retro skins!)
Anyone here like Pokemon?
- Unsuccessful catch:
- Successful catch:
- When you’re caught it goes into their Pokedex and they can be traded to other people
  - Similar to the pin book, there’ll be a collections menu that your Pokemon are in
  - Not sure if you’ll be able to catch characters
- It will be possible to turn off being “caught”, and by default you won’t see the capture particles
- Veeeeeery soon, in final stages of getting it ready for release
  - Wasn’t released yet because we designed it originally to catch people who had figures, realized it was way more fun if we let you catch anyone
Warp Effects
- Huge shoutout to Ramen, who’s been working hard on these effects and did all of the heavy lifting on the Pokemon!

Minigames — Some Feedback Questions

Which minigames do you want to see added that currently don’t exist?
- The people like hide and seek and prop hunt a lot… they also like bedwars but we aren’t getting bedwars sorry
  - Hide and seek would let people pick an area of the park to play in, 10 minutes max. (meant to be quick games)
Which minigames should we remove from our current rotation if any
- The people don’t like king of the hill
- What if the minigames correspond to which mayor is elected (we WILL have minigame mayors!)
  - Mayors: voted on each month and the mayor gives passive buffs (e.g., Mickey Mouse as mayor means an added multi on all Toontown rides)
We’ve been considering implementing the pick your own prize for minigames, it would replace the coins
- The people want both (if no reward provided, default to coins)
- You’d still get participation reward regardless
- Will make it so items you put up have to be at least a certain value (e.g., Rare or above)
- Another potential: What if the host could pick between a list of provided items instead of having to offer up their own
Since we’ve announced our plan to link up chats for hotels and whatnot, should minigames also link to the main chat to keep people connected to the conversation even while playing games? Or should it remain independent?
- The people want separate chat for minigames

Retro Move

Hoping to take place next month for it to move to be part of the regular servers where you’ll be able to explore Disneyland, DCA, or Retro without needing to server hop!
- DVC server will also have Retro
No future plans on expansion

Questions questions questions

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Update on Hotels?

There is no meaningful change to talk about at this point other than internal background work, it’s still coming. We’ve been focused on the other ongoing projects

Any updates on palismans?

We can make more palisman’s happen yes

Any updates on when we will get the weekly npc leaderboard for carousel & matterhorn?

Have flagged it, it’s on the dev to-do list for the next release cycle (should be either this week or next week)

What is the next big project you’re working on?

Hotels is the biggest ongoing project, don’t know as far as things we haven’t started yet. We usually work on things in little bits at a time, so everything is constantly moving. There aren’t a bunch of huge things that we haven’t started at all yet

Any downtown Disney update or that not till hotels get released?

Most likely DTD will not change until hotels

Amendment: Not to say nothing will change… you never know!

Updates on vote shop?

REAL soon, got some extra models, almost ready to ship

What happened to the Polar Express prizes?

We are so sorry, it will be soon

When will a payout system for Wondrous Journeys be implemented?

Will flag this one to the dev to-do list as well

When will a cooldown/item limit a single player can have at a time in /rafflequeue be implemented?

Also on the dev to-do list for this next release cycle or the one after it (hopefully on the next changelog)

Any updates on the new IF+ perks? (In the meantime, if they're still being discussed/developed, can we at least get the menu that allows us to see how much time is left on our subscription?)

Probably going to give you a command so you can see the time remaining, but the menu is still being worked on

Will there be an exclusive pin/item (similar to the 400k ones) since the server hit 500k players on February 29th?

If we released one for every 100k then yes we’ll add one, but believe the 400k one was a special one-off so we’ll look into it

Any updates to Galaxy’s Edge?

Nothing guest-facing yet, but hoping to face-lift most of the area as it hasn’t been touched much since it opened

Any update/progress for the vault room at spawn?

The vault room will TP you to the Hall of Fame. The Hall is finished now.

Shoutout Liz + Slinx for building!

Any update on Achievements?

Ramen is working hard on it, doing a lot of testing with this and making sure we properly back-import all of the past data!

Is there a likely chance that World of Color, Fantasmic! and other shows can be worked on and released in 2024 or 2025?

Never say never, but don’t hold your breath

Will the General, Exchange, and Overall Rides (All-Time, Yearly, Daily number values are broken) leaderboards in /stats ever be fixed (blank leaderboard)?

Will look into why those ones aren’t showing! Should be pretty easy to correct.

Can the Grizzly 1 parkour receive a nerf? Most of the jumps there are impossible on newer versions and all the spots on the leaderboard are exploited. (Also, other parkour leaderboards are abused using lag.)

Can definitely look at updating Grizzly parkour (would probably have to nuke everyone’s times). Definitely going to update #1, may see updates to all 3. Trying to figure out how to address the lag issues.

Updates on a player visibility setting (would be great for reducing lag for someone)?

Can look at re-adding no name tags on ride, but won’t be adding an ability to turn players off

Could there be a Cookie Slap tournament? The overall tourney structure could be Teams or a whole Free For All. A return to Lightsaber Duel tournaments would also be appreciated!

Already in motion, thanks for the idea!

Will there be a remake for the full length 15-minute Lincoln show with slideshows and everything? I just thought considering what you've done so far, this seems possible now. The old ride could be archived in /retro

Will likely just be keeping ours the way it is

When will the First Ride of the Day Multiplier, as well as the 12x multi cap, be implemented?

12x cap should be active now!

First Ride is on the next dev sprint task list

What's the point of "Tablist now always shows the entire 80 slots" in the ⁠Changelog⁠?

Switching between servers used to cause the tablist to get broken and messy, putting it to all 80 has fixed that problem and makes it always in order. It’ll still stutter every one and a while, but way less noticeable than before

Is it possible to update party perms as soon as one is made party mod/leader? At the moment we have to relog/change instance before the perms are fully updated.

Thank you for flagging that, we didn’t know it was a bug. Will get that fixed!

Is there any reason why all Hidden Mickeys quests are in Disneyland and not DCA?

GG we did not notice, can get those added

When the next Hide and Seek event?

Apparently coming to /host!

Is there a way to type out ampersands (&) in party chat or name tags so they don't turn into formatting codes?

Would take away your ability to use colored text in party chat, if you add a space between your ampersand and the subsequent text

Have the new rides been put into the daily quests pool yet? (e.g. Jungle Cruise, Buzz, Red Car Trolley, etc.) I've never seen any of them.

Will put that on our to-do list to fix in the coming days!

Will there be multipliers for Retro Rides? Especially when retro server is linked with the main server. And also Monsters Inc.

Monsters Inc. has multis already! Will only add retro rides once retro’s on the main server

I know you have in the past mentioned parades such as the Main Street electrical parade, can we know a little update about the progress?

No updates right now

Sorry for always bringing this up but mobility scooter progress, if any?

No updates right now

Will IASW ever be completed? Besides the Star Wars ride currently in development (we hear), I don't recall any other rides not yet implemented as impactful as IASW.

2047

Will we ever get a Monsters Inc. multi?

They exist!

Will Tsum Tsums be added in the coming weeks?

Not the coming weeks, but they are a part of a bigger thing that is coming 🤫

When will we be able to list all types of loungeflys (even the empty ones) on the market?

That was an empty promise, Cam forgot he said he would do it but we’ll put it on the dev to-do list

Can we expect the llama buyer anytime soon?

No :(

When is QOTD going to come back?

Hopefully really soon, not sure what the issue is. M-O is on strike for some reason, but will look into it more.

When will the /perks UI for rank descriptions receive an update? A lot of information is missing/outdated

Soggy is currently redoing the one on the store and can update /perks alongside!

Will we ever get some more fun server events? We used to get fun games like Easter egg hunt, and hide and seek, but recently, nothing. Thoughts?

Easter Egg hunt will be coming back this year

We thought people were tired of bigger hide and seeks since we did them a lot in the past and people were getting bored, can start bringing it back

Would love to know more of your favorite activities during events, as events team has been doing a lot of planning lately!

People like scavenger hunts, things like the egg hunt

Why was there no NYE 2024 or Valentine’s 2024 pin?

We don’t have a good reason, unfortunately Valentine’s one was made and lost in communication and didn’t get enabled :( Will make sure you get more of those in the future, super sorry that got lost!

Could we get more Agent P daily quests? They appear quite rarely and I think Agent P has been at the same place for the most recent 2-3 quests.

We have plans to completely revamp, improve, and diversify the daily quest content in the coming months, which will be happening gradually behind the scenes first before it starts to roll out. Can definitely do more of these!

What happened to the IF+ streak tag? I (and I believe many others) can't enable it despite the setting is already set to 'On'

There are the day 1s, the people who had it before we did a conversion, and the newer IF+ people. Subscriptions are being weird with our payment provider for newer people, so it’s been rough to fix and get up to sync with the others.

I know I’m not the only person who feels this way, but the server is starting to feel like a pay-to-win type system, especially in relation to ranks. How can the server become less pay-to-win but still feel fun to play on?

We’re definitely trying to be cautious of stuff like this, a lot of the stuff we’ve talked about in the past, we’ve made it a lot easier to get coins and buy magic keys (extra coins on weekends, etc.). We’re trying to make sure the free-to-pay tiers more viable. Wouldn’t call anything inherently pay-to-win, but the pay way is a lot easier of a route. Definitely still going to be looking into ways we can balance it more and it is something that is on our mind.

Liked suggestion about buying Passholder with a set amount of KC in-game

I believe there was prior talk about Pin Hoarder being updated to be more favorable on pin trade-in value. Any update on that?

Soon! PH will probably get an update in the coming months

Any thoughts on adding additional weekly quest tiers that just give extra coins for those who continue to complete dailies after reaching 25 quests/tier 5?

We’re doing a daily quest overhaul, can see about adding this as well.

Any updates on Toy Story Midway Mania?

Nothing at this time, focused on other projects

Any Autopia updates?

It’s on the list and will return, but we’ve prioritized other rides that people seem to be more interested in

The people didn’t like this, Autopia will return to the priority list

Any updates on the Tiki Room?

Definitely up there on our priority list, Cam loves the Tiki Room and we’re quite happy with it

Pretty confident it will release this year

When’s the next Newswire?

No date, but that is something we have been seriously talking about bringing back. Have been liking the immediate feedback of the stage call. We do have a trailer coming out soon!

They WILL return, we love the hype that comes with Newswires.

We like the idea of dropping trailers/Newswires and then doing stage calls afterwards to talk about it/answer questions

Update on adding fast pass and auto grab to RSR?

Will put this on the to-do list, probably something that’s integrated in with the big ride update

I know it’s been discussed before but can we get /ignore updated to actually not show pm's and main chat from ignored players

/ignore definitely should already be ignoring PMs. Not sure where we landed on disabling global chat messages from ignored players.

Is the Mayor Update going to be real?

You betcha!

I haven’t voted almost all month with no key reward any hope u might throw at least 3-5 keys to people who vote more than 200+ times

We probably won’t be doing any more rewards for 200+, considering other things, but you can save those vote tokens to buy magic keys once the vote shop comes out

Why can't HM have the corridor of doors wallpaper? Or are there plans? Those faces complete the scene so well. Is it a texture issue?

Started working on this, constantly updating things that didn’t make it in the initial push. Hopefully will be finished very soon and you’ll see it!

The most important question. When Capybaras being added?

Who knows! Surely there will be a capybara shoulder pet sometime

Can we get a few Barbie items for Barbie fashion show?

Don’t know if we’ll have any new items, but the Barbie box will be returning! Potentially will become permanently vaulted after that…

For the Pokeball/Pokemon mini-game, will Pokeball (and related items) be readily available to get on the server? that way, people can jump into it and be able to purchase Pokeballs for use whenever, instead of the Magic Crate gatekeeping people from getting into the minigame

Not 100% sold on how this will work. If it is magic crate, it’ll be ultra common so a lot of them are dispersed out into the community

Will you have to buy more than one Pokeball to catch more people or can you just have one and have a storage area?

How it works right now: Catch one > deposit it into the pokedex > get the Pokeball back

If we make Pokeballs super common, you might have to get multiple

What does it take to get a item from different fandoms into IF?

Pure luck, not really rhyme or reason to be honest

Any update from the last meeting where you let ppl say what “vaulted” items they wanted back?

Haven’t decided which ones we’re actually going to release yet. Feel free to add more items to the thread!

Will we see Frozen and Encanto soon?

Unsure!

Could Mickey Balloons be a idea of the future?

Funny you say that, there will be a balloon update (leak alert!)

We’ve redone how balloons work, when you get on a ride it disappears and when you get off it comes back! Also, when you log in it’ll still be there instead of having to re-enable it every time. Will be able to unlock/earn certain balloons!

Sorry if this has already been asked but I’m a huge sucker for the Night Market, was the reception for it positive the last time, and if so, enough to warrant a return?

Will return, don’t know exactly when

Is there a set date for 80s nite to come back?

Not right now

Are toys that work only in certain times gonna get fixed to player time

Was not the intention, as it would be a little weird for other players around you

Is there going to be an updated IF tour on YouTube in the future?

Absolutely!

Will we be able to use emojis in /whisper?

Will put it on the list

Can there be a /vote reminder message when you join the server, similar to the daily quest reminder message.

Yes

Talking about the pluses, does it apply to people who first bought it and MAINTAINED a subscription until now or just who purchased it and had it for at least a month?

Yes, it’s who maintained their subscription, depending on when you originally bought and how long you’ve maintained is what “grouped” you in our original system

Will the slide pass ever come back to get into the door located at if postal service?

Not at the moment, but there mayyy be something similar coming in the next few months that may grant you access to the same area with a different type of pass

Will there be different types of pokeballs?

Not at the start, maybe in the future

Any update to the Walle lounge?