Omg finally, well done Kisuka and don't worry haha. We all appreciate your hard work and FYI, I loved your server RRO. Played it as a kid. Thank you for some wonderful years!
The Royal Criatura Academy is the new training area of adventurers in Rune-Midgarts. Novices must register themselves into the academy in order to take advantage of its educational benefits. The academy includes a grand hall, cafeteria, dispensary, a library, and a student lounge.
Changes
2012 Novice Grounds disabled (NPCs to help abandoned characters stuck in the area were added).
Little Porings added to prt_fild08 along with its channel maps.
Channel Warper name changed to official representation ("Channel Warp Official").
Academy script added.
Novice Skills script disabled due to First Aid and Trick Dead being implemented into the Academy script.
Fixed some AEGIS Names on a few items.
Novice start point changed to iz_int.
Why did this take so long?
Some may be asking themselves: "damn, Kisuka, you've had this for over two years, why did it take you so long?". Well, first off, I've been through two jobs in the last year so my life has been pretty crazy in that regard. Things got stable in beginning of 2015, so I started getting back to this script. The other issue of why this script took so long is due to the nature of the script itself.
In my opinion, this is one of the worst localized pieces of content in the history of Ragnarok Online. Each official server differs in how this script is implemented. The differences among official servers:
kRO: Job Teachers warp you to that classes' specific map once you decide to change to that job. iRO: They changed it to the teacher NPC just changes you to the job in Izlude. You never find out where the guild is.
iRO: Added custom NPCs around Izlude that give out free buffs.
kRO: A number of NPCs that give 'Combat Training' in the form of hunting quests. iRO: Removed / Missing them.
kRO / cRO: Cute Pet portion of the academy has misc poring NPCs to add more to the feel of the area during the dialog. iRO: Removed / Missing them.
iRO: Awful engrish translations and placeholder texts used during localization process left in-game.
euRO: Doesn't even have the script.
jRO: No idea, they block non-Japanese IPs.
Due to these differences, a large chunk of the script had to be manually translated due to iRO having stripped out those portions of dialog. I wanted to keep this content as close to kRO as possible so I chose not to remove them / not to copy iRO.
Missing Features
Due to either missing scripts / NPCs on official, no access to official script, or limitations in Hercules the following features are current missing in Criatura Academy:
A number of Quest Bubbles are disabled currently due to certain aspects not implemented yet in Hercules (min / max level, Pre-req quests, stacking).
ConsumeSpecialItem calls disabled due to lack of information / no implementation in Hercules.
A number of complimenting quest NPCs missing due to lack of them in official server (iRO).
Bugs
If you find a bug, please create a Pull Request or a New Issue.