Here is a little teaser info for ya'll:

Thistle Town (starting town):

Here is displayed he weather effect "SandStorm", see topic in this section.
Chat is not displayed in this, and image is due to change.


Some more behind the scenes info: Ruck is working on a "Ghost Server". Basicly when he goes to sleep (because of time zones) I will still be away, and when I go to sleep he will be away. This allows for almost 24/7 monitoring however is will have a flaw - the maximum players online would have to be 256 because of the way Windows is set up.
EDIT: As some test results have shown, the average lag that will appear in your game is 601-604 milliseconds. Thats about half a second for anything that I might change (nothing of any importance really, just kicking and banning/talking) like the weather and news.
Adding more soon,

-The Team.

The "Ghost" or "Remote" server is going quite well. This should mean the game will have somebody to help MUCH more often than normal games do.

Edit: By the way, we have the first town (Thistle Town) and Route01 done! It is startin' too look pretty nice!

Slight edit with new technical info in red.

Cool looks good. I guess your getting very close now.

Some more exclusive screenies:


Bad quality, its a .jpg, but you can see an easter egg . (Ruck's idea xD).

Ahhh, the easter egg.
There will be many in the Alpha/Beta. Show us that you are a TRUE tester, and find them all!