[font="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"] @Nikke: Thanks, I chose to use DirectX 11 (same goes for shader model 4.0) to make things easier for myself. I understand that that choice may have narrowed the potential audience I can reach.[/font][font="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"] [clicky][/font]
(DX11 makes viv win7/vista only)

[font="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"]Misc reasons for choosing DX11:[/font]
[font="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"]-I wanted to use the most up to date APIs for this project.
-I programmed all this by myself so I thought I'd make things easier and simpler by choosing just one DirectX version.
-I've got more experience with DirectX11 than with DX9.
-I have a DirectX11 graphics card
-DirectX11 is going to be supported further in the future than DX9.[/font]
[font="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"]-Win7's popularity is growing[/font]
[font="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"]-I wont be done with the project for about another year...[/font]

@JustChris: Nahh, If you have Vista or Win7 you will be fine!

@landagen: Thank you! I've been working on the server/client side by side since very early on, I find it's best to get them both of the ground as early and as close to the same time as possible. All of my friends suck so sadly I can't really show off all the multi-player functionalities in the videos. The server/client are written in C++, I'm not using a database though. I haven't really found the need for one; I just need to save one file for each character and one for each account. The server reads and writes everything to different folders, I find the fore mentioned method to be lot more simple and strait forward than using a database. I get that question a lot though, perhaps I've always just missed something? I encountered frighteningly similar circumstances when I started up a team as well (previous project); this time around I'm going to be a lot more selective, and try to stick to 3 people max joining the team. I'm hoping that will solve the problems that I encountered before.