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Project Roadmap

Last modified 07/11/2025

Introduction

What started off as a simple program to read *.uis files (UIScripts) in The Sims Online: Pre-Alpha to see what the game might've looked like during development, quickly unfolded into what it is today as I am writing this. Below you will find a roadmap of what is currently completed, and I still have planned for the future as I continue to resurrect The Sims Online: Pre-Alpha through the project: nio2so

Roadmap for nio2so.Online - TSOHTTP & Voltron

TSOHTTP & TSOHTTPS

AuthLogin.jsp

• ✅ Authorized Result
• ✅ Username / Password verification
• ✅ Errors - Play Rights Expired | Blank Password/Username | Invalid Username
• ✅ User Database with accounts storing progress - Completed (nio2so Data Service Update)

AvatarDataServlet.jsp

• ✅ Serve data for a list of up to three (3) avatars (not based on user).
• ✅ Documented aspects of the structure of the response schema of this controller.
• ✅ Serve list of avatars based on user account - Completed (nio2so Data Service Update)
• ~~ Serve data about each avatar based on a database attached to the user account - Mostly Completed

InitialConnect.jsp

• ✅ Patch Available! - Direct Client to invoke Buddy.exe to patch the game.
• ✅ Error Result - Custom error messages supported.
• ✅ User Authorized - Proceed to next controller.

ShardStatus.jsp

• ✅ Serves list of shards programmatically
• ✅ Shard Name, Privacy, Status, and Population Online populated
• Create multiple instances of the TSOCityServer added to the shard network - Possible/Not In Development

ShardSelectorServlet.jsp

• ✅ Serve a shard based on what the user selects
• ✅ Custom IP addresses with port

The Sims Online: Pre-Alpha

Voltron Features

Create-A-Sim (Edit-A-Sim)

• Arrive at Create-A-Sim
• View all Bodies, Faces, Skin Colors
• Set description and name
• Set personality points
• Save Avatars to Database

Map View

• Arrive at Map View
• View player's profiles
• "Where's my House?" button
• View/Edit House profiles
• Purchase properties
• Track funds using the Data Service
• Top 100 Lists (Most Popular Places filter as well)
• Avatar/House Searches
• Lot Thumbnails
• Lot Offline/Online
• Player-to-Player Messaging (Letters and Chat Messages)
• Exit from a room back to Map View
• Enter Edit-A-Sim from Map View
• Go back to Select-A-Sim from Map View

In-Game

• Arrive at the Lot View
• Designate a player as a host (HSB Mode)
• Join an actively hosted property as a Client
• Chat with other players in the room
• Interact with objects in the room
• Build a house
• Save the house to the Data Service

History of nio2so.Online - Reverse Engineering Voltron

Milestone 0 - Project Inception

Jan 18, 2024

• Added TSOCityServer.cs with the HostOnlinePDU and ClientOnlinePDUs to make first contact with Voltron
• Added TSOHTTP & TSOHTTPS to handle initial server login
• Added TSOVoltronPacket built on top of TCPQuaZar’s ExtendedBufferOperations class for manipulating incoming binary data.
• TSOView2 was created for viewing (*.uis) and The Sims Online: Pre-Alpha city maps.

Milestone 1 - Arriving to the MapView for the first time

May 30, 2024 - Laying the foundation

• Added TSOVoltronPacket serialization technique for serialization of basic data types into the structure of a PDU.
• Added an early test structure for the TSODBRequestWrapper PDU

November 13th, 2024 - Trying to make it to MapView for the first time

• Added the first four DBWrapper PDU structures : TSOGetBookmarksResponse, TSOGetCharBlobByIDResponse, TSOGetHouseBlobByIDResponse, TSOGetRoommateInfoByIDResponse (Structure was not functional)
• Expanded the TSOVoltronPacket serializer to TSODBWrapperPDU
• Up to 14 total PDU structures added to nio2so for testing
• Added nio2so protocol regulator system to handle incoming/outgoing traffic: Avatar, Lot
• Added the TSOPDUFactory for creating, dumping, deserializing, serializing packets to/from file.

November 16th, 2024 - Investing in Infrastructure

• Added early databases for Avatars and Houses in preparation for MapView
• Added GetHouseLeader, FindPlayer, FindPlayerResponse, and LoadHouse PDUs
• Added the cTSOVoltronDMSProtocol and SplitBufferProtocol regulators to nio2so

November 17th, 2024 - Made it to MapView for the first time with an Avatar loaded

• Added Images for MapView early tests
• Published the TSOGetCharBlobByIDResponse working PDU w/ Documentation
• Added the SetCharBlob and InsertCharBlob PDUs
• Fixed the GetCharByID_Query PDU
• TSODBWrapperPDU structure is still very early on -- serialization in early stages using TSOVoltronPacket serialization.

April 20th, 2026 - Top 100 Protocol completed

• Added the Top 100 Protocol