First a couple of tweaks on the post-riot quad.
Attacking in Gang Warfare should be awarding XP again like normal combats. If it’s not, definitely give me a holler. Thanks, PaidPiedPiperPal, for the bug report here.
Also, the Mall now has back links to the top page so you don’t need to navigate back down through the Net. Good suggestion Harrakan.
Cheers!
Kinak
So not sure who put what in my Kashi this morning, but I’m largely caught up on bugs and feature suggestions in addition to pushing the Mall today.
Have a good night everyone.
Cheers!
Kinak
Hello everyone!
Shiny new feature today. The Mall is in!
Now, it won’t sneak up and punch you in the kidneys, you’ll have to track it down, but I don’t think it’ll be terribly hard. The rest of the Net is sparse for now, but if you’re wondering why the unlock is a little weird, it all ties together.
With the Mall being what it is, please hammer at it and see if you can make anything break off. If there are going to be infinite money/item/whatever bugs, this is a piece of code that’d introduce them.
Quick Edit: If you reset, your existing orders will still be posted, but the resulting items/credits will be put in storage with the rest of the stuff from your old life.
Thanks everyone, I appreciate the help :) And now I can get back to handling my backlog of requests and bug reports!
Cheers!
Kinak
Okay, the great message cleanup has begun.
As a side note, this isn’t really to cut down on server space or speed up the database or anything (although it certainly couldn’t hurt). It’s actually because I’ve been testing the Mall code thoroughly and I know I would want it the moment the mall code rolled out.
Cheers!
Kinak
Due to popular demand (and the upcoming Mall), read unsaved messages will now autoclear themselves if left for long enough.
There are two timeframes for this:
You can completely avoid either of these by marking the message as saved. I’ll be starting this in a day or two, so you have a bit of warning.
Cheers!
Kinak
Hard at work on the Mall, which means, among other things, clearing up some room on the top pane. The ‘Character’ link is now your character’s name in the left-hand pane.
Cheers!
Kinak
Also had a bunch of updates. Just want to get them posted before the list swallows my soul.
Cheers!
Kinak
Two neat new features in the gang interface today.
Gang Log: There’s a gang log now, viewable by all members. It holds data for 24 hours and includes PvP, spending Profits, and ordering from smugglers. If there’s anything else you’d like included, I can add more, just didn’t want to clutter it up at first.
You should see the last 24 hours of data collected already, because I’m a ninja like that. Thanks to Jick and The Kitchen Sink for the suggestions that fused to form this.
Multi-Sell: You can now sell multiple shipments at once and it provides what I think is pretty good feedback about what’s going on. Thanks again to Jick for the suggestion here. Someone else suggested this too (maybe the Kitchen Sink again), but I’ve lost track because I’m a dork.
Cheers!
Kinak
A big change in how Techniques work today, which I’ll explain before I get into the other changes.
There’s a new special Technique called ‘Do Nothing.’ This is a filler, used for two purposes.
And now for other changes!
I have an interview this afternoon, but will hopefully still be able to make a couple of gang interface updates I’ve been planning.
Cheers!
Kinak
Edit: This change has been reversed and is under further consideration.
To help split things up a bit (and also because it kind of makes sense), each player can now only defend one area in Gang Warfare. If you try to start defending another area, it’ll give you a friendly message and not cost any Energy unless you got a benefit.
You can stop defending areas in the Gang Warfare screen. It’s right under the option to Leave PvP, if applicable.
If none of that made sense, here’s a rundown of the basic mechanic:
When there’s no one left to oppose you in gang warfare, you start patrolling the area and get special messages that say you’re consolidating control. This is setting up a defense for the area to prevent other people from taking it over and, once you achieve control, gives you a variety of other benefits.
Previously, if you could knock out enough competition, one person could take control of and defend all four Gang Warfare zones. Now each person can only defend one.
Note this doesn’t prevent four people from taking over the zones, each defending one, and moving around to get the benefits from all four. It just requires a bit more ‘Gang’ in the Gang Warfare.
Hopefully, this is a positive change. If not, it’ll be easy enough to roll back. Thanks to llaman for the original suggestion.
Cheers!
Kinak