Archive for the ‘New Features’ Category
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
There’s been a lot of feedback about how the Gang Log could provide better information since it’s inception. I went ahead and implemented a bunch of them today. Thanks to Man Mobile, Jick, The Kitchen Sink, PaidPiedPiperPal, and everyone else for their feedback.
- The logs are now filterable. This isn’t 100% yet, because posts older than about noon today aren’t categorized (they’ll all appear under Gang Warfare).
- Donations to the Gang Stash are now visible in the log. This, coincidently, is why the ‘Stash’ isn’t checked by default in the filter, it’ll probably get spammy.
- The logs are now kept for 72 rather than 24 hours.
- For now it’ll remember the chosen filter for the length of your session, but it’ll probably store it permanently once I get account options in.
- Buying hideout upgrades and unlocking hideout upgrades are now both visible in the log.
Some other updates:
- Hawk will no longer offer to set your dead friends free. He’s not a great guy, but he’s not that mean. Thanks Man Mobile and PaidPiedPiperPal for helping me sort out what was going on here.
- Similarly, the watch-coveting Third Eye won’t talk about going to guard a dead Dr. Amundsen anymore. Good catch, RazielSonOfKain.
- The repeated function errors last night are resolved. Thanks thrillhouse!
- The ‘Rest Here’ link in the Hideout page will now always rest in the Hideout, even if it has to take you out of your current area. It will warn you first and only take you out if needed (Ghost Ship and Below the Charnel House, specifically). Good suggestion, The Kitchen Sink.
Cheers!
Kinak
Tags: Bug Fixes, Gang Warfare, Jick, Man Mobile, New Features, razielsonofkain, The Kitchen Sink, thrillhouse, Vholes Piper
Posted in New Features
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Okay, the donations page is in along with new face at Mikhail’s to help describe the process and reward a bit.
For the moment, only the basic reward (the Mr. A, if you will, the currency that is both neat on its own and can be used to buy future rewards) is in. I want to make sure the donation system is working properly before I start layering more stuff on top.
The link between us and Paypal isn’t tested out 100%, so there might be some weirdness there. Rest assured that if you donate, you’ll get your present quickly and you’ll be helping debug any problems there may be. In theory, it should be automatic as soon as your donation clears Paypal. Which is pretty cool.
Edit: The automatic processing seems to be working properly. Huzzah!
Cheers!
Kinak
P.S.: As with many things in Metroplex, the reward is a bit more than meets the eye. Zack has some hints.
Tags: Donations, New Features
Posted in New Features
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Welcome to OmniMall 0.2
Added a couple new hotly requested features and another handful of bug fixes to the Mall today.
- You can now view your own orders and retract orders you’ve placed. Thanks for the suggestion PaidPiedPiperPal, Shademaster00, and Mr. Green.
- You can also search for items by category or use category to narrow your search. Good suggestion, Jick.
- Entering insane values into the mall should give you feedback instead of PHP errors. Thanks for the bughunting, Shademaster00.
Some other fixes/new features as well:
- The option to show all bonuses from yesterday has already been upgraded. It now updates whenever your bonuses change (if you have it open). Good suggestion, Al.
- Skill names when you receive them should be clickable like items, effects, and techniques. Good catch, Shademaster00.
- On a related note, the feedback using the Sea Lord’s Crown should recognize if you’ve already gotten it’s primary benefit. Thanks for the feedback, Shademaster00.
- Also, thanks to The Kitchen Sink for snagging some typos.
Cheers!
Kinak
Tags: Al, Jick, Mall, Mr. Green, Shademaster00, The Kitchen Sink, Vholes Piper
Posted in New Features
Monday, May 25th, 2009
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
Tags: Mall, Net, New Features, OmniMall
Posted in New Features
Monday, May 25th, 2009
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
Tags: Mail, New Features
Posted in New Features
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
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:
- 48 hours for system messages and messages from NPCs
- 30 days for messages from other players (including me, even though I’m systemy)
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
Tags: Mail, New Features
Posted in New Features
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
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
Tags: Gang, Jick, New Features, The Kitchen Sink
Posted in New Features
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
By popular demand, multicrafting of recipes is now in.
- Enter a number in the handy field to perform the recipe that many times or bust.
- Enter a * to perform the recipe as many times as possible.
- Enter a ? to tell you how many times * would perform the recipe, if you’re curious. This won’t cost energy or items, but will tell you if you don’t have enough energy or items to perform the recipe.
Thanks to everyone who suggested this on the forum thread and elsewhere. Special thanks to Kingdom of Loathing for the ‘*’ and ‘?’ standard.
If you run into any problems with multicrafting feel free to drop me a bug report or in-game message.
Cheers!
Kinak
Tags: Crafting, MoreUmlaut, New Features, Valliant, Xkiv
Posted in New Features
Friday, May 1st, 2009
Have a nice crop of updates this morning.
- First off, I added a ‘hint’ for what Techniques can advance a chain (thanks for the suggestion Nytmare). If you’re not seeing them, you’ll probably need to clear your cache. I’m curious what people’s thoughts are on this: good learning tool, nice reminder, confusing, too intrusive?
- The header pane will now autorefresh every five minutes or so (checking for new messages). Thanks to Mag for the suggestion here.
- Gang hideouts will no longer help you in the Ghost Ship or Beneath the Charnel House. Good suggestion, PaidPiedPiperPal.
- I changed the method of getting the Brutality Technique slightly. You should see less of them and have more control over how many you see. The Kitchen Sink kicked this off, but blame me if you don’t like the implementation :)
- The ghost ship should now lock properly after you finish the quest. Thanks Mag.
- I added information about targeting to the Info page, which was sorely lacking. Anything else that seems like it should go in there, drop me a line. Thanks to The Kitchen Sink for the note here.
- And a heaping helping of typo fixes courtesy of Man Mobile, Metro, Prestige, Mag, and Argeth.
Thanks everybody! I’m going to hide in a hole and bang out some PvP changes. Any feedback on the question mark ‘hints’ (or anything else, for that matter) is appreciated.
Cheers!
Kinak
Tags: Argeth, Mag, Man Mobile, Metro, New Features, Prestige, The Kitchen Sink, Vholes Piper
Posted in New Features
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Did a whole bunch of scripting and usability changes today.
- First off, though, a bug fix. An encounter from the new sidequest had wandered off, showing up in the Slags instead. Thanks to Xkiv for the bug report. Anyone who received the skill from this encounter who wants to try out the new sidequest before their next reset, drop me a line, I can roll that back.
- Multi-use (including Tear Multi and Sell Multi) are now inline options. Just type in the number and click the button (or hit enter, assuming the scripting works for everyone). Thanks to Metro for the suggestion.
- On a related note, stolen crates can now be multi-used. You won’t get the blow by blow descriptions, but it’ll save a lot of clicks if you’ve been saving them up. Good suggestion from Twitch here.
- The reset button in the combat screen shouldn’t force a page reload now, just clear out your chain. Thanks Xkiv for pointing out this one.
- At the bottom of the techniques page, it’ll now give a total number of Techniques in that deck. Thanks to Yubi Shines for the suggestion.
- And we’ve got some typos from Metro. Thanks Metro!
Cheers!
Kinak
Tags: Bug Fixes, Metro, New Features, Twitch, Xkiv, Yubi Shines
Posted in New Features
