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.
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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.
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Kinak
Also had a bunch of updates. Just want to get them posted before the list swallows my soul.
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Kinak
You may notice Requirements listed on a lot of items (mostly from the Slags and later). These don’t actually do anything yet.
I’m mostly wondering if they’re going to be a pain for you on the rubric of “can you get this item through normal gameplay before you get to that stat level?” If you find anything like that or I missed something, definitely tell me before I make the requirements actually matter.
As you can imagine, this is part of the preparations for the Mall. Getting to the Mall before the University is a non-issue because of how the Mall will work, but moving forward will require some restrictions so people don’t have to Mall up to do anything.
There’s a thread here if you’re the forum-going sort.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kinak
As you’d imagine, we’ve got a good batch of fixes from the Gang Warfare update. There were actually fewer than I was expecting, which is nice.
Here’s the list:
Thanks everybody!
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Kinak
I haven’t been keeping up as much with posting updates as I normally am, due to the Gang Warfare work. But here’s the list, as best I recorded:
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Kinak
The big Gang Warfare revamp went in today. Lots of neat stuff, let’s see what I can remember off the top of my head.
I’m probably missing stuff, honestly. There’s a whole lot going on. There’s even a new paper mache ‘recipe’ for crying out loud. It’s like a madhouse in there.
With an upgrade like this, especially in the PvP system, I expect for some problems to slip through. So please keep your bug reporting ready to go.
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KinakG