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The TattleMaster is BattleMaster's first, and only, OOC newspaper dedicated to discussions about the game of BattleMaster itself. Here you will find information regarding bugfixes, new features, changes in game mechanics, and probably even a few FAQs and interviews.
Servers Updated AgainOctober 6, 2009
Tom has uploaded another set of bug fixes and changes to the live servers. The following new features are available on testing islands:
  • Huge Battle Reports will now include the names of the participating armies, as well as the names of the army sponsor, and the name of the Marshal/Vice Marshal that took command.
  • Region lords have a new setting for automatic transfers: "needed to next harvest". This will allow the game to calculate the food needed by the region to feed it until the next harvest, and then send all excess to the next specified region. This should greatly simplify food management for lords, especially on islands with seasons (Dwilight and the Far East).
In addition, all recent bug fixes have been uploaded to the stable islands.
Indirik
Major Update to Stable IslandsSeptember 22, 2009
A major update, the first in nearly six months, has just been done to all stable servers. This adds many new features to stable, as well as all current bug fixes. Some of the major new features that have been added:
  • Auto da fe
  • Allow drafter of a treaty to cancel it before it is signed
  • Dead bodies rot (auto-delete) after 2 months of lying there unburied
  • Temples falling down due to lack of funds
  • Militia disbanding due to insufficient tax to pay them
  • Buildings falling down due to insufficient tax to maintain them
  • Quarterly elections
  • Demolishing recruitment centers and workshops
  • Mobile/Militia breakdown on scout reports
  • Added region stat descriptions
  • Fix major bug in Organize Repairs
Indirik
Community Manager AppointedSeptember 4, 2009
Tom posted the following login message today regarding the official appointment of Ethan Lee Vita as the new Community Manager for BattleMaster. Ethan's main task will be as an interface between the dev team and the community, primarily through the Discussion List. If you have any questions or comments, head over to the List and send them on through.

Community Manager Announced
Today, it is my pleasure to announce that from this day on, BattleMaster will have a Community Manager. The CMs job is to handle the interface between the player community and the development team. I'm very happy that we have found Ethan Lee Vita as a volunteer for this position. Rob Croson will serve as his deputy, in case of absence.

The purpose of the Community Manager is to make sure that feature requests, general comments or complaints from the community are channeled more efficiently to the development team. In the past, many good requests or comments suffered from the fact that the mailing list is too noisy, or that the one writing it could not express himself too well. The Community Manager will take up these proposals, ask for clarification, sort out some issues, and then present a well-crafted change request to the development team.

The dev team is a small group of volunteers, and simply doesn't always have the time or energy to listen to everything. With improved quality of input, their motivation will go up and the amount of features implemented to the satisfaction of the community will rise along with it.

I think we've done a good and important step.

If you want to learn more, you will find the Community Portal to be a good place to start, and Ethan will manage it.

Tom

Indirik
Testing Islands UpdatedAugust 18, 2009
A new batch of bug fixes and features has been sent to the testing islands. Bug fixes and features all the way up through Rev 4134 are now on testing. Some of the major points:
  • Enhanced trade settings page to help manage food, especially on islands with seasons
  • Ruined temples no longer function as temples at all
  • Ruined temples lose all gold in their treasuries at the next sunrise
  • Temples that cannot pay their maintenance cost from either the local or global treasuries will drop down in size, or close if already size 1
  • Ruined temples cannot be maintained, and fall apart when the next maintenance payment is due
  • Auto da Fe is now active. (See story below...)
  • If the regional income is too low to pay the maintenance costs for workshops and recruitment centers, they will suffer damage.
  • If a region's income is too low to pay militia, the militia may desert
Along with many other bug fixes...
Indirik
Auto da fe ImplementedAugust 18, 2009
The long-awaited auto da fe option has been coded, and should be available on testing islands the next time the testing servers are updated. This feature could add some teeth to religions, allowing a priest to remove a lord who follows a different faith from their office.
Indirik
October 7, 2009
Trade offers with no owner should be able to be canceled by the region lord.
October 7, 2009
The position of "Second in Command" has been renamed to "Vice Marshal".
October 5, 2009
Bug 5336 You now need 4 hours in your time poll to build a recruiting center, instead of 3.
October 5, 2009
Bug 5335 Special characters in council titles should no longer prevent appointments.
September 30, 2009
Bug 5329 Caravans should no longer erroneously return home with an excessive amount of extra food.
September 29, 2009
Newly formed realms get a short grace period of immunity to the effects of Too Much Peace.
September 28, 2009
Bug 5323 Messages sent to secret societies should no longer cost the sender a few gold.
September 25, 2009
Army sponsors and marshals are listed in huge battle reports.
September 23, 2009
Priests cannot be assigned to armies.
September 23, 2009
Bug 5303 Paused characters (either manually paused or autopaused) will no longer lose Royal status.
September 23, 2009
Bug 5316 Cavalry will not hang back from the walls if a battle is occurring on the field in front of the walls.
September 23, 2009
Bug 5289 Messages sent with recipients suppressed will no longer have a "Reply to List" link.
September 23, 2009
Bug 5274 The presence of a "<" character in a message should no longer cause the rest of the message to be truncated.
September 23, 2009
Bug 4252 Wizards should no longer deliver the wrong scroll to an adventurer.
September 23, 2009
Bug 2466 It should no longer be possible to accidentally double-click the war declaration link, and thereby accidentally declare hatred.
September 23, 2009
Bug 4373 Religion spread reports should now list all regions that have a temple or shrine, even if there are no followers of that religion in the region.
September 23, 2009
Bug 4680 The message received when looting is prevented by rogue forces should now correctly specify that the presence of rogue forces is preventing looting, and not the presence of defending troops patrolling the streets.
September 23, 2009
Bug 4849 Lord's elected by referendums should now get the correct family history entry.
September 23, 2009
Bug 4953 Messages about new adventurers being spotted hsould no longer include a link to the player's family page.
September 23, 2009
Bug 4773 When a capital city is taken by another realm, the knights of the region should no longer be transferred to the conquering realm. They should now be transferred to the Imperial duchy.
September 23, 2009
Bug 4886 Priests and adventurers paying for travel over long distances should no longer erroneously get the message about needing full hours before attempting the trip.
September 23, 2009
Bug 5304 Adventurers and priests using boats for travel should now be charged the correct amount of hours.
September 23, 2009
Bug 5287 Organize repairs should no longer drop regional production to 0%.
September 23, 2009
Bug 5310 Autogenerated referendums for council positions should now correctly report the position being elected.
September 23, 2009
Bug 5017 You can now hire less than 5 men if that smaller number will take you to your maximum recruiting limit, or if you are recruiting all the men left in the center.
September 23, 2009
Bug 5022 Dukes and "0%" nobles should now be included when a message is sent to all nobles of a duchy.
September 23, 2009
Bug 5015 Monster/undead bounty pots should now be visible even if the lord is not in his region.
September 23, 2009
Bug 5004 Realm hierarchy and allegiance issues associated with buying a region should be fixed.
September 23, 2009
Bug 5169 Nobles should no longer get partial tax reports from foreign duchies.
September 18, 2009
Bug 5313 Amount of food in the warehouse should be updated immediately when a caravan is sent out, removing the need to reload the page.
September 18, 2009
Bug 5306 Several links to RealmTrades.php removed. Only bankers should have access to this page.
September 18, 2009
Bug 5301 Bankers will be able to reduce the amount of taxes a region are sending to the realm. This will allow bankers to remove the obsolete realm share that lords can no longer change.
September 18, 2009
Bug 5082 You can no longer be captured by rogues if there are no rogues in the battle.
September 4, 2009
Bug 5293 Notices of declarations against your realm will now include a link to the general declarations page, and not the details of that specific declaration (which you can't view anyway).
September 4, 2009
Bug 5291 Excessive tax incomes on testing islands due to disbanded militia are corrected.
September 4, 2009
Bug 5283 It will no longer be possible to try to cast a spell from an unimplemented scroll.
September 4, 2009
Bug 5244 Candidate withdrawal notices for referendum elections are now only sent to those who can vote in the referendum.
September 4, 2009
Bug 5243 When buying food, you will always pay at least 1 gold.
August 18, 2009
Bug 5042 Auto da fe implemented.
August 18, 2009
Bug 4888 ruined temples no longer function as temples.
August 18, 2009
Bug 4909 Estates should no longer be reset to idle when a duchy secedes to form a new realm.
August 10, 2009
Bug 5229 Ambassadors will now have the Ambassador title added to their message signatures.
August 10, 2009
Bug 5233 When a noble is captured by a realm from which they are banned, a warning notification about it will be sent to that noble's current realm.
August 10, 2009
Bug 5186 Referendum notifications will now list the group of people being asked to vote in the referendum.
August 10, 2009
Bug 5195 It will now take a few hours to draft a treaty.
August 10, 2009
Bug 5192 Ambassadors will be automatically demoted to Diplomats if they change realms.


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