| Demolishing Workshops and Recruitment Centers Implemented on Testing | July 22, 2009 |
| The option to demolish workshops and recruitment centers has now been enabled on testing islands. While the general looting option to Damage Military Infrastructure will damage recruitment centers, the damage done that way is more generalized. The new option of demolishing workshops and recruitment centers lets you focus your damage in a particular building. |
| Indirik |
| Quarterly Elections Implemented | July 22, 2009 |
| Quarterly elections are now implemented on testing islands. |
| Indirik |
| Testing Updated | July 22, 2009 |
| The testing islands have been updated to revision 4091. This includes all the bugfixes made up to the time of this posting, and some new features described above. |
| Indirik |
| Testing Updated | July 13, 2009 |
| The testing islands have been updated to revision 4074. This includes all the bugfixes made up to the time of this posting, and the new features mentioned below. |
| Danaris |
| A Better Banner Picker? | July 9, 2009 |
| A new feature that we've heard rumors about, the Better Banner Picker, is another new feature that will be arriving any day now. While this feature is only available to rulers, it should be very helpful to them. They will now be able to easily select from any banner that has previously been used by any realm, as well as upload new banners to the server for easier review by Tom. While newly uploaded banners won't be available for use until they are approved, this new process should make that quicker, as it will make the process much easier for Tom. |
| Indirik |
| Mobile/Militia Strength in Scout Reports | July 9, 2009 |
| A new feature that will also soon hit the test servers is the separation of mobile and militia forces in scout reports. This welcome change should eliminate the need for some manual calculations. |
| Indirik |
| Upcoming Region Report Changes | July 9, 2009 |
| One thing that BattleMaster has always attempted is to remove the incentive for people to micromanage other players, and also remove any possible benefit of doing so. A new change that is being moved into the game (no exact time frame is yet known, but we expect it soon) is the removal of the display of the exact percentage levels for region stats. Once this change goes live, only the region lord and his knights will be able to determine the exact percentage level for loyalty, morale, and production. Other nobles will only be able to see a descriptive value that indicates an approximate range, similar to the way region control has always been displayed. If a lord or knight scouts their own region, then the scout report generated will also contain the exact values. The descriptive terms that will be used are listed on the Region page. |
| Indirik |
| Upcoming Interface Changes | July 6, 2009 |
AJ has been working hard on improving the BattleMaster interface. He posted on the Discussion List about some of his latest changes that will soon be going live.
The following UI changes have been made recently. Some are live already and the others should go live soon. A couple of them cause functionality changes so please do take a note (Marked with a *):
- Giving medals is smoother using ajax. No popup but just a overlay modal window informing you of the result.
- Switching between Plain text and Rich Text editor is instantaneous. No need to reload the page.
- The link which used to change the preference for the editor will not do that anymore. Instead, it will only toggle the editor type for that instance. To change your default editor type, please visit the options page from your family screen. *
- The message preview is instantaneous. No wait for the server side return the preview data. *
- For now, any and all html will show up in the preview but it will still be stripped away on the server side except for those that are allowed (noted on the message write page)
- Scribe notes and adventurer links are not interpreted into links as of now
- Wiki links are not interpreted right now.
- The background coloring of the drop-down has been removed. Instead, look at the message preview *
- The number of characters used out of the total is displayed at the bottom of the editor (bottom line of the RTE and below the plain text editor)
All of these changes require JS (which should be enabled by default on the desktop browsers). All the features will still be usable if JS is turned off for you. Mileage may vary on mobile devices due to a lack of mobile devices to test these changes.
– Aj
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| Indirik |
| Final Name Changes | June 18, 2009 |
The latest login message: Name changes have been enabled again, for a limited time.
After this round, all clearly inappropriate names I encounter will be deleted with no further warning. This is valid for all islands, and all characters and families. Yes, it includes characters and families that have been around for years. While in some cases there was no naming policy when they were created, there is now and they have had ample opportunities to adapt.
What is a "clearly inappropriate name"? Basically, anything that is obviously not a name and anything that includes a title or a nickname.
"Jack" is fine, it is a name. "Jack the Great" is inappropriate because it isn't just a name. "King Jack" is inappropriate because it includes a title. "Jxyz" is inappropriate because it clearly is not a name in any language. "Jackhammer" is inappropriate because it's an object, not a name.
We will, as usual, err on the side of caution, but the clear examples outlined above will be given no mercy.
– Tom
The message was also repeated in-game. Another message was sent specifically to Outer Tilog, indicating that characters who will only ever live in Outer Tilog will have more relaxed rules, but will still not be allowed titles in the name. |
| Danaris |
| Testing Updated | June 16, 2009 |
| Tom has updated the testing code to revision 4033. |
| Danaris |
| New Economy Moving Along? | June 16, 2009 |
| A day or two ago I spotted the presence of "Wood" in the "new" warehouse screen of a region on the Far East. A possible indication that New Economy is advancing? |
| Indirik |
| Some Inappropriately Named Characters Deleted | June 16, 2009 |
From the login message today:
Inappropriate Names
A number of highly inappropriate character names have been deleted with no prior warning. I've decided on the harsh approach because the character creation page says in no uncertain terms some of the rules.
– Tom
The reason for deletion includes having a title included in the character name, such as "King" or "Queen". As the character creation screen says, titles, including "Sir" or "Lady" are in-game titles that your characters must earn. Names should also be period-appropriate. For additional information, refer to the Name Rules. |
| Indirik |
| Mixed Infantry Balance Change | May 27, 2009 |
Tom recently posted the following changes to Mixed Infantry on the Discussion List:
I've modified the combat effectiveness of mixed infantry a bit, it should now be generally stronger and reflect their CS values better. This is on testing only right now, it will be a few days (or weeks) until it moves to stable. But try them, the old "MI sucks" mantra may no longer hold true.
Also, one often-overlooked fact about MI: They take less size penalties than other units. You may have noticed that the "CS per man" value of units goes slightly down in large units (i.e. if you have 20 men with 400 CS, and add 200 men with identical values, thy will not have 4400 CS, but a bit less). MI is less effected by this, since the men can complement each other better.
– Tom
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| Indirik |
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| July 21, 2009 |
| Bug 5217 The real-time character counter for messages will now count spaces as a single character, rather than 6 characters. |
| July 21, 2009 |
| Bug 5209 Regions status descriptive terms will be color coded. |
| July 21, 2009 |
| Bug 5208 The large blank space below message signatures has been removed. |
| July 21, 2009 |
| Bug 5205 Buying drinks at a tournament will no longer improperly report that you must have a certain number of hours to buy drinks. |
| July 21, 2009 |
| Bug 5200 Default council position titles will now be displayed on the realm details page if custom titles have not been set. |
| July 21, 2009 |
| Bug 5025 The diplomat that drafts a treaty can now delete it if no one has yet signed it. |
| July 21, 2009 |
| Bug 4690 Guild monthly grants/fees should now properly adjust a guild member's balance. |
| July 9, 2009 |
| Bug 4560 Mobile and militia forces will now be displayed separately on scout reports. |
| June 29, 2009 |
| Bug 5176 Healing from light wounds now correctly takes more factors into account, and is not simply always at the next dawn. |
| June 29, 2009 |
| Bug 5115 Trying to play a character when the turn change is running should now produce a "Family" link instead of a "Logout" link. |
| June 29, 2009 |
| Bug 3924 Army information table should now correctly list the "traveling" status of nobles without units. |
| June 16, 2009 |
| Bug 5156 Referendum style elections will now result in island-wide notifications of ruler elections. |
| June 16, 2009 |
| Bug 5137 It should once again be possible to give medals from the New Message screen. Also, a new interface has been created for giving medals. |
| June 16, 2009 |
| Bug 5046 It should now be possible to perform a religious takeover of rogue regions. |
| June 11, 2009 |
| Bug 5158 Former adventurers should now be getting realm-wide event messages when appropriate. |
| June 11, 2009 |
| Bug 5166 Wounded monsters should not be smashing up the countryside. |
| May 27, 2009 |
| Bug 5133 Days to the next harvest should no longer be displayed as a decimal value, only in full days. |
| May 27, 2009 |
| Bug 5132 Unit autopayment should now be working for all units and paraphernalia. |
| May 27, 2009 |
| Bug 5054 You should now be able to view the details of the treaties your realm has signed. |
| May 27, 2009 |
| Bug 4942 Trade Balance should no longer be deducted from regional incomes. |
| May 18, 2009 |
| Bug 5097 Messages sent to the tournament can now be reported as Vulgar. |
| May 18, 2009 |
| Bug 5088 Stewardship status will now be removed when a noble changes realms. |
| May 18, 2009 |
| Bug 5059 Automatic unit payment has been fixed. |
| May 18, 2009 |
| Bug 4830 Current season will be displayed. |
| May 18, 2009 |
| Bug 4652 Several travel related bugs involving very rapid travel when using "next destination", and others involving taking several extra turns to arrive, have been fixed. |
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