Quasar III and Nebulae III/Nebulae IV
Fixed:
- Problem when deleting empires via the admin panel.
- Ticker problem at the start of the round.
- Raiding - small bug with raiding being disabled during signup mode.
- Ticker problem regarding expired raids.
- Raiding - error causing players in the intel roles to add ships to their fleet.
- Raiding - problem for players trying to reset expired raids.
- Raiding - duplicate ship problem. Forgot to add a default id column to the raid ships table.
- Rewrote the menu bar CSS so that it is compliant with IE7.
- Problem with adding ships to rewards. No longer gives the ship 0 tick engines.
- Typo in a raid redirect notice. (2)
- Possibly exploit with adding and removing ships to a raid fleet. Ship status only changes to 'Raiding' once the user has set their status to 'Ready'.
- Error in the alliance alert message system.
- Error with probe loss reduction.
- Error when trying to leave a raid.
- Error in raid target attack/defence formula.
- Removed a function which caused the ticker to stop updating.
- Fixed problem in the ticker regarding raid invites.
Added:
- Colours to empire news items.
- Small addition to the raid table that shows all raiders in the group. When ships are updated, it now shows the total attack points for each fleet in the raid.
- Enabled raiding. (Sol)
- Missing redirect messages on the intel page.
Modified:
- Modified the advisor box CSS so that it no longer causes issues with IE7.
- Raid gains formula slightly, also made changes for 8 player raids.
- Balanced raid gains on the sector station so that the trade convoy is a useful target for resources. (Sol)
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Added before the start of Quasar III and Nebulae III
Fixed:
- Images for Star Fury ships not showing up. Fixed the main, thumb and mini images.
- Error in the ticker stopping empires from being deleted. This also seemed to cause problems with trading and trade ships.
- The problem where it would always say on the Overview "You last visted: less than 1 minute ago'.
Added:
- Raid System. Check 'Raiding Explained' here.
- New 'Coming Soon' item.
Modified:
- The Herogen race will now start with Fabrication Plants already researched.
Also, if anyone is interested in seeing my raid system change log, so that people know how much work goes into adding a new feature or if anyone is going to check for bugs:
Fixed:
- Finalising percentages not working.
- Updating ships clashing with finalising percentages.
- Ships being selected from the pervious raid.
- Raid report land/roids displayed incorrectly.
- Problem of unbalanced fleets in eight player raids. Fleets could have 3/5, 2/6, rather than always 4/4.
- Error with the news item on raid completion.
- Problem with resetting percentages.
- Bug caused by having leecher roles in the second fleet.
Added:
- Four possible raid targets; trade convoy, sector station, galaxy station and universal station.
- Two sizes for raid fleets; four or eight players.
- Raid invites, news item for invites.
- Seven raid roles; leader, attack, defence, intel, auxiliary attack, auxiliary defence, counter intel and leecher.
- Custom percentages for raid gains.
- Option for players to leave or be removed from a raid fleet.
- Advisor before a raid to recommend target a target size.
- More details to recommendation on a target, giving a minimum amount of attack and defence to expect.
- Option to reset percentages, which also sets everyones status to 'not ready'.
- Confirmation links to removing members, leaving, setting status to ready and resetting percentages.
- Lines to ticker for completed, running and also expired raids.
- Notice and messages added for redirects.
- Added more database settings tables to make things easier to modify and to completely disable raiding if necessary.
- A way to stop players from starting raids in signup mode.
Modified:
- The minimum amount of gains for each target.
- The minimum amount gained when the target has been attacked within X amount of hours.
- Comparison of average networth/ship size to target defence/attack values.
- Intel can add both probes and ships.
- Attack and defence values for four and eight player raids.
- Raider role icons remade.
- Formula for raid gains when there are two fleets (8 player raids).
- Added database values to modify target attack/defence.
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Quasar II and Nebulae II
Fixed:
- Minor tweak to CSS to stop the Logout button from moving to a second line of links.
- Research page no longer says "1 tick until research is complete" even when there are no research labs. It now says 0 ticks, as it should.
- Sector validation on the attack page.
Added:
- An alliance alert message option as suggested by wicket (and previously others). It sends a news item and message to all users in the alliance. Players can also select from three message types to determine the colour of the news item. General (green), caution (orange) and warning (red).
- Missing redirects on the market page.
Modified:
- Tried to change all references of 'centre' to 'center'. I think that 'center' is more commonly used than the British version.
- The styling of the 'Help Me' box.
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Quasar I and Nebulae I:
Fixed:
- Alliance members page - the sector count was continued from the member count.
- IRC bots.
Added:
- Signup links to the login pages.
- Lines to reset attack/defence scores from round to round.
Modified:
- When signing up, it now longer says "you will receive an activation code in your email" because this doesn't happen anymore.
- Updated Sol code to match Protheus in terms of SFv5 theme and Colonel's trade/scores systems.
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Judgement Day beta round:
Fixed:
- Rewards not working at all.
- Sector validation on various pages.
- Building times when land or roids are lost.
- Attack page forces page reload so that cookie target is set after the first attack.
- Page width on low resolution settings.
- Not getting cadets when retiring ships.
- Leave newb mode early link.
- Modify button on the star dock.
- Hull/Hull and Shields/Shields being shown the wrong way around on ship viewer.
- Redirects on the sector browser.
- The gap between the main content boxes and the footer box.
- The market would appear incorrectly when ships were added.
- Redirect fail when respawning.
- Gunship image on star dock not displaying.
Added:
- Status/time to mini-stardock where ships aren't defending.
- Lines on game reset to clear trade ships, routes, fleets, proposals.
- Research counter to show how many ticks remaining.
- Attack/damage points to ship viewer.
- Fleet status page to the star dock.
- A news item to say that you have received a message.
- Content to be shown when the market is closed.
Modified:
- Starting credits for signups and respawns.
- Input boxes on messages, threads and forums to clear default content on click.
