Version 1.2 details

[CodeMonkey]

Version 1.2 has been released. This is the 14th update since the start of Open Beta testing on April 3 2008.
Please keep your eyes open for any issues related to this update.

Here's what version 1.2 includes:

- Language translations added: Roumanian, Português, Español
- Players are now encouraged to destroy Bot teams before human teams; no points nor credits can be earned by doing otherwise.
- Teaming algorithm updated: teams are now balanced numerically; base size * player rating calculation is used when team sizes are equal
- Artillery shells now cost credits; the cost per shell is controlled by a server setting. Can be disabled.
- Laser can now shoot down Artillery shells, but multiple shots are required, as determined by a server setting. Can be disabled.
- Leaderboard now uses a rolling weekly mechanism. Your rating comes from the points you earned over the last 4 weeks. There are no more monthly resets.
- If you leave a game early you will now lose any positive points you earned; negative points are retained
- There is now a timeout for rejoining a game that you previously departed. Admins are exempt.
- Piechart is no longer sorted by team strength
- Team position announcements have been removed
- Piechart now shows building count
- Player dot on radar fades in/out with spawn/death
- If a player's name appears in chat text, a notifier sound now plays for that player. Use this to get another player's attention.
- Corrections to tab ordering of dialog buttons
- Team credits distribution now happens every 10s instead of 15s
- Artillery collision accuracy improvement: use 2 BB's for buildings. This requires using a smaller step distance, and padding BB's
- Projectile C/S integrity improvement: use same code & values on C as on S
- Bugfix: if you have an invalid account, and you correct it after the error dialog, the settings are not remembered correctly.
- Idle player boot timeout reduced
- Minor text spacing fixups to accommodate translations
- Text updates: TEXT_CANTJOINSERVER, TEXT_QUITSERVERREMINDER
- Text additions: TEXT_CREDITSEACH, TEXT_DESTROYBOTTEAMSFIRST
- Minor improvement to profanity measures
- New players now only receive reduced credits if there are other players on their team
- Music connectivity handling improved
- Team defeat by concede is now instantaneous (there is no interval where a team is conceded but not defeated)
- Team list is now a fixed vector
- Security improvement: CODE_JAN272010_1
- Code optimizations


We welcome your feedback in the forums.

[Stealth]

Thank you.

[Stealth]

- Players are now encouraged to destroy Bot teams before human teams; no points nor credits can be earned by doing otherwise.
 Very good: more I propose such players to be booted for 30 minutes and to receive -10 points instantly after the first 2 buildings destroyed on a human team.

Dini, can you explain why?

[joaoestrela]

+ grana

[george]

Is there some way to distinguish a player input quit from a forced quit or a connection dropped quit? I think a timeout imposed on connection drops would be a hassle.

[Stealth]

What your asking for, Dini, is just a bit complicated...i understand what you mean now, but thats really just a part of the game.  It is not against the rules.

[CodeMonkey]

- "Bots First" was an unwritten rule that came from the player community. The problem comes when certain players don't follow it. Therefore, I have formalized it. I may add a boot to it for those who break it.

- Concede needs to be very restricted, or it will be grossly overused.

- Connection drops: these should be rare. If they are not, then there is probably a code fault that I need to address. George, are you losing your connection more in AE than in other games?

[Stealth]

Sorry, i didn't realize that WAS a rule...GMs should be able to enforce that, if you put 1 GM per server or at least have a GM online at all times.(at the moment they are not)

[CYCLOPS]

  Love everything so far, code . Need the bomds ooh  . really like the money for the shells newbies now will have to learn some skill  .  thx

[Stealth]

Haha, i agree, no more spamming.

[Apocalypse]

'There is now a timeout for rejoining a game that you previously departed. Admins are exempt.' This is good for the cowards that run,but for the people who are hunting for someone to play with,, it sux!!

[Stealth]

Agreed...

[CodeMonkey]

    You can see from the lobby how many people are in each server...

[Stealth]

True, but you cant see who.  Ill join and leave games trying to find people i know to play with, it would be nice to have a list pop up when you click on a server or have a list to the right of server lists.  Something of this nature at least.

[joaoestrela]

quando, será lançada a nova versão do ''game'' ??