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Two new GNS posts have gone up in case you missed them. Begins now and expect this one to last a while. Darkness planets are the only ones affected (not Quest as of yet).
Edit: Derra and Serroco are not included
EDIT 2: ** Y18D261 11:24 ** Twilight Volunteers should now accept a wide variety of trophies, at varying different values.
EDIT 3: **Y18D261 11:41 ** Volunteers will now accept a limited number of credits (GenSci) and trophies (Twilight), per person, per day. (fixed ambiguousness. Thanks Michael McLeod)
Report any bugs to Kay Dallben and Baugrems.
| | (Edited by Kay Dallben on Year 18 Day 261) |
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A big thanks to Sims for manning the QA team previously. Kay Dallben is now director of the QA team. Any inquiries should be directed to him about testing and cp pay for those who are team members.
That is all.
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There is a hardware issue with one of our servers that requires it be migrated, so SWC will be down for less than half an hour in about 25 minutes in order to do the migration.
Update: We are back online. | | (Edited by Selatos on Year 18 Day 245) |
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My apologies for the delay, but I think we had delays last time too.
Our new asim will be Aetius Morbus, and Sid and Baugrems will be returning for a second tour of duty. We debated whether their return should be made public before applications or not and settled on leaving it as unknown in order to avoid discouraging people who saw that only one spot was available this time around. In the future, I think we will stick to this policy, and only if all three asims elect to remain on board will we forego applications entirely (along with a message explaining this).
Thank you to everyone who submitted applications; I'm sorry we don't have room for everyone as an asim, but there are other teams and opportunities to help out before the next round of applications that I would encourage you to investigate.
| | (Edited by Selatos on Year 18 Day 240) |
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UPDATE:
Photobucket has been ramping up their "no offsite linking" rule. In an effort to keep the galaxy free of terrible looking speed dials, Ulrike will be offering a limited service. If you have a broken custom image that shows the photobucket offsite link error image (ONLY these please, regular broken links are not applicable for this service) send a Dm to Ulrike about your images with the URLs of the images you are replacing, & the entity IDs. You are limited to 3, and only 3, ID replacements per week. Multiple entities with the same image ID will have to be split up due to the backend nature of the process. Ulrike will walk you through the refund & resubmission. its not exactly simple, fast, or ideal, however this will hopefully assist some of you.
To all of you custom appliers in this colorful galaxy,
Photobucket has begun banning offsite linking for those of you with free accounts. This will obviously affect a number of older customs. Ulrike and I, in looking at te list of applied customs, have seen its effects already.
To this end, all of you with old photobucket images will want to save local copies of your customs. In the near future we will be deleting & refunding brokenn image links, and keeping the images saved now may help you allieviate some of the headache.
That is all.
| | (Edited by Jevon Lambright on Year 18 Day 240) |
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| Hello everyone, the first six month asim term has expired, more or less, and so we are back to
recruiting new ones. Overall, I am quite satisfied with the way this has turned out--we saw much
higher average activity levels from the new asims than in the past, and much less burnout due to
being able to return to their characters now that this is over. To remind everyone, here are the
rules for the six month asim terms:
- Newly hired asims are not required to irrevocably drop their character. Instead,
their characters are suspended for the duration of being an asim.
- Asims have no IC activity related to their character while working for the administration.
- Asims will have a defined period of service of six months after which a new group of asims will
be hired. There is no limit on the number of terms if reselected.
- Applications will be in January and July, with asims working from February through the end of
July and then August through January of next year.
- Compensation in the form of Combine Points will be provided for asims who remain active and
effective throughout their service period.
- Asims are required to use IRC and must be active in staff channels as that is how the
majority of decisions are made.
- Asims duties center around helping players affected by bugs, handling support
tickets, and dealing with rules violations. There will be opportunities for asims to assist in
designing RP opportunities for SWC at large, along with participating in discussion on game features
before they are announced or implemented.
Remember that current asims are allowed to re-apply and may be re-selected.
Applications should be submitted via Darkness Message to me, Arjuna, and Erek.
Please answer the following questions in your application.
SWC-specific questions:
- What is your Combine handle?
- How long have you played SWC?
- What have you done IC so far (including previous characters)? What are you working on currently,
and what is your position with your faction?
- Why do you want to become an asim?
- Are you involved in any other online games or RPGs of a similar nature? If so please describe
your position and responsibilities
- Please provide three references of SWC members who are not on the administration team
that have been in the game for at least two years.
Real-life questions:
- Where do you live?
- How old are you?
- What is your occupation?
- How much time would you like to volunteer per week on improving SWC?
- Have you performed administrative duties in the past or organized groups/events?
- Who is your favorite DotA, HotS, or Overwatch hero and why?
We will be accepting applications through July 16th, 2017, and the selected asims will be
announced on the 23nd. They will then have until the 31st to wrap up IC activity and will join the
team on the 1st of August.
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Thank you all to those who applied and if you do not have a DM from me do not despair. Over 40 applications were received and I did my best to get a variety of different kinds of minds to be able to test properly.
A big congratulations to the new QA Team members in no particular order:
Victor O`Cuinn
Tavarius Kalia
Ling Reen
Xesh Randell
Kelmanis Vaan
Benjamin Najman
Krakonico Petermind
Christine Apothesis
Obi Wan Soares
Ma Csa
Thank you all,
Sims
| | (Edited by Simkin Dragoneel on Year 18 Day 188) |
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 | Update to revision aad28df6029c51148c3ef795a3eaead8bfadd0c0 (+47)
WS:
- Added current crewlist entries to Inventory/Entity resource
Bugs:
- Added ctool for dstroyedentities table (#4446)
- Fix for recycling hanging action (#4439)
- Fix undefined variable on chat page
- Fix crash on dev showing race page undefined values
- Jobsdaily crash when trying to deal with banned players (#4435)
- Query missing where entityType in equipment screen item lookup causing crash in city (#4432)
- Add EntityContainerAdmin for debugging item-in-city locations (#4432)
- fincome debt sale should become an auction, not a sale on the NPC market (#4426)
- Add debt field to facility ctool to allow testing bug (#4426)
- Deploy Tent code doesn't exist anymore, removed code that allowed the deploy button to show up for tents (#4423)
- Make ProductionAction more strict about amounts it accepts (#4425)
- Make code always regenerate batchQuantity if it has invalid value #2 (#4425)
- Make code always regenerate batchQuantity if it has invalid value (#4425)
- Added ProductionItemAdmin to view/edit production queue on dev (#4425)
- ProductionItem will now crash if quantity is set to an invalid value to help debug a bug (#4425)
- Production will now crash if quantity is set to an invalid value to help debug a bug (#4425)
- More bugs relating to items with bad owners when room travelling, adding stronger error checking (#4421)
- Combat crashing out when players ship dies and tries and fails to fire escape pods (#4415)
- SQL Exception on events page when setting limits negative (#4414)
- Include fatal errors reporting in error handler (#4412)
- Updated admin tool for spawning and inspecting ground bandits (#4409)
- Moved travel fix tool into source control (#4411)
- Inventory/Entity/Property switch statement flows through (Web API Forum)
- Types/Creature resource inconsistencies with terrain names (Web API Forum)
- Types/Creature resource lacks images (Web API Forum)
- Types/Weapons resource lacks large images (Web API Forum)
- Force training kept restarting if you didn't click away from the page
- Fix hire npc view crash when station/facility does not have any valid NPC types to hire (#4396)
- Trophy loot drop price restored (#4402)
- Facility Income Taxes crashing out with error due to corrupt planet location (#3264, #4400)
- JS Notifications throw red errors when received
- Make notification poller not pop up red ajax error flash (Forums)
- regression in repair time caused by incorrect material counts (IRC)
- Fix unable to atmo travel when on planet with no atmo (IRC)
- Remove ES6 default function arguments from countdown timer JS as it breaks on older browsers (Forums)
- timers not showing in obscure browsers (IRC)
- Travel cross terrain screen not showing properly (#4398)
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The development team needs you to test for the Combine! Due to the rather active coders we have right now, as well as real life and IC responsibilities rearing its ugly head for myself as well as causing a number of team members to go inactive we are looking for 4 or 5 players with experience in vast parts of the game, or who are willing to learn to help to test bug fixes and other assorted things we want... tested.
Along with recruiting we are also going to be a change in how we approach getting testing work on new features from a decidedly passive approach to a more proactive “polite nagging” of active coders to get features tested as much as possible. Which changes some responsibilies of new testers. I'm not going to take players who I will presume to be released onto the Development Server and just play around spawning SSDs or something.
Full training will be given, especially on the tools you will be using to test things, and you will be paid 7,000-9,000 CP's a month depending on your activity and work done.
Applications will be open for about 2 weeks ending on D171 at 22:00 game time. Responsibilities include: Taking heavy criticism from the player base, idling on IRC at #swc-dev when possible for any requests for immediate testing, checking the bugbase when possible to test the validity of bugs, and various other tasks.
Anyone interested needs to email me (simkindragoneel@gmail.com) with why they should be on the QA team, preferably answering the following questions:
1) What is your handle?
2) How long have you been with the Combine?
3) Why do you want to join the QA Team?
4) What skills do you think you can bring to the QA Team?
5) What country do you live in?
6) How much time can you spend on the Combine in general and helping in particular?
7) Were you involved in any projects that would qualify you for the position?
8) Can you spend time every day/other day idling on #swc-dev to help test things as needed?
9) Anything else we should know about/can help your application?
I will review your applications and I will be selecting 10 players to advance to the next step of questions, of the ones that answer those questions 4 or 5 will be invited to join the team.
Applications will only be accepted via email to prevent DM overload. QUESTIONS about the QA team can be DM’d to myself or senior QA members Kay Dalben or Kerri Manchester. You can also find me on IRC by the nickname “Sims”.
Thank you much! Sims
Edit: Applications are now closed. I will sort out candidates for the next phase of the process. Applicants that make it to stage 2 will recieve a DM from me before D177.
Statistics: Applications recieved 40+.
| | (Edited by Simkin Dragoneel on Year 18 Day 172) |
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While there was a general consensus among the ASIM team that the "Tabder" should be renamed, and while the best intentions were at play in renaming the ship to honor Selatos, the team member doing so didn't confirm their actions with anyone else.
The "Tabder-class Heavy Frieghter" is being renamed to the "Mammoth-class Heavy Hauler."
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The latest sync introduced a bug where the cockpit link to the "Cross Terrain" page will not work. This will be fixed for the next time we sync, in the meantime you can access that page using this link (click here).
Similarly, If you are around a planet that has no atmosphere and cannot travel in the atmosphere; you can go to this link (click here) to access it.
You may get an error after starting travel, but refreshing the page will show you are traveling fine.
Sid Edit: This is still a known issue and has been fixed for the next sync.
| | (Edited by Sid on Year 18 Day 165) |
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There is a hardware issue with one of our servers that requires it be migrated, so SWC will be down for less than half an hour in about 25 minutes in order to do the migration.
Update: We are back online. | | (Edited by Selatos on Year 18 Day 245) |
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|
My apologies for the delay, but I think we had delays last time too.
Our new asim will be Aetius Morbus, and Sid and Baugrems will be returning for a second tour of duty. We debated whether their return should be made public before applications or not and settled on leaving it as unknown in order to avoid discouraging people who saw that only one spot was available this time around. In the future, I think we will stick to this policy, and only if all three asims elect to remain on board will we forego applications entirely (along with a message explaining this).
Thank you to everyone who submitted applications; I'm sorry we don't have room for everyone as an asim, but there are other teams and opportunities to help out before the next round of applications that I would encourage you to investigate.
| | (Edited by Selatos on Year 18 Day 240) |
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UPDATE:
Photobucket has been ramping up their "no offsite linking" rule. In an effort to keep the galaxy free of terrible looking speed dials, Ulrike will be offering a limited service. If you have a broken custom image that shows the photobucket offsite link error image (ONLY these please, regular broken links are not applicable for this service) send a Dm to Ulrike about your images with the URLs of the images you are replacing, & the entity IDs. You are limited to 3, and only 3, ID replacements per week. Multiple entities with the same image ID will have to be split up due to the backend nature of the process. Ulrike will walk you through the refund & resubmission. its not exactly simple, fast, or ideal, however this will hopefully assist some of you.
To all of you custom appliers in this colorful galaxy,
Photobucket has begun banning offsite linking for those of you with free accounts. This will obviously affect a number of older customs. Ulrike and I, in looking at te list of applied customs, have seen its effects already.
To this end, all of you with old photobucket images will want to save local copies of your customs. In the near future we will be deleting & refunding brokenn image links, and keeping the images saved now may help you allieviate some of the headache.
That is all.
| | (Edited by Jevon Lambright on Year 18 Day 240) |
|
| Hello everyone, the first six month asim term has expired, more or less, and so we are back to
recruiting new ones. Overall, I am quite satisfied with the way this has turned out--we saw much
higher average activity levels from the new asims than in the past, and much less burnout due to
being able to return to their characters now that this is over. To remind everyone, here are the
rules for the six month asim terms:
- Newly hired asims are not required to irrevocably drop their character. Instead,
their characters are suspended for the duration of being an asim.
- Asims have no IC activity related to their character while working for the administration.
- Asims will have a defined period of service of six months after which a new group of asims will
be hired. There is no limit on the number of terms if reselected.
- Applications will be in January and July, with asims working from February through the end of
July and then August through January of next year.
- Compensation in the form of Combine Points will be provided for asims who remain active and
effective throughout their service period.
- Asims are required to use IRC and must be active in staff channels as that is how the
majority of decisions are made.
- Asims duties center around helping players affected by bugs, handling support
tickets, and dealing with rules violations. There will be opportunities for asims to assist in
designing RP opportunities for SWC at large, along with participating in discussion on game features
before they are announced or implemented.
Remember that current asims are allowed to re-apply and may be re-selected.
Applications should be submitted via Darkness Message to me, Arjuna, and Erek.
Please answer the following questions in your application.
SWC-specific questions:
- What is your Combine handle?
- How long have you played SWC?
- What have you done IC so far (including previous characters)? What are you working on currently,
and what is your position with your faction?
- Why do you want to become an asim?
- Are you involved in any other online games or RPGs of a similar nature? If so please describe
your position and responsibilities
- Please provide three references of SWC members who are not on the administration team
that have been in the game for at least two years.
Real-life questions:
- Where do you live?
- How old are you?
- What is your occupation?
- How much time would you like to volunteer per week on improving SWC?
- Have you performed administrative duties in the past or organized groups/events?
- Who is your favorite DotA, HotS, or Overwatch hero and why?
We will be accepting applications through July 16th, 2017, and the selected asims will be
announced on the 23nd. They will then have until the 31st to wrap up IC activity and will join the
team on the 1st of August.
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|
|
Thank you all to those who applied and if you do not have a DM from me do not despair. Over 40 applications were received and I did my best to get a variety of different kinds of minds to be able to test properly.
A big congratulations to the new QA Team members in no particular order:
Victor O`Cuinn
Tavarius Kalia
Ling Reen
Xesh Randell
Kelmanis Vaan
Benjamin Najman
Krakonico Petermind
Christine Apothesis
Obi Wan Soares
Ma Csa
Thank you all,
Sims
| | (Edited by Simkin Dragoneel on Year 18 Day 188) |
|
| Update to revision aad28df6029c51148c3ef795a3eaead8bfadd0c0 (+47)
WS:
- Added current crewlist entries to Inventory/Entity resource
Bugs:
- Added ctool for dstroyedentities table (#4446)
- Fix for recycling hanging action (#4439)
- Fix undefined variable on chat page
- Fix crash on dev showing race page undefined values
- Jobsdaily crash when trying to deal with banned players (#4435)
- Query missing where entityType in equipment screen item lookup causing crash in city (#4432)
- Add EntityContainerAdmin for debugging item-in-city locations (#4432)
- fincome debt sale should become an auction, not a sale on the NPC market (#4426)
- Add debt field to facility ctool to allow testing bug (#4426)
- Deploy Tent code doesn't exist anymore, removed code that allowed the deploy button to show up for tents (#4423)
- Make ProductionAction more strict about amounts it accepts (#4425)
- Make code always regenerate batchQuantity if it has invalid value #2 (#4425)
- Make code always regenerate batchQuantity if it has invalid value (#4425)
- Added ProductionItemAdmin to view/edit production queue on dev (#4425)
- ProductionItem will now crash if quantity is set to an invalid value to help debug a bug (#4425)
- Production will now crash if quantity is set to an invalid value to help debug a bug (#4425)
- More bugs relating to items with bad owners when room travelling, adding stronger error checking (#4421)
- Combat crashing out when players ship dies and tries and fails to fire escape pods (#4415)
- SQL Exception on events page when setting limits negative (#4414)
- Include fatal errors reporting in error handler (#4412)
- Updated admin tool for spawning and inspecting ground bandits (#4409)
- Moved travel fix tool into source control (#4411)
- Inventory/Entity/Property switch statement flows through (Web API Forum)
- Types/Creature resource inconsistencies with terrain names (Web API Forum)
- Types/Creature resource lacks images (Web API Forum)
- Types/Weapons resource lacks large images (Web API Forum)
- Force training kept restarting if you didn't click away from the page
- Fix hire npc view crash when station/facility does not have any valid NPC types to hire (#4396)
- Trophy loot drop price restored (#4402)
- Facility Income Taxes crashing out with error due to corrupt planet location (#3264, #4400)
- JS Notifications throw red errors when received
- Make notification poller not pop up red ajax error flash (Forums)
- regression in repair time caused by incorrect material counts (IRC)
- Fix unable to atmo travel when on planet with no atmo (IRC)
- Remove ES6 default function arguments from countdown timer JS as it breaks on older browsers (Forums)
- timers not showing in obscure browsers (IRC)
- Travel cross terrain screen not showing properly (#4398)
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The development team needs you to test for the Combine! Due to the rather active coders we have right now, as well as real life and IC responsibilities rearing its ugly head for myself as well as causing a number of team members to go inactive we are looking for 4 or 5 players with experience in vast parts of the game, or who are willing to learn to help to test bug fixes and other assorted things we want... tested.
Along with recruiting we are also going to be a change in how we approach getting testing work on new features from a decidedly passive approach to a more proactive “polite nagging” of active coders to get features tested as much as possible. Which changes some responsibilies of new testers. I'm not going to take players who I will presume to be released onto the Development Server and just play around spawning SSDs or something.
Full training will be given, especially on the tools you will be using to test things, and you will be paid 7,000-9,000 CP's a month depending on your activity and work done.
Applications will be open for about 2 weeks ending on D171 at 22:00 game time. Responsibilities include: Taking heavy criticism from the player base, idling on IRC at #swc-dev when possible for any requests for immediate testing, checking the bugbase when possible to test the validity of bugs, and various other tasks.
Anyone interested needs to email me (simkindragoneel@gmail.com) with why they should be on the QA team, preferably answering the following questions:
1) What is your handle?
2) How long have you been with the Combine?
3) Why do you want to join the QA Team?
4) What skills do you think you can bring to the QA Team?
5) What country do you live in?
6) How much time can you spend on the Combine in general and helping in particular?
7) Were you involved in any projects that would qualify you for the position?
8) Can you spend time every day/other day idling on #swc-dev to help test things as needed?
9) Anything else we should know about/can help your application?
I will review your applications and I will be selecting 10 players to advance to the next step of questions, of the ones that answer those questions 4 or 5 will be invited to join the team.
Applications will only be accepted via email to prevent DM overload. QUESTIONS about the QA team can be DM’d to myself or senior QA members Kay Dalben or Kerri Manchester. You can also find me on IRC by the nickname “Sims”.
Thank you much! Sims
Edit: Applications are now closed. I will sort out candidates for the next phase of the process. Applicants that make it to stage 2 will recieve a DM from me before D177.
Statistics: Applications recieved 40+.
| | (Edited by Simkin Dragoneel on Year 18 Day 172) |
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While there was a general consensus among the ASIM team that the "Tabder" should be renamed, and while the best intentions were at play in renaming the ship to honor Selatos, the team member doing so didn't confirm their actions with anyone else.
The "Tabder-class Heavy Frieghter" is being renamed to the "Mammoth-class Heavy Hauler."
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The latest sync introduced a bug where the cockpit link to the "Cross Terrain" page will not work. This will be fixed for the next time we sync, in the meantime you can access that page using this link (click here).
Similarly, If you are around a planet that has no atmosphere and cannot travel in the atmosphere; you can go to this link (click here) to access it.
You may get an error after starting travel, but refreshing the page will show you are traveling fine.
Sid Edit: This is still a known issue and has been fixed for the next sync.
| | (Edited by Sid on Year 18 Day 165) |
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| Update to revision ec95ab65a3468873175d7d040d69852d0c7236d8 (+34)
Bugs:
- material requirements price is no longer manually calculated, now calculated from materials list each time (#4394)
- Make new character skill reset functionality nicer
- Fix material requirements admin tool from clobbering material stats without confirmation (#4390)
- HandleCheck resource claims to accept UIDs but throws an error when passed a UID (Unreported)
- Tool to fix entities giving 'Bad containerTypeID for Room
- Fix exploit where can dock without hangar/docking bay fitted (#4384)
- Time/Real API resource expects a CGT time to be passed in as a number (Unreported)
- Many WS routes claimed to be ratelimited despite not actually being ratelimited
- Fix issue where repair action hangs when repairing a ship without RM requirements set e.g. CP ships (#4368)
- Added missing fields to FacilityTypeAdmin tool (IRC)
- fixed a hilariosly inefficient exploit that allows infinite RM by recycling cargo containers
- Fix caption not showing for room maps on rules pages (#4378)
- Fixed countdown timers (like travel timers and fire delays) becoming inaccurate after being open for a while (#4375)
- Lisp get-type-of entity call crashing when bad data passed in (#4371)
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Update to revision 27038b81b8f139b8da2f169fdf71807bb0e1d77f (+108)
Tweaks:
- Added link to actions tab of the position page to control menu
Bugs:
- Assignment reasons don't always show to both parties involved in the events. (#4376)
- Throwing 500 response despite no error in some WS routes (Unreported)
- Remove plus symbol from skill level column in character creation, because it is confusing (#4337)
- php Error message visible on banner exchange page (#4365)
- Fix pause station production in inventory button broken (#4366)
- Make large room maps load faster (#4088)
- Make room map admin tool more scalable so it can handle really large room maps without crashing (#4088)
- (WS) Added additional response codes to Slim Framework to accommodate response code issues in version in use (Unreported)
- Fix corrupted squadded ships becoming unplaced when loading the cockpit (#4364)
- Menu breaks when aboard a ship that is unplaced (#4364)
- Undefined method in Inventory/Entity/Property route (Unreported)
- A number of authentication-related bug fixes to Inventory/Tags resource (Unreported)
- A number of other bug fixes to Inventory/Tag/Tag resource (Unreported)
- Inventory/Entity/Tag/Tag route uri parsing fails due to case sensitivity (Unreported)
- Some faction types missing produce in facilities and produce in stations privileges on privilege assignment screen (#4272)
- Removed "Set Inactivity Period" from faction menu due to it serving no purpose (Unreported)
- Galactic museum not listed in available destinations for NPC Transport (#3353)
- some actions crashing randomly and being rolled back when they should not be (#4350)
- Room IDs can get mangled when listener interrupts fetch rooms within their handler, causing all sorts of weirdness, e.g. events going to wrong rooms (#4354)
- Sentry droids do not log leaving an entity (#3657)
- Can view room events about all entities of a given type by deploying a sentry droid. (#4354)
- Fix some hung mining and travel actions, these probably dont affect players (#4357)
- Mining action incorrectly reports out of credits when unknown errors occur (#4326)
- Sentry droid can be undeployed by anyone (#3657)
- Sentry droid events miscolored, no events for leaving an entity (#3657)
- Ship/Station recycling return wrong amount of RMs (#4344)
- Finish auction code misses case where bidder missing credits (#4353)
- Finish auction code has undefined var (#4353)
- Market bids not revoked upon death/dissolution of bidder (IRC)
- Clean up market finish auction code to handle bad entities (#4353)
- After successful abort/pause/resume link fails to complete new action for same entity (#4352)
- taking incorrect asteroid damage when jumping into hyperspace from asteroids (#4342)
- RM inventory gives error about missing protection field for use in sorting/grouping due to RMs not being able to be protected (SWC Error Reporter)
- Creature inventory gives error about missing protection field for use in sorting/grouping due to creatures not being able to be protected (SWC Error Reporter)
- Aborting recycling of a wreck crashes. (#4345)
- Can tractor entities being recycled. (#4346)
- Fix bug when factory/station is retooling causing inventory crash (#4351)
- Inventory crashes when item aboard hostile ship (#4348)
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| Tweaks:
- Added remote recycling abort option to inventory
- Added remote production resume/abort/pause options to inventory
- Inventory/Entity/Property route permits pausing/resuming/aborting remotely of more actions (production, recycling (aborting only))
- Recycling stations can recycle entities at their same location in addition to those docked inside of them.
- added special room map images for Crystal Caves
Bugs:
- Hide entities that are not partyable from the squadron screen (such as capital ships which cannot be partied)
- clicking 'travel' when in cockpit in hyperspace shows error, now shows hyperspace screen (#4331)
- Existing factions sometimes lack newly created privs being assigned to their leaders. (#4338)
- Inventory/Entity/Tags/Tag resource collides with Inventory/Entity/Tags resource (Unreported)
- Fixing various bugs with lisp is-owner and co, planet-name and co (reported on IRC)
- When party leader dies in combat, party members disappear due to corrupt entity location (#4335)
- WS routes looking for permissions that don't exist (Unreported)
- WS documentation shows different permissions needed than it actually checks for (Unreported)
- Fix another crash on rules page when race has no bonus skills (unreported)
- Fix crash on rules page when race has empty bonus skills (unreported)
- Make entityLocation more strict about split parties, will now throw errors if code tries to split a party without first kicking members. This can be disabled by an admin property if it is too intrusive. (#4292)
- Cookie consent appears on every frame when viewing pages with multiple frames (#3587)
- Inventory infinite loop when stack of items is unpositioned (#4330)
- typo in facility type constant for workers compound
- Assigning through Inventory/Entity/Property resource creates events without specified reasons. Will now identify API client that caused event where reasons in events are supported (Unreported)
- Inventory/Entities route filtering by tags gives no results. (Unreported)
- Empty response in WS when lacking authentication tokens (Unreported)
- fixed being unable to force heal if your party had a droid in it
- cannot unload ships/vehicles into another ship/vehicle when you are commander or owner but not pilot (#4322)
- fix issue where ships you can't board show up on the boarding lists, e.g. when ascending (#2141)
- Simultaneous combat reports now come out in the correct order on events page (#2848)
- Room view crashes when item with bad owner is in same room, replaced with message to contact support (Reported on forums)
- Exceptions thrown on WS documentation (#4315)
- Remove old repair link from cockpit & remove cockpit repair frame, correct link is in menu under production (reported on IRC)
- Fixed NPC market bugs, crashes when auction mode finishes causing bids to not-work (#4314)
- market auction finishing with invalid bidder causes InvalidArgumentException (#4314)
- Menu crashing on dev server when character hasnt selected start location (entity->getContainer crashing) (#4313)
- Rate limit error codes conflict with general API error codes leading to confusion (Web API Forum)
- Rate limits appear to work, but limit is too low to be practical to use with large inventories. (Unreported)
- add faction dissolution event showing dissolution timer duration when not in danger of dissolution (#3626, #4305)
- Fix IFF Crash when invalid owner ship nearby (#4309)
- patrol action bugging out when leader variable is unset (unreported)
- Fix another inventory tree list related issue, when cargo container
- Fix undocking cargo from facilities not working into ships around top or left border of facilities (#3442)
- Inventory tree list crashes when sorting by planet, packaged item type; fixed crash, still slightly broken tho (#4197)
- Sensor range is calculated slightly incorrectly, some squares were considered in range when they were not, due to rounding error (#4288)
- Fixed issue where entities could be tractored while doing other actions such as recycling (#4298)
- Existing production actions failing due to undefined variable (#4299)
- Removed persistent notification that a browser does not support desktop-style notifications (Unreported)
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Klinger banned player T`nok Sarto providing the following reason: Multi Ban
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Year 18 Day 259, 13:07
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Klinger banned player Ashantie Starsage providing the following reason: Multi Ban
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First Offense, orginal accont can ask to be unbanned in 21 days. After the 21 days you can post a support ticket at http://support.swcombine.com
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Second offense. You know the drill. Original account can ask for an unban in a few months but for now it is indefinite. |
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Year 18 Day 255, 18:43 |
Sid banned player Azziah Howann providing the following reason: Multi Ban |
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Year 18 Day 255, 18:43 |
Sid banned player Ronen Jerik providing the following reason: Multi Ban |
So, here we are again. The above are banned after failing to register as multis, one person using both accounts, and attempting to register additional accounts. After 21 days, Ronen Jerik may request an unban via support ticket: support.swcombine.com. As always, further attempts to create new illegal accounts will be dealt with - swiftly and painfully.
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Year 18 Day 256, 6:12 |
Sid banned player Freddie Teronik providing the following reason: Multi Ban
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Just more of the same, folks. Let's add 3 more weeks for the gentleman from Spain who cannot read.
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Year 18 Day 247, 17:18 |
Sid banned player Jack Vorra providing the following reason: Multi Ban |
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Year 18 Day 247, 17:18 |
Sid banned player Grant Turnao providing the following reason: Multi Ban |
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Year 18 Day 247, 17:18 |
Sid banned player Harnon Geston providing the following reason: Multi Ban |
The accounts above are banned for abusing the multi-accounts system, multiple accounts controlled by the same player, and asset laundering. Harnon Geston may return in six weeks, shall not be allowed any future multis, and the laundered assets have been seized.
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Year 18 Day 243, 5:13 |
Sid banned player Wataru Kiva providing the following reason: Multi Ban |
Wataru Kiva, an illegal multi of Lyall Eyre, has been permanently banned. Lyall is currently perma-banned for several multi-ban infractions. After a year or two without additional infractions, Lyall Eyre may request an unban via the ticket system: support.swcombine.com
As a reminder to players, it is against the Rules to:
- Register and play a second account
- Signup a friend or family member and play their account
- Create a new account after forgetting your old login details
- Create a new account so you can avoid the 21 day death timer
Breaking the multi account rules will result in a ban plus the inability to have legal multis in the future. If you suspect a player of breaking the rules, you can help the Administration by filing a support ticket. Your identity is never disclosed.
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Sid banned player Haar Hackchowi providing the following reason: Harassment
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Haar Hackchowi has been banned for six weeks for constant harassment of multiple players. After receiving an IRC ban, he continued to harass individuals on Discord. The Administration always finds harassment unacceptable and has decided to extend his ban to Darkness. After the sentence is up, he may request an unban via support ticket: support.swcombine.com
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The above accounts have been banned for being the same person and for repeated attempts to register more characters. Due to a previous offenses, this ban is permanent.
But wait... there's more!
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Year 18 Day 226, 13:42 |
Sid banned player Zef Carn providing the following reason: Multi Ban |
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Year 18 Day 226, 13:42 |
Sid banned player Nale Kofax providing the following reason: Multi Ban
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These two accounts have been banned for six weeks for attempting to circumvent the death timer (twice!) and attempting to register a third illegal account. Zef Carn may file a support ticket (support.swcombine.com) after they have served their sentence.
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Year 18 Day 220, 23:02 |
Baugrems banned player Xakic Ragnos providing the following reason: Multi Ban |
Permanent ban due to multiple offenses. Appeal should wait at least a year.
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| Year 18 Day 215, 9:58 Baugrems banned player Henryetta Rico providing the following reason: Harassment
Six week ban due to multiple warnings recently and frequency of reports. Henryetta may request to return in 6 weeks via support ticket. |
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Two new GNS posts have gone up in case you missed them. Begins now and expect this one to last a while. Darkness planets are the only ones affected (not Quest as of yet).
Edit: Derra and Serroco are not included
EDIT 2: ** Y18D261 11:24 ** Twilight Volunteers should now accept a wide variety of trophies, at varying different values.
EDIT 3: **Y18D261 11:41 ** Volunteers will now accept a limited number of credits (GenSci) and trophies (Twilight), per person, per day. (fixed ambiguousness. Thanks Michael McLeod)
Report any bugs to Kay Dallben and Baugrems.
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A big thanks to Sims for manning the QA team previously. Kay Dallben is now director of the QA team. Any inquiries should be directed to him about testing and cp pay for those who are team members.
That is all.
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For those who saw the Unknown Signal GNS:
Send a DM to Baugrems when you find a ship and all bandits have been destroyed in system. Four are available to find. Will announce when all are claimed. Good Luck!
Edit: All four have been claimed! Winners will be announced (no hiding your new toys, for now) in a new Sim/GNS news soon. Thanks to those who participated.
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Jokes aside, the Deathmatch and Grudge matches have been advanced.
From here on out, we will be regularly advancing both every week or two as usual.
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We are currently preparing for a rollout of replacement room images. You can preview the new images here:
http://www.swcombine.com/forum/thread.php?thread=72641&page=0
We are welcome to hear comments, and potential improvements to the rooms. Currently, the images will officially be uploaded next weekend for implementation come next sync.
EDIT: Due to some discussion and potential code changes, there have been additional images uploaded for entity specific rooms! If you care to see them, they are linked on the first page.
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To all the wonderful members,
If you notice a recent bug between certain ships and stations not looking correct (namely the MC-60 & GOlan) please be advised that this was a minor issue and shall be fixed as soon as the art server is re-synced.
IN addition, starting January 1st, a new image rule will be put into place regarding custom items. The vast majority of clothing applied as custom items will no longer be accepted, and in the future will have to be placed on appropriate clothing items. We have items such as clothing, cape, vests, belts, and cloaks which should within reason cover most of what you all already submit. Hats, sunglasses, and such will still be allowed as we do not have any generic headwear items to fill these items, otherwise most clothing should fit into that with some shifting of definition (IE cloaks can also apply to jackets, overcoats, trenchcoats, and the like.)
I would also like to remind everyone that this game is intended to be PG-13. We have rcently seen a few custom item submissions that seem to toe the line on this. Please do not push the limits to see how far you can go, we will push back if necessary.
That is all, have a happy holiday!
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Thank you to all of those who either applied or provided input, the deadline for Asim applications has passed. If we need information from the provided references, requests will be sent out in the next week or so.
Best of luck to all of you, see you on the other side!
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Due to the increasing constraints on our Assistants' time, we're looking for more Asims to help keep the Combine running smoothly.
Job description: Assisting with, and resolving, players' problems requiring staff intervention using provided admin tools. Must be knowledgeable about the Combine and how it works. Willing to set aside previous IC relations, take strong player criticisms, and spend frequent time on IRC to discuss Administration actions and direction. Specifically would be working with: osTicket support system, join applications, multi-accounts, #swc-help, and individual player questions/requests.
**This position will require you to drop your character and remove yourself from the IC universe. You will not be able to return to any past characters should you accept the post.**
If interested, please send a short email to Erek and include the answers to the following questions:
Combine Questions
1. What is your Combine handle?
2. How long have you been registered with the Combine?
3. What have you done in-character so far? What are you doing at the moment? What is your position in your faction?
4. Name three people that have been in the Combine for at least two years who have worked with you and may be willing to give a written recommendation.
(Members of the Administration are not eligible to be listed in this section)
5. Why do you want to join the team?
6. What do you think you can bring to the team?
7. Are you involved in any other online games, or RPGs of a similar nature? If so, please specify your position in them.
Real Life Questions
1. Where do you live?
2. How old are you?
3. What is your occupation?
4. Have you completed any tasks that would qualify you for the Sim team? Examples include: creating/maintaining a website, setting up a database for member information, customer service training, and similar experiences.
5. How much time can you spend on the Combine in general and helping in particular?
6. Were you involved in any projects that would qualify you for the position?
BONUS: What is your favorite color? Why?
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NOTE: We will be migrating our support system from osTicket to Jira in the coming weeks.
Please feel free to email/DM/PM erek@swcombine.com/Erek/Superman with any questions.
Applications will be accepted until Year 17 Day 273
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So the next round of the Deathmatch has been rolled and so it is time once again to vote for your favourite. Seems most of you use Chrome or Firefox, yet very few of us use the best internet browser, IE/Edge! In addition seems like most people enjoyed Episode VII as well. Good work. We have some new grudge matches for you to vote on.
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