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 | Hopefully everyone is enjoying the year 20 celebration so far. There is more to come so keep an eye out on the sim news, you never know what might pop up or when. The introduction of the races seem to be generally well recieved, other than the usual complaining that is a prequisite to any change that occurs. As your person to implement them I am very glad of that, and wanted to thank Syn and Arjuna especially for their assistance in reviewing the stats and making sure I didn't screw up anything while making the races.
Porgs also seem to be a hit as far as I've heard, and with them introduced a new feature we can take advantage of CP Creatures. Which when the idea was tossed around we all loved it so hopefully everyone else does as well, and never know we might introduce more CP Creatures as time goes on.
I kind of kicked off the ideas for the Year 20 Celebrations so this is a fitting time for me to announce my retirement as an admin in swc and am retaking my character. The introduce of the new races and the making of porgs, purrgills and future things to come were my last offical acts as an admin in swc. Given my history it might be permanent or I might drop my character again one day to take on admin role again but for now feel I can contribute more in an advisory role than an actual admin.
Since this will likely be my last sim news post I do. I would like to thank everyone in swc for building a community that has lasted 20 years. Some of you I have worked more closely with than others but everyone contributes to make this game interesting. For that you have my thanks.
Also like to say given the recent massive earthquake in Alaska hopefully all of our players there are safe and sound, or as good as you could be given the circumstances.
| | (Edited by Kyle Rainer on Year 20 Day 3) |
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 | Double Login CP:
For the next month or two enjoy double the reward for logging in! Happy 20th!
Unarmed Brawlers:
You may now use unarmed brawlers for an in-depth, stat based fight. A rules page will be made for these soon, but in the meantime here is a link to the details.
Space Bandit Capturing:
Disabled bandit ships can now be captured with the use of an Electronic Lockbreaker. The chance is based on your crafting/slicing skills. You get one try per character, per ship. It also will eat your ELB.
This can be dangerous! Anyone can board a disabled ship. You've been warned.
Purrgil Quest:
Some of you are wondering about the new space whales, and wish you could get one. Well... a quest will be released soon that allows you to get one for yourself! Stay tuned for details but in the meantime, go blubber hunting.
Science Feud Quest - Part Two:
A ton of you have asked about this bit. We have taken feedback from the first run and found ways to improve. Expect this quest to begin at the start of March. Start preparations now and make plans to be free!
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Some of you may have noticed that we are at the dawn of Year 20. A lot of new things are coming forward alongside this event and this is just part one!
Space Combat Garrisons:
As you may have seen in the latest Sync Report, a new feature for ships and stations has appeared. You may now store squads of fighters and gunboats into certain stations for system defense.
"What does this mean?!" - It means that in the next few months your systems may be in danger and will need some automated/remote defenses. Start your preparations!
New Playable Races:
A pair of new races, Kushiban and Pengauani are both set to be revealed about an hour or two after this post. They will be available for switching once the GNS announcement hits. Our galaxy grows once more.
CP Bonus Creature:
No that isn't a typo. We have ONE creature for CP bonus right now! Porgs! Get your personal flock today at Zoos, ranches, and wildlife preserves.
New Creatures
Purrgills are also released as a new creature.
| | (Edited by Kyle Rainer on Year 19 Day 365) |
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 | Tweaks:
- New feature: Station Garrisons [see rules page]. Station garrisons is a feature intended to make defense of systems easier.
- Update Fincome Transactions overview: add option for last 31 days output, page loading slowly will not block other pages loading. Be careful as this may INLCUDE the last monthly run if it is within 31 days.
- Limited droid and item recycling XP to 1
- Added limitation on the number of bacta tanks you can monitor at once based on medical skill [see rules page]
Bugs:
- Fix issues with custom image submission form
- Fix exploit with xss on faction homepage link
- Fix issue where rules pages show mangled locations
- Fix exploit relating to npc market
- Fix skill category ordering for npc skillset fitouts user interface
- Fix issue with adding station build permissions crashing
- Remove form disabler on facility construction step 1 (safari back button fix)
- Cockpit squadron page now has filter box
- Fixing factory stations kicking items into space
- Handle situation where a power generator actively providing power being destroyed [rules page for power gens have been updated] (#5146)
- Could not edit budget descriptions (#5147)
- Workaround issue where forum badge not rendering with skin
- Add all missing size categories to city designer [8x8, etc]
Rules:
- Added rules for combat tactics [see rules page]
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 | Howdy folks!
We're currently experiencing issues with applying customs. The source of the bug has been found, squashed, and tested. The fix will be included with the next sync, but until then, it won't be possible to apply customs.
Thanks for your patience!
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 | Some of you probably noticed that weird 8x8 Large Palace that has been imageless and unconnected to the game for the past... while.
http://www.swcombine.com/rules/?8x8&ID=106
It has now been fully added to the game and can be constructed by anyone. Enjoy.
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| Economy Tweaks:
- Facility Income will now run weekly instead of monthly. The total value of FI weekly will be approximately 23% of the monthly values, and will be delivered on Sunday nights. The the next one should be today at D355 23:00 if no issues are encountered.
Combat Tweaks:
- Added combat tactics for character, squads, ships
- Focus fire: Each entity will target the same enemy for every hit per combat round
- Spread fire: Each entity will have each individual hit's target randomly chosen (as it has previously worked); additionally, they will do their best not to hit a dead target
- Combat now requires Line of sight to target (firing on an enemy with a facility, or anything that you would travel route around, in between will now fail)
- Add link to combat report from combat event, this link is sharable with others (so do not share link with others if you do not want them seeing the report)
- Rename faction "Combat Reports" permissions group to "Combat" permissions
Tweaks:
- Cross-terrain will now take a maximum of 4 hours
- made Admin-owned markets able to access NPC Market
- Organizing notable rooms list and making pointer more obvious
- Show IFF icon for squad leaders when on travel boarding screen (IFF icon will not show for entities that are in a squad and not squad leader - this should make it easier to board lead ships when a squad is present)
Bugs:
- Lots of updates to maps so they can be drawn in more situations (mainly when character is not at a maps location)
- Paused ETAs still counted down on sidebar e.g. when standing in a paused mine (#5113)
- Disallow multiple submissions of facility construction form, added link to start another construction in flash msg
- Add table editor to CKEditor e.g. faction profile editor (#5100)
- Party size under equipment now shows member count instead of slots
- Fix issue with overflowing sim news header when posted by long handle
- Fix recycling abort crash when aborting droids recycling
- Infotext inventory filter not working when None option is selected (#5138)
- inverted passenger count status bar color
- Add open-to inventory filter for ship and vehicle inventory
- Sort list of properties alphabetically in properties editor
- Apply a fire delay to all attackers, not just the party leader when attacking e.g. when in a ship squad you should be able to see a fire delay action for each ship
- Fix issue with Guard/Patrol/HostileAction: it does not reset action listeners when party leader changes
- Remove plotStepTravel and remove custom javascript on step travel cockpit page, clicking on map on step travel page now should bring up dropdown like other pages
- Add space combat attack button to scanner view
- Draw fire delay timer in cockpit screen (drawn on left hand side)
- Add squadron card to cockpit showing hull/shields quick overview
- Update privileges screen: fixes broken leader/2ic privs, shows which privs are missing (when leader or 2ic is missing privs, loading this screen will attempt to grant them - this is necessary if we add new privs)
- Remove CM output from pilot inventory (ships no longer show unmanned/piloted/npc in inventory piloted view)
- Remove CM checks when building stations (building stations had some weird code checks around piloted ships that were removed)
- Move piloted check for travel into the UI (should now correctly apply all-ships-in-squad-need-pilot rules before allowing travelling)
Rules:
- Update rules around astromech droids in cockpit avoiding hyperspace aborts
Lisp:
- Transfer ownership lisp admin function (#5127)
| | (Edited by Clarr Solo on Year 19 Day 355) |
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| It appears that we've encountered a nasty little bug with spawning custom items! The bug is caused by making over custom items prior to their approval by the art team. Essentially, if the custom item is owned by a faction (and potentially dead characters) at the time of approval, the tools can't figure out where to place the item and will crash. This also happens on denial due to the tools not knowing who to refund the CP to.
Because of this, we'd like to ask that people please avoid making over custom items prior to their approval until it is sorted out.
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 | The Descriptions Team is looking for capable writers to produce new content and provide editing services to submissions from players. The typical test to apply for the team is to write three descriptions for entities that currently lack a quality one - you can either find some of these entities on your own or we can select them for you.
If you feel that you possess a basic comprehension of the English language and aren't afraid of a serial comma, feel free to apply for the team by messaging Tomas O`Cuinn in Darkness or catching me on Discord. We pay out a monthly salary of CPs as long as you can fool me into believing that you've been active, so what have you got to lose!?
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| As of today, I've taken over as Art Team Director. I'd like to give a big thank you to Jevon for his years of service. All current and future questions about the art rules, custom submissions, default image submissions, etc. should be directed to me from now on.
Thanks again for all of your hard work, Jevon!
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| Minor bugfix sync.
Tweaks:
- Removed limit on number of stocks that can be released by certain faction types
Bugs:
- A server configuration change has been deployed to reduce intermittent 500 errors thrown when unrelated page generation times out
- Fix an issue where timers like production could prematurely finish when recalculating length such as when adding workers (related to old bug #4128)
- Fix force event icon not showing up properly (#5114)
- Fix LISP code editor not working on main server (#5115)
- Materials do not show up for selecting when refining bacta (#5117)
- Fix issue where squad patrol screen crashes when on planet terrain (#5118)
- Removal of duplicated NPC Fitout page, made it link to remaining fitout page (#5116)
- Missing battle report highlighting on space combat results page
- Combat reports page crashes when loaded without a character
- Bug fixed where you could not enter hyperspace when at galX=-1 or galY=-1
- Cybernetics install using the wrong stats in certain circumstances
- Fix issue where html in planets inventory could overflow row
- Bug with dead character inventory transfer (#5124)
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| Gameplay:
- Hyperspace Abort cooldown: you cannot jump back into to hyperspace for a period of time after aborting, currently 60 mins (#4389)
- NPC Fitout Skillsets: On the NPC Fitout screen, you can now also apply a desired skillset. NPCs will automatically assign skills to match this desired skillset when they level up. You can also make them spend their skill points by selecting NPCs in the inventory and using the "Apply Fitout Skillset" option.
Inventory:
- Add new inventory view option: summary view from current filter, this shows the inventory summary view with the current filter applied
- Planet deposit preview in planet inventory
- City layout preview in city inventory
Bugs:
- Fix issue with construction3 aborting failing when no return location set
- fix issue where planet stats were wrong after recycling, made planet stat calculation happen as part of the tick (#5109)
- removing useless option from faction stock owner screen (#5087)
- Update budget add/edit screen terminology for percent to make clear it is percent of current value of budget (#5106)
- Fix issue where characters could not be dropped (#5110)
- Fix issue where prospecting would not find vehicle sensors for some vehicles with corrupt field (#5107)
- Fix faction dissolution event showing wrong entity type
- Updates to maps so multiple maps can be drawn on a single page, and can be drawn in AJAX calls
- Rules sector map links for systems are in wrong spots on sector galaxy map screen, added borders for sectors maps, made hyperspace destination selection screens use same maps as rules pages
- Respawn timer was sometimes going into negatives
- Fix crash on crafting page when crafting requirements arent met
- Fix crash on cockpit plot travel when input coords is empty (#5099)
- Crash when new account visits CP sheet screen (#5098)
- Update Facility Construction UI to default coordinates to bottom left of current location, update roads and permissions screen to use twinview UI
- Reducing page jumpiness when pausing/resuming new construction actions
- non integer party slot size not showing up properly on cockpit squadron screen (#5095)
- added script to cleanup orphaned budgets (#5072)
- Fixing crash on squad orders screens when an error occurs (#4842)
Libraries:
- Upgrade the code editor used to edit SWC LISP scripts (#4093)
- Upgrade CKEditor HTML Editor (sim news, faction profile, join messages) and move to CDN (#5100)
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| Hopefully everyone is enjoying the year 20 celebration so far. There is more to come so keep an eye out on the sim news, you never know what might pop up or when. The introduction of the races seem to be generally well recieved, other than the usual complaining that is a prequisite to any change that occurs. As your person to implement them I am very glad of that, and wanted to thank Syn and Arjuna especially for their assistance in reviewing the stats and making sure I didn't screw up anything while making the races.
Porgs also seem to be a hit as far as I've heard, and with them introduced a new feature we can take advantage of CP Creatures. Which when the idea was tossed around we all loved it so hopefully everyone else does as well, and never know we might introduce more CP Creatures as time goes on.
I kind of kicked off the ideas for the Year 20 Celebrations so this is a fitting time for me to announce my retirement as an admin in swc and am retaking my character. The introduce of the new races and the making of porgs, purrgills and future things to come were my last offical acts as an admin in swc. Given my history it might be permanent or I might drop my character again one day to take on admin role again but for now feel I can contribute more in an advisory role than an actual admin.
Since this will likely be my last sim news post I do. I would like to thank everyone in swc for building a community that has lasted 20 years. Some of you I have worked more closely with than others but everyone contributes to make this game interesting. For that you have my thanks.
Also like to say given the recent massive earthquake in Alaska hopefully all of our players there are safe and sound, or as good as you could be given the circumstances.
| | (Edited by Kyle Rainer on Year 20 Day 3) |
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| Double Login CP:
For the next month or two enjoy double the reward for logging in! Happy 20th!
Unarmed Brawlers:
You may now use unarmed brawlers for an in-depth, stat based fight. A rules page will be made for these soon, but in the meantime here is a link to the details.
Space Bandit Capturing:
Disabled bandit ships can now be captured with the use of an Electronic Lockbreaker. The chance is based on your crafting/slicing skills. You get one try per character, per ship. It also will eat your ELB.
This can be dangerous! Anyone can board a disabled ship. You've been warned.
Purrgil Quest:
Some of you are wondering about the new space whales, and wish you could get one. Well... a quest will be released soon that allows you to get one for yourself! Stay tuned for details but in the meantime, go blubber hunting.
Science Feud Quest - Part Two:
A ton of you have asked about this bit. We have taken feedback from the first run and found ways to improve. Expect this quest to begin at the start of March. Start preparations now and make plans to be free!
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|
Some of you may have noticed that we are at the dawn of Year 20. A lot of new things are coming forward alongside this event and this is just part one!
Space Combat Garrisons:
As you may have seen in the latest Sync Report, a new feature for ships and stations has appeared. You may now store squads of fighters and gunboats into certain stations for system defense.
"What does this mean?!" - It means that in the next few months your systems may be in danger and will need some automated/remote defenses. Start your preparations!
New Playable Races:
A pair of new races, Kushiban and Pengauani are both set to be revealed about an hour or two after this post. They will be available for switching once the GNS announcement hits. Our galaxy grows once more.
CP Bonus Creature:
No that isn't a typo. We have ONE creature for CP bonus right now! Porgs! Get your personal flock today at Zoos, ranches, and wildlife preserves.
New Creatures
Purrgills are also released as a new creature.
| | (Edited by Kyle Rainer on Year 19 Day 365) |
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| Tweaks:
- New feature: Station Garrisons [see rules page]. Station garrisons is a feature intended to make defense of systems easier.
- Update Fincome Transactions overview: add option for last 31 days output, page loading slowly will not block other pages loading. Be careful as this may INLCUDE the last monthly run if it is within 31 days.
- Limited droid and item recycling XP to 1
- Added limitation on the number of bacta tanks you can monitor at once based on medical skill [see rules page]
Bugs:
- Fix issues with custom image submission form
- Fix exploit with xss on faction homepage link
- Fix issue where rules pages show mangled locations
- Fix exploit relating to npc market
- Fix skill category ordering for npc skillset fitouts user interface
- Fix issue with adding station build permissions crashing
- Remove form disabler on facility construction step 1 (safari back button fix)
- Cockpit squadron page now has filter box
- Fixing factory stations kicking items into space
- Handle situation where a power generator actively providing power being destroyed [rules page for power gens have been updated] (#5146)
- Could not edit budget descriptions (#5147)
- Workaround issue where forum badge not rendering with skin
- Add all missing size categories to city designer [8x8, etc]
Rules:
- Added rules for combat tactics [see rules page]
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| Howdy folks!
We're currently experiencing issues with applying customs. The source of the bug has been found, squashed, and tested. The fix will be included with the next sync, but until then, it won't be possible to apply customs.
Thanks for your patience!
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| Some of you probably noticed that weird 8x8 Large Palace that has been imageless and unconnected to the game for the past... while.
http://www.swcombine.com/rules/?8x8&ID=106
It has now been fully added to the game and can be constructed by anyone. Enjoy.
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|
| Economy Tweaks:
- Facility Income will now run weekly instead of monthly. The total value of FI weekly will be approximately 23% of the monthly values, and will be delivered on Sunday nights. The the next one should be today at D355 23:00 if no issues are encountered.
Combat Tweaks:
- Added combat tactics for character, squads, ships
- Focus fire: Each entity will target the same enemy for every hit per combat round
- Spread fire: Each entity will have each individual hit's target randomly chosen (as it has previously worked); additionally, they will do their best not to hit a dead target
- Combat now requires Line of sight to target (firing on an enemy with a facility, or anything that you would travel route around, in between will now fail)
- Add link to combat report from combat event, this link is sharable with others (so do not share link with others if you do not want them seeing the report)
- Rename faction "Combat Reports" permissions group to "Combat" permissions
Tweaks:
- Cross-terrain will now take a maximum of 4 hours
- made Admin-owned markets able to access NPC Market
- Organizing notable rooms list and making pointer more obvious
- Show IFF icon for squad leaders when on travel boarding screen (IFF icon will not show for entities that are in a squad and not squad leader - this should make it easier to board lead ships when a squad is present)
Bugs:
- Lots of updates to maps so they can be drawn in more situations (mainly when character is not at a maps location)
- Paused ETAs still counted down on sidebar e.g. when standing in a paused mine (#5113)
- Disallow multiple submissions of facility construction form, added link to start another construction in flash msg
- Add table editor to CKEditor e.g. faction profile editor (#5100)
- Party size under equipment now shows member count instead of slots
- Fix issue with overflowing sim news header when posted by long handle
- Fix recycling abort crash when aborting droids recycling
- Infotext inventory filter not working when None option is selected (#5138)
- inverted passenger count status bar color
- Add open-to inventory filter for ship and vehicle inventory
- Sort list of properties alphabetically in properties editor
- Apply a fire delay to all attackers, not just the party leader when attacking e.g. when in a ship squad you should be able to see a fire delay action for each ship
- Fix issue with Guard/Patrol/HostileAction: it does not reset action listeners when party leader changes
- Remove plotStepTravel and remove custom javascript on step travel cockpit page, clicking on map on step travel page now should bring up dropdown like other pages
- Add space combat attack button to scanner view
- Draw fire delay timer in cockpit screen (drawn on left hand side)
- Add squadron card to cockpit showing hull/shields quick overview
- Update privileges screen: fixes broken leader/2ic privs, shows which privs are missing (when leader or 2ic is missing privs, loading this screen will attempt to grant them - this is necessary if we add new privs)
- Remove CM output from pilot inventory (ships no longer show unmanned/piloted/npc in inventory piloted view)
- Remove CM checks when building stations (building stations had some weird code checks around piloted ships that were removed)
- Move piloted check for travel into the UI (should now correctly apply all-ships-in-squad-need-pilot rules before allowing travelling)
Rules:
- Update rules around astromech droids in cockpit avoiding hyperspace aborts
Lisp:
- Transfer ownership lisp admin function (#5127)
| | (Edited by Clarr Solo on Year 19 Day 355) |
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| It appears that we've encountered a nasty little bug with spawning custom items! The bug is caused by making over custom items prior to their approval by the art team. Essentially, if the custom item is owned by a faction (and potentially dead characters) at the time of approval, the tools can't figure out where to place the item and will crash. This also happens on denial due to the tools not knowing who to refund the CP to.
Because of this, we'd like to ask that people please avoid making over custom items prior to their approval until it is sorted out.
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| Minor bugfix sync.
Tweaks:
- Removed limit on number of stocks that can be released by certain faction types
Bugs:
- A server configuration change has been deployed to reduce intermittent 500 errors thrown when unrelated page generation times out
- Fix an issue where timers like production could prematurely finish when recalculating length such as when adding workers (related to old bug #4128)
- Fix force event icon not showing up properly (#5114)
- Fix LISP code editor not working on main server (#5115)
- Materials do not show up for selecting when refining bacta (#5117)
- Fix issue where squad patrol screen crashes when on planet terrain (#5118)
- Removal of duplicated NPC Fitout page, made it link to remaining fitout page (#5116)
- Missing battle report highlighting on space combat results page
- Combat reports page crashes when loaded without a character
- Bug fixed where you could not enter hyperspace when at galX=-1 or galY=-1
- Cybernetics install using the wrong stats in certain circumstances
- Fix issue where html in planets inventory could overflow row
- Bug with dead character inventory transfer (#5124)
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| Gameplay:
- Hyperspace Abort cooldown: you cannot jump back into to hyperspace for a period of time after aborting, currently 60 mins (#4389)
- NPC Fitout Skillsets: On the NPC Fitout screen, you can now also apply a desired skillset. NPCs will automatically assign skills to match this desired skillset when they level up. You can also make them spend their skill points by selecting NPCs in the inventory and using the "Apply Fitout Skillset" option.
Inventory:
- Add new inventory view option: summary view from current filter, this shows the inventory summary view with the current filter applied
- Planet deposit preview in planet inventory
- City layout preview in city inventory
Bugs:
- Fix issue with construction3 aborting failing when no return location set
- fix issue where planet stats were wrong after recycling, made planet stat calculation happen as part of the tick (#5109)
- removing useless option from faction stock owner screen (#5087)
- Update budget add/edit screen terminology for percent to make clear it is percent of current value of budget (#5106)
- Fix issue where characters could not be dropped (#5110)
- Fix issue where prospecting would not find vehicle sensors for some vehicles with corrupt field (#5107)
- Fix faction dissolution event showing wrong entity type
- Updates to maps so multiple maps can be drawn on a single page, and can be drawn in AJAX calls
- Rules sector map links for systems are in wrong spots on sector galaxy map screen, added borders for sectors maps, made hyperspace destination selection screens use same maps as rules pages
- Respawn timer was sometimes going into negatives
- Fix crash on crafting page when crafting requirements arent met
- Fix crash on cockpit plot travel when input coords is empty (#5099)
- Crash when new account visits CP sheet screen (#5098)
- Update Facility Construction UI to default coordinates to bottom left of current location, update roads and permissions screen to use twinview UI
- Reducing page jumpiness when pausing/resuming new construction actions
- non integer party slot size not showing up properly on cockpit squadron screen (#5095)
- added script to cleanup orphaned budgets (#5072)
- Fixing crash on squad orders screens when an error occurs (#4842)
Libraries:
- Upgrade the code editor used to edit SWC LISP scripts (#4093)
- Upgrade CKEditor HTML Editor (sim news, faction profile, join messages) and move to CDN (#5100)
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Facility Construction updates:
- You can now start construction from any location adjacent to the construction site.
- Builders will party together when gathering after construction.
- Construction UI has been updated to use a position view. This should work better on mobile. Other pages will be updated in the future.
- There are some backend updates to construction, existing construction actions are on the old system and new ones will be on the new system.
- New construction actions: can be paused and resumed without inventory refreshing
- New construction actions: will finish every minute instead of every 30 minutes
Bugs:
- Add sort by ID to all inventories
- Updated way player passwords are stored to match best practises (#5063)
- Fix bug where dead character items not transferred to carrier
- Clarifying skill selection on creation to say "Final Skill Level" (#4337)
- droids passing alone through locks causes crash (#5083)
- Fix bug on cross terrain screen where abort button can crash with exception
- Fix facility recycling not finishing correctly (#5077)
- Fixed exploit relating to government cockpit screen (changing taxes, etc)
- Fixed some exploits relating to CCCs and power generators (#5079)
- forum crashing with OOM when searching for nothing + added to robots.txt (#5078)
- general account settings crash if you change settings without a character
- non-piloted ship in your squad threw a confusing error when travelling
- Remove usage of birthday and gender fields on player settings, updated with tooltip about name field is used (#5066)
- RM weight gave excessively long floating point number (#3791)
- Types/Faction resource crashes when faction type has an item DC (#5086)
- Finish timer tool can now handle actions with multiple timers
- Datacards screen: Assigned datacards linked to inventory
- Update cockpit scanner filter to add filter by NPC
Rules:
- removed reference to mine depletion changing terrain type (this does not happen)
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Tweaks:
- Updated faction requirements to reduce member requirement, increase assets (see sim news post below)
- Major PHP7 Upgrade, there could be many issues with old code on new version of PHP, raise any new issues found in the help room or on the bug base.
- SWC Banner Exchange has been retired. Any websites displaying the banner exchange embed will now show random faction banners in its place.
- SWC Member map has been retired.
- Add read-only queue to inventory show stats page for entities that have a queue.
- adding flashing GNS notifier to galactic gov when GNS need approval
- NPC Market now informs of docked status of asset being sold (#5046)
- Bidding and purchasing on galactic market without reloading the page
- NPCs of races with a Force Probability % have had those points refunded as available skill points. This change applies to all NPCs.
Bugs:
- Droid repair doesn't give the "Use an Item" achievement (#4946)
- Typo on permission granting page
- Fix issue where cockpit crashes when vehicle has malformed misc field
- Error with faction creation js
- Pressing enter for inventory actions bypasses makeover/protection/etc. confirmation screens (#4979)
- Introduce pagination on faction owner protect/unprotect interface to prevent WSOD with large inventories (#3756)
- Set default max width for images in forum posts and messages
- Various bugs with asset handling after character death (#4675)
- Issues with players in a party that drop their character not spawning lost soul NPC (#5045)
- Unable to rename entities that have existing names using 4byte utf8 characters (#5040)
- Bug when repackaging medical items into crates (#5041)
- Fixed an issue with bacta tanks not healing properly (#5043)
- Missing show squad link for creatures inventory (#5039)
- Slight edit to arrest events (#5038)
- Droid could become permanently disabled after combat in a certain order (#5028)
- Applied Custom Images event now includes link to the image used
Web Services:
- Add recycling queue to Inventory/Entity resource
- Add production queue to Inventory/Entity resource
- Add new send credit resource
- Add documentation for new credit transfer resource
- Unhide and clean up "Daily Credit Limits" settings pages in account and faction settings
- Add minimum membercount to faction resource
- Add current capital (and breakdown) to faction resource
- Add support for filtering by infotext in Inventory/Entities resource
- Add support for multiple filters in Inventory/Entities resource
- Incorrect error when attempting to use WS for entity name change with more than 50 characters
- Error while removing tags via API (#5031)
- Droids can crash the API (#4373) | | (Edited by Mikel von Bianchi on Year 19 Day 299) |
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|  1 | Year 19 Day 362, 11:54 | Noctis banned player Yaxe Warden providing the following reason: Hacking | | 2 | Year 19 Day 362, 11:54 | Noctis banned player Valdis Hardwar providing the following reason: Hacking |
Multi accounts that appear to have under control of one player, exploiting the market, and asset sharing; also involving Swahg S`haghakh.
These players have been banned for one month. Valdis Hardwar can submit a support ticket to request reinstatement along with credit forfeiture after 1 month.
| 1 | Year 19 Day 362, 22:37 | Noctis banned player Ace Snyde providing the following reason: Harassment |
Threatening characters IC for the OOC banning. He may request an unban in 2 weeks.
| | (Edited by Noctis on Year 19 Day 362) |
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| | 1 | Year 19 Day 358, 17:23 | Noctis banned player Swahg S`haghakh providing the following reason: Use of an external program to exploit the combine. |
Player can submit a support ticket in 1 month to request reinstatement along with a forfeiture of XP.
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| 1Year 19 Day 355, 10:06Noctis banned player Rotkmunk Gor providing the following reason: Multi Ban
2Year 19 Day 355, 10:06Noctis banned player Ti Waiz Seij providing the following reason: Multi Ban
3Year 19 Day 355, 10:05Noctis banned player Gau Midu providing the following reason: Multi Ban
3 week ban for each character created and forfeiture of credits. Oldest account can request an unban after 9 weeks for exploiting the multi system.
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| Lan Artemis Morbus is now known as Raziel Morbus.
That is all
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| Hello everyone, just a reminder that if you share a connection you need to register as multis. Within the next week I'll be doing another round of bans for failing to register. As a reminder, since I'm giving fair warning, those banned will not be permitted to have multis going forward. Those of you with established multis, verify they are linked. Thank you for your cooperation in keeping the game fun and fair.
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Year 19 Day 286, 18:12 |
Noctis banned player David Pryde providing the following reason: Multi Ban | |
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Year 19 Day 286, 18:12 |
Noctis banned player Coriander Elias-Pryde providing the following reason: Multi Ban | |
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Year 19 Day 286, 18:12 |
Noctis banned player Vaal Dalledos providing the following reason: Multi Ban | |
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Year 19 Day 286, 18:12 |
Noctis banned player Galvin Korvas providing the following reason: Multi Ban |
Submit a support ticket in 2 weeks. Following the initial announcement about multis, and the first wave of bans, many have cleaned up their legal multis.
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Year 19 Day 286, 19:51 |
Noctis banned player Zaarsk Klast providing the following reason: Multi Ban; Attempting to bypass death timer |
Repeatedly attempting to create a new account. 30 day ban
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Ronhar Karath providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Reuler Satokora providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Mishelle Allari providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Quinntus Allari providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Karl Meridius providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Aleema Raimus providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Vegh Drokkoy providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Crotis Lavoy providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Calo Ericton providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Marcin Nevinyrral providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Mia Coluti providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Margaret Eve providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Kronos Braddock providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Trek Nors providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Rick Fias providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Skarlokk Vallus providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Nestor Kramm providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Wezz Jacobi providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Ryan Crate providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Kain Wrast providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Harken Drell providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Bunduk Gund providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. | |
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Year 19 Day 277, 19:46 |
Noctis banned player Bael Wrainos providing the following reason: Multi Ban 2 Weeks; Failed to register as multis, sequential connections. |
Submit a support ticket in 2 weeks. More to come.
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Sentients, this is a friendly reminder that each player is allowed one character within the combine. To be considered a legal multi you must register as such.
"If you are sharing your computer or Internet connection with other persons that are also members of the Combine, you must register all accounts by using the "Multi-Accounts Information" section of your account. This includes handles and the email addresses of all players using the computer/network. .."
Expect to see a large amount of bans within the next couple weeks for those that fail to follow the rules; as this will be the only reminder. The full excerpt of the rules can be found here. Legal multis provide an opportunity for people to share connections, and those banned will not be permitted to share connection in the future.
Your favorite Ewok with a hammer,
Noctis
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Year 19 Day 267, 19:48 |
Noctis banned player Nico Donovan Abane providing the following reason: Multi Ban | |
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Year 19 Day 267, 19:48 |
Noctis banned player Natozaki Tzuyoh providing the following reason: Multi Ban | |
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Year 19 Day 267, 19:48 |
Noctis banned player Sasha de Silva providing the following reason: Multi Ban |
Nico and Sasha have been banned for 4 weeks for account sharing and failing to register as multis. Natozaki has been banned for 2 weeks for the same. At the end of the ban time, they can each submit a support ticket for reinstatement.
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Year 19 Day 262, 20:02 |
Noctis banned player Salah El Dean providing the following reason: Multi Ban | |
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Year 19 Day 262, 20:02 |
Noctis banned player Whm Rabaa providing the following reason: Multi Ban |
One person with 2 seperate accounts; attempting to make a 3rd. The oldest of the two accounts can request reinstatement in 4 weeks.
Edit: Due to attempting to create a 4th account, ban has been extended to 2 months, that's all.
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| The Descriptions Team is looking for capable writers to produce new content and provide editing services to submissions from players. The typical test to apply for the team is to write three descriptions for entities that currently lack a quality one - you can either find some of these entities on your own or we can select them for you.
If you feel that you possess a basic comprehension of the English language and aren't afraid of a serial comma, feel free to apply for the team by messaging Tomas O`Cuinn in Darkness or catching me on Discord. We pay out a monthly salary of CPs as long as you can fool me into believing that you've been active, so what have you got to lose!?
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| As of today, I've taken over as Art Team Director. I'd like to give a big thank you to Jevon for his years of service. All current and future questions about the art rules, custom submissions, default image submissions, etc. should be directed to me from now on.
Thanks again for all of your hard work, Jevon!
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Deathmatch has moved to the next round!
CLICK ME TO GO VOTE
Grudge Sign up bug is fixed. Sign up for next round. No new ones this time but death match did move ahead.
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The votes are in , tallied, sorted, recounted, and comple. Here are the winners for the first ever Competition to design your own CP ship
Fighter:
1. Ixzis' Einstar APOSTRO-9 - 15,000 CPs
2. Knightcrawler's Raptor-Wasp Starfighter - 10,000 CPs
3. Mishka's Spirit MSDB - 5,000 CPs
Freighter:
1. Squall's Decadence-class Pleasure Yacht - 15,000 CPs
2. Argon's RZ-68 Defender Troop Transport - 10,000 CPs
3. Euna's Xanadu-class Superyacht - 5,000 CPs
Capital:
1. Syn's Prometheus-class Starcraft - 15,000 CPs
2. Crueya's Verpine-class Heavy Cruiser - 10,000 CPs
3. Mikel's KR-4B Luxury Star Cruiser - 5,000 CPs
Most Creative Concept:
Bentake's Spacelane Diner - 2,000 CPs
Lets congratualte all our submitters, and especially our winners! Eventually all of these will make their way into a galaxy near you.
For winners, prizes will be distributed shortly.
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UPDATE:
All submissions are being reviewed and voted on currently by a panel of judges. There will be multiple rounds, and winners will be announced at the end of all judging rounds.
We may look at upvotes and downvotes for some decision making, but they are not being used in any official capacity at this time. Showing your support for designs you like though and letting us know what you all want to see in game cannot hurt.
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The Combine Art team is officially hosting the first ever design your own CP ship competition in the art forum! Please head over here to read up on the rules and submission requirements:
http://www.swcombine.com/forum/thread.php?thread=74561&page=0
Submissions are open until January 15, 2018. Any and all questions can be DMed to me, or head over to the #swc-art IRC channel.
Edit: Last day to get these in. You have 24 hours!
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The Deathmatch has moved ahead again. I feel like I did not post last time so we had few votes.... oops?
Grudges are updated but please submit more.
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It's that time again, folks! The SWC Administration will be conducting faction checks, scheduled to start next week. Please be sure that your factions meet the requirements, as detailed in the rules.
If anyone has any questions or concerns, feel free to contact myself or another Asim - we are here to help.
Sid-It 18.351: We will also be checking for Generic Datacard violations and any violators will have the "extra" datacards removed from them.
Sid-It 18.359: For those who forgot, we started faction checks on Day 357. A number of factions have datacards in excess of their slot count, so the administration will be removing them and fines will be assessed to those found abusing the generic datacard system.
Sid-It 19.014: No, we didn't forget. Here are some answers to frequently asked questions:
- Factions will be fined 10,000,000cr for each violation (except datacard violations).
- Datacard violators will be fined 10,000,000cr per excess slot (0.5s rounded up); the fines for repeat offenders will be doubled.
- The owners of factions in violation will receive a bill with the amount of fines due to Darkness, payable by the faction fined.
We are only releasing statistics of the violations at this time. Here's the damage, folks:
- 48 banner/logo violations
- 6 description violations
- 11 datacard violations (2 repeat offenders)
2017 Christmas Fund: 1,209,000,000cr
Last of the Sid-Its: Faction fines have been paid. For those of you that see those mysterious credit events, it was me who stole your precious credits. All hail Selatos!
(Also, if you are going to see Star Wars tonight, please wait until January to ruin it for everyone else....)
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Twilight Foundation has secured a victory for part one. All four phases are now completed. Active droids will still be available for capture and you all can claim your rewards soon.
Tomorrow morning Combine time you can start visiting your Droid commanders inside starports to claim end-of-quest rewards. Both sides can do this.
Galactic Rewards and Impact:
Also starting tomorrow morning Combine time you will see a new generic DC available for purchase plus a new enemy will appear in bandit squads for you to loot.
A GNS will be posted tonight featuring story end game and show you next steps for Part two.
Edit: if you spoke to npc and did not get a reward, it will be provided soon.
Edit Edit: http://www.swcombine.com/forum/thread.php?thread=74058&page=0 Discussion thread!
Edit Edit Edit: http://www.swcombine.com/forum/thread.php?thread=74058&post=849450#post849450 Updated with some code examples.
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Both teams are now in the final phase. Destroy enemy droids (or your own if you hate winning) and finish it up! Capture or Destroy!
Winner of thise Phase will be winning team. Rewards are ready to go..
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Hey Everyone!
Both teams have been pushing hard and now it is time for phase 3! That said it is time for some DETAILS.
Phase 3: Every civic center in the galaxy has a droid commander that will give you some equipment and instructions. Every DARKNESS or QUEST planet has at least 12 droids on it. You can speak to them as if they were an NPC.
Twilight: Activate your BN-D0 Assassins and deactivate the GenSci R0-L0 Tank Droids.
GenSci: Activate your R0-L0 Tank Droids and deactive the Twilight Assassins.
In total I have placed 500 droids in the galaxy.
Phase 4: Once enough (number not public) droids have been activated both teams will enter phase 4. This is the combat phase. Kill enemy droids but leave your own side's droids alone! Capture or kill until they are all taken care of around the galaxy. First side to conquer all active enemy droids wins.
"WHAT DO WE WIN?!"
Stuff. Though I will say prizes are more of a galactic scale than individual scale. Even if you didn't participate you might see some of the results.
Edit: Added Commanders to Starports. Both teams on phase 3. No more phase 2 rewards available.
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