Patch Notes 11/22/08 - 12/5/2008

[RampidMark]

Since we skipped last week's patch notes because of Thanksgiving, here are all the patch notes from last week AND this week. Enjoy!

- Several OW Mini (Facebook App) bugs have been squashed including one where it wasn't too compatible with Internet Explorer. We have also added in a tab for your ranking in various categories. This allows you to see how you stack up against the entire OW Mini field. We will be adding more to this app soon so spread it around to your friends!
- Some lingering Treasury searching bugs have been fixed. Please respond in this thread if there is ANYTHING funky with searching in the Treasury. Or ways it could be better.
- The Wilderness has been added to permanent, everyday gameplay.
- Ten Wilderness Achievements have also been added. Gain them as you tread deeper into the Wilderness!
- A tool has been added that allows for safe trading between players for items only. This can be reached by clicking to it from somebody's profile or by searching out their name.
- Several backend tools have been added and upgraded for easier support.
- Bugs concerning the miscalculation and display error of the bonus skill points awarded from the Magic Book have been solved.
- Fixed a bug that displayed elemental damage during a fight when a certain weapon was required to kill a boss and the attacker wasn't wielding that weapon. Now 0 damage is dealt and displayed if the attacker doesn't have the weapon equipped.
- A weird display issue that scattered the world screen while DC'ing has been adjusted. Please let us know if this is still happening to anyone.
- The Thanksgiving Quest was launched with some serious issues, but by the end of the week, all the issues were resolved and the quest was a success. In the end Pilgrims, Indians, Outwar Players and others all got along... the only loser was the Terrible Turkey, but he deserves it!
- The main Shout Box and Treasury Shout Box have gone through a data storage optimization. This may result in a slight delay for seeing new posts, but it shouldn't be anymore than a minute.
- Fixed a bug that was not allowing the appropriate moderators to delete ShoutBox posts.
- We are now accepting Christmas Quest Submissions!
- The support ticket links on rampidgaming.com/myaccount.php have changed a bit.
- Quiver mobs were not respawning for a bit. They are respawning now.
- The first wave of Outwar's attack on ARJ's is complete. This should have cut back on these programs working successfully a lot. The last wave will come within the next week, so anyone using ARJ's (if there actually is still anyone) may need to actually join the raids. Have fun!
- A potentially harmful, and very comical point glitch involving the 100,000th place on the decimal range.

FUTURE:
- Look for what may be the last Kix Woods update on the forums early next week!
- We are focusing strongly on potential software, hardware and query optimization to speed Outwar up permanently. Please work with your resident Moderator(s) to report any issues with lag and please be specific!
- OW Mini (facebook app) upgrades
- Christmas quests!

[makavelitehdon]

Chop chop with that kix woods

Woot almost done with my Xmas quest just waiting on pics maybe it will get picked who knows.



- We are focusing strongly on potential software, hardware and query optimization to speed Outwar up permanently. Please work with your resident Moderator(s) to report any issues with lag and please be specific!

ye sigil server does not have any good moderators

[x123rgn123x]

- A potentially harmful, and very comical point glitch involving the 100,000th place on the decimal range.

Comical how :D

[wangtangkiki]

sounds good.




because you have to go through a lot of work to get less than a point

[slozon]

Chop chop with that kix woods

Woot almost done with my Xmas quest just waiting on pics maybe it will get picked who knows.



- We are focusing strongly on potential software, hardware and query optimization to speed Outwar up permanently. Please work with your resident Moderator(s) to report any issues with lag and please be specific!

ye sigil server does not have any good moderators

when ever i tell a mod about lag or lock errors i get told to stfu and deal with it lmao

[RampidMark]

when ever i tell a mod about lag or lock errors i get told to stfu and deal with it lmao

Normally that's what they're instructed to do (not exactly "stfu" and "deal with it") but that there isn't much they can do about it right now. But we are aggressively going to be diagnosing lag and slow spots of Outwar over the next several weeks at least. If any mods give you that response after you give them a detailed report of your slow experience, post it in the forums or tell Misery and it will be sorted out.

Thanks!

~ Mark

[Valraven38]

There is still a bug with the treasury where if you click a persons name it takes you to their id number on the treasury, not their name so you can't see there items. Makes selling things harder.

[xoknerazan]

There is still a bug with the treasury where if you click a persons name it takes you to their id number on the treasury, not their name so you can't see there items. Makes selling things harder.

this is true.

Also, mark, generally the biggest slow down I see is at midnight OW/EST time. The lag seriously spikes for 10 or 12 minutes and makes DCing/equipping items/dropping items/casting skills/etc. incredibly difficult and irritating. I don't know if this is something that is unavoidable, but it happens seemingly every single net.

[slozon]

this is true.

Also, mark, generally the biggest slow down I see is at midnight OW/EST time. The lag seriously spikes for 10 or 12 minutes and makes DCing/equipping items/dropping items/casting skills/etc. incredibly difficult and irritating. I don't know if this is something that is unavoidable, but it happens seemingly every single net.


this is day change lag and doubtful it will ever get fixed

[_thefreak_]

Terrible Turkey deserved it? It was a turkey tyrant and 'terrible' is a relative term considering who you are by comparison, you biggot, stop GWBushing others just because you find them tasty

stop this post-war propeganda against the turkeys and help them rebuild. We need to help them learn to fly all over again.

[x123rgn123x]

If outwar were to completely shutdown for the time it takes to do midnight stuff and backups and then reset, would this annoy people as badly as knowing that while yes; they can see the site they can't actually do anything due to lock errors?

[Golfing4Life]

the lag on sigil server is not only at day change it also happens at 4am and again at 5am. unless i am the only one that cant do anything on the site except look at my own profile and home page.

[Syndicate]

The first wave of Outwar's attack on ARJ's is complete. This should have cut back on these programs working successfully a lot. The last wave will come within the next week, so anyone using ARJ's (if there actually is still anyone) may need to actually join the raids. Have fun!

[Boogeyman]

thanks for dealing with arj.. finally :)

[Psyphur]

Thank god they are finally getting taken care of. I wonder how many crews were actually using them lol. This might help level they playing field.

[Z_xCashviLLe]

- The first wave of Outwar's attack on ARJ's is complete. This should have cut back on these programs working successfully a lot. The last wave will come within the next week, so anyone using ARJ's (if there actually is still anyone) may need to actually join the raids. Have fun!
What measures did you take concerning this? Because I do not see any results. A lot of crews on Zimbob are ARJ'ing, now I stopped caring about that a long time ago, but it seems to me nothing has been done, despite of what you say.


- We are focusing strongly on potential software, hardware and query optimization to speed Outwar up permanently.
Get rid of that stupid GainLock() function. I've seen the code and I know what purpose it serves, but it could be optimized (just start the coding from scratch).

[this_is_lame]

Vendor items on sigil dont show up when u click on treasury (for me atleast) and when u click on someones tb post where it says treasury in there line doesnt goto treasury

[crypticlifestyle]

Yeah treasury was all screwed up, but wasnt the only aspect of the game @ that time effected eigther...I have a member who just handed in LF's for his blade, now the LF's disapeared... (CoolPayer btw)

just did a Bacaba run & as you can see on the Hatesnare raid & Bloodstorm raids, items dropped but now show up as blanks in the crew vault...

http://sigil.outwar.com/raidattack.php?raidid=5335153

http://sigil.outwar.com/raidattack.php?raidid=5335155

Then there is also the crew points dropped on members that disapeared...

Also lost a laser on a trade...

I believe Sparda tried msg'n mark as it was going down but no response was giving back =/

[this_is_lame]

Is it just sigil that is like this or other servers 2?

[MightySephiroth]

Treasury links to player items do not work from shout box.

IE use to be able to see someones shout and click their link to treasury or their name to view their stuff, now it takes you to treasury main page.

[dyzzy_bz]

i'd like it kinda old fashion lol. click on name when he made a post - goes to profile . and another link that instead of what used to be going to trade block goes to his treasury items, with pts prices ... if u want to trade ... talk to him use the new thing ... if not ... buy with pts. a thing that ow doesnt have anymore with these item - item trade is that option where u could add pts + item for item

[sinmaster]

am I the only one that has been having problems with the totems I tried 3 times to use it and it used up those 3 charges. can you guess please fix that!!!!!

[Firestarter]

What measures did you take concerning this? Because I do not see any results. A lot of crews on Zimbob are ARJ'ing, now I stopped caring about that a long time ago, but it seems to me nothing has been done, despite of what you say.

guess admins think people will be too shamed to use arj's cause they posted this in the patch notes. nothing was done about arj's. they are still being used.

[xFelix]

- The first wave of Outwar's attack on ARJ's is complete. This should have cut back on these programs working successfully a lot. The last wave will come within the next week, so anyone using ARJ's (if there actually is still anyone) may need to actually join the raids. Have fun!



really?


Lets look @ Torax(First)...

Mistress of the Sword Shower of Evil 00:02:48
Smoot the Yeti KaoS 00:02:59
Lord Sibannac *Incarnation* 00:02:30
Bloodchill the Grizzly Rest In Peace 00:01:45

Now on to Zimbob...

Why was nothing done about Big Tymers 34 accounts in 58 seconds with 2 lf drops... on quiver the renegade... they obviously do not need 34 accounts against him.. so why overjoin by 14? better yet mods always tell me show me proof wtf proof you want its simple math.. the raid was 58 seconds.. divide the raid time by accounts(34)... 1.70 seconds per acct... it takes longer to type the captcha then to load the account(or should unless of course...)

moving along...

I dont see any changes at all on joinraid.php... care to elaborate what exactly has been done? here ill use your words against you(sorry).. (if there actually is still anyone) <--- rofl you need to re-evaluate that comment big time or should i say big tymers :) btw they camp njord alot is he going to spawn soon? LOL

[BoneyThugz2]

Quiver Server

Click the treasury link in shout box brings up
http://quiver.outwar.com/treasury.php?search_for=

Click treasury link in the Treasury brings up
http://quiver.outwar.com/treasury.php?search_for=Akuta
^^ not sure if this is being worked on

Also a suggestion
Could you make potions/Creates purchasable via the crew vault using the crew point bank (I believe it would save the need for some people to give out there security words and in turn help against the "hacker" war)

[wiggi0101]

Normally that's what they're instructed to do (not exactly "stfu" and "deal with it") but that there isn't much they can do about it right now. But we are aggressively going to be diagnosing lag and slow spots of Outwar over the next several weeks at least. If any mods give you that response after you give them a detailed report of your slow experience, post it in the forums or tell Misery and it will be sorted out.

Thanks!

~ Mark

lol yeah right

How long do you really think a post like that would stay open before its closed with a sarcastic comment by a certain mod ??

[bluedthunder]

Not only is there no difference in this supposed measure to stop ARJ, the use of ARJ seems to have spiked recently (Most people know why, LOL).

[Valraven38]

Not only is there no difference in this supposed measure to stop ARJ, the use of ARJ seems to have spiked recently (Most people know why, LOL).

No I don't know why, maybe you could shed some light on the subject?

[shisch]

- The first wave of Outwar's attack on ARJ's is complete. This should have cut back on these programs working successfully a lot. The last wave will come within the next week, so anyone using ARJ's (if there actually is still anyone) may need to actually join the raids.

Gee, thanks, can't press back and join another character now without getting a stupid error code.

"We're sorry, an error occured. If you continue to experience this problem, please report it to the administration"

Hey administration, fix this shit, you're hurting legit raiders ;)

[bluedthunder]

Gee, thanks, can't press back and join another character now without getting a stupid error code.

"We're sorry, an error occured. If you continue to experience this problem, please report it to the administration"

Hey administration, fix this shit, you're hurting legit raiders ;)
I concur, this does nothing but makes ARJ easier and further screwing legit raiders.

[Invaderzim]

htey have been saying they will fix the lag over serveral weeks for months now still no change :/