Patch Notes 03/20/09 - 3/27/09

[Magicnick]

Patch Notes

- Created Outwar Concept Team (see newsposts).
- Menu icons added to world.php.
- Important information about your account removed from home.php
- Upgraded IP logging in support ticket system.
- Created new Content & Support Award Medals (TBA).
- Added new backend notifications for new "Hacked Account Support Line" messages.
- Re-sunk game server times to be uniform.
- Upgraded point award logs from Recruitment awards.
- Added new items to purchase Preferred Player subscriptions with points. (see newsposts).
- Moved the Create New Character button on myaccount.php from bottom of page to right under the "MY CHARACTERS" image.
- Removed Character Shop button from myaccount.php
- Removed shoutbox from home.php
- Removed news from home.php
- Removed server stats and bounties from home.php
- Added expandable stats on home.php
- Moved the population and server born on date to the table with the 50/50 raffle on ow_community.php.
- Moved the leaderboard rankings stats to a new page called leaderboard.php
- Moved the God Status stats to a new page called godstatus.php
- Added 2 text links to "Leader Board" and to "God Status" on ow_community.php.
- Changed URL link from the profile image on home.php.
- Changed the "Support" link of home.php to a "profile" link.
- Fixed a bug that was not displaying the Kix woods trainer as a trainer, for some players.
- Upgraded backend room navigation for City of Eternal Star.
- Upgraded linking URLs in our backend god kill report.
- Upgraded item management tools in backend user profiles.
- Upgraded hard drive on Quiver server. (SSD)
- Continued development on next War of Zhul.
- Security word added to raffle.php
- Changed point price of 5 Day PP Trial.
- Finishing work on next CoES forum update, look for it this weekend!



News Posts

3/26/09 - Double Experience Day Over: Double Experience Day has come to a close. It will return again soon!


3/25/09 - Buy Preferred Player with Points in the Treasury + Double EXP da: Check the Upgrade-->Personal section of the Treasury for our new permanent addition: All three full Preferred Player Packages for points!!
*note - these cannot be activated on characters who have an active PP status

And don't forget, for the next 24 hours, all mobs killed in Diamond City will award DOUBLE the experience! Ends Thursday at noon. Enjoy!


3/25/09 - Double Experience Day!: For the next 24 hours, all mobs killed in Diamond City will award DOUBLE the experience! Ends Thursday at noon. Enjoy!


3/24/09 - Quiver server upgraded!: The new SSD install for Quiver is complete. Fabar and Zimbob... you're next!

Thanks for the support,
_Outwar Staff_


3/24/09 - Potential Raid Issues on Fabar: Starting at 5:30pm Outwar Time, we will be running some live tests on the Fabar server dealing with raids. Some people may not be affected at all and some may not be able to join raids. This testing may last anywhere from an hour to several hours.

Thanks for your patience!
_Outwar Staff_


3/24/09 - Quiver Hardware Upgrade!: Around 4:00pm Outwar time, we will be taking down just the Quiver server and replacing the current hard drive with a brand new SSD drive. The downtime should take between 30-45 minutes.

Again, another upgrade made possible by you, the player. Thanks and enjoy!
_Outwar Staff_


3/23/09 - Introducing the Outwar Concept Team!!: We'd like to announce the beginning of the Outwar Concept Team, led by the ever so objective Egnar, with assistance from his right-hand man, Jaryd2006. As the Outwar Concept Manager, Egnar will represent the voice of the people by talking to everyone with constructive input that may better any aspect of Outwar or Rampid and relaying that information to an administrator.

The Outwar staff is constantly busy implementing current ideas and fixing any unfortunate issues that pop up and don't get as much time as we would like, to brainstorm and develop more ideas. This is where the Outwar Concept Team and the general population of Outwar comes in. Work with Egnar and Jaryd to create and polish ideas that would better Outwar! The more polished the ideas, the easier it will be to implement them if they make it to the production room.

Keep in mind, many of the ideas that are produced will probably stay as ideas for a very long time, but that's how production from brainstorming ideas works. Consider it a major victory if one in four ideas that Egnar presents are implemented.

With your help, we will hopefully add everything to our system that makes sense for everyone (in good time), giving the players a strong voice for the future gameplay of Outwar. Egnar could maybe use one or two more reliable and logical team members. Message him through the brainstorm section of the forums if you're interested!

Thanks for your support!
_Outwar Staff_


3/23/09 - Sales Over: The free Preferred Player, gem, and Treasury sales, have all come to a close. Thanks to everyone who took part.


3/22/09 - Recruitment Competition Winners!:
This week's recruitment competition has ended. Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winner rebaned from fabar, who recruited 42 new Outwar players and won 713.43 Outwar Points and a High Rollers Brand

Also, congrats to the 2nd place winner 69ers2hot4you from sigil who recruited 31 new players and won 475.62 points plus an Augment Pack.

To learn more about the Recruitment Competition and see how you can compete for great prizes, visit this link

We give out a large portion of all the taxes collected in Outwar split amongst the top 30 recruiters each week on Sunday at 6:00pm, but we also give out stiff penalties for any negative conduct associated with this competition. Please play fair!

Good luck!

_Rampid Staff_



3/21/09 - 50/50 Raffle Winner!: We're happy to announce the winner of last week's 50/50 Raffle! Congratulations to evo2uk who won 431.47!
Remember, a good portion of all taxes feed this jackpot, so buy those tickets for a chance to win some BIG points! Good luck!!
_Outwar Staff_

[shisch]

- Created Outwar Concept Team (see newsposts).


And hooray for them! :D


- Created new Content & Support Award Medals (TBA).


Ooooh, sounds tasty.


- Added new items to purchase Preferred Player subscriptions with points. (see newsposts).


This is absolutely wonderful.


- Added expandable stats on home.php


Can you please add a preference for this, so we can show the expanded info per default?


- Moved the leaderboard rankings stats to a new page called leaderboard.php
- Moved the God Status stats to a new page called godstatus.php


I bet there's a good reason, but... I don't quite get why. Can you please add my idea (http://forums.rampidgaming.com/showthread.php?t=9341) or a version of it, so we can see everything on the same page?


- Continued development on next War of Zhul.


Seems like there's a lot of changes, any preview soon?


- Security word added to raffle.php


I guess this is good against those who only want to ruin it for others.
EDIT2: No you didn't, unless you "forgot" fabar again.


MUCH better updates this week than the previous and the one before that. Well done!
EDIT: Perhaps not MUCH better... but I like it more. :P

OH and the newspost looks terrible.

[Linh]

5 Days of Preferred Player 1 Vendor 179.99
Why not just make it an even 180...?

[jeffers1986]

When are you going to fix acheivements?


EDIT: Nvm, just checked my ticket. Thanks Misery, my inflated ego is satisfied for another day! =p

[Egnar]

Why not just make it an even 180...?
Psychological mentality - What do you buy the can of soup that is 99cents or the can of soup that is $1? If they're identical probably the 99cent can, even if they're identical. ..Not because you're saving a penny but because psychologically you feel like you're getting a huge deal.

[xxconjaroxx]

Any idea on what the blackjack dealer ate and if he will be okay? looking froward to spending ergh.. Gambling away all my points :P

Ps: Tell him to stay away from the tuna fish sandwiches :P

Other than that, Loving the updates!

[Damonik]

:D keep the good updates coming.

[Linh]

Psychological mentality - What do you buy the can of soup that is 99cents or the can of soup that is $1? If they're identical probably the 99cent can, even if they're identical. ..Not because you're saving a penny but because psychologically you feel like you're getting a huge deal.
You would be right, but this is OW; they monopolize that item. You cannot get it anywhere else (yet). Hence, that .01 pt isn't that big of a deal in this sense.

[bummy]

Love how fast zimbob is now :), gj with w/e u guys did. Hope it stays the same way.

[gtrplyr]

should we still expect a COES update?

[Psyphur]

Are we still getting an update this weekend?

[BlackRebel]

seriously can we get an update on poor greg
apparently he's been gone to lunch for a year now and i think he's in danger...

[charro]

If Admins or Outwar owners would wish to make more money in this game you should take this into consideration. People will actually spend money to get brob runs if the drops are fair, so far the runs are costing 5k+ points which is equal to 250.00$ and giving almost NO DROPS at all just the chest which is AUTO-DROP. Now who would want to pay 250$ on a run to just receive an item u already have, when there is no point in it. The point of this game is to be the best, and have the best items in the game. Not just to get a piece of a set, and not being able to complete it due to the drops that BRoB has. There is no point is spending money on the same item you are gonna get every raid. If there are an abundance of drops, not saying 3 items of each drop in raid, OW can defenitely count on makin more profit and money in this game.
Thank You.

[shisch]

If Admins or Outwar owners would wish to make more money in this game you should take this into consideration. People will actually spend money to get brob runs if the drops are fair, so far the runs are costing 5k+ points which is equal to 250.00$ and giving almost NO DROPS at all just the chest which is AUTO-DROP. Now who would want to pay 250$ on a run to just receive an item u already have, when there is no point in it. The point of this game is to be the best, and have the best items in the game. Not just to get a piece of a set, and not being able to complete it due to the drops that BRoB has. There is no point is spending money on the same item you are gonna get every raid. If there are an abundance of drops, not saying 3 items of each drop in raid, OW can defenitely count on makin more profit and money in this game.
Thank You.

Point in game = to be the best
No point paying for the best which gives few drops = contradicting earlier statement

See where I'm going?

[collydog50]

any news.....?