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Few small changes today.

Few small changes today…

If you don’t interact with the game for 10 minutes, you now get signed out. This is to stop people AFK’ing just to watch the chat windows.  Creepers gotta stop creeping.

The Map of Earth now shows which realms are active:
http://www.ironfell.com/map/of/earth/

To help new users… new users now get more starting resources and a single Oil Seep in new safe home valleys.

Churches have been tweaked too.  The are more expensive than Colleges or Universities,  but they give you the Knowledge MUCH FASTER.  They expire in only 24 hours.  Giving you 640 Knowledge per hour per Church.

And you Princes can now build Churches.  :)  This makes them accesssable to new users.

And again, thankyou to everyone who has purchased resources,  you rock :)

david,

Map of Earth (first draft)

OKAY!

Here’s the first draft of the map…
http://www.ironfell.com/map/of/earth/

It’s just the terrain.  Next I will add inactive/active realm layer, Realm name and ID numbers, Flagship markers and then Trees.

I’ve got 3 more zoomed in levels to add.  Just need to figure out how to upload 7 GB of images :)   My internet connection here would take 2-3 weeks to upload that.

The tiles are available here:
http://tiles.ironfell.com/earth/terrain/{z}/{y}/{x}.png

Feel free to make map mashups :)  I’ve used leaflet js which is super simple to use JavaScript library.   Make sure you set the CRS setting to simple.

:)

David,

Few bug fixes

Few little bug fixes today…

• GM name is at the top of the chat list as it should be.
• Changed order of unit build menu for Carpenter, so Shipyard isn’t next to Wood Tower.
• And the trade list,  now starts scrolled to top when it opens.

Bug Fixes!

The new Universe is live, and after a very rough first day things are starting to settle down.  The following bugs were just fixed.

– PayPal should now deliver your resources without glitching.
– In Universe Chat, alliance icons now show up correctly.
– Bugged name ΩSilverStrikeΩ has been fixed.
– If not in an alliance, change realm, and alliance panel now stays hidden correctly.
– F3 an F4 keyboard shortcuts are now correct.
– Fixed… If you invite someone to an alliance, and their unit is standing on blood, the blood comes to the front, above the unit.
– Improved the performance on Android by decreasing the amount of text in the text fields.
– Fixed the “Servers restarting NaN%” text to correctly show 0%

End of the world – stats

One day to go!

Reboot in less than 24 hours :)   Excited much? :)

The old old universe is now offline.

The current universe is still going for a bit longer.  I’ll probably shut it down around 9am tomorrow morning.

Reboot will be going live around lunch time tomorrow.   I don’t have an exact time, as I’ll be waiting on databases etc to copy.  But it’ll be after 12 tomorrow. (nz time).

I’ve just copied the user accounts from the old and current universes.  So from now on, no name, colour or password changes will be transferred to the new universe.

And a reminder…   in the reboot, use your existing email address and password to sign in.  This gets you the same name and colour you have used before.  And if you spent any money on resources in the last 6 months, you get those as an extra resource bonus.

If you used the same email address in the old and current universes… use the password you used in the current universe.

Almost there :)

Servers offline for a few hours.

DON’T PANIC

Sorry about this, but I’ve had to take the game and web servers offline while I do some OSX updates.   The central server is upgrading from OSX 10.7.5 to 10.9.3 … and its going to take at least an hour, and I can guarantee that something will go wrong :)

So take a break, go watch some TV.

And here’s a photo of Sebastian helping me…

Reboot Release Notes

Reboot is almost here!  Will be live around lunch time Wednesday 2nd July New Zealand time.

1st universe was the one with home valleys, lobby realms and lots of oceans and mountains that looked the same. 2nd universe was the one with no home valleys, and you just started out in the PVP world somewhere random. This new reboot is the 3rd universe. It’s a mixture of the above two, but bigger, and with Alliances.

The reboots version number is 1.0.8 (0084).

If you play on Android, I recommend going into Google Play and updating Ironfell. You might also need to update Adobe Air. There are lots of bug fixes and performance improvements, so you should definitely do this. And you can do it now, to get ready before the reboot goes live.

So what’s new?

There is a new universe, with about 7000 custom realms to make up the map of earth. And you can now form Alliances, members of an Alliance can’t attack each other, so you can jointly defend or attack.

Reboot

• Sign in using your previous email/password to get your previous username. You also get the same colour as you had before.
• Anyone who has spent money on resources in the last 6 months can sign in using their previous details and they will get bonus resources equal to the amount they previously purchased.
• There are just over 7,000 realms that make up the map of earth.
• At a random time every day, another earth realm is opened up and connect to the currently open realms by whirlpools and tunnels.
• Safe Home Valleys are back.
• The Whirlpool in your Safe Home Valley connects to an open realm and once every 24 hours it random connects to a different location in a different open realm.
• If you do not play for 28 days your account, units and realms are deleted. You will receive an email warning around 21 days. To stop this happening, simply sign into your account once every 28 days.
• When you reset your account, your home realm is deleted, and a new empty home realm is created for you.
• Flowers now randomly spawn in realms and they can be destroyed.
• There is much more shallow water in the new earth realms.
• There is much more swamp terrain in the prehistoric earth realms.
• Flagships are no longer restricted to lakes. If you build near water, you may be attacked by a Flagship. There are more flagships, but not all are activated yet. They are placed at random in the earth realms.
• Beginners guide and FAQ on the website have been updated.
• Most units have had their attack or health tweaked so that offense is slightly cheaper than it used to be. See the tech-tree for current statistics for each unit.
• Fish are now found in prehistoric realms.
• The background colour has been changed to green.
• Realm names can now be changed, email David if you think a realm’s name could be better.
• There is a new grid size, even smaller than the current smallest size.
• Blue and brown Pterodactyl’s are not in the reboot.
• Whirlpool artwork has been updated so that it looks correct on shallow and deep water.

Alliances

• Members of an Alliance can not attack each other.
• Alliances give people a great advantage in situations like a real-time Carrack battle with 2 or more players micro managing their Carracks versus a single user.
• There is a new Alliances panel, top left, 4th red arrow.
• In there you can create a new Alliance which requires a name, motto and crest.
• Invite people to be your Allies in a similar way to creating trades. Click a knight/prince/queen etc and select Alliance Invite, then select an adjacent unit belonging to the player you would like to send an invite to. They then need to accept your invite in the Alliance panel.
• You can leave an Alliance at any time using the Alliance panel.
• There is no way to kick someone out of your Alliance, so choose your allies carefully! (this feature will be added in the future).
• If an Alliance has no members, it stops existing.
• Alliance Crests appear next to players names in the chat and other interface panels.
• There is a new Chat panel, for chatting to the other members of your Alliance. It’s the third red arrow up from the bottom right corner of the screen.

Bug Fixes

• Baby Mauisaurus always appear next to water now.
• If you save a bookmark outside the map bounds, it now restricts the bookmark to the edge of the map instead of allowing negative x,y co-ordinates in bookmarks.
• Towers now auto-attack units at random (instead of always attacking to the left).

Performance Improvements

• All new database connection layer in pure python , x10 faster than the previous version which used ctypes.
• Name and colour changes are now instant, no need to relog.
• Lots of small fixes to things that were causing lag.

*phew*

Get your Alliance Crest ready

I had to change the crest icons a bit… 16×16 pixel images didnt work right, so I redrew all the ones that I could as vectors. This works better when the interface scales.

Have a play with the Crest Maker below… :)

p.s. it probably only works on desktop browsers as it uses flash, sorry mobile people!

New Safe Home Valleys

In the reboot, when you register or sign in for the first time, you get a Safe Home Valley  to start in.   This is the same as the old universe.   The Safe Home Valley is a private realm that nobody else can get into, you are safe there! :)

You get a Small Iron Mine, some trees and a few signs to help you get started.

The Whirlpool is a one way Whirlpool.  It takes you to a random place in a random realm.  Every 24 hours the destination of the Whirlpool changes, so if you don’t like where it goes, wait a day and it’ll go somewhere new.  This means your enemies can’t camp the Whirlpool destination and trap you in your home realm.

If you reset your account, your home valley gets deleted, a new home valley is created, and you are placed in that new home valley.  This is great for new users who make a mess of their home valley and want to clear it and start again.

Deleting a realm is a new feature, and I wasn’t able to do that in the old universes.  When a realm is deleted, all gates going to it are deleted, all units removed, all bookmarks to that realm are removed, etc.  If a user is in a realm when its deleted, they get sent to their Safe Home Valley.

Another new feature… in the settings there is a new hexagon grid size.  One smaller than the smallest size. The screenshot above is 100% at that new grid size. :)

6 days to reboot!
David.