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BattleMaster => Announcements => Topic started by: Anaris on February 28, 2019, 09:37:54 PM

Title: February 2019 Recent Changes
Post by: Anaris on February 28, 2019, 09:37:54 PM

February 2019 Recent Changes

Major Changes

• Militia Nerfs:
  • Increase pay for all larger-sized units (mobile & militia)
  • Increase pay for all SF units (mobile & militia)
  • Add corruption overhead to militia pay, the wealthier the region the more militia units must be paid
  • Remove militia being cheaper than mobile units
• Prevent secessions for duchies with less than 15 nobles
• Make daimons and humans fight each other in rogue regions
• Display list of top twenty wealthiest characters on island with more than 10k wealth (gold+bonds), accessible via Information page
• Display realm hierarchy with family heraldric crests, can toggle back to old text version
• Allow allies to contribute to takeover progress at 1/3rd effectiveness
• Include allied troops in region when calculating having enough troops to takeover a region (allied troops only count for 1/3rd)
• Automatically redirect new players to create their first character after signing Social Contract
• Add hotkeys for sending and previewing messages, just like on wiki and forum
• Send more effective infantry armour to stable
• Enable refusing ducal position
• Add filtering messages by last 24 hours and 48 hours (today/yesterday filters are based on the full turn)
• Don't remove a player's last five medals of each type
• Don't remove a player's medals if they've received one in the last 6 months AND given one in the last 3 months
• Added a softcap to gold accumulation in rogue regions to deter excessive gold levels

Minor Changes

• Add Report Bug link to top right of page, clarify script page vs island stable/testing/war debug info
• Enable NPC/GM characters to command regular non-NPC troops
• Display count of nobles in duchy on duchy list
• Improve clarity of sage/wizard moving on texts
• Improve MessageSearch.php's display
• Adjust wounding in duels
• Chance of stealing unique item from dead, wounded, or captured character in battles or duels
• Chance of discovering a unique item when traveling into a region for those with normal turn-based travel
• Improved response text visual presentation for actions
• Add warning that Statues and Memorials are set in stone and cannot be altered once constructed
• Prevent cavaliers from using the more brutal half of takeover actions
• Add text strongly recommending War Island for new players
• Choose a default message type (Letter, Roleplay, Out-of-Character, etc.) based upon the message type you are replying to
• Notify peers of Government members losing office
• Change standing orders while at sea
• Give one-week grace period for anyone unpausing, not only vacation pausers

Bug Fixes

• Give seceding dukes the same length of text for full realm names that existing rulers have
• Improve mobile display
• Prevent sentries from digging in
• Allow recruiting 30 militiamen per hour instead of 29 militiamen per hour
• Re-enable army and guild based titles in signatures
• Block acquiring unique items of the same type you already possess
• Prevent being seen with unique item in battle if you're too wounded to be in combat
• Fix default sort order for Bounty Board
• Fix sorting on range in several tables
• Save message and bulletin text and give it to player when they click send in middle of a turnchange
• Fix character counts in message editor
• Fix low-density realms being able to contribute to takeovers when TOing a region to rogue
• Remember the message you're replying to when you preview your own message
• Fix tournament communication post-tournament
• Fix filtering messages by 'yesterday' and 'today'
• Fix unignoring a character
• Government Details 'Last Changed Date' reworked
• Prevent adventurers from receiving noble messages when unpausing (or other means) a character and getting the last three days of messages, to prevent using advies as spies
• Fix playable-character limit calculation
• Remove heraldry from OOC messages
• Prevent bankers from accessing marketplaces of foreign realms as their own realm
• Fix dead peasants not contributing to undead rate in region
• Do not display secret societies in Character Details history
• Various text improvements
• Various behind the scenes improvements