The Battlemaster NewsletterThis is the official battlemaster Newsletter, recently created. It is currently mainly a dev blog with additional things as my time allows.Dev BlogIt will be issued as new major updates are made, minor updates will either be added to the Dev Blog's most recent issue or to the next one, depending on what seems best. As the blog has a new issue every time Battlemaster has a major update, some sections might not be updated for several days after the most recent issue although the staff will do its best.
Features in ProgressFeatures in progress are features that have been partially coded and are being actively worked on. They are:
Rebalance
New Interface for Character Creation, almost done, mostly just needs to be polished up
Duchy Bulletins
Improving step down process as duke/duchess
Reorganization of Command for an explicit Duchy Commands section
Surveys for Island Sinking, Game Experience, New Player, New Character, and Exit
The Rebalance is being sidelined for a few weeks as ^ban^, the head of the effort, is busy. The new Interface for Character Creation has been sidelined temporarily as the surveys were deemed more important but, are not far from being done. The duchy related items are still being worked on.
Features ImplementedFeatures Implemented are the new features implemented since the last major update. This last update was mostly bugs so I will keep the last issue’s features up. They are:Buy Region with family gold implemented once again for foreign realms, available on the actions page.
Balance column in Your Guilds under Information allowing you to see your balance with your different guilds without being at a guildhouse
Scribe Notes default to military tab now when viewing them
Stepping down from lordship via Politics->Govern estates now requires a reason and goes through the proper honour loss mechanics like stepping down from Command.php
Bugfixing and working on the surveys has been the focus, thus no new features are out yet.
BugsThe Bugs section is about the issues in the code, referred to as bugs, fixed since the last major update. They are:
More Cleanup script errors
Messages with npcs that reference gender now make properly uses female pronouns when appropriate
Knights will not follow their lord to a realm if banned the realm the lord is joining
Rebels are banned when joining a new realm during the rebellion
Regions can no longer switch allegiance when being took over, unless joining the realm taking it over
Lords can no longer switch allegiance to realms they are banned from
Infiltrators can no longer go to tournaments
Fixed an issue with Buying regions
Fixed an issue when wounded and try to view a scribe note, now the proper error message is shown
There were 9 bugs fixed in this last update that were actual issues in the code. Not all bugs on the bugtracker are actual bugs and not all bugs fixed are from the bugtracker, thus this number might not agree with what you would count based solely off the bugtracker.
Dev PlansDev Plans are the plans that the individual devs have for their dev work. The current Dev Plans are:
Anaris: Finish up surveys then finish up the new character interface
^ban^: Work
Vita: Finish up his current open projects and bug fixing
Foundation: Infrequent Bugfixing
Tom: Work on
Might and Fealty and
[explorers]Junior Devs are devs in-training to become regular devs. At this time they only do bugfixes and work under the watchful eye of Anaris. The Junior Devs are:
Swiftblade
Feyeleanor
Wimpie
Naidraug
Family of the week: Arundel
The family of the week is a family featured every week for uniqueness and/or its contributions to the game through gameplay. While its labeled family of the week, it also about featuring the player, but as not all players have their info public they are referred to by their IG family, and then other names like real name and forum name if available.
Arundel- He is a great roleplayer and schemer. Roleplayed being a woman so well, I often think of him as a she, then soon after correct myself. When asked, players described him as "True to character, even if it went against what he as a player knew was best" "He is very involved, outspoken and a bit of dare devil" and "Totally different characters that promoted gameplay when they encountered it" His character Alice was described as "Alice was a brazen and fierce but just ruler" while Arke as "Arke was a blunt, abrasive and abusive person with devotion and appreciation for certain aspects of life"
Family page: Here Wiki page: Here
Suggestions are welcome for future family of the weeks, but suggestions without reasoning will not be used.
Special Thanks
To: Tom, Anaris, ban, Vita, Renodin, and Lorgan
Feedback on the Dev Blog is welcome as well as comments or questions about the content of the Dev Blog, although negative feedback should be at least semi-constructive.
