Build 54

[tim]

Hi everybody!

Welcome to build 54. Here's the changes for this week:

* Increase convoy spawn rate by 5% per cleared region
* Added new victory condition: 250 convoy boss kills
* Adjusted convoy loot tables to drop more items at lower levels and always have a guaranteed drop
* Added Ion Freighter convoy
* Added the ability to list items from the inventory for sale and purchase items that have been listed for sale
* Added a different, special name color for server notifications
* Prohibited certain names from being chosen (names that impersonate the game)

This week, we added the ability to make and browse sell offers. You can put any item in short-term or long-term storage up for sale, though short-term items will still disappear eventually. Items for sale can be browsed in a new menu. By clicking items in this menu, you can purchase them into your long-term storage, if you have enough space.

We also made some more changes to convoys. Convoy kills are now the victory condition, instead of region clearing. Clearing regions now increases the rate at which convoys spawn. Also, based on your feedback, we've made it so convoys are guaranteed to drop at least some item.

Rob also added a new convoy this week, the Ion Freighter. This convoy protects its rear by leaving a steady stream of mines behind it.

Finally, we made some changes to the chat and name system to help prevent people impersonating the server/game. Server messages are now displayed in a special name color, so if a message has that color, you can be assured it's from the game, and not somebody else. I'd also like to take this chance to remind you that Rob and I will never ask you for your password in game, and you should not divulge that information to anyone, regardless of who they claim to be.

Again, thank you for your continued help in testing Grid12. We appreciate your feedback, comments, and playtime. Please report bugs and other issues in this thread.

Tim

[gingerbear]

Bug Report:

Buying something from the Sale offers resets everyone's client. I assume it has a server side error.

[rob]

I just pushed a fix for this. Thanks to everyone who helped track this down.

[rob]

The region display shows "2/10" right now, but the "/10" part shouldn't be there. I just forgot to get rid of it.

[gingerbear]

I would appretiate if my own offers would NOT show to me, both at the Liquidate and the Sell offers.

Accidentally trading with yourself because you want to sell/buy something is more than annoying.

[rob]

We are working on hiding your own offers right now. It should be in the next build.

[tim]

We just pushed a quick fix to a bug that caused items to not actually get removed from sale.

[hypevosa]

Default price for buying AND selling should both be set as blank, having them set as one just results in lazy people assuming that's the market price for the item, resulting in a market spammed with items for 1 coin >_>

[rob]

We were thinking that maybe they should default to the last price at which an item of that type/level was traded.

[Guest Hype]

Jun 13, 2013 20:26:50 GMT -5 rob said:

We were thinking that maybe they should default to the last price at which an item of that type/level was traded.

This would result in easy price manipulation, I want alot of an item that just dropped, or to sell my item for alot, I have a friend buy mine at price X right after the drop so everyone's default shows up as that number. Now I get to trick someone who just got the drop into buying at a higher price, or selling theirs at a lower price to me and my pal.

The only good system is blanks, people enter what THEY think is fair, be that by feeling or research into price history.

[fsm]

My lag has been beyond horrible this build.

[Kelsoo]

So far the game seems fun, but I have only been playing alone for the most part due to there not being to many players online. The real fun is (obviously) when people are around to raid convoys and the like. But I still find joy in just fiddling around with things and learning more about how the game works.

Edit: When you are playing at anything other than 100% zoom, using the map to teleport is a pain as when hovering over the names of towns or players, the little text box is misplaced.

[gingerbear]

Well, Phantom and Hercules are still somewhat useless tanks.

I would like to ask (again) to buff Hercules, it literally would cost you nothing to write some numbers to something bigger, right? And if it becomes OP you just tone it down next build.

I wouldn't think it would be a bad idea just to rely on us while you are developing something else, we are here to play and test and give feedback anyway.

Proposed changes to Hercules:
- 75%-100% increase of mine damage
- 50%-75% decrease in the recharge time of the two mine laying triggers.

EDIT: while we are at it, 250 convoy kills feels kind of low, given that each convoy decreases this number by 2 or 3 when all killed.

[Ood]

@hercbuff
Both of those seem reasonable.
If it's going to be a miner at least let us be able to mine stuff quickly and have the mines actually do some damage.

[zub]

When listing item for sale, syntax checker doesn't work properly when you use multiple subsequent dots (e.g. 0..001).