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The buildings update code is progressing but slow going. I am also trying to devise a way to test the pages and the updates properly before implementation since some of the changes are to the most fundamental aspects of the income code and whatnot. It's a real pita.

There have been some issues with the processing of donation subscriptions this past month. If you have not received a subscription please open a help ticket with the paypal email address that you use for the subscription, or specify that it is a direct credit card subscription and I will get it resolved as soon as possible.

12/27/2008

Currently I'm totally reworking over a hundred pages, several programs and a number of other procedures related to buildings. The buildings table has grown insanely out of control huge and the manner in which they are stored is inefficient. When I am finished reworking the pages and procedures I will need to take Neveron down for at least a few hours while the database is altered and the changes implemented. I will give several days of notice prior to downtime, though considering the number of changes that I need to make I do not expect this to be before next week, and it might not be until after the holidays.

12/18/2008

NASI CEO Urges Calm: The President and CEO of Neveron Arms Sales, Inc. urged calm today in the aftermath of the widening credit crisis that is sweeping the planet. "Due to our inability to receive short term loans we were forced to firesale billions of Nevdollars in assets off planet. Our newfound liquidity has ensured that our markets will soon again fill with goods here on Neveron. Please simply be patient while we sort this out, but ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the - it's got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track."

Soon thereafter NASI restored faith in the markets by making available an array of mechanized death vehicles.

10/2/2008

Fixed a large timeout problem viewing mech readouts.

Corrected a procedure that removes units from arenas that no longer exist. It was not considering some cases and now should work correctly in all cases. Simply view the unit readouts for the units in question and it will run the check for them.

9/29/2008

Poll results are in and the results are a big help. While all the options got votes, it is clear that people are primarily concerned about war and war related aspects of the game. The first option got far and away the most votes, with "tent cities" and "noobs" being tied for second place. There were also numerous requests to be able to cancel wars, which further bolsters the support for the first option. It is clear that people are looking for a more flexible and forgiving war system that allows them more latitude as the attacker and more options as the defender. I am going to set about this as my primary task, in addition to slowly working my way through help tickets and fixing errors. Here is the option that most people chose:

War has been reduced to raids and old style DOWs. AI is terrible and the game as it is essentially encourages battles while the defending 
party is offline. Factions exist but players can't really play "with" each other unless they are battleplayering in each other's empires, or 
organizing a multi-empire assault on a target.

A new battle system would entail removing AI completely by removing non-tower units from play.  Mechs and vehicles would be brought into battle
only when player specifically took them out under their control.  Mechs and vehicles wouldn't be destroyed while defenders were offline, and 
towers would be the primary means of offline defense, used to slow enemies until players could come to direct aid with vehicles and mechs.  A 
simple AI would retreat units from battle when not under direct player control.

Instead of having war limited to your level or a level above, empire levels would determine how many units and of what size that you could 
bring into battle against a particular target.  Ideally this means that a large empire could attack a small empire using a force size that 
the defending empire could reasonably and fairly battle.  Factions could declare faction war once again, and attack empires together using a 
force size that the defender could appropriately defend against.

DOWs and Raids will be reworked to allow for the scale of battle that most people see fit.  Raids might be the best route for all war to take, 
or a larger scale "war" can be better conceived.  Details will clearly need to be fleshed out to be simple, bug free and easily understandable.

9/22/2008

Thanks to everyone who has responded to the poll already. Since a couple people have already written this in, I should make clear that pirates are not coming back. Neveron is a player vs player game and pirates pretty much contradicts that. Futhermore most of the infrastructure that allowed pirates to work (and when I say work I mean lag and break half the time) has long since been modified or dismantled. I would much rather code infrastructure that allows players to be pirates, such as attacking marketplace shipment convoys, than make some big player vs game system.

9/16/2008

Fixed an error creating arena simulations with the lance/company/battalion option.

Many players will find a new "Poll" section on their Empire page. The poll is open until next Sunday at 10 pm Arizona time and your votes can be changed at any time until the poll is over. Please take some time to look over the options and help better direct my efforts at improving the game. Voting is open to all players who have donated $5 or more in the last year. As always, all players are welcome to submit suggestions and ideas via help tickets, however my most recent requests were not answered by many players so I have constructed this poll as an easy way to gain input from the players who have shown the most interest and support in recent times.

Added some better error prevention code to a portion of the arena simulator which should help prevent some errors.

9/15/2008

The new kill stats logging appears to be working as well as it can. There are some inconsistancies but nothing that didn't exist previously, particularly with losses not getting credited to the proper empire (which I doubt many people will complain about). I'd love to rebuild the whole damn battle code from the ground up since its a tangled mess of old code and tacked on systems. There are unfortunately more pressing things to work on for now.

Ok well the kill stats went quicker than I thought for the basic stuff. I will be adding some new features there that the new system efficiently allows me to do. About 2.5 million very large entries were removed from the database which is great. Battle has still been producing some errors while I adapt the new system and my apologies for that. I am working hard to prevent them or ensure they are mended quickly.

Kill stats will likely not work for a day or two as I'm switching over to a system that doesn't involve storing millions of old kills which is really dumb. The new system will compile stats numerically and delete the more detailed kill information after a month or so. This should really help with database size and speed.

9/14/2008

Added a "New Paragraph" button to the help ticket system which will automatically add a paragraph tag to the end of your current message. I can't read half of your help tickets because you guys copy and paste stuff into the text box and don't add any formatting. Hopefully this will help people add tags where appropriate.

9/12/2008

Fixed a problem with units being destroyed.

9/6/2008

There will be some lag today as I handle some important database maintenance.

The training program is working through a small backlog of skill checks.

After a long week of total ISP incompetency I am back online.

9/5/2008