June Updates

6 months ago

DIABLO

972 Total Respect

DIABLO

972 Respect

6 months ago

The list below is a summary of most updates, additions and fixes since the last update post, this is not an exhaustive list. Features appearing in the post below may not necessarily be in their final state and may change in subsequent updates.

Time flies quicker every month so it's ever more important to look back on what we've done and to see what worked and what didn't. Behind the scenes this month there's been an awful lot of work on how the game scales up when we see spikes in traffic and the systems involved are now all based on rules and should for the most part take care of themselves, so far this has proven to work really well.

In-game we've seen a ton of Quality of Life improvements implemented thanks to the brilliant suggestions of the community and several new or improved features including the brand new Weapon and Armour quality which ensures every weapon is just that little bit more interesting, a personal stats page, seperation of the Ignored Players list out of Enemies, and a massive quantity of new potential Sicario names to ensure they're as unique as possible.

What hasn't worked so well this month? Well for one we implemented then removed Captcha by popular request and the quality update was a bit of a disaster in the early hours leading to our first rollback in around 2.5 years, but these things just make us stronger as a community and we've come through it with better processes in place and a whole slew of new Moderation tools at our disposal.

New

  • Added Personal Stats page
  • Disabled Captcha system
  • Trades, market and Expeditions now reward quality items
  • Added 289 First Names and 294 Surnames for Sicarios. Updated random generation of Sicarios.
  • Increased min and max cash payouts for first 5 Expedition regions by 10%
  • Added dynamic item value pricing based on market demand
  • Added Trading forum, added icons and new styling to forum categories
  • Updated Item Market sell form to default to "Select Item" with disabled Sell button
  • Updated Large Medical Kit to avoid potential war crime
  • Updated Player Stats to add job successes and Battle Stats total
  • Added "Last Updated" to Terms of Use. Updated Sitemap
  • Added new Terms of Use.
  • Added tracking of completed Jobs. Implemented hCaptcha globally.
  • Allowed setting profile and forum signature to be empty
  • Minor update to Captcha system
  • Security hardening application. Updated app dependencies
  • Added Donator Pack purchase event when purchasing via PayPal
  • Added additional logging to using items and item equipping to troubleshoot errors
  • Updated account bans and deletions so that they remove any Market Offers
  • Added captcha to Expeditions for test users
  • Added new task to record players in last 24 hours
  • Minor tweak to Captcha to remove Continue button
  • Closed test of captcha system for Jobs and Gym
  • Minor change to admin dashboard access control
  • Inventory now ordered by Item ID then Quality in ascending order
  • Removed old reports page
  • Moved Player Reports into new Moderator Dashboard
  • Re-enabled Trade after test.
  • Implemented Basic Admin dashboard with ability to toggle trades, item sending and cash sending
  • Updated Quality where 'N/A' to be blank instead to improve clarity
  • Updated Cartel Armory view to include quality
  • Added quality to Inventory view
  • Added expandable item details to "Add Items" view in trades
  • Updated transaction recording to handle null values correctly
  • Updated Market to display quality values
  • Item market now closes other item details when clicking an offer
  • Updated Shops and Item Market to support quality
  • Productions now show correct Supply requirements after courses affecting supply requirements
  • Added minimum limit to market sale
  • Updated game to dynamically create user profile if it failed for any reason
  • Moved Drug pricing in Drug Den back to random and adjusted values
  • Dramatically improved player search speed for higher pages.
  • Started generating random qualities for shop buying
  • Reduced unintentional increase for Narco Cap on Alcohol Stills from 15 back to 10
  • Tweaked Productions base profit, narco requirements and item payouts. Increased Drug Den prices.
  • Throwing items from armory now also works
  • Inventory and Armory item using and sending working
  • Implemented variable chat ban length
  • Seperated Blocked and Deleted status's
  • Added max Point input on trades and added incidcation of how much cash and points are already added
  • Limited buy items quantity input fields to 25
  • Updated profanity filter to simplify and remove duplication of code
  • Further forum style improvements
  • Last Inventory item now disappears after a short delay
  • Cartel Armory Deposit now shows item details
  • Expanded moderator dashboard and centralised all moderation code

Bug Fixes

  • Minor fix for Donator page on mobile
  • Fixed being unable to add items to trade
  • Fixed shop item selling selling wrong quality items
  • Fixed Mini Donator Pack not being usable
  • Fixed profile and forum signature scaling on mobile
  • Fixed being unable to list more than 999 items on the Item Market
  • Fixed mission bug
  • Fixed issue with missions.
  • Fixed item duplication bug for trades
  • Fixed quality bug upon equipping item
  • Invalidated armory .js cache to fix issue
  • Fixed issue with mission rewards
  • Fix for items not stacking due to float point errors
  • Additional fix for Expedition item generation
  • Fix for Jobs producing wrong quality of item
  • Additional Expedition fix for item rewards
  • Fixed inventory script issue caused by caching
  • Additional fix for Expeditions
  • Fix for Attacks error
  • Minor fix for Expeditions
  • Implemented dynamic Damage and Accuracy based on quality. 
  • Fixed player names in chat headers being black in light mode
  • Fixed Transaction creation error
  • Fixed auto-completing jobs not rewarding items and cash in some cases
  • Fixed Jobs being able to complete twice in some cases
  • Fixed equipping throwable items.
  • Fixed equipping items
  • Fixed send item and send cash showing decimal places
  • Fixed 'Oruro' being referred to as 'Ororu' in-game
  • Implemented new Trade interface. Fixed bug where settings cash or Points to nothing showed an error
  • Fixed Highscore pagination. Updated Bounty help text and added warning regarding profanity etc. Updated University page to include Energy Cost
  • Fixed Drug price history graph showing incorrect values
  • Fixed expedition item assignments. 
  • Fixed duplicate stacks
  • Fixed item equipping / unequipping

Creator of Cartel Empire, hope you enjoy!