All Updates

May Updates

04/06/2024

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.

I think this may have been our single biggest month since the game released, a whole host of major changes to both how the game is hosted and how it looks have been released over the past month, hopefully making the game better than ever for our quickly growing community! Some notable changes over the past month have been a complete overhaul of the in-game Forum (How's your Respect looking?) and how we handle Bug Reports, button styles being standardised across the entire game, a whole slew of introductory missions for new players, and randomised success messages for all Jobs among many other changes.

Behind the scenes we've also completely overhauled how the game is hosted to allow us to do full load-balancing of the chat system and the game itself across as many servers as we need, allowing us to dramatically speed up the responsiveness of the game and to continue growing at whatever rate we need to going ahead.

A massive thank you to the community for continuing to be so supportive, for contributing your time, your feedback and for making this not just another game, but an actual community that we can be proud of!

New

  • Added tracking of market purchases
  • Added Cartel Recruitment Forum section, added Description of each Category, and custom sorting of Categories
  • Total Forum Respect is now shown on profiles, Home and within the Forum. Updated daily
  • Updated almost all button styles
  • Added emoji and special character support to forum threads and comments
  • Updated every countdown globally to use the server time. Vastly simplified countdown file
  • Improved error handling in profiles script. Removed old Job Timer
  • Added additional error handling to Cartel search.
  • added additional logging to Bounties
  • Additional tweaks to Job Countdowns
  • Decreased server time polling to 10 seconds, reduced network requests significantly.
  • Added additional validation to Trade Display
  • Additional tweaks to search dropdown styles
  • Additional improvements to search styles
  • Added additional validation to University studying
  • Added profanity filter to bounties
  • Made property missions less sensitive
  • Implemented additional Angel missions introducing the Properties mechanic. Also added a "Mini Donator Pack"
  • Added randomised success messages for all Jobs
  • Minor increase to profits from Intimidation, Arson and GTA
  • Like/Dislike changes in Forum
  • Updated forum search to ensure no leakage of Cartel forums
  • Implemented new forum layout and style
  • Added missing navigation buttons to "New Thread" view
  • Updated Bug Reporting Management
  • Updated narco event to trigger below 10000 Rep
  • Added profanity filter to Dog renaming
  • Implemented new Bug Report management features in Forum
  • Added auto-completion of new Sicario Recruitment mission if players have 3 or more Sicarios already
  • Updated BattleStats to "Battle Stats" globally
  • Added limit to bounty quantity per player and updated bounty error handling
  • Market Listings now add to existing listings if the price is the same
  • Updated maximum Dog name length to 16 characters
  • Updated rules to include Chat Guidelines
  • Added auto-clearing of old rate limit records for BlackJack
  • Adding rate limiting to BlackJack sockets to reduce potential abuse
  • Revive button no longer active for In Jail or blocked users in Cartel view
  • Added Item Rank to Sell Items view in shops
  • Added LPT time in left-hand menu on desktop
  • Standardised capitalisation of action descriptions on profiles
  • Updated Territory map to allow additional navigation
  • Rounded attack damage in fights to remove floating point arithmetic issues
  • Updated Casino wheel to reduce potential for abuse
  • Added hover text for all actions on profile. New Mobile layout for profiles
  • Added note to Calendars stating that all events start and end at 12:00 LPT
  • Updated failed job events so that they're set to read if manually completing a Job
  • Forced Calendar to follow LPT timezone
  • Implemented Redis Cache-based Chat
  • Added additional validation to University course finishing
  • Updated moderator reports to allow adding notes
  • Added moderator ability to rename profiles
  • Updated to deploy to preview slot (work towards no downtime updates)
  • Updated player profile and forum signatures to support wider range of characters
  • Migrated remaining player scheduled jobs to external API
  • Migrated notification, Expedition and Job completions scheduled jobs to external API
  • Migrated drug price change, highscore update and player log scheduled jobs to external API
  • Added additional validation to several queries.
  • Added additional validation to API query params
  • Migrated Market, Midnight resets and Sicario scheduled Jobs to external API calls
  • Migrated Dog and Property related scheduled Jobs to external API calls
  • Migrated Bounty Expiry and Cartel scheduled Jobs to external API calls
  • Added additional error handling to add friend/enemy
  • Updated how Job times are calculated
  • Reputation is now rounded down on front-end
  • Added several new Missions
  • Dicord and Wiki links in top bar now open in a new tab.
  • Added additional Introduction missions
  • implemented 10 active Bounty limit.
  • Production Materials can now be sold to the Drug Den
  • Implemented Forum thread and comment search
  • Updated rename to redirect back to same tab and to include profanity filter.
  • Implemented randomised Job completion messages for some jobs. 

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Bug Reports forum leading to Private Cartel category.
  • Fixed server broadcasting server time to every client for each connected client. 
  • Fixed Advanced Search, pressing Enter now also searches
  • Simplified Search code and fixed page selection bug
  • Fixed forum display displaying Error for some users
  • Fixed 'activity since last view' display on Forums.
  • Fixed Critical job success rates
  • Bug fixed an existing mission.
  • Fixed market exploit.
  • Fixed forum quote not showing correct date and time
  • Fixed typo in "Sweat, Grit, and Glory: The Beginners Boot Camp" course
  • Fixed issue causing certain courses to fial to complete
  • Fixed closing chats scrolling page up
  • Fixed Dog trade validation not working as expected
  • Fixed Forum Reply count, fixed Cartel forum pagination
  • Fixed minor Subscription renewal issue
  • Fixed Medical Item Usage from Armory
  • Fixed Alsation image not appearing
  • Fixed Cartel Armory items not disappearing when there are 0 left in some cases.
  • Fixed Bounties being placeable on self
  • Fixed being released from Hospital and Jail not setting dark-themed background
  • Fixed University course notification spam. 
  • Fixed Unsubscribe on PayPal showing failure despite working
  • Fixed Highscores not running
  • Fixed Expeditions not starting
  • Migrated Trade expiry scheudled job to external API. Fixed daily reset issue.
  • Fixed Alsatian spelling
  • Fixed Paying Property Upkeep not working unless player had cash on hand.
  • Added missing spacing to forum author details
  • Added validation to Expeditions to stop duplicate Teams on Expeditions
  • Removed ability for players to send themselves items
  • Fixed alignment of search on mobile. 
  • Fix for Forum showing Error
  • Updated Production preference time code to fix Productions not being scheduled based on user preferences
  • Properly limited Item Market offers to 25.
  • Minor fix for Forum redirects
  • Send item button is now disabled upon click
  • Added check for space to username change
  • Resolved issue with Google Subscription purchase
  • Fix for Dog Trades not being acceptable in some cases.