All Updates

December Updates

13/01/2023

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'll be the first to admit that this post is a little behind on the release. It's been another busy month or two due to the holiday season, new features being implemented and yet another period of the Flu. But enough of the excuses and on with the bit you're all here for, the bug fixes and updates -

New

  •  Added robots.txt file to reduce errors from bot crawlers
  • Implemented the new Casino homepage
  • Released new 'Wheel of Fortune' Casino game
  • Added second to Hospital and Jail timers
  • Bank and Jail will now take money from Cash on hand first then Bank as required
  • Players may now select how much energy to use in the University when studying
  • University now shows current Intelligence to 3 decimal places
  • Updated University status messages to use cookies
  • Gym gains now show 2 decimal places when earning less than 1 stat
  • Added popups when hovering/clicking Energy/Life to show when they will reach maximum
  • Rebalanced rep gain for Farm Robbery, Agave Storage, Intimidation, GTA & Transport Drug jobs
  • Added cap to Global Job Experience gain per job type
  • Reduced Item Market tax to 1% from 10%
  • Reduced item value of Donator Pack, Personal Favours and Alcohols
  • Added new Hospital icon
  • Added support for animated Gifs on user profiles and Cartels
  • Reduced minimum fair fight multiplier to 0.25x
  • Added description for MG5 weapon
  • Replaced Donator Pack prize on Wheel of Fortune with 500 Points
  • Rebalanced Wheel of Fortune prize probabilities
  • Reduced Street Crimes production profit
  • Added profit to Doctor Office productions
  • Added number of items created per Production to events
  • Implemented AutoNumeric fields for Bank and Item market, adding thousand seperators
  • Added new graphs to Drug House, Gym and University
  • Updated Donator page with new graphs feature
  • Implemented basic holiday event for Christmas
  • Implemented username changes
  • Allowed '-' character in usernames
  • Implemented additional responsive breakpoints to Forum so it works better on mobile
  • Updated all errors to point to a single error page template
  • Updated all application dependencies
  • Implemented player ban system
  • Defenders now earn a small amount of Reputation on a succesfull defence
  • Converted all Production data from SQL table to config file, massively speeding up Productions page
  • Updated reference to socket.io dependency to use minified version

Optimised the following systems to improve page load times -

  • Fights controller
  • All Trade queries
  • Player status retrieval
  • Wheel of Fortune Casino game
  • Chats
  • Job completion
  • Gym
  • University & Drug Den graphs
  • University studying and course taking
  • Forum thread liking & disliking
  • Jobs
  • Player Activity logs

Fixed

  • Fixed Job finish error checks to avoid app crash
  • Fixed .jpeg files not uploading for Cartel and User profiles
  • Fixed Item quantities not decreasing on use on mobile
  • Fixed Cartel forum not appearing in some cases
  • Fixed Hospital release not taking Cash correctly in some cases
  • Added missing center text styles to Item Market
  • Fixed Spinner being clickable whilst spinning
  • Items added to a trade now stack rather than creating a new row
  • Fixed production model crash
  • Fixed Donator Status not ending
  • Fixed scheduled jobs such as increasing Energy not running in some cases
  • Standardised all times globally to use Europe/London timezone (referred to as NCT in-game)
  • Fixed typo's on Transport Drug job and Business Management course
  • Fixed calculated values when selling on Item Market
  • Fixed Item Market duplication error
  • Fixed Production events showing 'undefined' when referring to supply items
  • Fixed Bounty placing total calculation
  • Fixed issue where Gym graph wouldn't appear
  • Fixed Forum images being wider than page in some cases
  • Fixed Cartel profile image not scaling on mobile
  • Fixed Donator refills not working
  • Fixed cancelling a Points Item market offer not returning Points
  • Fixed issue where items couldn't be added to Trades
  • Fixed university Intelligence gain issue
  • Fixed Gym & University exploit
  • Fixed Cartel events showing wrong Cartel in some cases
  • Fixed attackers life not updating on draw
  • Fixed Item Market showing error if user had Points but not sellable items