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Let's look through all the changes and fixes which have been made throughout the week as listed in Tuesday's Patch list, and what they mean for you.
Welcome to the first patch notes article of 2019! Stewie and I hope to keep this up all year (and beyond) to help you understand the finer details of changes listed each week. Thank you all for reading and for the lovely feedback we've had so far!
Updates, Changes and Additions
Dirty Bombs have been re-enabled, keeping much of the same functionality as before with the addition of a much more devastating respect loss. A faction will now lose 5% + 70,000-100,000 respect when hit, and if a faction is ever at 0 respect it can never be recovered, leaving behind only a memorial profile.
The destructive warring type known as "Raiding" has also been released. Factions may start an indefinite raid on any other faction, which will only end in the winning team accepting surrender from the losing team OR one faction being destroyed. No respect may be gained from a raid, instead, the opposing faction will lose 100% instead of 25% of the respect amount.
The full announcement made by Chedburn can be found here.
With regards to account recovery, you may have three attempts at recovery per month before you are locked out for a period of time. This timeframe was reduced from a month to a week.
Bugs, Fixes and Typos
Typos
- Fixed typo in personal stats finishing hits list
- Fixed some organised crime typos
- Fixed some crimes typos
cookc noticed here that in the 'Finishing Hits' section of personal stats 'Hand-to-hand' had an unnecessary colon at the end. svyatoslavy rectified this.
CloudJumper reported here a capitalisation issue on Torn's home page in the 'Which Path Will You Take' section.
Enchanting reports here a disconnect between the name of the 'Planned Robbery' organised crime, and the description given as an event when planning one (being described instead as 'to rob a bank'). Chedburn has changed this to read 'to undertake a planned robbery'.
instranets suggests here several minor improvements to the overall grammar of the planned robbery organised crime, which Chedburn accepted and adjusted.
Wild_Irish_Btch acknowledges here that when writing the description for her staff item, the Amazon Doll, she misspelled the word 'Modeled'. Although Chedburn notes that both Modelled and Modeled are correct, 'Modeled' is the preferred spelling in the US and as such has made this change.
In a (hopeful) conclusion to the ongoing debate about drunk vs drank, here Chedburn elects to change the wording on all items that you may drink or eat (alcohol, candies, cans) to 'Consumed' after the issue was once again reported this time by Sepulchrave.
Extras (not on the patch list)
- Implemented 'Casino ban' staff tool
Designed by Chedburn and the new community manage bogie, a staff tool was enabled last week that allows staff to ban players from the casino for set amounts of time, in an effort to assist "problem gamblers" with their struggles at their own request. bogie explains in detail in this post.
- Changed faction deposits to single 'Deposit' tab on mobile
Fallsdead reports here a difficulty on mobile with regards to depositing medical items to his faction, as it had to be done via the 'Deposit Weapons' tab. Chedburn made changes to this, deciding to instead replace the dropdown options to a single 'Deposit' tab where a user can deposit any item by navigating through one's inventory.
Honour Bar
This week's new honour bar is "Conditioned", achieved by attaining a total of 10,000,000 battle stats. It can be triggered for anyone who has already reached this milestone by training in the gym once.
Updates, Changes and Additions
- Released Raiding
- Reopened Dirty bombs
- Added dead faction profiles
- Added dead faction profiles
Dirty Bombs have been re-enabled, keeping much of the same functionality as before with the addition of a much more devastating respect loss. A faction will now lose 5% + 70,000-100,000 respect when hit, and if a faction is ever at 0 respect it can never be recovered, leaving behind only a memorial profile.
The destructive warring type known as "Raiding" has also been released. Factions may start an indefinite raid on any other faction, which will only end in the winning team accepting surrender from the losing team OR one faction being destroyed. No respect may be gained from a raid, instead, the opposing faction will lose 100% instead of 25% of the respect amount.
The full announcement made by Chedburn can be found here.
- Added company special notification for those in company for less than 3 days
After a suggestion from shaz1 here, Chedburn has added a notification for members of a company that have been there for less than three days and are not receiving the company perks.
After a suggestion from shaz1 here, Chedburn has added a notification for members of a company that have been there for less than three days and are not receiving the company perks.
- Added special double racing points rewards event
Announced via the newspaper, between the dates of 3rd - 5th all racing events gave players twice the amount of points usually obtained, in honour of Michael Schumacher's 50th birthday.
Announced via the newspaper, between the dates of 3rd - 5th all racing events gave players twice the amount of points usually obtained, in honour of Michael Schumacher's 50th birthday.
- Added rounded bottoms for the second and further rows of chats
- Added P2P chat box expiration after one month of inactivity
- Changed P2P chat history to remain for a month instead of 7 days
Reported here by Kata, chat boxes have a tendency to interfere with gameplay when on mobile if a lot of them build up over time, blocking buttons for crimes or items. Charlsey suggested that when there are sufficiently many chat boxes minimised extra space is added to the bottom of the page so that all page content is visible. vysdel2 agreed with this solution and has provided a fix, also stating that chat boxes and their content will remain for a month before expiring (up from one week). Rounded bottoms for additional rows of chats were also added as suggested by Chedburn.
- Fixed blocking on page elements by chats (by adding empty space to the bottom of a page)
Reported here by Kata, chat boxes have a tendency to interfere with gameplay when on mobile if a lot of them build up over time, blocking buttons for crimes or items. Charlsey suggested that when there are sufficiently many chat boxes minimised extra space is added to the bottom of the page so that all page content is visible. vysdel2 agreed with this solution and has provided a fix, also stating that chat boxes and their content will remain for a month before expiring (up from one week). Rounded bottoms for additional rows of chats were also added as suggested by Chedburn.
- Changed property market price to show cost including all upgrades
Requested in this thread by L4suicide, property values were changed from the default buy-values ($500m for a basic private island, for example) to reflect their true cost in terms of the additional upgrades purchased by Chedburn.
Requested in this thread by L4suicide, property values were changed from the default buy-values ($500m for a basic private island, for example) to reflect their true cost in terms of the additional upgrades purchased by Chedburn.
- Changed 'Tattoo Artist' mission trigger to also count the piercing weapons
Markland reports here an issue with the completion of the mission 'Tattoo Artist' where one has to kill a target using only a slashing weapon, having mistaken a DBK as a correct weapon due to the flavour text provided by Duke. Acknowledging the confusion, Chedburn suggested that this mission could be altered to include piercing weapons as well, and aurel1 has since updated this.
Markland reports here an issue with the completion of the mission 'Tattoo Artist' where one has to kill a target using only a slashing weapon, having mistaken a DBK as a correct weapon due to the flavour text provided by Duke. Acknowledging the confusion, Chedburn suggested that this mission could be altered to include piercing weapons as well, and aurel1 has since updated this.
- Changed account recovery restrictions to 1 week instead of 1 month
With regards to account recovery, you may have three attempts at recovery per month before you are locked out for a period of time. This timeframe was reduced from a month to a week.
Bugs, Fixes and Typos
- Fixed email validation service (by emailing validate@torn.com)
Over the holidays, although not publicly reported, the secondary validation process (emailing validate@torn.com) upon signing up to Torn broke. This was presumed to have been fixed by tornberry.
Over the holidays, although not publicly reported, the secondary validation process (emailing validate@torn.com) upon signing up to Torn broke. This was presumed to have been fixed by tornberry.
- Fixed faction leadership icons during automated inactive leadership replacement
HavokGDI reported here an issue whereby two members of the same faction were both displaying gold 'Faction Leader' icons. This case, in particular, was caused by the system that chooses a new faction leader after the current leader is inactive for a period of time, and Chedburn has made improvements to this system to prevent further cases.
HavokGDI reported here an issue whereby two members of the same faction were both displaying gold 'Faction Leader' icons. This case, in particular, was caused by the system that chooses a new faction leader after the current leader is inactive for a period of time, and Chedburn has made improvements to this system to prevent further cases.
- Fixed backdrops while abroad
Shortly after the release of Backgrounds as Token Shop rewards, Rum4nyby noticed here that these were not visible on a players profile while you are travelling. ivanu has since made changes to fix this.
Shortly after the release of Backgrounds as Token Shop rewards, Rum4nyby noticed here that these were not visible on a players profile while you are travelling. ivanu has since made changes to fix this.
- Fixed racing skill rounding issue when skill is less than 10
Reported here by Proxima, Driver Skill tends to round traditionally instead of down, leading to confusion when you hit exactly 10.00 as the honour bar 'Motorhead' does not trigger. aurel1 has since changed the rounding for Driver Skill below this threshold.
Reported here by Proxima, Driver Skill tends to round traditionally instead of down, leading to confusion when you hit exactly 10.00 as the honour bar 'Motorhead' does not trigger. aurel1 has since changed the rounding for Driver Skill below this threshold.
- Fixed Anonymous messages appearing as NPC on mobile devices
Four reports here that anonymous mails display as sent from the NPC Anonymous [9] while on mobile, instead of 'Someone' as it should and does do elsewhere. nikitad has fixed this.
Four reports here that anonymous mails display as sent from the NPC Anonymous [9] while on mobile, instead of 'Someone' as it should and does do elsewhere. nikitad has fixed this.
- Fixed updating the Auction House page when the user does not have any rare items or properties
Stewie notes in this report that if you click 'Add Listing' in the Auction House without having any items or properties to list, the error message 'No item or property found, please try again' does not go away automatically and the page must be refreshed. nikitad has now ensured this page updates live.
Stewie notes in this report that if you click 'Add Listing' in the Auction House without having any items or properties to list, the error message 'No item or property found, please try again' does not go away automatically and the page must be refreshed. nikitad has now ensured this page updates live.
- Fixed loading the Public submissions panel in the Newspaper page
MightyGoober reports here that the public submissions panel 'Tell Your Story' for the newspaper was not loading correctly. nikitad has provided a fix for this.
MightyGoober reports here that the public submissions panel 'Tell Your Story' for the newspaper was not loading correctly. nikitad has provided a fix for this.
- Fixed empty space appearing after updating the API key in the Preferences page while travelling
When updating your API key, echoblast53 noticed here that it duplicated the space next to your sidebar. nikitad was able to find a fix for this.
When updating your API key, echoblast53 noticed here that it duplicated the space next to your sidebar. nikitad was able to find a fix for this.
- Fixed 'full reads' counter while an article doesn't have full reads yet
Stewie reports here an issue with newspaper articles whereby the number of 'full reads' will display on the page instead of as alt-text when equal to zero, which nikitad is able to fix.
Stewie reports here an issue with newspaper articles whereby the number of 'full reads' will display on the page instead of as alt-text when equal to zero, which nikitad is able to fix.
- Fixed loading old articles in the laptop item on desktop mode
Will discovers here that when using the 'Laptop' to read the newspaper, the archive of news articles is limited and will not scroll beyond the first few. nikitad has fixed this.
Will discovers here that when using the 'Laptop' to read the newspaper, the archive of news articles is limited and will not scroll beyond the first few. nikitad has fixed this.
- Fixed page layout issue on Display Case when viewing an item's information
Stewie reports here a display case bug from mobile Torn, pertaining to how the detailed information of books is displayed on the page when investigated, causing the information to become misaligned. nikitad has since been able to solve this.
Stewie reports here a display case bug from mobile Torn, pertaining to how the detailed information of books is displayed on the page when investigated, causing the information to become misaligned. nikitad has since been able to solve this.
- Fixed formatting personal stats url while inserting it
echoblast53 noticed here that when attempting to view another user's personal stats using his own generated URL, several issues occur; the URL automatically changes to his own personal Torn ID, and although the stats of the target player display correctly, the columns for different time periods (last week, month, year) go missing. nikitad has stated that he has managed to find the solution to this.
echoblast53 noticed here that when attempting to view another user's personal stats using his own generated URL, several issues occur; the URL automatically changes to his own personal Torn ID, and although the stats of the target player display correctly, the columns for different time periods (last week, month, year) go missing. nikitad has stated that he has managed to find the solution to this.
- Fixed misplacement of minimized chat boxes
Xanet reports here an issue with minimized chats being misplaced, often floating randomly on the page somewhere. vysdel2 has hopefully been able to provide a fix for this finally!
Xanet reports here an issue with minimized chats being misplaced, often floating randomly on the page somewhere. vysdel2 has hopefully been able to provide a fix for this finally!
- Fixed icon color for new stocks on Stock Market
BeerDrinker notices here that the colour icons for stock blocks are incorrect when the change is $0 (0%). When it is zero it should be yellow instead of red or green depending on the previous tick. alexanderl has fixed this.
BeerDrinker notices here that the colour icons for stock blocks are incorrect when the change is $0 (0%). When it is zero it should be yellow instead of red or green depending on the previous tick. alexanderl has fixed this.
- Fixed money formatting in racing events
MightyGoober notices in this report that money won in racing events appears in cents value, even though the rest of Torn does not. aurel1 has changed this.
MightyGoober notices in this report that money won in racing events appears in cents value, even though the rest of Torn does not. aurel1 has changed this.
- Fixed the extra space in the header
Big_Rico reports here that while browsing certain pages from a mobile device, additional grey space would appear in the header of such pages above a players icons. Changes made by catherineis have fixed this issue.
Big_Rico reports here that while browsing certain pages from a mobile device, additional grey space would appear in the header of such pages above a players icons. Changes made by catherineis have fixed this issue.
- Fixed bazaar button state on profile
Although not reported publicly by anyone, ivanu has over the last two weeks fixed an issue relating to the bazaar buttons on a players profile, displaying incorrectly when not open or empty.
Although not reported publicly by anyone, ivanu has over the last two weeks fixed an issue relating to the bazaar buttons on a players profile, displaying incorrectly when not open or empty.
- Fixed property upkeep notifications
Hobama noticed here that on the mobile Torn, the Pay Upkeep button for properties was no longer flashing red (or any of the colours it should) when meeting certain criteria for unpaid rent. ivanu has now been able to find a fix for this.
Hobama noticed here that on the mobile Torn, the Pay Upkeep button for properties was no longer flashing red (or any of the colours it should) when meeting certain criteria for unpaid rent. ivanu has now been able to find a fix for this.
- Fixed sending events while flying
While flying, king_jamason notices here that when attempting to send an event to someone, the search box does not contain a dropdown of potential users in Torn as it should. alexanderl has since added this functionality.
While flying, king_jamason notices here that when attempting to send an event to someone, the search box does not contain a dropdown of potential users in Torn as it should. alexanderl has since added this functionality.
- Fixed minor discrepancy training stats multiple times at once
Vladar reports here that after doing some testing based on his derived formulas for gym training gains there is still a discrepancy between training all of your energy at once, and training it in single blocks at the same time, with the later giving lower gains - something that was fixed a while ago. Chedburn tested this and acknowledged that there was an issue, and hopefully has found the final fix for this.
Vladar reports here that after doing some testing based on his derived formulas for gym training gains there is still a discrepancy between training all of your energy at once, and training it in single blocks at the same time, with the later giving lower gains - something that was fixed a while ago. Chedburn tested this and acknowledged that there was an issue, and hopefully has found the final fix for this.
Typos
- Fixed typo in personal stats finishing hits list
- Fixed some organised crime typos
- Fixed some crimes typos
cookc noticed here that in the 'Finishing Hits' section of personal stats 'Hand-to-hand' had an unnecessary colon at the end. svyatoslavy rectified this.
CloudJumper reported here a capitalisation issue on Torn's home page in the 'Which Path Will You Take' section.
Enchanting reports here a disconnect between the name of the 'Planned Robbery' organised crime, and the description given as an event when planning one (being described instead as 'to rob a bank'). Chedburn has changed this to read 'to undertake a planned robbery'.
instranets suggests here several minor improvements to the overall grammar of the planned robbery organised crime, which Chedburn accepted and adjusted.
Wild_Irish_Btch acknowledges here that when writing the description for her staff item, the Amazon Doll, she misspelled the word 'Modeled'. Although Chedburn notes that both Modelled and Modeled are correct, 'Modeled' is the preferred spelling in the US and as such has made this change.
- Changed 'drank' / 'drunk' / 'eaten' on item descriptions & personal stats to 'consumed'
In a (hopeful) conclusion to the ongoing debate about drunk vs drank, here Chedburn elects to change the wording on all items that you may drink or eat (alcohol, candies, cans) to 'Consumed' after the issue was once again reported this time by Sepulchrave.
Extras (not on the patch list)
- Implemented 'Casino ban' staff tool
Designed by Chedburn and the new community manage bogie, a staff tool was enabled last week that allows staff to ban players from the casino for set amounts of time, in an effort to assist "problem gamblers" with their struggles at their own request. bogie explains in detail in this post.
- Changed faction deposits to single 'Deposit' tab on mobile
Fallsdead reports here a difficulty on mobile with regards to depositing medical items to his faction, as it had to be done via the 'Deposit Weapons' tab. Chedburn made changes to this, deciding to instead replace the dropdown options to a single 'Deposit' tab where a user can deposit any item by navigating through one's inventory.
Honour Bar
This week's new honour bar is "Conditioned", achieved by attaining a total of 10,000,000 battle stats. It can be triggered for anyone who has already reached this milestone by training in the gym once.
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