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Weekly Patch Notes 26/02/2019

Stewie [1494547]
Let's have a look through the latest Patch list to see what changes and fixes have been made this week, and what they mean for you - including the new Torn app for iOS!
Please note, the updates and bugs documented in this article are worked on by a team of developers. Where a single developer is individually mentioned, it simply reflects who confirmed the report as fixed or complete, and not that they were solely responsible.



Updates, Changes, and Additions


- Released Official Torn iOS App


As per Chedburn's announcement here, the official Torn iOS App is now available in the Apple App Store after beta testing was completed.


- Released Account Closure system

Chedburn announced here the release of a new system where players may close their own accounts without need for staff interaction. Players may do this through Preferences, whereby all pages will be blocked for 14 days. After this they must return and initiate the deletion of their account, which simply wipes all personal information. When this is done a recovery key is provided so an account can be recovered after deletion.


- Added "Close" button when purchasing an item from a bazaar

After a report from BeerDrinker concerning the ability to go back to viewing the quantity of a particular item you want to buy after clicking the shopping cart icon, nikitad confirmed a 'close' button has been added for this purpose.


- Added extra time to subscriber icons to make up for for PayPal delays

Chedburn confirmed in this report that due to delays with PayPal some users experienced their subscriber status dropping. To combat this in future, an additional day has been added to the yearly and monthly subscription icon.


- Added triple job points bonus for Employee Appreciation Day (First Friday of March)

On the first Friday of March (March 1st), every player with a job will receive 3x the job points they normally would. Director trains will also be three times as effective on this day too.


- Increased maximum number of item sets to exchange in the Museum to 9999

Following a report from colaman32 in which exchanging sets of plushies at the museum defaulted to 1, nikitad confirmed that users may now exchange up to 9999 at a time.


- Removed '3 days left' donator status warning for subscribers

MauTheWizard reported two issues in this thread; one, a grammar issue pertaining to rental events, and the other being a subscriber notification which indicates that their donator status is ending. Chedburn confirmed that both of these issues had been corrected.



Bugs, Fixes, and Typos


- Fixed selecting/copying/cutting data on the Personal stats page

Josephine reports here that when attempting to copy and paste data from the personal stats page tables, an entire column is selected meaning individual stats and their value cannot be explicitly copied. nikitad confirmed that this issue has been resolved.


- Fixed reviving being possible while user is still involved in an attack

After this report from Dekloren regarding the ability to go in and out of hospital while being 'held' at the end of an attack, Chedburn has confirmed that the ability to be revived during an attack will be disabled.


- Fixed new players being invulnerable to outside attackers when on a territory wall or in a raid

Lord_Gorgen reports here that it was still not possible to attack 'new' players who sit on a territory wall if you are outside of the opposing faction. Chedburn observed this was simply an issue with the profile links, and confirmed the issue was fixed.


- Fixed 'Refresh' button not appearing immediately after initiating a trade

BeerDrinker reports in this thread that for the initiator of a trade, the 'refresh' button does not automatically appear as it does for the receiver. Chedburn took some time to look into this, and confirmed a solution had been found.


- Fixed top-links inconsistent ordering issue on Trade

BeerDrinker reports here that upon 'Accepting' a trade the first time, the 'Back to Items' and 'Trades' links swap places. Chedburn acknowledged this half of the bug report, and confirmed it had been fixed.


- Fixed issue with blue honour bar names being reset to non-blue names weekly

After Nightmare reported here that his blue name had disappeared from his honour bar, Chedburn confirmed that this was due to a script running that checks for broken honour bar images, and disabled it.


- Fixed missing travel icons on many inactive users who were abroad

Joxer reported here that when searching for player's who haven't been online for one month to a year, they discovered that the traveling icon was not visible on the respective profiles. Chedburn found the cause and corrected it.


- Fixed displaying Bust / Bail buttons when user is also in the hospital

BeerDrinker reports here that the bust and bail icons on players profiles are still active while the player viewing is in hospital. nikitad confirmed this had been corrected.


- Fixed bounty reason not appearing in the confirmation

BeerDrinker reported in this thread that the reason given for a bounty is not included in the confirmation process. Chedburn agreed this should be the case and nikitad confirmed this had been completed.


- Fixed input money validation while increasing item price on the Bazaar page

Harley reported here an issue whereby he couldn't update the price of a Hazmat Suit listed in his bazaar beyond $10,000,000,000. Removing it from their bazaar and re-adding it fixed the issue temporarily. nikitad confirmed a permanent fix for this issue.


- Fixed casino slots client double request issue

MaxCohen reports here an issue while playing the slots machine, in which he is consistently redirected to a page informing that 'a spin is already in progress'. aurel1 asked later if the issue still occurred, and after Max reported everything was functioning correctly the report was closed.


- Fixed custom race start button layout

Tipsy requested in this report that the 'Start a Custom Race' button at the race track be moved to the top of the page, given that there are now many many more custom races available to view. aurel1 confirmed that this had been done.


- Fixed issue with default chart after navigation to the Personal stats page with a slow internet connection

loveu2 reported an issue here that when loading the Personal Stats page, the graph would display an error stating "Not enough columns given to drawn the requested chart." This was caused by slow Internet connections.


- Fixed image positioning on the front page of the newspaper

The issue was that images were being incorrectly cropped on the articles shown on the main page of the Newspaper. They are believed to have been aligned left, rather than centered.


- Fixed education time reduction company specials to show the hours/minutes reduced
- Fixed using single "job points" in company specials being pluralised

Reported here by BeerDrinker, when reducing Education time with Fitness Center points, the special does not state exactly how much time has been removed. Chedburn explained that this has now been added, as well as correcting 'job points' to 'job point' when only one is used.


- Fixed wrong placement of hospital and jail chats on the first appearance

BeerDrinker reports in this thread that the placement of any group chat is incorrect upon first entering a new state of Torn (jail, hospital etc) - to the left of all personal chats instead of right.


- Fixed last message timestamp for the chat system messages

After The_SamminAter reported here an issue with the chat system. vysdel2 confirmed that the 'time of last message' information was based on the chat system messages (such as 'Unable to connect to server') as opposed to the time the last message was sent by user. He also confirmed this had been fixed.


- Fixed wrong event message for Over/Under total points bet types in the Bookie

Gooding reported here that although he lost an over/under bet made on a hockey game, he in fact received an event stating that the bet was won. Kopites confirmed the issue had been found and resolved.


- Fixed broken user profile link on 'faction give item' event

MightyGoober reported here that when an item is given to you from your faction, the profile link in the event was missing the user's ID and as such, this would produce an error ("User could not be found!") This was swiftly corrected by Chedburn.


- Fixed territory war live graph error

Harley reported here that the live territory war graph that should display ongoing progress had broken, at least from the 'My Faction' page view. Kopites has since posted to confirm a fix, and although on Tuesday afternoon the issue persisted, it appears now to have been fixed.


- Fixed possibility of queuing multiple bazaar purchase confirmations

After this report form TimLeary in which he had trouble purchasing multiple items from a bazaar in quick succession, Chedburn observed that this was due to the ability to line up multiple purchase confirmations at the same time. This has since been fixed by making sure that an item must be purchased before another confirmation may be lined up.


- Fixed a vulnerability allowing certain actions to be performed without passing 2FA

Exactly as the note says, a vulnerability that allowed some specific actions to be performed before passing the 2FA request upon logging in has been fixed.


- Fixed jumping cursor while editing faction balance

JustSomeone reported here that when deleting a digit when typing out a balance for a user, the cursor automatically moves to the end of the number, making editing very difficult. nikitad confirmed this issue has been fixed.


- Fixed displaying search results with "space" divider

Helcostr reported here that it is not possible to search events for phrases containing a space. nikitad confirmed that a fix for this had been found.


- Fixed attacking effects timer synchronization issue

Though this one does not seem to have been reported in Bugs & Issues, an issue with the attacking effects not correctly updating accordingly with the timers has been corrected.


- Fixed displaying "Race stats" table columns

Xiphias reported here a graphical issue with displaying table columns for Racing Statistics, and nikitad confirmed it has now been fixed.


- Fixed displaying incorrect amount of facebook likes on profile pages

iribuya reported here that the number of 'facebook likes' their profile had received seemed to have dropped significantly. tornberry observed this was because the like button's url was changed from https to http, and nikitad confirmed this had been sorted.


- Fixed parcel item send missions trigger

An issue regarding the trigger for Parcel sends in Missions has been fixed (presumably) by aurel1.


Typos

- Fixed depositing faction items via items page producing 'donated' text and news (instead of 'deposited')
- Fixed faction depositing response text and news grammar

Helcostr reported here that the confirmation of depositing items into the Faction from the Items page was inconsistent with that of the Faction Armory. Chedburn corrected this, and at the same time shortened the message shown in the Faction News.


- Fixed some grammar issues on territory wall joining

Reported here, by BeerDrinker, it was seen that when attempting to join a Territory Wall while unconscious, you would receive the message "You can't join the war because of losing an attack." After some testing with BeerDrinker, the report was passed to Chedburn to improve the wording.


- Fixed blackjack tutorial typo

Shorn reported here that in the blackjack tutorial, the text said "and if dealer don't have [...]," instead of "and if dealer doesn't have [...]."



Extras (Not included in the Patch list)

1. Bug reported here that although it is possible to bounty tester accounts, it is not possible to claim them. Chedburn has confirmed that the ability to bounty these accounts will be disabled.



Honor Bar

This week's Honor Bar is "Pious," achieved by donating $100,000 to the church. Donating to the Church will trigger this if already achieved.



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