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Weekly Patch Notes: 28/01 - 04/02

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Let's look through the Patch list for the weeks of 28/01/2020 and 04/02/2020 to see what updates, changes, and fixes have been made by the Developers, and what they mean for you.
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


- Added bonuses list to chain reports.

The bonus hits of a chain are now displayed in a panel at the bottom of the final report after a suggestion from Kelsie, allowing for easier tracking.


- Added vertical scrolling to status effects in attacking.

During an attack, it is now possible to view all status effects currently active on the opponent by scrolling through them. This is most likely to be seen during large group attacks on Duke or Leslie.

Presumably, this addition is in relation to a report by themainman stating that during NPC fights, the loot icon would vanish very quickly when 30 to 40 players joined. svyat770 confirmed a successful solution to the issue had been found and would be pushed with the next release.


- Changed Trades made, Points Sold & Bazaar related personal stats to private (to prevent scripted mug stalking).

In this report by FidelCashflow, bogie confirmed that these stats were made private, due to their use in automatic mugging scripts. However, it was also noted they may consider making them public again in the future, but that mugging also shouldn't just be a scripting game.


- Changed color of "Join Fight" panel to orange to visually separate it from "Start Fight".

After a suggestion from Catalyst, the "Join fight" panel has been changed to orange to make it much clearer and to visually separate it from "Start Fight", which is green. svyat770 confirmed this change had been implemented.


- Changed Close button on p2p chat tabs to be larger making them easier to tap.

After a report by Klashnekoff, the close ('X') button on private chats has been enlarged to make it easier to interact with, mostly for mobile devices.


- Changed "Pin post" to be available on Faction Forums for users with FO permissions.

For members with the Forum Management (FO) permissions, posts on Faction Forums will now be able to be pinned to the top of the thread.


- Increased Damage & Accuracy of the Trout to reduce the difficulty of the 'Red Faced' mission contract.

A fairly simple change, increasing the damage and accuracy of the Trout, to decrease the difficulty of the mission "Red Faced".


- Optimized chain reports to improve loading speed for large chains.

In order to improve loading speed, chain reports have received some optimizations.


- Removed tooltip introducing the switch desktop/mobile screen mode button.

The tooltip that alerts users on how to switch back and forth between desktop and mobile views has been removed.


- Added ability to claim a specific bounty from the newspaper even if it has a lower reward.

After a report by Edgewin, it should now be possible to claim a specific bounty from a user's list of bounties, even if it has a lower reward. While this also used to be possible in the past, it had been previously removed due to confusion, and accidental claiming of the wrong bounties.


- Added ability to set multiple upgrades in a branch with one action on Faction Trees.

In order to speed up the process of setting faction upgrades, TheoZ suggested the ability to set multiple upgrades within the same upgrade tree at the same time by automatically selecting all other upgrades before it. The implementation of this was confirmed by nikitad in this report by Tyler.


- Added property upkeep icon.

A new property upkeep icon has been added, which will be displayed when your upkeep is at least 4% (presumably) of the default property cost. This was added after a suggestion from MJ_Cookie.


- Changed recent vault transactions to load more when scrolling down on the Property Vault page.

After this suggestion by CrazyRabbit, it is now possible to scroll the Recent vault transactions list back continuously until the start. Presumably, this will only go as far back as 2015, when this panel was originally implemented.


- Removed redundant text from ammo rewards title on missions rewards panel.

aurel1 removed this after a report from DeKleineKobini.



Bugs, Fixes, and Typos


- Fixed display issue with education icon tooltip as time changes.

After a report from realfakedoorz, an issue was noted whereby the education icon tooltip increased in width each second the timer ticks down. nikitad confirmed this to be resolved.


- Fixed issue reverting a cancelled price change on the item market.

Gardrep reported here an issue when attempting to edit the price of their items on the Items Market, in which the displayed price would be incorrect after selecting "No" on the confirmation. nikitad confirmed this to be resolved.


- Fixed correctly displaying information/error messages on the Newspaper page on Laptop.

While using the Laptop, MikePence observed that information and error messages had a different font and were not displayed with the correct width, going off the page to the right. nikitad confirmed this to be resolved.


- Fixed Fraud medals being labelled as 'Arson' on the Awards page.

After a report from Kira, Fraud crimes are no longer incorrectly labelled as Arson on the Awards page.


- Fixed issue accessing faction page in very old browsers.

In this report by Cat2001, it was observed the Faction page was unnacessible while using very old browsers and devices. This has since been resolved (presumably) by love__intent.


- Fixed issue with visual life bar in attacking exceeding width limit when above maximum life.

Penicillin reported here after noticing the life bar of their opponent exceeding the width limit if they were over maximum. svyat770 confirmed this to be resolved.


- Fixed issue with 'last message' timestamp in chat.

Alcatrazpenguin observed the wrong timestamp to be displayed on chat boxes. This issue was confirmed to have been resolved by vysdel2.


- Fixed issue with 'Continue' button being replaced with 'You are in hospital' error after losing a fight.

RandomSaiyan reported here after noticing that occasionally they were unable to view the attack log of a fight due to a message ("You can't attack while in hospital") being displayed instead of the "Continue" button. svyat770 confirmed the issue had been resolved.


- Fixed image scaling in mobile view in Profile Signatures.

This was confirmed as resolved by nikitad after a report from jonthegray.


- Fixed phantom attack restarting immediately after a previous attack (usually after a stalemate).

In this report by Dekloren, it was observed that upon finishing an attack with a Stalemate, the attack would be immediately restarted. The resulting text for the first attack would then be carried over to the end of the second attack; clicking on "Continue" would then bring up the relevant options to Leave, Mug, or Hospitalize for the current attack. svyat770 confirmed this one as resolved.


- Fixed displaying the correct time format in company news.

In a report by Mist3rM, it was observed that when switching to the second page of company news, it would display the time in 12-hour format, and would remain even when switching back to the first page. nikitad confirmed this is now resolved.


- Fixed placement of 'Unsubscribe' button on forum threads with long titles in Bugs & Issues.

In a report by MikePence, it was observed that the "Unsubscribe" button on threads with long titles in Bugs & Issues would be displayed with the wrong placement. This was confirmed as resolved by nikitad.


- Fixed input money field validation after updating money on-hand amount in another browser tab.

Money on-hand should now correctly update across multiple browser tabs without requiring a page refresh after a report by Ahab. This was confirmed as fixed by nikitad.


- Fixed items amount validation while removing items from bazaar/display cabinet sections.

After a report by jonthegray, an issue with input validation when removing items from Display Cabinet and Bazaars has been fixed as confirmed as such by nikitad.


- Fixed broken layout of chat rows in forced desktop mode.

In this report by Armpit128, an alignment issue with chat rows was observed while using the forced desktop mode on mobile layouts. vysdel2 confirmed this issue was resolved.


- Fixed user search matching with underscores.

This issue was confirmed to be resolved by nikitad after a report by MikePence.


- Fixed trade header disappearing after clicking the Refresh button.

In this report by Kastor, it was observed the header of the page disappearing after clicking on the Refresh button, which has since been confirmed to be resolved by nikitad.


- Fixed mass-text forum post issue by reducing maximum characters to 40,000.

The maximum amount of characters that can be used in a forum post has been reduced to 40,000 after this report by Kleb, who observed issues with freezing when pasting around 600,000 characters into the forums editor. This change was confirmed by nikitad.


- Fixed issue displaying '007' honor bar tooltip on the Profile page.

In this report by shadowshade, it was observed the tooltip text for the "007" honor bar on profile pages was displayed as "7". nikitad confirmed the issue was resolved.


- Fixed event tooltip alignment issue on forced desktop mode on touchscreen devices on the Calendar page.

While in forced desktop mode on their mobile device, Lugburz observed an issue with the event tooltips on the Calendar page being aligned incorrectly. It has since been confirmed as resolved by nikitad.


- Fixed some other areas to order items of the same type by quality.

PrincessJulie observed in this report that weapons and armor in the "Sell your unequipped Weapons and Armor to Big Al's Gun Shop" panel were not ordered by quality. Xepa4ep confirmed this is now fixed.


- Fixed Item Market header links ordering

Lugburz observed the "Add Listing" and "City" links swapping places after selecting "View your listings" and "Back to Item Market". This has since been confirmed to be resolved by Xepa4ep.


- Fixed issue with hidden Quality block with zero value.

Shane observed that one of their Armor items was displayed with no visible quality rating, and believed the reason to be that it had a quality rating of 0.00%. This was since resolved as confirmed by Xepa4ep.


- Fixed issue with double tooltip on items equipped weapons block.

MikePence reported this issue after discovering the weapon experience bar had two separate tooltips displaying the percentage. Xepa4ep confirmed this is now resolved.


- Fixed issue with hidden unequip icon for iPhone users.

gators87 noticed they were unable to equip any of their weapons or armor, an issue which seemed to only affect iOS users. This has since been confirmed as resolved by Xepa4ep.


- Fixed issue causing longer names to disappear on P2P chats.

After a report by _Scofield_, an issue which caused longer player names to not be shown on chat boxes was resolved by vysdel2.


- Fixed issue causing random notification sounds on chat.

An issue which caused chat sounds to play at random despite having no new messages has been resolved by vysdel2 after a report by HDOG.


- Fixed disabled private stats appearing in the graph dropdown when viewing other user's personal stats.

This issue was resolved after a report by MikePence, and confirmed as fixed by nikitad.


- Fixed issue with job points exchange example when not having enough job points.

In this report by ScroogeMcDuck, they observed the special's text would display them as having 0 education points for 100 Manual Labor, despite having 8 at the time. nikitad has since confirmed the current job points message has been resolved.


- Fixed navigation issue when clicking the back button on Job Listings page via the laptop when abroad.

JotDe observed that when selecting "Back" from the job listings page while using the Laptop abroad, they'd be taken to a broken view of the Home page. nikitad since confirmed this to be fixed.


- Fixed employee train button placement on the Company page in mobile view.

This issue was confirmed to be resolved by nikitad in a report by Cambit.


- Fixed issue with long player names appearing in the Weekly Bazaars section of the Newspaper.

_Scofield_ observed long names not being truncated in the Weekly Bazaars section of the Newspaper, which caused display issues. nikitad confirmed this issue was resolved.


- Fixed graph data corresponding to incorrect dates on the Personal Stats page.

CRLF noticed strange occurrences of the Awards graph increasing the count for the previous day rather than on the day they were received. This was since confirmed to be resolved by nikitad.


- Fixed displaying federal jail status graphic when user is flying on Profile page.

Owen observed the wrong image displayed when a user who is currently travelling has been recently placed in federal jail. nikitad confirmed this is now fixed.


- Fixed stealth bar height issue in attacking on touchscreen devices.
- Fixed 'Escape' button still being available after an attack has ended.

An issue in which the "Escape" button was still available after a finished attack. Additionally, an issue with the height of the stealth bar has been resolved for touchscreen devices. These issues were presumably fixed by svyat770.


- Fixed 2FA code validation issue after replacing a previous authentication method

After a report by Zziox, a validation issue when changing authentication method — for example, from Google Authenticator to Authy — has been resolved. nikitad confirmed as such.


- Fixed circulation and value item graph x-axis format issue on Faction Armory page.

Chrelle observed an issue with the value and circulation graphs within the Faction Armory displaying unformatted values. Kopites confirmed this to be resolved.


- Fixed issue with copying URLs on iOS devices.

In this report by Womb-Raider, it was observed that while the success tooltip was displayed, the "Copy post link" button would not work on iOS devices. This has since been confirmed to be resolved by nikitad.


- Fixed image uploading validation with 2048px images.

JZZ reported here after noticing the inability to upload images to their profile despite being within the correct size requirements. After a long wait, this issue was finally confirmed to be resolved by nikitad.


- Fixed dynamic player signatures being blocked by Cloudflare when used off-site.

This issue was confirmed to be resolved by Chedburn after a report by DeKleineKobini.


- Fixed 'A Problem at the Tracks' triggering failures for some non-gun Primary & Secondary weapons.

After this report by RichR, some Primary and Secondary weapons — Harpoon, Slingshot, Flamethrower, Blowgun, Flare Gun, and Crossbow — have been excluded from this mission, so it would no longer result in failure if these were used. This was confirmed as resolved by aurel1.


- Fixed 'Strip out' upgrade being lost during a crash.

Bug reported here after and issue where they lost their "Strip Out" upgrade upon crashing their car in a race, but were confused as to how they could have regained their unnecessary interior that was already taken out. aurel1 confirmed this was resolved after Chedburn agreed that losing this upgrade was somewhat weird.


- Fixed rounding with Meat Warehouse 'Huntsman' hunting EXP bonus special at later levels.

After a report by Batman921, the Meat Warehouse (Huntsman) special has been changed by Chedburn slightly to ensure hunting gains at the later levels would always be beneficial — rounding to 0.0004, instead of 0.0003.


- Fixed display issue with 'Level Up' notification on the Home page in mobile devices.

Mitchell observed that upon levelling up on a mobile device, the notification on the 'Home' page would be displayed without a space between it and the information panel. This was confirmed to be resolved by nikitad.


- Fixed 'Members involved' counter on chain reports showing incorrect data.

It was noticed by RichR that the "Members" count on the chain report included the entire faction, instead of just those who actually made hits during. Stewie noted that while this should have been fixed with a previous report, but that was apparently not the case. It was later confirmed as fixed by Kopites.


- Fixed jail background behaviour while TORN Anniversary logo is active.

It was observed by Xiphias after selecting the +25% boost from the Anniversary logo (letter 'N'), the Jail background would be changed to the normal background, despite still being in Jail. This one was confirmed to be fixed by nikitad


- Fixed image size and scale changing on Newspaper articles depending on screen view.

An issue regarding the size of Newspaper article images has been resolved after this report from rapid_riser. This issue was confirmed as resolved by nikitad.


- Fixed issue with being unable to reduce company advertising budget if the lower value isn't enough for 7 days.

In this report by TwoEleven, it was observed that after taking out all of their companies available funds, leaving them with only 7-days of employee wages, they were then unable to lower their current advertising budget to anything above 0. Chedburn ultimately decided to change it so that advertising could be lowered, even if there wasn't enough for 7 days.


- Fixed City quick links panel sorting by 'Type' to show categories alphabetically.

Lugburz reported here that when the City quick links were sorted by Type, all tabs (except for "Administrative") were displayed in alphabetical order. While alphabetical order was not originally intended as such, Chedburn quipped that it could be. Kopites has since confirmed this is now resolved.


- Fixed weapons / armor of the same type in faction armories to be ordered by quality.

After a report by Proxima, weapons and armor of the same type in a faction's armory will now be displayed in quality descending order. This was confirmed as resolved by Xepa4ep.


- Fixed relative quality tooltip formatting.

This issue was confirmed to be resolved by Xepa4ep after a report by MikePence.



Honor Bars

The Honor Bar for the week of 28/01/2020 is "Bandolier", which is achieved by using 1,000 rounds of special ammunition.

For the week of 04/02/2020, the Honor Bar is "War Machine", which is achieved by earning 1,000 finishing hits in all categories.



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