*Summary
Detail
There will be a short downtime on Wednesday, April 15th at 14:30 Server Time for both GC and UC for some infrastructure updates and the upload of GC Patch #101.
Downtime should be no longer than 30 minutes. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience.
- Major update to the Lucee engine that runs the Cold Fusion game code. (This also applies to UC).
- A number of security vulnerabilities fixed, as well as updated password hashing.
Public Section Rework:
Manual enabled and entirely revamped and mostly updated. Landing page updated, info section, rules page, login, signup, all public facing areas of the game updated and improved. SEO improvements for GC visibility.
- Dig time display under chat has been turned into a button that leads to a page that displays the entire days dig schedule in your local time-zone.
- Real name and country / region requirements have been removed from sign-up to make the process easier.
Help Center / Forum Re-Enabling::
Most forum functionality / bugs have been fixed.
Help Center and associated areas (Updates / Announcements / Bounty / Ask a question / Top Stats for questions answered etc) re-enabled with the Forum and should be fixed to work as intended.
- Change log page updated with all most of the game changes over the last 6 years, anything not in Announcements / Updates.
- Annoying resolution popup right after login removed.
- Signup / Login / Validation E-Mails fixed and sending properly.
Developer`s Notes:
Between UC Rewrite work we`ve found time to cover a slate of updates to GC to start the revitalization process. Please use the Report > Bug section of the new (old) Help Center to notify staff of anything not functioning as intended. These changes were tested thoroughly on our matching development server, but as with anything of this nature, patches aren`t always perfect.
Next Patch Development Focus for GC: (roughly in order of priority)
1.) Fixes to in-game mobile UI so phone players have a better time, renewed focus on mobile first development for GC.
2.) Mobile version of the forum / help center. The new public section is already very phone-friendly.
3.) Implementing on development server systems to adjust Gordo`s in the context of overall gameplay.
4.) Adjustments to GC`s overall economic systems to promote more balanced and fun gameplay.
5.) Begin testing implementation of Marauder plunder adjustments
Further future / background things:
- Minor ship updates and various tweaks
- Utilize match system created for DM`s to implement isolated tutorial worlds for new players.
- Artifacts re-work
- Continued adjustments to our backend infrastructure and CI/CD / workflows.
- Missions for all races along with updates to current missions (ties in with tutorial a bit too).