Topic: The Extermination Update!
During a rare durance where the members of the Great Imperial Council (GIC) were sober enough to see straight one of the members alerted the rest to the presence of an infestation of bugs within the council chamber.
In a proud display of their lack of manliness the members of The GIC stood atop of their chairs swinging rolled up copies of Playalien at all the disgusting and useless creatures. Once they had finished smacking each other with dirty magazines they quickly passed a resolution to hire some exterminators to take care of the bugs for them.
In what can only be described as a miracle from God the resolution made its way through the bureaucracy and into the hands of a strange man capable enough to actually do something about it. This strange man with an even stranger two character long name began the lengthy process of interfacing with the exterminators.
His quest to carry out the extermination order began by calling for the exterminators to take care of the problem. He marveled at what can only be described as a continuation of the previous miracle when they made it to the council chamber equipped for duty after only 6 weeks of waiting.
Once the work was completed it took a brief bit of politely screaming at the employees of Galactic Bug Squashing Corporation that taking two hour lunch breaks doesn't count as overtime and yes adding extra zero's to the invoice is a big deal before he got them to sign a contract to do the work for 200% of his own salary.
Before they could realize that the figure on the contract was only one character long and contained nothing but zeros they were kicked out of the council chamber and the results were tallied
Here are those results:
- Fixed bug that allowed an exploration ship to be sent to an already explored planet
- Fixed inactive tag not reducing morale loss
- Fixed words on the status bar being squished together on some pages when using the setting "Less Pictures in General"
- Fixed bug where the spell Reduced Food Production was also increasing food consumption
- Fixed bug where attacks and other actions could be performed after a galaxy had ended if a player had not logged out yet
- Fixed bug where blocked players could continue to play until they had logged out
- Fixed bug where "View System" and "View Planet" links pointed to a nonexistent location after recalling a fleet
- Fixed bug where bombers and transports could be stationed on planets by using the Station Fleets page
- Fixed bug where players sometimes had to log in twice
- Fixed bug where sort by Over Build Percent on planets page didn't work correctly if some of the buildings were under construction
And as a bonus here are some handy new features:
- If a player has an exploration ship en route to a planet all other members of that player's family are notified about it if they try to explore that same planet. Players are given the option to "Explore Anyways".
- The number of lasers on a planet is now included on the planets page.
- Blocked players are now frozen. Their accounts do not gain our lose any resources while blocked.
- In a previous update but now being announced: Families with fewer players are now even more likely to get randoms. The distribution of players across families should be much more even.
- Morale loss is now reduced when attacking a player marked as Rogue.
- Rogue players can now be killed off just like inactive players.