Ice Ocean changelog/2008-1

The complete changelog can be viewed at Ice Ocean changelog.

=2008-06-25=
 * Add four new furniture items: potbelly stove, tigershark, pirate flag and shark jaws.
 * Fix the loading bar not appearing in Adventures.
 * Fix the loot pile image.

=2008-06-24=
 * Add three new furniture items: wall-mounted sailfish, loot pile, and drinking vessels.
 * Add a cache for duplicated ground tiles in the visible area. Keep an eye out for the ground repeating incorrectly or pieces of the ground showing up in the wrong place.
 * Shrink in-memory character and object images in Adventures. Please report any visual artifacts or new slowdowns in adventures.
 * Fix painting with magenta.

=2008-06-20=
 * Fix chat not appearing in Adventures for any login except the first in a browser session. This required changing the way chat was stored and displayed in the main client as well, so please /bug any changes you notice in chat in either client.
 * Fix swordfight tournaments hanging when a participant disconnected.

=2008-06-19=
 * Fix swordfights and rumbles not starting on pillages and in Atlantis.
 * Fix parlor game settings not being stored between games.
 * Fix that Bumblebeard's speech bubble was poking him in the eye in German.
 * Fix that experience trophies weren't handed out immediately on reaching an experience level.
 * Fix that the ship's wheel was available in shoppe portraits.
 * Allow pirates with badges beyond the pirate badge to battle nav from the puzzle board as well.

=2008-06-18=
 * Really add wall maps.
 * Fix fights not starting automatically in the first adventure.
 * Fix the third adventure not ending.

=2008-06-17 - The Return of Hair Dye=
 * Disable all but tells and crew chat in the pick adventure screen.
 * Fix alteration potions not being drinkable.
 * Fix recolorations on the ship's wheel.
 * Prevent double-clicking on the cannon in the third adventure from starting the puzzle twice and preventing the completion of the adventure.

=2008-06-17=
 * Add female sleepinghat.
 * Add dart board and ship's wheel furniture.
 * Add shoppe portrait backgrounds: Distillery, Iron Monger and Shipwright.
 * Send pirates created in Adventures to a configuration scene before they're allowed to do anything else.
 * Include a URL to get to the adventure in invites to players in the regular client.
 * Allow player gloves in the first rumble in the second adventure.
 * Display a dialog to players waiting for the leader to finish recruiting.
 * Fix 'Play Again' button booching and preventing another round in crafting puzzles.
 * Fix logging into the regular client while being logged into an adventure causing the client to hang.

=2008-06-15=
 * Start handing out a foil in the hideout adventure if a pirate has yet to receive a free sword.
 * Fix the AI not showing up for puzzles.
 * Fix player bludgeons not being used in the rumble in the hideout adventure.

=2008-06-13=
 * Allow full screen chat and pirate info views to go over dialogs in adventures.
 * No longer rate duty puzzles in adventures.
 * Only give out the portrait and eights in adventure three once. If you've already gotten them, you'll be able to get them one more time.
 * Fix bug where dismissing while a howto is showing didn't cancel the puzzle.
 * Fix bug preventing multiple cannons from being loaded on adventures.
 * Fix the invite button in adventures.
 * Fix bug causing the flashing status icon to remain forever when eights are given out.

=2008-06-12=
 * Added "puzzle board" to the notice board to show the various puzzles and related challenges that are available.
 * Prefetch faces and victory and defeat poses for all the participants in a puzzle in an adventure to reduce waits as they're required.
 * Fixed neverending treasure haul in the third adventure.
 * Fixed text and images not showing up in adventures in versions of Java not set to German or English.
 * Fixed sword pattern images in adventures.
 * Removed all references to "coins"

=2008-06-09=
 * Added paints and enamels for all the recently added clothing colors: rose, mint, lavender, magenta and light green.

=2008-06-05=
 * Add icons for owned houses on the pirate information page.
 * Award mugs from chests in Atlantis.

=2008-06-02=
 * Two new clothing colors - Light green & Magenta.
 * Limited edition pet: the Mala-cat - in celebration of opening Malachite to new players this week.
 * New limited edition portrait background: Phillite's Spring Festival
 * New trophies for art contest winners.

=2008-05-06=
 * Fix a bug that could cause island overviews from a different ocean to be displayed.
 * Fix formatting issue for some long lists on pirate pages.

=2008-04-23=
 * Bugfix - Fix carpentry puzzle hanging during Sea Monster/Blockade/Flotilla situations.
 * Bugfix - Drinking appearance altering potions now works again.
 * Bugfix - Treasure Haul now properly awards PoE for treasure hauled.
 * Bugfix - Properly deactivate "Clear Charted" button on charting panel when it's not available.
 * Bugfix - Fix various checkbox text that was being truncated.
 * Bugfix - No longer show the rank & title options on the crew panel to those who cannot use them.
 * Bugfix - Fix chat shortcuts not persisting across logins.
 * Bugfix - Fix problem where bilge sounds continue after leaving bilge puzzle.
 * Bugfix - No longer kick players out of the crow's nest & swordfight/rumble when they enter a fight from that location.
 * Bugfix - Fix problem with java 1.4 users not being able to login.
 * Bugfix - Fix held trophies not showing up in portraits.
 * Bugfix - Fix navy pay sometimes not being awarded.

=2008-04-21=
 * Will the behind the scenes goodness never end? Here comes some more...

=2008-04-16=
 * Even more major behind-the-scenes changes that ideally shouldn't be seen. Should fix the various extreme boochage that appeared on 04/15.
 * Fix bug that caused newly memorized league points to be forgotton on logout.

=2008-03-28=
 * Major behind the scenes changes that ideally you shouldn't see - most likely to affect missions, crafting/labor, and parlor tables

=2008-03-21=
 * Recenter the screen on every right click instead of just once while the pirate is walking.
 * Fix bug that caused the screen to scroll in the wrong direction when starting to walk from near the edge of the screen.

=2008-03-18 - Judgement Day=
 * Add current vessel-holders to vessel bulletin boards.
 * Fix pirate/crew/flag pages to have the same background color as the rest of the interface.

=2008-03-18=
 * Fix bug causing certain items to not appear in portraits.
 * Add an option on the general tab to configure where screenshots are saved.
 * Fix appearance of comboboxes on file selection dialogs.
 * Fix a few issues with non-ascii characters (mostly related to German pirate names)
 * Allow swordfighting and rumble tournaments to be unrated.

=2008-03-10 - Beyond Thunderdome=
 * Adjust Xebecs and Longships to make them easier to repair.
 * Minorly increase the damage a Xebec can withstand.
 * Fix some booched Japanese translations, include english versions of a few missing translated graphics.

=2008-03-10=
 * Adjust Xebec scenes to remove items blocking bilge stations (existing Xebecs keep their old scenes)
 * Fix bug that caused disappearing pets.
 * Fix booched tournament titles on tournament status view.
 * Fix missing bit from the edge of the chat interface.
 * Fix bug causing the chat window to expand horizontally.
 * Fix bug with chat shortcuts going to the wrong channel while in a puzzle/bnavving.
 * Updated Japanese translations (some graphics are still missing)
 * Change the default shortcut for F12 to /print

=2008-03-07=
 * Adjust Xebec recipe.
 * Adjust Xebec scenes (tone down some bling, fix issue with holds & stairs being non-functional)
 * Allow bands & gemstone rings to be displayed in portraits.
 * Fix bug with tournament names on the tournament ahoy panel.
 * Updated translations.

=2008-03-05=
 * New vessel for manufacture: Xebec.
 * New colors of cloth for manufacture and use: rose, mint, lavender
 * New furniture for manufacture: fancy sink
 * Add chat shortcuts accessed via the function keys. Their value can be customized in the options panel.
 * Add functionality to save screenshots to the desktop via either the /print command or pressing Control-p.
 * Use a bnav icon on swabbies when listing their bnav skill.
 * Upon startup, if the configured client size is larger than the screen's actual size, attempt to drop to a saner resolution.
 * On the interface to choose facial expressions for portraits, include the eyepatch if you have one.
 * Give rag tops & bottoms distinct names.
 * Sort the list of assignable crew titles alphabetically.
 * Sort color options when painting a scene alphabetically.
 * Underline the names of hearties in the scene view.
 * Shorten the delay before recentering the view after moving.
 * Speed up the pan as the display is recentered.
 * New tab on yer pirate page with an expanded view of yer booty.
 * Adjust boxing background to help clarify the bottom row.
 * Make sea monsters extremely reluctant to spawn right next to player vessels.
 * Remove defending from boxing.
 * Fix bug that tied up attempted wagers against someone on the same computer until reboot.
 * Various internal cleanup and bugfixes

=2008-02-05=
 * Internal logging and tweaks.

=2008-02-04=
 * Add a button, instead of the link, to a user's pirate page if they have no portrait set and the portrait mission is available.
 * Fix bug booching some Atlantis sites.
 * More internal cleanup.

=2008-02-01=
 * More internal restructuring of NPPs. Please report any strange behavior.

=2008-01-29=
 * Clean up behavior of island news on island tab instead of having a scroll area embedded in a scroll area.
 * In boxing, let either mouse button be used. And show a right fist normally, or a left fist if mouse buttons are flipped.
 * Remove run-time need for JVMPI (specifically, this fixes a bug where the client would instantly close under certain vms, e.g. the "server" vm that gets used on some linux systems that are considered server-class by java)
 * When sinking in Atlantis, there's now a chance of having a starfish cling to you.
 * New potion available for manufacture at apothecaries to remove said starfish.
 * Show a message explaining to players why they don't qualify for a brigand king trinket if they don't.
 * New background for boxing.
 * If a user has the portrait mission available, show a link on their own pirate page to direct them there.
 * Remove clothing purchase prerequisite from the portrait mission.
 * Don't cache gallery data for as long; sometimes it would take several minutes for new portraits to show up in a player's gallery.
 * Fix bug causing periodic lag spikes on ice.
 * Fix bug that missed the first-time-greeter dialog when toggled to duty by joining a greeter pillage.
 * Fix bug that kept pvp records from being kept when they involved crewless ships.
 * Fix bug with scuttling brigand kings multiple times.
 * Various internal cleanup; in particular, NPPs have changed a bit under the hood, but should behave the same. Please report any broken NPP behavior.

=2008-01-25=
 * Fix installer issues.  To try the new installer, you'll need to uninstall then reinstall your copy of ice.

=2008-01-15=
 * Re-enable unrated, unwagered matches between multiple clients on the same computer.
 * Update formatting of headers on various tabs under the sunshine panel.
 * Break labor report out to its own tab because of space issues.
 * Add missing translation for treasure haul portrait item.
 * Disable manufacture of firs and wreaths.
 * Minor adjustment to the blackjack's pattern.
 * Allow people to plank players from their homes while in a puzzle.
 * Fix an issue that could cause the sailing puzzle to get stuck between board changes. Please file bugs if you still see this happening.

=2008-01-07=
 * Remove home island from ye tab to save space
 * New clothing for manufacture: chainmail
 * Minor tweaks to the mission page layout
 * Adjust color of santa hats to better match other attire
 * Disallow people on the same computer from challenging each other or joining parlor tables with each other
 * Adjust seeding in double-elimination tournaments to avoid repeat matches until as late as possible
 * New portrait item based on treasure haul experience
 * New portrait item to display trophies won by the player
 * Option on rumble to play "boxing" with only one launcher
 * Overhaul and rework aspects of the pirate info page
 * Disallow wrapping of snow furniture
 * Don't jump back to the start of the palace shoppe after purchasing something
 * Fix bug where players would sometimes get the brigand king swordfight background at parlor tables
 * Add buttons to the palace tab to conveniently access the shoppe and portrait room
 * Sort various lists of color options alphabetically
 * Remove pirates from the list signed up to fight skeletons/zombies when they disconnect
 * Reduce the amount of work needed before a bout of carpentry counts towards ratings
 * Various internal cleanup