Ice Ocean changelog/2010-1

This page archives the changelog for the Ice Ocean for the first half of 2010. The complete changelog can be viewed at Ice Ocean changelog.

2010-03-23

• Allow this year's eggs in portraits
• Don't sell boxes from Black Markets that have gone dark
• No longer award repute points for losing to skellies/zombies
• Award repute for purchasing houses
• Fix two Cursed Isles scenes with non-functioning forage objects
• Speed up how quickly skellies/zombies darken the sky on islands

2010-03-09

• Fix bug blocking forts from having managers

2010-03-08

• Fix a bug causing ironmongery games to hang
• Clean up weaving sounds
• Weaving mouse control now tracks the mouse instead of needing drags. Clicks anywhere on the reed (top or bottom) will batten
• Spruce up the weaving tutorials some
• The starting pieces on weaving boards are now properly battened down
• Fix a bug with monsters not always making islands dark

2010-03-05

• Fix missing icon for palace managers on pirate pages
• Clean up a few graphical glitches with Bumblebeard
• Add a crafting mission for weaving
• Show the crafting missions for puzzles on their free days even if you don't aren't subscribed/don't have a labor badge
• Fix a bug where scenes could get booched when leaving shipwrecks
• Fix missing translation for Black Market construction sites
• Fix bug with foraging art being rendered in inconsistent orders (causing strangely glowing crates, ants without numbers, etc.)
• Only humans can treasure haul, so don't allow you to order bots to try
• Lots of translation updates for foreign languages

2010-03-03

• Potential fix for audio not working with 64-bit Java
• Bring the fourth color sooner in weaving

2010-03-02

• Squash the long standing bug where chunks of scenes would sometimes be AWOL
• Add some sounds to weaving
• Fix another zombie/skeleton message mixup
• Allow palaces, forts, and attraction buildings to have managers
• Improve performance of overlayed animations (e.g. Bumblebeard)
• Allow black boxes to be held in portraits

2010-02-26

• Fix message on zombie charms that said they summoned skeletons
• Fix bug causing weaving to not show new pieces with Java 1.5
• Make weaving sparklies rarer, but worth more points
• Fix bug causing weaving to only let you pause once. This may also clear up the reports of weaving not showing a duty report until you hit escape.
• Show weaving stats on pirate info pages
• Fix bug where an error wrapping a black market box would result in a booched box
• Fix bug with creating black big cats for the black market
• Fix bug causing some expedition scenes to blow up

2010-02-25

• New puzzle: Weaving
• Internal changes to wrapped presents
• Adjust positioning of portals for Black Markets
• Fix problem with some Black Market goods not being properly aged when unwrapped
• Fix bug causing zombie charms to spawn skellies
• Fix help URL for the Black Market
• Add a "Fetch items" button to the purchasing interface for items that require a design

2010-02-24

• New Attraction: Black Market - Purchase a Black Box with a random prize inside. Production ocean price will be 10,000 PoE but will be cheaper on Ice for now for testing.

2010-02-22

• Yet another swordfight generation scheme - this should result in identical piece streams for different players.

2010-02-18

• Add several new Cursed Isles Island Scenes.
• Adjust swordfight piece generation.

2010-02-17

• Fix a bug in Swordfight piece generation.
• Fix bug where the design-required items didn't correctly identify that you had/needed a design.
• Fix bug where imperial outposts weren't enterable

2010-02-16

• Imperial Outposts now award trinkets to "dedicated hands" (subscribers & pirate badge holders) similarly to the Brigand King trinkets.
• New type of item: "Design" - Some items can be made at normal shoppes but require the orderer to supply a an appropriate Design item.
• New items at the trading post: Shako Hat Design, Cockade Hat Design, Imperial Banner Design, Explorers' Banner, Brass Telescope
• Removed the move counter from Alchemistry.
• Fixed formatting for some cash numbers in poker.
• Some internal cleanup of crafting puzzles.
• Some internal changes to swordfighting, carpentry, and sailing to improve randomness.
• Due to above change, note that swordfighters will no longer all see identical sequences of pieces.
• Fix a bug where Pirate News Page slowness would lock the entire client.
• Fix a bug related to deluxe labor badges (Obviously, won't notice this on ice)
• Fix a bug in labor calculation related to exceptionally large amounts of reserve labor
• Fix the plurality of some labor messages
• Internal changes related to managing portrait backgrounds.
• Longer introductory tutorial.
• Fix a bug where if you left the ship too quickly after setting sail on a swabbie transport voyage, the swabbies wouldn't correctly take their stations.

2010-01-19 - Nerds in Paradise

• Fix bug with trades and wagers that include items

2010-01-19

• Give out repute points for trading post purchases based on both the PoE spent and the value of trinkets cashed in
• Fix bug with trading post items being greyed out in the ordering interface
• Fix bug where the navy would sometimes get confused and refuse to pay out wages
• Give feedback message when purchasing an item from a trading post

2010-01-18

• Allow more rotations for the tropical potted plant
• Split the trading post items into tabs
• In the trading post UI, allow items to be removed
• Allow more than the required number of trinkets to be used toward the purchase of items at trading posts
• Give feedback in failure cases for the fetch trinkets button
• When pressing the fetch trinkets button, open the booty to trinkets

2010-01-15 #2

• Fix booched BK egg trinket requirements.
• Fix some layout bits on the trading post UI.

2010-01-15

• Fix missing translation for Trading Post construction sites
• Add a button that attempts to fill in the required trinkets for a type from unequipped trinkets in your inventory
• Merchants more accurately estimate the cost to ship to different islands
• Trading Posts now sell Brigand King eggs in exchange for complete sets of trinkets for each king
• Excise the weaving puzzle stubs
• Fix bug with trading in conch shells
• Fix bug with trinket value system not adjusting
• Fix bug with purchases failing if the total trinket value exceeded the base item cost

2010-01-14

• New Attraction building: Trading Post
  • Players can trade in trinkets + PoE for special items
  • Trinkets are given a PoE value that counts towards the price of the item. This price adjusts dynamically based on the types of trinkets recently traded in.
  • Merchants prefer islands with Trading Posts
• Newly delivered LE ships have custom adjectives
• Fix non-exit rowboats on vessels (newly delivered ones will have this correct, old ones remain the same)
• Pirates cashing out of a poker table with more than their buyin value go into the victory pose (this does not consider rebuys)
• Provide swabbies to replace abandoning humans in all types of skirmishes except blockades instead of just in battles
• Take appropriate cuts for swabbies from other skirmish payout types (e.g. PoE hauled)
• Allow the shelves below decks on war brigs to be dusted
• Players at low to mid performance levels dutying now contribute more to the ship's functionality
• Swabbie skills and performance has been lowered so their contribution is the same as before