News & Announcements - 20APR20

20APR20 - RELEASE NOTES

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Topic: 20APR20 - RELEASE NOTES

Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Subject: 20APR20 - RELEASE NOTES
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 16:11

CUMULATIVE RELEASE NOTES

Hi everyone,

Hoping you and yours are all staying safe and well.

There have been a huge number of releases over the last few weeks, and I thought it'd be useful to summarise them all into a single place.

ENHANCEMENTS

Regional Tournaments Automation

We've completed the automation of regional tournaments (details http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/31jan20-regular-seasonal-tournaments_topic10751.html" rel="nofollow - here ). This means that initiating each quarter's tournament, kicking it off, tracking progress and winners, and closing the tournament down - including handing out medals and administering Regional Totem changes - is now an automated process, hurrah.

Long Service Medals

Medals for the 10, 7, 5, 3, 2 & 1 year anniversaries for each individual player have been handed out retrospectively, and are also now automatically granted for each anniversary. Details are available https://forum.illyriad.co.uk/22feb20-happy-10th-anniversary_topic10765.html" rel="nofollow - here .

50 Prestige Package available

There is now a 50 prestige package available in the store.

Tournament XML feed

There is a new Tournament Squares XML datafeed, available https://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/external/tournamentsquaresapi" rel="nofollow - here , with details https://forum.illyriad.co.uk/03apr20-tournament-squares-xml_topic10788.html#106913" rel="nofollow - here .

New Chat & Notification System

The system has been rewritten, and updated to a newer version of TLS. A couple of general enhancements to chat came with this upgrade, and you can find details http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/04mar20-new-notifications-chat-system_topic10770.html" rel="nofollow - here .

Forum merge

The News & the Announcements subforums were too similar, and have been merged into a single entity.

THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTION SITES

Illyriad is now available on Kongregate

You can access Illyriad via kongregate, and you can link your existing account to your kongregate login as well. Details are available https://forum.illyriad.co.uk/07apr20-illy-on-kongregate_topic10790.html" rel="nofollow - here .

Purchasing Prestige via Steam

Steam purchases for prestige were buggy as heck, and this has now been fixed - hopefully forever!

Steam Achievements

If you get achievements and scores in Illy, these now update into your Steam achievements feeed, regardless of method of login. ie. If you log in via the website (rather than Steam), your achievements and scores will update on Steam without you needing to log back in via Steam. We have also back-filled scores and achievements previously gained ingame.

BUGFIXES

Fixes for Chrome samesite cookie change
Fixes for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 depreciation
Added redirect from insecure site to secure site before login
http image link on Daily Reward page making page display as "insecure"
Fixed various other http links; now should all be https
New medals igm signature fix
Facebook app login fixes
Steam app login fixes
Windows Store app login fixes
Windows 10 fixed reconnection crash
Fixed using Steam login via website
Fixed Steam achievements and score update; now also update continuously rather than just at login (note: research achievements need to be researched rather than achieved via capture)
Avast virus false positive warning for Steam app (reported to and resolved by Avast)
Fixed chat being broken in FireFox
Fixed a bug whereby towns mentioned in various notifications were showing as in "undefined"
Fixed a bug whereby locations mentioned in various notifications were showing as in "undefined"
Fixed a bug whereby players mentioned in various notifications were showing the alliance name twice
Fixed short codes for items broken in chat
Fixed chat broken for sitters
Fixed possessive ('s) playernames broken in notifications
Fixed Fortumo Mobile prestige payment which was working flakily
Skyfallen stones were falling on Impassable squares, which was causing them to spawn too often on the rest of the map; this has now been rectified and the number of skyfallen stones available on the map is now as intended
Research item Raptorstrike renamed to Venomstrike to match the item name
Dawnhunter Greatbow Typo Fixed
Spiked Platemail Typo Fixed
Rockpiercer Recurve Bow Typo Fixed
Various other typos, grammar fixes (many thanks to Detros for his diligence in reporting these!)
Broken pages for Unit Data on the external site have been fixed (eg https://www.illyriad.co.uk/GameInformation/Races/Elves/UnitStats" rel="nofollow - here )

We'll have more releases/bugfixes coming through the pipeline.

Stay well, stay safe, and thanks very much for playing Illy!

Best wishes,

SC and the team

Replies:

Posted By: Tensmoor
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 17:58

Looks like the team have been very busy bunnies Thumbs Up

Posted By: Snagglepuss
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 18:22

any word on the Tuna Farms update? Big smile

Posted By: Lagavulin
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 19:30

Very glad for the fixes and glad for you re the automation. Thank you.

Posted By: Ruarc
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 21:01

Awesome fixes - thanks!

This one though:

GM Stormcrow wrote:

New medals igm signature fix

No signature (my own or anyone else's) appears in IGMs for me. And hasn't in... it's been a while. Are we meant to be seeing signatures in IGMs?

Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2020 at 22:41

Ruarc wrote:

No signature (my own or anyone else's) appears in IGMs for me. And hasn't in... it's been a while. Are we meant to be seeing signatures in IGMs?

Hmm... I'll have to ask TC what he thinks he fixed :)

Thanks for letting me know!

Posted By: DeathDealer89
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2020 at 09:05

For tournament totem rewards, will those always apply to every city in the region?

Is the bonus the same as the last time? Or do we find out a few days right before the tournament along with the totem location?

Posted By: Tensmoor
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2020 at 09:24

My understanding is that yes the bonus will always apply to all towns in the region. As for changes to the bonuses available I think you are right in that we'll find out just before the tourney start if they have been changed.

Posted By: GM ThunderCat
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2020 at 17:22

> No signature (my own or anyone else's) appears in IGMs for me.

Should be fixed for new IGMs now

Posted By: Ruarc
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2020 at 19:52

GM ThunderCat wrote:

> No signature (my own or anyone else's) appears in IGMs for me.

Should be fixed for new IGMs now

Thanks!

Posted By: eowan the short
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2020 at 22:06

Is there going to be any work on the commander screen? Currently, if you have more than a few commanders in retirement it lags like crazy, to the point of being almost unusable.

Firefox handles it a lot better than chrome or edge but it's still not great.

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Posted By: DeathDealer89
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2020 at 01:25

eowan the short wrote:

Is there going to be any work on the commander screen? Currently, if you have more than a few commanders in retirement it lags like crazy, to the point of being almost unusable.

Firefox handles it a lot better than chrome or edge but it's still not great.

Yea I agree, it wouldn't be to bad if all you had to do was level up once. But changing equipment all the time + what seems like a minute per equipment is a real drag.