Testing 210: Guilds and Messaging++!

james · January 9, 2019, 8:10pm

Updated OP with details of Testing 210.9.

james:

Testing 210.9:

Guilds:

Added monitoring of guild naming allowing filtering of inappropriate names.

Guild Controllers can see a log of Guild Messages within the chat/messaging interface.

Added a filter to the beacon permissions screen to filter for guild/friends while aligned.

Each Character has a Weekly Endeavour cap of 500 across all Primary aligned Guilds. This reset synchronises with weekly objectives. The Characters current Weekly Cap progress can be seen in the Character’s Guild Menu.

Fix beacon permissions screen help text box not fitting its text.

Fixed client crash on the guild control setup screen.

Fixed client crash when leaving a guild with factions.

Fixed client crash bug on character menu screen when the player was leaving a central guild when was member of factions in the same guild.

Fixing client crashes on the guild control screen.

Fixed primary guild switching

Game will now present a collection of short news items when starting. These aim to inform players who aren’t following development to know about the major changes. They are only shown the first time you start the game. A future update will show all the historic news items in a new News GUI.

Added ‘without being defeated’ to each Mining Survival Challenge task to clarify what the player needs to do to complete each Mining Survival Challenge Objective after some confusion was experienced with the tasks resetting on defeat.

Added a new debug screen available from the debug menu for visualising beacon plots and settlements / guild settlement status around your location in the world. PC only at the moment.

Reduce frame stalls around large numbers of props with visible inventory items (storage/plinths etc).

Reduce frame drops when many signs are in one location.

Reduce frame rate hit when very many entities are removed in one frame.

Fixed Incorrect text Value on Mega Instant Recovery Brews

Fixed the skill-based light source flashing out as you walk through portals for a single frame.

Known Issues:

The following items are known issues in this release.

Guild Control Members GUI will repeatedly reset when there is an outstanding membership request.

Simoyd · January 9, 2019, 8:16pm

OH YES THIS IS SO GOOD

Kirinvar · January 9, 2019, 10:05pm

giphy3

Xaldafax · January 9, 2019, 11:19pm

I’m not sure the process to add items to dev menu but maybe new items can be added. None of the decorative items being released are available in dev give. We must craft still…

Biv · January 9, 2019, 11:37pm

Ugh, I keep seeing the blue topic and thinking the new update is imminent…only to be disappointed.

AeneaGames · January 10, 2019, 12:48pm

If only it wasn’t just for PC

AeneaGames · January 10, 2019, 12:50pm

So, any idea when it might be ready, James? Since I’m sure Sony can’t be the culprit holding it back still

a13o · January 10, 2019, 1:53pm

This is a very heavy feature which touches on vital systems like beacons and permissions. One nasty bug could cause people to lose progress, have items stolen, etc. I’m glad they’re taking their time on this one!

AeneaGames · January 10, 2019, 2:07pm

Yes, that’s indeed more than fine with me as well.

Except, I would love to hear more about when they are aiming to release this.

First it was Sony’s fault why they couldn’t release around the holidays, thus it became first full week of January which is now almost concluded and we haven’t heard a peep about it except patch notes for the testing version.

Don’t get me wrong, that’s more than most devs communicate, they are still working on it to perfect it but I’m looking forward to it so I’m just like a little kid going “are we there yet? well, are we? there?”

james · January 10, 2019, 2:52pm

Hey Everyone.

The release will now be early next week. Sorry! We tried really hard to get it done for this week, but in the past couple of release candidates on Testing we found little issues that really needed to be fixed. And the fixing cycle requires us to follow a submission process with PlayStation.

On the positive side - the release already includes quite a few improvements based on feedback from players on Testing. The details have been shared in the release notes. So this will hopefully be more like Guilds 1.1 than Guilds 1.0 (or Guilds 0.9). Honestly it’s this additional development (often called feature creep) that introduced the issues and delayed us.

@a13o is correct that this release does contains some significantly different systems. Both Guilds and Messaging are universe spanning systems. (If you add a player to a guild on World A, and someone else removes another player on World B - then everything needs to be sync-up in real time.) Previously every system was isolated within a world. Only the portals were special and linked worlds together. The Guilds and Messaging have hence required new universe wide architecture and systems. We don’t want to release this late in the week where we risk destabilising the game over the weekend. So we’re trying to be mature and sensible and grownup and will release early next week.

Venom · January 10, 2019, 2:56pm

It’s for the best. I know we were all hoping for this week but better to wait a few days than have an unplayable buggy game over the weekend. Luckily i have a large project to keep me busy during that time

Simoyd · January 10, 2019, 3:13pm

I prefer the extra polish =D. Happy to wait for awesome things =D

RedY3 · January 10, 2019, 4:00pm

If this is marble, I pray for strength to replace my entire marble-resembling ice palace xD

Kirinvar · January 10, 2019, 4:03pm

It is, and the reflections are amazing.

james · January 10, 2019, 10:41pm

Updated OP with details of Testing 210.10.

james:

Testing 210.10:

Guilds:

Enable guild name reservations for Pioneer and above backers of the game.

Changed the HUD hover state of a Guild Control from “GUILD CONTROL” to the guild tag and name.

Fixed leaving guilds from the Character menu Guilds tab.

Fixed an issue that was causing Guild Helix Machines to not display the correct buff colour tints.

Fixing constant reloading on the guild members screen where there was an outstanding join request.

Fixed an issue where coin donated to a guild was incorrectly tracked.

Fixed an issue with Guild Prestige being incorrectly shown as 0 in some cases.

Added new high end crafted decorative blocks!

Decorative Marble

Decorative Mosaic

Decorative Refined Gravel

Decorative Wicker

Improved loading bar on warps/portals to more accurately reflect work being done; will no longer show that the portal has loaded when there is still work to do.

Fix props occasionally vanishing when viewed through portals.

Fix for bad physics geometry on a particular kind of sloped-shape that led to users becoming stuck.

Fixed a physics issues on a particular kind of bevelled block shape.

Fixed an issue where multiple menus would remain open in the new messagin system.

Fixed a one-frame glitch in the hud details for opening warps/portals that would flash a line of text about the portal not being rendered on the very first frame of it being rendered.

Fixed some misleading status text for warps/portals in the hud display.

Fixed a rare client crash when interacting with another player.

The new blocks are described as:

Decorative Marble: An exquisite decorative Block Crafted from a certain type of Rock. Artists of the Oortian period created fine statues using similar materials.
Decorative Mosaic: An eye-catching decorative Block made up of smaller Blocks called Tesserae, a handy fact to impress other Citizens with!
Decorative Refined Gravel: An unusual decorative Block created by compacting certain materials. Useful for building stylish roads, walls and for grazing knees!
Decorative Wicker: A pretty decorative Block made from vegetation. Ancient Oortians created large Wicker images of themselves many moons ago; not many survived due to close proximity to Lava.

And we officially can’t do any more Testing point releases because we’ve hit the character limit on a single forum post. Guess we’ll just have to release it. (Early next week.)

GreyArt247 · January 10, 2019, 10:46pm

The new blocks sound interesting

MysticPandora · January 10, 2019, 11:00pm

Hahahaha. love those two bits.

Odeon · January 10, 2019, 11:03pm

Nice the new blocks are coming soon
Thanks for the good work Dev’s

majorvex · January 10, 2019, 11:16pm

I do not know which colors will be available in the LIVE version of the game…I typed random numerical values into the color input to view the blocks…that being said:

Venom · January 10, 2019, 11:34pm

Time to start tearing up the floor i just put down smh