The Newsletter will contain information on what we're currently working on and planning, what technical issues have been fixed and are being worked on, as well as information of upcoming events or happenings in the near future. We'll also gladly hear if you have other topics you'd like to be included in upcoming newsletters! Feel free to discuss these ideas in this very same thread.
New features and happenings since the last Newsletter:
- Magistream's 15th year started with a call to reminisce your Magistream journey, be it however long or short! viewtopic.php?t=233703 We've loved all your responses! So many memories! Keep them coming!
- January Monthly Donis and New Years creatures were released: viewtopic.php?p=23682147#p23682147 (January 1st)
- The Shimmering Shop stock changed to past January Donation Creatures (January 1st)
- A regular creature, the Yunikon was released: viewtopic.php?p=23687523#p23687523 (January 9th)
- January Midmonth Donation Pet, the Ixan Mist Stalker was released: viewtopic.php?p=23689110#p23689110 (January 15th)
- Bestiary pages of creatures now show how easy in general it is to get offspring from breeding that species. The scale goes: Guaranteed, Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard. The actual breeding result is naturally still up to the randomness behind the feature, so unless an offspring is listed as "Guaranteed" it is very possible to go without getting an egg, or vice versa Very Hard breeders may seem to easily give you eggs. What is not shown on the breeding probability is that certain pairings may still have other factors built into their breeding. An example of this would be the Nandi Bear: the page lists getting a Nandi Bear egg as Normal and getting an Albino Nandi Bear egg as Normal. While the overall breeding chance of Nandi Bears producing an egg is in the "Normal" range, wether the end result is a regular Nandi Bear egg or an Albino Nandi Bear egg is determined by other factors that make getting an Albino Nandi Bear egg more unlikely than getting the Regular Nandi Bear egg.
- Regular release (late January)
- February Monthly Donation Pets (February 1st)
- The Shimmering Shop stock changes to past February Donation Creatures (February 1st)
- February Monthly Newsletter (Around February 10th)
- Valentines event and related shenanigans
- Releases up to May
- Removing bot and spam accounts
- A whole new site section, or an expansion of an existing one if you want to think of it that way, is on the works
- A list of all upcoming creature releases until May has been decided and set
- A list and schedule of all upcoming site events and planned new site features until May is set in greater detail, and set until the end of the year with less detail.
- About the need to go through the FAQ and rules threads and updating them
- About do we need a starter guide and if we do, what form that would take
- What does Master Belmos look like?!
- Recent increase in lag
- Gold issues
- The sad news of one of our long time members' passing
- The Bestiary, Statistics page and Families list are now scrollable sideways making it possible to better use them also on mobile devices
- Some layout issues: creature links in click threads are now all aligned to the same base level instead of some being higher and some lower, visited creatures show up underlined with a clearer color on click threads. Especially some mobile devices will try their dang hardest to hold onto the old styling, so if you're still seeing the links unaligned or clicked links not visibly changing colors (also do note that if you use incognito mode, the links won't be changing color) do a hard refresh on your browser or clear cache (desktop), or remove cached data for the site (mobile).
- A message stating a creature is part of a lineage whose rules forbid freezing could be seen if the freezing confirmation button was double clicked. This message was modified to clarify a creature may already be frozen if that message shows up.
- Investigating the increased lag of recent days -> probable cause has been found and fixes will be tried during the Jan 20th-Jan21st weekend
- Lorien quest
- Optimizing central parts of the site's code. Once this is done it should help make things load faster and also allow for using items, embedding multiple, and adding creatures to trades from other than the main tab.
- Investigating trades issue: sometimes even when a trade goes through, the creatures aren't transferred but are instead stuck as owned by "nobody"