MMORPG Tycoon 2 News

[p]Hi folks! This is just a quick hotfix build to address a couple of issues people have found in yesterday's "Confection" update.[/p]

• [p]Fixed a crash which could occur if a subscriber was interrupted while flying on a flight path and then changed their mind about what they wanted to do.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a few tools not working correctly; most notably the manual "warn" and "ban" tools, which weren't correctly detecting subscribers under the cursor.[/p]
• [p]Fixed some pathfinding issues related to subscribers being interrupted (typically by monsters) while walking on a road which they expected to be safe.[/p]

[p]Huge thanks to everyone who reported those issues![/p][p]-T[/p]

[p]Hi everyone![/p][p]This is a small holiday update for everyone, containing a new exotic art pack and a bunch of bug fixes and other minor improvements.[/p][h2]Here's what's new:[/h2]

• [p]Exotic Art Theme: Confection.
  Contains a new functional building theme, modular gingerbread houses, scenery items, and a customisable gingerbread man costume for your players (or your monsters, if you prefer!)[/p]
• [p]Improved bounding box generation for flex objects.
  This should make it much easier to click on bridges and walls![/p]
• [p]Restructured how status effects are processed which should make Damage Over Time effects far more reliable in terms of how much damage they do and how quickly the damage is applied![/p]
• [p]Added a missing scenery item to the Wild West exotic art pack (an animal skull).[/p]
• [p]Fixed transitions into cutscenes when UIScale values are below 100.[/p]
• [p]Fixed spurious extra logo redraws when opening the logo editor UI. They seem to have been causing trouble for very old graphics cards/chipsets/drivers (>10 years old). Hopefully this fixes it, but even if it doesn't I've added a lot more logging around the trouble to hopefully help me debug it further if it happens to anyone again![/p]
• [p]Improved player region migration, especially in the case where the destination region is carved into multiple disconnected walkable regions (for example, if a chasm splits the region into two halves). This still needs more work, but that situation is handled a lot better now than it was before![/p]
• [p]Fixed a rare crash around combat ability editing.[/p]
• [p]Simplified pathfinding cleanup, speeding it up and slightly reducing memory usage during this cleanup process.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a single-frame white flash which could happen at the start of the intro cutscene.[/p]
• [p]Improved the game's handling of corrupted saves.[/p]
• [p]Fixed players sometimes spuriously changing weapons when the design window for their class was opened or closed.[/p]

[p]So, looking forward. After being away for basically all of last month to spend time with my family after the sudden passing of my mother, I'm now back home and have been settling back into work on the long-awaited Factions update, and I'm looking forward to talking a bit more about that in the new year! But my first job on that is setting up full world PVP, so that everybody is able to fight everybody else (as currently players can really only attack monsters, and NPCs don't yet have a full aggro system, which means that taunts don't work against them and etc. All of that needs to be fixed to get proper world PVP working!)[/p][p]Big thanks to everyone for their patience while I dealt with family dramas! The words of support have really helped, along with the usual comments, suggestions, and bug reports! I'm looking forward to showing of what I'm working on next sometime early in the new year. :)[/p][p][/p][p]-T[/p]

[p]Hi folks![/p][p]It’s been a minute since I was last here saying hi, so allow me to reintroduce myself! I'm Leanne and I handle all things communications related here at VectorStorm and today I'm here to present you with the results of our first ever player survey![/p][p]Here are a few of the insights we've taken from the surveys:[/p]

• [p]In total, there were 1,729 responses![/p]
• [p]49% of those responding also play World of Warcraft, which definitely tracks with some of the amazing builds we've seen players share in Discord.[/p]
• [p]64% of responders say they basically no-life the game. Nice! [/p]
• [p]Number of names I had to delete from the name suggestion list: so so many. This is why we can’t have nice things.[/p]
• [p]The top requested features were; Guilds, Raids and Crafting/Gathering. [/p]
• [p]Factions & World PVP is the most anticipated roadmap milestone (honestly, we didn’t need a survey to tell us that!)[/p]

[p]And now, for the thing you really want. We asked for suggestions for future building item themes and you really delivered. So many awesome submissions, it took a while to cut the list down to a few. Without further ado, your options are;[/p]

• [p]High Elves[/p]
• [p]Druid[/p]
• [p]Eldritch[/p]
• [p]Jungle[/p]
• [p]Log Cabin[/p]
• [p]Atlantis[/p]

[p]We’ll have a poll posted shortly on our Discord, so make sure you come join us there so you can get your vote submitted. We’ll also have some reference images of the types of things we’re thinking about, based on other games, to give you an idea of what we’re aiming for. Please note that whilst ‘Atlantis’ would thematically be as if it were under water, actual underwater zones aren’t in the game and aren’t planned. [/p][p]That about wraps it up for me for now, so as always come find us on Discord! We’re very active there, with regular test build updates and insights into development, so come say hi.[/p][p]Thanks,[/p][p]-Leanne[/p]

[p]Hi everyone![/p][p]In this big content update, we've gone outside our usual box and have two new art packs with styles outside of our usual high fantasy genre![/p][h2]New themes:[/h2][h3]Wild West[/h3]

• [p]A full set of functional buildings in an old west style![/p]
• [p]A new modular building type, perfect for making frontier settlements![/p]
• [p]A mine cart bridge type![/p]
• [p]Two new customisable character costumes - the cunning Desperado and the implacable Gunslinger.[/p]
• [p]Almost a dozen new western-style scenery items![/p]

[h3]Pulp Sci-Fi[/h3]

• [p]A full set of functional buildings made from repurposed rockets and spaceships![/p]
• [p]A sci-fi laser wall![/p]
• [p]Two more new customisable character costumes - the Astronaut and, of course, we couldn't do pulp sci-fi without providing a green-skinned alien![/p]
• [p]Almost two dozen new pulp sci-fi era scenery items, including even more spaceships! (we might have gotten a little carried away with these)[/p]
• [p]Did somebody ask for ray guns? This art pack also contains a full "ray guns" weapon category with about twenty ray gun models which progressively upgrade as your players gain levels![/p]

[p]Both these new art packs are being classed as "exotic", and are available to be developed from the usual development projects menu; the same place where you start work on normal art packs.[/p][p]And of course, there's also the usual collection of bug fixes and small UI improvements. We hope you'll enjoy this little diversion from our usual world look and feel, and we'll definitely be adding more exotic art packs in future updates! (We'll have a poll about this and other things in the near future, as well as finally delivering the long-awaited results of the last user poll!)[/p][p][/p][p]On a personal note, I want to give a huge "thank you" to my fantastic producer and artist pair of Liam and Liam (respectively), who managed to pull this whole content update together almost entirely on their own while I've been away from home, helping out my father after the sudden death of my mother earlier this month. Liams, you two are the best.

[p]Hi folks! This small update contains a few new requested features, along with performance and quality of life improvements.[/p][p]What's new in this update:[/p]

• [p]Adds a new customization which lets you choose to have larger or smaller regions, when creating a new game map. (Note that the overall size of the map is unchanged; you'll have slightly fewer regions if you request they be large, and slightly more if you request they be small). Related to that, the map layout interface has been revamped to look nicer![/p]
• [p]Disabled the flashing red visual effect on objects which aren't receiving enough bandwidth; it could actually result in a surprisingly large performance hit if you had a lot of buildings which were outside of bandwidth areas! Now buildings which aren't receiving network bandwidth get darker and get a flashing lighting bolt icon that should hopefully be more intuitive for players to understand, and also it'll render just as quickly as fully functional buildings![/p]
• [p]District titles are now hidden during cutscenes; either the intro cutscene or release teaser cutscenes.[/p]
• [p]Removed the apply/cancel buttons when configuring a region's sky; those settings now take effect instantly![/p]
• [p]Fixed region fills and outlines not being drawn in the "Grid" view.[/p]
• [p]Fixed duplicate, unnecessary redraws of scenery items within the model selection UI when opening scenery placement tools. (Previously, each model image was being pointlessly redrawn three times; now they only get drawn once!)[/p]
• [p]Fixed the appearance of doors in the door placement UI inside Dungeons. (They had been drawing in "Unlocked" state, now they are drawing in "Locked" state, as intended)[/p]
• [p]Changed the visible "IM" icon representing sent/received instant messages to one that hopefully is more intuitive to people![/p]

[p]Thanks so much for your all comments and feedback, everybody! We're now pushing toward our next big content update which should arrive in a few weeks time, as well the big Factions feature update which will likely hit early next year![/p][p]-T[/p]