Game Development: Village Bomb

[jorb]

We've been developing, and here's what's new.



New Implementations
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• Reworked the handling of membership in political entities, primarily affecting villages.
  
  • It is now possible to be a member of multiple villages.
  • All political actions specific to a particular village (or Realm, technically) have been moved away from the action menu to buttons, instead, in the "Kith & Kin" window, where you can now select the entity which you wish to manage in a dropdown menu.
  • Characters can now be described to Villages just as you would describe them to another character. (Simply select the person in your buddy list -> Describe -> Click the Village Idol) This allows villages to set and manage permissions and groupings for non-member characters. "Invite" permissions in the village are required to describe a character to it.
  • Realms have technically been reworked in that their actions have also moved from the action menu, but it is not possible to be a member of multiple Realms, nor is it possible to describe characters to Realms.
  • Learning Points earned by a character who is a member of multiple villages will be split evenly between them.

Key Fixes
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• Reworked "Field Cairn"s a bit
  
  • Can now be administered while you are on its plot, sparing you the trouble of walking up to it.
  • Can now be initiated for plot placement purposes without walking up to it.
  • Made them slightly easier to destroy.

As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch.

Today's Patch Item, for the fair price of $7, is the "Bomb Cap".

$7 Whatever else can be said about this cap, it is pretty clear that it is, indisputably, the bomb.

All Gold & Silver subscribers have been awarded the "Bomb Cap", free of charge.

In the Pipe
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• This is the last patch we'll make before the World 16.2 Launch.
• If "Mound Bed"s still have problems, I'd love to know more.
• Our primary development direction is toward object-controlled-objects.
• Time to... like us on Facebook?
• Time to... follow us on Twitter?

UPDATE YOUR CLIENTS... for the various changes to the Village/Realm UIs to work.

Enjoy!

[losexd]

cool

[Zentetsuken]

[Regulus2424]

I would have never guessed that the bomb part of the patch would be a fucking hat. Truly you are a master of ragebait.

[DDDsDD999]

Woah actually useful qol update

[Saxony4]

I take it this doesn't include being the Lawspeaker of multiple villages right?

[menillos]

i dont like this open borders propaganda

[Selles]

Love it!

[gravesmerch]

is it me only or the game window doesnt remember size very well, since a couple updates ago, you have to manually resize every time

seems Client.java never saves resizing because theres no resize events?

[Zephroze]

Would have been useful for Whatever Bay when it was still around but hey it shows promise for future megavillages to have better organizational methods