Another week, another blog!

So, who’s done what?

Blue Dwarf

He’s been swamped in coursework and other tasks from university this week. Sadly, he couldn’t do much in Star Sonata.

Jey

Jey has been busy fixing crashes on our live and livetest server.

Also, for our new server some updates! A lot of technical talk, but it comes down to this:

More automated stuff for backups/restarts, simpler commands and a better watchscript for restarts. Also, a new test server which  automatically updates/compiles.

Ryan

Ryan has been working on the webserver support for Steam checkout. There was also a bug with the Emperor’s Palace which has been fixed now. Furthermore, Ryan’s been discussing an interesting new concept with Yclepticon. I’m sorry, it’s a surprise! More about this in another blog.

Suit

I’ve been looking at possible droprates for the GB/NF player versions. What’s the droprate? A mission? A ship? I can’t say! You’ll see it when it’s implemented.

Jeff

Busy with Steam. Our Steam page is up for review at this moment.

Any other discussions?

We’ve had a few interesting discussions this week. I’ve summarized them for you guys.

Team score and BvB

Since the team scores are quite high to be able to BvB, we’ve had a discussion on lowering the team score required to be able to BvB. We’ve been thinking of a team score of 50 to be required.

Team skills

Similar issue as with the team score system. Since there are many strong teams, new and lower teams are having difficulty climbing up the ranks to become stronger and better. We’ve been thinking of the possibility of a new system which is less linear than the current one.

And we’ve had a short discussion on building indestructible bases and running for Emperor as devs. But I don’t think I should put that in here, I guess.. Oh well.

That’s it for this week! I’ll be back next week with more interesting news and discussions. This weekend I might be able to high five any Irish players around, since I’ll be visiting there friday-monday.

See you next week!