The advent calendar is now up, along with the usual Christmas shenanigans. I've also put up a +25% sale on Platinum on the store until the end of December. Special thanks to Steven for sorting out this years calendar, he also has a cool item he's going to be giving away as a prize for some sort of competition.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Ok, lets get this out of the way straight away.

Warfare: July - September 2016
1: Outcasts: 1,596,280
2: Dark Flame: 1,383,090
3: Blade of Dawn: 957,110
4: Chapter: 639,980

In other news, I've ditched the trophies on the gang list page for now as I always forget to update them. Could do with making the system for posting scores / changing trophies automated really.

Finally, I'm going to build some new test warfare maps. I'm out of ideas for layouts so suggestions would be nice. It's probably going to be dubbed "VR Training" or something, and I'm going to build it out of repeating tiles so I can switch the layout around to test different things without needing to draw all the art each time.

The game will be going down on September 22nd at 7:30am (EST) server time for the upgrade to PHP 7, this will likely take a couple of hours to complete and may require a period of testing after.

During this update the following additional changes will be going live:

[Changes by Aldo]

Links have been added for the following elements in the character sidebox:
a) Character image to character design page.
b) Level box to stat point allocation page.
c) Player flag to flag editor.
d) Energy count to Job Center or Observatory depending on level.
e) Credits count to Bank.
f) Tokens count to Casino.

The 'Hospital' quick link now has a real-time full heal convenience link appended to it like so: 'Hospital (Heal)'. Clicking Heal will attempt the appropriate heal for an avatar or non-av. It will be greyed out if you are already at full health or the hospital is closed and your level is within the range of 10 <= level < 80. This will see some further work soon to provide a better user experience for the real-time aspect.

Wasteland Quick Link also has an (Enter) / (Exit) convenience link, which show only if you're in a Gang.

Small "!" notification icons have been added to the following places:
a) The Hunting menu tab as well as Quick Link if you can hunt a special character.
b) The Community tab as well as Vote for Legacy quick link if you can vote again.

Player EXP in player profiles now have comma formatting.

Updated text in the Hospital for players < level 10. Used to read "..below level 5 we will make an exception", now reads "..below level 10".

Fixed incorrect birthday profile links in Online Now. Previously appended outdated querystring parameters, now it no longer does so.

Right, that's 4 volunteers I have working with me now. It's a bit strange but they already have changes ready to go live. Small fixes at first, breaking themselves in gently.

I've got a massive update to go live myself, that is the move from PHP 5.4 to PHP 7. This change should make the game run faster (PHP 7 is twice as fast) but will also likely break a lot of stuff. It'll also take a couple of hours of down time to put live so I'll probably schedule it for a few days time.

Complete list of changes from volunteer contributions will be incoming soon.