The Christmas event raid has finally left the building along with the advent calendar and joe's merchandise Christmas items.

rollin340's made some adjustments to our job system internally that makes things a bit better behind the scenes. This also came with some minor UI tweaks you'll notice on the jobs page.

I've added a Hall of Raids stats page with some basic information for now. It's currently accessible via Hall of Records or via the raids page itself (it's to the top right of the body content).

Some quick stats:

Average timing: 0 minutes, 47 seconds, 53 milliseconds across 181 players.
[matt770 in #1 with 7 seconds, 661 milliseconds]

16,685 completions recorded across 194 players.
[UnicornBob in #1 with 528 completions]

For our first ever raid (not counting the mini teaser raid that some of you went through with Ventrix back in summer), this was a pretty awesome event. I think barring some kinks here and there, and a LOT of code being pushed by me on a near daily basis throughout as I kept improving things, it was a pretty fun event. Look forward to more fun stuff in the coming weeks and year. This will be a very interesting year for the game!

~Aldo

Warfare results for the last round are shown below. I'm aware that some maps are more controversial than others and I'll try to minimise use of the ones that get a lot of hate. Having said that, some people do like this map and I'm not willing to drop anything from the rotation entirely at this point.

Warfare: September - December 2018
1: Blade of Dawn: 1,887,740
2: Outcasts: 1,634,140
3: Chapter: 992,560
4: Dark Flame: 715,880

I also recently joined the podcast for a New Year's Day interview, so check that out. I'd like to say a special thanks to all the voluntary developers (Not Aldo) who have contributed to the game over the last year. You guys are awesome! (Not Aldo)

The event raid will soon be leaving us come next Monday tick just as Zach announced in the podcast (right before the tick so no weekly reward =]).

This weekend will be the last weekend it'll be up. I would've ideally taken it down today/right after new year's but considering this is the first raid we've had + the final bonus trinket for some of the higher completion players, I thought I'd be a bit generous there

This will certainly return next Christmas. I'm also looking at the idea of having atleast 1 weekend a month be an event raid weekend where we pick one random event raid (hoping that we have more as the year goes on). It'll either be an event weekend or just one day dedicated to event raids and one day dedicated to challenge raids (the latter might be more of a weekly rotation).

That's all for now.

Happy new year to you and all your loved ones!

Welcome to 2019, hope you like it

~Aldo

The warfare switch will happen the morning of January 2nd this year, so only a day late. Have a happy new year!