It's finally hit home just how behind on work I've been getting recently. Player count is getting kind of low, I don't want to waste money on advertisement just yet. So I'm going to accelerate all the changes I had planned and get them out as soon as possible.

There are tons of things still on my to-do list that have been shifted to the bottom (eg. new gang icons and the staff system). I've also cancelled all my plans for the next couple of weeks. So this is happening, and it is happening soon. Sorry to those who don't like change, but it is coming and if you don't think this whole game needs an overhaul you may wanna take a look around.

I'll be saving up money to blow on advertisement once the changes are done, so if you wanna help the game go buy some subscription time now as it will all go straight to the advertising fund.

Just a short blog for those curious about the staff system I've been working on or those thinking of applying to become staff in the future. Here is a brief glimpse at the way staff see the game through the new remote control staff system or RC for short.



Lots of things are reported to this private staff chat. We watch signups, spectral items, tickets, side chat, the tick process and a whole manner of other events. Staff are required to be logged in to this seperate control panel whenever they are online and can be beeped in much the same way as Online Chat by other staff.

All bugs with the tick process are finally fixed, they were all the result of a few technical problems that occured during the move to our new web-server. Weekly rankings will now reset without issue and the Spectral item should despawn as intended.

Some updates are coming soon, right now I'm working on the staff system some more as there are still a few features that are not fully operational. Staff controlled IP bans and account Shrubbing will be added soon. I believe I mentioned that in a previous blog a while back.

A shrubbed account can login to the game for 30 days at the end of which period they are deleted, during their logins they can only access in-game messages and nothing else. This is intended to replace bans pending deletion and allow players to appeal impending deletion before it happens. Their character image is replaced by a small plant (or shrub) hence the name.

On a side note the below blog is true, long way off but true. Probably a mistake to post it on April 1st but I wouldn't do 2 jokes in 1 day. The gang scores for the previous 3 month period are displayed below, quite a turn around.

Warfare: January - March 2010
1: Blade of Dawn - 2,382,145 points
2: Outcasts -1,181,200 points
3: Chapter - 1,117,140 points
4: Dark Flame - 826,040 points

Congratulations to all involved, good luck with the next 3 months!