Today, I have turned off register_globals in PHP. For those of you who don't know what this is you can find tons of stuff on Google about it. Back when I learned PHP in 3.0 it was accepted coding practice to use, after a string of security issues it became bad practice. Now in PHP 6.0 they plan to remove it completely.

I haven't coded anything with it for years but many old systems like Clans relied heavily on it. This has all been changed in recent updates. We were never directly affected by any security issues stemming from this feature but they were there, and had this game been open source they would have no doubt been exploited.

I have had it turned off on Dev now for a couple of weeks and all issues we found were fixed. No doubt we will of missed some things though. If you find any problems on main please report them in a ticket.

Added the 821 line update today, includes the final merge of clan forums in to the main forum system and various PHP changes. Nothing will be broken yet, but it is highly likely some things missed during Dev testing will break today as I switch off an old part of PHP.

The clan forum merge has been on my to-do list for like 2 years, just never got around to doing it as it was always pushed down for more noticeable changes. It added a lot to the clan forum functionality. Unread threads will be highlighted and view counts will be recorded just like the main forums, plus forum search is now available. It isn't perfect yet though, need to incorporate clan rank in to the side display next to posts and add the ability for clan leaders to change or disable the archiving of old threads.

This merging of systems will continue throughout the rebuild. For example, player search will be merged in to the attack player page in the next update... and made much easier to use!

Crazy staff drama has been delaying my work, updates are still coming. A huge amount of updates that will go totally unnoticed will be implemented in the next day or two. These are just to bring us in line with the requirements of the latest build of PHP.

The new attack system is making great progress, that should be up for testing on Dev soon. Everyone say hi to all the new staff we now have, and say farewell to those who have left us!

Photo Competition results are in! We have a few interesting entries this year ranging from lego to a lot of bullets... But myself and Zorg each gave a mark out of 10, so each photo had a marking out of 20. Only one entry was rejected because we couldn't guarantee its authenticity.

Results:
  1^st : faelust (200GP to Dark Flame, +4 Staff Favor and a new banner:)
  2^nd: Thanatos (50GP to Blade of Dawn and +3 Staff Favor)
  3^rd: Maurice (+2 Staff Favor)

Wiki: Legacy Photo Page

Thank you too that submitted entries this year, they're all very interesting.
Also if you're still after the rare banner please do not worry! We're having a flag competition in a few weeks and if you win that and already have this
banner: I will give you option to claim the bronze one!