Forgot to mention, I will try to get the new map set up on January 2nd at 10am. This means that from 9-10am on that day there will likely be no map while I'm setting things up. I won't add a WTF mode because it's too much effort.

The HQ placements will be randomly picked (I'll ask Zorg to pick the numbers since I'm in a gang).

Hopefully everything goes smoothly.

The Santa's Workshop job has been released. It will stay until January 2nd. Help Santa make those toys for good boys and girls.

Also, I talked to Zorg about releasing the next map and he agreed. So we're gonna be playing on a new map called Pitstop that I made. It's pretty basic and uses the VR tileset, but should be cool to play on something other than the original 6 maps for a change.

Here it is below. If anyone has any criticisms about it, like balance or fun factor, make a thread in Main or something and I can have a look.

This is a multi-purpose blog. First I'll announce that the ghost/zombie, Stramineus, and Joe's Halloween items will be disappearing on the 10th. Hunt those ghosts while you can!

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Next, some small updates/bug fixes.

The padding on forum posts was bugged after the anonymous forum update. I fixed that (also added 10 px padding on top of forum posts, up from the 5px before. I think it looks nicer).

I added the active skills on a drone run on mouseover of the drones module and on the drone bays page.

I buffed the drone skill Evasion, so that it rolls Reliability * 3 instead of 2. With 25 Reliability, you'd have a 75% chance of evading danger, up from 50%. It was one of the least used skills, so hopefully this encourages more players to try it. Heavy Forcefield and Nanobot Repairs are also underused, but not sure how to go about buffing them.

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Finally, everybody go sign up in Wolf's Werewolves thread in Games Forum. It'll be fun, I promise.

The Halloween hunt groups have been released, as well as Stramineus the special NPC. Joe's Merchandise is selling Halloween themed stuff as well.

Happy Haunting!