Thanks to everyone who is helping test on the Development server right now, I'm running through the bugs as fast as I can. I'll be expanding the new combat system to handle hunting as well next week.

Most of the UI issues have been cleaned up. My main concern right now is the new combat equations and how they affect game balance / hit chances.

Keep reporting any bugs you find in my thread on the Development server Main Forum.

New combat is now live on the development server. It's quite buggy so will need lots of testing. I've already fixed decimal places in experience and the occasional granting of negative experience. I'm sure many more bugs will follow, message me on here or there if you find any. It doesn't currently work in hunting or warfare (properly).

Assuming nothing goes wrong the new combat system will be up on Dev tomorrow for testing. It will only include player vs player combat inside the hive at first, although adapting it for hunting should be pretty straight forward. Making it run through warfare without leaving the warfare page is a big job for another day.

It will take quite a bit of testing before I trust it enough to put it live on main, I hope you'll all agree it is a vast improvement over the old system once you see it though. It also uses new combat equations that increase hit chances and try to remove as much randomness as I dared remove.

For all the people wondering where the updates are, I'm still working on the combat system. At this point I wish I'd never started it, it's become such a massive project with so many other parts waiting on it. Ended up working on some side projects because I just couldn't stand to look at the code any more. I should have known better given that I had the same experience when making hunting, gangs, warfare, etc.

It's also really hard to concentrate on something you don't want to do when in an office full of people. These aren't excuses anyway, it should have been finished weeks ago.

For those blaming Hunted Cow for this, sorry but the blame lies with me. I'm their Senior Web Developer now and have freedom to work on pretty much whatever I want. If anything Hoofmaster has been pushing me to get this finished, it's just massive and incredibly complicated... I hate our combat system.