Patchday Notes 2016

Ahoy Pirates,

We had a few synch today,

· The Spy is live on all servers now and it is working fine. We will observe whether it will lead to performance problems or not. The worst case would be that the spy has to be deactivated again.
· The puzzle pieces and Skadi designs has been booked but unfortunately without gems. We will book the gems to the players inventory via a script, there is no other possibility!
· To see the gems in the inventory a logout and another login is needed. I will inform you when the gems booking is done.
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Your Seafight Team

 

Ahoy Pirates,

The script for the gem booking is done. Entries for the gem and for the skadi booking appeared in the logbook.

Your Seafight Team.

 

Ahoy Pirates,

The downtime for the US instances was to run the Boarding Items/Crewmembers compensation script and especially to check whether the script is working. As this has been done successful, we will run the script on all servers now, but this time a downtime is not needed anymore. The script for the Europe instances just has been started.

Your Seafight Team.

 

Ahoy Pirates,

The synch will be run tomorrow to get some bugs fixed. Here we go:

- Voodoo Pries Level 3: The run time was broken. It was connected to the premium run time, but should be a run time of 2 weeks at the maximum. This has been fixed for the future.

- White pages in the logbook: Sometimes a white page appeared when opening the logbook or the second page of the logbook. Fixed.

- Crew member: After firing a crew member it wasn’t possible to recruit him again: fixed

- Guild: Now it’s possible to leave a guild normally. Before it was only possible to leave a guild by getting dismissed. Fixed. ​

Your Seafight Team.

 

With all the queries regarding the level 3 voodoo priest, I have placed the information received from our Community Manager.

A voodoo priest should have a limited runtime. Generally the highest possible runtime is 30 days (voodoo priest by payment). There are onetime buyable voodoo packages containing the priest for 180 days or 360 days. These are the exceptions. Moreover you can drop the priest from crates, but not with a long runtime or so. However, the average runtime should be about 30 days. Even if it the average runtime would be longer, the most important fact is, that the runtime should expire! But this was not the case. The priest was bound to premium. In some cases the priest was much longer active than premium but the runtime did not expire anyway. Now, the runtime is bound to “active seconds”.


If a player receives the priest now, it will have a runtime which will expire. Player, who received the priest in the past for a long time, maybe don’t have the priest anymore because the real runtime expired in the past as well. Means, that all values in the database has been adjusted and corrected and that’s why those values has been converted to the runtime which should be taken into consideration from the beginning (in the past). Summing up this means that many, many players had the voodoo priest lvl 3 much longer on their accounts than they should have in reality.

 

As the fix with the Voodoo Priest Level 3 has caused a lot of confusion and many complaints, we have now set the voodoo priest back to before the sync.

However this matter will again be reviewed and we will inform you of any updates we receive.

 

Ahoy Pirates,

The restart today was for fixes needed. We have synched a fix for the Valentines Event Ranking and a fix for the ship equipment presets (problem with available but not visible sails on ships).

Your Seafight Team

 

Ahoy Pirates,

Today at 11:30, we had have a small maintenance on some servers.

Generally you players shouldn’t have noticed any changes, but it’s possible that some pirates would have small performance problems or login issues until 12:00 noon.

Your Seafight Team

 

Ahoy Pirates,

We have just synch the Wrath of Calypso Event so the synch was mainly for the event.

Additionally we involved small bugfixes like a wrong behavior when removing repair cannons and multiple buy-able Ebony Decks.

Your Seafight Team

 

Ahoy Pirates,

The problem with lost League points is almost fixed, so we will update the version soon. All the disappeared guild points will appear back on accounts after the synch, we have planned for hopefully this afternoon.

The next step will be to make the guild working again as before, but this can take a bit more time that the League System.

Your Seafight Team.

 

Ahoy pirates,

We have just started the countdown to the sync expected today. We are hoping to have all the updates as previously posted running after.

Your Seafight Team.

 

Ahoy Pirates.

As the most of you already realised, none of the announced new features are live. They have been synched but they will be activated tomorrow. As we need another synch for the new Ship Castle move, we just decided to active the new features tomorrow morning after the next synch.

The synch tomorrow morning - will be done to move the “Ship Castle” from the “Shipyard-Menu” to the “Cabin-Menu”.

Attached is a screenshot, so you can see the change for yourself in advance.

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Your Seafight Team

 

The restart is for a small sync.

We will just synch some small bug fixes to the Internal Home Slideshow (for the US instances), so the US player can use it as well. Furthermore we will implement some localization corrections.

 

We are about to do another restart. We are going to try to activate the Hall of Fame, but if the HoF will not start after the restart, then we will stay without this until next week

 

Today we run the compensation script for the lost ELP/League Points that were lost a while ago.

The first step was to recover all the League Points to affected players accounts which we had in the backlog and the second step now was to run a script to book League Coins for the League Points we weren't able to recover.

Therefore all affected players received 5 League Points.

The script has been executed about 3 hours ago. So this issue is now solved.

 

Finally our devs are able to fix the mini game bug, but there’s a small technical issue to be adjusted.

However, we will synch tomorrow noon to get the fix live.

 

The reason for the synch on the 7th April was due to the Broken skill tree – causing a white site when resetting the skill tree

Status: Fixed



We had to restart 2 times to get the fix live. We apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

 

Ahoy Pirates,

With the synch on Wednesday we have implemented

Update/feature

New Groupsystem Window.

Bugfix

Skilltree - Player should only be able to place points in the aforementioned skills, if the correct dependencies have been fulfilled.

Your Seafight Team

 

Ahoy Pirates

The synch today was to get the following fixed:

Bug Fixes:

- Gold ammunition triggers pearl deduction as logbook entry, but gold is deducted (so, visual error only)
(The old logbook entries will stay unchanged but new entries will be show the correct currency now)
- Purchases from website are not updating the currency stocks in client: ​

Many more issues being reviewed at this time and when we get information they will be posted.

Your Seafight Team.

 

Ahoy Pirates,

This evenings synch was a fix for this market place bug, which deducted pearls from players accounts.

Your Seafight Team