Pirates IRC OCT'17 Changelog

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October 2017 Changelog

31Oct
Changes:
Increased leveling requirements for master pirates onboard Mousey McMouseface
Added new monsters for today
Monster encounters will not occur unless sailing except during parties, captain commands, or admin commands
Barbossa will now always be captain of the bot ship, Queen Anne's Revenge
Fixes:
In some cases, ships can take over a port even when another ship is docked at the same port
Sabotage vote is stopped when other ship sails away
30Oct
Changes:
Cleaned up !Pirates INFO in certain situations
Player command Database optimizations
Increased cooldown between captcha questions per player
29Oct
Changes:
Reduced onboard crew requirement for an epic monster attack to occur
Waiting to level up messages now will occur no sooner than 2 hours
Added a new ship (game instance) on Abjects @ #detox
Added infect player task
Reduced investment player task
!P Code will ignore answer and <answer> in responses
Removed sailing cooldown when moored at a cell/grid
Fixes:
Cap'n could not sail after losing a port duel in some instances
Ability to dig when not moored or anchored
27Oct
Changes:
!Pirates Crabbin cooldown be halved on Fishin' Fridays
26Oct
Changes:
Ports declaring independence has been reduced
Ship tasks will now be reduced every 10mins vice 20mins
Fixes:
Crew rewards were not being shared among the crew in some instances
Gender will be shown for pirates who pay for spouse shopping when returning home
Successful mass find rewards now be shown in the channel for ship instances where game messages are reduced
Purchasing black powder gives the sharpen sword confirmation message
Coin, herb, and poison will now properly state when not in stock or carried in the market
24Oct
Changes:
When answering captcha correctly, players now be rewarded
21Oct
Changes:
Added additional help message for unknown commands to the Captain
Captains can no longer remove pirates from the brig who flooded the ship
Added cooldown for !Pirates Captain Share
Anti Bot (captcha) enabled on Mousey McMouseface
Fixes:
!Pirates Ship Info fixes
Message is now shown when trying to duel the bot when you are hurt
Captain help no longer shown in !Pirates Captain Stats
19Oct
Changes:
Increased leveling requirements for landlubber and master pirates on Mousey McMouseface
Fixes:
Crew sailing time is now correct
Players who are not "awake" and then perform a !Pirates command will now receive the msg from the bot as if they were awake
18Oct
Changes:
Increased chance for ports to declare independence
17Oct
Changes:
Increased leveling requirements for landlubber and master pirates on Mousey McMouseface
Fixes:
Players who are not "awake" and then perform a !Pirates command will now receive the msg from the bot as if they were awake
16Oct
Changes:
Added additional internal info msgs
Fixes:
Favor will now be shown in !Pirates Info and !Pirates Top for captains who are not the richest pirate
15Oct
Changes:
More info added when receiving a rare weapon
Fixes:
Ship has departed <PORT> messages when the both ships are not at the same port
Miscellaneous random event port messages
Players not able to answer captcha when overboard, trapped in a barrel, or a zombie
Players did not receive rare weapons in their chest in some instances after catching them with !Pirates Cast
Players were determined as inactive and deleted from the game
14Oct
Changes:
The crew will now like the Cap'n more if a random good sailing event occurs (+1% increase)
The crew will now dislike the Cap'n more if a random bad sailing event occurs (-1% increase)
Disabled sail command when waiting on the Cap'n to decide on raiding a port.
Added additional captcha checks
Players being checked by captcha will no longer be counted as active (awake)
Fixes:
Messages to the Cap'n notifying about requests
Player cannot play games from the brig messages
Negative captcha subtraction questions
13Oct
Changes:
Reduced personal quest task for level 10 pirates
Adjusted readability of !Pirates Bounties
Increased cannon damage during epic monster attack
Health is now shown in !Pirates Stab (during epic monster attack)
Fixes:
Captain task: port duel now specifies the duel must be vs a pirate captain from another ship
New day starts in: XXXX
Bot will no longer be duped in !Pirates Level
Bot will no longer want to see a troll fer ships with a crew too low or too high of a level.
Duplicated rank name in !P Info <player>
12Oct
Changes:
Adjustments to Anti-bot to reduce the frequency of captchas
11Oct
Changes:
Players granted revenge will now receive a random dueling power bonus
Fixes:
Typos
10Oct
Fixes:
Fixed treasure map hint for "northeastern part o' gulf of mexico"" to "northwestern part o' gulf of mexico"
Sailing times to cells/grids will now be shown
Additional fixes for sailing to cells/grids
09Oct
Changes:
Captains now have the option to moor at neutral ports wit' !Pirates Ignore when queried to raid
Fixes:
Some commands (!P OPTION/!P OPTIONS) registered as two different commands in !P RUSTY. The code has been fixed, but the !P RUSTY dbase will not be corrected until next round.
08Oct
Changes:
Added a random cooldown when dueling the bot
Added cooldowns for weapon purchases in the store
Added daily limits to certain store purchases (gender, spouse, custom weapons, etc)
Fixes:
Pirate level times/doubloon requirement onboard the bot ship, Queen Anne's Revenge, now be shown as never
Fixed certain player names not being shown in !P Top Today lists
07Oct
Changes:
Hall of Famers will now start a new round with less doubloons
Captcha questions will now be refreshed periodically
Adjusted anti-bot code which will increase captcha queries to users, but should catch players using scripts/timers
Increased hall o' famers power handicap http://tiny.cc/PirateDifficulty
Players in the brig will no longer be subject to "random events"
Banned (+b) players will be notified they will be unbanned
Increased punishment when banning/!KB of other players
Increased leveling requirements for The Elite
Fixes:
Hall of Fame players will now receive correct player tasks when starting a new level
Live map will now be triggered to update when a port changes factions http://tiny.cc/PiratesLive
The "Crew Sail" command now accepts sailing to cells (grids)
Bots that are "players" will no longer be banned when !KB is used
06Oct
Fixes:
Fixed task bug for players 6+ that prevented fish and/or Love/Hate tasks not being able to be completed. Added new checks to prevent further bugs of this instance
Voyage time missing during a crew sailing event
Corrected difficulties in generated Hall of Famer (website)
05Oct
Changes:
player who ban other players will now receive increased punishment for each consecutive banning
!kb (on some instances) now be punished the same as banning a player
Fixes:
Bot times out when starting a game of HiLo
04Oct
Changes:
Buffed chance to hit epic monster wit' !P Defend Fire
03Oct
Fixes:
Fixed !Pirates Top Today <charver,commands,dig,duels,fish,rob,work>
Disease durin' a random event corrected fer players level 22+
In some cases, players who failed a ship sabotage and were caught were deducted too much doubloons
01Oct
Fixes:
Clarified messages when unable to sponsor a pirate
Ship messages when using the market when sailing