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Updates

• All regions now have an Appeal rating, which influences where NPC's will choose to move. Appeal defaults to zero for all regions, can be negative, and has no set limits as it is evaluated as a relative score. When an NPC decides to move, they will only consider regions with higher appeal than their current region.
• Added an Appeal modifier to all climate zones, which will establish the base appeal for a region. Climate zones are assigned to regions when they're added to the game and are based on an average of the equivalent real-world location's typical climate.
• Added an Appeal modifier to all Infrastructure which is applied to the region when the Infrastructure is completed (modifiers for existing Infra have been manually applied). Appeal modifier ratings will be made available along with other Infra details in the new documentation module as time allows.
• Damage added to battles by Defence Systems should now be correctly identified instead of appearing as 'mystery damage'. The display of this information will be further tweaked over the next few days as NPC Uprisings take place.
• Company messages are now shown on the dashboard work widget, making them useful/visible to workers again.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a database issue preventing Average Production Costs above $9.99 from being saved.
• Fixed a bug preventing Tier 5 goods from having an Average Production Cost.
• Fixed several bugs with NPC combat.
• Fixed 'Total Weekly Profit' never actually being calculated on CEO page.
• Fixed some resources never being highlighted on Resource Marketplace, even if companies require them (eg Chocolate for T3 Food).
• Power companies no longer require/use power. CEOs of power companies that have already purchased power may request a refund by raising a ticket. Please note due to my current real-world commitments, these requests may take time to be processed.
• Fixed only the first six results on any marketplace being visible.

 

 

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Current limitations to NPC fighting:

• NPC's will always fight as Infantry (requires NPC military training and Traits systems to be completed)
• NPC's will not gain Wounds, and thus require no First Aid pool (will be enabled once NPC's are able to act as Medics)
• NPC's will fight once per day with 10 attacks (may be adjusted in the future)
• NPC's do not gain Combat XP and thus will not increase in military rank (will be completed in a future update)
• NPC actions on the battlefield will probably be messed up (will be fixed over the course of the next few battles)

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Updates

• NPC's no longer generate CEO alerts when they accept a job offer, as this was far too spammy.
• NPC's with low health will now attempt to use medicine to recover their health, regaining 5 health per Tier of medicine consumed.
• NPC's are now able to buy most consumer goods, and will try and maintain a minimum inventory as the market and their bank balance allows.
• NPC's now have a random chance to incite an uprising. An NPC can only start an uprising if they hold citizenship for the conquered nation, and only if there are no other uprisings in progress.
• NPC's will now fight in battles occurring in their current region that affect their citizenship nation. This feature will receive additional updates and balancing over the next week, as it will require live battles to completely implement.
• It is now possible to deposit/withdraw currency to your companies directly from the new CEO manager. To withdraw currency, simply click the desired currency balance in the Company Cash widget.
• Added a new Power widget to the CEO Manager, making it much simpler to manage your companies power needs.
• It now only costs 5 VBX to move a company internationally. Company moves within the same nation are now free.
• The Move Company page now shows the nation each region is currently controlled by.
• Added a new Companies Needing Attention widget to the dashboard. If you are a CEO, your Secretary will alert you to any company that is not currently functional, due to a lack of either cash, power or raw material (RM). These alerts will be automatically cleared by either depositing cash or purchasing the required RM/power.
• CEO's can now quickly purchase resources direct from the Tier widgets in the CEO manager. Simply click any resource icon to purchase that resource from the company's local market.
• When a citizen tries to work, but the company does not have sufficient RM, only job offers from the affected tier will be removed.
• Added a Send PM button back to Citizen profiles. Please note this button will ONLY be shown if the citizen has setup their forum account.
• Removed the notice informing users when their daily login reward was ready. This was intended as a temporary work-around to manually trigger daily rewards during a very old bug, and has not been needed for quite some time.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a typo breaking the entire Purchase Orders page.
• Having more than 5 consumables should no longer stretch the consumables widget, breaking the header UI.
• Removing your avatar on the website will now correctly sync to the game.
• Fixed a bug causing NPC's health and happiness to decrease at exponential rates.
• Fixed a bug that could potentially cause negative sales tax to be charged to the nation, when players or NPC's purchased imported goods.
• Fixed a display bug on the battlefield causing Battle Modifiers to be loaded for the opposing side, instead of the side the player is fighting on.
• Fixed an intermittent PHP error in the War Room.

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NPC Purchases was an easy fix actually, so the 100 minimum should be applied universally now.

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21 hours ago, darki said:

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11 hours ago, Zoltan said:

No prob m8, ok sounds good, though perhaps we will need some more exact caps, I'm thinking of the human players.
Say I want to employ 3 humans no more no less, for that we'd need to be able to set either the number of npcs or humans?

If you only want to employ 3 humans (without considering NPC's), you'd just set 3 job vacancies like normal and set the NPC shift cap to whatever. If you ONLY want to employ 3 humans (and no NPC's), you'd list 3 job vacancies like normal, and set the "max NPC shifts" to 0.

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4 hours ago, Zoltan said:

Ah thanks man, a question though, so is this a cap on the shifts or the number of workers now? Or sorta both?

Sorta both in some respects, but mechanically it only limits the number of times NPC's can work for you each day. It's possible to have more NPC workers than you're allowing shifts - but then, the NPC's who aren't able to work will get unhappy and eventually move to a different region (currently this is the only thing that'll cause an NPC to leave their job).

1.4 changelog is still coming sometime this week. IRL is extremely chaotic for me at the moment though so I'm not sure how much longer it'll be.

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1 hour ago, Zoltan said:

I was just looking for the way to set the cap for NPC workers but I can't find it, can you point me there Xav?

CEO Manager -> Edit Company -> "Max NPC Shifts Per Day".

Currently you might still end up with (many) more than that employed by your company, but only that many of them will be able to work on any given day. There's currently an issue where they'll take a job even if they're not able to work (due to low health etc).

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Click on the currency you'd like to withdraw in the Company Cash widget. A changelog should be up either later tonight or sometime tomorrow outlining this and other recent changes.

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5 minutes ago, darki said:

I removed my avatar from the forum but he stayed in the game, is there any sync address or does it happen automatically after some time period

It wasn't setup to sync removing avatars. I've fixed that oversight, it should sync up next time you login to the game.

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Found it, there was an obscure setting to hide posts with URL's. I've updated this to whitelist any vnations.net URL's.

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5 minutes ago, darki said:

thanks for fix

btw when I wrote the comment it was again ''hidden'' although it was not the first

Yeah I'm not really sure why that happened. I've double checked the permissions, and content should only be hidden for users in the New Members group. I guess it's possible it was held for approval due to the URL, but I can't remember seeing any option for that.

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20 hours ago, darki said:

''A purchase order for 20000 iron has been issued by the government!'' the law has been passed  but when i go to https://play.vnations.net/market.php?show=orders  there is nothing here

Fixed, thanks for the report.

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I've just identified a configuration error that has caused several backend scripts to fail since the move to the new server. This has affected several things including elections, law proposals, sporting events, daily raffle and several maintenance scripts (primarily statistics updates). This has been fixed, and any backlogged tasks should clear over the next 24 hours.

Regarding elections, there will be significant changes to the election module in game version 1.4, expected later this month. When this update is released, a fresh election cycle will commence for all elected roles. More details will be posted on how this will work in the coming week.

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Updates

• CEO's can now set a cap on the number of NPC's that can work for their company each day. Once this limit is reached, existing NPC employees will be unable to work, and other NPC's will no longer accept job offers. Maximum NPC shifts defaults to 10, and can be adjusted via the Edit Company button in the CEO Manager. Daily NPC shift quotas reset at DayChange (Midnight UTC).
• NPC's no longer consume job offer slots. A company must still have suitable job offers with available slots for an NPC to accept a job.
• NPC's now gain additional discontent if they are unable to work for any reason, increasing the chance they will quit their job and move regions.

Bug Fixes

• Major code cleanup. Many minor bug fixes/code optimizations across the site.
• Fixed an issue causing error messages to not always render properly when trying to consume books.
• Cleared outdated avatar info from citizen accounts. Avatars are now handled exclusively through the forums - you must link your game/forum account, and then simply set your avatar here and it will sync to the game.
• Fixed an error preventing CEO's from seeing the performance stats of their NPC workers.
• Fixed a bug preventing CEO's from seeing more than the last 7 shifts of a worker, instead of all shifts in the last 7 days.
• Fixed a bug allowing NPCs to work with 0 health/happiness. NPCs will now only attempt to work if they have at least 50 happiness and 25 health.
• Fixed a bug breaking most of the Housing page.

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2 minutes ago, darki said:

it will be good to have part of this message visible on the page when someone tries to log in  or when he sees a blank page

Good point...although the game is now running on the new server, transfer went a lot smoother than expected. I'll move the forums over after getting some sleep.

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On 4/22/2021 at 10:06 PM, darki said:

I encountered an old bug, I work in spice company (2pp for 1 spice) I have productivity something around 570pp get around 285 spice which is normal  but in the region  are disappearing 570 spice this bug was fixed  but it seems to have reappeared now probably the same is with saltpeter companies

btw sometimes when I clicked the work button once it turns out I worked 2 or3 times with one click sometimes the same is with military training

That's not actually a bug. Since the last RM update, the PP of any RM essentially shows its "rarity" - it takes 2 spice "in the ground" to produce 1 usable spice. Rarity is probably not the right word here, maybe difficulty is more accurate, but hopefully you get my meaning.

Regarding the double-click issue, this is a long standing bug that I haven't been able to isolate yet. A few people have reported it from time to time, I can never reproduce it, and there doesn't seem to be any pattern to browsers being used or anything else. I'm not even really sure how to troubleshoot an issue like this to be honest.

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There'll be no update this week. I'm still working on things in the background, but it'll be next week before the next update is officially posted.

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It was a little tricky, because the NPC's look for any tier they can use. For example if an NPC is at 98 health, they'll waste part of a T3 food, so they check the market for any T1/T2. I've updated the limit check so it takes this range into account - so in this example, there'd need to be at least 200 food (in either T1 or T2). This should generally result in the NPC's respecting tier limits properly, although there may be some instances where an NPC may eat a T1 food, despite there being less than 100 T1 food (but only if they're looking for more than T1, T1 is the cheapest, and there's more of other tiers).

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Updates

• Updated the layout of the CEO page, to make more commonly used actions easier to access.
• Began adding Discord WebHooks to the game engine. Certain game actions (such as Uprisings) will now trigger discord messages on the official vNations discord.
• Updated the region page to the new UI style, making more information more easily available.
• War Reports on the region page will now only show battles started within the last 90 days.
• Players who have their discord connected on the forum will now receive automatic access to the private chat for their nation on the official vNations discord.
• Doubled the rate of AP generation, to +1 AP every 6 minutes. Player feedback is encouraged as we tweak the AP rate in this and future updates.
• Started updating the UI of the Battlefield, although there's still more work to be done here.
• Increased the minimum food/drink on the market for NPC purchases to 100 due to player feedback. Please continue to provide feedback if this continues to affect player options so it can be further tweaked.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing most random events to never trigger.
• Fixed a bug causing Power to be removed from the market if there have been no sales for 14 days. (This old 'feature' was previously removed from all other industries, but was still affecting Power).
• Fixed a bug preventing CEO's from firing NPC workers.

Known Issues

• 520 errors are still occurring. We are well aware of how annoying these are, and are continuing to investigate this ongoing issue. Recent changes may result in a blank white page being displayed instead of the CloudFlare 520 error.

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1 minute ago, darki said:

something is wrong , I just logged in and at the bottom of the page I see an inscription :

 

: Uncaught InfluxDB\Exception: cURL error 7: Failed to connect to localhost port 8086: Connection refused (see https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html) for http://localhost:8086/write?db=vnations&precision=s in E:\web\vnations\vendor\influxdb\influxdb-php\src\InfluxDB\Database.php:177 Stack trace: #0 E:\web\vnations\vendor\influxdb\influxdb-php\src\InfluxDB\Database.php(142): InfluxDB\Database->writePayload() #1 E:\web\vnations\common\pageend.php(31): InfluxDB\Database->writePoints() #2 E:\web\vnations\public\dashboard.php(346): require_once('E:\\web\\vnations...') #3 {main} thrown in E:\web\vnations\vendor\influxdb\influxdb-php\src\InfluxDB\Database.php on line 177

Sorry, I'm doing some work on the server at the moment. There might be more temporary errors over the next hour or two.

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That'll be why then, its 50 offers across the market. Although it should be taking tier into account, I'll get that fixed in this weeks update.

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1 minute ago, darki said:

I put it on the market 49 t1 and 49 t2 food both offers disappeared after less than minute I put the same thing again and they disappeared again I thought the minimum NPC don't buy is below 50 but it doesn't seem to be

btw this minimum is too small it must be at least 200-300

Were there other offers on the market?

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A bug was identified today with the new NPC systems, that was causing some NPC's to generate negative productivity in error. This bug affected around 300 individual work shifts, and appears to have been triggered in part by the host company running out of power. This bug was fixed as quickly as possible, and all affected companies have had their bugged production queues reset. As the bug appeared to be in part triggered by the company running out of power, it is not believed any company 'lost' power as a result of this bug.

Due to the nature of the bug, any building/manufacturing company affected will find they now have more RM than previously. While it would be technically possible to calculate the bugs effects on company RM, it was decided not to do this, and instead consider this partial 'compensation' for this bug. In addition to fixing the underlying bugs and adding protections to prevent similar issues in the future, bugged NPC's will attempt to make up for their errors. When an affected NPC next works for the company they affected, they will be paid $0 (regardless of minimum wage), and will have double the normal productivity. These conditions will be applied once per bugged work shift, and only where the bugged NPC is working for the same company they originally affected.

My apologies to anyone inconvenienced by this error. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to drop a reply or reach out privately to discuss further.

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9 hours ago, kondon said:

NPC's have negative productivity. Is this planned?

I have negative products and power because of them...

No, this was a bug (now fixed) with the NPC workers.

All negative production queues have been reset, although you'll still see negatives under "Last Prod" for affected NPC's until they next work (bug was fixed in the last few minutes, so any work shift before now may've been affected).

On the plus side, a side-effect of this particular bug is for manufacturing/building companies, the NPCs will have been "producing" free RM.