Thanks guys... as always most of it's down to great suggestions from everyone here.

That last update was very tedious and time consuming due to a complete rewrite of the history log generation code so I'm looking forward to implementing some fun new features :)

Good idea about the buttons on the Trade Cards prompt asm.

asm wrote: ...And perhaps the most incredible part of all - you have this ability to see through all the chaff, the dozens of suggestions you get, and cut right down to the very most awesomest improvements and just add those.

This.

Can't be overstated how important this is for a site developer, the ability to say no.  Well not just the ability to say no, but the ability to not randomly or perversely say no, but to say no after weighing the various suggestions for improvement on merit and not ego.

You know it's funny, that 'other website' had the surprise reappearance of 'he-who-shall-not-be-named', and he started a lovely hi-back-whatya'll-want thread.  Two months later the most basic concept... adding a link to the frickin' forums to the site has still not been done.  Unbelievable.  Sorry I digress...

EDIT: Thought better of a hijack, this thread is supposed to be official something or other. Let's gossip somewhere else!

tom wrote:

27/01/2010    Added new in-game message notification icons to game list, game view and game player pages

Before I complain, I must say I'm very impressed with the recent updates and THANK YOU!!! buttttttttt you added a column to show new messages (i assume, its maked with a envelope) this column doesn't seem to actually do anything. The flashing New Message at the top works fine for me and I love it, so maybe we could remove the nonfunctioning column?

Yes, there is a bug there which I should have fixed today.

01/02/2010    Fixed bug where rankings on home page did not take into account G rating when players have matching championship points
01/02/2010    Fixed bug - game ratings indexed at 1 # 1 for all ratings
01/02/2010    Fixed bug http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/503/History_viewer_bug#post_3
01/02/2010    Fixed bug http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/487/Broken_Board_Links_From_Profiles
01/02/2010    Added preference to turn on / off display of forum signatures
01/02/2010    Player - Reduced information in Info tab in Player to match that on game view page for Standard members
01/02/2010    Player - added player name to territory tooltip
01/02/2010    Player - Added 'Trade / Play' buttons to card set notification popup
01/02/2010    Player - Added number of Placements / Attacks / Fortifies to phase change buttons

Love it love it love it. Thanks!

tom wrote:

01/02/2010    Player - Reduced information in Info tab in Player to match that on game view page for Standard members

 

:( Now I have to count by hand and play with a notepad and a pen

Magpie wrote:

tom wrote:

01/02/2010    Player - Reduced information in Info tab in Player to match that on game view page for Standard members

:( Now I have to count by hand and play with a notepad and a pen

Yeah, I'm also sad to see this decision was made

What was cut out?

tom wrote:

Good idea about the buttons on the Trade Cards prompt asm.

Problem: You can easily screw things up. I clicked on the Trade Cards button but decided not to trade cards, now I can't play my turn without reloading the Player. Once you click away from the Cards screen the action message line still says "select 3 cards to trade," I can place my armies but I can't Apply the placement or advance to the Attack phase.

stop breaking shit asm ;)

I just do it early & on purpose because somebody will inevitably find a way to do it later by accident. I'm saving them the trouble.

asm wrote: What was cut out?

For Standard members, the Info tab now contains the same level of information as the game view page - i.e. just player / reserves / card / status fields.

The extra stats like number of territories / continents / bonuses are not there any more.

03/02/2010    Fixed bug in displaying new messages icon in games list
03/02/2010    Fixed bug where ranking score was not displayed correctly when playing a game on a retired board
03/02/2010    Fixed bug relating to returning to Placement phase from Fortify (was incorrectly allowed in some circumstances)
03/02/2010    Player - Fixed bug where clicking on 'Trade Cards' then trying to place units failed as buttons were not visible

There's still a problem with the way the ratings (reviews) are being displayed which I'll look at tomorrow.

10/02/2010    Added link to review board to game elimination / win emails
10/02/2010    Added new layout settings page - this allows the addition of quicklinks to the board design and review pages
10/02/2010    Updated vacation settings page to allow ending of vacations early
10/02/2010    Updated autoboot / autoskip code to respect player's timezone when calculating vacation setting
10/02/2010    Blocked players from joining or creating games when they are on vacation
09/02/2010    Added hours and minutes to display of turn waiting timer
07/02/2010    Fixed bugs where it was possible to abandon capital when doing an attack / auto transfer with abandon revert on

tom wrote:

10/02/2010    Added new layout settings page - this allows the addition of quicklinks to the board design and review pages

Those are cool!

tom wrote:

09/02/2010    Added hours and minutes to display of turn waiting timer

Not sure how anyone else feels on this, but I think this might look better in "Days:Hours:Minutes" format.

12/02/2010    Designer - Added resizing code to the html which launches the Designer - should help eliminate annoying vertical scrollbars
12/02/2010    Designer - Updated continent value to +-200 when setting AND editing
12/02/2010    Designer - Increase Scenario initial unit limits to +500
12/02/2010    Designer - Added keyboard handler to accept enter key when adding / editing continents
12/02/2010    Designer - Added 'Tether Mode' for border addition / modification
12/02/2010    Designer - Added progress bar to board saves to prevent problems with duplicate records being added
12/02/2010    Designer - Updated board upload / download / delete popups to automatically close once action has completed
12/02/2010    Designer - Added tooltips for territory information
12/02/2010    Designer - Added x,y positioning info to make aligning territories easier
12/02/2010    Designer - Automatically generate default territory name if it is left blank
12/02/2010    Designer - Added Dual Layer and Custom Fog image support

See forum thread for more on Dual Layer / Custom Fog image support.

12/02/2010    Player - show board information immediately after elimination
12/02/2010    Player - Fixed bug when clicking on pop up trade cards box - http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/529/You_have_a_set_of_cards_to_trade#last