Nice thing about installing it that way is that you immediately get the newest version every time; it automatically updates while we are working on it (which might break some stuff for a while, but at least you also have the latest features and bug fixes).

Hmm, not really. Strings (text) are a problem because it's a whole other language it has to match stuff to, and quite frankly it's a pain in the ass to maintain it on three different versions, especially because Omerta is changing so much at the moment that stuff breaks a lot and is different on each version, so we're focusing on .com for now until all the features are back again.

Ah, ok! Sucks that IRC is down though.

So, what did I miss?

Holy crap, you have an Omerta t-shirt?!? I'm still waiting on the one which was promised me for finding an exploit when doing alphatesting for 4.0...

If anyone was having problems with being logged out when looking at the inbox for unknown reasons, please try again now (after removing your cache and cookies), as that might have been fixed but I can't test being that I never had these problems myself.

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Look, it's almost like some of Beyond's features are working again!

We also had those topics when Kurosawa was the first (which is often, something worth giving credits for), so that doesn't even makes sense.

Don't know the reason why the topic was late, but I myself was at work all day. Anyway, it's there now.

Sorry but plugin-wise this new layout is really hard to make workable code for. We're thinking about rewriting it completely now (as we have wanted for 1.5 years or so), so we can make it proper from the start (and to filter out all the stuff we don't need anymore). This however, will also take a lot of time. We think about releasing a version for every feature we have implemented again to compensate this. We don't know exactly what we will do, but trying to fix our current code to work with the new layout will also take a very long time.

We might do something like an interview or so with him later if he's open for that. No, I actually wasn't sarcastic here. For example, last weekend we extended our logger quite a bit. We asked DrunkenGamer two years ago to add family rank in the API and asked others as well, but it was never done (partially also because DG left few months after that). We also asked Brando and others to increase the number of deaths we can log (which was 20, like ingame) so we wouldn't miss any when there was a big wave of a lot of akills, but again, nothing happened.

But now, this dev actually came to us one and a half week ago, just after the major bug which caused this reset. Not sure why he initially looked for us, but we've been talking with him ever since. He actually asked for permission to implement some Beyond stuff ingame a year ago or so, so we knew he was one of the devs but we didn't talk a lot with him yet. This time, we asked him to add that stuff on the API, and he fulfilled all our requests within two days. Thanks to him we now log family rank changes, a maximum of 100 deaths, the amount of active lackeys ingame, and the hitlist. And more will probably follow soon.

Credit where credit it's due; it's not often that I'm positive about the admins, but this time I am.

I know from a good source that devs are actually investing a lot of time in the game for this reset. I've been sharing a channel with a dev and regularly ask him how things are going, and I can see how hard he is working (and actually doing good things this time!). Hell, it even makes me want to play again.

We have not implemented such functionality there.

Gameplay should be drastically changed, then lackeys can go away again. Grinding is so old in (MMO)RPG's, no sane game designer still puts it into his games.

Oh god, I don't even...

If that's actual code they have (I guess they did because I reckon you reproduced the bug with that code) then the devs are even dumber than I ever thought.

php -r "print (int) '10+e6';"
10

PHP is just so damn broken...

Weird, 53% of our visitors voted for a reset, yet all the reactions I read here are negative.

So, I've just read the post Brando wrote today...

Now only one question remains:

What did the admins actually do or change? Seriously, what has been altered in the game or decided within the crew to:

- Fix the problem (they don't even state that they have fixed it).
- Prevent a problem like this to occur in the future.
- Fix the current unbalanced ingame economy (rollback or reset).

Seriously, lengthy posts full of ramblings are great, but I can't get from his post what they actually did in the past five days.

Yup, it's a really weird bug. "100+e6" or whatever is a perfectly fine number for PHP, so that's at least how it got through some of the checks. I guess they did use intval in their queries because that does (weirdly enough, but PHP is so insecure that it doesn't even surprise me) return 100 instead of 100 million, so in that way it also makes sense that only $100 is withdrawn from the user's account. What I don't get, though, is that all the same the maximum amount of an unsigned 32-bits integer is added as new money in the economy and used for the hitlist. Pretty irregular.

Or they just didn't include it in the mockup. To me that's the most likely scenario.

Or they altered the game in such a way that making a script for it is way more harder, but I don't think they are smart enough to design it that way.

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That one was also posted, that seems to be for the ingame version. They're going to roll that out to deathmatch soon, or so it was said on FB.

True, but the amount of new comments next to the articles would be nice as well. Gives the articles a sort of "unread" status. Which probably means more pageviews for us :+