Week Starting 25th of July 2011

Monday:
Missions

Tuesday:
Missions

Wednesday:
Random bug fixes
More anti-cheat stuff

Thursday:
Woke up today to find my hard disk had died. Luckily I have everything backed up online, but it's still going to delay me a bit. Have to wait until tomorrow for a new disk to be delivered, and once that's in it's going to take a while to download all 51GB of data back on to it. There are still some bits a pieces for missions I can get done while I'm waiting however.

Friday:
New hard disk eventually arrived (was supposed to be before 9am but didn't get here until 3pm). Since then I've been fighting with the stupid online backup service's data restore process. Got the first 10GB of data, only for the software crash. After restarting the restore it went right back to the beginning >.< I'm now attempting another restore method. At this rate I probably won't have all my necessary files until the end of tomorrow. Unfortunately all of this is beginning to cut a serious hole in my schedule as there isn't much else I can do until my files have been restored. So looks like there is going to be a delay on the missions being released.

Saturday:
Managed to get my most important DF files downloaded overnight so was actually able to get quite a lot of mission stuff done today after all. Aiming to have something ready for GM's in the next few days.

Sunday:
Missions

Week starting 18th July 2011

Monday:
Missions

Tuesday:
Bug fixes
Took Nastya to see last Harry Potter film

Wednesday:
Was with Nastya in hospital most of the day. Not going to go into detail but was all fine in the end.

Thursday:
Tweaked exp again
Bug fixes
Missions

Friday:
Missions

Saturday:
Missions

Sunday:
Missions
Took Matty to the park

Week Starting 11th July 2011

Monday:
More bug fixes for anti-cheat

Tuesday:
Mission artwork specifications
Started mission programming

Just in case anyone is interested, here is a rough mock up of what the mission/event briefing screen might look like:



Wednesday
Mission system

Thursday
Mission system

Some of you asked about an ETA for the missions. I expect to have the core system finished sometime around the 25th of this month. Although, we wouldn't have any proper missions created, so I'd expect another week after that before we would have enough for things to be playable. So GMs should have access to some missions at the start of next month, and everyone else will get them a couple of weeks after that.

Friday
Mission system

Saturday
Mission system

Sunday
I'm spending today making some changes to the game.

- Made it impossible for other people to see your credits and inventory contents. This was a response to complaints about privacy.

- Raised the exp required for levels 30+. The sudden surge in the number of level 200 characters was a wake up call that the exp rate had gotten a bit too high. Once missions are released it'll be possible to gain even more, so something had to be done to stop the game getting too easy.

- Level 200s now have permanent access to the Dusk shop. This a response to complaints that anyone with a lot of real life commitments would never be able to dedicate an entire week to winning entry into the Dusk shop, and therefore would never be able to have the best equipment in the game. So instead it's now possible to eventually get the Dusk gear by levelling less frequently over a greater period of time.

Week Starting 4th July

Monday:
Anti-cheat continued

Tuesday:
Anti-cheat continued

Wednesday:
Anti-cheat finished =)

Thursday:
PvP kill logging
Bug fixes for Anti-Cheat

Friday:
Dentist appointment
Weight training
Bug fixes for Anti-Cheat

Saturday:
Bug fixes for Anti-Cheat
Mission system planning

Sunday:
Bug fixes for Anti-Cheat
Took son out for the rest of the day

Week starting 27th June 2011

Monday:
- Anti-cheat overhaul continued
- Went to little brother's family b-day party (yes two parties)

Tuesday:
- Anti-cheat overhaul continued *yawn*

Wednesday:
- Anti-cheat overhaul continued

Looks like anti-cheat is going to take a few days more than expected. So, might not be able to start on missions until around the 4th of July. (I said "start on missions" but actually I'm not doing it from scratch - I already did about half of the code for it earlier in the year)

Thursday:
- Took Nastya out for the day
- Weight training

Friday:
- Anti-cheat overhaul continued

Saturday:
- Anti-cheat overhaul continued

Sunday:
- Anti-cheat overhaul continued

Week starting 20th June

I've decided to note when I've spent a significant amount of time during a day not working on DF (2 hours or more). It's not much good saying "I worked on X" today, if it was only 20 minutes and the rest of the day was spent watching TV. So going to be adding some personal stuff in there too.

Monday:
- Finalized contracts with UltimatePay
- Planned anti-cheat overhaul

Tuesday:
- Started work on the anti-cheat overhaul

Wednesday:
- Added new payment system to replace BMTMicro (UltimatePay)

Thursday:
- Anti-cheat overhaul continued
- Went to little brother's sports day

Friday:
- Anti-cheat overhaul continued
- Weight training

Saturday:
- Anti-cheat overhaul continued

Sunday:
- Chaperoned little brother's birthday party

New weapons

We've just released a whole new bunch of epic weaponry. These powerful weapons can either be bought in the Credit Shop or looted in the end zone. In addition there are several new Dusk weapons available for those who win the weekly Top PK or Top Survivor competition. Go check them out at http://www.deadfrontier.com