Ice Ocean Updates and YPP Announcements

[Garibaldi]

Ice is the ocean that OOO uses to test new things or fixes for the production oceans. If you're a subscriber you can get access to Ice. You'll have to load a new client since it won't appear on your current log in screen.

On Ice you'll get a look at everything that's on the way to Midnight. OOO encourages pirates to play a little on Ice to find the bugs in the new programing.

The downside is that there are seldom more than a few people playing on Ice at any one time.

Ice Release June 18
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2009-06-18
Reserve Labor - Shoppes & Stalls can enable reserve labor - this allows employees to perform work ahead of time (either online or offline) which will be automatically applied to any future orders made at that stall/shoppe. Managers can adjust their reserve labor limits from the labor management interface. Buyers purchasing from a shoppe with sufficient labor to cover their order will see the delivery time as "Immediate" and will indeed be able to pick up their order any time after placing it.

Flag & Crest Tapestries can now be hung on the side of larger ships (such as in place of the white ones which are there by default.)

Blockade job offers will now show on all islands.

Move the Vote on Booty button onto its very own Ahoy panel.

Fix a bug where the total PoE shown for chests was reporting inflated values.

Display Chest counts on buried treasure expedition ahoy.

Adjusted the swordfighting background once again.

Replaced DnD icon with an image version.

Don't require subscriberness to invite someone to be your hearty

If a player vessel sinks in Atlantis/blockade/flotilla, a portion of the PoE aboard is lost rather than added to the sunken treasure on the board.

The Ahoy panel resulting from a /who now stays around until you close it.

Adjust the awarding of chests for puzzle performance - this should be a fairly minor change to the prior iteration, but does fix the bug that hid more specific award titles.

Added giving of loot (rat & furni) to the intro tutorial mission.

Adjusted the bilge clear sound.

Your ships are now highlighted with a bright blue outline on the Where are My Vessels display

Fix a bug in generating shop labor reports that could sometimes misreport labor remaining in queue.

Fix a bug where bots on tutorial missions constantly booch.

Fix a bug where Bumblebeard would take over the top right panel over top of the map.

If you are quickly entering/reentering the gunnery puzzle, don't repeatedly play the intro music.

Add a note pointing out that by logging on, you're agreeing to the Puzzle Pirate Terms of Service.

Note: Spanish language support is not yet fully functional though you will find it under options. Please do not yet report any bugs with this, as it is known to be significantly incomplete/incorrect.

[Garibaldi]

Reserve Labor - Shoppes & Stalls can enable reserve labor - this allows employees to perform work ahead of time (either online or offline) which will be automatically applied to any future orders made at that stall/shoppe. Managers can adjust their reserve labor limits from the labor management interface. Buyers purchasing from a shoppe with sufficient labor to cover their order will see the delivery time as "Immediate" and will indeed be able to pick up their order any time after placing it.
Yay!! Nice!!

Flag & Crest Tapestries can now be hung on the side of larger ships (such as in place of the white ones which are there by default.)
Another Yay!! I've removed some of the dirty white banners from some o' me war brigs already 'cause I thought nothing looked better that those. When I first started playing the banners were colored. I understand there are still some of those old ships on the ocean.

If you are quickly entering/reentering the gunnery puzzle, don't repeatedly play the intro music.
Thank God!! I didn't want to have to strangle anymore bots.

[Garibaldi]

2009-06-24

Add large display case furniture that holds up to 80 trinkets.

Add pirate bust furniture that can be inscribed with information about a pirate.

Add new clothing items for sale: savvy hat and captain's bandana hat.

Add new color: persimmon. The color isn't available for production in cloth yet.

Add rose, lavender, mint, light green, magenta, lemon, peach, and light blue as colors for gems on rings.

Log labor reserve changes to building records.

Increase maximum reserve labor to 8 hours as a factor of throughput from 6.

Fix logging immediately-completed orders to building records.

Fix the count of pirates on buried treasure expeditions.

Fix random chat being flagged as cursing.

Fix opening dialogs on the initial screen after selecting a pirate.

Fix the free portrait mission.

Fix Barnabas getting a woefully underskilled crew against some ship types.

[eminent]

The bust statue sounds cool. I'd love to see the captain's bandana... sounds interesting. The artists have done a good job with designing most of the clothes.

Didn't know you could bug Barney's crew like that. I wonder what kind of ship it is. *ponders hard*

[Garibaldi]

This doesn't really have anything to do with Ice. I just didn't want to start a new thread for it.

Read about the proposed family rated ocean, Crimson.

blog.puzzlepirates.com/spyglass/

Here's the forum chat about it.

forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=133866

[Garibaldi]

If ye were wondering about that update yesterday, here be wnat it were about.
• Add new family ocean, Crimson.
• Add new Spanish ocean, Jade.
• Add Reserve Labor in Shoppes & Stalls. This allows employees to perform work ahead of time (either online or offline) which will be automatically applied to any future orders made at that stall/shoppe. Buyers purchasing from a shoppe with sufficient labor to cover their order will see the delivery time as "Immediate" and will indeed be able to pick up their order any time after placing it.
• Allow flag & crest tapestries to be hung on the side of larger ships (such as in place of the white ones which are there by default).
• Add captain's bandana hat for sale.
• Add pirate bust furniture that can be inscribed with information about a pirate.
• Add large display case furniture that holds up to 80 trinkets.
• Add new color: persimmon. The color isn't available for production in cloth, paint or enamel yet.
• Show blockade job offers on all islands.
• Move the Vote on Booty button to its own ahoy panel.
• Display counts of chests foraged and chests available on buried treasure expeditions.
• Allow non-subscribers to make hearty invitations.
• Sink a portion of a vessel's eights along with the vessel when it goes down in Atlantis, blockades and flotillas rather than adding it to the sunken treasure.
• Give out the rat and furni with the tutorial mission.
• Highlight ships with a bright blue outline on the Where are My Vessels display.
• Stop playing the intro music in the gunnery puzzle for if it's reentered soon after it's been exited.
• Add a note that by logging on, you agree to the Terms of Service.
• Teach Sea Monsters to attack ships off the edge of the board (but not those in safe zones).
• Add rose, lavender, mint, light green, magenta, lemon, peach, and light blue as colors for gems on rings.
• Bugfixes:
o Fix inflated values being shown for total eights from chests.
o Fix the bilge clear sound.
o Fix a bug in generating shop labor reports that could sometimes misreport labor remaining in queue.
o Fix a bug where bots on tutorial missions constantly booch.
o Fix Bumblebeard taking over the top right panel of the map.
o Fix Barnabas getting a woefully underskilled crew against some ship types.
o Fix bonus moves returning if used when entering the citadel.
o Fix multiple waves attacking at the end of foraging rounds in rare circumstances in the gauntlet.

And this:

Reserve Labor

With today's release comes the first part of our ongoing salvo of changes to the Puzzle Pirates economy: Reserve Labor! Now, shops and stalls alike will be able to pool and store their employees' labor for use in instantly completing future orders! For more information about the nuts and bolts, check out the official documentation.

Note that as I previously mentioned on the Ice Discussion forums, while our intent is for the maximum labor reserve to use a constant multiplier for all shop types, for now, the labor reserve in tailoring shops and stalls is going to be be temporarily reduced to allow existing shopkeepers time to adjust to the new system. We will announce exactly when we intend to dial this rate back in line with the other industries on a later date.

We will be monitoring all aspects of the economy in the coming days to see how this new system is fitting in, but in the meantime, we'd be very interested in hearing your experiences with Reserve Labor, as well as any questions or comments you have on this exciting change! I've started a new Game Design thread for just such feedback right over here.

forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=131960

[Skevington]

I occasionally log onto the Ice Ocean to get a sneak preview of upcoming changes or to test things. To facilitate this, I made a crew there (the requirements to do so are toned down a bit compared to what is needed on production oceans).

The crew is of course not very active considering I'm it's only member and seldom play there. But, thought I'd mention it here in case anyone finds themselves wanting to check something out on Ice and would need to be an officer or whatever to do so. Open invitation to mates here, just let me know and you can join up.

[Garibaldi]

I have 2 or 3 pirates on Ice. We should make an appointment to meet there to crew up. Maybe some others would be interested also.

[Lailin]

Kewl I like to take a peek. Though in me case I am not sure how much help it will do me. But I would like to join ye.

[Skevington]

Great. My pirate on Ice is Skevington. He's not quite as cool as the Skevington you know and love here, but he's alright.

The crew is called Ice Oddity. Next time we see each other on we can log on to Ice as well and get the invites sorted, set you up as SOs so you can also extend the offer to others.

[Garibaldi]

2009-07-28 - "Who Moved My Cheese?"

•Play a celebration sound when ye are awarded a trophy or complete a mission.
•The rest of the /who panels should no longer auto-close.
•Add persimmon to available colors for prizes in Atlantis.
•Correctly note eights paid for jobbing on trade voyages to the vessel log.
•Rewards given in association with purchases and similar actions should now appear without requiring the player to logout.
•Various Spanish translation updates.
•Female version of the pirate bust furniture now available.
•In-game/active labor now provides up to 2 hours of labor per puzzle completed if you a) have 2 hours available and b) don't Booch it.
•New shoppe purchasing interface:
o Revamped the overall interface to focus on the selection of the product you want to buy.
o Purchasing now follows a more linear process - 1. Select a Product (top) 2. Customize the product (bottom left) 3. Select a Quote (bottom right).
o Products for some types of shoppe are organized into tabs of related items.
o Products with restrictions that ye don't meet (e.g. subscriber-only) are indicated by a lock icon. Products which have some special feature (e.g. able to store clothing) have an icon indicating this fact. Mousing over these icons explains the feature or restriction in detail.
o Managers are able to see recipes for products on mouse-over of the actual product.
o Managers (and only managers) can switch into local-only shopping mode to see availability and quotes only from their own shoppe.
o Products can now be delivered from the Items tab from yer pirate page. - Expect some more improvements to better alert ye about completed orders in the near term.

[Garibaldi]

Jul 29, 2009 15:10:31 GMT -8 Garibaldi said:

•Play a celebration sound when ye are awarded a trophy or complete a mission.

I always thought that part of the charm of trophy's was the mystery associated with them.

[Skevington]

Jul 29, 2009 15:13:27 GMT -8 Garibaldi said:

Jul 29, 2009 15:10:31 GMT -8 Garibaldi said:

•Play a celebration sound when ye are awarded a trophy or complete a mission.

I always thought that part of the charm of trophy's was the mystery associated with them.

I was interested to hear what the celebration sound was so I logged onto Ice for a listen. I wasn't expecting much, but I think it actually works into the game nicely.

Listen to it here.

[Lailin]

No way

[belly]

Jul 31, 2009 21:21:33 GMT -8 Skevington said:

Jul 29, 2009 15:13:27 GMT -8 Garibaldi said:

I always thought that part of the charm of trophy's was the mystery associated with them.

I was interested to hear what the celebration sound was so I logged onto Ice for a listen. I wasn't expecting much, but I think it actually works into the game nicely.

Listen to it here.

Interesting choice of reward sound. -_-