Space Freight :: Changes

2010/02/28
1. Various minor changes.
2009/07/21
1. Log messages and news items and system messages older than one week will be deleted as will all messages sent to yourself.
2. Slight change on the chat page.
3. A third minigame. Simply visit it and you have a 75% chance of getting a token.
2009/07/19
1. Added a human verification page. It appears when you perform certain actions, but only every half and hour at the most.
2009/07/17
1. A few minor layout and colour changes.
2. The raid page has been improved.
2009/07/15
1. You only get 10 tokens each day. And only if you have less than 15 tokens already.
2. Some planets will get a mini game or similar:
  - One planet has a games arcade.
  - One planet has a mini "pet" game.
2009/04/14
1. Fixed the colour for the amount of fuel on "My Ships" page.
2009/03/03
1. Finally fixed the lottery page to stop you buying more than one ticket.
2. Casino tokens now roll over for 3 days.
3. Finally updated lottery winners list.
4. New game in the casino.
5. You now have a forum signature (options page).
2009/03/02
1. A few minor changes to the layout.
2. You can no longer change your username.
3. There has been a change in the rewards page. You get more based on your maximum ships.
4. An extra option has been added to the option page.
2009/02/22
1. Assorted fixes and additions...
2. Fixed redirection so several places you are forwarded to a new page to save on 'clicking'. Option set in 'Options'.
3. 'Handy feature' members can now stop cargo being displayed whilst picking cargo - helpful to pick the best.
4. Extra link after you have raided to allow you to raid with the same ship or select a new one.
5. Certain menu links are highlighted when relevant. For example the messages link when you have unread messages.
6. Fixed spottt advert for ad free players..
7. Changed text colour for fuel on 'My Ships'.
2009/02/17
1. Altered the "My Ships" page. The fuel now shows red/amber/green depending on the amount of fuel left.
2009/02/16
1. New game in the casino - Hi-Lo.
2. Made temporary fix for the editing ship/banner overlap problem...
3. Minor fix on bbcode.
2009/02/15
1. Updated the casino.
2. You don't need to travel to the casino to play the lottery.
2009/02/11
1. Various minor changes, mostly with layout and colours.
2. Altered the box sizes in several forms (forum, messages).
2009/02/06
1. Fixed another bug on the bills page; the number of days since last bill payment was always set to 2!
2. Added another use for gold... Check it out
3. Fixed the styles on the minichat frame.
2009/02/05
1. Fixed a bug on the bills page that forgot to set that bills had been paid. This led to people being charged interest every 3 days even after paying!.
2009/02/04
1. Fixed a minor SQL error...
2009/02/03
1. Experimentally altered the base style sheets...
2009/02/02
1. Fixed a bug which showed a 'jumbled' page on My Ships, only if you had no ships...
2009/02/01
1. Altered the way rewards are shown in Log. It shows a total for the whole trip rather than for each load.
2009/01/31
1. Added a "Gold" page...
2. Added a table of previous lottery winners on the lottery page.
2009/01/30
1. Fixed widget. It had been adding bank credits twice.
2. Fixed a bug in Parts Shop whereby buying a chassis for a ship didn't work after the recent changes. All should be fixed, now.
3. Fixed a bug in Sell Parts. This page no longer worked after the recent changes.
4. Fixed a bug in Edit Ships. You were sometimes unable to add a cargo loader to your ship - mostly with a new ship.
5. Updated the help page.
2009/01/29
1. Quite a big change:
  - You can now edit your ship. There is a link on the 'ship' page and on 'myships'. You must be docked at your HQ first.
  - Crew's pay is now (finally) taken into account. The pay is per hour and multiplied accordingly each trip.
  - Creating a new ship solely involves picking the chassis for it. After that it's off to the new edit ship page.
  - The database tables for crew, parts, ships have all changed slightly and hopefully won't cause any unforseen problems...
2009/01/28
1. Added a lottery ticket image when you buy a ticket.
2009/01/27
1. Tryed to Fix an odd error that caused a 403 when trying to send a message. It turned out to be a server configuration problem.
2009/01/26
1. Added a lottery in the casino.
2. The coordinates in the quest message will be a link now to make it easier.
3. You are now able to delete your forum posts.
2009/01/23
1. A new refuel page should make refuelling less of a bind.
2. You can receive bonuses on the bonus page. The link will 'light up' when there is something available.
3. A few changes on the 'Places' page. You can see which places have a bank and/or a casino.
4. At reset tonight not all planets will have a bank.
2009/01/21
1. Ships now hold the money that they earn, until you bank it. To do this the ship must be at a planet with a bank.
2. Places that cost credits (parts shop, hire crew, casino etc) take money from your bank now.
3. Raids, when successful, can only take money from the ship that was raided.
4. Nearest ships/planets displayed the wrong planets. Fixed.
5. Reset the Casino Gains stat due to initial casino problems.
2009/01/18
1. (Hopefully) fixed an error with sending messages.
2009/01/17
1. Added an experimental 'ticker' for general info.
2. On the co-ordinates page there is now a link to show you your closest ships and the closest planets to that location. This is handy after doing a quest, trying ot get back to a planet for cargo. It is also useful for finding th nearest ships to get to the quest location.
2009/01/16
1. Added some extra items to the leaders page
2. The "My Crew" page would only show 25 crew members, now it is not limited.
3. Added a box on the chat page so you can see who else is there.
2009/01/15
1. A "mini chat frame" was added so you can chat and play at the same time.
2. Time and fuel for a trip have been altered slightly. A trip may use up to 10% more or less time and/or fuel.
3. Added a links page.
2009/01/14
1. Added a link after you have plotted a course to get you back to your ships.
2. Hopefully fixed the auto refreshing in My Ships.
3. There was a bug that let you carry on at the casino after running out of tokens. This is now fixed.
2009/01/13
1. Changed winnings at the casino as it paid out waaay tooo much!
2. Added a small bit of javascript to make banking and paying bills less effort.
3. Whilst selecting cargo the order sometimes randomly changed. For example if there were two loads for a particular planet and you loaded one, sometimes the order would change and it was easy to mis-click and get the wrong load. This should now be fixed.
4. There are now five casino planets rather than just one.
2009/01/12
1. Added a random feature allowing you to take some contraband.
2. The quest will actually change daily, now.
3. Made a casino!
2009/01/08
1. Slight change to the way banking is dealt with.
2009/01/06
1. The rewards button is now lit up when you haven't been to the rewards page.
2. Caching of the stats bar is not disabled.
2009/01/02
1. Adjusted the sorting order on cargo selection. You can now choose between 3 sorting orders.
2. You can see which planets you already have cargo for while chosing cargo
3. The "Load" button is not shown for cargo you can't fit.
4. The cargo selection page now remembers which order you last used.
5. You must now confirm you want to dump a particular load.
2009/01/01
1. Adjusted the cargo page so the table doesn't move when you click to load some cargo.
2008/12/29
1. You can now add a second cockpit and use it for security personnel.
2. Raids are no longer always successful.
3. Moved the idle ships alert box to the status bar.
2008/12/29
1. Added the button for selling ship parts back for non 'noobs'.
2. Added bbcode and smileys to chat. Also the last 20 messages are show, rather than just 10.
2008/12/28
1. Added a sticky feature for the forum.
2. Removed colouring of user links in favour of icons.
3. Made an advertise with us page.
4. Added buttons for adding bbcode and smileys to forum messages and igms.
2008/12/21
1. Added some minor BBCode for the forum and IGMs.
2. And now some smileys.
3. Added the ability to delete forum posts.
2008/12/20
1. Minor changed on the cargo picking screen as it now shows cargo previously loaded from other planets as well as the current one.
2. Added gender into options.
2008/12/19
1. Changed the cargo picking screen. There is now a blank line when a error or success message is not displayed. This keeps everything 'lined up' when you click to load some cargo. Cargo already loaded now shows up to help you pick loads better, this has the option to dump the load or plot a course similarly to the ship's cargo list screen.
2008/12/18
1. Fixed a problem with refuelling of some ships. This was a problem for ships requiring less than 25 units of fuel.
2008/12/17
1. When a ship is constructed it used to have a full fuel tank, now it gets the amount from the amount of fuel in the tank(s) you attach.
2. A few minor display tweaks on the parts page. The fuel was sometimes shown as "/" when it was a part without fuel.
3. The refuel page has been remade. You don't have to completely refuel anymore.
4. You can now dump unwanted cargo for 20% of its value.
2008/12/11
1. You now get 3 raids per ship, but you get a minimum of 10 raids.
2. Experimently changed it so you can bank as often as you want.
2008/12/10
1. The pbbgwarp reward has now been fixed. It broke after the domain change.
2. Each of the voting links has a reward. It is paid into the bank.
3. The value of each cargo trip should now be higher.
2008/12/09
1. Friend/Enemy List added
2. Added some IP checking to stop session hijacking.
3. When you log in your IP address along with various other bits of information are stored which will help catch cheaters in the future.
2008/12/08
1. Did a few assorted fixes and changes during the move to xtermin8.net
2. When you confirm to plot a course the red label at the top still said one more ship was idle than should be. Ie it said 3 when 2 were idle and it didn't go away until the next page load. This should now be fixed.
3. Removed the "Important Message" link at the top.
4. Made the "Confirm" on the plot ship page more noticable...
2008/12/03
1. The bills page only let you pay a portion of your bills if you had enough money to pay them in full. This is now fixed.
2. Fixed the forum slightly again as the last 2 "fixes" made it worse!.
2008/12/02
1. Fixed the forum slightly again as the last "fix" made it worse!.
2. If you aren't docked and you try to load cargo, you are now propted with the reason that there isn't any and a link to a random planet to get some.
3. Did a temporary bug fix for ships which the 'storage space' used doesn't add up to the amount of items in the storage. It basically dumps the lot...
4. Selecting cargo is once again ordered by destination, still not perfect but better than the random order it has been.
5. Fixed an 'invalid ship' problem, caused by a mistype.
2008/12/01
1. Fixed the forum slightly so the last view works slightly better and you are left viewing a thread after posting to it.
2008/11/30
1. I've changed the font. Some poeple may not notice any difference. Some people may need to press F5 or CTRL + R or click refresh while pressing shift.
2. Various additions have been added to prevent 'noobs' doing something stupid and then not having enough money to fix it.
3. Only noobs can sell items back at full price. Everyone else gets 80% of the value.
4. You can now pay a small amount off your bill at a time.
5. The options page has a 'turn off noob mode' option. It checks that you have various stats.
2008/11/23
1. The "My Ships" screen now show the destination (or coordinates) a ship is going to.
2. The quest system has been slightly improved. The quests are slightly more flexible.
3. The average reward for each cargo load is now slightly higher.
4. There are now sometimes larger loads to take at a planet.
2008/11/22
1. Changed the size of the buttons for the main menu items.
2. Made the ships in "My Ships" listed in order of ETA. Also added a button to refresh "My Ships"
2008/11/21
1. Fixed the count for message posts in the forum. It counted the threads twice.
2. The forum now remembers when you visited each category and tells you which threads are new or have been replied to since your last visit.
3. The forum now shows what time a message was posted.
4. You can see in the category list in the forum how many new messages have been posted since your last visit
5. Check through list of '404' errors and uploaded a few missing images (news.gif etc).
2008/11/19
1. Improved the 'quest' system. There will automatically be a new one each day. The "anonymous tip" is sent automatically, too.
2. You can now see yor cargo when your ship is not docked.
3. There are now categories in the forum.
2008/11/18
1. Added a very basic 'quest' system. You are sent a message giving co-ordinates and if you choose to travel there you are given a chance at getting a reward for your effort.
2. Added an award for attempting your first quest. Also added a new leader list for most completed quests.
3. Forum is now upside-down. New posts in a thread are at the top.
2008/11/17
1. Added some code to keep track of performance. Hopefully the data can iron out any bottlenecks.
2. The database now keeps track of how much you have gained and lost from raiding. The leaders page shows these items.
3. The stats line is now cached it doesn't have to read your stats from the database each time, there is a link to refresh them.
4. The stats line is updated every 10 pages or every 60 seconds or when you click the refresh link.
5. Fixed a minor annoyance on the raid page. When picking your ship it showed all your ships; whether docked or travelling or otherwise. Now it should only show docked ships.
6. Added a 'title' element to the refresh icon to make it more obvious what it's for.
7. Added really crap rss icons for on the rss page.
2008/11/16
1. Made improvements to the forum which should speed it up sigificantly.
2. More improvements to the forum - the reply form is now shown when you click on a thread.
3. The amount of cargo you successfully transport is now stored so there is a new category on the leaders page.