Valkyries Fall

More Tweaks to Settlements

06 August 2020

I have added the same timer that is on attacks (1 second) to the building upgrade, unit upgrade and boat building functions as your spammy fingers kept overloading the server.

Changed thrall display to show available/total counts.

Removed some lingering test print outs on some messages with unit upgrades.

Corrected spelling on one of the responses when attempting to upgrade units.

Unit release

05 August 2020

It is now possible to release units in settlements. Some people were maxing their units, leaving no thralls for exploration. With no-one they could attack, leaving them stuck.

So it's now possible to release some units to be able to buy land. However you do not get the thralls back, you'll have to get more from collect/raid.

Settlement Tweaks

04 August 2020

Changed attack range to 10% in either direction of your own land count.

Fixed issue with Thrall gains/losses during attacks.

Fixed an issue allowing you to build multiple settlements, even if only able to control 1 still.

Also fixed an issue where you could view more than 100 chat items by inputting a number more than 100 directly into the query.

Settlements

03 August 2020

It's finally here. Settlements!

Settlements can be found in the actions menu.

I'm going to leave a lot of the details to be worked out by you guys. That's half the fun, right? I'll help you all get started though.

Land defines how many Thralls your settlement can hold.

Thralls can be trained into any of 5 units. Each unit has an advantage against one of the other unit types!

Land requires 1 Thrall per acre to maintain it.

There are 9 different buildings (8 currently available).

You can attack eachother and try and steal land, thralls and resources.

You can raid PvE places for resources. Note, this is the only way to gain silver without stealing it from someone else.

Enjoy figuring out the rest. :)

1000 Players

31 July 2020

Today marks the day that we reached 1,000 players for the game!

In celebration of that, for the next 10 days there will be double exp, gold and even skill drop rate!

Additionally there is also a 20% sale on all diamonds bought!

Much love, for you all. Haz.

Ps, settlements will drop in the next few days!

Minor changes

18 July 2020

I've reverted the chat update I did the other day. It was starting to hold way to many chat items.

Fixed an error with empty chat message erroring. This only affected mods and admins.

Fixed an error where Aggression skill wasn't automatically updating when it increased.

In some rare cases, it would say that you were autoing too fast. I've made some modifications to help prevent this.

Speaking of auto's... Those of you with long auto's sometimes have them stop. This would normally be due to a connection issue, either your side, or possibly also on the server. In an effort to stem this, auto's will now retry if it fails. It will retry a maximum of 5 times over the space of 30 seconds. It wont continuously try, as that can cause issues for the server. But will hopefully resolve auto's randomly stopping most of the time.

Minor adjustments

15 July 2020

With our massively improved servers, I've made a few adjustments for a better quality of life in the game.

Chat is now held for longer. Rather than keeping chat for 3 hours before archiving it, it's now 12.

I have turned back on the normal error logging. This was previously only set to track fatal errors because of the rubbish server. This will mean i can now (again) more easily track errors that you report and get accurate details of these errors.

Also fixed a few minor bugs in game:

• Hitting submit on no action no longer locks the buttons without doing anything.
• When a mission progresses, it now gives the correct number in the results.

New Servers

08 July 2020

Yesterday we made a switch to a new service provider. The old server had a critical hardware failure and the provider refused to fix it, so we left them. No point in staying with a company when they can't even provide you the service you pay for! Never mind their shocking customer service.

In any case, we've moved to a new provider and their infrastructure is magnitudes better. No longer is there noticible latency issues the further you are from the server. Some players have even reported a 5-6x increase in their game speed!

This new provider was chosen with the future in mind. There's the ability to instantly provision more resources like CPU and RAM as the game gets bigger and (hopefully) the playerbase gets bigger.

I thank you all for your patience through the last few days while I set up the new server. Hopefully it'll never have to happen again.

Here's to a long and successful future of the game! Skol!

Gunnr Buff

30 June 2020

Gunnrs rewards have been buffed 10x. They should now be "worthwhile" to kill. See the help page for details.

New Community Tool

22 June 2020

Two players, Rouxgaroux and Malum, have made a handy little tool for calculating your exp and gold gains. You can find it on the help page and it can calculate what you'd get with certain special items, what plane you're on and your bonuses. Can also be used to figure out what you need to be able to get back to 1 fight per level up!

I had no hand in making this, they did it all themselves. My only input was on some minor optimisation and changing it's styling to fit with the game current help page look.