I should have an update done next week, providing i get a bit of time to potter before heading back to work. As well as a couple of fixes for texturing issues, the update will include a couple of new screens and features.. nothing particuarly major or exciting, but anyway, ive got snaps now so i thought i might as well mention em here..
1- Updates to the player info screen in space
As you can see, theres a few more details on the 'View player Info' screen in space, including the player's current cash, bounty, kills & deaths.
Note also that when a player has a bounty in space it now appears on the player list.
2- Edit profile screen
Clicking on your name on the playerlist in space will bring up the screen above, where you can edit the profile text and images. Any jpg can be used (110x80 is recommended to save your bandwidth - they're always displayed that size anyway.)
3- Connect to last world option
Note the extra lil checkbox at the bottom, which brings back the old mode whereby if you're on a planet when you leave the game, when you rejoin you'll go straight back there instead of going into orbit. One of those tiny lil features that some world-huggers will no doubt appreciate loads.
4- World Newspaper
This is the biggest bit of the work i've been doing in the odd bits of spare time over christmas - resurrecting some code that was started a few years back but never finished. Players will be able to access the newspaper which contains a number of pages, some edited by the world owner, some generated by the server. (For instance, the 'Business' page will contain server-generated text detailing the prices of items on the world, recent major transactions, etc etc.)
To edit the paper, authorised users (i.e only sysops & the world owner atm) can click on any image or bit of text (including the headlines, newspaper name, picture captions etc) and edit it ingame - the page automatically reformats itself as appropriate. Any changes you make are uploaded to the server and then viewable by other players - so its a sorta ingame mini-myspace for world owners, or something.
More stuff will be added to this over time, including being able to add and remove pages to the paper, weblinks, settings to control who can edit the pages (for instance, so theres a different newspaper in each town, with the frontpage being created by the town owner) and whatever else seems pertinent.
One feature also to be added later is the 'adverts' which will allow players to easily purchase an ad in the paper for a period of time, perhaps displaying details of items or buildings they have for sale on the world.
um, k, thassit.. Im off to get drunk now.. have a good one.
happy new year mit
