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| Spark Community Atmosphere & Attitude |
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| Orginal Donators to Spark |
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 Those who orginally donated to Spark months ago and received the donation star are now invited to participate in testing the clan system. I have sent an email with the details to the account which you have the star. If for some reason you used an invalid email with that account and did not receive that email then you can message me here.
Thanks for your contributions and ongoing support of Spark!
Public release of the clan system will commence when we have fully functioning features such as setting user/member ranks, clan challenges, etc..
-Spark Leadership Team
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| Clan System Enters Testing, Lag Fixes Continue |
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If you log on Spark you may notice a lot of the admins have clan tags. This is because the clan system functionality for the lobby and game is now complete, and is in testing!
This is especially thanks to Gamer, who has designed a web based interface to manage clans to save the ridiculously time consuming task of doing a ton of java dialogs to try and manage it (which is what has delayed it for so long already). Thus, I was able to focus on getting the actual system to work in the lobby and game, which is now complete.
The clan system lets you create a clan, and then invite others to it via a drop down list. You can then assign different ranks to your clan members. The ranks control what permissions other players have in the clan. For example, you have to be a certain rank to be able to invite other players into the clan. The titles of the ranks are customizable.
In other development news, many if you may have noticed a lot of downtime and server reboots lately. That is not only because of the clan system updates, but because we have also been fixing a lot of serious lag issues. This has finally paid off. After tonights update, pings are lower and the bad spiking is gone. As another interesting side effect, signing into the lobby and joining the game is about 5 times faster.
Thanks to all players for having patience during the heavy period of updating while we really went after the problems. Things should be settling down now as we get clans released and finish fixing up minor bugs.
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I'm planning on running a Mini-tournament to test the functionality of a script we have in development. The tournament signups will begin at 7pm. I hope to have enough players for at least 4 teams of 4. Those interested should check out this link for further details: http://spark-hq.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=41
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An update was released last night to fix some serious problems introduced by the past two updates. These problems were a type of god mode/bad lag, and a nasty stuttering problem introduced by an update this morning. However, the game is now the smoothest it's ever been after fixing those problems.
I'd like to remind everyone this is why Spark is still in beta. Sometimes things get broken in updates, but we'll fix them when problems do arise.
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We've currently taken down the donations link for two main reasons:
1) Generating donations has been slow and unsuccessful
2) We intend to implement a Spark Store in the weeks to come, and would therefore prefer not having to deal with the 'people who have donated' issue on a wide scale. IE. We want to avoid releasing the Spark Store and having some users who have donated in the days prior, from missing that opportunity.
Therefore, if you intend on donating at this point, please wait until the store is released.
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| We're interested in collecting some anonymous data from the community to help us better meet the users' needs/demands. I encourage as many users to participate in these surveys and to answer truthfully, as the data collected will be a benefit to Spark as a whole.
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Posted by K0rRupt on Tuesday, January 08 @ 10:59:08 MST (80 reads)(comments? | Score: 0) |
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Posted by K0rRupt on Monday, January 07 @ 21:42:50 MST (75 reads)(comments? | Score: 0) |
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| Everything Back Online, 1.36 Released! |
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The game has been back up for a couple of days now and everything is running well!
Today, we also released an updated version. You can read more about the latest changes here:
http://spark-hq.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=28
Clan system is still in the works. I am right in the middle of finals right now, which has caused it to take longer than I hoped it would, but clans have certainly not been forgotten!
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Posted by remote on Monday, December 03 @ 20:10:49 MST (85 reads)(comments? | Score: 0) |
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Spark-Stuff.netHas some quality content that can help new and older players alike Spark-clans.net Offers hosting for clan websites, TeamSpeak servers, etc
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