Fun-Day Fridays

A staff-wide effort to push out new weekly releases, pushed out every Friday. Because of a larger staff pool to rotate through, this project can accommodate releases that are a bit larger in scale than Tuesday Tidings.

Announcement

Hi folks!

We've had over 4 years (2020-2024 and still going, for now!) of weekly Tuesday Tiding releases coming from a small, 4-5 person team.  Team members have rotated in and out over time, but for us, we've liked having a set schedule (and rotation!) of project deadlines.  X GM knows that they have to release a project on Y date to keep the streak going.  We wanted to push this to a staff-wide effort.

Having more people in the pool to rotate through each "cycle" means a longer time between each individual's releases, and it brings some fresh input in the types of projects we're working on.  If there's one thing that Tuesday Tidings have proved, it's that there's a TON of little things we can do to keep improving the game!  But this longer timeframe also means that individuals can plan some of their bigger projects better because they have a target date to aim for.

So!  Lyneya announced it at SimuCon, but we're introducing a new Fun-Day Fridays series of releases.  Some of these may be smaller things like TT projects, or they may be new, bigger systems or areas or other types of projects.  Funny story -- Lyneya was meant to be project #1 during SimuCon the day it was announced, but we hit some hiccups and recovery post-con in getting her project out.  BUT!  Grejuva is picking up project #1 THIS week, and we'll hopefully see Lyneya's before next Friday!

Much more to come in the weeks/months ahead!  Stay tuned!  With that, I turn this over to Grejuva for his project!

2024

2024

August 2024

• Fun-Day Fridays 1: Addition of SUPPORT and NONGROUP target options for offensive AOE spells.
• Fun-Day Fridays 2: Release of 50 new colors of dyes. The new colors are also now available to be used on weapon and armor flares.
• Fun-Day Fridays 3: Add new Estate Holder housing area called Two Rivers Boarding House.

September 2024

• Fun-Day Fridays 4: Addition of new exits to Rock Trolls and Forest Geni that can be used if you're unable to pass the checks to get out, at the expense of roundtime.
• Fun-Day Fridays 5: New shops added to Shard's Crystal Plaza for circle 150+ Traders.
• Fun-Day Fridays 6: Added the ability to learn new languages. LANGUAGE now shows how many languages you can learn, and Polyglot Yulna can teach you them.
• Fun-Day Fridays 7: Added a new housing area near Leth Deriel with a number of tree-type homes.

October 2024

• Fun-Day Fridays 8: Instructions added to the Crossing Forging Society for characters with custom maker marks to recreate their mark with a different material.
• Fun-Day Fridays 9: New possible results added to Fishing in large rivers and the Reshal Sea.
• Fun-Day Fridays 10: Addition of the new shop Dabrush Brawn in Inner Hibarnhvidar. Sells blunt weapons that perform better for Dwarves, along with some weapon straps.
• Fun-Day Fridays 11: A new level 185 creature in Ratha, cinderwing harpies.

November 2024

• Fun-Day Fridays 12: Customers with a Platinum tier account now get some of those benefits in the Prime instance.
• Fun-Day Fridays 13: Significant rework of the Gilen Otso Steppes hunting areas in Ilithi. Splitting creatures up, reorganizing them, and changing area exits to keep them from mixing.
• Fun-Day Fridays 14: The Thief Bonus is no longer tied to the Urban rating of the room the Thief is in, but is now completely derived from Confidence.
• Fun-Day Fridays 15: Addition of the Why So Blue shop in Fang Cove.
• Fun-Day Fridays 16: Implemention of the SERVICE command, for the listing of services characters can provide.

December 2024

• Fun-Day Fridays 17: Ranger Companion Update: won't die, just a whistle cooldown.

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