NEW PLANET FILE STRUCTURE NOW IN PLACE
by Hazed
Yesterday I used an alt to link a planet into the game. Nothing remarkable about that – except that I was doing it to test Alan’s new planet linking code.
You should recall from previous bulletins that as part of the plan to allow POs to auto-link their second and subsequent planets, Alan has been revamping the way that the game stores information about planets. Rather than keeping one long list of all the systems with their planets, he’s changed it to have individual lists for each system.
This weekend, he put that code into the game, and I tested it yesterday by using several Financier alts to link in planets.
That explains why you may have spotted several newbods zoom through the ranks over the past few days – it was me, bumping them up to Financier for testing purposes!
My new planets should all be showing up in the game at the reset today (Sunday).
Any players who auto-linked a new planet after Saturday’s reset will also have been using the new code. If you did, please let us know if you spot anything odd by emailing feedback@ibgames.com (don’t forget to put Fed2 in the subject line).
Assuming everything works as it is supposed to, Alan will then start to work on the next tranche of code, to allow new planets to be auto-linked into an existing system. I will keep you posted on his progress.
