Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25646419-20181205140825

http://www.blankmediagames.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=94262

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What I've worked on since the previous update:

 General bug fixes and optimizations: Added a flag for our server to enter "patching mode" where it will notify users trying to connect that we are undergoing a patch and provide a link to the newest patch notes. Previously users would get a "error connecting to server" message and be confused as to why the servers were down.

Added suspension/ban reason feedback on login. Players who are suspended/banned via trials, a moderator or automatic systems such as referral abuse they will now be notified of the reason upon login.

Fixed a bug where promotion popups were being shown to referral users who had not upgraded to premium yet. This is not only confusing as a promotion purchase doesn't make you a premium user and you will still get locked out of playing after 5 games even with a promotion purchase, but also created a bug where some users were able to get RAF rewards for $1 premium purchases. This encouraged multi-account abuse where you refer your alt accounts and buy $1 promos to get 1300TPS and RAF rewards on your main account. We won't be punishing any users who abused this as it was an oversight on our part and we emergency patched it within 48 hours of the referral system going live.

Added server code to prevent brute force login attempts on ToS accounts. We have noticed from our logs that someone (likely the botting community) has been trying to hack their way into ToS accounts by guessing passwords. We recommend that anyone with a weak password does a password change to improve the security on their account. We plan on enforcing stronger passwords in the future but it may be a few months before we get around to adding that as we have a lot on our plates already.

Fixed Guardian Angel achievements and "target was attacked" feedback. There were some bugs with the GA not getting proper feedback or achievements granted when protecting their target while dead. This should all be working properly now.

Changed the "I am blackmailed." message while on trial to only be allowed to be said one time per trial. This is because users were using this message and the chat filter as a way to meta-game, preventing us from adding improved spam filtering to chat.

 Spam Improvements: I processed several hundred trial reports this last week and a common thing I noticed in spam reports was how often users get banned for spamming the same phrase multiple times. A lot of these users weren't necessarily toxic spammers but were overzealous in their attempts to get the towns attention and reveal important information. Instead of having to constantly suspend users who overly spam I hope these anti-spam measures helps improve this behavior.


 * You can no longer say the same thing twice in a row in a 10 second time period
 * You can no longer type in all caps twice in a row in a 10 second time period

Note that an all caps message are still allowed once, but multiple caps lock spam will be prevented in the 10 second window.


 * Added a few common bad words found in reports to the chat filter

[b][u]Jailor vs Werewolf interaction bug fix:[/u][/b] When a Jailor jailed a Werewolf but didn't execute him, the Werewolf would perform a passive attack against the Jailor and anyone who visited the Jailor. This was a bug and has now been changed to a direct attack against the Jailor which will allow for mechanics such as the BodyGuard to be involved.

Added a new moderator command to reload a server config without needing to reboot the server. This allows us to live update server features such as enforcing a certain mobile version upon login.

Reverting the previous Framer buff after community feedback.

 QA and Finishing referral system: There was some more work to be done finishing the referral system which everyone should now be familiar with.

Sheriff change Sheriff will now only see "Your target is suspicious" instead of specific feedback about Mafia/Coven/Werewolf/SK. This will allow NK roles to more easily claim they were framed when checked by a Sheriff.[/quote] 