WoW Games - War of Wizards

 
Sycul asked about sending messages to players you do not have an email address for.  Unlike in WoW 2.  Where we published everyone’s email address for SPAM harvesting.  We will not put anyone email address on the web pages.  For further email privacy we will let players give out their email address via the message command to other in game players by use of the #WOW MESSAGE command.
 

Hi Everyone,
I have today applied a lot of new code changes to the order processing system that I am testing out now.  If you have any problems please do not hesitate to let me know.  Thanks.
Kind Regards
Chris.

Well it feels like WoW has been a bit quite for the last six or so weeks.  You would be right.  My full time job and real life activities with the three kids has been going from crazy, to mad, to downright nuts.  More recently in the last week things have started to settle down and back to what I would call normal.  Which will be fantastic for WoW.  The last week I have coded quite a lot more on the automated turn running and moving a number of key back end components into the database.

Harry has completed the development work for Game 3 on the new world of Avon.  Our first new world in many years.  The world page is still coming and will be published soon.  However all the player positions have been filled and the game has been started.  The turns will be running on our standard weekly schedule of each Wednesday evening Australian time.   As it is a new world there may be a few teething issues.  So for those playing this world for the first time.  Please let us know if you come across anything unusual.  

Well we have had a twitter feed for a little while and have used when there have been any server outages.  However we now also have a facebook page that we can post to.  Which will auto post to twitter as well. 

Our Facebook Page is at : http://www.facebook.com/pages/War-of-Wizards/131390603554960

Our Twitter Page is at :  http://twitter.com/warofwizards

Just a quick post.  So the renovations of our house have finished, our new baby has arrived.  Some semblance of normality might now reign at my place, and I can start making some progress on some of the key features we have been discussing for a while.  Looking forward to posting some more updates soon about each new thing that gets implemented.

Well there have been a few performance issues on our server the over the last 48 hours. However we have been moved onto a new host by our provider yesterday and after a outage of a couple of hours we are back on deck and performing again at normal speeds. Hopefully without too much inconveniance.

Well it all started with needing a simple security patch for the web server content management system (Drupal) installation. Fedora 10 had stopped releasing new patches recently. I had heard it was a simple OS upgrade to get to the next release, I figured that would solve all my problems. But no ...

Well as many of you know we are replacing the old signup system with a new database back end and front end. Now that we have the order processor working and our first trial playtest running, the focus has gone back to the signup system.

Below is a link to a mock up of what the new web management interface may look like.
http://www.wowgames.net.au/site/mockup.html

Well after rebuilding the server, setting up a new order management system we are ready to start our first play test. I expect things to be a little bumpy for the first few weeks. Focus now is on completings some of the integration with the new database and provide a website to login and see everything a player will need to see.

Thanks to the 14 playtesters who are going to help us through these next few weeks of very initial testing and development. Appreciated.

Any questions / comments or concerns please contact us.