My previous Changelog thread - Jinji's Staff Journal - was tailored more towards being more of a staff diary rather than an actual log of things I've done for PWO. Recently I've started to feel this is doing me a disservice; as it doesn't put focus on my contributions to PWO; and it also de-emphasises the updates I post because they get hidden by later replies. So, I've decided to start over. Taking cues from Bluerise and Luminance, here is my new Change Log; which is designed to put my work front and centre. All my contributions will be listed on this first post, newest first; as well as posted in replies to this topic as they happen. Note this thread is for serious discussion ONLY - my other thread will remain open for those who wish to continue discussions with me in a looser nature.
13-14 March 2023
Feathers.McGraw noticed during recent testing that both Cubchoo and Beartic seemed unable to learn any TMs. Following investigation myself, this was confirmed to be correct - neither Pokémon had TM Movesets defined in the database.
23 December 2022
Compiled and uploaded the installer for the new PWO Client v1.93.3, which was tested and subsequently copied to other mirrors by the rest of the Staff.
25 August 2022
The update mentioned on the 17th has now been rolled out.
17 August 2022
The Staff have made the decision to ditch numbers from TMs going forward in PWO, in order to allow TMs from future generations to be added without messing up the entire ordering of TMs or creating confusion when, for example, two TM36s teach different moves depending on where they were acquired. After much discussion, we've settled on all TMs now being named under the formula: "TM - (Move Name)", with no numbering. So for example, Hone Claws will now be named "TM - Hone Claws" instead of the previous "TM01".
1 June 2022
<< All Entries between January 2016 and June 2022 have unfortunately been lost >>
13-14 March 2023
Feathers.McGraw noticed during recent testing that both Cubchoo and Beartic seemed unable to learn any TMs. Following investigation myself, this was confirmed to be correct - neither Pokémon had TM Movesets defined in the database.
- Mapped all the Gen V TMs for Cubchoo and Beartic. They should be able to learn all the TMs they would be able to from those games as of the next server restart.
23 December 2022
Compiled and uploaded the installer for the new PWO Client v1.93.3, which was tested and subsequently copied to other mirrors by the rest of the Staff.
- Minor change to the installer: The PWO logo has been added where appropriate to the installer's logotypes, meaning it'll now appear in spots such as the top-right corner of the window, replacing the previous generic installer images. Not really important, but it was starting to bug me having generic images in our installer when we actually have a logo for the game...
25 August 2022
The update mentioned on the 17th has now been rolled out.
- All TMs are now renamed to follow the syntax "TM - Move Name".
- Fixed a mistake in the server's list of items that caused an off-by-one bug. This led to issues such as Amulet Coin suddenly becoming Red Balloon; and various other items not working correctly in battle.
17 August 2022
The Staff have made the decision to ditch numbers from TMs going forward in PWO, in order to allow TMs from future generations to be added without messing up the entire ordering of TMs or creating confusion when, for example, two TM36s teach different moves depending on where they were acquired. After much discussion, we've settled on all TMs now being named under the formula: "TM - (Move Name)", with no numbering. So for example, Hone Claws will now be named "TM - Hone Claws" instead of the previous "TM01".
- Created the SQL syntax that will be required to implement this change.
- Altered a database table related to mapping TM Skills to permit the longer names.
- Tested item acqusition and move learning to ensure the game can handle the change correctly.
1 June 2022
- Finished the Mysterious Man Quest for the upcoming "Sun, Sea and Hunting" event. This quest and all the NPCs involved within were a concept completely designed and written entirely by myself. The actual work on the quest took me roughly two weeks, although much of the second week was deciding where to put the last four trees; and bugfixing because it turns out, Lua is very particular over the order of operations in a script; and I'm also somewhat clumsy with variable names and ensuring commands are closed correctly >_>
<< All Entries between January 2016 and June 2022 have unfortunately been lost >>
15 December 2015
13 December 2015
Compiled and released the installer for PWO 1.96.
18 November 2015
Helped Animagus write the announcement for the Occult Day Event.
Also, while the Jinji NPC that appeared during this event was NOT my idea, I did agree to its inclusion and write its dialog. I hope you enjoyed it ^-^
4 April 2015
21 March 2015
16 March 2015
Compiled, released and generated hashes for the installer for PWO v1.95
9 February 2015
Updated the /help command:
7 February 2015
5 January 2015
When you attempt to catch a Pokémon in PWO, a series of messages are shown for each time the ball shakes. Due to a small typo in this code, it was previously impossible for only two shakes to occur before the Pokémon "broke free". Coincidentally, this unintended behaviour actually mimicked that of the official Generation V Pokémon games - it is not possible for only two shakes to happen in these games either; as they only do three checks for "escape" instead of four; and the final check is on the third shake so the second shake can never fail. However, Gen V is a little old now and since the same thing wasn't meant to happen in PWO anyway, it has now been fixed
26 December 2014
Fully implemented the move "Wild Charge", which should work as it does in official games. Should Electrike and Manectric be made available in-game in future, they will be able to learn these moves naturally.
20 December 2014
Added a number of items which would be used for the 2014 Christmas Event; and made a few minor bugfixes.
29 November 2014
Edit: Due to miscommunication I have crossed out the below entries. My updates today were not geared towards implementing the Hyper Cutter ability, as I had assumed it was implemented already. I simply was updating the Pokémon to use the ability in the belief that this was why they didn't work before. I now know this was incorrect - the ability is NOT correctly implemented; thus updating the entries did not add it into the game as it does not yet exist. I apologise for the misunderstanding.
28 November 2014
5 November 2014
Following agreed protocol that Pokémon in PWO should have their first ability from Generation V-era games as their PWO ability (until such time as PWO has support for additional abilities), changed Dragonite's ability to Inner Focus. I had planned to hold off this update until such time as I had time to update more abilities at once, but decided to implement this change early due to strong player demand. Please note this change was NOT made with the intention to nerf the Pokémon, but rather to bring its data into compliance with official policy.
Also, on the evening of 5th November I PM'd staff with a small story idea I had. Normally I wouldn't mention such things in my Changelog, but the story - which I called "Delibird's Disaster" - was a sort of prologue and ended up becoming the basis for our 2014 Christmas event. So you could say I basically wrote the main storyline for this year's event; though I can hardly claim all the credit as so many of us would work over the following weeks to come up with the final concept and then begin implementing it
31 October 2014
Implemented several items used exclusively for the Halloween 2014 event.
25 October 2014
23 October 2014
Added data for a few new items which previously did not exist in the game's database. As none of these items are yet available, I won't mention their names until they become obtainable in the future.
15 October 2014
14 October 2014
10 October 2014
Made Sleep Talk fail if user is not sleeping; however the move is now entirely non-functional as I have yet to workout how to override the sleep status itself blocking the move... oops!
24 July 2014
Contributed to the Kanto Safari Zone Spawn Updates; and changed the dialogue for the Safari Zone Warden to reflect upcoming changes.
7 April 2014
Route 2 redesigned. You can now jump over to the right-side short-cut - bypassing Viridian Forest - by going up to the small trees blocking the route and pressing Space to interact with them, as long as you have the Thunder Badge or greater. Your Pokémon will lift you over the bush automatically. Previously NPCs were required to offer this short-cut, but they have now been removed. (Collaboration between myself (dialogue), Luminance (in-game code) and Thugie (server code and implementation).
1 July 2013
In the event of Selfdestruct or Explosion also knocking out the opposing Pokémon, the exploding Pokémon will not gain EXP.
20 June 2013
After numerous bug reports and assistance from both Teck and Bluerise, finally discovered a bug preventing the previous update from working in the case of Sleep and fixed it.
26 May 2013
19 January 2013
Fixed a bug with the phpBB Forum software that occasionally causes a user whose session times out and gets logged out while writing a post or PM, to be taken to the index when re-logging into the Forum, rather than to the "Post New Topic / PM / Reply" page as expected. Now users should ALWAYS go back to the page they were originally on.
9 January 2013
Discussed with Hardcoreh a system for "docking" PM windows into a panel right of the client, that can be revealed or hidden (http://forum.pokemon-world-online.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15&start=100#p179794). Aiming to see this implemented in the new client.
Unknown date
Poké Ball shaking. Poké Balls now shake up to three times before catching a Pokémon, only succeeding if the Pokémon fails to break out after the third shake (as is the standard of all main series Pokémon games). Number of shakes before breaking out is randomised each time. Currently this is communicated via in-battle messages; but I'm hoping for a future Client Update to suppress these and add an actual animation (I do not work on the client).
7 October 2011
Publicly launched the Token Store along with Bluerise after many days' testing.
19 September 2011
Because people kept PMing me asking it, added "How do I save my Game" to the PWO Wiki's FAQ.
29 August 2011
26 August 2011
Fixed improper permissions for some Staff commands
- Generated hashes for the new PWO 1.96 installer, something I forgot to do on the day of release.
- Updated the Client Download Links topic accordingly, and removed outdated references.
13 December 2015
Compiled and released the installer for PWO 1.96.
18 November 2015
Helped Animagus write the announcement for the Occult Day Event.
Also, while the Jinji NPC that appeared during this event was NOT my idea, I did agree to its inclusion and write its dialog. I hope you enjoyed it ^-^
4 April 2015
- Wrote and compiled a patcher that allows PWO v1.95.1 to be updated to 1.95.2 without completely installing a new version; and using the minimal of space.
- Generated hashes for the new patcher.
- Rewrote the Client Download Links announcement post, in accordance with the newly released patcher.
21 March 2015
- Compiled, released and generated hashes for the installer for PWO v1.95.1
- Rewrote and updated the in-game news page
16 March 2015
Compiled, released and generated hashes for the installer for PWO v1.95
9 February 2015
Updated the /help command:
- /help Surfboard showed out-of-date pricing information for surfboards and an incorrect location for where to buy them.
- /help IVs now mentions the /iv command.
- /help Happiness was added to explain the happiness mechanic and how to check your Pokémon's happiness.
7 February 2015
- Fixed: Using TM01 on Slakoth would not teach Roar due to the Skill Identifier being missing.
- Mapped all missing TMs for Vigoroth and Slaking (which turned out to be all of them except TM35). Vigoroth and Slaking can now learn all the TMs they would be able to use in Gen V games. However, TMs 05, 59 and 60 should be avoided for now as the relevant moves are not implemented in-game, so these TMs will not teach any moves at this time. I am informed this was supposed to have been done when Slaking's ability was added so I assume an error occurred somewhere along the line.
- Fixed minor bug introduced in the 5th of January update that occasionally mixed up the order of the "shake" messages ("It shakes again..." would sometimes be shown before "It shakes... will it catch?" which was nonsensical).
5 January 2015
When you attempt to catch a Pokémon in PWO, a series of messages are shown for each time the ball shakes. Due to a small typo in this code, it was previously impossible for only two shakes to occur before the Pokémon "broke free". Coincidentally, this unintended behaviour actually mimicked that of the official Generation V Pokémon games - it is not possible for only two shakes to happen in these games either; as they only do three checks for "escape" instead of four; and the final check is on the third shake so the second shake can never fail. However, Gen V is a little old now and since the same thing wasn't meant to happen in PWO anyway, it has now been fixed
26 December 2014
Fully implemented the move "Wild Charge", which should work as it does in official games. Should Electrike and Manectric be made available in-game in future, they will be able to learn these moves naturally.
20 December 2014
Added a number of items which would be used for the 2014 Christmas Event; and made a few minor bugfixes.
29 November 2014
Edit: Due to miscommunication I have crossed out the below entries. My updates today were not geared towards implementing the Hyper Cutter ability, as I had assumed it was implemented already. I simply was updating the Pokémon to use the ability in the belief that this was why they didn't work before. I now know this was incorrect - the ability is NOT correctly implemented; thus updating the entries did not add it into the game as it does not yet exist. I apologise for the misunderstanding.
[*]Fixed a typo in the Database which meant Krabby, Kingler, Pinsir, Mawile, Trapinch, Corphish and Crawdaunt did not have Hyper Cutter listed on their Pokédex entries.
[*]Also gave Hyper Cutter to Gligar and Gliscor
28 November 2014
- Implemented the following ability:
- Levitate
5 November 2014
Following agreed protocol that Pokémon in PWO should have their first ability from Generation V-era games as their PWO ability (until such time as PWO has support for additional abilities), changed Dragonite's ability to Inner Focus. I had planned to hold off this update until such time as I had time to update more abilities at once, but decided to implement this change early due to strong player demand. Please note this change was NOT made with the intention to nerf the Pokémon, but rather to bring its data into compliance with official policy.
Also, on the evening of 5th November I PM'd staff with a small story idea I had. Normally I wouldn't mention such things in my Changelog, but the story - which I called "Delibird's Disaster" - was a sort of prologue and ended up becoming the basis for our 2014 Christmas event. So you could say I basically wrote the main storyline for this year's event; though I can hardly claim all the credit as so many of us would work over the following weeks to come up with the final concept and then begin implementing it
31 October 2014
Implemented several items used exclusively for the Halloween 2014 event.
25 October 2014
- The following attacks now work:
- Aromatherapy
- Heal Bell
- Added evolution data for Gliscor. Gligar is now able to be evolved using the Razor Fang. I did not announce this previously as the Razor Fang was due to be given away during the Halloween event and we did not want to spoil the surprise (the item itself was one of the many items added in the previous update).
23 October 2014
Added data for a few new items which previously did not exist in the game's database. As none of these items are yet available, I won't mention their names until they become obtainable in the future.
15 October 2014
- Implemented the following ability:
- Limber
- Added evolution data for Roserade. All things being well, Roselia should now be able to evolve into Roserade via Shiny Stone as of the next server restart.
14 October 2014
- Implemented the following abilities:
- Swarm
- Water Veil
- Magma Armor
- Vital Spirit
- Insomnia
- Immunity
- Own Tempo
- In some cases, Pokémon with the abilities Magma Armor, Vital Spirit or Own Tempo only had the first word listed in their entries. These Pokémon would not have activated their abilities had this not been discovered during testing of the above. The entries have now been corrected, so all Pokémon with these abilities should now be able to use them.
- Gave "Water Veil" ability to Wailmer and Wailord
- Gave "Vital Spirit" ability to Delibird
10 October 2014
Made Sleep Talk fail if user is not sleeping; however the move is now entirely non-functional as I have yet to workout how to override the sleep status itself blocking the move... oops!
24 July 2014
Contributed to the Kanto Safari Zone Spawn Updates; and changed the dialogue for the Safari Zone Warden to reflect upcoming changes.
7 April 2014
Route 2 redesigned. You can now jump over to the right-side short-cut - bypassing Viridian Forest - by going up to the small trees blocking the route and pressing Space to interact with them, as long as you have the Thunder Badge or greater. Your Pokémon will lift you over the bush automatically. Previously NPCs were required to offer this short-cut, but they have now been removed. (Collaboration between myself (dialogue), Luminance (in-game code) and Thugie (server code and implementation).
1 July 2013
In the event of Selfdestruct or Explosion also knocking out the opposing Pokémon, the exploding Pokémon will not gain EXP.
20 June 2013
After numerous bug reports and assistance from both Teck and Bluerise, finally discovered a bug preventing the previous update from working in the case of Sleep and fixed it.
26 May 2013
- Implemented "...is already Asleep/Confused/Paralysed/etc" check. The battle system will no longer attempt to inflict a Status Ailment on a Pokémon if the target Pokémon already has the same Status Ailment.
- "(Pokémon) is Confused!" no longer appears before "snapped out of confusion" on the turn where the Pokémon snaps out.
19 January 2013
Fixed a bug with the phpBB Forum software that occasionally causes a user whose session times out and gets logged out while writing a post or PM, to be taken to the index when re-logging into the Forum, rather than to the "Post New Topic / PM / Reply" page as expected. Now users should ALWAYS go back to the page they were originally on.
9 January 2013
Discussed with Hardcoreh a system for "docking" PM windows into a panel right of the client, that can be revealed or hidden (http://forum.pokemon-world-online.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15&start=100#p179794). Aiming to see this implemented in the new client.
Unknown date
Poké Ball shaking. Poké Balls now shake up to three times before catching a Pokémon, only succeeding if the Pokémon fails to break out after the third shake (as is the standard of all main series Pokémon games). Number of shakes before breaking out is randomised each time. Currently this is communicated via in-battle messages; but I'm hoping for a future Client Update to suppress these and add an actual animation (I do not work on the client).
7 October 2011
Publicly launched the Token Store along with Bluerise after many days' testing.
19 September 2011
Because people kept PMing me asking it, added "How do I save my Game" to the PWO Wiki's FAQ.
29 August 2011
- Disabled /password command in-game, in preparation for upcoming Playerdex update linking account and Forum logins to the same credentials
- Along with Bluerise, wrote the email verification system.
Increased limits for Staff PM Inboxes and maximum recipients on the Forum(this refers to our old SMF Forum which we have since migrated from)- Designed a personal avatar for myself for the first time
26 August 2011
Fixed improper permissions for some Staff commands
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