My thoughts on this:
- Clothes should be a bit more functional instead of purely decorative; maybe there will even be climate zones and weather, and appropriate clothes would protect you from the elements; they are almost certainly going to serve as body armour. The result should be that being naked might be just too risky for most characters, making clothes something like the most important thing after food.
- There is no inventory size limit yet, and once I implement it, I'd like to have it so that the more you carry, the more various important skills (travel speed, agility, etc.) suffer, probably exponentially or something like that, making anything above a certain "soft" limit impractical even though possible. This way, carrying 14.98 kg wouldn't be much different from 15.01 kg, yet carrying 150 kg would cripple your stats to the point that you aren't able to do anything but sit around and talk (just like a real life person with a 150 kg sack of stuff would be immobile for all intents and purposes).

To be honest, I hadn't given this one much thought really. Guess I'd gotten used the way things worked in cantrII already.

On a side note, I decided to roll out the projects feature even though the project type maintenance page isn't finished yet; I've added just one project type manually (for those who haven't noticed yet). You'll need wood, which can be found in most forest locations, except those that have been plundered already

More wood, eh? Let's see...

...OK, now all you need is a forest location. Once you're there, you can start a wood gathering project.

Really? Everywhere that I've been the first thing that I did was check for items and take them all.

I just tried to test out the "projects" functionality. I first created a project to gather wood. I said to use my inventory, participate, and start immediately. I had ample wood in my inventory to satisfy the demands, but the material status is 'none'. Immediately after I also created a project to make a pointy stick. Same configuration and immediately the materials appear to be satisfied. Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding what's happening?

Hmm, one of my characters appears to be making no progress on his stick.

Did you put the required wood into the project? Did you start the project? Are you participating? These three requirements must be met, otherwise no work can be done on the project.

@Gull: If you mean the account settings dialog, I just fixed that. Over-eager code cleanup on my part

Ah, my bad. Inspecting the log, it turns out I forgot to add a message type. Since the entire project update runs in a transaction, here's what happens:
1. Check if project progress can be updated
2. Update progress
3. If progress >= 100%: create project output, delete project, post message

A wooden stick takes two game hours, gathering wood one, and all but one instance of these would have been finished within the next progress update tick, which would trigger the message, which in turn would fail because the "project finished" message type was missing and hence the foreign key check barfs, and as a result, the entire update transaction gets rolled back. After the next project tick, I guess ALL projects with enough resources and participants will be finished. Let the poking begin!

I have a little annoyance. When I go on a road, the character list indicates a new event on that character and I have to click it to get rid of that. I don't think this should happen since I already know I sent him walking down that road.

Most of the work has been done in the past two months - laying out the framework, making the web controls library and the ORM code generator, the whole terrain generator thing; the actual game logic is only a relatively small part of the whole thing.

Speaking of which, the update that includes an items and project types editor has just been rolled out. It also features a radically different color scheme for the out-of-game pages, mainly because I'm not very partial of the odd brown/red tint I had, and because I want to use that color scheme for indoor locations (once those exist).

This is due to the fact that I increased the message update interval form 5 to 30 seconds, and that the first ajax request is fired 30 seconds after the page load instead of immediately (like in earlier versions). This was necessary because my bandwidth usage went through the roof, with 200k ajax requests in 5 days - averaging at ~600 bytes each, but still. As a result, you trigger a postback by leaving the location, which produces a new message, and that message, at the time the response is generated, is still considered unread (which is probably wrong and needs fixing). Clicking anything that triggers a postback, or waiting 30 seconds, will reset the new events status.

Favicon is on the "could have" list for now. Also, a definitive favicon is something I'd make once I have a logo, and a logo is something I'd make once I have a definitive name for the thing, which I don't. Suggestions are absolutely welcome.

Oh, BTW, I just released a new version. Bugfixes and layout mainly.

Uh-oh. Guess I did. Hold on.

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OK, should be fixed now.

Ooh, a bunch of new projects. Some requiring stone, I hope I can find some stone...

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