These sections are a list of previous updates of phoenix/nexus

Prior to Nexus there was an earlier forum. It may still hold some useful information:
Old Forum

- Added Missions (none currently on the nexus but all the background code - see here
- Added GPI data pasring on nexus. Either from turns online / old text turns or xml in the format:
<gpi_results system="<system number>" cbody="<cbody number>" ore="<ore number>">
<gpi x="<x>" y="<y>" yield="<yield>"/>
</gpi_results>
- fixed library code that was making pages load slower
- Fixed IND vs IND targeting
- Fixed issue with docked positions reporting on battles
- Fixed problem with combat transactions
- Removed turn notifcaitions if they were older than 5 days
- Added anomalies to possible celestial bodies
- Added 'Human Test' to signup
- Added 'Resize Order List' preference for iPod/iPad and mobile devices that don't have scrollable divs. It makes order list the full length of the page.

Awards and Pips
Awards (aka medals) and Pips have been added to the nexus. These awards can be from both the GM and from other players. They may be awarded for a number of reasons and will be designed by amber. There is a library article on medals here. The pips () are a graphical represented of a number 0->10 that describes your level of involvement in the game.

There are new options of the Personal -> Preferences Page to managed viewing and displaying pips and medals:
- Hide player medals
- Hide players pips
- Show my medals
- Show my pips
- Show political

There is also Personal -> Awards page that allows you to manage which medals/ribbons are shown to other people. You can only show 6 ribbons at 1 time to avoid being crowded. Everyones setting are defaulted to not showing there own data but view any that is shown by others.

New / Altered Orders
[1] Converted boarding to allow addition of officers [Order updated]
[2] Converted train officer to squadron order [Order updated]
[3] Added Maintenance Options Order which allows ships that are docked and have access to a starbase (via authorizations or ownership) to automatically maintain/refit/R&R when they have 300TUs on their maintenance day.
If the integrity falls below a set level 100TUs of maintenance will occur - this is slightly more patch wasteful that standard maintenance due to only 100Tus at once but less hassle. This orders does not take TUS from the position. [New Order]
[4] Added undock order that undocks you from your current location [New Order]
[5] Added 'Set Delivery Item Group' to allow positions to deliver into an item group on the position they are transacting with. This order can be set to either only work for the next transaction order or for all future transactions. [New Order]

A orders.cfg file for the offline order editor can be found here : orders_21_04_10.cfg (right click and download as file). You can either rename this file to orders.cfg and place it in the same directory as the order editor or import these orders into the order editor (i would recommend saving the old orders.cfg file)

Nexus Fixes / Additions
[1] Fixed Drag and drop in IE8
[2] Fixed deliver item type to a starbase on an overloaded ship that caused a crash
[3] Internal restructure of item data to new system
[4] Converted ignore / preferences to ajax (ignore user still require update)
[5] Improved update of affiliation names in titles
[6] Fixed issue on nexus with multiple positions in political section for startups
[7] Fixed search for less than 5 characters being blocked on user id searches
[8] Can no longer send 'No Action' on messages page - avoid lossing clicked boxes
[9] Added units in tech manuals
[10] Fixed problem with ' in saved notes not saving
[11] Current wealth added on political - > financial section
[12] Fixed accidental adding of library posts on wrong sections which results in them being untreed / lost
[13] Added link lengths in jump maps where jump length is over 1.
[14] In Orders -> Turns:
- Mouse over orders in turn list now shows a simple version of the orders issued
- Added system column that if moused over shows the whole location
[15] In Orders -> Orders: Added Copys to order selections. If selected shows a list of all active positions and allows you to copy the orders from those positions into the current turn list (Similar to macros)
[16] Added preference (Personal -> Preferences) to 'Show extended turns' which shows 20 rather than 10 turns at the top of the Turns -> Turns page.
[17] Added preference (Personal -> Preferences) to hide site header for smaller browers
[18] Added info on who's turn you are viewing if the turn is shared.
[19] Complexes now show correct types on information in tech manual
[20] Fit to template now has a list off all templates you can see.
[21] Added Political -> Squadrons tab. Contains list of all squadrons / break down of ship compositions
[22] Added searching of positions in Political -> Positions for TUs/Integrity/Rec Weeks/Squadron
[23] Fixed update of pd_stellar_transactions
[24] Fixed outpost/starbases showing as the same word in the Political -> Positions tab (not in turns)
[25] Fixed deleteing of nexus accounts to do offline delete also
[26] Added option to stop uploading of Turn summaries when ever you have turns. (Personal -> Preferences)

Signiciant change in orders.js - need to clear cache

Phoenix Fixes
[1] Fixed squadron crash when lead ship is destroyed
[2] Fixed issue with authorization failure being worded wrong
[3] New political ship are created at balmoral rather than in the location that you are in
[4] New startups will be fitted with a fixed [can not remove] quantum jump drive to make new players turns faster.
[5] Life support reduction in crew factors is now shown with <crew factors> / <max crew factors> [LFS] on turn reports if there are too few life supports
[6] Fixed bug that stopped ships from targeting pirates directly
[7] Startroopers no longer require drop pods or available control factors to orbital drop into a position.
[8] Fixed access of landed positions via shuttle ports from a orbital starbase
[9] Added actual name of delayed positions for special actions

Phoenix Update 02/07/08

[1] No hulls or armour will survive an integrity breakdown � but no cargo will be lost.
[2] Ships will only be blown up when all hulls and internal items (not armour) are destroyed. (this is not accounted for on the pre combat ISR checks)
[3] HH hull defence is reduced by 50%.
NH hull defence is reduced by 25%.
[4] Damage done to installed/internal items will be reduced on HH ships and platforms:
- HH Ships installed and platforms cargo items x3 defence
- Officer Skill 'Damage Control' to increase defence modifier by .25 per level for HH/platforms (x3->x4)
[5] Bunkers do not defend troops in short range ground combat.
[6] Officers can not gain experience over 32 and they gain exp in the following way:

• +1 exp - Doing damage and taking damage (= being involved)
  
• +1 exp - Doing more damage than usual (and being involved)
  
• +1 exp - Taking more damage than usual (and being involved)
  
• +1 exp - Doing damage to a position that is destroyed
  

11th November (Nexus Update)
- Fixed FF3 problems
- Added Library tree's that are expandable + cached data.
If the added load time from scripting the tree's causes an issue we can remove the tree completely when the navigation is hidden. I had some issues with ff3 keeping the old script file for some reason, clearing tis cache seemed to solve it

17th November (Nexus Update)
- Converted nexus turns to new mechanism that works both on IE7 and FF3
- Activated hardpoint limiting, on all ships. Ships with too many weapons will now not beable to fire all of them
- Fixed several small order editor bugs
- Added date process to turn.

19th November (Nexus Update)
- Added [r18] ... [/r18] code that allows content to be keep hidden until the user requries. This is not an open season on what you can place on the forum.

8th December (Nexus/Phoenix)
- Fixed red on highlighting on new turns date.
- Changed Errors on startups to go to mica
- Fixed Add macro button bug
- Changed 'sort by system/planet' on find turns to sort but type/name in sub section
- Fixed personal starbase info being placed in the wrong list
- Added 'Default to Full ORders' to personal/preferences to place full order list as default in order editor
- Allowed deletetion of text in fixed data (such as move to quad)
- Fixed safari issues with list order
- Added drag/drop on issued order list
- Sorted tab indexing in orders + focused on first paaram when an order is added
- Added 'None' catagory in drop down boxes that have no default (on jump map / order editor on move to planet)
- Added pos type and AFF on find turns (AFFs will appear as turns are updated)
- Added [x] on turns to remove them
- Add 'Add turn' button on turns - to directly add them to the order editor
- Added current tus that will be availiable when issuing orders for a turn - at the top of the turn.

19th Jan (Phoenix)
- Fixed boarding battles to upload to nexus
- Added Claim System / Check System Claim orders for starbases
- Added AFF tag to systems when moving
- Added Claim information to starbase command report
- Added ARC/MOH to race types
- Only lose integrity when the battle goes to 4 rounds
- Convert to non PIR base if the attacker if non PIR
- Changed affiliation Tax to only be charged on Aff owned positions
- Fixed refit to template order with different marks of item - may still be an issue we usual fits (i tried lots but there is a lot of room for me to have missed something)
- Added surface area to SB's report

19th Jan (Nexus)
- Added system claims to jump map + popup with info for claim
- Clears turns that are over a month old
- Dividers on homepage are now default for new ppl
- Fixed safari sequencing issue
- Fixed showing shared turns where an old version exists
- Production value should be shown on all items as they are uploaded
- Added that only shows x levels below the current library page
- Regenerated contents pages above the current level when a library subject changes
- Added [<<back] button on bottom of lib pages
- Fixed highlighting of current library page
- Fixed safari list of buttons to be horizontal on forums pages
- Fixed pages in news section to allow more pages to be accessed
- Added 'copy' to ship design page - create copy with the current user as the owner + no iother access
- Added text export of a ship design in ship editor format + import of similar files (can take fragments from offline ship editor)

Note:
The 'Game Write' tag allows access to change a ship design .
The 'Game Mod' tag allows deletion of a ship design.
The 'Game Info' tag allows reading of a ship design.

5th Feb (Nexus)
- Fixed Merge Topic
- Increased Lib/Post Limit to 20/100 on the home page
- If post is locked it will appear on the home page
- Altered Messages to be 'marked as read' when you select to (rather than automatic)
- Added 'Delete' to message display page
- Converted 'View Sent Messages' to a GET method
- Prevent topics being merged with themselves
- Sorted uc issue
- Fixed problem with only 1 piece of cbody info being shown on the order editor per system
- Fixed problem with none common items not being displayed in the list on the order editor
- Fixed popups for system claims

Phoenix 10th March
New Orders to Import
- Activate ISR Field
- Change Item Group Name
- Create Item Group
- Pickup from Item Group
- Remove Item Group
- Set Item in Group
- Sell to Local Pop v2 - Currently added trade items to the local market but selling is disabled.

To import above to offline order editor, right click on link below and save to a location on your HD.
new_orders_100309.cfg
-Run order editor
-File -> Import Orders
-Select the file and press open.
This will import the new orders (inc. system claims if you don't have them)

Changes
- Added Item Groups + 5 orders to manipulate them Described Here
- Added Item Group print out to starbase printout
- Rubble is no longer convert to more rubble
- Added DNT own aff to list if you are not a pirate and not IND
- Fixed point defence missile bug
- Fixed issue with MOH crew
- Added weekly update to make sure that all items owned are in know data + all items that you can make are in the known data
- Fixed bug with ships losing integrity when docked during a SB combat
- Fixed officer disembarking bug not being reported correctly
- Updated shield effect on SBs when shutdown by agents
- Made sure that planetary shielded SBs can not fire.

Trade - Added but not active
- Merchant capacity = 500 stellars / catagory / complex
- Converted values from old system to Income (I) ,Local value (L_V), Lower Threshold (T_L), Higher Threshold (T_H) and displayed these on the planetary report on SB/order
- Tied total possible trade in the game to an amount per starbase + added complete record of all trade after
changes for further study
- Added Sell to Local Pop v2 which will add items to 'sell to local population' market but selling per week is currently disabled

Nexus
- Fixed add news in safari
- Added 'None' periphery for certain systems that are not in a specific periphery

Phoenix 25th March
- Updated Trade thresholds / incomes for certain planets.
- Converted control factors to floats
- Added Militia; troops that have an origin planet where they exist for no cost. Allowing better deployment of planetary militia in the future.
- Added ground splash effect to weapons that increases the likly hood of weapons hitting a target. This already existed by was derived from the armour factor.
- Added income to system claims - viewable, but currently no income is distributed.

Phoenix 20th April
- Fixed resource problems with dispersion. At a large enough distance from a local resource the yield returned to full. Fixed it to return to zero.
- One build ship BPs added
- Orders Added

• Set Tag {Tage Name}
  
• Set Player Owned Ships {Starbase} {Allow} - creates issue to allow a AFF starbase to create player owned ships
  
• Weekly Cash Transfer {Political} {Ammount} - creates Issue to transfer cash weekly yo a political
  
• Sell All to Local Population {Trade (yes/no)} {Drugs (yes/no)} {Life (yes/no)} {Local (yes/no)} - Adds all the specificed trade items at a SB to the planetary market.

Phoenix/Nexus Updates 11th Nov
General Nexus Changes
[1] Fixed issue with '/ in new users
[2] Adjusted lines in recruitment page so they are roughly 5
[3] Fixed deletion of recruitment post + editing params of aff recruitment
[4] Changed login of threads to be databased rather than cookies - should improve cookie mess-ups
[5] Added #p_<id> on each post so that directly referencing a single posts can work
[6] Added basic search to forums at the top of the forums page
[7] Fixed subject lines that have '
[8] Added active/inactive work hours on tech manuals
[9] Added added ajax to prevent posting for 30 seconds to threads and thus loss of data.
[10] Added markets lsits to nexus via the following
Text: www.phoenixbse.com/index.php?a=game&sa=markets&type=text
XML: www.phoenixbse.com/index.php?a=game&sa=markets&type=xml
Will be disabling the old link
[11] Added markets link from Techmanuals
[12] Improved ajax calls to fail better and retry
[13] Improved caching in general + improved library speed

Thread Management
Added thread management in the Personal -> Notifications. This allows you see/manage all threads that
you have subscribed or added email notification, as well as all posts you have made in threads for the last 2 weeks.
[1] Added button in the top post in a thread to allow you subscribe to a thread or add email notification.
[2] Make sure you email is correctly set on the nexus to allow this feature to work.

Political Report
If you have a political in phoenix it will now be represented better on the nexus. There is a new page
that contains the following
[1] Positions: A summary of all positions for have similar to the old online order editor
[2] Financial: Has 3 levels
- Affiliation Summary, showing how all the affiliation money is spent (in categories)
- Political Summary (showing how your money is spent in categories)
- Political Report (showing exactly how money was spent over the week on positions)
[3] Information: Shows all your game knowledge and if it derived from your aff or yourself
[4] Issue: This page shows all the current issues and allows you to vote on them
[5] Treaties: List of all treaties your affiliation has.

There will be more items to add to the political (squadrons page) but these are the start.

Messages
The private messages have been given their own page and updated. They now contain 8 categories

-Recent: All message within the last 2 weeks (from all other categories except notes)
-Received: All received message that has not been saved.
-Notes: You can add notes and edit them here, they can be placed on home page by marking unread.
-Saved: Messages from received can be saved in this separate box
-Sent: List of all sent messages
-Game: List of messages sent to you by the game.
-Send Msg: Press this tab to send a message or you come here when you click on other links
-Quota: Summary of your disk quota for messages. Currently 2M but we will see what we need.

Added features
[1] Added mark unread on messages
[2] Added search for user names on message recipient for send message
[3] When you have new turns a message is sent to you by the phoenix, with a list of new turns
[4] Battle reports are now sent to you via a pm from phoenix
[5] There are now options to delete selection / invert selection / mark selection read /
market selection unread / Move to Notes / Moved to saved / Select all. Actions will be performed
on all selected messages.

Phoenix
[1] Converted to VC8
[1] Fixed troop training message
[2] Increased rate of spread reduction when building complexes
[3] Corrected reports for orbiting starbases
[4] Made cargo report always print (even if empty)
[5] Added ship docked cargo type to allow items to have enhanced cargo space for ships only. Ship dock item added.
[6] Added ship bays which allow complex style actions on ships (recruit/rec/mine/resource/maint)
[7] Items and tech added for bays
[8] Maintenance/Repair/Recreation visits can now be performed while docked at platforms/ships if they
have the appropriate bays
[9] Added subtype of hulls for jump drives to allow them to be designed for different ship hull types.
[10] Added limit on the mass that can transit a wormhole - limit on ship sizes (all current WHs unaffected)
[11] Added starbase debt that can be used as a loan against a starbase with merch capacity, and having a weekly repayment.
(orders for this to be added later) Must remain as SB while the loan exists, for new players
[11] Tidied up exit visas
[12] Fixed issue with universities using wrong bonus + reporting correctly on nexus
[13] Made sure that ship names can not contain line breaks
[14] Fixed problem with non majority votes failing to be blocked
[15] Cleared rights and reports when changing affs
[16] Starbases with only rubble/ruins will be converted to derelict - taken from control and removed from combat
[17] Combat stress is now reported
[18] Allowed markets/recruitment at outposts
[19] New politicals created will now receive 5 ships and 100k stellars (if you have resent created a political
ask mica for additional ships). Also all current politicals will be given 100k to avoid 'its not fair' issues.
[20] Fee ships refits have been reset
[21] Fixed pickup from group and reported on SBs
[22] Converted race type none = > sentient (for generic races)
[23] Cleared up treaties and fixed saving bug + note both parties can add to a treaty when its open

Orders
[1] Secure Dock Ship: Allow you to dock with a ship if you know the security code (you no longer have to
embark ships to dock them - although it still works)
[2] Use Ship Bay: Allows the use of one of the new bay items.
- Use of a bay items via this order causes integrity loss to ships = 1 weeks maintenance.
- The bays require mobile crew to use (ie non ai)
- Mining and resource gathering is taken of the last 'slice' of the resources, while it
effects stockpile it does not effect starbase production off the same resource.
However multiple uses of a resource in the same week is account for similar to mining.
[3] Supercharge Item: This supercharges an installed item. If the items has been designed to be supercharged it

Phoenix/Nexus Updates 25th Nov

[1] Corrected email notify / Added topic in email
[2] Messages from phoenix do not link to info page now
[3] Added a few bits to financial page + corrected transfered ships
[4] Market Buy/Sell split into 2 actions
[5] Notes start unread
[6] Fixed preview in notes
[7] Added buttons to move to notes / saved
[8] Outposts now on market report on nexus.
[9] Rebranded the naps, moh on moh positions
[10] Added 'dots' for IE8 to political information tab
[11] fixed the IE8 'Recipient Search' on PM's

Phoenix/Nexus Updates 11th December

[1] Fixed search for post, to use lastest first + have 10 results per page + multiple pages
[2] Fixed sort by last access on political positions
[3] Transfer affiliation funds now reports transfer
[4] Starbase tech can now be frozen by GM (not allowed to untool)
[5] Fixed issues with treaties uploading to nexus
[6] Logged all tech transfers in game
[7] Added open/close all positions on political -> positions tab
[8] Added 'Add Turn' / 'Request Update' on political -> positions tab (just select the positons with the ikle button that you want this for)
[9] Added 1,000,000 stellars, removed 1,000,000 stellars and Added 100,000 stellars like we planed to all politicals.
[10] Recreation complex Visits reclaim from accrued cash on positions, this cash has been cut to 50% of troop wages, so the maximum cash squeezed out of recreation complexes is 50% of wages on a ship.
[11] Fixed market tx file name to be more informative
[12] Added date on financial political report page
[13] Changed to recording the game state directly onto the nexus - so TUs on positions should be correct now (if not ther eis another issue)
[14] Fixed issue with some systems claims getting confused - will be updated soon.

Phoenix/Nexus Updates 3rd Feb 2010
[1] Added pending state to issue button in orders
[2] Added Personal -> Preferences -> Options -> Hide login
[3] Added extra columns to orders
[4] Partial fix of search order
[5] Fixed squad maintenance order
[6] Fixed issue with zero employee SB giving maintenance properly
[7] Addedtreaty column to political information
[8] Fixed error updating restricted data
[9] Fixed dumping cargo with docked GPs
[10] Removed non exisitant money transfers from financial data
[11] Added 'add' to 'set in item group' order
[12] Changed website address in emails
[13] Removed orbital starbases from boarding combat defence
[14] Fixed linking issues in libs for section links
[15] Fixed self undock from positions that are docked with something else
[16] Added posts searched by user
[17] Converted register to signup. Register now only accessable via direct url
[18] Added drop down for DNT lists
[19] Fixed treaties in GM tools
[20] Fixed overlap problems in text
[21] Fixed google chrome ordering
[22] Macros sorted by name
[23] Fixed problem with efficiency and wait for TUs
[24] Only blocks submittion of posts every 30 seconds, not edits

Phoenix/Nexus Updates 11th December

[1] Fixed search for post, to use lastest first + have 10 results per page + multiple pages
[2] Fixed sort by last access on political positions
[3] Transfer affiliation funds now reports transfer
[4] Starbase tech can now be frozen by GM (not allowed to untool)
[5] Fixed issues with treaties uploading to nexus
[6] Logged all tech transfers in game
[7] Added open/close all positions on political -> positions tab
[8] Added 'Add Turn' / 'Request Update' on political -> positions tab (just select the positons with the ikle button that you want this for)
[9] Added 1,000,000 stellars, removed 1,000,000 stellars and Added 100,000 stellars like we planed to all politicals.
[10] Recreation complex Visits reclaim from accrued cash on positions, this cash has been cut to 50% of troop wages, so the maximum cash squeezed out of recreation complexes is 50% of wages on a ship.
[11] Fixed market tx file name to be more informative
[12] Added date on financial political report page
[13] Changed to recording the game state directly onto the nexus - so TUs on positions should be correct now (if not ther eis another issue)
[14] Fixed issue with some systems claims getting confused - will be updated soon.

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