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Nov-18-2016 22:10

Yeti Face has emerged from his workshop with a new trove of content. We're not quite ready to release this, but are getting close.

In preparation for release, we've pushed up an update so we can test. This is a pretty extensive update, and there are bound to be a few bugs lurking out there. In fact, I ran into one earlier: I was booted to the login screen when completing an AI mystery with a faction twist.

I've tried reproducing the bug and haven't had any luck yet, but I know it's there.

So, I've turned off the usual functionality that hides bugs from users by either showing the terse "Unexpected Error" page, or by simply shunting you to the login page. If you run into the same bug, you SHOULD see some useful chunk of feedback including the exact error and the line of offending code.

So: if you see a white "Spyce exception" error page with a bunch of programming gobbledygook. Please Copy the text and post it here. YetiFace or I will look into it and hopefully make the world a bit safer for crime fighters.

As always...

Sleuth Strong!

Nov-19-2016 09:03

Thanks everyone. The hunt advancement issue should be resolved shortly.

Nov-19-2016 10:28

Thanks for the work you do, Yeti. I'm sure this isn't your ideal way of spending your Saturday. :)

Nov-19-2016 10:38

Yeti's hunt advance fix is in place now.

We've also given everybody back their full set of cases for the day. Sorry again for the inconvenience.

Thanks for all the feedback. Please report any additional bugs you see.

Nov-19-2016 10:45

Thank you, Ben! I thought I was dreaming when I saw I had 12 cases instead of one. :)

Nov-19-2016 10:54

Thanks Ben and Yeti! I was sure this was another bug abeit a welcome one :-D

Nov-19-2016 10:58

Part of the paid work I do during the week actually includes a Saturday job (I work a number of part time jobs), so Saturday is basically a work day for me anyway. :-) As ever you're very welcome for my work, and thank you (and everyone else) for being so patient with the inevitable bugs with every release. Hopefully though getting all these bugs out of the way now will lower the number of bugs when the content itself is released.

I'll also mention that our favourite fez-wearer has put in at least half the work on finding the fixing the current bugs, and all of the work on getting them into the game. And he doesn't have a Saturday job. :P

Nov-19-2016 10:59

Haha, a few messages between us there. :-) My last post was "addressed" to Sindy.

Nov-20-2016 01:00

Spyce exception

File: /home/ben/noir/src/www/map/post2.spy
Message:
KeyError: 0
Stack: post2.spy:32, in (main):
the_mission.actor = random.choice(CITIES_ACTORS[the_mission.city])[0]

(when trying to pick up a package to deliver from Post Office)

Nov-20-2016 01:02

I'm unable to invite detectives to the agency. I remember something like that happening before. Please help!

Nov-20-2016 01:27

Thanks for that Cathy, I've fixed that one in the code so Ben'll just need to pop it into the game.

Jessica, when you say you're unable to invite detectives to the agency do you mean their names aren't coming up when you search them? As detectives already in an agency do not come up in the search results there.