08/29/13 - School of Dragons Support Updates

[Brynjolf]

Hey everyone, the team has been hard at work and released these new updates. Thank you for helping us track these bugs so we could fix them for you.

Updates
1. As our awesome players requested, we added a top down camera in farming
2. Fixed various text bugs (overlapping, line spacing, etc)
3. Fixed bug where XP meter showed as full when user had no achievement data
4. Updated the art for farm slots
5. Updated to Unity 4.2
6. Updated fishing tutorial text
7. Changed invite a friend to gems
8. Fixed seeing outside of the world when toggling the camera in farming
9. Moved invite a friend into the store
10. Added information about the well in farming the first time a user clicks it
11. Added player water quantity to ‘add water’ button.
12. Updated art for visiting pop-up
13. Small sounds added to various buttons and interfaces
14. Fixed some scrolling bugs in the message board
15. Another attempt at fish not reeling in bugs
16. Economy balancing pass
17. Updated the text for player authorization
18. Various culling optimizations in scenes for performance / frame rate
19. Updates to face textures for boys and girls
20. Reduced number of files to help with initial download
21. Fixed animal tutorial step in farming repeating when user comes out of portal and comes back in.
22. Added visual bar to show the well refilling rate.
23. Fixed being able to select crops in build mode.
24. Added feed animation and particles to farming.
25. Updated Job Board tutorial text
26. Updated the invite a friend layout slightly
27. Various fixes to wrist bands, shoulder pads, and other clothing textures.
28. Fixed random crash when entering the wilderness
29. Fixed random crash when going into and out of the store.
30. Reduced draw calls when displaying avatar name, this should help frame rate a little.
31. Made teen flight levels available to adults—fly to your heart’s content!
32. Changed bugs in the About Me page related to moods
33. Fixed fishing bug of tutorial GUI overlapping store GUI
34. Added avatar location validation to fix avatars going out of the world when changing scenes
35. Addressed a memory leak when the player leaves the lab
36. Fixed bug that would cause frame rate drops when MMO players were getting disconnected.
37. Fix for Feed menu disappearing in farming when clicking scroll arrow buttons
38. Fixed issue of placing the farm house on top of farming slots
39. Updates to friend list messages
40. Fixed issue of player getting stuck on the geyser in the wilderness
41. Fixes for audio in the lab
42. Fixed tutorial bug in build mode when backpack was open
43. Fixed chat not working in farming
44. Fixed issue where MMO player was able to click on other players’ farm items when visiting
45. Store fix for parts not reverting correctly when switching tabs and trying on clothes
46. Added mini-map for great hall interior
47. Fixed well timer not updating for some players when they log out
48. Added various tooltips throughout interfaces
49. Added gulp animation when petting dragon in pet play
50. Varied load screen order
51. Dragon will now look at mouse cursor when farming
52. Updated the water in farm
53. Fixed various farming tutorial issues
54. Various friend visiting fixes
55. Modified pickups for farming
56. Fixed messages not appearing when players reply to other messages
57. Fixed random crashes in Berk
58. Fixed random crash when navigating in the school or wilderness
59. Fixed random crash bug when player goes from teen to adult dragon
60. Fixed players getting coins whenever they entered farming
61. Fixed bug of refill button not working immediately after player ranks up
62. Fixed bug of water being taken when player harvests a crop
63. Fixed issue of some players starting the game with 0 Gems
64. Fixed quest arrow flickering after leaving play mode
65. Fixed quest arrow not appearing after finishing the fishing quest
66. Fixed crash when player purchases items back-to-back too many times
67. Fixed alignment of vocabulary words in field guide
68. Fixed issue of ‘add water’ button failing to appear during farming tutorial
69. Fixed definition of Herbivorous and producer vocabulary words
70. Fixed players being able to log in from multiple locations at the same time
71. Added text to show next upgrade level and used / available farm slots in build mode

As always, if you have any questions or come across game issues, don't hesitate to let us know in the Customer Support, Technical Support, or Bug Report boards. Thank you!

[Icka! M. Chif]

Was just about to comment that it looked like you guys just did an update, noticed the changed graphics in farming. Then saw the list. Wow, that's a lot of fixes and changes! Thanks guys!

[Boethiah]

So many awesome updates! Major thanks. My barn is now all fixed too, which is majorly sweet! But I went into my farm and it turns out one of my fire pits became another house! So now I have two. Just thought I should let you guys know about that if it can be fixed or something.

[Brynjolf]

Aug 29, 2013 14:35:31 GMT -8 Boethiah said:

So many awesome updates! Major thanks. My barn is now all fixed too, which is majorly sweet! But I went into my farm and it turns out one of my fire pits became another house! So now I have two. Just thought I should let you guys know about that if it can be fixed or something.

Thanks for letting us know, Boethiah. We'll let our producers know and see what the progress is on this bug fix. Thanks!

[moonlight1393]

Just played the game. These new updates are so awesome! I love the flying/gliding levels! Flying around with my dragon is my favorite thing to do.

[Asvald]

Great new changes and fixes, any updates on some players having the jumbled textures on their avatars?

[Carotius]

Awesome updates! Not only visually,but through sound too! The Zippleback's firing sound has an improved explosive sound,and some dragons get more growling/grunting/whatever noises ^^.

I see that you're still working on the duplicating houses bug. I found a small problem,though - the layouts are overlapping each other on the Friend Profile page:



Oh,and my dragon still follows my cursor even when it's asleep? Haha!

By the way,I'm just curious,but did you guys tone down the texture details for the dragons? I noticed the details on my Nadder looked a bit more flat than before the update (not sure about other dragons).

[Skips]

Aug 30, 2013 1:20:40 GMT -8 Carotius said:

Awesome updates! Not only visually,but through sound too! The Zippleback's firing sound has an improved explosive sound,and some dragons get more growling/grunting/whatever noises ^^.

I see that you're still working on the duplicating houses bug. I found a small problem,though - the layouts are overlapping each other on the Friend Profile page:

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Oh,and my dragon still follows my cursor even when it's asleep? Haha!

By the way,I'm just curious,but did you guys tone down the texture details for the dragons? I noticed the details on my Nadder looked a bit more flat than before the update (not sure about other dragons).

ohai dere ouo

[Carotius]

Aug 30, 2013 2:31:56 GMT -8 Skips said:

Aug 30, 2013 1:20:40 GMT -8 Carotius said:

Awesome updates! Not only visually,but through sound too! The Zippleback's firing sound has an improved explosive sound,and some dragons get more growling/grunting/whatever noises ^^.

I see that you're still working on the duplicating houses bug. I found a small problem,though - the layouts are overlapping each other on the Friend Profile page:



Oh,and my dragon still follows my cursor even when it's asleep? Haha!

By the way,I'm just curious,but did you guys tone down the texture details for the dragons? I noticed the details on my Nadder looked a bit more flat than before the update (not sure about other dragons).

ohai dere ouo

I know you is happy XD

[Ellie]

i just have a bug to report i invited my friend to a clan,and she accepted but i didn't get 50 gems. or is that only when a friend registers?
and are there more that one whispering death levels in the flight club? 250 gems for one lessons is expensive

[Brynjolf]

Aug 30, 2013 7:25:58 GMT -8 Ellie said:

i just have a bug to report i invited my friend to a clan,and she accepted but i didn't get 50 gems. or is that only when a friend registers?
and are there more that one whispering death levels in the flight club? 250 gems for one lessons is expensive

Hey, shiinyscale. We received your other report on this issue so we wanted to check if you got our response. In case you didn't, please privately message us your username and email address so we can look into this issue. Thanks!

[Brynjolf]

Aug 29, 2013 20:46:09 GMT -8 Asvald said:

Great new changes and fixes, any updates on some players having the jumbled textures on their avatars?

Hey Asvald. Thanks for checking in on this bug. Our team is currently working on reproducing and pinpointing the cause of this bug so we haven't arrived at a fix just yet. We'll let you know once the bug has been fixed. Thanks!

[Brynjolf]

Aug 30, 2013 1:20:40 GMT -8 Carotius said:

Awesome updates! Not only visually,but through sound too! The Zippleback's firing sound has an improved explosive sound,and some dragons get more growling/grunting/whatever noises ^^.

I see that you're still working on the duplicating houses bug. I found a small problem,though - the layouts are overlapping each other on the Friend Profile page:



Oh,and my dragon still follows my cursor even when it's asleep? Haha!

By the way,I'm just curious,but did you guys tone down the texture details for the dragons? I noticed the details on my Nadder looked a bit more flat than before the update (not sure about other dragons).

Hey Carotius. We're glad you enjoy the new updates and thanks for the bug reports. Did you first start experiencing the overlap bug after the update? Does the overlap occur when opening certain tabs or is it for every one? We'll also take a look into the dragon textures. Could you provide a screenshot so we can take a look at what you mean by flat? Thanks!

[Carotius]

Yep,the overlapping happened right after the updates,and it's happened for all tabs. As for the dragon textures,here's a comparison of before (left) and after (right):




I doubt it's because of the lighting. It could just be me,actually ^^"

[Ellie]

Aug 30, 2013 9:31:20 GMT -8 Brynjolf said:

Aug 30, 2013 7:25:58 GMT -8 Ellie said:

i just have a bug to report i invited my friend to a clan,and she accepted but i didn't get 50 gems. or is that only when a friend registers?
and are there more that one whispering death levels in the flight club? 250 gems for one lessons is expensive

Hey, shiinyscale. We received your other report on this issue so we wanted to check if you got our response. In case you didn't, please privately message us your username and email address so we can look into this issue. Thanks!

yes i got your response thanky you. and i guess its 50 gems if you invite someone into the game not in a clan.