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Patch 0.80b: the sweep after your plan badge

Okay! Here's everything new since 0.78, all in one go.

The 80b sweep

Every few updates I go over the whole site and game again, top to bottom, and this was one of those. A bunch of small stuff, a few bigger ones.

Security: 9 fixes this time: 7 for privacy and 2 for page safety. As always, I'm keeping the details to myself on purpose.

Fixed

  • Top-ups on Pro and Max only get spent once now. What a top-up paid for was ALSO coming off the next week's allowance. Not anymore, and I'm sorry about that one.
  • Ended up with two plans at once (two checkout tabs, say)? You stay on the better one while it's active, and Checkout sends you to manage your plan instead of starting a second one.
  • Deleting your account always ends its plan's billing, even if something went wrong the first time.
  • Named creatures can't be tamed (for now!). Taming one counted as killing it, for everybody, which was a bit much.
  • Doing something while your turn is still being written (picking something up, taking a job, a bed, a dig) now waits a moment instead of costing you the turn you just wrote.
  • A hit you take at a door (running away, an ambush) stays taken. A reload doesn't undo it anymore.
  • Killers that died out in the world, or wandered off with someone, come off the notice boards.
  • A killer named after a traveller who played nameless was called "…Who Snuffed Out a". Oops! It's "…a Stranger" now, and its name and its bounty say it the same way.
  • The talk of the road only quotes stories the world still tells, and the ballad card only says "last month's" when it is.
  • Grades lost to a server restart give your Ink back right away, and they don't count toward the day's limit.
  • The ? buttons are easier to tap on a phone, the fight window's replay and save buttons don't reach back into your last fight, and the weather line in a place's details lost its stray asterisks.
  • Under the hood: pages with lots of rank badges stay quick when the site is busy, and steadier saving when lots of you are playing.

New: your plan badge, in the game

If you're on Synth Pro or Synth Max, thank you SO much. You keep the lights on, and now it shows in the game too, not just on the site.

  • Your badge sits beside your name in WyrmRail: the gold nib for Pro, the gold-and-blue rings for Max. You'll see it in the stories the world tells about you (the ones "remembered here" and "sung of" around a place), in the talk of the road, and on the Legends.
  • Every published chapter now says who wrote it, right at the top, with their rank and their badge.
  • Playing nameless? Then no badge shows. A stranger stays a stranger.

Better

  • No more freeze the first time you hear a place. The first film somewhere new used to stop the page for about a second while its sounds were made (crowds were the worst). They're made in the background now, so everything keeps moving. It sounds exactly the same.
  • Writer XP explains itself. Tap the ? beside "+12 writer XP" (it works on phones too) for exactly how it's counted. The FAQ says it the same way.

Thank you all for playing and for every bug report. Every bug caught is somebody having a better time. See you on the rail!

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