Upcoming Updates for Fiesta: Estate System & Secret Unique Update!

Outspark [GM] Silkypico had posted an announcement about introducing the “Estate System” which is the upgraded mini-home. It allows players to decorate, walk around, and socialize with up to 7 other players. Fiesta players can buy warps for their home so that it’s a lot easier to travel to a specific area.

- Furniture will be useable (Chairs, benches, etc.)

- Holds up to 7 players

- The housing feature is free, but a special quest needs to be completed to use the feature

- Furniture/Deco will deteriorate over time, and players can buy repair kits. Furniture bought from the Outspark Store will use premium repair kits.

The secret unique update will later be announced, and will be coming before the housing update. In order for the housing update to become available this February, Silkypico has set a target goal for Fiesta Fans on Facebook: 10,000. To see the status of the fan count, I’ve programmed a fan count tracker image, which is used in my sig.

Sick

Since about September 21st, I’ve been battling a nasty case of Bronchitis. I’m just about over it now and have returned to my classes, but right now I still have a bit of a cough. I’m able to get back to working Thursday, and boy do I need to.

In other news, I’ve been playing a bit of AION Online, but like every other MMORPG, I’ve never been completely attatched to it. I guess I’ve got some sort of immunity to the “WoWcrack” or “Evercrack” that many have gotten addicted to. That does not mean I don’t enjoy the games; I just can’t find myself playing them constantly.

Project-wise, I’ve been messing around with LightBox, vBulletin, and CSS. CSS has been giving me hell lately, mainly with cross-browser support. IE and Firefox like to fight and process CSS differently when I use a style code such as:

.midBox a:link { color: #000000; text-decoration: none;} <-- This wanted to work fine in IE8, but was ineffective in Firefox for some reason. I had to rewrite it to be:

.midBox > a:link { color: #000000; text-decoration: none;}, which really didn’t make sense to me why the first didn’t want to work. They should both target the link inside the <div> tags.

It could be just me, but I am not sure why that really is happening differently/incorrectly… if you know differently, please comment. I am still a learner!

A friend of mine suggested that I use YUI (Yahoo! UI) “reset.css” which should be able to minimize the differences between Firefox and IE (as well as other mainstream browsers). Unfortunately, with all the CSS I had written, it only made things worse.

In Blackshot news, I had made an attemt to work some new information out of the staff, but there really is no news. Sadly, this game entered Closed Beta testing 1 full year ago. Suprising, isn’t it? Luckily, I have patience and could wait even another year before I give up on the game. I have Counter-Strike: Source to keep me happy.

I also recently uploaded my recording of the Blackshot CBT event: “GMs vs. All” to Youtube, so you can watch it in fairly high quality.

Quick Update on my Server Status

I recently spent a few hours until 3am this morning and adjusted my server status image again to transform it into a bar again and also made it a whole lot more accurate by checking the ability to log in rather than just seeing if the login is online. This was added since the servers come online during maintenance, but users aren’t able to log in until maintenance is over.

This is the barred version of the server status signature image ver. 3(.5 after login update).

Project Powder & Blackshot

I have noticed there are a few out there who hate Outspark’s guts for not spilling any info on the release dates of the major Project Powder updates as well as Blackshot. Though I may have more precise information on said topics, I do not have the liberty to discuss them. All I have been able to provide to you guys is the dreaded word- “soon”.

Project Powder has had a UI change already and I am looking forward to seeing many more players hop into ProPow! This time, we mean “soon” the way it was intended. You won’t be waiting another 6 months this time! I will update you all as I am given more information to relay.

As for Blackshot, Rider is calling the shots I believe and he had made a recent post on April 1st (What a bad time to make an announcement?) stating that Blackshot’s targeted Open Beta date is somewhere mid-June. Ouch. It has been around half a year since Blackshot went into the first Closed Beta. I just hope the Blackshot team can give us something worth waiting this long for.

For more information- visit www.playblackshot.com and www.project-powder.com today!

New Fiesta Patch to be Released Tonight

The June 9th patch is scheduled to be released tonight (No official time posted), which should be within the next 12 hours. Pictures are property of Outspark.com.

Hopefully I will be awake during the patching process so I can debug my server status scripts.