Here is a list of some of the larger updates that Subeta pushed out this weekend. We are hoping that this smooths out a lot of the bugs and errors that we have been facing as we roll out a few systems. We have more work planned and we will be sure to communicate those as well.



Forum Updates



- Head shots in forum preferences are now working again.



- Group pings now work in Human Avatar and Pet forums. The flip side to this is that group pings in Advertising and Wanted will no longer work. Switching over to the forums changed the IDs and the old Advertising and Wanted linked to the new Human Avatar and Pet forums and blocked group pings from processing. This was in error and, as intended, group pings should not work in Advertising and Wanted forums.



- Personal and group pings now work when creating a topic.



- There were a few changes to group ping processing. This should help speed up a lot of the processing for small and mid-size groups. It might not be the perfect solution for large groups (with several hundred or a few thousand members) but we will continue to monitor them. We have a few ideas in mind if the issues persist.



Cron Updates



- There was an error in the Pet Spotlight script that was updated. The overnight cron should now run on time and should generate a news post for the winner. We will monitor those accordingly.



- There were a few updates how high score payouts work. Instead of being processed at midnight, high scores will be paid at 2 AM Subeta time. We have also started to move a few games (specifically Matlal’s Jewels, Spectrail, Cybill Sledding, and Restocking Royalty) to a new system. These games will pay out at 3 AM. Eventually, we will move all of the games over to the new system and move processing back to 2 AM but we want to take it one step at a time and make sure that each game that is transferred is updated and paid out properly.



Achievement Updates



- Please be mindful that importing your achievements will update them to the progress as of 8 August 2014. (There are some achievements that will go back to 6 August 2014.) If you have made considerable progress in the last few days, please do not import as you will lose the progress. We’ve added a notice saying so. The import feature is mainly for those that were moving over to the system and had issues initially. We apologize if this was not communicated clearly and please feel free to submit a ticket if there is a discrepancy in achievement progress.



- Wardrobe and Pekaboo achievements are known issues. We are aware that they are not being given out or updating properly and we are looking into it. Please do not create tickets for these as we will address the solution to everyone.



- The “Big Spender” achievement will be off for those that imported before today. Re-importing will fix the issue, but we recommend against it (as other progress will be lost) and we will work out a better solution for the achievement.



- Achievement counts are not accurate and might be different across various parts of the site. One of the biggest updates to the achievement system was scalability. We reduced the amount of database records and tiers were placed within an achievement - which on the topical level does not change much but it drastically changes how we create and reward achievements under the hood. The discrepancy in the achievement counts stems from how they are calculated - we will update and standardize them. Rest assured that you are not losing achievements.



Please continue to report achievements that are not tracking properly. There shouldn’t be any cases of losing achievements when the dust settles. We know every single achievement that was earned on the old system and can cross-reference them to the new ones. Some groups of achievements (as mentioned above) will have issues but we are working those out.



Misc. Updates



- The games that went missing from the games index are now listed again.



- There were improvements to shoutbox functionality.