We’re rushing this one to be in time for Christmas:
3 Contested Areas – that’s the family/safehouse system from Mafia Empire.
New Map – different “levels” (Mid realm and high realm, Aeros will finally be floating above everyone else), new map will also show which clans control which contested areas.
New Interface – I can safely say this will be a lot neater and more organised (it’s not the one you’ve seen so far in the photos section)
New Clan War Pages- these are the ones you’ve seen in the photos section. Plus clan icons and descriptions.
1 new port – that’s the noob town. Now renamed Azure Atoll.
SKILLZ - SKILLZ!
MOAR QUESTS – existing ones will remain to avoid whining but we’ll add a bunch of new ones
New Quest system – there will be quest items. Loot drops.
New Explore system – in Flash with more visuals.
New Class system – say goodbye to the trader class, say hello to class progression
Dual Classing – level too high? miss that leveling up everyday feeling? Time to pick your secondary class
2nd Hangar – seems necessary to support the dual class system.
Other features which may or may not make it to the December release:
Crew fighting – finally you can board someone else’s ship and battle their crew. This is the battle system from Mafia Empire. This will require crew weapons and a whole bunch of other stuff so no guarantees that this will be in.
+1 AP regen is finally done! A loyalty bonus for our players who bought Ocho coins and our way of saying thanks for the support!
It’s absolutely FREE as long as you’ve bought some Ocho coins.
If you bought Ocho coins before, we’ve added the +1AP/hr regen for you automatically.
If you’ve just bought Ocho following this announcement you’ll have to login to Ocho Online to activate the +1 AP/hr regen “item”.
Details here > http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=18063885304&topic=36296
* Impt: I know some of you guys are planning to buy 50 Ochos for someone else and then get them to send you 500APs back so they can get the +1AP regen for free. That’s not going to work because they can only send you stuff if they bought the 520 Ocho package.
Strongly recommend against buying $50 of stuff for a stranger. If it’s someone you know well then I guess that’s ok.
Took me a while but here’s the map. There’ll be a ton of new locations and sub locations. Now that all the land masses are finalized we can start adding in towns, ruins, landmarks, etc.
You can view a larger version of the map here > http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/photo.php?pid=8979597&id=18063885304
We’ve just ran through a major test and review session of the Mafia Empire update on our Beta servers. We’ll be making a few more tweaks to the system but the short of it is that it’s about ready for release. Expect it soon, like next week soon.
Ships:
- 1 x level 70 ship as a reward for having clan war’ed at least 50 times
- 2 x level 160 ships
- 2 x M.W.Fs (“Mobile Weapon Frames”: these are the flying mechs you may have seen at some of the boss events. These were called Mobile Adaptive Weapons or “MAW”s in our first game; we might rename them again. Sios inhabitants of the current time period would probably call them “flying knight armors” or something like that)
- 1 x UFO ship skin (this will be used for a special boss event)
Parts:
- 2 x crests
- 2 x stabilizers
Weapons:
- 1 x Ram
- 2 x Sub cannons including the long awaited “XD” sub
- 4 x Cannons + 1 special UFO weapon
- 2 x Interceptors
- 1 x Missiles
Special Weapons for M.W.Fs:
- 1 x Beam (Cannon)
- 2 x Missile Weapons
- 2 x Melee Weapons
My admin character will be piloting a M.W.F soon so we might be able to put the submarine ship skin up for sale soon.
We’re working on upgrading Ocho with an “achievement” system so we can put in the free +1 AP regen for Battle Stations players. The +1AP regen is free as long as you’ve bought the smallest package ($5.50).
There’ll be bonuses for our other games as well so your energy regen rate in Mafia Empire will improve as well.
Let me know if you have a preferred payment channel so we can try to add that to Ocho. Finally, here’s the concept for the “Ocho whore/mascot”; her name is “Ocho” and she’ll be your assistant in Mafia Empire after the revamp. 
We discussed incentives for keeping your fort afloat in our regular Monday meeting this morning. Some MMOs give buffs to all their members for holding strategic points or doing well at their equivalent of Clan Wars. We decided not to adopt that idea because it’s been proven to result in everyone wanting only to join the top clan.
Instead we’ll be working on the clan treasury and as long as there’s only 1 clan afloat that clan will start to “mine” for ores, p.rocks and even rare items. The mined resources will be put in the clan treasury and it’s up to the Clan Masters to divide the spoils.
Leonard Mah will be writing the backstory of the Mining Wars between clans to secure rich ore fields. Tier S clans are fighting over the richest ore fields with the best yield.
For reasons unknown, Facebook has decided to remove the “reply-to” function from all discussion boards. While I understood the rationale behind some of Facebook’s other unpopular updates, I cannot even begin to guess the logic behind this one.
Samuel Vimes (not his real name) found out you can still reply directly to someone’s post but it may be only a matter of time before FB completely removes the function:
To reply directly to a post ,just modify and paste the following in your URL bar >
http://www.facebook.com/edittopic.php?uid={ApplicationID}&topic={topicnumber}&action=4&reply_to={postnumber}
- You can get the applicationID from the application about page (18063885304 for Battle Stations)
- topicnumber from the URL string of the topic you are viewing
- post number by viewing the page source code
I really hope FB does a rollback but I doubt they will so we’ll initiate the creation of our own BS forums (PHPbb). You’ll be able to sign in automatically via Facebook connect so it’ll be like the BS forums with new functions and the “reply to” function. Credit goes to Kien for this idea.
The comic is coming along nicely.
Kaizo done up the second draft of the pencil sketches and they’re turning out great. It’s just a matter of a couple of tweaks here and there and we can proceed on to inking and colouring the rest of the comic. Most of the character designs by Kendrick has also been progressing at a good rate. We’re now experimenting with colours and all the other minor little details.
So hope you guys like the first comic. I’m starting to write the second issue and plan the story all the way to issue 7 now and I can promise some awesome stuff down the line.
These changes regarding Clan and Clan War are updated in the Game:
- You can join clan only on a Thurdays Sios time or when you are clanless for 30days or more.
- You can only unpacify on Thurdays Sios time . Pacify cooldown of 7 days removed.
These changes regarding Clan and Clan War will be updated into the Game soon:
- Clans will have “Pacifist” or “Warring” status now.
- Only “Warring ” clans will be ranked.
For “Warring ” Status:
- Maximum of 10% of clan members can be pacified. e.g. Clan size of 50, atleast 45 members must remain as warring members for clan to have “Warring” status
- Clans need to have a minimum size of 50 to maintain “Warring” status.
Failure of either conditions will result in ” Pacifist” status.
Clan Deletion criteria is being revised and will be updated soon:
- Clan maintainence size: 30members.
- Auto-check for clan deletion: Every Friday Sios time
- New clans have a 1 month period from date of creation to reach 30 members, or else they will be deleted
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