Thanks everyone for playing and making suggestions (Mikele - that goes primarily to you :) ). We've been busy since we started 11 days ago. 30 tickets have been added to the bug tracker (I can't count all those issues that were taken care of instantly, without a proper report being written). Most of the work went into fixing various bugs, and introducing some lacking infrastructure (for example "forgotten password recovery" and other things you really don't want to read about), but there are some new features as well.
Most notably, you can now make 3 visits every six hours and you do decide whether you want to visit some hotel or not (before, it happened automatically after you've entered that hotel's page). That helps a bit on the interaction side of the game - we're already seeing people forming partnerships on the "I visit you, you visit me basic"... and this in turned revealed a shortcoming - it was hard to find other people's hotels. It's been dealt with as well - there's a search function (look at the top-right corner) and you can add friends for a quick access.
Sometime yesterday Tomek made it possible to re-paint a hotel after it's been built.
As most of the burning issues have been dealt with, we're going into a next phase - enriching the game with new details. Before we commit to some specific direction, we'd like to hear your opinions - please read a forum thread on new types of facilities and tell us what you think!
Aug 3rd 2008, 14:45
Most notably, you can now make 3 visits every six hours and you do decide whether you want to visit some hotel or not (before, it happened automatically after you've entered that hotel's page). That helps a bit on the interaction side of the game - we're already seeing people forming partnerships on the "I visit you, you visit me basic"... and this in turned revealed a shortcoming - it was hard to find other people's hotels. It's been dealt with as well - there's a search function (look at the top-right corner) and you can add friends for a quick access.
Sometime yesterday Tomek made it possible to re-paint a hotel after it's been built.
As most of the burning issues have been dealt with, we're going into a next phase - enriching the game with new details. Before we commit to some specific direction, we'd like to hear your opinions - please read a forum thread on new types of facilities and tell us what you think!