v0.10.0
This is an interim version. There are a considerable amount of minor omissions (most are AJAX-related cosmetic effects that are fixed when the page or section is reloaded). These things will be fixed as time permits. The unfortunate situation was that the codebase for the dev version was too different from the old version to serve as a development platform to fix the problems. It seemed to be a better use of time to make a playable version of the dev version than to rework the old version, just to turn around and get rid of it.
That said, these are some notes about v0.10.0:
Rollover was pretty much on its last leg in 0.9.13 and took forever to run. I'd like to shift the idea of rollover from running every 12 hours to running every minute, giving much finer grain control over event handling.
The map view was rewritten with AJAX in mind. It still functions the same (unfortunately), but at least it'll be more responsive.
Likewise, the inventory module was completely rewritten with AJAX in mind. This was a pretty annoying area that sorely needed the overhaul.
Switched to jQueryUI. I'm not too familiar with the framework, so it'll be a while before anything particularly interesting comes of this.
Some minor UI changes were made, notably the left and right menu panes were finally chopped up into individual blocks and slightly rearranged. Given how much web app UIs have adapted over the past few years, I'm not sure if the 3-pane layout is appropriate anymore. There are other layouts that may prove more effective (less mouse and eye movement, for example).
Epic wars were the root of some problems, so they've been disabled for the time being and will be replaced with a deeper and more interesting mechanic.
The money system was changed, slightly, to something a little more common (denominations of currency).
The dynamic stats were switched over to a vitals-type layout (bars instead of numbers). This should make it easier to transition to micro-rollover type event system (where hunger and thirst drop throughout the day rather than all at once every 12 hours).
This version was developed on an OS X box so there are currently some pretty bad browser compatibility issues with earlier versions of IE. I'm having intermittent problems with Chrome, but it doesn't seem to have any problems with Firefox and Safari.
