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The new website brings in numerous changes:

- it should support tablets/phones much better (minimum width 800 pixels). This may make the page look a bit cramped on large screens, but I find the 'zoom' feature on modern browsers works very well. There may be some need to automatically make stuff bigger on bigger screens... it's a work in progress so bear with me on this one.

- I have tried to improve the interface so that there's less 'digging for things' you need. E.g. a new 'buildings' dropdown menu which gives shortcuts to the buildings you have recently visited


Players can now do a lot more without paying:
- Full access to mechanic, hospital and marketplace, but not training camp
- Travel in the northern triangle (but to to camps)
- Full use of squads
- Transfer $ and Chrome to/from other gangs

Premium players get extra benefits:
- 1.5x more experience from events
- gangsize capped by leadership (rather than max 10)
- uncapped garagesize (rather than max 6)
- use of training camps
- travel anywhere
- camps
- 1st premium payment gets $50k soft currency, and 3 slots for car skins, 3 for decals, and 3 for character skins
- each premium payment also receives some Chrome currency, which buys equipment upgrades and fixes Serious damage. Later on this will also be able to buy other things such as better training in the training camp

I have added the correct amount of Chrome to the gangs of all current Premium members, according to their most recent subscription purchase.
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 11:31 am Last edited Jul 3, 2014, 1:40 pm by *sam*
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Great news, Sam.

As always, a learning curve with the new design.

One question - is there (or will there be) different color scheme options? The black background with a lot of information in blue text just doesn't work that well for me and would like to be able to switch to something else.
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 12:17 pm
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Yeah, it's certainly feasible. We'll see how this beds in first, and iron out bugs etc..

Any usability issues can be looked at after that...
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 12:23 pm
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Not working well on IE, no pop-ups are working.
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 1:06 pm
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It works ok for me in IE, what version are you using?
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 1:08 pm
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Faction alliances and that factions gangs are no longer listed when clicking on them on the "my gang" page.
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 1:21 pm
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What does uncapped gang size mean exactly? My gang appears to still be capped, by leadership, as it's always been.
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 1:38 pm
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Boonwolf said:
Faction alliances and that factions gangs are no longer listed when clicking on them on the "my gang" page.


Hmm, works for me. Are other popup windows working for you, e.g. vehicles?
What browser/version are you using?
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 1:38 pm
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Jety said:
What does uncapped gang size mean exactly? My gang appears to still be capped, by leadership, as it's always been.



Sorry, yeah, poorly described... free players have a max gangsize of 10. Premium players are capped by leadership.
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 1:39 pm
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I have a vehicle that is 100% health / 3% serious damage. This is confusing. I don't seem to be able to repair the serious damage, I presume because it's at 100% health? Shouldn't health + serious always equal 100?
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White on grey for dropdown menus is very difficult to see
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 1:44 pm
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Sticking things onto separate tabs makes it difficult to see/change anything quickly. I've only really looked at vehicles and squads so far...

Can we have the "all vehicles" option back please?
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 1:50 pm
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Jety said:
I have a vehicle that is 100% health / 3% serious damage. This is confusing. I don't seem to be able to repair the serious damage, I presume because it's at 100% health? Shouldn't health + serious always equal 100?


Uh yeah, this is a hangover from how the old permadamage worked.
I'll write a script to fix any vehicles like that
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 1:51 pm
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difficult to find things, also on the squad page, I have to click on travel to get travel info, then i click on next encounter or process arrival. etc, and it defaults back to the squad info tab. I have to click travel again to see status. It should at least stay on the tab that I was previously viewing.

when i do go back to the travel tab, the info doesn't get updated, still shows waiting for encounter, I don't have to click ok, and theres no refresh to check current travel status. By the way I had gotten this by trying to open each squad in a new tab, so i could see travel info by just clicking on the squad, not easy to find this info currently

how about adding a identifyier to the main squad page to identify if a squad has all travels processed or not?
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 1:54 pm Last edited Jul 3, 2014, 1:58 pm by Grimm Sykes
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On IE 8 – various bits not working, the ones I’ve found so far are

Character list – character won’t open, nor will the vehicle if they are in one

Squads – can’t open the vehicle pop up

Vehicle page – can’t open the vehicle

All read "error on page" at the bottom when the link is clicked

Gang Info page – can’t open the gang’s faction

HoF – can’t open the character

Events – can’t open character from an event info page

Players Notes (little note pad links) not working at all


And please please some colour options please......
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 1:59 pm Last edited Jul 3, 2014, 2:25 pm by Racing Robbie
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after selling a car for scrap in a squad, it is not removed from squad, it's still sitting there


selecting a car from the dropdown list to add to the squad does not bring up the vehicle sheet
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 2:03 pm Last edited Jul 3, 2014, 2:05 pm by Grimm Sykes
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IE 7 same issues.
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Vehicle page tabs keeps refreshing back to info tab after adding new car or selecting scout from the travel options (this is quite confusing as I need to select the travel tab to see the options).

This is while Using Chrome

In IE everything works fine for me. The vehicle page stays on vehicle page after adding a car, and the travel page refreshes to the options for travel rather than the info page.


Woh! My bad, And my apologies about the vehicle tab we talked about sam The new web changes came into effect after I signed into the web page and I still had half the old and half the new page active. This confused things. All works fine since I closed the browser and relogged in.
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 2:09 pm Last edited Jul 3, 2014, 2:38 pm by *Bastille*
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forgot to include... I use the most current version of google chrome
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 2:10 pm
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opened a squad up, checked vehicles, it said they had no crew. i went to the vehicles and loaded crews in then went back to the travel tab to scout, it still says no one is in the vehicles and they are most definately in there.

No offense but this doesnt even LOOK like a improved website, it looks like the same website, more difficult to navigate, with a new paint job. By that I mean, no information is easier to find or look at, it's the same old info available, just more difficult to find.
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Posted Jul 3, 2014, 2:13 pm Last edited Jul 3, 2014, 2:14 pm by Grimm Sykes
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