Online Puzzle Strike development thread

This is the new development thread for the online version of Puzzle Strike (as opposed to the physical chips game). I'm Thelo, the main programmer behind fantasystrike.com, and I'll post all updates to the game in here. You can report any bugs you find in this thread, too.

Here are the basic controls of the game:

- Hold R-mouse button or spacebar to zoom on any chip
- Drag chips to the table (or double-click them) to play them
- The top shelf is the bank. You can click on the shelf itself to view all the bank chips at once, zoomed-in.

To learn more about the game itself, check out the Guide, or play the tutorial.

Don't be afraid to report bugs and problems - we actively want to improve, and will never punish you for explaining bugs. When reporting bugs, don't forget to give as much information about the bug as you can. Screenshots and excerpts from the game log are often useful, and help me fix bugs faster. Giving the name of your internet browser and operating system is also useful.

Enjoy the game!

-- Thelo

Recent changes:

2012-10-09 update:
- Fixed QM restriction incorrectly applying to players who do rejoin their match after quitting
- You can now view the bag while viewing replays
- New keyboard shortcuts for replays:
-- Left arrow: Step back
-- Right arrow: Step forward
-- Enter: Toggle autoplay
- Fixed game chat tabs always being highlighted (green) on first load
- Fixed Remember Me failing when the game gets updated

2012-09-17 update:
- Improvisation is changed to draw both chips at once (discarding gems), then you choose which one to play first
- Now allowing reaction Improvisation to pass without playing a chip from your hand
- Blues are Good (main) now lets you pass without retrieving a blue-bannered chip
- Fixed Knockdown's effect in multiplayer
- Fixed reaction Gems to Gemonade in multiplayer giving gempower to the reactor instead of to the target of a crash
- Fixed Research & Development's animation accidentally revealing the chip Geiger puts into his bag

2012-05-28 update 2:
Fixed Puzzle Strike starting in rulesless mode for no reason (whoops.)

2012-05-03 update:
Fixed Mix-Master so that you can't react to it when your gempile's biggest gem is a [1]


2012-04-28 update:
- Fixed several issues with conceding or quitting 3P / 4P games
- Fixed Mistress's Command effect not always being correctly cleared
- Fixed 3P / 4P purple shield reactions being incorrectly skipped
- Fixed Puzzlebot ignoring Maximum Anarchy arrows
- Fixed Color Panic victims incorrectly auto-discarding chips when there's only one of the named color
- Fixed Combinatorics getting incorrectly discarded for victims of Mix-Master


2012-04-25 update:
Referrals, game invites, Facebook, game page bottom bar:

- Friend referrals. By clicking on the "N friends recruited" part of the new bottom bar on the game page, you can get a recruitment link to fantasystrike.com. If someone makes an account on fs.com using that link, and gets to Master 1 in any game, you get a recruitment bonus of 3200 gold, the price of a Yomi or PS character.

- Alternatively, you can click on any friend in the new Facebook Friends tab on the game page to get the option of sending them a recruitment link directly from Facebook. This works the same way: anyone signing up from there who gets to Master 1 gets you 3200 gold. The bottom bar counts the number of friends recruited that way (i.e. the number of times you won the 3200 gold recruitment bonus).

- This new Facebook Friends tab shows whether your friends are online or not (and their fs.com name, if they're already on fs.com), and also lets you send them a direct game invite if they have a fs.com account. When they click on your game invite link, they'll load the game page and immediately enter your current game. (If your game has a password, they still have to type that password.)

- You can also copy-paste a game invite link directly from the settings pane (gear icon) during a match.

- The bottom bar also has more helpful things: your Gold amount, your current Quick Match rank, the language selection flags, the download progress bar, and the general mute button.

- Note that because of the new Facebook friends list feature, the next time you log to fs.com through Facebook, you'll be asked to confirm permission to look at your friends' online presence (only happens once - we only use this to display your friends' status to you)

Puzzle Strike:
- Fixed Dragon Form single counter-crashes being counterable
- Fixed chip images (minor wording fixes) for: Stunlock, Pick your Poison, Ebb or Flow, Self-Improvement


2012-04-10 update:
Puzzle Strike:
- Fixed being able to undo the end of the game

Website:
- French translation of the Play page. Yomi is translated to French, but Puzzle Strike is not translated to French yet.
- Fixed the "expand chat" arrow breaking the website layout
- Website: Fixed the overlap of the Login / Signup buttons in Firefox


2012-03-28 update:
Puzzle Strike:
- You can now click Join on ongoing custom games involving bots. This will show a prompt to the game's host asking if they want to start a new game with you, or continue their bot game. This should make it more intuitive to play vs bots while waiting for opponents.
- Fixed a graphical glitch with QM end messages showing ranking progress bars


2012-03-25 update:
Puzzle Strike:
- Updated Saving Grace (Gloria blue shield): Main: +[pig], +$. Each player draws a chip. You may put Saving Grace on top of your bag. Reaction: After you're [fist] attacked, +[chip][chip].
- Updated Healing Touch (Gloria purple shield): Main: +[black] +[blue]. Reaction: When an opponent sends gems, trash a [1] from each gem pile. +[chip]
- Updated Radiant Healing (Gloria brown): +[black] +[chip] +[pig]. Each player may discard a puzzle chip to trash a wound or [1] in their hand or discard pile.
- Fixed undoing opponents' Radiant Healing trashes
- Fixed Stunlock / Protective Ward combining actions so that the discard of a puzzle chip is optional (PS-138)


2012-03-20 update:
Puzzle Strike: Fixed the replay compilation problem that made recent replays unwatchable


2012-03-14 update:
General:

- Tentative performance improvements to replays recording, re-enabled replays recording. Please let me know if you get more server lag than in the past few weeks, especially when there are many players on the server.

Puzzle Strike:

- Fixed severe 3P/4P gem send bug that could stall the game
- Fixed Mistress's Command wrongly concealing the hand between the two plays
- Fixed the hand chips staying revealed during pigging


2012-03-12 update:
Puzzle Strike:

- UI animations and improvements for crashing, countercrashing, combining, and resource icons
- Updated Mistress's Command (Persephone red fist): If chosen opponent's gem pile totals 6 or 9, reveal his hand. Put a non-! bank chip into his hand and make him play up to two chips in his hand as you wish.
- Updated Color Panic (3 red fist): +[red]. Choose blue, red, purple, or brown. Each opponent discards a chip of that banner-color or reveals his hand if he can't. If any can't, +[black].
- Fixed Combinatorics getting discarded during One True Style at 6 or 7 pile
- Fixed Knockdown's effect in free-for-all games
- Wartime Tactics now visually plays the target chip, this also fixes trashing the wrong chip at end of resolution
- Fixed reaction Improvisation Maximum Anarchy not giving arrows to the active player
- Corrected Pleasure and Pain gamelog
- Corrected Protective Ward gamelog
- Corrected Wartime Tactics gamelog
- New games now randomize the bank including expansion chips (whoops!)


2012-02-29 update:
Puzzle Strike:

- Rewritten Puzzle Strike tutorial
- Removed original (v1) chip images from the webplayer, and the option to play v1 chips (shrinks download size)
- Fixed minor PS memory leak
- Minor gamelog fixes
- Combo Practice renamed to Chip Damage
- Fixed Riposte gamelog error
- Fixed Thinking Ahead not moving on immediately when you put the last bought chip on your bag
- Fixed Pick Your Poison hang when used against an opponent with one hand chip
- Fixed a bug where you could start a game without anteing a 1-gem
- Quickmatches involving guests who disconnect don't need to wait for the disconnect protection period before declaring victory
- Fixed spectators seeing the Declare Victory button
- Better gamelog on QM rematch, we now specify what the opponent does as a counterpick
- Reduced gamelog spam about bank changes:
-- On the lobby screen, when the host changes exactly one chip, the gamelog says which chips were switched. Otherwise, the log only says "Player changes the bank".
-- On game start, the ten bank chips are logged only once.


2012-02-22 update:
Puzzle Strike chips update:

- Combo Practice (3 red fist): +[red]. You may put a chip from your discard pile on your bag. Each opponent discards a [orb] or two chips.
- Risk to Riskonade (3 brown): Ante a [3]. All players draw two chips. You may trash this chip.
- Mix-Master (4 red/purple fist): Split the largest [] in each opposing gem pile into that many [1]s, then combine two []s in your gem pile.
- Thinking Ahead (2 blue shield): Main: +$1. You may put any chips you buy this turn on top of your bag. Reaction: Trash this chip to be immune to a [fist] chip.
- Really Annoying (1 red fist / blue shield): Main: Each opponent gains a wound. Reaction: The player who attacked you gains a wound.
- Protective Ward (Argagarg brown): +[blue]. Ongoing: Players can't combine gems unless they discard a [puzzle] first. Discard this at the end of your next action phase.
- Hex of Murkwood (Argagarg red fist): +[blue]. Each opponent gains a wound or discards two wounds.
- Riposte (Onimaru blue shield): Main: +[black] +[pig]. Reaction: After you're [fist] attacked, return a chip from your discard pile to your hand.
- Saving Grace (Gloria blue shield): Main: +[chip], +[pig]. If anyone trashed a wound this turn, you may play this without spending an action. Reaction: After you're [fist] attacked, +[chip][chip].
- Radiant Healing (Gloria brown): +[black] +[chip]. Each player may discard a puzzle chip to trash a wound or [1] in their hand or discard pile.
- Maximum Anarchy (Zane purple): All players discard their hands, then draw that many chips. Draw a chip. Each player gets +[brown] +[purple] +[red] +[blue] on his turn.
- Mistress's Command (Persephone red fist): If chosen opponent's gem pile totals 6 or 9, reveal his hand. Put a non-! bank chip into his hand and make him play a chip in his hand as you wish.
- One True Style (3 purple): +[brown] +[red] +[blue]. Combine two [1]s in your gem pile.


2012-02-16 update:
Puzzle Strike:
- Updated the resource icons display
- Chips visually fly from / to opponents or the bank, instead of appearing in place
- Updated to Unity 3.5 (better performance and stability). You'll have to manually update your Unity webplayer at http://unity3d.com/webplayer
- Fixed a few Puzzlebot hangs
- Fixed a Master Puzzler UI issue


2012-02-13 update:
General:
- Now disallowing login / logout while in-game (it has never worked correctly)

Puzzle Strike:
- Fixed starting a room with the incorrect bank
- Fixed X-Copy bot crash when no chips are valid to copy
- Fixed "Practice vs CPU while waiting" games incorrectly counting for rankings and count of games won / played
- Better gem autoplay algorithm for the buy phase, to retain the biggest gems possible in hand for pigging (thanks to c_wraith for suggesting a new algorithm)


2012-02-09 update:
General:
- Fixed chat PMs not working across Yomi / PS

Puzzle Strike:

- Updated Mistress's Command (Persephone red fist): If chosen opponent's gem pile totals exactly 6, reveal his hand. Put a non-! bank chip into his hand and make him play a chip in his hand as you wish.
- Fixed Mistress's Command incorrectly concealing the victim's hand with some chips (ex: Research & Development)
- Fixed Hundred-Fist Frenzy's effect persisting after getting played through Wartime Tactics or Option Select
- Fixed Combos are Hard and Double-Take hanging the game when played when it's not your turn
- Fixed Ebb or Flow not consuming timer for anyone
- Fixed a narrow Wartime Tactics bot hang


2012-02-08 update:
Puzzle Strike:

- Fixed several issues with new Mistress's Command
- Fixed Upgrade not allowing orb trashing


2012-02-07 update:
Common:

- You can now link directly to replays using URLs. The "Watch replay" buttons are now URL links, so you can right-click -> copy link from your browser to get the direct link to that replay.
- The forum profiles now show the players' list of replays, with direct links to them
- Fixed forum profile's game stats not working properly

Puzzle Strike chip updates:

- Maximum Anarchy (Zane purple): Maximum Anarchy (Zane purple): All players discard their hands, then draw that many chips. Each player may play a [puzzle] chip on his turn. +[chip]
- Mistress's Command (Persephone red fist): If your gem pile totals 3, 6, or 9, chosen opponent reveals his hand. Make him play a chip as you wish -OR- make him gain a chip costing 1, 2, or 3.
- Radiant Healing (Gloria brown): +[black] +[chip] +[pig]. Each player may discard a puzzle chip to trash a wound or [1] in their hand or discard pile.
- Stunlock (Vendetta brown): +[brown]. Ongoing: Opponents can't combine gems unless they discard a [puzzle] first. Discard this at the start of your next turn.
- Wartime Tactics (Onimaru brown): Reveal a [puzzle] chip from your hand or discard pile, then play and trash a different [puzzle] chip from the bank costing the same or less.
- Upgrade (Bal-Bas-Beta brown): Trash up to two chips from your hand, then for each chip trashed this way, +$1 and gain a bank chip costing the same or 1 more.

- Fixed Combine gempower penalty not getting correctly shown for P2~P4
- Match browser doesn't say (RB) anymore
- Fixed Knockdown 3P timing
- Fixed being unable to use Healing Touch's reaction with an empty gempile


2012-01-31 update:
Puzzle Strike:

- Floating gems rule for 3P and 4P games: Gems you send on your turn while at 10+ pile float instead of being sent immediately - they get sent as soon as your pile drops below 10
- Updated Hundred-Fist Frenzy (4 brown): Ongoing: After you [fist] attack, you may crash a [] in your gem pile. Discard if an opponent skips his action phase.
- Fixed HFF crash also showing a OK button to the other players
- Fixed Mistress's Command's 6 pile check so it correctly happens after blue shield reactions
- Fixed Purge Bad Habits so it correctly puts the [2] in your hand, not in your discard

2012-01-30 update:

General:
- Added a Facebook login option. You can now login to fantasystrike.com using your Facebook account, which means a convienient 1-click login as long as you remain logged into Facebook - no need to type your name and password.
- Fixed several bugs with login and "Remember Me"
- Fixed a general server crash bug
- Fixed website display of "Grandmaster" ranks and above
- Minor stability upgrade for the forums

Puzzle Strike:
- Updated Burning Vigor (Jaina red fist): Trash a wound chip from your hand or discard pile. If you do, +[black] and ante a [1] into each opposing gem pile.
- Updated Purge Bad Habits (Midori brown): Trash a chip from your hand. Put a [2] from the bank into your hand. (Character chips can't be trashed.)
- Updated Knockdown (2 red fist): +[purple]. Chosen opponent discards a chip and can't play [purple shield] reactions this turn.
- Updated It's a Trap (2 brown): +[black]. Put a trap token on a non-wound stack in the bank, then trash this chip. Each player who buys from that stack must also buy a wound for each token on it.
- Updated The Hammer (12 gold!): Ante up to three [4]s. +[black] and +[chip] for each one you ante.
- Updated Combinatorics (4 purple): +[brown]. Ongoing: Whenever you play a Combine, you may combine again and -$1. Discard when your gem pile totals 5 or less.
- Updated Wartime Tactics (Onimaru brown): Reveal a [puzzle] chip from your hand or discard pile, then play and trash a different [puzzle] chip from the bank costing the same, less, or 1 more from the bank.
- Updated Healing Touch (Gloria purple shield): Main: +[black] +[blue]. Reaction: When an opponent sends gems, trash a [1] from each gem pile.
- Updated Stunlock (Vendetta brown): +[brown]. Ongoing: Opponents must discard a [puzzle] each time they would combine gems. Discard this at the start of your next turn.
- Updated Upgrade (Bal-Bas-Beta brown): Trash up to two non-[orb] chips from your hand, then for each chip trashed this way, put a bank chip costing the same or 1 more into your hand.
- Updated Degenerate Trasher (8 brown): +[black]. Trash up to two chips from your hand. (Character chips can't be trashed.)
- Fixed game crash when the victim of Combo Practice has no hand chips
- Fixed Crash Potato not being uncounterable when Dragon Form is active
- Fixed timeout on Hex of Murkwood not working when you've already discarded exactly one wound
- Fixed interaction between Hex of Murkwood and reaction Improvisation
- Fixed timeout not working on Gem Essence


2012-01-18 update:
Puzzle Strike:

- Fixed not being able to play an Iron Defense gempile Crash Gem through reaction Improvisation and X-Copy
- Fixed bot hang when playing reaction Improvisation or X-Copy and trying to play a Iron Defense Crash Gem
- Fixed Combinatorics not getting immediately discarded when trying to play it at 5 pile or less
- Fixed multiple Combinatorics not all getting discarded when hitting 5 pile or less
- Fixed bot hang when playing Crash Potato and the only possible action is stealing its own discard pile crash gem
- Fixed bot hang and crash when playing Double-Take with the only legal targets being zero play-value discard chips
- Updated bot AI for One True Style, Mix-Master, Hex of Murkwood, Combine
- Fixed Chips for Free getting incorrectly ordered as cost 3 in the bank
- Fixed chips removed from the game by Into Oblivion or Degenerate Trasher not coming back for the next game
- Fixed Combine potentially triggering an incorrect Combinatorics discard
- Corrected the behaviour of tiebreaker rounds in 3P/4P games
- Fixed Ebb or Flow not displaying buttons while controlling someone with Mistress's Command
- Maximum Anarchy reveals the players' hand chips in the gamelog before discarding them
- Fixed Puzzlebot hang on complex Combine situations
- Fixed Puzzlebot hang while sending gems at very high piles
- Fixed being stuck in Option Select reaction when there are no appropriate shields left in the bank


2012-01-11 update:
Puzzle Strike:
- Updated Playing with Fire (Jaina brown): Ante a [1]. +[brown] +[red] +[chip].
- Updated Burning Vigor (Jaina red fist): +[black]. Trash a wound chip from your hand or discard pile. If you do, ante a [1] into each opposing gem pile.
- Fixed the QM bug where "Practice vs CPU while waiting" would prevent getting in the game once someone actually joined
- Fixed general server explosion when Puzzlebot plays Purge Bad Habits without any [1]s or wounds in hand
- Fixed game hang on some game overs
- Fixed game hang when ending the action phase while not on your own turn
- Fixed bot hang on Signature Move playing an ineffective character chip
- Fixed bot hang with Ouch (once-per-turn)
- Fixed bot hang on Training Day
- Fixed bot hang on X-Copy
- Puzzlebot now avoids double-taking Risk to Riskonade


2012-01-07 update:
PS chip updates:
- Chips For Free costs 3 -> 4
- Maximum Anarchy (Zane purple): +[black]. All players discard their hands, then draw that many chips. Each player may play a puzzle chip on his turn.
- Playing with Fire: Ante a 2-gem. +[red] +[brown] +[chip]
- Purge Bad Habits (Midori brown): Trash two chips from your hand. Put a [2] from the bank into your hand. (Character chips can't be trashed.)
- Wartime Tactics (Onimaru brown): Trash a [puzzle] chip from your hand or discard pile, then gain a different [puzzle] chip costing the same, less, or 1 more from the bank, and play it.
- Updated several other chip images for new FFA rules


2012-01-05 update:
Server stability and performance improvements, meaning hopefully less server crashes and less server lag.

2011-12-20 update:
Puzzle Strike:
- Combine now gives +black again, but removes $1 on play.

2011-12-19 update:

Puzzle Strike:
- Updated Jackpot (Lum brown): Reveal two chips at random from any opponent's hand. If any are [], +[chip] +[black]. If both are [orb], play and gain an [orb] from the bank.
- Updated Maximum Anarchy (Zane purple): All players discard their hands, then draw that many chips. Each player may play a puzzle chip on his turn. You may play Crash Potato from hand.
- Updated Into Oblivion (Menelker brown): Remove a [puzzle] bank stack from the game. If a stack was previously removed, return it to the game.
- Updated Combine (4 purple orb): No black arrow. You may play a [crash] or [puzzle].


2011-12-17 update:

Website:
- Some updates to the game page's look
- Fixed Quit Game button getting disabled on Firefox
- Fixed a few QM bugs

Puzzle Strike:
- Updated six chips: Playing with Fire, Dragon Form, Training Day, Ouch!, Always in Control, Crash Bomb


2011-12-12 update:

Puzzle Strike:
- When someone quits a QM early or auto-concedes from timing out 3 turns in a row, they are barred from entering matchmaking for 5 minutes.
- Fixed QM games starting with Panic Time already activated if you activated it against the bot while waiting
- Fixed rank not getting displayed in the prematch screen for expansion characters
- Radiant Healing autopasses the trash step when you publicly have no puzzles in hand or bag
- Fixed rematching QMs against nobody
- Fixed getting kicked out of QM rematch character select screen when someone else does anything
- Updated Puzzle Strike chip backs to use the real green logo


2011-12-10 update:

Website:
- Fixed a delay of several seconds on connecting
- Another fix to Remember Me
- Fixed in-game profiles from other players not showing game stats for PS characters

Yomi and PS:
- When you run out of timer on three game turns in a row, you auto-concede with no gold gain.

PS:
- Fixed not being able to rejoin PS quick matches
- Fixed Store displaying your first bought character as always available to buy
- Fixed QM rematch disallowing expansion bank chips


2011-12-07 update:

Puzzle Strike:
- Enabled expansion characters and chips in Quick Match
- Expansion characters and chips are now always visible (no need to use shift-B)
- Fixed several rare bugs with joining quick matches
- Added ranking battle announcements for quick matches
- Conceding early (first 5 minutes of the game) won't give gold, but it will still affect your ranking
- Quick Matches between two Master-ranked players now use Medium match timer, instead of Slow

Website:
- Started the GOLD TEST. During gold test, everyone starts with a bunch of gold, and the gold you gain for playing Quick Matches is ridiculously high, but regular character access rules will be in effect:
-- If a character is free this week, you can play it all you want.
-- If a character isn't free that week, you must own it in order to play it. You can buy characters with gold at the Store (linked in topright of the page).
-- During gold test, you can't be a subscriber, so you must use gold to access characters.
Since all gold and owned items will be reset at the end of gold test, this is the best time to whip out your black hats and try to break the system. Let us know of any stupid or broken ways you find to game the gold system.

- Autofocus on the "Enter password to join this room" text field when it pops up
- Removed legacy password change section in the in-game profile (the correct way to change passwords is now through the forum)


2011-12-01 update:
Puzzle Strike:
- Hundred-Fist Frenzy changed to: "Ongoing: Whenever you play a ([fist]), you may reveal a brown [puzzle] chip to crash a [] in your gem pile. Discard if an opponent skips his action phase."
- New Game now correctly interrupts chip movements in progress (for instance, from bot-vs-bot games after you've conceded) and correctly returns the chips to the bank


2011-12-01 update:
Puzzle Strike:

- Expansion updated to 2.1:

-- Troq's Giant Growth has +brown arrow before the ongoing part.
-- Persephone's Pleasure & Pain, the order of the two clauses is switched to: "Each opponent discards a wound or puts a wound in his bag. Choose a discard pile, then +chip for each wound in it." (So if they choose to avoid getting a wound, then you get to draw a chip because of it.)
-- Persephone's Always in Control reaction changed to: "Become immune to a (fist), attacker gains a wound."
-- Risk to Riskonade changed to: "Ante a 3-gem. All players draw two chips."
-- Hundred-Fist Frenzy has a discard condition. "Ongoing: Whenever you play a fist, you may reveal a brown puzzle chip to crash a gem in your gem pile. Discard at end of turn if your fist is blue shield'd."
-- New rule: Panic Time. N is the number of players alive:
--- The first moment when N piles are empty, Panic Time is activated and everyone antes 2-gems from then on.
--- The first moment when N+1 piles are empty, Danger Time is activated and everyone antes 3-gems from then on.
--- The first moment when N+2 piles are empty, Deadly Time is activated and everyone antes 4-gems from then on.

- Increased match timer values
- When you play X-Copy with no valid hand targets, the game now reveals your hand to prove it
- Fixed getting stealth-dropped from the matchmaking queue if you changed any chat channel or clicked the Yomi game tab.


- Website: When logging in, Remember Me is now checked by default


2011-11-25 update:

Website:
- "Remember Me" fixes
- Forums updated to Xenforo 1.1, this fixes the Create Thread issue with Firefox 9 beta

Yomi:
- New in-game table texture

Puzzle Strike:
- New in-game table texture
- Better PS resource icons
- PS expansion updated to 2.0:
-- BBB's Cog Engine now has discard clause when "you buy an orb or chip costing 6 or more" rather than "you buy a chip costing 5 or more."
-- Zane's Crash Bomb. Has helptext: (You don't get money from crashing.)
-- Now or Later's first part changed from +$1,+1 chip to +2 chips. Second part reworded to "Trash a gem, wound, or both from your hand / discard pile."
-- Risk to Riskonade's last clause now says "You can't buy chips costing more than 8 this buy phase" rather than "You can only buy non-! puzzle chips this buy phase."
-- The Hammer now lets you ante up to three 4-gems rather than any number of them.
-- Onimaru's Double Slash. Crash exactly two 1-gems. Has helptext: (You don't get +$2.) Purple banner.


2011-11-23 update:

Puzzle Strike:
- Fixed Option Select targeting a red chip not triggering Hundred-Fist Frenzy's crash effect
- Fixed a gamelog typo on Ebb or Flow
- Onimaru's Double Slash changed to purple banner: "Crash exactly two [1]s."
- Experimental versions of a few base set puzzle chips:
-- Secret Move: Cost 1 instead of 3. Gives you +black arrow the turn you play it.
-- Thinking Ahead: "Put any chips you buy this turn on top of your bag" as opposed to just one chip.
-- Iron Defense: Costs 4 instead of 5. The part about "you may play the crash gem as if from your hand" works on the current turn as well as future turns.
-- Gems to Gemonade: Cost 4 instead of 5. Reaction effect changed to: Negate up to three gems sent to you and get +$1 for each negated gem during your next buy phase."


Updates for 2011-11-20:

Common:
- Fixed many edge case issues with joining and leaving rooms
- Hopefully fixed "Remember Me" login checkbox
- Potential fix for a bug where you must fiddle with things before seeing the game (Dred's bug)

Puzzle Strike:
- Expansion updated to 1.9
- Fixed Money For Nothing returning to hand on forced discard (obsolete behaviour)
- Potential fix for a bug where a quick match will appear to use non-rebalanced chips before the first move
- Fixed X-Copied Master Puzzler not ending the action phase properly
- Fixed Option Select used as a purple reaction not self-trashing
- Fixed Puzzlebot hang when trying to steal Crash Potato with Stolen Purples
- Fixed dragging chips into opponent gempiles in rules-enforced mode


Build 1018 (2011-11-14):
Puzzle Strike:
- Warning messages now disappear when you take your next move
- Fixed Dashing Strike broken in the last build
- Fixed game hang on a Always in Control-reflected Surgical Strike while being controlled by Mistress's Command
- Fixed incorrect gamelog on Radiant Healing
- Fixed Rigorous Training's RB banner color
- Fixed Maximum Anarchy targeting Option Select discarding a played chip to the wrong discard
- Fixed Puzzlebot hang on R&D vs Crash Potato
- Fixed Mistress's Command effect icon staying around after Persephone gets eliminated (part of PS-93)
- Fixed X-Copy's ineffective play warning

- Fixed some cases of the "Remember Me" login checkbox not working correctly


Build 1012 (2011-11-10)
Puzzle Strike:

- Fixed Crash Bomb incorrectly giving money
- Hopefully fixed QM concede (multiple issues)
- Fixed Color Panic giving +black at the wrong time
- Fixed Two Truths depleting the wrong timer
- Fixed Puzzlebot hang on Crash Potato
- Fixed QM replays not getting divided correctly
- Fixed blue shield reactions sometimes causing some attack effects to duplicate (Double-take Mix-Master would gain an extra Combine, etc.)
- Fixed the visuals on the Concede confirmation window


Build 1005 (2011-11-09):
- Puzzle Strike expansion updated to 1.8
- Puzzle Strike: Fixed Puzzlebot hanging on Radiant Healing
- Website: Fixed the chat sprouting a horizontal scrollbar when someone pastes a URL (or other very long word)


Build 1001 (2011-11-07):
Puzzle Strike:
- Added a Concede button in the game menu, to instantly lose the current game
- Fixed X-Copy behaviour on Crash Gems
- Option Select with no blues in bank no longer offers a blueshield reaction stop
- Prevented the end of turn warning for not playing Purge Bad Habits when it's your last hand chip
- Puzzlebot will use Jackpot to avoid dying


Build 990 (2011-10-28):
Puzzle Strike:

- Updated expansion chips to 1.7.
- Fixed Puzzlebot not playing Into Oblivion, Crash Bomb correctly
- Taught Puzzlebot how to actually play Hundred-Fist Frenzy


Build 989 (2011-10-26):
Yomi and Puzzle Strike:
You can now choose between four match timer settings: None, Slow, Medium, Fast. Quick matches use a Slow timer, which is the same as the previous timer. Medium is 1/3 shorter than Slow, and Fast is 2/3 shorter than Slow.

Puzzle Strike tutorial: A scripted game with explicit help messages intended as an introduction to Puzzle Strike.

Repaired "Practice vs CPU while waiting" in Puzzle Strike. Whoops.


Build 986 (2011-10-19):
Yomi replay system:

- All complete games of Yomi are automatically recorded
- Player chat is recorded as part of the replay
- Complete games in which a player played are added to their replay list in their profile, and marked as "public" by default. Each game in a session is a separate replay, except Quickmatches, which are one full replay for the three games.
- To watch a replay, visit any profile page (at bottom of page) and click Watch on one of them
- While watching a replay, you can step forwards and backwards, or jump to any point in the game. You can also click "Play" to start replaying the game at a regular pace.
- You can mark any of your replays as private to hide them from other players viewing your profile
- You can mark up to two replays to keep. These replays won't get replaced by newer replays once you get over ten replays.
- You can rename any replay you own by clicking its name

Puzzle Strike:

- New button while watching a replay, "Play". Click it to start replaying the game, step by step, at a regular pace.
- Attempt to fix the bug where a Mac OS user switches display space, then switches back in, then some clicks aren't recognized


Build 983 (2011-10-16):
Puzzle Strike:

- You can now delete and rename replays, and mark up to two replays to Keep (they won't get auto-deleted to make place for new ones).
- You can have up to 10 replays. Beyond this, newer ones will replace the oldest non-Keep replays you have.
- Fixed PS quickmatches' replays not getting recorded
- Fixed Option Select to correctly work as One True Style reaction
- Updated Radiant Healing (Gloria brown): +[black] +[chip]. Each player may trash a Wound or [1] in their hand or discard pile.
- Fixed Puzzlebot hang and bad buy decisions when under buy restrictions from Flagstone Tax and Risk to Riskonade
- Fixed description text on Option Select reaction pointing to the wrong player
- Fixed Puzzlebot hanging when playing Option Select as a reaction
- Slightly enlarged bank chips in rules-enforced mode


Build 977 (2011-10-12):
Puzzle Strike replay system:

- All complete games of Puzzle Strike are automatically recorded (no pruning for age yet)
- Player chat is recorded as part of the replay
- Complete games in which a player played are added to their replay list in their profile, and marked as "public" by default. Each game in a session is a separate replay.
- To watch a replay, visit any profile page (at bottom of page) and click Watch on one of them
- While watching a replay, you can step forwards and backwards, or jump to any time in the game
- You can mark any of your replays as private to hide them from other players viewing your profile


Build 973 (2011-10-06):
Puzzle Strike:

- Updated expansion chips to 1.6
- Fixed Puzzlebot Riposte reaction hang


Build 959 (2011-09-30):
Yomi:

- Added the "Autosort hand on draw" feature, which acts like a press of the S key whenever a card goes to your hand. It's saved as a preference on the server, so you retain your autosort setting on later visits.
- Fixed Martial Mastery not being displayed correctly for spectators
- Fixed the two jokers so that they look identical
- Fixed a minor graphical issue with the starburst background (jokers, exp characters)
- Gamelog now always refers to jokers as "Joker" rather than "!S" or "!H"

Puzzle Strike:

- Fixed Random (Base set) and Random (Expansion) not working correctly
- Fix: When Always In Control reflects Just A Scratch, Persephone doesn't get to trash a wound
- Fixed rulesless mode top-of-bag chips being displayed in the center of the screen (whoops)
- Fixed Saving Grace double gamelog
- Fixing gem selection status (red flashing) on GeForce 3 (x1372's 9 years old laptop)
- Default characters version for custom games is now Rebalanced
- Fixed It's A Trap tokens disappearing when you get eliminated
- The Hammer now stops letting you ante 4-gems after the sixth one, to prevent hanging the game
- Fixed "Blue shield reaction window was not autoskipped against Double-Take Stolen Purples"
- Clarified the gamelog for discarding a brown chip to crash with Hundred-Fist Frenzy
- Clarified Double-Take's gamelog, it now says whether you double-take the chip from hand or discard

Website:

- The "Connecting to server" initial page now shows stages of "Loading Unity", then "Connecting to server", then "Failed to connect to server" if needed
- Unity will explicitly fail to connect if it doesn't get a response from the server within a reasonable time frame
- When we fail to connect to server, we show a message to that effect and a button to try again
- When we get disconnected, a chat message proposes to /reconnect


Build 924 (cont.):

- The server now accepts Unicode characters for chat and for your profile, so you can chat in Japanese, Korean, Russian, mathematical operators, or funny pictograms as you like.


Build 924 (2011-09-24):

Yomi:

- Expansion characters updated to 1.9
- Colored character portraits
- Minor memory savings

Puzzle Strike:

- Character select screen now shows the character chips
- New colored chibi character portraits
- Minor memory savings
- Fixed a branch of Puzzlebot logic being accidentally never used
- Fixed 2P quickmatch not giving gold
- Fixed a case where drawing a chip would not conceal the player's hand

Website:

- Fixed chat messages appearing higher than previous gamelog messages
- Fixed match chat not resetting after quitting a match


Build 903 (2011-09-04):

Yomi:

- Expansion characters updated to 1.8

Puzzle Strike:

- Fixed a big memory leak w.r.t. destroyed chips' materials never being properly destroyed
- New RB Hex of Murkwood chip effect: +[blue]. Each opponent antes a [1] for each wound chip in his discard pile, then gains a wound.
- Removed the hidden "random character" area in the character select screen during Quick match rematches
- Fixed the split-second of looking at the lobby screen after quitting the character select screen during a Quick match rematch
- Fixed Quick match never using Upgrade pack chips in random banks
- Fixed It's a Trap tokens staying around for spectators between games in a Quick match
- Clarified many warnings when you want to play a chip that would do nothing
- Added a gamelog message for Pilebunker RB's choice of +chip or +pig
- Fixed Puzzlebot playing reaction Riposte sometimes hanging the game
- New "this would have no effect" warnings for: playing It's Combo Time without a 1-gem in hand, playing Risky Move without a gem in hand, playing Rocket Punch without a 1-gem in your gempile. The warning for unplayed chips at the end of your action phase ignores chips that would do nothing, to avoid useless warnings.

Website:

- Puzzle Strike match browser uses chibi character portraits (Yomi match browser still uses regular chararcter portraits)
- Fixed the reversed checkbox for "Include other chats in this chat"
- Changed outgoing whisper message: "Guest_eouicolt whispers: hihi" changed to "You whisper to Thelo: hihi"


Build 869 (2011-08-01):

Common:
- Fixed a bug with passwords containing special characters

Puzzle Strike:

- Changed Quick match to individual games (not best of 3). Removed "overall ranking".
- 3P/4P quick matches can now rematch correctly if all players agree to it. For a 3P/4P rematch, all players can change their character at will, and the bank is randomized for the new game.
- Fixed rematches always counting for the initial character instead of the current one

The old dev thread was getting immense, so here's a new one!

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2011-12-01 update:
Puzzle Strike:

- Expansion updated to 2.1:

-- Troq's Giant Growth has +brown arrow before the ongoing part.
-- Persephone's Pleasure & Pain, the order of the two clauses is switched to: "Each opponent discards a wound or puts a wound in his bag. Choose a discard pile, then +chip for each wound in it." (So if they choose to avoid getting a wound, then you get to draw a chip because of it.)
-- Persephone's Always in Control reaction changed to: "Become immune to a (fist), attacker gains a wound."
-- Risk to Riskonade changed to: "Ante a 3-gem. All players draw two chips."
-- Hundred-Fist Frenzy has a discard condition. "Ongoing: Whenever you play a fist, you may reveal a brown puzzle chip to crash a gem in your gem pile. Discard at end of turn if your fist is blue shield'd."
-- New rule: Panic Time. N is the number of players alive:
--- The first moment when N piles are empty, Panic Time is activated and everyone antes 2-gems from then on.
--- The first moment when N+1 piles are empty, Danger Time is activated and everyone antes 3-gems from then on.
--- The first moment when N+2 piles are empty, Deadly Time is activated and everyone antes 4-gems from then on.

- Increased match timer values
- When you play X-Copy with no valid hand targets, the game now reveals your hand to prove it
- EDIT: Fixed getting stealth-dropped from the matchmaking queue if you changed any chat channel or clicked the Yomi game tab.

- Website: When logging in, Remember Me is now checked by default

vivafringe trashes a 1-gem from true and gains a 2-Gem from More Shiny

That's correct; the first time you play xcopy you target the crash and play it twice, and the second time you play it you have played the crash so it's not in hand.

2011-12-01 update:
Puzzle Strike:
- Hundred-Fist Frenzy changed to: "Ongoing: Whenever you play a ([fist]), you may reveal a brown [puzzle] chip to crash a [] in your gem pile. Discard if an opponent skips his action phase."
- New Game now correctly interrupts chip movements in progress (for instance, from bot-vs-bot games after you've conceded) and correctly returns the chips to the bank

Both the main and reaction of RA are red and blue.

It is a red fist reaction. See http://www.fantasystrike.com/guide/index.php/Puzzle_Strike. Search for Really Annoying.

2011-12-07 update:

Puzzle Strike:
- Enabled expansion characters and chips in Quick Match
- Expansion characters and chips are now always visible (no need to use shift-B)
- Fixed several rare bugs with joining quick matches
- Added ranking battle announcements for quick matches
- Conceding early (first 5 minutes of the game) won't give gold, but it will still affect your ranking
- Quick Matches between two Master-ranked players now use Medium match timer, instead of Slow

Website:
- Started the GOLD TEST. During gold test, everyone starts with a bunch of gold, and the gold you gain for playing Quick Matches is ridiculously high, but regular character access rules will be in effect:
-- If a character is free this week, you can play it all you want.
-- If a character isn't free that week, you must own it in order to play it. You can buy characters with gold at the Store (linked in topright of the page).
-- During gold test, you can't be a subscriber, so you must use gold to access characters.
Since all gold and owned items will be reset at the end of gold test, this is the best time to whip out your black hats and try to break the system. Let us know of any stupid or broken ways you find to game the gold system.

- Autofocus on the "Enter password to join this room" text field when it pops up
- Removed legacy password change section in the in-game profile (the correct way to change passwords is now through the forum)

I don't know if this happens all the time (although I know it's happened to others) but if someone quits/is disconnected from a QM they can't rejoin. The rejoining player is made a spectator. If the player who stayed in the game quits and comes back, they also become a spectator.

I reset everyone's gold and owned items when I started the gold test, so things you bought before that don't count.

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On the PS expansion QM snafus, I'm on it, thanks.

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On the AFK abuse in QM, I'm about to change the system so that:
1) When you run out of timer on three game turns in a row, you auto-concede with no gold gain, and
2) When you concede a game early, you are barred from re-entering QM for 5 minutes (aka "deserter penalty" from World of Warcraft).

Consider your point proven.

Can you describe what you mean by interface lag more precisely? Is it where, for instance, you're dragging a chip, but the chip's position lags behind the mouse cursor (i.e. purely client-side interface lag)? Or is it where you drop a chip on the table, then it takes a second for that chip's effects to run (i.e. the server's response seems delayed)?

Yomi and Puzzle Strike (as well as future games on the website, like Flash Duel) really are completely separate games, so it makes sense to avoid tying up character purchases between those games. It's unfortunate that your friend got mixed-up between the two though, and it highlights that the store needs to be much clearer about that - I'll improve that when I get the chance, thanks for pointing that out.

For now, if you accidentally bought characters for the wrong game, you can PM me from that account, and I'll change it for you.

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On the "Remember Me" feature of logging in, I can only humbly apologize for this. I've had a hell of a lot of bugs with that feature, and it seems that the battle isn't over yet. I'm on it.

For me I get a lot of the second one. The most infuriating instance of this is when I want to end my turn with a playable action in my hand. I hit "end turn," and then there's lag before I get the "Are you sure?" prompt. And if I click too many times while lagging, I end up buying a wound (which I can't undo).

I've attempted another fix to Remember Me, please tell me if you still have trouble with it not remembering you.

Not yet. How much of a real problem is that?

If someone disconnects/quits, they usually can't get back in (they become a spectator instead).

Yeah I've played for a while and never really wanted to squelch anyone. OTOH I consider these to be big problems:

- Not being able to watch while in queue.
- Loser being able to counterpick in rematches and then leave before you get your counterpick round.