Shartak News http://www.shartak.com/news.html News from the island en-gb Copyright 2006, Simon Amor Sat May 5 23:31:37 2012 game@shartak.com game@shartak.com Shartak News 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 daily Bonus AP day! http://www.shartak.com/news.html#1 News for 5 May 2012<ul><li>All active characters have received 25 bonus AP.</li></ul> New feature votes page http://www.shartak.com/news.html#2 News for 23 Apr 2012<ul><li>The feature votes page has been updated with the following new functionality:</li><li>You can now vote for the whole account rather than just for individual characters.</li><li>Votes can be split up between features now instead of having to allocate all the votes to a single feature.</li><li>Due to the way the number of votes are calculated, some accounts may have additional votes. For example, 5 characters with $6 each would have had 5 votes but now will have 6 ($30 total divided by 5).</li><li>If you have unused votes, the link within the account page will mention this.</li></ul> Bonus AP day! http://www.shartak.com/news.html#3 News for 9 Apr 2012<ul><li>All active characters have received 25 bonus AP.</li></ul> Slight database and website problems http://www.shartak.com/news.html#4 News for 1 Apr 2012<ul><li>During the course of putting a new feature live, we experienced some slight issues with the database and website. Hopefully we've got everything fixed now, but if you do spot anything still amiss, please <a class="txlinkplain" href="/feedback.cgi?af=1">send us feedback</a>.</li></ul> Login with Facebook - Privacy Policy updated http://www.shartak.com/news.html#5 News for 22 Mar 2012<ul><li>As you may have noticed already, there's a "Login with Facebook" button on the main page now. By associating a Facebook account with your Shartak account, you can login using either Facebook or your Shartak password. The first time you click the button, you will be asked to confirm access for Shartak to retrieve your email address from Facebook. Next you will be asked for your Shartak account details. After this, you should be logged in to your account.</li><li>In order to allow Facebook logins, we have had to amend the <a class="txlinkplain" href="/terms.html#privacy">privacy policy</a> slightly to include the following sentence.</li><li><i>Logging in using Facebook only uses the numeric Facebook id (visible in your Facebook profile link) and your email address. All other information that you have made public and is available through the Facebook API is discarded as soon as you have logged in.</i></li><li>As with everything, if you have any problems or questions please <a class="txlinkplain" href="/feedback.cgi">contact us</a></li></ul> The <strike>sky is falling</strike> mountain is falling! http://www.shartak.com/news.html#6 News for 16 Mar 2012<ul><li>A loud rumbling was heard around the northern half of the mountain. The cause was unknown until we caught up with an eyewitness in Dalpok. &ldquo;<i>I was hoknikickg nikth of the mogntaick wheck I lookam up and was nearak coouckhokd by fallalickg rakks. Bakstackdal thinik nearak kamled me!</i>&rdquo; Although there are some language problems, we think he said that the mountain is falling.</li></ul> Bonus AP day! http://www.shartak.com/news.html#7 News for 7 Mar 2012<ul><li>All active characters have received 25 bonus AP.</li></ul> Interesting bullet discovery http://www.shartak.com/news.html#8 News for 18 Feb 2012<ul><li>One of the intrepid explorers who found the ghost ship has made an interesting discovery - with a little tweaking, the pistol can be filled with the same bullets as the rifles!</li><li>The secret of how to do this is now public knowledge and it's assumed that any new pistols found will be able to take the same bullets as the rifles.</li></ul> Bonus AP day! http://www.shartak.com/news.html#9 News for 17 Feb 2012<ul><li>All active characters have received 25 bonus AP.</li></ul> Linking to other characters from your description http://www.shartak.com/news.html#10 News for 12 Feb 2012<ul><li>Following a suggestion on the forum at <a class="txlinkplain" href="http://forum.shartak.com/index.php/topic,3650.0.html">http://forum.shartak.com/index.php/topic,3650.0.html</a> it has been made possible to tag character names within your description.</li><li>There are a couple of ways to create the profile link<ul> <li>link by id: [profile]59[/profile] to link to character id 59</li> <li>link by name: [profile]Simon[/profile] to link to character named Simon</li></ul></li><li>If you insert an unknown name or id in the tag, it will simply leave the profile tags in there unaltered.</li><li><b>Note:</b> if you use the profile tag to link to a profile, that character will be notified (at most once per 24h period) that you have linked to them.</li></ul>