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Upcoming Changes
Posted by Quadricat on Sep 12, 2021 9:44 am
We have been busy behind the scenes! A huge rewrite of the back-end has been underway for months and is rapidly approaching. It is currently in its last phases of testing and tweaking, but isn't quite ready for live yet.

We don't have an ETA yet for the update.


So! What is this update going to do?

The update will:
- Improve site security
- Include some quality of life changes
- Enable more control over various features for administrators
- Make it much much faster and easier for us to develop features going forward

Ideally most of these changes are happening invisibly-- your gameplay should not be impacted and P3 should run as normal.

Some changes however, do impact gameplay and I would like to detail these before the update happens, so you know what to expect!




Pin the Tail on the Puma

One upcoming change to the site includes retiring the Pin the Tail game from the site. :'( This feature was hardly ever used and functioned only as another random profile click.

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Pin The Tail will be REMOVED FROM THE SITE when this update goes live.

This means the following items will become collectables only and no longer give access to the game!

• 2nd Birthday Puma Tail
• 3rd Birthday Puma Tail
• 4th Birthday Puma Tail
• 5th Birthday Puma Tail
• 6th Birthday Puma Tail
• 7th Birthday Puma Tail

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So if you want to use them, do so ASAP, ideally before birthday ends, as the game will be removed in the future.




Notification Settings and Log

A new page showing a history of your notifications, and settings for notifications, will be available in the update!


Click to view larger image!

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ALL notifications will show on this page, so you can always review any you may have missed!

Notifications that display on your regular pages have a limit now, and a link to view/manage any more unread notifications.

Ones that you disable will never show up on your main pages, and ONLY be visible on the new notifications page.




Bone Collector


Alas, poor Rufus... his secret wares just aren't very secret anymore and between Kazoo pestering him for toys and Hydracat stealing all his food.. he has just given up and joined the ranks of regular quest giver... Bah!!!

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Part of the upcoming changes to the back-end code include unifying the codebase for quests. This unfortunately means that the Bone Collector is a bit different in the future...

He will still ask for a sum of shards (approximately 200 or so), and some items like he normally did, but will reward you with a token like the other quest npcs do.

You will still only be able to do one quest a day.
These tokens will be spent in a new shop just like the other npcs have, with the token balance being taken into account of 1 token = about 200 shards.

This means his rewards will no longer be top secret, anyone can view them in his shop, and you will be free to discuss them without breaking any pesky secrecy rules ;)

Some of these changes may still be tweaked and changed before it goes live, but generally this will be the fate of poor Rufus.




Bank Interest

Currently, premium users get a weekly spending pence refund-- this will be removed in the update! :( Sorry!

To compensate for the removal, your bank interest will be increased instead.
You will also need to visit the bank to claim it.

I know that this change is probably a bit upsetting, but the way the pence was being calculated was less than ideal and hard on the server, and even incorrect with its calculation at times, depending on where you shop. Oops! D:



Custom Puma Paradigm/Color blends

Future customs and demo images will now allow creation for/previewing of color and paradigm blending.

As of right now, it does NOT include paradigm-paradigm blends, only paradigm-color.
That might change!

This means you can mix the color red #FF0000 and the paradigm Interstellar on your custom puma, or whatever other mix you want.

The mixes will always be 50/50 for now.




Other Changes...
- Editing your shop will give a better summary of what is changed/removed
- More secure cookies and encryption
- Friends online counter!
- Minor css theme changes



Please remember these are UPCOMING changes, and are not yet live!

When the update does go live there will be another big news post with all the final details and #s.

This is just a big heads-up!
:) Sorry for the wall of text!

The release date for this is not yet determined, but I will let you know when we have a time/date for it!


If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to ask in the comments, I will do my best to answer!


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FlooffySep 12, 2021 9:52 am
Glad to see P3 improve so much <3

UsikuSep 12, 2021 9:58 am
thanks for the update

EmmieSep 12, 2021 10:08 am
Am looking forward to a lot of these.....also love that the pence given for commenting is in binary :P

SahrydSep 12, 2021 10:44 am
Love p3, looking forward to the updates!!!

DragonaraSep 12, 2021 10:48 am
So many improvements to look forward to! Having been given the privilege of seeing how this being done, I have enormous respect for Nibato, and our Admins who are doing an incredible amount of work to make the game not only run smoothly, but gives even more pleasure to us all....Thank You guys, you rock!

lissajoSep 12, 2021 11:43 am
So exciting!!! It's always lovely to see how involved the staff is here and how much you listen to players!

ImBeeZeeSep 12, 2021 12:19 pm
Thank U for all the hard work U’v been doing in the background! I luv everything about P3!

kidkeeperSep 12, 2021 12:34 pm
this is so exciting :)

TaveSep 12, 2021 12:38 pm
Really enjoy playing P3 and all the hard work that you guys put into it. Thanks for everything that you do!

Many thanks,
Tave

Dr SeikansteinSep 12, 2021 1:11 pm
looking forward to these changes :)

TotoroSep 12, 2021 2:22 pm
All of these sound good! Let us know when things go live!

SashaSep 12, 2021 3:55 pm
Can't wait for all this new stuff!!

GrannyBeeSep 12, 2021 8:03 pm
Thank you for always improving the site. I know it's a lot of hard work, but I'm so glad knowing that everyone involved really cares and loves the site. Can't wait to see what comes! :)

vistSep 13, 2021 12:27 am
lots of words… oh no for pin the tail activity 0; < 3

VendettaSep 14, 2021 9:49 pm
*laughs at self* So that is what those Puma Tails were for. Awesome job everyone involved.

KoshkaSep 15, 2021 8:18 am
I never knew the tails or the game existed. :(

luauSep 18, 2021 11:55 am
so many changes!! can’t wait to see

Kami Mi Ke NekoSep 26, 2021 8:19 am
^^ I collect the puma tails anyhow ;)

CeciliaSep 28, 2021 2:44 pm
Cool!

Ci_Oct 24, 2021 2:30 am
<3

MoonGoddessNov 17, 2021 9:17 pm
:)

MurdockNov 27, 2021 8:18 am
:)

JenniNov 28, 2021 9:00 pm
:)

AnimalLover22Jan 04, 2022 3:42 pm
sweet! :)

ZeliksNov 18, 2022 3:07 am
<3 <3 <3

.froggie.Dec 10, 2022 4:17 am
fr

SarcasticHawkeDec 31, 2022 10:16 pm
:^)
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