Gods and Idols
Missing planets fixed
Server update
SERVER
Phase III is coming...
Hotfix 4.23.1118B (Concrete)
BUGS
This is a server-side fix. No client update required.
[Completed] Servers are back online
All services are back online!
Update 1:
All services are now offline.
Original post:
All services, including the website, will go offline on Thursday July 4th at 16:00UTC
The expected downtime is 48 hours, during which the servers and I will move back to the restored apartment.
The Discord will still be reachable at https://discord.gg/VBCcZFw
This should also put a stop to the all the connectivity issues that have plagued the services the past month and a half since we'll be moving back to the good ISP.
[Completed] Server maintenance
The ISP issue is no longer relevant.
Update 7 - Wednesday 06/19
Issue is still not fixed.
ISP has scheduled another tech for the 06/26.
Servers will go offline intermittently until the issue is resolved, I apologize for the annoyance.
Update 6 - Monday 06/17
ISP reports that they have fixed the issue.
Update 5 - Monday 06/17
Replacing equipment doesn't seem to have worked.
ISP is investigating more.
Update 4 - Monday 06/17
ISP has replaced some equipment. Hopefully things should be more stable from now on.
Update 3 - Sunday 06/16:
There will be additional troubleshooting done tomorrow, Monday the 17th.
Game servers and official website may be offline intermittently.
Update 2 - Saturday 06/15:
Maintenance again. Game servers and official website will be offline intermittently and possibly completely for the next several hours.
ISP is looking into connectivity issues.
Update 1:
Maintenance complete. All services are back online.
Original post:
Estimated downtime is 10 hours.
All servers are down for maintenance.
This includes the game service, and the official website.
Servers back online!
All servers are now back online.
Please note that it may take up to 24h for DNS' to update
We're back on schedule, deities!
Update 2 - Sunday 26th:
Servers are now on location and being hooked up.
No change to the ETA, still estimating tomorrow, Monday the 27th
Update 1 - Friday 24th:
All servers are now offline for the duration of the move.
You will not be able to access the game or the official website.
Servers should come back onine on Monday the 27th!
The "unofficial official" Discord can still be reached at https://discord.gg/VBCcZFw
Original post:
There will not be 2 months of downtime!
They will then remain online until my apartment is fixed, at which point the process is repeated. A day or two of downtime before the servers come back online.
There will be more information and exact dates posted as we draw closer.
Barring any last minute issues everything has worked out with minimal downtime.
I'll try to have a proper gameplay related dev. diary for you fine deities sometime next week.
Thank you everyone for your support and understanding. Phase III is back on track!
Brace for bad news and delays!
While my landlord is fixing the floors/kitchen I won't be able to live in my apartment and have to move all my things.
Since I host the servers myself that means the servers have to be moved as well, and it is unlikely I'll be able to find a way to get them online with such short notice.
Their estimated time for fixing everything is ~2 months.
Which means it is very likely that Gods and Idols, and the website, will be offline for ~2 months.
I am looking at alternative solutions in order to keep the servers online, but I can't make any promises.
Don't worry though, development has not stopped, and I'm not abandoning anything!
I wanted to share this information as soon as possible and will update as/if more information becomes available.
The boring dev. blog!
The screenshots had a lot of temporary things in them that didn't really show the new gameplay features clearly.
So, I changed my mind last-second, and in this dev. blog I thought I'd go over some of the more boring new features, fixes, and changes that are coming in Phase III.
Saving the new gameplay stuff for another dev. blog closer to Phase III release.
First the big one, Gods and Idols will be scaling-aware with Phase III! No more weird stretching and resolutions not actually matching.
And with resolution being scaling aware, it only made sense to add UI scaling as well.
Those of you playing on high resolutions will be pleased to know that you can now scale the UI all the way from 50% to 250%, not that 50% is actually playable, but I left it in regardless.
Next up is the chat. Some of you may have noticed that names now show up properly, no more ____________!
In addition to that, the chat itself has received numerous fixes and will just be overall more well behaved in Phase III.
Additional features, such as clicking usernames to send direct messages, are also coming soon after Phase III.
And finally, a big one, one that many of you have probably experienced and found incredibly annoying. Not to mention the accidental self-resets.
Planets and asteroid belts disappearing is finally fixed in Phase III!
And in addition to that, more information has been added ingame in Phase III that shows the health of the servers, as well as information when a service is down or not responding.
That's it for this time.
In the next dev. blog there'll be pictures of the space elevators and some of the new features they bring.
Not much longer now, Phase III draws ever closer!
Phase III vote results
Option A:
Option B:
Option C:
And so as the clear favorite Option A: overhauled and improved production, less building-upgrade micromanagement, and building modules will make it into Phase III (Or very shortly after the launch of Phase III)
The upcoming patch notes can be found in-game on the main menu, or at http://www.godsandidols.com/topic/1151/Upcoming-patch--Phase-III
Phase III vote!
There are a handful of features that I want to add, but in the interest of getting Colonization out as fast as possible for you all to play with I have decided to postpone most of those features.
However, I do not want to simply drop all of them. So I have decided to give you all the choice of which features you would like me to include in the release of Phase III.
Please note that Ecumenopolis, Space Elevators, Shipyards, and Colonization, are all included in Phase III regardless of the outcome of this vote!
To vote, simply reply to this post with your choice. In the case of a tie I will pick the winning option.
Voting is now closed!