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I’d like to apologize for the delay between the last update and this one. This is a relatively small update at the moment, as some of the features that I was working on just weren’t ready, and I wanted to go ahead and get some major bug fixes and improvements that I’ve been sitting on out into the wild. With that said, let’s begin.



New Features and Changes

Drones/Companions - This is still fairly early and primitive, but you can now track your Drone’s stats. Click the “Add Drone” button for the first level you get a Drone under the Planning tab, and then you’ll have a new Drone tab in that level. You can fill out the basic information for the drone here, and it’ll put a new card on the Play tab. If you run into any bugs, or have any feedback on this, please let me know.

Per Level Skill Ranks - Skill Ranks are now tracked per level, under the Planning tab. This will allow you to see exactly where and how many ranks you’re using each level. If you open an older character, all of the ranks will be put into the first level, and you’ll need to readjust them.

HP, SP, and RP Adjustment Popups - There’s now an edit icon on the HP, SP, and RP, fields. Click these buttons, and you’ll launch a small popup that will let you type in a number, and then you can click either “Increase” or “Decrease” depending on if you’ve taken healing or damage. The number field should get focus automatically, so it’ll open up your on screen keyboard automatically on a touch device. There’s also a “Reset” button, if you need to reset to the full amount.

Timestamped Filenames - When you save your character to a file or to Dropbox now, the file name should now be the Character’s name, followed by the date and the time. This allows you to save multiple version, and be able to keep them track regardless of which device they may be from. It also allows you to sort the files easily by the date and time they were saved.

Languages - There’s now a place to put the Languages that you know. It’s located in the Bio section under the Basics tab. If you’re opening a new character, this will be blank. You can fill it in as you’d like.

Removed Google Analytics - I’ve removed Google Analytics to try to better protect your privacy.

Enabled Option Persistence - Turning off the dice rollers now persists when you reload the page. Other options will be able to do this as well when they get added in.

Switched Data Providers - We’re now using thehiddentruth.info as our data provider for Spells and will be using them for more things in the future. (Thanks Mark!)

Bug Fixes

Some of the bugs that have been fixed in this update:

Spells being linked to previous levels



Armor upgrade slots don’t update the list of upgrades



Inability to save characters to LocalStorage in certain situations



Tried to load the character image multiple times when updating it



Skill ranks being calculated incorrectly after level 10



Unable to rearrange items in inventory reliably



Menu auto-hiding when switching tabs not working



Trying to add a purchase the society journal didn’t work

Things to Come

Right now, I’m looking forward to having the New Character Wizard, as well as the Online Accounts system up and running for storing characters in the next update, barring any issues that need to get fixed immediately. Once those are working, I’ll have some time to get Offline Support and Character Sharing working. I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to tackle Starships and shared Starship sessions sometime after that.



Thanks

I’d like to personally thank you for taking the time to read this update. I know it’s been a long time since the last update, and I am sorry for that. I’ve been spending a lot of the time I’ve had to work on this project on the New Character Wizard, and unfortunately I’ve been slow to push out other updates because of that. I will try to do better in the future.

- Trevor