Changelog

Version 0.185

• Fixed a crash bug in purchase flow when purchase failed.
• Fixed some script bugs.
• Updated diagnostics module.

Version 0.184

• Fixes a follow-up bug caused by the Android Support Library issue.
• Fixes a hugely annoying bug in the carousing script.

Version 0.183

• Fixes a bug that prevented crew recruitment if your ship had been captured.

Version 0.182

• Rolled back Android Support Library to 25.0.1 as it was causing problems with the combat view.
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from getting gold in new ships.

Version 0.181

• Adds in-app purchases.
• Fixes an issue with distribution of plunder.
• Fixes some crash bugs.

Version 0.180

• Incremental development version/test version.

Version 0.179

• Incremental development version/test version.

Version 0.178

• Incremental development version/test version.

Version 0.177

• Incremental development version/test version.

Version 0.176

• Incremental development version/test version.

Version 0.175

• Incremental development version/test version.

Version 0.174

• Fixed a minor crash bug.

Version 0.173

• Fixed a crew recruitment bug.

Version 0.172

• Fixed a crash bug in v0.171.

Version 0.171

• Fixes a bug that can cause a crash when the game is closed down abruptly in ship combat.

Version 0.170

• General bug fixes.

Version 0.169

• Fixed a bug with the Lucky Jack script.
• Bug in character training fixed. Characters should gain levels again now (still more to be done, though).

Version 0.168

• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from having more than two fleet ships.
• Player now needs to have Captain rank to be able to command more than one ship.
• Fixed a bug that mean location of an event was no longer visible after a reload of the game.
• Fixed a bug that caused way too many storms to be generated.
• Fixed a minor bug in the game's internal time handling.

Version 0.167

• Revision work on the ship combat and plunder views.

Version 0.166

• Fixed a script error that caused crew to be available during the night, instead of every other time, as intended.

Version 0.165

• Added the "Lucky Jack" tavern encounter.
• Reimplemented intro views using databinding.

Version 0.164

• Fixed the game events so that they load/save correctly.
• Fixed game events so that you can now get rumors from the game again.
• Added a first attempt at auto-save functionality.
• Fixed some errors in how the game stores script variables (which caused variable errors).

Version 0.163

• Fixed some crash issues.
• Added a "new" old tavern encounter (Rum tasting).
• Fixed some story script errors.

Version 0.162

• Fixed some crash issues.

Version 0.161

• Added a "new" old tavern encounter (Rum tasting).
• Fixed some story script errors.

Version 0.160

• Restructured savegames. This should dramatically decrease the size of in-game saves. Note that - as with all such restructures - there is a risk that old savegames stop working. Contact us if you run into problems.
• Changes the in-game structure for locations so that it is now "building" based. In future, the player will be able to create buildings.
• Changed the in-game time handling, so that the game now has a day-night cycle.
• Changed the way that "partying" in town and distributing plunder works.
• Added two new in-port events.
• Added the contrabands "merchant".
• Changed the way time passes in ports.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to plunder more goods from a ship than it had.
• Fixed several bugs in the native event that meant players were plundered for excess weapons.

Version 0.148

• Fixed a pernicious bug that caused prize crews to bug out.
• Fixed a bug that caused crews to complain about lack of food, even though the fleet has plenty left.
• Fixed a very minor crashbug.
• Tweaked frequency of storms, so they will be more rare.

Version 0.147

• Fixed a data issue.

Version 0.146

• Added a fifth native faction: the Arawak.
• Fixed a data bug that was preventing native characters from spawning correctly.
• Fixed an old bug with dialogue popups that had reappeared.
• More bug fixes.

Version 0.145

• Fixed a number of crash bugs.

Version 0.144

• Updated the Google API Client.

Version 0.143

• Ships now consume powder when firing cannons. Ships without powder cannot fire their cannons.
• Tweaked combat algorithms and AI.
• Fixed a bug that caused story errors when loading stories with "special events".
• Fixed a bug that caused "zombie ships" in combat.
• Fixed a bug in the native trading script that caused crash to map if the player had exactly 1 or 2 weapons.

Version 0.142

• Fixed long press (transfer all) in the ship status view.
• Doubled deadline lengths for merchant deliveries.
• Doubled the pay deadline from 3 months to 6 months.
• Fixed bug in the new native delivery story.

Version 0.141

• Fixed bug that caused landlubbers to be recruited first.
• Fixed recruiting so that it now hopefully properly distributes crew to other ships, once the flag ship is at full capacity.
• Fixed a bug where merchant delivery failure would fail to find item if the player has changed their flag ship.
• Fixed a bug that allowed Panama to turn up as a merchant delivery target.

Version 0.140

• Added the possibility to scuttle (i.e., abandon) ships.
• Added new story: natives.

Version 0.139

• Bug fix to prevent ships from being stuck in the middle of the ocean.

Version 0.138

• Bug fix to prevent single ships from registering as having always insufficient crew.

Version 0.137

• Added functionality that prevents sailing with overloaded and under-crewed ships.
• Updated Android libraries and Target SDK.

Version 0.136

• Bug fixes.

Version 0.135

• Bug fixes.

Version 0.134

• Should now correctly recruit the best crew members first.
• Crew can now correctly improve in skill.
• Fixed a variety of smaller crash bugs.

Version 0.133

• You can now send your crew out to R&R in port, at a small price.
• Fixed bug with missing pronouns in text.
• Fixed issue of some ships being called "Error"
• Fixed a variety of small crash bugs.

Version 0.132

• You can now dismiss crew members.
• Fixed a bug with the handling of diverts in choices (jInk).
• Found and fixed a bug that bombed the skill levels of the player crew. Also prevented crew from being removed.
• Crew are now sorted by skill level in the ship view.

Version 0.131

• Fixed a bug in the loading of ship items, that has been causing problems.
• Handled an issue with the use of the new ToolTips.

Version 0.130

• Fixed bugs with the savegame handling.

Version 0.129

• Fixed an oversight (read: really dumb bug) in the previous patch.

Version 0.128

• Fixed a bug with the handling of the character selection dialog.

Version 0.127

• Fixed some crash bugs with ToolTipView.

Version 0.126

• Fixed a crash bug when creating a new game.
• Replaces the old WeakReference based image cache with an LruCache-based implementation.
• Replaced RoundedImageView with CircleImageView.

Version 0.125

• Rebuilt the savegame module.
• Fixed some more save bugs.
• Tweaked the fleet morale algorithms.

Version 0.124

• Fixed some more save bugs.

Version 0.123

• Fixed some trade goods not loading correctly and a crash bug.
• Tweaked the fleet morale algorithms.

Version 0.122

• Fixed cloud save issues for names with non-standard ASCII characters.

Version 0.121

• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from returning to the main view after a won ship battle.

Version 0.120

• Fixed a bug that caused a force-close when creating new games.

Version 0.119

• Fixed a crash bug when the player is forced to end the game.

Version 0.118

• Rebuilt the savegame system. The files are now structured differently, and gzipped to save space. Savegames are now also loaded and saved using a streaming API.

 * Using the streaming API hopefully makes up for the performance loss with compression. More importantly, it has a lower memory footprint, which will hopefully mean less out of memory errors for people with lower-end phones.
 * Compression means that savegame will take up a lot less space, and use less traffic for cloud saves.

• Rebuilt the internal handling of game states. Should not affect gameplay, but makes the UI code a bit cleaner.
• Reconfigured the player personality traits. A couple of them have changed names, and the effects are slightly different.
• Reconfigured the player skill system. Higher level skills now take more experience points to reach.
• Lots of minor bug fixes, as usual.

Version 0.117

• Added tutorial texts for the main game view, and for the port trader view.
• Improved the UI for the port trader, so that it now also includes the baseline price.
• Fixed some bugs in pricing algoritm for goods, so that it now varies correctly based on the merchant in the port, and the player's skill.
• Fixed a bug related to the pricing with surplus and demand. These should now correctly reflect the port event.
• Also tweaked various parameters in the trade good pricing and amounts.
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from adding ships to their fleet. However, a different bug means that these cannot be added yet.
• Fixed the text for storm events, so that it now reflects the choice taken.
• Should hopefully no longer get merchant missions to Panama.
• Increased the gap between options, to ease pressing the right choice.
• Lots of minor bug fixes.

Version 0.116

• Fixed a savegame bug that was causing savegames to grow rapidly over time.

Version 0.115

• Fixed a stability issue introduced in v0.114.

Version 0.114

• Fixed an issue that prevented story event icons (surplus/demand) from being visible on the main map view.
• Added the fishing boat encounter back into the game. More sea travel encounters will follow.
• Ship items sold to the shipwright in port should now be correctly available for purchase.
• Transferral of cannons between ships (as well as purchase of such items in port) should now work correctly.
• Ship crew transferral view should now work correctly (i.e., it should be possible to select ships when you have more than two).

Version 0.113

• Fixed a major bug in the way crimes and rank points are calculated.
• The world status view now provides a visual indication of the number of rank points that have been accumulated.
• The character status view now shows your personal wealth.
• Fixed the end game sequence so that you do not lose access to your ship when defeated (which was causing crashes).
• Other minor bug fixes.

Version 0.112

• Bug fix to allow the loading algorithm to recover from savegame corruption.

Version 0.111

• Bug fix to prevent a savegame corruption issue.

Version 0.110

• Fixed the world status, so that it now correctly shows rank and other status symbols next to the nation flag.

Version 0.109

• Fixed a bug (caused by Jackson) that crashed the game when loading on Android 2.3.
• Implemented correct save and loading during ship combat.
• Fixed a serious number of minor bugs that were causing crashes.

Version 0.108

• Finished the event code responsible for handling delivery missions, etc. The first merchant deliveries are now added (back) into the game.
• Fixed an awful bug that was causing stationary events to move across the map.

Version 0.107

• Rewritten savegame code for Jackson streaming API (lower memory overhead to reduce out of memory errors).

Version 0.106

• Fixed a bug that caused the player's wealth to be set to 0, if they tried "Buy All" on a bunch of items they could not afford.
• Fixed a bug that allowed storms to generate rumors.
• Fixed a bug that could cause non-fatal errors when creating new petty officers.

Version 0.105

• Fixed a bug in the script for creating a new player character (bug if the player selected the "realist" trait).
• Fixed another concurrency issue that could cause a crash in the map view.
• Fixed a few additional rare crash bugs.
• Fixed an interface bug when creating characters.

Version 0.104

• Fixed a bug that was preventing players from receiving their letter of marque when purchasing it.
• Fixed the save method for stories so that buggy data does not result in a game crash.
• Fixed story viewing so that the player can (usually) continue with the game, even if the story script crashes due to script errors.

Version 0.103

• Fixed a bug in the story scripting fix of v 0.102.

Version 0.102

• Fixed some story scripting issues.

Version 0.101

• Fixed concurrency issue that could cause a crash in the map view (i.e., while scrolling the map).

Version 0.100

• First public release of Pirates and Traders 2.