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| − | === Database Maintenance ===
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| − | ''{{date|14|May|2009}}''
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| − | <blockquote>
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| − | <p>Hello MouseHunters. We would like to thank everyone for their patience today while the game was unavailable for database maintenance. Something came to our attention that would have negative effects on the game if left uncorrected and needed to be addressed sooner rather than later.</p>
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| − | <p>Due to the short notice of the significant downtime Glitchpaw mice have been released for the next 24 hours. Good luck capturing your first or adding a few more to your collection!</p>
| + | NEWSPOST OPENING LINE(S) |
| − | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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| − | === Hunting Party Adjustments ===
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| − | ''{{date|14|May|2009}}''
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| − | <p>Hi MHC,<p>
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| − | <p>There was some recent controversy about subbing people in and out of Hunting Parties to inflate the number of possible hunts. In order to level the playing field against parties using this tactic, you will now only be able to invite hunters to your Hunting Party post tournament start if your entire party has been inactive for 15 minutes. Thus, the captain invitation tab will disappear as soon as the first tournament horn is sounded and will only re-appear if no one in the party sounds the horn for 15 minutes.</p>
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| − | <p>Also, another tournament has been posted and it's called the Furoma Connection. Check it out!!! Only 10000 gold to enter.</p>
| + | ==== PARAGRAPH HEADER 1 ==== |
| − | | + | CONTENT OF PARAGRAPH |
| − | <p>Good luck to everyone in the upcoming Tourney!</p>
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| − | <p>Party HARD!</p>
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| − | -- {{MHP|13612371|Jeremy Mandel}}
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| − | === New Tournament Posted === | |
| − | ''{{date|13|May|2009}}''
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| − | <p>The Three Blind Mice Tournament is available to join and will start at May 14th 2009 - 20:00 GMT.</p>
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| − | <p>Get your Parties ready!</p>
| + | ==== PARAGRAPH HEADER 2 ==== |
| − | <p>Good luck!</p>
| + | CONTENT OF PARAGRAPH |
| − | -- {{MHP|13612371|Jeremy Mandel}}
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| − | === Hunting Parties and MouseHunt Tournaments === | + | ==== PARAGRAPH HEADER 3 ==== |
| − | ''{{date|12|May|2009}}''
| + | CONTENT OF PARAGRAPH |
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| − | <p>Hello MouseHunters,</p>
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| − | <p>It is with great pleasure and excitement that we announce the biggest new feature addition to MouseHunt since MouseHunt 2.0: MouseHunt Tournaments and Hunting Parties! If you are of Apprentice rank or higher, you will now be able to form unique groups of hunters to hunt competitively in a series of regularly scheduled tournaments!</p>
| + | -- {{MHP|POSTER SNUID|POSTER NAME}} |
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| − | <p>How do you sign up and how does this all work you ask? You can read all about how to join or create a Hunting Party and play in a MouseHunt Tournament by going to the Organize Party link under the Friends tab or following this url:<br/>
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| − | http://apps.facebook.com/mousehunt/organizeparty.php</p>
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| − | <p>We're going to start with a few short daily tournaments so everyone can learn how things work and get their parties together. These tournaments will be available shortly</p> | + | </blockquote> --> |
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| | + | === [{{MHdomain}}/newspost.php?news_post_id=897 The Treasure Map Mega Party has Started!] === |
| | + | ''{{date|13|Nov|2024}}'' |
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| − | <p>Occasionally, there will be prizes given out for MouseHunt Tournament winners. Also, there are two new boards that we've added to the forums: Tournament Talk and Meet and Greet. The Tournament Talk board can be used to discuss all things tournaments and the Meet and Greet can be used to recruit other hunters for your parties.</p> | + | <div style="text-align: center;">'''Get your map party started'''<br> |
| | + | Twice as many hunters per map for the next two weeks!</div> |
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| − | <p>A few quick words about MouseHunt Tournaments... <br/>
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| − | Some tournaments will be free to join, others will have an entrance cost of cheese, gold or some combination of the two. Tournament Scoreboards for tournaments your current party has hunted in may be found by going to the Tournament Scoreboard link under the Lore tab and are updated hourly.<p>
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| − | <p>Finally, a special thanks to all of the beta testers! You've been so unbelievably helpful in getting these features to where they are now.</p>
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| − | <p>We're all very excited about this new addition and really hope everyone enjoys it and demonstrates good hunting etiquette!<br/>
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| − | Good luck everyone and PARTY HARD!<br/>
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| − | -The HitGrab Team</p>
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| − | -- {{MHP|13612371|Jeremy Mandel}}
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| − | === Today's Updates ===
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| − | ''{{date|22|April|2009}}''
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| − | <p>Hi MouseHunters,</p>
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| − | <p>We released an update today that has been unpopular with some of our players. We always listen and want to address some of your concerns.</p>
| + | ==== The Treasure Map Mega Party has Started! ==== |
| | + | A brand new mini-event has just begun in the Kingdom of Gnawnia: the '''Treasure Map Mega Party'''! |
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| − | <p>We want to make clear the reasons for the changes so we can better work together to find a solution that everyone can be happy with.</p>
| + | For the next '''two weeks''', Treasure Maps can now hold '''TWICE''' as many hunters, up to a maximum of '''10'''! |
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| − | <p>Some players are upset that the +7 luck bonus of the lucky shield gives too great of an advantage to donators. This is our own fault for never fully explaining how luck works. Luck is the least important stat your trap has and only provides a very small occasional boost to help catch mice. Seven luck on average equates to about one less miss a day. Luck also boosts your ability to get loot in a very small way. Traps with around 20 luck will increase your odds by less than 2% for most items in the game.</p>
| + | This applies to all Treasure Maps except Solo Maps and Wanted Posters. |
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| − | <p>If you play for free it is because someone else is not and we wanted to give a small, unique token of thanks to those who allow hundreds of thousands of players to play MouseHunt for free everyday.</p>
| + | So gather twice as many map mates and get the mega party started! |
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| − | <p>People who donate by completing offers will also now be rewarded with a Lucky Golden Shield. This should allow people who are not able to donate via PayPal to receive the shield.</p> | + | <div style="text-align: center; border: 0.083em solid; border-radius: 0.416em; padding: 0.416em; margin: 1em 0"> |
| | + | <span style="font-size: 150%>'''Treasure Map Mega Party'''</span> |
| | + | <div style="font-size: 125%"> |
| | + | '''TWICE''' as many hunters per map, up to a maximum of '''10'''! |
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| − | <p>The trade request system was starting to become unbalanced. The buyer's section was almost pointless, full of posts that were never responded to. Players would have to reply to dozens of posts to try and scrape together enough sellers to meet their needs. These problems all stem from the root cause that SUPER|brie+ is worth more than 1,000 gold a piece to a majority of players. One of our most requested changes has been to remove the price cap on SUPER|brie+ in trade requests. We remind everyone that 10,000 is not the minimum but rather the maximum. We tried to pick a number that we know no one would ever buy for. We in no way are trying to make a piece worth 10,000. That number is merely in place to avoid errors and scams.</p> | + | Ends on '''Wednesday, November 27''' at 4:00PM ETC |
| | + | </div></div> |
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| − | <p>Finally, we apologize for the oversight of the many board competitions when introducing a limit on how much gold a player can send to friends. The generosity and inclusiveness of the community is the most important factor in the success of mousehunt. By attempting to add some checks to prevent scams we inadvertently punished those generous people who are active in the community. This is major oversight by us and we are immediately reversing the changes to the supply transfer system. We are removing the transfer limit and returning the tax rate to its original value.</p>
| + | If you're still on a map when the event ends, everyone currently on the map remains on it and can finish it! However, new hunters cannot be invited beyond the map's regular size. |
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| − | <p>With the cap on SUPER|brie+ removed we are confident that the amount of players abusing the give to friends feature will fall dramatically.</p> | + | ==== The Final Relic Hunter Season has Ended ==== |
| | + | <div style="text-align: center; padding: 0.416em; margin: 1em 0"> |
| | + | '''A new goal for the Relic Hunter Mouse''' |
| | + | </div> |
| | + | After ten seasons, the Relic Hunter Mouse has finally collected enough Ancient Relics from hunters that she can now begin her archaeological research into the true origin of mice in Gnawnia and why they came here. |
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| − | <p>MouseHunt started as a very simple game where there were no locations, special types of cheese or trading. As more rich content and strategy is added to the game it is sometimes necessary to rebalance some of the core features of the game. We apologize for the oversights we made while making these changes and any stress they may have caused. At times it may hurt, but the vocalness of the community is a great asset to the game. We appreciate everyones feedback and look forward to continuing to making mousehunt the best it can be.</p>
| + | She can still be found traveling around the Kingdom each day while she conducts her research but she will no longer steal Ancient Relics from hunters. Now when a Relic Hunter Mouse is caught, hunters can loot Ancient Relics from her, recovering some of what she had stolen over the years. |
| − | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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| − | </blockquote>
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| − | === Transfer Limit Increase === | + | <div style="text-align: center; padding: 0.416em; margin: 1em 0"> |
| − | ''{{date|22|April|2009}}'' | + | '''Relic Hunter Treasure Maps''' |
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| − | <p>We have just increased the new restriction on gold transfers from 30,000 gold every 24 hours to 250,000 gold every 12 hours.</p>
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| − | <p>The give gold function is the most abused feature of the game by dishonest players. The ability to give endless gold also introduces imbalances of newer players with wealthy friends skyrocketing through the game much quicker than intended.</p>
| + | The Cartographer at the King's Arms has discovered a stash of Relic Hunter Scroll Cases and is now selling them to adventurous hunters for 10 Ancient Relics each. |
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| − | <p>On the topic of the SB+ trading cap increase our intention was to basically remove the cap and allow SB+ to find it's own fair market value. The 10,000 per piece limit is only in place to prevent players from moving large amounts of gold by trading a single piece of cheese. The price will come down as sellers realize what constitutes as a fair price.</p> | + | <div style="text-align: center; padding: 0.416em; margin: 1em 0"> |
| − | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
| + | '''New Relic Hunter Treasure Chest Rewards''' |
| − | </blockquote> | + | </div> |
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| − | === New Map, Lucky Shields and Trade Changes ===
| + | The Limited Edition rewards of the final Relic Hunter season are gone but a new reward can now be found inside Relic Hunter Treasure Chests: '''Gilded Coins'''! |
| − | ''{{date|22|April|2009}}'' | |
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| − | '''Strange footprints in Whisker Woods | + | <div style="text-align: center; padding: 0.416em; margin: 1em 0"> |
| | + | '''New Ways to Spend Gilded Coins''' |
| | + | </div> |
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| − | <p>With the scent of Gnarled cheese in the air some hunters have reported strange happenings in Whisker Woods. Slightly dampened foot prints have been spotted around the tree heading to the west. The King dispatched hunters to investigate only to have them returned with their courage crippled by what they described only as a winged terror.</p>
| + | Take these Gilded Coins to the King's Arms where you can use them to purchase '''Gilded Trap Skins''', '''Gilded Charms''', or even '''Slayer Scroll Cases'''! |
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| + | ==== Reap the Rewards ==== |
| | + | The King's own artisans have released a new assortment of Gilded Trap Skins! |
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| − | '''Luck changes and new lucky shields | + | These breathtakingly beautiful new trap skins can be purchased from the King's Arms using Gilded Coins or from the Premium Shop. |
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| − | <p>Ever wish there was something you could do to help maximize your odds of finding a map piece, potion or other rare drop? The latest research by the King's diligent Royal Trapsmith has revealed that luck now provides a small boost to a hunter's chance to receive loot when catching a mouse.</p> | + | {| style="width: 100%; border-spacing: 1em" |
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| | + | |- style="text-align: center" |
| | + | | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''''NEW'' Gilded Chrome Dragon Slayer Cannon'''<br>For use with the Chrome Dragon Slayer Cannon<br> |
| | + | | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''''NEW'' Gilded Chrome Kraken'''<br>For use with the Chrome School of Sharks<br> |
| | + | |- style="text-align: center" |
| | + | | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''''NEW'' Gilded Chrome Memory Obliterator'''<br>For use with the Chrome Thought Obliterator<br> |
| | + | | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''''NEW'' Gilded Chrome Celestial Harmony'''<br>For use with the Chrome Celestial Dissonance<br> |
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| − | <p>Word has come from the King that any hunter that gives a donation to the MouseHunt kingdom will not only receive SUPER|brie+ but also be granted a special lucky shield for the following 30 days, which will add 7 luck to your trap! This golden shield will appear instead of the grey MouseHunt logo in the top left of the game as well as be displayed on their profile. The world of MouseHunt would not exist if it were not for the generous support of our players. We wanted to give something unique to everyone who supports the game and help us cover our operational costs.</p>
| + | ==== Stock up on Party Supplies! ==== |
| | + | The King is offering some limited time deals on a variety of mega mapping party supplies! |
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| − | <p>For those who have donated before this update we will be giving a shield to anyone who has ever donated and been active in the last 30 days.</p> | + | {| style="width: 100%; border-spacing: 1em" |
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| | + | | style="width: 33%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Mega Map Party Starter Pack'''<br>Best price ever on Rare Map Dust! |
| | + | |- style="text-align: center" |
| | + | | style="width: 33%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Gilded Scroll Case and Map Dust Bundle'''<br>Gilded Scroll Case + Dust! |
| | + | |- style="text-align: center" |
| | + | | style="width: 33%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Gilded Trap Skin Party Pack'''<br>New Gilded Trap Skins + 20 Dust! |
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| | + | | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''20 Rare Map Dust'''<br>20 for 20 Rare Map Dust! |
| | + | | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Gilded Scavenger Scroll Case'''<br>Also rewards more Gilded Coins! |
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| | + | | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Rare Map Dust Crafter's Kit'''<br>40 Dust + 200 Magic Essence! |
| | + | | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Treasure Hunting Gift Set'''<br>Gift a Mega Map Party Favour! |
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| | + | | style="width: 50%; padding: 0.416em" | '''Gilded Scroll Case'''<br>Now rewards more Gilded Coins! |
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| | + | <span style="font-size: 150%>'''Treasure Map Mega Party'''</span> |
| | + | <div style="font-size: 125%"> |
| | + | '''TWICE''' as many hunters per map, up to a maximum of '''10'''! |
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| − | '''Changes to trading and giving to friends | + | Ends on '''Wednesday, November 27''' at 4:00PM ETC |
| | + | </div></div> |
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| − | <p>The King has raised the 1,000 gold per piece cap on SUPER|brie+ to 10,000 gold per piece but has also increased the tax rate to 20% for both trade requests and gold transfers. This change is to help keep balance as the game progresses and to help players put their gold to better use.</p>
| + | -- {{MHP|2818486648263450|Norman Hussey}} |
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| − | <p>A new limit for giving gold to friends has also been introduced. A hunter can transfer no more than 30,000 gold to other players every 24 hours. For example if you send two of your friends 15,000 gold each you will be unable to send anyone else gold for 24 hours. This new rule is to discourage players from using the give supplies page for trading purposes and reduce the number of players who are victims of dishonest players trying to scam gold. This change will help reduce the thousands support emails we receive to help us concentrate our time on developing new content for the game. We find that 30,000 gold is a healthy amount to help along new players.</p>
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| − | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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| − | === Trap Check Fix ===
| + | __NOTOC__ |
| − | ''{{date|15|April|2009}}''
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| − | <p>We have just applied an update that completely re-engineers the way trap checks work.</p>
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| − | <p>In our old system we were no longer able to generate 24 trap checks per day due to the large number of players we have now reached. Writing all the journals, awarding points, gold and loot creates a lot of database activity that slowly but surely adds up and brings things to a crawl.</p>
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| − | <p>The new system now in place generates trap checks much more passively to spread the load more evenly. This new method of handling trap checks has also allowed us to once again give a trap check every hour on the hour.</p>
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| − | <p>Please keep in mind that due to the urgency of this update we did not submit through our usual vigorous and lengthy of testing as we do for most of our updates. If a few hiccups occur here and there please rest assured we'll be hard at work to iron out the kinks.</p>
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| − | <p>Happy hunting (with trap checks too)!</p>
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| − | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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| − | ===Testing New Trap Check System===
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| − | ''{{date|14|April|2009}}''
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| − | <p>Hey MouseHunters!</p>
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| − | <p>Thought I would post a quick update to give you some information about how far along we are with our trap check solution.</p>
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| − | <p>We are currently testing our release candidate for the solution and everything seems to be running smoothly. If everything continues problem free we may be able to go live with our changes sometime tomorrow.</p>
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| − | <p>Some players were also noticing some journal entries appearing blank with only the time-stamp and mouse picture. We've isolated the problem and it will be fixed in when we apply the next update.</p>
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| − | <p>If plans change we'll let you know. In the meantime keep catching all those Glitchpaw mice!</p>
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| − | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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| − | ===Trap Check Update===
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| − | ''{{date|13|April|2009}}''
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| − | <p>Hello MouseHunters!</p>
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| − | <p>Our number one priority is fixing trap checks and we have been brainstorming for the past day or so on how we can completely re-engineer.</p>
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| − | <p>We have come up with a solution that looks very promising to not only restore trap checks to what they were but also ensure that as more and more players join the game we can continue to deliver reliable trap checks.</p>
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| − | <p>We are now hard at work developing this solution to get it into testing as soon as possible.</p>
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| − | <p>Thanks for your ungoing patience and support.</p>
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| − | <p>We'll keep you posted as we progress.</p>
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| − | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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| − | ===Trap checks are broken===
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| − | ''{{date|10|April|2009}}''
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| − | <p>Trap checks are currently very broken. Despite our best efforts to find a solution this problem persists. The entire team is brainstorming ideas on how we can restructure the way trap checks work because the current implementation is not capable of providing trap checks to the amount of players who play everyday.</p>
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| − | <p>We may have to rebuild the trap check system from scratch which may take some time. We'll keep you posted as we continue to work on solving this problem.</p>
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| − | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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| − | === Gnarly Rumors ===
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| − | ''{{date|9|April|2009}}''
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| − | <p>Rumors are afloat in the Calm Clearing of Whisker Woods! Word has spread of strange pathways, lined with sparkling fairy dust, that lead deeper into the woods.</p>
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| − | <p>The dense canopy of the woods keeps the winding pathways rather dark, making them hard to navigate. Surely a hunter will need some sort of guide to find their way through!</p>
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| − | <p>Good luck investigating these rumors, hunters...</p>
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| − | <p>Also in this update:</p>
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| − | <p>- A few minor tweaks to font and layout here and there.</p>
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| − | <p>- Some optimizations and better tracking reports for the trap check system.</p>
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| − | <p>- Some players noticed a reference to 'Hunting Parties' on their profile pages for a few minutes after we applied the update. That text was accidently added to this release. Parties are something we're working on for the near future and is not quite ready yet. We'll have more information as this feature gets closer to release.</p>
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| − | <p>- We have fine-tuned our bot detection scripts so that non-malicious scripts will not trigger our pattern tracking. We remind players that anything that automatically refreshes or loads a page violates the game's rules and is not to be used.</p>
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| − | <p>We would also like to remind everyone that the boards are meant as a fun and friendly atmosphere. We get swamped with complaints regarding swearing, insulting, etc. We are beginning to crack down on inappropriate behaviour on the boards so please think before you post.</p>
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| − | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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| − | === Forum 'Enhancer' Scripts ===
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| − | ''{{date|8|April|2009}}''
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| − | <blockquote>
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| − | <p>It has come to our attention that some browser scripts/plugins that are designed to integrate MouseHunt player statistics into the discussion board are making undo requests to the game.</p>
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| − | <p>These extra requests happen behind the scenes loading MouseHunt pages to grab the necessary data. The problem is that this extra activity triggers King's Reward codes without the player ever seeing them.</p>
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| − | <p>This leads to a few problems where players have an unclaimed reward without ever knowing it and strange errors due to the massive amount of requests all coming from the same address.</p>
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| − | <p>The extra requests also massively boost how active the game thinks you are. This triggers some of our bot-detection and tracking systems.</p>
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| − | <p>We are working on fine-tuning our bot tracking systems as well as working with the developers of these types of scripts so that do not trigger our tracking systems. In the meantime we kindly ask any players who are using any sort of script or plugin that modifies the Facebook discussion boards to add MouseHunt statistics to uninstall them immediately.</p>
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| − | <p>To make things clear: If you have installed or use anything that modifies the way Facebook discussion boards look or function please uninstall them.</p>
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| − | <p>This will avoid your account being falsely flagged for bot usage as well as save countless requests to our server to help to make the game quicker and more responsive for everyone!</p>
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| − | <p>Thanks for your corporation.</p>
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| − | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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| − | </blockquote>
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| − | === System Update ===
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| − | ''{{date|7|April|2009}}''
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| − | <blockquote>
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| − | <p>Today's minor system update was to address a few issues players have been reporting along with various optimizations 'behind-the-scenes'.</p>
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| − | <p>Thanks for your patience during the few minutes the game was unavailable.</p>
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| − | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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| − | </blockquote>
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| − | === Using "Bots" WILL get you BANNED! ===
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| − | ''{{date|6|April|2009}}''
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| − | <blockquote>
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| − | <p>Hello Everyone!</p>
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| − | <p>This is an announcement to let you all know that we will be banning accounts, without warning, that we detect are using any kind of automated method to play the game.</p>
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| − | <p>We are able to use tracking methods within the game to distinguish players from bots and have already disabled dozens of accounts. Some of these accounts had large amounts of points and gold, do not risk losing your progress in the game!</p>
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| − | <p>Anything that clicks, refreshes a page or takes any other action in the game via an automated process will trigger these tracking methods. Timers are fine so long as they do not sound the horn at the end of their timer and still require you to be at your computer and click something to actually sound the horn.</p>
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| − | <p>To clarify and reiterate...</p>
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| − | <p>Anything that will play the game on its own while you are not at your computer constitutes as using a "bot" and will get you banned.</p>
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| − | <p>The MH Toolbar is okay to use.</p>
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| − | <p>Thank you.</p>
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| − | -- {{MHP|510239199|Franco D'Auria}}
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| − | </blockquote>
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| − | === Trap Check Info ===
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| − | ''{{date|1|April|2009}}''
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| − | <blockquote>
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| − | <p>Hello MouseHunt communit-tay!</p>
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| − | <p>As many of you are aware, trap checks have not been functioning correctly for quite some time. The problem is proving to be challenging to solve without changing some fundamental gameplay elements that contribute to the passive nature of the game.</p>
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| − | <p>This issue is a priority for us and we can only ask for your patience while we work on a solution.</p>
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| − | <p>How else can you help us? Well as every seasoned MouseHunter knows all of life's problems can be blamed on the dreaded Glitchpaw mouse and it's about time we fought back with traps! So grab your best trap and be on the lookout for any Glitchpaw mice that come your way. Every one caught is sure to help!</p>
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| − | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}}
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| − | </blockquote>
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