AESU Build 3

Manual update required – please read.  A couple updates to the auto-updater today:

  1. Fixed an issue where sometimes patch files wouldn’t download correctly and would have to fall back on the full file alternate
  2. Fixed an issue where updating the autoupdater doesn’t work at all

Because of issue #2, you’ll need to manually reinstall AESU from the secret beta webpage.  There’s a new installer link (which now has a ‘-3’ suffix).  Future AESU updates should self-install in future.

The new AESU displays ‘Build 3’ in the Help > About screen.

Alpha.1604

Thanks for all the feedback and bug reports!  Here’s a patch which addresses a bunch of them:

  • Box values will always be positive
  • Selling should never cause you to lose money
  • Boxes will only load as many resources as they can fit value-wise
  • Some weapons were not properly categorized as weapons
  • Some weapons were not being credited to the right tech level / age for some objectives
  • Rebalanced Potato-age weapons to reward more complex creations
  • Expand cost should not go negative

Stripe Payment (including new stripe hat)

stripeHatSmallUsers of standalone desktop edition and 8bitmmo.net browser edition can now buy plat packs with credit cards worldwide via Stripe.  This payment method is directly integrated (no manually copying plat tokens required), and even has an option to remember your payment details for future purchases.  Best of all, any plat purchase via Stripe will credit your account with the new stripe hat!

Announcing: March of Industry

I’m excited to officially announce my next big project, March of Industry!

In March of Industry, players manage a weapons factory in a recently-capitalist, ex-Soviet country. Take the country’s natural resources (copper, tin, vodka) and craft them together to create more advanced resources and finally weapons. You can sell these weapons and use the proceeds to automate the crafting and mass-produce even more weapons.

As your factory expands, you can create better (and more outlandish) weapons. The ‘Rocket-Propelled Katana Launcher’ is both simple to make and reasonably profitable. If you’re up for more of a challenge, try combining ‘Vodka’ and ‘Exercise Machines’ to create the smelly but deadly ‘Vladimir Putin’s Gym Shorts’. Or perhaps you prefer the terrifying but compact ‘Inconveniently Small Dragons’?

Sign up for the upcoming private beta here, or check out our new Steam page here (we are also planning on Kongregate and Android editions).  We also have a forum setup here.

Buy Box

buyboxMany players have been requesting this feature lately, so here you go:  the Buy Box is now available!  Now you can sell items without being online.

Place items in the box you want to sell.  Another user can later purchase the entire contents of the box for a gold fee that you have set.  You can later retrieve the fee from the box.

New Mods

Please join me in welcoming four new mods to the community moderation team:  Retsejnomis, Black_Jack, Shcky, and Marbelz.

Kyro is also voluntarily stepping down from the mod team to focus on real-life things.  I thank him for his contributions over his tenure as a mod.

Finally, I’d like to add that it was intensely difficult for the existing mod team and myself to narrow down the final contenders for the limited mod positions.  Don’t fret if you really wanted to be a mod.  There are a number of people being eyed for the next round.