BYOND 5.0 Version 503 Release Notes

Build 503.1221

Features (More Info)

DM Language

• BYOND now allows authors to set up "credits" that can be used in-game, similar to the old BYONDimes but used for individual games. The author can create packages for this just like with subscriptions. Three new procs have been introduced to support this:
  
  world.GetCredits(player): Get a player's credits for the hub entry.
  world.PayCredits(player,credits,note): Deduct credits for this hub entry, but fail if the player doesn't have enough.
  world.AddCredits(player,credits,note): Add credits to the player's account.
  
  These procs work like the medal and score procs, in that they will contact the hub and will return null if hub contact fails. They require a hub password.


• A new world proc, IsSubscribed(), can be used to check whether a user is subscribed to the game without having to use CheckPassport(). This can check on offline users as well. Call world.IsSubscribed(key), or call world.IsSubscribed(key,"byond") to check BYOND Membership. Like CheckPassport(), this returns the days remaining in the subscription. Null is returned if hub contact was required, and failed. Please note: Your hub entry must have a password for this feature to work for offline users.

Dream Seeker

• Ads will still display when first joining a game (except for Members who have disabled them), but will no longer be displayed when the server reboots. This is to help accommodate games that reboot frequently, such as Space Station 13.

Build 503.1222

Features (More Info)

Dream Daemon & Dream Seeker

• Setting "map-threads off" in cfg/seeker.txt or cfg/daemon.txt will turn off the new 502 multithreading for maps in Dream Seeker or Dream Daemon, respectively, while still allowing the server to operate separate from the UI via the normal multithreading.

Build 503.1224

Fixes (More Info)

BYOND Pager

• Certain situations related to live friends could cause the pager to freeze. (VoltageHero)

Dream Daemon

• Calling image/new() with no arguments caused junk data to be used, sometimes resulting in a crash. (Doohl)

Features (More Info)

Dream Daemon & Dream Seeker

• Threading has been disabled, due to the need for a new stable release with other important fixes. It will be reenabled in a new beta.

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