Author: wplaat

WarQuest 6.2

WarQuest v6.2 is released with the following changes and bug fixes:

23-12-2013 WarQuest v6.2
Game Server

  • Added planet Neptune:
    • with new 40 unit types.
    • with new 36 building types.
    • with new 72 missions.
    • features are available from level 250 till 299.
    • adapted game engine to support new planet.
  • Rename asteroid to mercure planet.
  • Update most citizens images.
  • Rebalance earth, moon, mars and mercure units / buildings.
  • Increase maximum unit amount to 5500.
  • Increase maximum building amount to 645.
  • Added admin overview clan war map page.
  • Enable christmas / new year announcement.

Play

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WarQuest 6.1

WarQuest v6.1 is released with the following changes and bug fixes:

09-12-2013 WarQuest v6.1
Game Server 6.1

  • Clan Wars improvements:
    • Added hourly income to each conquered sectors.
    • An inactive clan member is removed from a clan after 30 days.
    • An inactive clan is removed after 60 days.
  • Added dynamic screen size css to support Firefox OS.
  • Added FireFoxOS marketplace button on login page.
  • Added gift shop to Help-Donate page.
  • Improve Release-Notes page layout.
  • Improve Stats page layout.
  • Added sound effects to mission and help pages.
  • Remove Ads functionality (not used for long time).
  • Added database layer unit tests to improve stability.
  • Rename planet numbers to improve source code quality.
  • Bug fix: Planet switch on clan list page is now working correct.
  • Bug fix: Fixed vote exploit!

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WarQuest 6.0

WarQuest v6.0 is released with the following changes and bug fixes:

02-12-2013 WarQuest v6.0
Game Server 6.0

  • Clan Wars improvements:
    • Added bonus to each won clan war fight.
    • Added clan slogan.
    • Mininal clan size is now set to 6 during fights.
    • Rebalance earth, moon, mars and mercure units and buildings.
    • Limit map access to neighbor sectors which are already conquered.
    • Unlock clan wars at level 15.
  • Update javascripts to support IE 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
  • Added gold promotion banner to home page.
  • Replace all magic event numbers with constants in source code.
  • Improve security of all POST / GET actions.

Play

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WarQuest 5.9

This evening WarQuest v5.9 is released with the following changes and bug fixes:

25-11-2013 WarQuest v5.9
Game Server v5.9
– Added premium gold features:
– Added 16 gold defence buildings.
– Added 16 gold units.
– Gold units & buildings are in-mortal.
– Added gold information to game banner.
– Updated help and donation page information.
– Updated admin page to process manual gold donations.
– All existing and new players receive 500 gold as introduction bonus.
– Existing trade points are converted to gold (ratio 1:500).
– Trade features are now payed with gold instead of trade points.
– Added “gold use” statistics to Help – Stats page.
– Added building defence submenu for better overview.
– Cleanup earth cavalry units. Removed weakest units to make a shorter list.

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WarQuest 5.8

This evening WarQuest v5.8 is released with the following changes and bug fixes:

17-11-2013 WarQuest v5.8
Game Server v5.8
– Added third casino game: Tic Tac Toe.
– Added sound effects to casino games.
– Added email check to activate mail notifications.
– Improve WarQuest email layout. Now completly HTML based.
– Battle sounds functionality is now based on HTML5 standard.
– Mission maps support now direct jump to mission page.
– Rebalance earth unit & building defense / attack values.
– Added clan wars functionality to WarQuest:
– Added bonus to conquer sector event.
– Added Battle -> Clan-Wars battle page.
– Added Alliance -> Clan configuration page.
– Update Help -> Instruction page.
– Update Player -> Profile page.
– Bug fix: Create SessionId functionality is now transaction proof.

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WarQuest Windows App 1.5

This evening Plaatsoft has released version 1.5 of the WarQuest for Windows. This release contain the following changes:

17-11-2013 Version 1.5
– Added HTML5 sound support.
– Use QT library 5.0.1 for Windows as engine.
– The app was build with QtCreator v2.6.2
– Released app on www.plaatsoft.nl

Download

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WarQuest 5.7

This evening WarQuest v5.7 is released with the following changes and bug fixes:

08-11-2013 WarQuest v5.7
– Optimize mission planet images. Reduce filesize to improve load time.
– Increase maximum level to 279.
– Removed sun features.
– Improve database optimize. (Admin mode).
– Added backup cron job.
– Update jquery to 10.2.0.
– Update jquery-ui to 10.3.0.
– update jquery-css smooth to 10.3.0.
– Added server php source code to google code.

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VirtualBox Windows / Solaris 10 / Xming

I had the following problem with Solaris 10 X86 in a VirtualBox container. I could not make a XDMCP session with xming to this Solaris 10 container.

After long searching I found that default Windows 7 Enterprise is blocking (firewall) this connection. To resolve this issues go to the Control Panel – Windows firewall – Advanched settings -> Inbound Rules. Find Xming X server and enable each profile.

Then everything is working fine.

On the Solaris 10 site the following steps must be executed to enable XDMCP

Solaris 10’s desktop environment is JDS which is based off of GNOME.

– Log in as root
– Open a terminal
– Type gdmsetup (a dialog box will appear)
– Click on the XDMCP tab
– Check the Enable XDMCP box
– Press Close

PlaatScrum 0.9

Early this morning I released the first maintenance release of PlaatScrum.

16-08-2012 PlaatScrum 0.9
– Improve taskboard sorting when no sprint is selected.
– Improve resource view
– Cost information is now only available for scrum master.
– Update some text labels.
– Bug fix: Story Owner is not lost with “Team Member” role during update.
– Bug fix: Logout action destroys now correct user session.

Check out the demo here

Linux RedSquare 1.0

This evening i have ported the Windows RedSquare game to Linux. So please try it out. Comments are welcome!

10-07-2012 Version 1.0
– First release of RedSquare for Linux
– Game is equal to Windows version only without sound effects.
– Added new app icons.
– Added debian package for easy install on ubuntu, debian, etc..
– App used Qt libraries 4.7.x or higher
– App is build with QtCreator v2.4.1

Download

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VPS 512MB config

Yesterday i upgraded my VPS from 256MB to 512MB memory (1GB Burst) to have some more resources to handle traffic.

On this VPS the following software is installed:
– Ubuntu 10
– Apache 2.2.16
– MySQL 5.1.61
– PHP 5.5.3

I am running five website with regular traffice (+/- 15.000 requests a day) on the VPS:
– PlaatScrum (Self made PHP site)
– PlaatSoft (WordPress site)
– Family van der Plaat (WordPress site)
– Education (Self made PHP site)
– Service (Self made PHP site)

I found out the below configuration results in the best performance:

Apache2

The following modules are activated:
– alias
– dir
– mime
– negotiation
– php5
– rewrite
– status

The following apache2.conf is active:

MaxKeepAliveRequests 0
KeepAliveRequests 15

[mpm_prefork_module]
StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 30
MaxRequestsPerChild 0

[mpm_worker_module]
StartServers 1
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadLimit 64
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxClients 30
MaxRequestsPerChild 0

[mpm_event_module]
StartServers 1
MaxClients 30
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadLimit 64
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0

MySQL

[mysqld]
skip-innodb

key_buffer = 8M
max_allowed_packet = 16M
thread_stack = 192K
thread_cache_size = 4

myisam-recover = BACKUP
max_connections = 50
table_cache = 128

query_cache_limit = 512K
query_cache_size = 8M

WarQuest 18.5 million requests

Hi everybody. Today the 18.500.000th WarQuest request was processed. That’s great. So the WarQuest server is handeling around 2.000.000 requests a month. Hardware is scale for must higher values so invite more players and ofcourse keep on playing.

Official WarQuest Statistics

Players 18.216
Countries 147
Server Requests 18.575.376
WarQuest for Windows dowloads 4.800
WarQuest for Linux dowloads 12
WarQuest for Android dowloads 6.800
WarQuest for Symbian dowloads 22.001

VPS 256MB config

I am using for two weeks a VPS with 256MB memory. On this VPS the following software is installed:
– Ubuntu 10
– Apache 2.2.16
– MySQL 5.1.61
– PHP 5.5.3

I am running five website with regular traffice (+/- 15.000 requests a day) on the VPS:
– PlaatScrum (Self made PHP site)
– PlaatSoft (WordPress site)
– Family van der Plaat (WordPress site)
– Education (Self made PHP site)
– Service (Self made PHP site)

I found out the below configuration results in the best performance:

Apache2

[mpm_prefork_module]
StartServers 1
MinSpareServers 2
MaxSpareServers 2
MaxClients 15
MaxRequestsPerChild 0

[mpm_worker_module]
StartServers 1
MinSpareThreads 2
MaxSpareThreads 2
ThreadLimit 64
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxClients 15
MaxRequestsPerChild 0

[mpm_event_module]
StartServers 1
MaxClients 15
MinSpareThreads 2
MaxSpareThreads 2
ThreadLimit 64
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0

MySQL

[mysqld]
skip-innodb

key_buffer = 8M
max_allowed_packet = 16M
thread_stack = 192K
thread_cache_size = 4

myisam-recover = BACKUP
max_connections = 50
table_cache = 128

query_cache_limit = 512K
query_cache_size = 8M

New Hosting Provider


Hi. Last week I ordered a Virtual Private Server by Versio. This VPS is now operational and is hosting the following sites:

– Family van der Plaat
– PlaatSoft
– PlaatScrum
– Education

I updated also all content of these sites because now all content, images and files are now located on the same server. Making maintenance and support much easier! If there are any problems (for example dead links) please let me know! Send an email to info@plaatsoft.nl

PlaatScrum 0.8

This evening I released the latest version of PlaatScrum.

25-06-2012 PlaatScrum 0.8
– Created new URL scrum.plaatsoft.nl
– Move site to new VPS platform. Performance boost with 3x!
– Improve intro page.
– Added lock option sprint, to freeze sprint data set.
– Added cost board page.
– Added Basic Cost Rate to user project assignment page.
– Added automatic database backup based on poormans cron job concept.
– Bug fix: Login, register and recover page support now enter key

Check out the demo here

PlaatScrum 0.7

This evening I released the latest version of PlaatScrum.

09-06-2012 PlaatScrum 0.7
– Added email confirmation functionality.
– Save / Assign / Drop popup message contain now a link back to the detail page.
– Story points are now based on related task, bugs, epic work input.
– New stories are now automatic assigned to Scrum Master.
– Added optional (project setting) history information.
– Added resource board page.
– Added amount of queries needed to render to page.
– Story, Task, Bug and Epic date is now validated against project working days.
– Tasks, Bugs and Epics can now only be created with a story reference.
– Added workdays to project.
– Added xml and json export.

Check out the demo here