Good Evening HWS Community @everyone
just a quick, kinda important information before I am gone over the weekend and coming back Monday.
Due the recent patch and the Block ID mess, I started on a big refactoring of all fixed item ID logic/code in HWS Connect and EAH.
The major parts are done now (OAM and OCD). In the screenshot you can see a bit of impression what I mean. On the left you see how it was before and on the right how it is now (fixed item ids are commented out and Dev Names used).
So we work properly with the DevName of items now, since that needs to be unique anyways and IDs can change now if they want, we do not care anymore.
However, for the last 1-2 days it meant, that some fixed item ID checks were not working. Thus I saw that some players put items like a e.g. Tokeninto their OCD, which is useless.
It’s not that big of an issue, since a full wipe will wipe anything that does not belong into the OCD. But, since the item ID conversion is quite a mess, it could be, that some categories or black listed items/blocks are not as they should be and thus polluted your OCD slots. The fixed item ID list was partially a 7+ year legacy in the first place.
TL;DR: over the next days, please watch a bit more closely what you put and pull to/from your OCD. Compare it to the Category sheet that is in the Guide and if any items should/should not work, please let me know.
Apart from that I hope most issues got resolved by now and we are still trying our best to give compensations to your losses the patch caused.
Sorry overall for the inconveniences!
Even though I host this game since 10+ years, it always surprises me/us what can go wrong. One of the biggest incident so far and hopefully the last.
RexXxuS
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