[2023] Year End Wrap Up Thread
A summary of improvements & fixes from 2023

2023 was a great year for improvements to the game. We had an average of 47.5 bug fixes & improvements each month!

Improvements and Bug Fixes Posts in 2023

January:   56
February:  48
March:     113
April:     44
May:       20
June:      38
July:      38
August:    38
September: 40
October:   53
November:  40
December:  43

2023 Total Improvements & Bug Fixes: 571

Let's compare that to the 2022 numbers for each month:

Improvements and Bug Fixes Posts in 2022

January 2022:   64
February 2022:  71
March 2022:     59
April 2022:     16
May 2022:       27
June 2022:      31
July 2022:      12
August 2022:    4
September 2022: 25
October 2022:   34
November 2022:  130
December 2022:  45

2022 Total Improvements & Bug Fixes: 518

The average in 2022 was 43.16 bugs / improvements a month. So we're trending upwards, which is great.

Let's look at bugs logged versus resolved in 2023, which was the first year we used our new Kaiju bug tracking system, instead of the Jira based Gojira:

Bugs Logged / Resolved in 2023

Resolved for 2023:   592
Unresolved for 2023: 143

As you can see we crushed through bugs this year. Having the bug database in the MOO makes it a lot more visible to both players and staff, and keeps it more top of mind. I think it's fair to say that 2023 was a year of massive bug fixes! This is as intended. I pushed bug fixes as a primary focus this year because playing a stable and bug free game is important for fairness and immersion. We resolved a number of highly annoying bugs this year, some of which were breaking entire features of the game and making certain character types very difficult to play.

That's not to say we didn't add new features though. Here are some highlights and notable updates from 2023:

Notable Updates

- New Lore System

- Conflict of Interest Admin Tools

- @plot-idea

- Radio / Encryption Overhaul & Hacking + Techtronics Guide to Radios

- Ambient Explosion SIC responses

- Memento Creation Fixed

- Digital Recorders / Vocal Forensic Analysis Tool

- Cyberware Design Update & Help

- Gossip Submission Freebies

- Vehicle Combat Bug Fixes

- @past-characters

- Birdy Talking GPT NPCs

- Biological Agents / Infections / Cures Update

- Transcoder Eyes Overhaul to only show IC info

- Cyberware Price Adjustments

- @goldstar

- Disposable Cred Chips

- Progia Overhauls & Apps

- Discord / MOO Integration

- Market Maze Fixes to Getting Stuck

- Data Vaults

- Grid Accessibility Updates

- Immy Hologram Overhaul

- New forms of Advertisements

- Webclient Code Update

- MOO Server Code Patches

- Stealth & Socials

- Requisitions & Availability

- Stop Attack / Flee Bug

- Vending Machine Accepted Items Update

- @paged-notes fixed for high # of notes

- @leases admin tool

- Additional Accessibility / Screen Reader updates

- Renaming TV Programs

- SHFL NPC TBs fixed

- Security Network Updates

- Weekly Profits and Rent for Non Members

- Weekly Profit Earnings Update for Market Purchases/Sales

- Apartment Eviction Updates

- @lore / @read-lore available to all

- BMI Updates during Chargen

- Sniper Code cleanup & fixes

- SIC Notifications

- Performance Cooldown Update

- Paintings in the Market

- Damage / Thirst / Cold / Heat in Badlands

- Airborne Transmission of Disease / Bio Agents

Summary & Thanks

All in all I'm really pleased with the efforts everyone has put in this year from a coding and feature update perspective and I hope you are too. Thank you to everyone who contributed by submitting bugs, helping us test and resolve changes (time consuming and boring when you are a player), to the coders (Neon, Kard, Johnny) and coder adjacent team members that are dangerous enough to get in there and resolve some bugs and typos in the code (Mench), to the builders (Butako, Mac), and of course to all the GMs!

2023 was a great year for the game, and I'm looking forward to seeing what 2024 brings!

-- Slither

(Edited by Slither at 9:54 am on 1/1/2024)