It's been eons since the last blog entry on FFB and Lakrillo keeps reminding me to write up what's going on behind the scenes, so here it goes...

The current focus of our work is to further polish site integration and to improve tournament support.

Petty Cash is implemented for the next release. So both sides get to transfer money from their treasury to Petty Cash and buy inducements according to the rules. The side with less TV gets to see what the other side has transferred and which inducements were bought.

Special Player Types not on the regular roster will be supported in the next release. This especially concerns tournament winnings such as the skeletons from the Crown of Sands that are no regular part of the team. Free skills won through tournaments that do not count towords TV are also part of that.

The Admin Interface has continued to improve over the last couple of releases. Together with a web page built by Christer this eases live for the admins. They can close, concede, delete and re-upload games with a simple click.

The number of Spectators for a game will be shown on the games page with the upcoming release. So you can pick to watch what's hot.

Game Options have been expanded. So the site currently tells for each game if Petty Cash and Inducements are used, the Turn Time, if there will be Overtime etc. I plan to expand this (a lot) in the future to allow for league-specific optional rules (bring back the +1 modifier for fouling anyone?). Christer still needs to add some sort of configuration for that to leagues though.

So no new skills for the next release, I'm sorry. But together with several bugfixes (of course) the infrastructure stuff should be done so far and we can concentrate on new features. I intend to implement the Wizard (waiting on some graphics from WhatBall for that) and Mercenary inducements next and then move on to Pass Block and the other missing skills.