CIT Changelog

[SuckerPunch]

We will try to keep this thread as up to date as we can when releasing new enhancements and features, so as to keep this data centralized and easy to find (rather than addressing individual threads and posts).


New Features for Today:

• "Clear All Data" Type Option for Character deletion.  - There is a new "Delete All Characters" button at the BOTTOM of the character list (placement intentional). This will do exactly what it says.
  
  
• Select All Badges on the badge manage pages - click the checkbox at the top of the column to select/deselect all badges of that type

[SuckerPunch]

New Features / Enhancements today:

• Profile pages now work - keep in mind the limited data is only temporary, we'll be adding way more very soon
  
  
• Modified "Tracker Status" column on the Manage page - now shows # of days offline instead of date.

[SuckerPunch]

New Features For Today:

• Added public profile list page.  Link is found from going to My Account -> My Public List.  If you do not want particular characters showing up on this page, please go adjust their privacy settings ASAP.  Old privacy settings from CGT should still be honored if you had that set up in the past.
  
  
• Added public character profile pages.  "Profile" links from your management page should now link correctly to this new page.
  
  
• Custom character image uploading re-added ... but better than ever!   From the character edit page - there is a new section at the top regarding your uploaded images.  Now supports higher resolution images, so we encourage you to re-upload any images you may have already done in the past, to take advantage of the better image sizes.
  
  

[SuckerPunch]

New Features For Today:

• Search page re-added.  We've done away with the gigantic character lists that the old CGT site had in favor of focusing on a true search.  Also, you must be a registered, logged in user to use search.
  
  

[SuckerPunch]

New Features for Today:

• New account profile page - defaults to icon-based view now.  This is the first of many forthcoming revisions to this page.

[SuckerPunch]

More Features Today

• Added live badge totals to Manage page - This means your badge counts should now reflect immediately after adding/removing badges from the Manage Badge section
  
  
• Added in badge progress bar to the Character profile page.

[SuckerPunch]

What? Yes! More Features!

• Announcing: "Private" XML data feeds!
  
  Log into CIT, and then check out http://cit.cohtitan.com/manage/myxml  (also accessible via the "My XML Data Feed" menu item under "My Account")
  
  This feed is provided to allow you to pull your character data into any other website or XML-capable reader!
  
  By default, this URL is not shared publicly, so unless you specifically share this link with others, no one else can view this feed. This feed will show ALL of your characters, regardless of their hidden status! If you share this link for ANY reason, we are not responsible for exposing data you didn't want others to see!
  
  Other feeds, as they are added to the site, will respect your privacy settings, so when those are available we recommend sharing those if privacy is a concern for you!
  
  

[SuckerPunch]

It's been a while since I've added anything major, but hooray!

New Feature Added Today

• Low-Hanging Fruit Report - Can now be found in the Character's Management page
  
  
• Re-Added the "% to next level" column on the Manage Characters list page.

Edit - added in Level % note.

[SuckerPunch]

New Feature for Today:

• Revamped "Badge Detail" page.  Is now a true popup window, and should be properly styled visited directly as opposed to only through the popup (there was a bug where linking someone to the detail page would show an unstyled page).
  
  On top of all that, I've added back in the "Requirements" and "Required For" portions of the detail page.   If a badge is earned via obtaining other badges, "Requirements" section shows up. If a badge is a dependency for another badge, the "Required For" section shows up.
  
  

[Ex-calibur]

On top of all that, I've added back in the "Requirements" and "Required For" portions of the detail page.   If a badge is earned via obtaining other badges, "Requirements" section shows up. If a badge is a dependency for another badge, the "Required For" section shows up.

Now that's service! ;-)  Thanks!

[SuckerPunch]

Improvement for today:

• Slight upgrades to the Low-Hanging Fruit report.  Now filters out certain badges that are not obtained through in-game actions, and other event-specific badges (see discussion here).
  
  Also now shows 50 items instead of 20, and sorting by columns is now enabled.
  
  

[Tazhyngarth]

Two Additions:

• Added in some extra Badge Sorting Options
  
  
• Bind Files Download Links are now on the TNT Download Page (accessible via Titan Home and CIT), instead of just here on the Forums

[Steiner]

A Few Noticeable Tweaks:

• Tweaked the Sort tables within the site... all should now be unique and sorting by their given values correctly.
• Updated the account and "by character" hidden fields settings. (I honestly should have just gone with Saint's idea, but I'm an idiot...)
• http://cit.cohtitan.com/manage now has a few more accumulative character related fields, specifically infamy and influence across the entire account.

Check out your characters and make sure the characters you WANT to have set to Account Default are... because even the characters that were set to character only visible, are now set to account default... sorry for any extra steps for this... Mr. Nic had much simpler system... but I already updated the database before I saw his edits.

[SaintNicster]

Tweaks

• Added VEAT patron pools to the Edit Character Screen (/manage/editchar).
• Swapped columns on the Profile list (/profile/#list)
• Patron and ancillaries can now be changed via the Edit Character screen(/manage/editchar). This may change back once power detection is working correctly.

This isn't a fix for the detection issues (Steiner's working on that one), but it will allow you to select them by manually.

EDIT: Second and third bullets added.  Code was pushed through after the post was made.

[SaintNicster]

New enhancements:

• Unverified Badge List - See badges that have not been verified/validated/confirmed via Glycerine or HeroStats.  Linked through the "Manage" dropdown when logged in.
  
  
• Recently Added Badges - View the last 50 badges added to your account.  Accessible via the Edit Character page (/manage/editchar/)
  NOTE: These are the order in which the badge was added.  If a badge was manually added, then verified later, it will show the add date

[SaintNicster]

• Added Epic Pool and character titles to Character Profiles page
• Added link to "Recently Acquired Badges" to the Character profiles page
• Categories on the Profile page will now show unverified badges in the progress bar

[SaintNicster]

New stuff

• Users should now see a generic error message when there are DB issues.
• Low-hanging Fruit and In-game Comparison reports now respect the character privacy settings.
• Behind-the-scenes fixes

[SaintNicster]

New bits

• Badge counts should now only reflect badges that aren't on the Inactive List.
• XML Data feeds now correctly handle HTML entities (&nbsp, &amp, etc)

[SaintNicster]

New bits

• Various tweaks to the Add and Edit Character pages.
• Days Offline column should now sort correctly.  The Order should be 'Never Tracked', 'Online', 'Today', 'X days offline'
• Lots of backend fixes, getting ready for some big stuff

[SaintNicster]

August 3, 2009

Removed inactive badges from the Manage Badges page.  Was supposed to be part of a plan that never came to fruition.

[SaintNicster]

August 4th, 2009

Added convenience links on the character profile page.  If you are logged in and viewing one of your own characters, you should now see the following options: "Edit Character Details," "Manage Badges," and "Badge Checklist".

[SaintNicster]

August 25, 2009

Account (global name) specific badge tracking is now LIVE!  Details are here

[SaintNicster]

Sept 2, 2009

Character profile pages should load significantly faster.  The list of badges under the toggle are now being called dynamically.

NOTE:  if you are having troubles seeing the fixes, hit CTRL+F5 to make sure everything is properly refreshed

[SaintNicster]

Sept 9, 2009

• Tweaked default sort order on Inactive badge list.

[SaintNicster]

Sept 17, 2009

• Removed old "Auto-Badge Information" page from the Account Management page.  This was replaced by the "Manage Account Badges" screen.  Details here

[SaintNicster]

September 21, 2009

• Changed character bio to correctly display/parse certain HTML entities that HeroStats would read from the game.

[SaintNicster]

September 23, 2009

• Linked the "Shorts" badge checklist from http://cit.cohtitan.com/checklist/
  
• Players can now set up XML and JSON checklists for any or all of their characters.  Links are made available from http://cit.cohtitan.com/checklist/.
  NOTES:
  
• XML and JSON links are only included if you are logged in and viewing one of your own characters.
• The XML and JSON cannot respect the "hidden" status of a character, but as stated above, are only given to the owner.  It is up to you to not share these pages if you want them to stay hidden.

[SaintNicster]

September 29. 2009

• New Badge Checklist menu - http://cit.cohtitan.com/checklist
  
• Character-specific /settitle files.  Now you can download a zipfile that has only the badges missing or unverified on one of your characters.

[SaintNicster]

Oct 12, 2009

Dependant/Required badge system reintroduced on the site, not fully complete.  Will show required badges on the http://cit.cohtitan.com/badgedetail/{badge_id}.  This is merely phase one of a bigger project.  Please bear with us

[SaintNicster]

Oct 15, 2009

Badge Detail pages ( http://cit.cohtitan.com/badgedetail/{badge_id} ) now allow you to check your characters for any prerequisite badges.

[SaintNicster]

November 12, 2009

• Fixed Character checklist (http://cit.cohtitan.com/checklist/export/settitle/{character_feed_key}) to use new style layout

[Catharctic]

Great fix Nicster! Thanks!

[SaintNicster]

November 22, 2009

Both done by Steiner

• Fixed known issues regarding the mouseovers and IE 7/8
• Most lists that display "Last Online" information should now highlight characters that are currently online.

[SaintNicster]

November 24, 2009

• Add New Character page now redirects you to the Edit Character page (http://cit.cohtitan.com/manage/editchar/{char_id}) after creating a character
  
• Add New Character page now notifies the user if they're trying to add a character that already exists

[Steiner]

December 9, 2009

• Updated/Fixed My Account Overview¹ & Character Statistics²
     
  • Now has relatable icons on each of the General Statistic Headers ^{[1, 2]}
  • Cleaned up recursive/redundant grammar on some of the labels ^{[1, 2]}
  • Added "Monetary Statistics" ^[1]
          
    • (As of the date listed in this post)It just has Influence and Infamy, but hopefully, one day it will list more forms on in-game funds (Merits, AE Tickets, Prestige, etc)
       
  • Cleaned up the tables and made it so the first header cell of each table wouldn't be pushed against the borders ^{[1, 2]}
        
  
• Added New Menu Item on Top Menu->My Account
     
  • Clicking either "My Account" on the top-menu or the first sub-item in the same menu item will bring you to your account overview. This was a continuity fix.

[SaintNicster]

This shouldn't really be a visible change, but I just pushed a bunch of code to clean up our backend catch scripts for Glycerine and HeroStats.  Hopefully, this will get rid of the bug that would not assign a game identifier to some characters, among other things.

[SaintNicster]

December 12, 2009

• Fixed error where Dayjob Calculator would be way off on some percentages
• Changed the links for the Low-Hanging Fruit, In-game Comparison, and Recent Badges pages to better allow right-clicking to Open in a New Window/Tab, and not force the popup
• Centered images restored on most pages. (Let us know if we missed any!)
• Restored display of titles on the Character Profile page if you only had a "Common" title

[SaintNicster]

January 10, 2010

• Badges with Prerequisites and/or Siblings will now automatically add those extra badges when validating via Glycerine or HeroStats, or manually adding the badge(s) via CIT

[SaintNicster]

January 11, 2010

• Fixed the "Display Profile" icon on the "My Characters" page so that it is grayed out and then lights up when moused-over. 
  You may need to force a refresh to get the new image (hold down the control button and press the F5 key or your browser's refresh button).
  
  
• Fixed the "select all" checkboxes on the 'Manage Badges' pages (http://cit.cohtitan.com/manage/badges/{char_id})
  
  
• Veteran Rewards for 69 and 72 months added to the site

[SaintNicster]

January 17, 2010

• Badge Detail screens now show "additional" names for a badge (those used to verify in game).  This should include the French and German translations available in-game.  A big thanks to eabrace for helping with getting the translations.

NOTE:  The framework is up, though we may need to tweak the data behind us.  Please let us know of any issues via the bug report forum.

[SaintNicster]

January 28, 2010

• Fixed an issue where the validation scripts would add additional badges with the new translation feature.
  Example:  When validating the Festive badge, you would also be granted the Entertainer badge, as one of the French names of the badge was also "Festive".
  
  
• Result of above fix:  scripts will only validate badges in the character's server's native language (French for Vigilance, German for Zukunft, English for all others)

[SaintNicster]

March 14, 2010

• Links to ParagonWiki from the Badge Details pages (example) fixed so that if the badge has a non-standard name, they can be pointed to the correct page.

[SaintNicster]

April 12, 2010

• Users now have the ability to store a short-ish note on one of their CIT characters via the "Edit Character" page
  (http://cit.cohtitan.com/manage/editchar/{char_id})
• This note is only visible to the owner/user.

[SaintNicster]

May 3, 2010

• The "Ingame Comparison" Report (http://cit.cohtitan.com/ingame/{char_id}) has been changed so that it only displays one badge category at a time.  This should significantly reduce loading time.
• The original version of the report is still available via http://cit.cohtitan.com/ingame/all/{char_id}

[SaintNicster]

May 5, 2010

• Fixed inline display issue for character notes field on the "Edit Characters" page

[SaintNicster]

5/16/2010

• Settitle Binds generator fixed to add quotes around folders with spaces.
• Settitle binds for checklists checks for a trailing slash

[SaintNicster]

July 17, 2010

There was a large code push to upgrade our behind-the-scenes frameworks.  There should be no real visibility to these changes, but if you've noticed that something has broken, please be sure to report it in the sub-forum.

Visible Fixes

• Add A Character link on the home page points to the correct location.

[SaintNicster]

July 21, 2010

Fixed a fatal error that occured when creating new records in the DB >.<

[SaintNicster]

July 28, 2010
Fixed issue where Day Job badges weren't showing up if using the category drop down on the Ingame Comparison report badge. (http://cit.cohtitan.com/ingame/{charid})

[Sekoia]

February 4, 2011

• Removed the auto-verification system. Badges will no longer auto-verify based on the presence of other badges. Instead, all badges must be directly verified through Sentinel.
• Restored most badge relationship data that was previously temporarily removed.
• Fixed styling for button padding under Firefox.
• Transparent structural changes/improvements to code.

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February 15, 2011

• Added JSONP support to JSON feeds at My Data Feeds and Character Checklists.
  
• Various minor transparent database/site changes as a step towards making the site more responsive.
• Minor javascript fixes.

[Sekoia]

February 24, 2011

• Cleared badge verification data, as detailed here.

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February 25, 2011

• Add cron job to fix global names that get uploaded with double @'s in older versions of Sentinel. Cron job runs every 15 minutes.

[Sekoia]

February 26, 2011

• Auto-verification was still happening for account-level badges on existing characters when a new account-level badge was detected. This has been removed.
• Removed the Agent of Order/Chaos and Agent of Praetoria badges from all characters to maintain the integrity of our data.
• Made minor transparent changes in the database and to related code.

[TonyV]

You, sir, are Awesome. Yes, with a capital "A".

[Sekoia]

February 27, 2011

• Bugfix: A small typo in the cronjob that updates the Leaderboards was preventing it from running. It's been fixed and the Leaderboards are now being updated properly every four hours again.

[Sekoia]

February 28, 2011

• Upgraded CodeIgniter framework from version 1.7.2 to version 2.0.0; made changes to CIT code necessary for 2.0.0.
• Fixed numerous small warnings, largely due to undefined variables.
• The Leaderboard now includes the server name in its output again.
  
• On the Statistics page, the numbers for Pools were being calculated incorrectly leading to much smaller numbers. They are now properly calculated.
  
• Replaced a few minor references to Glycerine with Sentinel.
• The webservice now automatically strips the leading @ from global names if it is included. This should prevent ongoing problems with @Global versus @@Global in CIT that were resulting due to an old version of Sentinel supplying globals with the @ sign.
• Removed unused code from the webservice.
• Performed some database optimizations.

[Sekoia]

Important note: Due a change in how cookies are handled, you may need to clear your cookies before being able to log in or out of CIT. Specifically, you'll need to delete all cookies for "cohtitan.com" and "cit.cohtitan.com".

March 1, 2011

• Rewrote authentication library and related code. Now uses a much smaller cookie. Also fixes an issue where users could not log in after yesterday's changes were pushed to live.
• Removed SetTitle bindfile generator. Sentinel does not use bindfiles, and having them available was confusing people.
• Removed references to HeroStats. Support for HeroStats is deprecated.
• Removed references to Glycerine and TNT.
• Fixed additional minor warnings and errors.

[Sekoia]

Important note: Due another change in how cookies are handled, you may need to clear your cookies before being able to log in or out of CIT. Specifically, you'll need to delete all cookies for "cohtitan.com" and "cit.cohtitan.com". This may apply even if you cleared them already because of the previous changes.

March 1, 2011

• Fixed inadvertent change introduced by previous changes: username was supposed to be case insensitive for login but had changed to case sensitive. It is now case insensitive again.

[Sekoia]

March 3, 2011

• Added a temporary message to the login page explaining the current difficulties with session authentication.
• Removed error message about missing username/password that appeared when visiting the login page prior to a login attempt.
• Removed the headers and footers from the checklist pages.
• Removed the broken settitle zip link from badge checklists.

[Sekoia]

March 3, 2011

• Fixed the Badge Spotlight feature. It should now update every 8 hours again.

[Sekoia]

March 4, 2011

• Fixed various PHP warnings as reported here.
  
• Refactored and improved code on the back end. No visible changes.

[Sekoia]

March 7, 2011

• The Leaderboards now update in real time. (Previously, they were only updated once every four hours.)
  
• Fixed issue where custom character images couldn't be uploaded, as reported here.
  
• Fixed issue where the "Visit My Public Profile" link on the front page did not work, as reported here.
  
• Custom character images for deleted characters are now periodically purged.
• Refactored and improved code on the back end. No visible changes.

[Sekoia]

May 12, 2011

• Account Settings: fixed a bug that would prevent settings to be updated.
• Edit Character:
  
  • "Server" field is now editable.
  • "Delete Character" button has been fixed.
• Data Feeds: the custom sort applied in the "My Characters" page should now apply to feeds as well.
• Badges: manually adding badges to a character has been fixed.
• Downloads: the download box in the front page has been revamped to accommodate the newest Titan Network application, Titan Waterworks. Check out the link for details. It has also been added to the Download page, and under the Tools menu.
• Alignment changes:
  
  • The several instances in CIT where Alignment is viewed were updated to show all six alignments currently possible in-game. The following pages were updated:
    
    • My Account Overview: added new icons, alignment counters, and "Information" currency under "Monetary Statistics".
    • Character Profile: added new icons. If the character is a Loyalist or a Resistance Member, his currency will change to "Information".
    • My Characters: added new icons.
    • My Public List: added new icons.
    • Leaderboards: added new icons and updated alignment filters.
    • Online Now: added new icons.
    • Statistics: added new icons, alignment counters, and updated alignment filters.
    • Add New Character and Edit Character: new editable field "Alignment" has been added.
  • Please note that the Alignment field isn't yet updated by the current version of Sentinel (0.9.3 at the time of this post). This is expected to come with the 1.0 release. In the meanwhile, you can manually adjust the alignment of your characters in the "Edit Character" page.

(All changes provided/implemented by Keen.)

[Sekoia]

July 24, 2011

• Account Overview: Fixed Monetary Statistics.
• Account Overview: the "Top 10 Characters" list sorting has been changed to Verified Badge Count (Desc) to make it more useful. (A feature to customize the sort option of this list is in the works.)
• Edit Character: the 'Unknown' option in the Ancillary/Patron Power Pool select box has been renamed to 'None' for clarity.
• Edit Character: fixed a bug that would prevent the Power Pool selection to be cleared.
• Edit Character: added a title for the page.
• Statistics: when selecting an Archetype, the list of Primaries, Secondaries and Epics will show all powersets as opposed to the top 10 entries.
• Badge Listing: added new column "Verified". This counter shows how many characters (across the entire CIT database) have verified the specified badge.
• Badge Listing: added a "Sort by" option.
• Badge Listing: the "Game" column has been removed.

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(All changes provided/implemented by Keen.)

[Keen]

August 6, 2011

• New Page: Accolade Tracker (under "Tools" menu): keep track of the required badges of a given accolade badge across all characters in your account, all in a single page! Select an Accolade Badge and easily find information about which characters need which badges to earn it. This feature requires the user to be logged in.
  
• Some backend changes done to enhance support to the Facebook Application.

[Keen]

October 27, 2011

• Added logic for "Unknown" alignment as it is now possible with Issue 21 (for characters who haven't chosen an alignment in the Tutorial). This should affect most places in CIT where alignment icons or data are displayed, such as listings, character statistics and details, etc.
• Edit Character: character names are now editable.
• Edit Character: renaming a character or moving it to another server will un-verify all Badges for the affected character.
• Edit Character: Titles are now listed based on the character's current alignment.
• Fixed grammar in the "Check my characters for this badge" page.
• Inactive Badges page: the Game column has been removed.
• All links to Badge details have been standardized across the board and should now open as popup windows.
• Resolved an issue with avatar image generation which would cause Sentinel to stop functioning while retrieving character images. The issue seemed to be specific to Windows 7.

[Keen]

March 23, 2012

• Internal structure for badges has been changed substantially:
  
  • Badge Detail popup window: language links have been added to the top of the page for easy switching.
  • Badge texts (description and requirements, as they appear in-game) for all known game languages have been added for all active badges.
  • Other sections related to badges should behave as they usually do.
  • New badges can now be added much faster and easily updated.
• PHP errors in the My Account Badges page have been fixed.
• Statistics and Character Stats: Server, Archetype and Origin Usage tables are visible again.
• Database errors in several pages related to badges should now be fixed.

[Sekoia]

June 7, 2012

Changes to the verification webservice used by Sentinel and HeroStats:

• The webservice no longer takes alignment or archetype into consideration when verifying badge names. As long as the badge name is unambiguous, it will verify. This change allows verification for characters without an alignment set (previously, they were refused; this primarily impacts HeroStats users). It also allows correct verification is the alignment is incorrect (previously, only badges with the same name for both sides would verify if the alignment was incorrect; this also primarily impacts HeroStats users).
• Badges with ambiguous names will no longer verify. This means that we will no longer have to manually deactivate such badges in CIT. Verifications prior to the ambiguity will be retained and will be reflected in characters' counts. Future verifications will be refused until the ambiguity is fixed.
• The webservice will now add messages to its response if a badge is rejected because it is ambiguous or unknown. (This mostly benefits HeroStats, which makes such messages available in its log.)

[Sekoia]

February 10, 2017

• Added "Chat" to the list of servers.
• Bug fixes.