Hi, dear citizens
This is my first 50-day reportage.
First, I need to apologize because of any possible typo or anything similar in this report, because this reportage is a direct friendly talk between me, the MASTER of
eJahan, with you and nobody else edits this report.
Recent 50-day period was very controversial. I’ll describe anything is needed.
A) loader, duki777 and vracar oleg
This was an issue which started in last days of 300s and lasted until first days of 400s. We were checking citizens to find possible bug usages. I decided to check
company accounts, because I guessed if anybody used a bug, he/she may hide the fake money in company account and since nobody except me could see the money
in company account, they could escape of getting banned.
I started to search and found something interesting: In a 5-star company, there was more than 300 Tala. That was unusual, does a 5-star company need 300 extra
Tala? I started to check the source and found something more interesting! The owner made fake Tala using a bug in company market and hid them in that company.
What was the bug?
1. Place a company in company market, with base price of 10 Tala and bid step of 1.5 Tala.
2. With your CA (e. g. CA1), place a bid for that company. The company will be reserved for you and 10 Tala will be decreased from your account.
3. With another CA (e. g. CA2), make a higher bid. CA1 will receive back his 10 Tala, and 11.5 Tala will be taked from CA2, but because of a bug, the value was saved 12 Tala in DB.
4. With CA1, place a higher bid again. (12 + 1.5 = 13.5) Tala will be taken from CA1 and 12 Tala (not 11.5 Tala) will be paid back to CA1.
5. Continue this process, and you will have tons of Tala!
The situation showed that the owner absolutely knew that he is using bugs, and did nothing to report that. So I banned the CA for using bugs, and when I tracked the money, I found out that a large amount of this fake Tala was donated to loader, the owner of that CA. So loader was banned for getting money in illegal methods.
I told the bug detection way to guards, and they checked it and found 3 other conflicts: 2 in Serbia and one in Iran.
I know banning 3 tanks in a heat of war makes doubt about helping the other side, but I never thought in this way.
But about their situation, the team decided to put them in jail, so they will get unbanned soon.
B) v2, bugs, bugs, bugs
eJahan v2 was released after all jangles, all difficulties and … But seriously, we never expected that new version will have so many bugs. When we started the preview version, we hoped that all citizens help us in fixing bugs, but in fact, not more than 0.5% of them really “tested” the game. All tickets we received were about typoes, graphical errors and some small bugs.
We planned v2 for a big change and we accepted the risk and made a bet with our 400-day history. If we won this betting, many citizens could come into game and if we lost, we lost these active players.
All features were made base of social cooperation, such as new industries, new war module and … But we realised that this way not worked, and we are making some changes in v2. Just wait!
C) Company bug
An stupid bug which made the biggest trouble for the game. What was the bug?
1. Focus on a company: http://www.ejahan.com/company-xxx.html
2. Now feel free to make a license for it: http://www.ejahan.com/company-xxx-license.html, or upgrade the quality: http://www.ejahan.com/company-xxx-quality.html, or edit the details and/or move it: http://www.ejahan.com/company-xxx-edit.html, or sell it on market: http://www.ejahan.com/company-xxx-sell.html
The bug usage occured when we disabled the daily backups due to some server issues, so we had no backup earlier than the last minutes of v1.7.
I approve that the team failed in taking action against this issue, and this made many troubles for us. We decided to return back all companies
What we had?
1. The old owners of the company
2. Stocks which were sold, sorted by days
3. Money which was spent
So I made a forum topic and shouted an announce, telling citizens that who can they receive back their company, but after some minutes and having a conversation with Cata055, we decided to put a survey, asking citizens about the destiny of the game. When the votes (YES/NO) for having a reset where going close to each other, I realized something: We cannot do anything about new active citizens (which they were many) and finished purchases, and after a friendly talk with our former super moderator Chesire, we found that returning back the companies is better than removing the history and write it again.
I apologize all citizens who involved in this issue, and I approve that we acted very late and very slow. I was 1200km far from my home when I foundout this bug and decided about the action when I was in airport! I am doing some actions to improve the acting speed in future issues (e. g. giving access for locking the game whenever an issue occures, to active citizens).
D) Future plans
We are negotiating with some coders, graphists and other staff. We will register the company and eJahan will become an official game and you will see the improvements soon. As you know, we have active embargoes, so we cannot make profit directly. Credit card payment and purchasing servers is not available in our country easily and I’m trying to make an alternative way for them.
We are preparing to start the EPIP (eJahan Performance Improvement Plan) project, which will present you eJahan v2.1 (without any official announcement of course). The EPIP project contains 4 main sections:
1. Server Improvement
2. Graphical Improvement
3. Gameplay Improvement
4. Reputation Improvement
Sorry for this long reportage and for the 1-day delay for it. I’m very busy on my college exams, so I couldn’t finish this reportage ontime (as always not?!).
Ahmad M. Sadeghi,
Headmaster of eJahan team,
Fri 2011/01/07, Day 451 of eJahan
Sahand 13:46 on August 28, 2011 Permalink
GOOD JOB
what about Today’s election !?
No one can vote on election and Result can not be fair
CrokelZD 14:31 on August 28, 2011 Permalink
in the meantime a lot of players stopped to play this game ….and now we got about 200 players, and rest of populations are their multiaccounts that is used to collect illegal talas and then to exchange that talas for golds from other games THAT WORKS JUST FINE ….so Master now you can implement anything you want, to repair server speed or whatever but this game is ruined
YellowLibra 14:42 on August 28, 2011 Permalink
Hmm.. it seems that when I try to use my yahoo email address, my comments get into moderation. Anyways…
Happy birthday! Hope the new server’s gonna work.
Maybe it would have been better to take the game down for a couple of days until the problem with the server got fixed. It’s very frustrating. I wasn’t able to do my daily activities. My country lost a lot of regions and we couldn’t do anything about it.
senka senke 14:45 on August 28, 2011 Permalink
First, Happy birthday
Second, please do something about today’s congress elections.
Third, do something about the game. I do believe that you worry about it, but the majority of players are severily dissatisfied with the game. I’ve been in this game for quite a decent period of time, and the only improvement sas the non-existence of occupation time, which used to be real nuisance. I think that the first thing that should be done is “repairing” today’s congress elections, and then solving the issue of a new or a better server.
I do not want to leave this game. I just want it to be better.
Freedom1923 14:53 on August 28, 2011 Permalink
Thanks for informations . I hope that server speed will get fixed soon , but in this time , as CrokelZD said , many people left the game , and there are too many battles lost/won without good damages .
My opinion about these two problem :
1-) About lost players : We can send e-mails to all registered players , and say ‘ Now , eJahan is speedy , what about a new try ? ‘ . With this way , we can collect old players back.
2-) About battles lost/won : Please change the world map , and turn it to 10 days ago . So , we can have a fair game .
@CrokelZD , about population , all eJahanians should work together , we can do babyboom with spamming in other sites , advertising this game .
But , about multies ….. Master should do something quickly .
Skull ( NEBOJSA) 15:40 on August 28, 2011 Permalink
HELL FUCKEN YEAH !!!
NEW SERVER
DDD !!!!
Cabezaa 16:04 on August 28, 2011 Permalink
Frist Happy Birthday ahmad ^^
we wait to try the new server ^^
o/
vatreni_lav 16:54 on August 28, 2011 Permalink
happy birthday Ahmad
Mixa 18:17 on August 28, 2011 Permalink
Happy birthday, we wait to try new server x2 (:
VeBe 19:34 on August 28, 2011 Permalink
“I asked my server manager to fix it, but this action took a long time.” –> change your manager… or sell this game to somebody who want do something to make better game.
And one thing: If we cant reach the server on X day, please turn back the time to X-1 day. Because it is very sux to stay here for hours to work,train etc…
dan13oct 09:54 on August 29, 2011 Permalink
After the new migration is done you should restart the game and give each player some tala so they can rebuild the economy and let’s say top 3, 5 .. countries should receive bonuses.
You can do this every 6 months to make the game more interesting.
And make the damage formula so it depends on the current region and the region that is under attack ( you can use the time zones…) , this will help the ticket industry and smaller countries .
dan13oct 09:55 on August 29, 2011 Permalink
PS: Happy Birthday!
dan13oct 13:38 on August 29, 2011 Permalink
Olso a new ministry will be a good ideea : the ministry of education or baby boom… he/she would have to write the tutorials add videos and greet new players to the game. And an irc app that would take the new players directly to the national chat-room.
The military and work skill should be changed and have a maximum value. For example if you work 29 day in a row and on the 30th day he doesn’t work on the 31st day his working skill will be 28x if the maximum value is 30x. This way i think the overproduction will be over.
For the advance the rank will remain so that the advance will not be the same for all, and to replace the Imperishable soldier medal it would be great so that the new medal would reward the player who fights 30 days in a row with weapons.
MaZzA 13:53 on August 29, 2011 Permalink
Lol, i lost many days of training, working and fighting.
How can you fix it ?
You will just ignore it (as usual )?
ps. happy birthday Ahmad
dan13oct 14:11 on August 29, 2011 Permalink
The current goddess system is not working as good as it should maybe if every region will have some bonuses i think would be an improvement: some will have 1-5% bonus weapon or food or juice… production some will have 1-5% bonus defense advance other will have 1-5% bonus attacking advance.
It would be nice to have different government ideologies so that democracy will have bonus advance and cheaper alliances, socialism will have bonus production and cheaper attacking prices and fascism will have bonus defense advance and higher health recovery.
dan13oct 14:26 on August 29, 2011 Permalink
Ps : The ideology would be set on th 1st day as cp.
Constantin Prezan 06:06 on September 17, 2011 Permalink
OK, so we receive the training/working points lost because of this?