PT25 News Thread (Server & Feature Updates)

[Chris Marquardt]

New:

• [02.12.2024 09:01 UTC] Disabled launch deck (2551 historical cards) to be combinator eligible and doubled the global chance of combinators in the 3 tiers.
• [02.11.2024 14:25 UTC] Updated minimum required game client for PT to 25.9.91.
• [15.10.2024 10:52 UTC] Fixed Daily Bagels and Schmear with EVCinNYC draft resulting in errors.

Ongoing:
Old:

[Chris Marquardt]

April 2024:

• [18.04.2024 08:12 UTC] Increased active orders limit from 75 to 100.
• [10.04.2024 13:55 UTC] PT Live yesterday info in the Team Overview widget is reenabled too.
• [10.04.2024 11:54 UTC] PT Live Leaderboards display is enabled again.
• [09.04.2024 09:48 UTC] The new tournaments and drafts, which were added last week, were missing from the daily tournament and draft rankings yesterday. We recalculated the affected rankings and gave out the PP difference missing for those teams that moved up in the ranking. Teams that moved down in the rankings are not affected.
• [04.04.2024 15:13 UTC] PT Live Leaderboards display is disabled as they introduced performance problems for the whole system. Regardless the leaderboards are getting generated and the rewards given out. We are working on restoring the display.

[Chris Marquardt]

May 2024:

• [27.05.2024 13:09 UTC] Lowered min sell price for some combinator card tiers and updated NeL cards combinator points (see here)
• [27.05.2024 12:20 UTC] Fixed the "team & player records" showing incorrect stats.
• [13.05.2024 17:20 UTC] Given out the missing PTCS 2 card rewards.
• [08.05.2024 13:45 UTC] PTCS 2 tournaments and drafts have been added. The lowest two reward cards (Agee and Splittorff) are not part of the price structure and will be distributed to the corresponding teams on Monday.
• [07.05.2024 18:21 UTC] Due to technical difficulties we removed the PTCS 2 tournaments and drafts and will add them tomorrow.
• [07.05.2024 17:35 UTC] PTCS 2 Gold will be created with the 129th team of the ranking as one of the other teams is banned.
• [07.05.2024 14:25 UTC] Updated the period 2 tournament standings. One team was accidentally split into two different teams. The top 128 (for the PTCS 2 qualification) of the Bronze and Draft Weekly standings were affected.
• [07.05.2024 13:03 UTC] The CDN issues are fixed. Players maybe need to reset their card cache to see the updated images.
• [07.05.2024 11:00 UTC] We are experiencing CDN issues since yesterday, not updating the card images for the Live cards May update.

[Chris Marquardt]

June 2024:

• [21.06.2024 18:00 UTC] Fixed one of our simulation servers creating client errors "Could not download PT League file".
• [20.06.2024 11:28 UTC] Fixed an issue with PT Live being stuck. June 19th was skipped.
• [14.06.2024 13:25 UTC] Increased the maximum amount of cards per team from 9999 to 11999.
• [10.06.2024 13:10 UTC] Given out the two lowest PTCS 3 card rewards.
• [07.06.2024 15:40 UTC] Fixed another visual bug (cards appearing as combinator when they are not) with cards bought on the card shop.
• [07.06.2024 14:15 UTC] Deployed a server patch
  • fixed the visual bug of combinator cards carrying over the level when bought on the card shop
  • fixed loading new cards from the card shop make cards appear in the content list that were only updated
  • added automatic tournament/draft cutting (when a daily/weekly tournament becomes a quick and less then half the slots are used the max team slots will be additionally cut in half to ensure a fast start)
• [07.06.2024 09:56 UTC] Fixed the "Rocking Chair" drafts throwing an error when starting.
• [07.06.2024 09:35 UTC] Updated the combinator card points to fix the "mismatch" error.
• [04.06.2024 15:26 UTC] Updated the Tournament Weekly - week 12 leaderboard and gave out the adjusted rewards.
• [04.06.2024 15:10 UTC] Replaced the Dustan Mohr card with a Michael Tucker card. Disabled the cards "MLB 2024 Live, RP Andrew Saalfrank, AZ" and "MLB 2024 Live, RP Michael Kelly, OAK" to be pulled from packs.

[Chris Marquardt]

July 2024:

• [31.07.2024 15:03 UTC] Updated minimum required game client for PT to 25.6.71.
• [30.07.2024 12:53 UTC] Fixed OOTP Go notifications not showing up.

[Chris Marquardt]

August 2024:

• [26.08.2024 14:25 UTC] Distributed 60s Theme Week rewards to the league winners
• [14.08.2024 10:02 UTC] Deployed a backend patch:
  • Enabled "decombinate" function
  • Changed "fixed time" draft tournaments to not delay the start for a late drafter
  • Fixed tournament templates on the server missing the new restrictions
  • Added new HIVE notification if eliminated from a tournament
  • Fixed HIVE notification for buy orders to display the card title as "undefined"
• [06.08.2024 11:40 UTC] Updated the simulation servers to fix the splits of some few players. The cards of those players will show the correct values when activated now.
• [05.08.2024 06:35 UTC] Updated all Live player cards. Due to a bug these cards were not updated:
  • MLB 2024 Live, 2B Donovan Solano, SD
  • MLB 2024 Live, 3B J.D. Davis, NYY
  • MLB 2024 Live, CF Michael A. Taylor, PIT
  • MLB 2024 Live, CF Tommy Pham, CWS
  • MLB 2024 Live, DH J.D. Martinez, NYM
  • MLB 2024 Live, LF Adam Duvall, ATL
  • MLB 2024 Live, LF David Peralta, SD
  • MLB 2024 Live, LF Robbie Grossman, TEX
  • MLB 2024 Live, RF Brian Anderson, ATL
  • MLB 2024 Live, RP Matt Barnes, WSH
  • MLB 2024 Live, RP Scott Alexander, OAK
  • MLB 2024 Live, SP Blake Snell, SF
  • MLB 2024 Live, SP Jake Woodford, PIT
  • MLB 2024 Live, SP Jordan Montgomery, AZ
  • MLB 2024 Live, SP Kyle Tyler, MIA
  • MLB 2024 Live, SP Michael Lorenzen, TEX
  • MLB 2024 Live, SP Mike Clevinger, CWS
  • MLB 2024 Live, SP Shaun Anderson, MIA

[Chris Marquardt]

September 2024:

• [01.09.2024 10:00 UTC] All leagues are accessible again.
• [01.09.2024 08:40 UTC] Fixed client errors "Could not download PT League file". Some tournaments/leagues can still be unavailable, but that will resolve itself with the next simulation.