Overlord Forever

2.5.1

Overlord Forever 2.5.1

• Guilds table: click a guild to open the list of all its ranked members, with their rank badge, captures and honorable kills. Click a column to sort; a second click on the guild closes the list. Guild rows now light up under the mouse.
• Layers: a click on a layer never asks a player of the other faction any more. In an alert about an enemy capture, the click asks the players of your faction known on that layer.
• Layers window: the players who turned "Help others" on now carry a portal icon, come first on each layer, and are counted at the top. They are also the first ones asked when you join a layer. Helpers on 2.5.0 or older are not marked yet; helping stays off by default.
• Layers: when nobody invites you, the message now says why for each player asked: "Help others" off, in a group (a helper invites only while alone), in combat, no answer. It no longer says "try again in a moment".
• Layers: a click that cannot start now says why: nobody of your faction is known on that layer, the 5 seconds between two requests, or a change already under way.
• Smoother Layers window: with hundreds of players known it took a whole frame at every refresh; it is now about forty times lighter.
• Guild rampage alerts no longer cost a long frame when they fire in a crowded zone.
• Guild rampage alerts reach everybody: a player who receives one also tells their own guild, once per guild. Before, a few players in each big fight never saw the alert.
• Rank badges in chat: placing a badge inside the name's brackets now rereads only the chat window that showed the line, not every window; it caused short freezes in busy chat. In a window that keeps more than 400 lines (some chat addons), the badge stays in front of the message.
• Fewer short freezes: the action bar shortcut no longer checks every button many times a second in combat, the layers of players known around you are no longer rebuilt at every arrival or departure, and the saved ranking is restored over several frames at login and after /reload instead of in one block. The ranking builds (the window, the safety copy and the pages shared with other players) also leave much less memory to clean up, which the game does in short pauses.
• Big battle lines now say "honorable kills" instead of "kills": the number counts the honorable kills of everyone in the fight, and one death can give one to several players.
• Action bar shortcut: the Overlord logo now stays on the button. It turned into a faction banner whenever the mouse passed over it. While you drag it, the game shows crossed swords instead of a faction banner (a macro cannot carry an addon's own image).