Note about all plugins currently in testing

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If no errors or balance change requests are placed in the next 48 hours ALL PROGRAMS CURRENTLY ON THE TEST SERVER WILL GO LIVE.

The list of plugins is below:

• Alchemist *
• Noob Shield (only activates when player has <50 total levels and opponent has >50 total levels. Gives 2% chance for every 1 level of difference between those users current races to evade ability dmg)
• Blood Mage
• Shadow Hunter
• Warden
• Crypt Lord *
• Archmage Proudmoore
• Flame Predator
• Molecule
• Genocide
• Spider Man
• War3Source - Addon - Armor (my special plugin that tracks and maintains armor values for clients who's armor goes above 125 races marked with * currently use the related code)

These 12 plugins are ready to be released and just need final confirmation that they are ready for the live server.

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The bomb no longer does ANY damage when it explodes. Is this intentional? Or some update to CS:S that I missed?

Edit: The fire the bomb causes DOES hurt still.

Edit 2: All fixed, other bugs fixed. When the server crashed, I took that as a sign to sleep. Keep up the awesome work.

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I found a possible cause of the crash or at min a great performance increase. Currently whenever any user gets XP there is a loop that runs for each individual xp. You get the idea that this loop runs basically all the time and eats a lot of performance. I have moved 4 method calls outside of the loop. As a result the loop no longer makes any api calls. This reduces the total strain on the WCS server in the event of a tome perchance for example by 400 times. Given that some of these were heavy string and variable creations the improvements in performance and error handling should be dramatic.

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Right now I am just finishing up a new program to show users info about races as a helper function. This will make it easier for new users to understand what is going on and learn about different races. I plan to release this program with all the races and other changes. Hopefully tonight.

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OK the system is complete and you can see race info now. The next step is to try to design a way to make it so a user can easily get more info about a given race that they are currently viewing.

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OK now thanks to the !moreinfo command you can quickly view the details of a races abilities in chat.