Area00 : Barbarossa

Updates and Changes

Please understand all problems the update will may cause.

Changes on May 6, 2007. Version 1.24a

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May 6 - Barbarossa server updated.
May 6 - Korea server updated.
May 6 - Texas server updated.

Wing application guideline limited to 250 characters.

Official Changes on Oct 16, 2004. Version 1.24

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Oct 16 - Barbarossa server updated.
Oct 21 - Korea server updated.
Oct 22 - Singapore, Texas server updated.

Wing Radar will no longer display aircraft with stealth ability.
R-77 damage is increased to 350.
Only 50% of the wing members can be Admiral of Area00. In Newbie and CoralSea server maximum number is 5. In Inchon and Alamo server it is 7. In other servers it is 10.
New Wing Equipment: Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft.
Bought by the FO, this will enable the production of the E-3 computer planes by your factories. The E-3 will not only provide radar coverage for the sector, but also increase the accuracy of other computer planes when attacking a bogey.
Scramble Light
It will turn on when there is a bogey flying in your airspace. But it will only work if you have a working radar or E-3 AWACS computer plane in the sector.
MiG-31 is no longer able to equip Zhuk radar.
Hospital recovery time will depend on your Stamina level.
If Finance Officer deposits wing money to a member, this will be logged in the wing news.
Minimum rank and required position to edit Wing Guideline:
You need 2 factors to edit Wing Guideline 1. Minimum Rank - Captain 2. Required Position - Wing Commander
Bug fixed:
could build buildings more than restricted number when there was no buildings in a sector.
Staff Contact Page:
A separate page from the online pilot list will list all online and offline staff. You can use this to contact staff members.

Official Changes on Sep 24, 2004. Version 1.23

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Sep 11 - Barbarossa server updated.
Sep 24 - Korea server updated.
Sep 25 - Singapore, Texas server updated.

Players have no wing (freelancers) can dogfight in Area00 Dogfight Arenas. To enter the Arenas, click Fly in your left menu bar.
New Aircraft: JAS 39 Girpen
* Download new downloadable cockpit image file including Gripen photo by clicking here. If you don't know how to use this, go to "Option" menu.
Wing cannot be disbanded.
- When a wing has only one pilot (CO), he/she cannot leave his/her wing.
Newbie School Wing removed from all non-newbie regular/expert servers.
- Newbie School wing will remain only in Newbie,Inchon and Temasek server. Members in Newbie School wing in non newbie server will be out of the wing automatically and become freelancers when the server is updated with version 1.23.
Building restriction
- Wing cannot have more than XXX buildings of the same type in each sector. In Newbie and CoralSea server maximum is 100. In Inchon and Alamo server maximum is 150. In other servers maximum is 200.
- Example) In Newbie server, wing cannot have more than 100 command centers in each sector.
- This won't affect buildings already built.
Minimum rank/credit for creating wings
On all non-newbie regular/expert game servers, requirement to create wings changed You need 2 factors to create wing:

Newbie servers Regular/expert servers

1. Minimum Rank Senior Airman Captain

2. Minimum Cash(fee) 100,000 credits 1,000,000 credits

* Newbie servers - Newbie, Temasek and Inchon server.
2nd Body Addon
- New slot for aircraft so there can be a second body addon equipped. This way canards aircraft can still have canards and body armor.
JavaScript error with Opera and Netscape browsers fixed
- Scroll down menu in the top menu bar and a radar switch in cockpit were not compatible with Opera browser.
- Functions of top menu bar (new message indication, etc) and "Your Office" link in the left menu bar were not working with Netscape browser.
Canard
Following aircrafts are not able to buy/equipt canard because their designs are unsuitable for canard placement.) - F-16
- F-14 and F-14D
- F-18 and F-18E
- F-5
- MiG-21
- MiG-23
- Su-24
- Tornado
- MiG-31

- B-1B equips canard as standard equipment.

Official Changes on Aug 27, 2004. Version 1.22

Finance office changed
- Finance officer can purchase Repair Center and Hospital like other building. They can be seen on radar and can be destroyed.
* If you are not Finance officer, please check "Wing Equipment" menu in "Wing Office" menu.
When a wing disbanded by a staff, an aircraft on runway won't be destroyed.
In Dogfight Arenas, a player can dogfight any player even from ally wing.
- Every player's aircraft will be shown as an enemy (Bandit)
Wing News for destruction of buildings
- when a wing member destroys buildings it is recorded in the wing news, so the CO can dismiss people abusing the right or take away the right. (CO did not know who destroyed buildings)
New aircraft: SR-71
- A reconnaissance aircraft for Area00 Guardians.
- This aircraft will be more useful when reconnaissance system is implemented.
* Download new downloadable cockpit image file including Sr-71 photo by clicking here. If you don't know how to use this, go to "Option" menu.

Official Changes on Aug 13, 2004. Version 1.21

Infrastructure system has been changed.
- Nuke center replaced to Nuclear Plant. It supplies power for factory and radar station
- Residence supplies workers for factory, oil refinery and (nuclear) power plant.
- Oil refinery produces fuel for power plant, enables cheaper fuel.
  - Refueling cost displays when you refuel your aircraft manually in "Status" menu.
- Highway supplies for factory, oil refinery and (nuclear) power plant.
  
  * Please check the infrastructure menu for dependencies between buildings.
CO has more responsibility.
- For 72 hours after a wing created, CO cannot abdicate his position, the wing cannot be disbanded.
Fixed bug in scout command
- In the air, it wouldn't let a pilot fly to a different wing because a pilot's wing has no runway.
Typhoon updated
- Skyflash has been removed from the armament.
- Radar: ECR90 changed to CAPTOR
Tornado updated
- Radar Foxhunter changed to TNR
- Engine: Mk.103 is standard
- Sensor: TIALD is standard

Official Changes on Jul 2, 2004. Version 1.21

ADD: Dogfight Areans added. Click "Fly" on the left menu bar of your screen.
FIX: F-4 can equip AIM-120. F-16, F/A-18E and Typhhon can equip AIM-120C.

Official Changes on Jun 26, 2004

FIX: R-33's damage has been changed back to its orginal spec.

Official Changes on Jun 24, 2004

FIX: The following update has been undone due to its negative effect.
The "For Big Aircraft" specialty of missile AGM-54 and R-33 has been changed as below:
To: When you shoot an aircraft smaller than HUGE SIZE, your own accuracy = accuracy * 0.80
From: When you shoot an aircraft smaller than LARGE SIZE, your own accuracy = accuracy * 0.90

Official Changes on Jun 22, 2004. Version 1.20

FIX: F-22 now gets a bombing ability and renamed to F/A-22.
FIX: The "For Big Aircraft" specialty of missile AGM-54 and R-33 has been changed as below:
To: When you shoot an aircraft smaller than HUGE SIZE, your own accuracy = accuracy * 0.80
From: When you shoot an aircraft smaller than LARGE SIZE, your own accuracy = accuracy * 0.90
ADD: B-1B Lancer, an aircraft for donors added.
* Download new downloadable cockpit image file including B-1B photo by clicking here. If you don't know how to use this, go to "Option" menu.

Official Changes on Dec 31, 2003

FIX: If a pilot shot down in ally's area, he/she won't be imprisoned (POW).
ADD: The light bulb for message system has more intelligence.
ADD: Wing and Freelancer lists are working in real time. If you see old listing, re-login.

Official Changes on Dec 21, 2003

FIX: A half million fine will be charged if Command Officer abdicates command. If your credit is lower than 1 milion, your request will be rejected.
FIX: A 1 million fine will be charged if Command Officer disbands a wing (by leaving his/her wing). If your credit is lower than 1 milion, your request will be rejected.
FIX: (New Area00 Guardian Privileges) A guardian can transfer credits to any pilot without bank fee. It is a right of Area00 guardian since the guardian program started. Now it is supported by the game system.
ADD: IMPORTANT!! NEW AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM
- Click here to read about new air defense system
FIX: The exp penalty which was given if an aircraft crashed by forced-landing has been removed.
FIX: You cannot transfer your credit if your credit is lower than 3 million credits.
FIX: A staff or a player who has a wing cannot be invited by other wing.
FIX: Multiple invitations/admissions cannot be sent for the flooding-proof.
FIX: An admission cannot be sent to Newbie School Wing and Staff Wing.

Official Changes on Dec 8, 2003

FIX: A buggy auto-landing function has been removed.

Official Changes on Dec 7, 2003

BUG: New dogfight systems clock was working abnormaly.
BUG: A pilot not in your wing could be appointed as new Command Officer.

Official Changes on Nov 14, 2003

BUG: Top ranked players (Admiral of A00) were unable to lose experience points or be demoted when they shot down.
FIX: Maximum experience point is 90 million. Players can gain exp after reaching top rank.
FIX: new ranking, Top Experienced Player added. It is sorted by exp.
FIX: A list of online players split to show players and staffs differently.
FIX: You cannot deposit wing money into a wingmember if wing money is lower than 3 million credits.
FIX: You cannot transfer your credit if your credit is lower than 2 million credits.
FIX: A player flying with Falcon 50 cannot log a sortie or a wing kill.
FIX: Maximum ally is limited to 3 from 5.
FIX: When you shot down by an enemy's defensive structure, you will lose experience points as same as the case of dogfight against enemy player. It will be less than with old rule.
FIX: The maximum amount of credit a player can have has been increased to 2,000 million from 999 million.
FIX: The minimum rank needed to be a wing officer is 2nd Lieutenant.
FIX: The maximum vacation time has been increased to 60 days from 28 days.
BUG: When a wing commander (CO) was deleted, a position of CO was not abdicated to next chain of command automatically.

FIX: IMPORTANT!! NEW DOGFIGHT SYSTEM

Let's say player A dogfights player B:

1st	A shot down B	A gains 100% bounty bonus, B loses full
2nd	A shot down B	A gains 75% bounty bonus, B loses full
3rd	A shot down B	A gains 50% bounty bonus, B loses full
4th	A shot down B	A gains 25% bounty bonus, B loses full
5th	A shot down B	A gains 0% bounty bonus, B loses full
If A shot down B more than 5 times, A gets zero exp and B lose full exp.

Your dogfight information will be saved for 48 hours from last dogfight against same oppenent.
You will record all kills/shot downs.
practical explanation:
once you have won 4 times from the same opponent, you will no longer gain experience, you already have the experience to shoot him down, so you are no longer learning anything from the fight. Until you either forgot or your opponent has learned some new ways to fight you ==> 48 hours...

Official Changes on Sep 25, 2003

BUG: If a gunpod was equipped on any slot of weapon station, the system calculated its weight wrongly.
FIX: the thrust of all Charger items and few Engine items increased.
FIX: the empty weight and base lifting power of all aircrafts changed.
FIX: F-15 Eagle's size changed to Extra-large from Large.

Official Changes on Sep 24, 2003

BUG: After the server rebooted, the system load affects of broken items shouldn't be applied to the aircraft. So some aircrafts got more ability.

Official Changes on Sep 23, 2003

BUG: After the server rebooted, the system did not calculate the weight of fuel in the aircraft loaded from the database. So the aircraft became light and receive less weight-penalty on Speed, Mobility and Fuel Consume rate.
FIX: In the "Status" menu, you can see original Speed, Mobility and Fuel Consume Rate and their weight-penalty-applied values. You can see Analysis in the bottom of the "Status" page.
FIX: Area00 Guadian has additional shelter.

Official Changes on Sep 16, 2003

FIX: Many JavaScript in the include file merged into PHP modules for stability and fix problem caused recently.

Official Changes on Sep 15, 2003

FIX: The bounty bonus table (dogfight exp bonus) altered. Check this.
ADD: New ultimate rank "Admiral of A00" added.
ADD: 36th aircraft, Falcon 50 added. It is available only for Area00 Guardian. It cannot be attacked but it has no attacking ability. It cannot set its radar on lookdown mode so it cannot see ground structures or units. Click here to view the announcement.
FIX: Bar graph generator for cockpit converted in PHP to reduce JavaScript error.
FIX: A player under 2nd Lietenant won't be backup by the system.
FIX: Area00 Guadian has no need to have the special aircraft shop ticket to buy special planes.

Official Changes on June 4, 2003

FIX: Vice Commander(VCO) can build a structure anywhere like Command Officer(CO).
FIX: If a wing is created, it is on public mode as default.
FIX: A player can turn on/off the vacation mode at Pilot Lounge.
FIX: Auto-refueling, auto-reload, auto-land options work automatically.

Official Changes on May 25, 2003

FIX:A new player who creates an account is allowed to create new character only in below servers for 2 weeks from his/her account creation. This is to decrease fast creation of false/multi accounts.
- Korea Server: Newbie Server
- Singapore Server: Temasek Server
FIX: A player can select the wing protection time when he/she creates a wing. But now CO cannot get out of protection while his/her wing is under protection.
FIX: "sub-wing kill" has been back. If a wing destroyed, all scouting pilots will be bring back to their wing and get 1 wing kill record. This is to encourage wing battles until new wing kill system is ready.
Payment System is being tested:
Your hourly payment depends on your rank and your average Bounty Bonus of the past 24 hours.
- If a player did not log a sortie for the past 24 hours, he/she receives no hourly payment.
- If a player is inactive in destroying other wing's structure, defensive structure or computer planes, he/she will receive only a minimum payment.
- If a player is active, he/she will receive an increased payment.
  hourly payment = ( base payment + ( ABR x 4 ) ) x bank skill bonus
- A hourly payment cannot exceed the amount of (minimum payment x 4)
- * Bounty Reward means the credits you receive if you destroy enemy wing structures, defensive structures and computer planes.
- * ABR(Average Bounty Reward) means an average amount of bounty reward of the past 24 hours.
FIX: A player cannot transfer wing money to a wing member for 24 hours after a creation of wing.
A player cannot create new wing for 24 hours after a creation of wing.
New wing will be protected for at least 1 hour.
ADD: Added a feature of "page" for message and forum modules.
BUG: If a staff left wing as CO, the system sets someone else to CO even if there is an another CO.
FIX: Fixed an error in the armament table of Mirage2000
FIX: Wing Protection Time has been increased to 24 hours from 6 hours. If you create new wing, your wing will be protected for maximum 24 hours. Command Officer can decide to get out of protection at Your Office menu.
BUG: When your plane gets landed because the wing you were flying is destroyed or when you freezed by staff, your armament setting do not get loaded.
FIX: All CGIs of game server converted to PHP. This is a work for version II.
BUG: Fix a bug with message system, if you send a message to Alliance Commander, your message will be returned to your wing Command Officer (number of allies)-times.
ADD: An anti-flooding function for forum and message system. A player must wait 5 seconds to send new message or make new post.
FIX: When a player try to create wing, the system compare the wing name with other wing names already exist, case insensitive. This is to prevent a creation of "78th SQDN" when "78th sqdn" already exists.
FIX: If a player character deleted, the system backs up his/her data if his/her original rank(ever accomplished once) is higher than Senior Airman. Before this update, it depends on current rank, so higher ranked player who has been demoted to Airman couldn't be backup.
FIX: A function posts a reply has an increased stability.
BUG: Fix a bug with User Server, when the system send the letter of account deletion, User Server often goes down.

Official Changes on Mar 18, 2003

ADD: New 8 medals added. Refer this page: http://korea.area00.com/help/character.html#medals. A player has already accomplished requirements to be awarded will get new medals one by one after killing something.
FIX: Medals listed by an order in the ViewProfile module.
FIX: Wing Office, Pilot, Wing Radar, Shelter, Members, Inventory, Arming, Cockpit, Record, Forum menus converted to PHP. ViewProfile module converted to PHP. I look forward an increased stability.
BUG: few bugs in the new Messages menu fixed.
FIX: Some vulgarities are screened in Message and Forum menu.
FIX: If a player is a member of newbie wing, he/she doesn't log a sortie.
BUG: A-10 could take off without engines by only its lift force because the program did check aircraft's weight but not if engine(s) is functioning.
ADD: If a player delete himself/herself, IP address logged. This info. will be used to check if a player insists he/she got hacked.
TYPO: one typing error in Defence Net. menu fixed.
ADD: B-2A Spirit bomber added as a donor plane. It's performance and armament are still being adjusted and developed. It's price reflects real world.
FIX: A player must log in to send feedbacks to helpdesk.
FIX: If a player receives an invitation or CO recives an admission, the new-message indicator turns on.
BUG: Fixed a bug with a player's timezone setting. If a player changes his/her timezone at "Account Management" menu, the change was not applied to game servers at all.
FIX: Tu160 Blackjack has one additional weapon station and increased capacity to load 12 Kh-15 missiles. This is according to the fact.
BUG: I am trying to fix a bug with players get multiple wing-kill record for one wing kill.
BUG: Fix a bug with a dual-engine aircraft cannot fly with one engine.
ADD: AGM-154A, AGM-154C added for testing.
BUG: Fix a bug with total wing number is counted abnormaly. (I expect TopWing and WingNetworth will be genareted well by fixing this bug)
Fixed an error with cockpit interface of Player vs. Player combat.
ADD: A radar has been added for B-2A.
Download new downloadable cockpit image file including B-2A photo by clicking here. (154KB) If you don't know how to use this, go to "Option" menu.

Official Changes on Feb 24, 2003

FIX: Message (SatCom) module and Edit-wing-guideline module converted to use PHP (from using C language).
FIX: make the system get the current time value before loading database to avoid a zero-time bug completely.
FIX: If a player is frozen by staff while he/she is in the air, he/she lands automatically by system.
FIX: If you view other player's profile (record), "Wings Destroyed" was not printed.
ADD: Head of Server can edit pilot's record(ratings).
FIX: The printing of freezing information has been better.
FIX: If your credits is minus, the system now allow you make empty your weapon station.
TYPO: 6 typos fixed in the Rule of Staff page.
FIX: B-52 now has an ability of air refueling.
BUG: If you leave Newbie Wing, all items in inventory will be removed.

	Newbie servers	Regular/expert servers
1. Minimum Rank	Senior Airman	Captain
2. Minimum Cash(fee)	100,000 credits	1,000,000 credits