Yesterday I was able to start the refactored FFB server for the first time (it hasn't been in an executable state for months). Of course it hung right up during the kickoff phase ;-)

So what have you been doing all this time?

I did a complete rewrite of the state machine driving the server so far adding 99 new classes (deleting lots of others). It has been a mad undertaking because it broke everything (as expected) and I basically had to rebuild from ground up. Foul action and throw-team-mate are still missing (adding some 20 more classes), but I want to be able to play a turn again first.

So how does that affect me as a player?

Very little so far. I'm in contact with Christer to set up a testing environment (probably a testing league) cause that's what it's going to be for the next couple of weeks. There will be database changes so we'll have to come up with a migration plan for that as well. During all this time the current FFB server will continue running, we'll switch over after making sure the new server is behaving itself properly ;-)

All technical blahblah, aren't there any new features? And what about all the bugs I reported?

I haven't been working on fixing stuff much because there will be that many changes to the server that I expect lots of them to vanish in the process with completely new ones appearing. Only testing will show. And there have been no new features because I REALLY needed to have this cleanup before being able to add new and rather complex skills such as Bombardier or Pass Block (which both have their own special turn sequence).

So I need to ask you for a little more patience, sorry.

Go play!