Update: Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Developer News   2012-10-31

Magical Mystery Tour Due to the situation caused by the database problem we experienced early this morning we've activated an automatic teleportation feature which will make sure you make it to your next show on time. We will keep this feature running for a couple of days untill everyone has had a chance to catch up with their tour buses.

Update: Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Developer News   2012-10-31

Day of the Bugs! Seems something is causing errors across the system. We're looking into it now.

Developer News   2012-10-31

Hello world! Around 02:00 CET, when we were sound asleep, a central part of the Popmundo database got a severe case of the hiccups. This caused the system to be unable to perform certain tasks. It also caused it to perform some tasks multiple times. We've taken care of the underlying problem. We've also given all of you some nitrous oxide and steroids, so you should be feeling happy and strong. All those with VIP and Company License have had their subscriptions extended with 3 days. However, some of you have lost updates. Some of you have lost money. Some of you have become stuck where you were and missed shows. Due to the complex nature of this problem, we cannot automatically recreate what happened during the downtime. Therefore we're gonna have to rely on you to send us bug reports of your most urgent problems. Please note that we cannot help you with minor bugs such as missing character updates. We're truly sorry about this. The database gnomes will have their butts thoroughly spanked!

Update: Monday, October 29, 2012

Developer News   2012-10-29

Clone Wars It seems we've reached a time when some clarifications about how we look at cloning is needed. First things first. We still, strongly, think that cloning in order to get ahead faster, or to gain any form of benefit that you could'nt otherwise, is wrong. It's like doping, and most of us agree that doping is wrong (except you, Lance, we know). (more below) The last few years however, we've spent less time hunting down and punishing cloners, and more time trying to remove or tweak the parts of the game that could be abused by running multiple accounts. As always, we're not "there" yet, but we are getting there slowly. That aside, we also know that many of you play together with friends, family or people you are otherwise connected with out there in the real world, and we do know that sometimes you forget to log out when taking turns playing - or even help each other’s characters keep on their feet while away or otherwise busy. And we get human factors, and don’t really feel this “babysitting” is something that should be punishable by death. It does merit a firm slap over the fingers with a piece of bamboo though, because keeping your account secure and to yourself is good.

Update: Friday, October 26, 2012

Developer News   2012-10-26

New payment solution! We are happy to announce BoaCompra as our new E-pin supplier. BoaCompra, based in Brazil, mainly operates in South- and Central America as well as Portugal and Spain. By visiting the BoaCompra Shop and using their local payment solutions, you can purchase codes for one or more of our products. After you receive your code from them, you go to our shop and instantly activate it. Worth mentioning is that we're testing this to see how it goes. This means that BoaCompra have a somewhat limited supply of codes. If all goes well, we will extend the partnership.

Update: Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Developer News   2012-10-24

The Property Market As of now it's possible to sell and bid on locales in the new version of the game. We've grouped all this functionality on a new company page we call the Property Market. The Property Market work pretty much the same way as "Locales for Sale" did in the old version. But last minute bids will push ahead the deadline of bidding in this version. It's also possible to cancel sales completely on the new Property Market. Not all types of locales will be possible to sell on the Property Market. Some are excluded for obvious reasons, such as subways, airports, etc. And some like second hand stores which have an uncertain future in the new version of the game are also excluded. We know a lot of you has requested a way of directly transferring locales between companies you own. We will add this function. But it won't be part of the Property Market. Instead it will be a separate feature. As a result of the launch of the Property Market in the new version of the game we will shut down the old Locales for Sale in the old version today.

Update: Monday, October 22, 2012

Developer News   2012-10-22

If you happen to be on server 126.popmundo.com today... ...you might experience some minor disturbances, as we try to solve an issue with currencies not being displayed correctly in some cases. Please bear with us.

Update: Friday, October 19, 2012

Developer News   2012-10-19

Rituals are risky things Through a dramatic string of events that culminated with a seance at the Temple of Doom, it seems the long dead Melvin Stjärnblom (ex dictator of this world and rude know-it-all), has gathered back some strength. We have no idea if it was the candles, horoscopes or something completely different that did it, but whatever it was the message was clear: He will be back. Not yet, though, he is still safely in the ground! When it will actually happen, we cannot know. It may be years. We will try to keep him at bay for as long as we can!

Update: Monday, October 08, 2012

Developer News   2012-10-08

Taking care of Business The quest continues! During the past week we have primarily been battling areas such as club management, record studios and factories, where you should now be able to take care of business in a good way - and even find a fair few tweaks made that have been wished for. Did those wishes turn out exactly like you hoped? We almost hope not, because that may mean we lost our mojo. Other things you can now find in in the new version is surveillance, deleting warrants and ordering of vaccines. We also gave Robocop a bit of an adrenaline injection and magically made you all able to tune your instruments to perfection. (Phew, did someone say Monday?)

Update: Wuesday, October 03, 2012

Developer News   2012-10-03

Popmundo Festival X Update The Ministry of Music is proud to announce that the windy city, Chicago, will be hosting the Tenth Popmundo Festival! The cities which will host the qualifying round are the following: Amsterdam, Antalya, Berlin, Budapest, Glasgow, Istanbul, London, Madrid, Rio, Rome, Seattle, Shanghai, Tokyo, Vilnius, and Warsaw. Qualifications will start on the 16th of January and last until the 18th. After these three days the number of contenders will have dwindled from roughly 1000 artists to 50. The final will start on the 25th of January and end on the 29th. Contestants in the final will compete in order based on the results of their qualifying show, beginning with those who scored lowest. For those of you who have no idea what the festival is we just added some new pages to the social section of the game. Stay tuned for more information about the Tenth Popmundo Festival in the weeks to come!