Angels and Demons

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15/08/2009 | The angels and demons team

After a bit of debating we decided that we don't want our team to be expanded, it's complicated enough this way. On the other hand, we do need a good webdesigner. Anyone with good taste and knowledge of css?

Admin

p.s. we felt sorry for the users that sank so low. So for this one time, we decided to wipe all outstanding debts. Don't let it happen again, because this is a one time favour!

15/08/2009 | Bailiff

We finally added the bailiff to the game, because the total debt was really going out of hand. After running the bailiff function for the first time we made the shocking discovery that many users had reached the maximum value of the database. There are now users with over 2 bilion dollars of debt. Those users are very lucky, because a large share of their debt has gone lost because of the maximum value. We changed the database a bit, so it won't happen again.
On the new engine we are still working, we are building the most beautifull forum. Lots of new functions and features will be included amongst which the posibility to start your own company. But again I have to ask for your patience, we're working very hard, some harder than others (I won't mention any names, won't I Warrior Angel?).
Anyway, we think it's time to expand our programmers team, as we hoped to finish the engine by the end of this summer. If you are a skilled programmer, or you know one, please let us know.

Nihlaeth

06/08/2009 | A&D unreachable yesterday night

Due to a bug we had to do some major maintenance on the site and database. Angels and Demons went offline on 19.00 pm yesterday night. We worked through the night and we are back since 9.30am this morning. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Lucifer

19/07/2009 | Updates

You might have noticed that the ammount of upgrades and new functions have decreased a lot the past weeks. We want to let you know that we aren't celebrating vacation (though we'd like to), we are actually working our asses off. We are building a completely new engine for Angels and Demons, one that is safer, easier to maintain and more fun to use. You'll understand that improving our current one isn't that usefull anymore this way. Don't worry, when we change to the new engine all your progress will be restored. Please have a little patience, we hope you have a nice holliday.
p.s. for the people who are leaving, we haven't build anything like a vacation mode yet, we advise you to leave your house for the period.

Nihlaeth

16/07/2009 | Delete messages

'Delete all' button is added to the messages page. Also the debt handling script is off for the moment, but next week it will be activated again. Will everyone please check if they have any outstanding loans? It's going to be expensive if they are not payed off...

Nihlaeth

02/07/2009 | bugfix

Fixed a bug leading to excess evil points being assigned. Thanks to matrixgirl for reporting this bug.

Lucifer

29/06/2009 | Advertisement

As you probably noticed, we removed the advertisement block under the logo. The ads were making angels and demons so slow that it was unacceptable. The advertisement blocks under the captcha's are still there, if google continues to slow us down we will remove them too.

Nihlaeth

29/06/2009 | Admin profiles

We added special profiles for some of the admins, you can find them on the homepage.

Nihlaeth

29/06/2009 | Events

Some new events have been added, and more will come soon. We tried not to be sadistic this time, but I'm afraid that we didn't succeed ghehe

Lucifer

28/06/2009 | Anubis login

You can download the Anubis PHP Login System here.

Warrior Angel

28/06/2009 | Message system

We added a button on the messages page to delete all the read messages from your inbox. Deleting the one by one was a bit too much work in our opinion. What is also new is that read messages and transactions are now stored between 7 and fourteen days. Thereafter they will be deleted.

Admin

28/06/2009 | Highscore

We added a highscore function to the snake game (I dare you to improve mine) and we're planning to add that to the other games too. If you make a highscore, you win $5000,- added up to the price that your'd get anyway.

Nihlaeth

27/06/2009 | Speed

We have been busy adjusting the mysql engine in order to increase the database speed. We hope it's a significant difference, but it's a bit of an experiment so we'll see.

Nihlaeth

23/06/2009 | Karate

A new feature has been added in the sports world. From now on you can take karate lessons in the Dojo Kun. It's hard to earn some fighting skills, but I'll reveal that it can be very useful in combat. How higher your fighting skill is, how easier it will be to earn some. (no, there is no way that you can see what your fighting skill is, that would be too easy)

Warrior Angel

22/06/2009 | Bored

Same story as yesterday, I'm a bit sick of all the exams, so I took a short break. It resulted in new machines in the fitness center, repaired machines and debugged studies (you can now safely graduate). Soon we'll add more studies and jobs. Still 3 exams to go, almost done.

Nihlaeth

21/06/2009 | Incentive voting

I got so bored from reading "Gijsbrecht van Aemstel", that I added two incentive voting links. Actually one, and the one that was broken is repaired now.

Nihlaeth

17/06/2009 | Exams

Due to all the exams this week there won't be as many updates as usual. 4 of our 5 admins are busy studying, next week everything will be back to normal :) Just for your information...

Nihlaeth

15/06/2009 | We are hosting a Debian Etch 4.0r8 ISO mirror

Debian Etch: 4.0r8 ISO download


lucifer.

14/06/2009 | Study: New courses have been added

Angels and Demons University has released the folowing courses: Horsecare 2, Mechanics 1, Office Sciences

lucifer.

14/06/2009 | Sell horses

The horsemarket has been updated, horseowners can now put their horses on the market and take them back.

Admin

13/06/2009 | Grooming and Jackpot

As we play angels and demons ourselves too to see if everything is fine and working, we noticed that the jackpot was a very easy way to earn money. To prevent users from becomming millionaire in one day (we'd have to go crazy with the prices...), we lowered the starting sum a bit. It is now a random value between $7000,- and $50.000,- (before it was always $50.000,-). Further we realised that the horses are quite demanding, they need attention at least once a day, otherwise animal protection will fine you, so we came up with a function to loosen this a bit. You can now hire a groom for 1 credit a day, who will take care of your horse as long as you pay him or her (of course you can fire your groom too).

Nihlaeth

13/06/2009 | Jobs

The first jobs have been added, if you have completed your education cleaning sciences, you can now become a cleaner. later this week we will add some more educations to the university and of course some jobs for them. If you take a job you automatically lose your welfare or any other job you had, so make sure you get payed better. If you are not such an active player, it might not be a good idea to take a job, because you actually have to do something to keep it;)
Warrior Angel

13/06/2009 | Yedaki spiritual

A new store has been added, a new age shop named Yedaki. You can now only buy herbal tea in there, but of course we will add more stuff later on. With herbal tea you can learn faster for an hour, but look out: at *.00 the influence of this herbal tea is reset.

Nihlaeth

13/06/2009 | Horse training

From now on horses can be trained (it also counts as sporting). Horse endurance will be needed to go further into the woods and later on you'll be able to enter in a competition with your horse. Also the woods have been updated a bit, there is now a way to go back.

Nihlaeth

11/06/2009 | Statistics

Statistics have been updated! You can now see who are the smartest users on Angels and Demons.

Nihlaeth

11/06/2009 | Graphics

As you might have noticed, we have been playing with the graphics of angels and demons lately. We liked the outcome very much, so you can expect more of this in the near future. About the hospital page we are not entirely satisfied, if anyone has a better picture for the background, please let us know!

Warrior Angel

11/06/2009 | Woods

For the ones that already have a horse, the woods and the chapel have been edited. Looks better now, doesn't it? We have also changed the font of the CAPTCHA images, to make it a bit easier.

Admin

11/06/2009 | Chapter added

Hmm, this is definately more than once a week. Another chapter has been added to the story.

Nihlaeth

10/06/2009 | Horsemarket

The horsemarket is finished. At the moment there is one horse for sale, and there can't be added horses yet, so if you want it, you have to be fast ;)
You can find it at the shopping menu. And for the ones interested, horses give you a way to lose some evil points, they are an opening to a whole new part of the game.

Nihlaeth

10/06/2009 | Story

A new chapter has been added to the story.
Nihlaeth

09/06/2009 | Mistakes and stables

Due to a mistake everyones credits were reset to 472, so we had to restore a backup. The data of the pas 25 minutes may be lost (payed credits are not affected), we apologise for this. Further you can now buy stables in shopping;)

Nihlaeth

09/06/2009 | Wordlist Project

We added a new way to earn money! In university, you can now go to the study project and earn $5,- per unique word.

Nihlaeth

09/06/2009 | Crime Reporting!

Sometimes crime reports in a corrupt system can dissapear. Now you can be punished for false reporting when this happen.
Think twice before reporting crime.

Angel

09/06/2009 | Cheaters!

Yes! We know you're there cheaters! But not for long! Some users have found a way to artificially provoke events and had over a thousand events per day. Of course that's not how we had it in mind, so we have been searching for a way to punish these filthy cheaters. And finally successfull. Have fun with it I'd say;)
Further is the horses system almost ready for use, and that brings a lot of new functions in the game.

Warrior Angel

09/06/2009 | Sneak preview

Want to know what we're doing? You can get a sneak preview of the more graphical wing of angels and demons at macbeth street nr 1. Just click go to stables and see how the future stables will look like.

Nihlaeth

08/06/2009 | cheats

Anti-cheat lockdown bot looks for cheaters once an hour. It is supposed to revert points gained by cheaters. However the function in events is buggy. Users trying to cheat have a great chance that their events get stuck forever.

Angel

08/06/2009 | Good vs. Evil stats

We have added extra stats. Good vs. Evil points

lucifer

08/06/2009 | Story Line

We have added a seperate page with a detailed story line of the Angels and Demons Online RPG game

Warrior Angel

08/06/2009 | Beginner protection

We added beginner protection! We felt a bit sorry for all the beginners who lost their money directly in the first hour of their membership, so we gave them 2 days to adjust to the cruel world of Angels and Demons.

Warrior Angel

07/06/2009 | Lucifer has given you money

Added a function to locate humans in distress so I can offer them money and corrupt their souls.

lucifer

07/06/2009 | Statistics

For my fellow demons I have added the stats on how many Humans have been transformed to Human Angel status

lucifer

06/06/2009 | Events

lucifers secret event was broken by an Angel but it was fixed in time so lucifer can continue his campain corrupting humans. Bug reported by a demon.

lucifer

06/06/2009 | Events

Events were rotated with ajax before, but the problem was that some users had javascript disabled on their browser, so they got the same event over and over again, some sold their soul 4 times to the devil... And the devil only wants your soul once. So we changed this, the rotation now makes use of php, so it works for everyone, no matter what browser you use or what is dis- or enabled.

Admin

06/06/2009 | Password recovery and change password

Today we added a user information recovery function at the sign in page and a password change function at the profile page. We also added a few rpg directories at the credits page, only the incentive setups don't work yet. If you want to support us anyway, you can already vote.

The Angels and Demons Team

05/06/2009 | Invite Users

From now on, you can invite people at the credits page (click under your saldo). If someone registers later on with an email adress you invited and activates his or her account, you recieve 2 credits.

Nihlaeth

05/06/2009 | Corruption :o

Lucifer was a bit bored yesterday. When lucifer is bored, bad thing happen unfortunately, so we were a bit scared. Luckily his evil plan didn't include us, only the policeofficers. He decided that it would be fun to corrupt some people, so watch out with reporting crimes ;)

Nihlaeth

04/06/2009 | Angels and Demons logo

We have a new logo! Yeah, that was actually everything I wanted to say... How do you mean stating the obvious? Credits: Logo was made by Devilish

Admin

04/06/2009 | Lucifer will prevail

Indeed, Angels and Demons looked like Devils and Demons yesterday, I liked that. And I will continue to promote my personal campain to get the souls I need for my plan to take over this world :-)

Some of you have already signed over your souls for a nice "price". To the newcomers be on the lookout play often and I will pop by and make you an offer you can not refuse. We will be adding a visual function so you can see to whom your soul belongs. On the stats page you can see my soul collection stats.

Lucifer.

03/06/2009 | Last update from Devils & Demons today

Indeed, Angels and Demons looks more like Devils and Demons today. The flood of new users brought a flood of attacks, the streets are red with blood, the hospital is FULL and we have more than twice as much evil points in the game than good points.
We, as the admins were not too fond of changing our name, so we decided to stop the evilness a bit. From now on, you can attack max. 3 times an hour.

Another interesting fenomene was that you could actually steal a negative ammount of money. This is also resolved now.
Today our user base almost tripplesized, and still nothing has crashed. I'm proud, but it has been enough for today.

Nihlaeth

03/06/2009 | Snake&bugs

Hmm, third update tonight, that's a lot for one day. We added snake in the internet cafe (casino) and we're now busy fixing some bugs. There seems to be something wrong with the hospital, so if you have any trouble there, would you please contact Nihlaeth?

The Angels and Demons Team

03/06/2009 | Sudoku

Another game is added to the casino, this time sudoku. We offer 5 difficulty levels and playing is free. As always, you can find it at the internetcafe.

The Angels and Demons Team

03/06/2009 | Statistics

The statistics page is now online! From now on you can see who are the ten strongest users, the ten newest users and the general site statistics. Later more functions will be added.

Warrior Angel

03/06/2009 | Insurance bug resolved

I am happy to announce you that we have successfully resolved a bug in the hospital page. Before, the insurance system didn't work well, sometimes a user who had insurance was told that he or she hadn't and vice versa. Everything works again;)

Nihlaeth

02/06/2009 | Extreme torrents

It doesn't work yet, but we wanted to let you know what we're doing. We are co-operating with Extreme torrents and in a day or two you can exchange game money for their credits. 1 credit is worth 3gb uploaded data. The rules: 1 credit costs $200.000 and you can only buy 1 a month. Maybe that we add a market for this later, but we aren't sure yet.

The Angels and Demons Team

Update(22:14): The border exchange office is now online. You can find it at the bank page

01/06/2009 | Casino games

We added some simple games in the casino, unfortunately we couldn't get 'set' integrated in our system, so that one isn't payed, but as it's so much fun to play we added it anyway. Further we are very happy to see that our user base is growing fast, I don't know if anyone mentioned this before but you can now earn credits by voting on our website. These votes get us a higher rank in rpg directories, so more people find us. A large user base is vital for Angels and Demons, we are sponsored now, but once that stops we are on our own. The server costs are quite high and veggie pizzas have to be payed also. So please vote.

Warrior angel

01/06/2009 | FAQ!!!

Today we started the faq. We have a long way to go before it's finished and we'd like you to tell us what you want to see in the faq. For the ones that don't know what a faq is, faq stands for frequently asked questions. It's actually a short manual for the game. If you have any suggestions, please post them at the forum. We also want to have some poll sugestions, you can post them in 'Angels and Demons'-'Feature request and Suggestions'

Nihlaeth

1/06/2009 | Sadism rules

You might not directly notice it, but we have been adding new events the whole day and enlarged the chance of getting an event. Also the problems refreshing events are solved now. With events, you can lose health or money, you can find money or credits, you can get quests, you can earn good ad evil points and you can sell your soul to the devil (makes you very very rich...). We have been in a very sadistic mood today, so watch out for those events. Your choices can actually make a great difference for your future...

Lucifer (has gathered 19 souls so far)

31/05/2009 | Events

After a long day of debugging and frustration, the first events are finaly ready. It isn't very elegant yet, but it works for now. There was also a bug in the refresher courses, that is fixed now.

The Angels and Demons Team

31/05/2009 | A late night

The title already implies it, we have been working late once again (right now it's 4.22 am), but I must say it was worth it. We got the so-called 'property' function ready. This means that you can now buy houses, rent them to other users, adjust the rent, sell them, etc. Mind, houses are payed in credits, the rent in dollars.

Lucifer

30/05/2009 | Random events, captcha's and other stuff

We have been very busy today, and you can now see the results of our sweat, blood and tears. Okay, we did'nt cry, and we didn't bleed either, that's just a matter of speaking. That's not the point.
What is the point is that we are working on a random event system. The first event queued for all of you is a poll, that already works, only there won't be loaded a new event in your account. (Indeed, still working on that) So if you are a very active player, you might actually get to answer the poll twice.

Further, we have been working on the CAPTCHA images, we realised that the captcha in the learning system was very anoying, so we moved it to the university page. We also added captchas to the internetcafe, with the result that you have to pay again after a certain ammount of time. That's more realistic, isn't it?
We are still in search for a better font for the captchas as we've recieved several complaints about the current one, but as you probably understand we don't exactly swim in time. If anyone is eager to help us, we need a font file (.tff), they can be found everywhere on the net, and it mustn't be standard. If you find anything, just send the url in a message to Nihlaeth.

We made also a small adaption to the casino, the basic jackpot is now $50.000 instead of $5.000, enjoy.

Warrior Angel (also known as Mark)

30/05/2009 | Refresher courses

To lighten the burden of learning a bit, we added refresher courses to the university. Those courses cost $150,-, 100 attention and 15 minutes. So what's in it for you? 10% progress in a chosen subject. However, to take such a course, you must have at least reached a level of 10% and at most 90% progress.

Admin

27/05/2009 | Items update

We added some nice pictures to the items. Also the scolling when you bought more that 10 items was very anoying, so we solved that. Another thing is that you can now earn good points by giving items away.

Nihlaeth

26/05/2009 | Credits system

From now on credits can be bought from the credits page at the bank. Credits will be applied once every two hours.

The Angels and Demons Team

26/05/2009 | Report crime function

We forsaw problems with the new combat function (it's far too easy to rob new users), so we updated the police office a bit. Starting today, you can report your attacker if the attack was less that 3 days ago. Inacive users can thus be attacked without retributions. If you make a false report, it will cost you $100, and if are reported as attacker, you'll have to pay a fine of $1000, the money you stole AND part of the hospital costs of your victim.

Enjoy, The Angels and Demons Team

25/05/2009 | Combat system online

From now on, you can attack users by clicking on the attack button in a users profile. With this new feature, the first possibility to earn evil points has been added.
When you attack a user, the strongest one wins, so think twice before you start a fight.

The Angels and Demons Team


24/05/2009 | Official launch

Today, Angels and Demons is officially launched. The beta testing is over and the fun can start now. Enjoy the ride.

The Angels and Demons Team