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GENERAL
- 01/10/16 - Added the Magic Portal
 , which is a prestige item for long term players to build on the hero roster, and it reduces the cost of all basic and advanced games by 1/2.
- 09/09/15 - Doubled the credits you get per dollar paid, so now its 4 credits per dollar.
- 08/14/15 - Added highlighting to the news entries, instead of the old '***'.
- 08/14/15 - Increased the time it shows recent players on this list to the last 60 minutes, up from the last 20 minutes.
- 08/14/15 - Hid the game designer's rating from the top players lists.
- 07/30/15 - Reduced the maximum bets allowed in the saloon, based on how many buildings you have built. Now, the more you have built, the more you can bet.
- 05/23/15 - Reformatted the hero roster to make it work with responsive design for mobile phones. Along the way, streamlined the turns clock!
- 07/20/11 - Finally got a replacement for my local server! Now I can edit the pages easily again. In honor of that, I fixed a few typos.
- 11/23/09 - Increased the number of starting turns for each hero to 32, up from 20, in order to give players a play-time boost at the beginning of a game.
- 11/23/09 - Doubled the chance of winning a free unlimited turns hero in each game when it is started with credits.
- 09/16/09 - Added free trial games. They let you try a game without spending credits, to see if you like playing it. Games with free trials are: The Great Desert, The Lost City, Western Dunes, Ancient Catacombs, Outer Ruins, Subterranean Realms.
- 09/04/09 - Reformatted the Game Stats screen to be easier to read, and put some of the data into text that is only displayed when you hover over a number.
- 09/01/09 - Now, when you use PayPal to buy credits, the credits are automatically added to your account.
- 08/30/09 - The Food Cellar now won't give out turns to heroes above what they need to finish the game, in games with a fixed number of turns.
- 07/13/09 - Added new buildable item, The Obelisk of Time, which lets all mini-game heroes have unlimited turns.
- 06/01/09 - Reformatted the view player screen, and put a cutoff limit on the top players lists, so it doesn't show people who have nothing.
- 04/06/09 - Reformatted the hero roster, and news pages.
- 02/22/08 - Re-arranged the hero roster to be simpler, and split off personal high scores to their own page.
- 11/29/07 - Now the top players listing skips inactive players, unless a viewer specifically requests to see them.
- 11/20/07 - Added the ability to rename a hero if it has played less than 32 turns so far.
- 08/13/07 - Simplified the overall rating screen to show only a player's rating versus the best high score, but the more complex comparison can still be seen via a link.
- 07/18/07 - When a player logs in on their yearly anniversary of joining Arcane Journeys, they get 2 free credits. If they joined on an uknown date, they get this bonus if they log in on January 1st.
- 05/17/07 - Redesigned game end screen, with added navigation links on the bottom.
- 02/13/07 - Added a new buildable item: the Inn, which is buildable after the Shrine of Heroes, and gives you two more free heroes on your roster.
- 09/02/06 - Added screen shots page.
- 02/28/06 - Added two new options to player accounts: 1) force low turns, which lets you force a lower turn limit per day, so you can play through all turns a day if you like to feel a sense of completion; 2) Force minibrowsing, which reduces the site some for cell-phone or pda browsers.
- 01/04/06 - Added a 20% discount if you build all remaining buildings at once, if there are more than 2 left to build.
- 12/31/05 - Changed 'donate' to '$ credits $' and 'payment'.
- 12/30/05 - Added icons for the buildable items. Thanks to Tom Gale.
- 10/23/05 - Added a new buildable item: the Astrolabe, which gives a player the ability to estimate their final score while in the middle of a game, as well as possibly see some other calculations, depending on the game.
- 10/18/05 - Added a new buildable item: the Angelic Gemstone, which makes an account permanent.
- 10/14/05 - Changed the credit bonus for winning, by adding a +1 bonus for getting a personal high score, and reducing the bonus by 1 for free heroes. See more
- 08/22/05 - Added a small chance that paid for heroes can get unlimited turns for free.
- 04/22/05 - Added the first draft of an RSS feed for the news, messages, and latest change.
- 03/15/05 - Added an editable note for each hero, to keep track of your strategies, goals, thoughts.
- 02/07/05 - Food cellar updated so that you can buy turns directly to it, and also distribute stored turns evenly among heroes from it.
- 01/25/05 - Reduced the cost of UNLIMITED TURNS for heroes. (By 1 to 9 credits)
- 01/10/05 - $ to credit rate for donations changed to $1 = 2 credits, from $1 = 1 credit.
- 01/06/05 - Original game Angelus the Necromancer for PALM OS released.
- 12/29/04 - Added UNLIMITED TURNS for heroes, for extra credits.
- 11/28/04 - Converted site to use CSS (hover over links is one visible change).
- 11/18/04 - Added the Lottery.
- 09/08/04 - Added the Help page.
- 06/07/04 - New players now get a period of seven days with double turns to introduce them to the games.
- 06/07/04 - Free promotional heroes now start with the same amount of turns as regular heroes.
- 06/04/04 - Added 'Top rating' category to top players lists.
- 06/04/04 - Added 'New' and 'Updated' tags to hero creation and preview screens.
- 06/02/04 - Treasure hunt modified, mostly for people who have already found the treasure a bunch.
- 05/27/04 - Now, if a player gets a site high score, that is announced in the news, and they get bonus credits.
- 04/21/04 - Revised the messages page: Added links to view players from the messages, and list of replies to a message.
- 04/17/04 - Added the MESSAGES page to the site. Now you can post messages here.
- 04/12/04 - Subdivided Recent changes list into years.
- 04/12/04 - Added 'Most Treasure' category to top players lists.
- 04/09/04 - Added 'Max' button to food cellar, so you can give lots of turns to a hero at once.
- 03/19/04 - Added new game [V.P.] to the SALOON.
- 03/06/04 - The number of times each player finds the hidden treasure is now tracked, and displayed on their roster.
- 02/08/04 - Redid main page to have left menu bar, and new introduction. Rearranged news pages. Redid hero creation page, with a left menu bar: now only one game is shown at a time.
- 02/07/04 - Revised credit bonus from mines for shrine owners. Now they get a credit only if they get their highest score.
- 02/02/04 - Added the SALOON.
- 01/07/04 - Added Average Score per game to game stats.
- 12/16/03 - New page: Game Stats. See stats, like total times played, won, lost, and so forth, for all the online games.
- 12/14/03 - Added SEVEN TREASURES, a custom card game with art by Thomas Gale.
- 12/03/03 - Added the SUNDIAL item, which when built lets you see how many turns your heroes have taken in a game.
- 11/26/03 - A hidden treasure was added to the site.
- 11/18/03 - New page: Links.
- 11/04/03 - Food Cellar now reachable from the 'out of turns' message as you are playing a game, so it is easier to get to.
- 11/04/03 - Game order made consistent for champions, preview, creation, ratings and hero roster high scores screens.
- 10/11/03 - Added the Food Cellar item, buildable on the hero roster. It accumulates turns like a hero, and lets you give them out to your heroes.
- 09/30/03 - Added the POLLS.
- 09/14/03 - Added the ORIGINAL CARD GAMES section of the website.
- 04/01/03 - Original game Adventure Solitaire for PALM OS released.
- 02/18/03 - Fixed a bug in Creating a hero which stopped some people from getting a second free hero, and let them enter a name, but not choose a game.
- 01/07/03 - New system for tracking your best high scores on site games. Also, the name of the high scoring hero is saved, as well as the total number of times played.
- 12/31/02 - Now see your overall rating on the site, from your hero roster. Also see other people's, when you look at their userinfo.
- 12/19/02 - Redid hero creation so all games are shown in the list, even when getting a free hero.
- 12/19/02 - Redid Palm games pages.
- 12/19/02 - New Palm OS game: DUNES TRADER.
- 10/04/02 - Now on Recent players, you can see the last game the player took a turn in.
- 10/04/02 - Added the PERSONAL BEST tags to the news lines, when someone achieves a new personal best score.
- 09/05/02 - Original game Two-Inch Town for PALM OS released.
- 07/04/02 - Re-arranged the high-scores on the hero roster, to make them more easily readable.
- 06/09/02 - Site name changed to Arcane Journeys.
- 05/10/02 - Top players listing added, which ranks players by most champions, credits or number of current heroes.
- 01/26/02 - Added Longevity Bell. Buildable by players, it allows an acount to remain open for up to one year of inactivity and lets a hero store up to a maximum of 300 turns.
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