Tonight I am pleased to release version 1.30 of jScompass.  Version 1.30 expands the ad platform that already exists in all usable versions of the compass to support image ads, which are a welcome addition.  It also fixes some bugs and adds support for the /vdecor command (“View Decor”), which is available today in the new UI client.

Advertising was activated less then 24 hours ago and to my suprise everything worked flawlessly.  I have to say that it looks like I’m getting better at this, lol.  I want to thank everyone involved in developing and testing the ad support, and especially to my pilot advertisers, who have taken a chance on something unproven.  I’m quite confident that a little experience will prove the ads are worth the price to advertisers, and are beneficial to users of the compass as well.  I have tried to ensure they are as unobtrusive as possible.  Thanks to all of you viewing the ads, and also to those of you upgrading to the ad-free version, as you’re helping to pay the bills that it takes to run jScompass.

I wish everyone in the United States the best Thanksgiving!

VERSION 1.30 RELEASE NOTES:

• Added /drama command to open TheresDrama.com, a great new site brought to you by joeydantonio.  I highly recommend you check it out!
• Fixed problem with vemote "next" button not properly displaying the following vemote for a few seconds (even though you can hear it).
• Added ~tver diagnostic command, which only operates when /local is enabled (Ctrl-Shift-L).
• Fixed some small ad manager bugs.
• Changed /tiki cove teleport to numerical doid.
• Fixed autopilot "hoverpack" transport mode.
• Changed some aspects of the teleport rate-limit.
• Restored guiCommand for forcefield. Very happy about this one.
• Added support for an image in msgbox windows, with configurable size and position. This enables image-based ads.
• Added support for clicking the video during advertisement playing, which will trigger a selected action button.
• Added version checking to ad server script to return only ads a compass is capable of displaying.
• Added ad by ad priority to the requestAd server function. This was was previously only a simple random result.
• Changed code that added the ThereTimes URL to instead remove it. Unfortunately danielboy11, the author of this vecollection, is no longer on There and has removed his website ThereTimes.com. The vemotes making up his collection will now be hosted on jScompass servers. Collections will never be added again to the base compass except under the most reliable conditions.
• Added version return to /socket ping.
• Added additional reliability to handle unexpected socket disconnects. More work needs to be done on this, but this should take care of 95% of the problems out there (which was already a very uncommon issue).
• Added /vdecor,decor command to View Decor.
• Ads are forced enabled in this release.  Please let me know if there’s anything not working correctly.
• A few ad manager bugs have been fixed.
• Adding the ThereTimes collection no longer done since the site is going offine :(
• A few other changes.
• Image ads supported in msgbox.  Server side code to deliver image ads only to capable versions still needs to be completed.