Fleet Actions are one of the most exciting times of year, and the Engineering Office always tries to sprinkle a little something in right before they kick off. This year, with the launch of the Bravo Fleet Management System v3.9 (which is now live), it’s a brand new Notification Center that tracks all notifications you’ve been sent from directly within BFMS. This means that as you’re writing away during the Fleet Action, you’re guaranteed to see every kind comment left on your stories, and once the Fleet Action ends, you’re sure to not miss any of those exciting notifications about all the shinies that follow.
While this release marks a big step forward for the usability of BFMS, it’s also only the first step as we work to modernize how you are notified about what’s happening on BFMS. In the future, we intend to introduce customizability in how and where you receive notifications, supporting configuration options for BFMS, email and Discord, as well as to introduce additional messaging and social features.
Speaking of shinies, BFMS v3.9 also brings something new for our big earners to spend their hard-earned prestige on. For those with nine or more non-affiliate commands, a new Flotilla command unit type has been introduced that is capable of holding Squadrons and Divisions, expanding the surface area for how one organizes their commands.
Beyond these headlining items, we’ve also made a few targeted updates in this release to competitions and other areas of BFMS, and rumor has it that Bolty might also be tracking some pesky inter-dimensional, time traveling tribbles…
Patch Notes
Notifications
- A new notification center has been implemented, including the backend data model and a frontend panel that shows all received notifications and highlights unread notifications.
- Award and promotion notifications have been migrated into the new notifications center.
- Story notifications have been migrated into the new notifications center.
- Comment notifications have been migrated into the new notification center.
- Gaming activity notifications have been migrated into the new notification center.
- RPG and sandbox notifications have been migrated into the new notifications center.
- All staff email notifications have been migrated into the new notification center.
Commands
- Flotilla has been introduced as a new third-tier command unit that unlocks when a member reaches nine non-affiliate commands.
- Member dossier, command unit and command displays have been updated to support three tiers of command units.
- A bug has been resolved with the registry page when filtering on commands by status.
- A bug with asset quality and free California class ships was resolved.
Competitions & Events
- The event scoring rubric has been updated for the upcoming fleet action.
- A new “Bolty Game” competition type has been introduced.
- The “BFMS Character” competition type now has added protection when a submission is attempted without attaching a character.
- A poster option has been added for fleet events.
- An issue has been resolved that would sometimes lead to a member’s display name not being shown on competition pages.
Bolty
- Bolty has begun tracking inter-dimensional, time traveling tribbles and will give you the option to track them down.
- A bug has been resolved related to Discord auto-authentication triggered from BFMS.
Other Updates
- Search filtering options have been added to the logistics ledger.
- Gaming activity is now shown as part of the gaming ribbon reason.
- The task force staff members page has been updated to sort by member ID.
- The activity tracker has been updated to only credit a competition organizer after the competition grading is complete.
- An issue with promotion tracker progress for Starbase Bravo has been resolved.
- Transferring a member with no primary character no longer throws an error.
