release/2.9.0

ballsdex: version bump

1.3.0

Minor version bump with the following changes:

• Added sorting options to /balls list:
  • alphabetic
  • catch date
  • rarity
  • special (cards with a special background)
  • duplicates
• Player deletion no longer cascades to traded items. This means that if a player is blacklisted, the countryballs exchanged will not be removed.
• Fix message in /balls list when used for a different user that doesn't own countryballs. (It used to show "You do not have any item...")

Misc

• Updated CONTRIBUTING.md
• Prevent uvloop from installing on Windows platforms
• Daily backup of the database

1.2.0

Minor version bump with the following changes:

• Add new /balls completion command to see your progress in the obtaining of all countryballs
• Add Terms of service and Privacy policy to /about
• Allow mentioning the bot for text commands
• Rework the special countryball spawning algorithm. Should be more consistent with the values given as input

Misc

• Bug fix when selecting countryballs with autocomplete, where users would force a different value than the ones given
• Do not create unnecessary player rows in various situations

1.1.1

Micro version bump with the following changes:

• Do not request the message_content privileged intent anymore.
  • Request the guild_messages intent instead, for spawning countryballs
• Request the emojis_and_stickers intent for countryballs emojis

1.1.0

Minor version bump with the following changes:

Countryballs

• Add a new system for events, allowing to override the background image.

  • This comes with a rarity percentage and a date range, not all spawned countryballs are special.
  • Code is similar to the shiny spawn, may be refactored at a later date (see #17)

• Modified the default background image

  • Credits are now generated for all countryball cards
  • Minor tweaks from Speedroide

Info

• Added credits to image authors in /about

Misc

• Admin panel: Use the BallsDex logo instead of the default Tabler one
• Docker: Allow starting the admin panel without starting the bot
  • Be careful with SQL migrations, only the bot will attempt running them

1.0.4

Micro version bump with the following changes:

• Decreased spawn rate range and increase average spawn chance (range modified from 40-140 to 65-100)
  • Average number of messages required before spawn is now 82.5 instead of 90
  • There will be less extremely high/low values

1.0.3

Micro version bump modifying the spawning algorithm:

• No longer ignores the messages sent from the cooldown manager initiator for the first 10 seconds
• Only increase the cooldown manager once per 3 seconds, other messages sent in that period are ignored
• Need at least 2 minutes from the moment the manager was initiated before spawning a ball
• Improve debug logging and code clarity
• Strip countryball name field input before comparing. Fixes people not catching a ball when putting a space afterwards.

1.0.2

Micro version bump with the following addition:

• Added a global user blacklist

1.0.1

Micro version bump with the following fixes:

• Number of messages required for spawning a ball was decreased from 60-180 to 40-140
• Shiny rate was decreased from 1/512 to 1/2048

1.0.0

First release of the BallsDex Discord bot!