Titan Development Log

Activated server-side support for battlefield-owned dynamic NPCs, including matching-battlefield visibility, unique callback identities and cleanup when their owner ends. This is infrastructure only: no new battlefield Trust placements, recruitment adapter or dialogue is enabled by this release.

The intended release is installed and player logins are open.

The two-client pilot passing requirement was explicitly waived. The core patch is active; the full battlefield Trust network is not yet released.

Audited all 267 generated Valor-book Trust placements and rewrote their 1,068 dialogue lines. There were no exact duplicate strings, but repeated generic sentence patterns needed more character and local context. Greetings now address concrete zone details while preserving distinct character voices.

Every placement has greeting, acceptance, decline and full-party dialogue. All revised strings are distinct and at most 119 UTF-8 bytes, below the 140-byte limit. Coordinates, facing, models, Trust assignments and recruitment behavior are unchanged; all 196 books remain covered.

The Lua update is published; no server restart was performed.

The final eight book locations now each have one physical Trust placement. All 196 Fields of Valor and Grounds of Valor books are covered, with zero skipped books. Every previously accepted placement is preserved.

Individual floor-route checks resolved the remaining sites. The narrow Den of Rancor location uses a connected, bent approach and a position 5.7 yalms from the book; Outer Horutoto uses a nearby walkable interaction area. NPC, door, guide and zone-line clearances remain checked.

The Lua update is uploaded; activation still requires a map-server restart. No client assets or server binaries changed.

The second placement pass resolves 113 of the 121 previously manual Fields of Valor and Grounds of Valor books, adding 158 physical Trust NPCs. Automatic coverage now reaches 188 of 196 books (95.92%); eight uncertain locations remain manual.

All 75 previously accepted books and 115 existing NPC placements are unchanged. New positions use connected walkable floor polygons, searches up to six yalms, and conservative clearance from walls, doors, guides, other NPCs and zone lines.

The Lua update is uploaded, but activation still requires a map-server restart. No client assets, launcher files or server binaries were changed.

Launcher 1.5.16 replaces oversized character-card spacing with a compact portrait and identity header plus Jobs, Crafts and Missions tabs. Jobs use the same pixel sprites as the website; crafting levels, nation rank and expansion mission progress are read from character data.

An authenticated owner-only profile route allows signed-in players to view their own characters, including characters hidden from public listings. Public visibility is unchanged, cross-account requests are denied, and unavailable progress is not displayed as zero. The selected card tab survives refreshes.

No game-server restart or game asset changes are included.

Launcher 1.5.15 refines navigation, character cards, buttons and client status using Titan website colors and typography. Gold progress is shown only during client checks, and Account and Gamepad checkbox repaint artifacts are fixed.

The game installation is locked to C:\Games\TitanXI, with the folder picker removed. At startup, the launcher sizes itself for the current monitor: 1080p at 1x, 1440p at 1.5x and 4K at 2x, capped to fit the available desktop. Character data arriving after sign-in scales with the window.

The local visual review was approved. Automatic resizing after moving between monitors is not included; broader Windows DPI combinations remain unverified. Existing launchers receive the release through their normal update check.

Launcher 1.5.14 now clears leftover Titan xiloader processes when Play is clicked, before checking client files and starting the game. Cleanup targets the selected Titan installation in the current Windows session and waits for each terminated loader to exit.

Active game windows, including hidden or minimized windows, are preserved. Loaders younger than 90 seconds are given time to start. Windows permission failures show a retry message rather than silently continuing.

New-character starter item support now adds one Anniversary Ring during character creation, after the normal starting gear and maps are applied. The grant checks for an existing ring first so the Rare item is not duplicated.

Existing characters Luna and Servo were seeded with fully charged Anniversary Rings in the database. The live rows were backed up; the new-character module becomes active after the next approved xi_map restart.