Update July 1 0700 GMT: You can now read the special match report as written by Coffee Ninja.

Hello folks. Today we have released a new build of the web site, which encompasses fixes relating to the battleground amongst other small things. We are also getting ready to introduce our Supporter functionality (if you look at your account page, you'll notice a few more buttons).

Details about the upcoming battle were post in a thread previously, but just to reiterate, it shall start tomorrow (Monday 30 June). We will be opening the doors later today so people can see the map and start planning. A lot of new players have joined us since the last battle, so they will have time to familiarise themselves with how it works - don't hesitate to post in the forums if you get stuck.

As mentioned in the previous news posting, the FBG team will be playing this battle. Don't expect us to do well, but we shall be there to help those who get stuck, via the in-game chat functionality (which has returned for the veterans!).

On a more technical note, if you are a Firefox user and have not yet upgraded to version 3.0 (i.e. still use Firefox 2) we strongly urge you to do so since the battleground performance is much better under this new version. The battleground has also been tweaked to work with Opera 9.5, however, there is a problem with scrolling that makes the menu appear when you scroll with the right mouse button. Hopefully, we can talk with Opera about getting a solution to this in the future.

Here follows a change log of what's different since the last build:

- added individual position counter to profile and clan charts (so you can see where you are without referring to the positions tab on profile; new for clans)
- added post count to profile on forums
- Battleground: cleaned up some mark-up
- Battleground: removed slow chat iframe, replaced with faster pop-up window
- Battleground: fixed rendering problems with labels being clipped on the map
- Battleground: fixed bug with user not being joined to chat channel on game load
- Clan: fixed validation on clan create
- ACP: fixed null reference with no profile
- ACP: removed "None" option for admin plugin
- fixed TimeSpanToString showing 'Never' when it should say 'Recently'
- fixed resending confirmation e-mail
- fixed tiny bug with borders and Firefox 3
- fixed rare crash with viewstate compression
- added GeoIP support to determine country of residence
- updated countries to latest ISO standards

Viel Glück in Deutschland! Buena suerte a España!
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