New Achievement:
Veteran - Play 500 Games

Unlocking this achievement also unlocks access to the Werewolf Veterans group - a group to play with only experienced Werewolf players. Check your stats page to see if you have it - there's a link in the Achievement denoscription for you ;)

We had a minor issue an hour ago which caused the bots message queues to fill up, and it took them awhile to catch back up. All bots are online and running normally now.

@werewolfIIbot is currently experiencing some bugs with the telegram bot API. We are working closely with Telegram on this (beta testing new API features - appears one has a bug :P )

For now, use @werewolfbot while we get this cleared up

I made a quick and simple page where you can check the status of the bots at any time:
http://www.tgwerewolf.com/Home/Status

All bots are back to normal. I just patched the code for both Control and Node, which dropped CPU usage massively, so we shouldn't have any more lag.

If you ping the bot, it will show CPU usage is 0% -
That's because I disabled CPU usage checking, as, ironically, checking the CPU was the part of the code using the MOST CPU......

"computers"

Ok, just did some more patches to lower the CPU usage even further. At this point we should be able to handle tomorrow's games without a problem

Node Version 3.0.6081.171**
Another attempt to fix the random crashing of the nodes.

Now that the main part of the bot is running smooth (yay), no crash / no lag, I'll be focusing on fixing the nodes

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Donations are always welcomed, and help support the developer (and make him want to keep coding more features and add new roles)

@werewolfbutlerbot has received some updates.

First notable update (as requested) is that you can now have welcome messages containing gifs. Note: This feature does not work in normal groups due to limitations on Telegrams side

The second one is that the bot is no longer affected by the case the command is in (commands sent in caps and anything in between works now as well). Note that /extra commands are still case sensitive.

Gif Welcome Usage:
Reply to a gif when you are setting your welcome message and the bot will send the gif with the welcome message.

PS: Werewolf Enforcers link has moved to https://github.com/dllz/EnforcerLua

Another @werewolfbutlerbot update. Some of you will start seeing broken markdown on the bot.

This is because the message contains a odd number of _ (underscores). Telegram uses underscores to indicate an italic markdown but if a name, username etc contains an underscore it breaks the markdown as telegram is expecting you to mean italics when you are just sending a name.

To solve this issue the bot will automatically disable markdown if there is an odd number of underscores.

Hi Guys sorry about that. The bots are working smoothly again.

Node version 3.0.6085.217*

Fixed Obsessed achievement message to veterans
Oh Shi- achievement can only be earned on the first -night- (not day or lynch)
Shuffle players list so that wolf / sk won't be the last player in the last

Obsessed achievement has been removed from all those who got it due to the bug.

Hi guys. Telegram is experiencing some issues with the Bot API. All 4 bots will be back asap.

Can all the group admins please remove @werewolfbot and @werewolfiibot until further notice so that when we come back online your users dont get banned for spam and you can get playing sooner.

Telegram is currently experiencing a DDOS attack on the bot api. Please help us by removing @werewolfbot and @werewolfiibot until further notice.

@werewolfdev

Thanks for everyone cooperation. All the bots are online again.

Hi Everyone. As some of you may of noticed enforcer is experiancing some issues with the api right now. We are working on it.

The problem appears to be solved. Sorry about that.

Hey everyone. If you find a bug or want a feature added to @werewolfbutlerbot please log it here: https://github.com/dllz/EnforcerLua/issues

Hey everyone - at this point we've hit over 2M games, and reached over 100K groups. We decided to celebrate with a whole new web site and a limited run of some clothing! For the next two weeks, you'll have a chance to get a limited edition werewolf tshirt, hoodie, tank top, tote bag, whatever! You can get yours here: https://teespring.com/tgwerewolf

Full store is available here: https://teespring.com/stores/werewolf-for-telegram

If you are ordering internationally, we highly recommend you get together with friends / groups and order together - shipping rates will be much cheaper that way. Again, this is only available for the next two weeks.

In the meantime, be sure to stop by the new website :)
http://www.tgwerewolf.com

the /getstatus command is now fully automated. The bots will report their current status on their own (without an admin having to update it).

Codes:
Normal - Everything is good :)
Recovering - It's receiving, but the queue is backed up, so it's processing 100+ messages at a time
Error - The bot was unable to getUpdates from Telegram
NotReceiving - It's getting updates fine, but the updates are empty :( (it's not receiving the updates for some reason)