08/18/03 Cursed Storage
- You can now store cursed items in your storage cache.
08/17/03 Hulburg/TTF
- These zones have been removed, though the eq that loads from them will NOT
disappear. These zones have been removed because we no longer wish to host
the work of their maker, for many reasons. This is sad, but unavoidable.
08/17/03 The end is near!
- Please see the news entry below. Consider this a warning that implementation
of the item stat readjustments is imminent! We'll probably move in a large
block all at once, and then make minor adjustments as needed. Just giving ya'll
a heads up so you won't be shocked or amazed at the wonder you discover in the
coming days!
08/16/03 Auction and Stuff
- New fully automated auction system - type "help auction" for more details.
For now, the auction system is only available within the Auction Hall in
BG, but it will be expanded to many more areas very soon.
- Undead pets no longer need to breath in smoke sectors.
- Fixed up the uber-spam on collect
- You can now "togpet" to toggle ONLY your pet followers.
- Dragging should deduct movement properly now.
- Changed the spell-out message for Protect Undead.
- Fixed up a whole bunch of procs, mostly cosmetic things.
- shimmering blade of light proc fixed to a working state.
- Aralesh proc bug fixed.
- Phantom steeds, treants, and mephits will no longer leave corpses.
- Fixed a bunch of typos in the code.
07/22/03 Bugs
- Tracked down and fixed a nasty bug.
07/21/03 ACC for Alts and Helpfile Updates
- You can now access your guilded char's ACC with an alternate char via
the "assoc chat" command. Syntax is: "assoc chat "
where the name and password are that of your guilded character. This
will show your alt on the member list and allow access to your ACC until
you log the alt off.
- Huge helpfile update, including all of the new spells and tons of other
changes. As always, mmail Shar if you find any errors or omissions.
07/15/03 Areas Update:
- Just letting you all know that there are significant changes in the works
within the areas sphere. Consider this a teaser/head's up/warning. =]
Specifically we've decided to try to balance every piece of equipment in the
game. How, you ask, can we do such a thing? Well, thanks to Dugmaren, we
now have an extensive point system that takes into account the item stats,
the zone difficulty, the quest/fight difficulty, and compares the item to
all similar items. Needless to say it's a very complicated process, but
hopefully you'll all find it very fair. Some items will be downgraded, but
many will be upgraded significantly, breathing new life into zones that are
currently ignored due to a perceived lack of appropriate risk/benefit ratio.
I'll post more here when changes start coming in, zone by zone, probably
within the month. Cheers!
07/12/03 A Fistful of Code
- New Cleric Spell: Divine Purification, 9th Circle. Cleanses the target
of paralyzation, poison, and blindness.
- New Illusionist Spell: Sun Shadow, 8th Circle. Blocks the sun in the
room it is cast in, allowing races with ultravision to see normally.
- New Elementalist Spells: Earth Fog, 8th Circle. Summons a fog of
dust which blocks out sunlight. This spell can be cast 4 different
ways - on the caster, on the room, in a specified direction, or in
a burst which affects the current room and all adjacent rooms briefly.
Note that when cast on self, the fog will follow you from room to room.
Examples: c 'earth fog' me, c 'earth fog' room, c 'earth fog' north,
c 'earth fog' burst. Many thanks to Shar for her invaluable help
with this spell, and the helpfile is coming soon!
- New Elementalist Spell: Fire Fog, 8th Circle. Similar to the above
spell and uses the same targetting options. This spell lights up
the room(s) as opposed to blocking the sunlight.
- Liches now get mage flame at 1st circle.
- Liches are no longer affected by smoke plane or underwater penalties.
- Liches are now immune to lycanthropy.
- Scarlet Outline now blocks hiding, like faerie fire.
- Remove Poison spell now works every time on regular poison.
- Fixed Earthmother Staff proc.
07/12/03 Changed Stuff
- Changed a bunch of areas stuff...some you'll notice and say "huzzah",
some you'll notice and say "crap that hurt", some you won't notice at
all.
06/26/03 Bards and Halflings (LFG)
- New Bard song - song of recovery, helps speed up ress time. This is
a quest song, enjoy.
- New halfling innate 'hamstring', can only be used to initiate combat,
a la bodyslam.
- New LFG (Looking For Group) toggle! You can also "who lfg".
06/16/03 Mounted Disarm
- You can disarm while mounted again.
06/15/03 Melee Love
- Headbutt completely rewritten - much has changed, but the highlights
include: no more KOs, chance to stun, relaxed size limits, and more.
Try it out!
- Hitall revamped - there is now a flat amount of lag no matter how many
mobs you attempt to hit. Hitall usage itself is limited now instead,
similar to bash reorientation.
- Switch also tweaked - you can now switch with no skill check if you are
NOT tanking, and the chances to switch are now a little more reasonable
when you ARE tanking.
- While the BBS is down, please feel free to mmail Shevarash with feedback
on these changes.
06/12/03 Elemental Punches
- Song of the elements won't give those annoying hit messages anymore.
06/12/03 BloodStone Reopened
- The ruins of Bloodstone are now accessible, and all BS quests should be
doable once again.
- Adjusted a few things in Seelie Court.
06/10/03 Faerie Power
- New spankariffic zone added by Mielikki, see the credits for more details!
06/09/03 Sing me a song o/~
- Song of the Elements is in.
06/08/03 Mage Wackiness
- Mage mobs have decided to be ca-ray-zee and do something different. Trying
it out to see how it works. Could change it back, could not. Input
appreciated.
06/06/03 Yet More Garrote Tweaks
- Can no longer disarm while garroting.
- Hometown mobs will not shout for help while being garroted.
06/03/03 Garrote Tweaks
- Garroting wires are now wielded instead of held, this fixes a few oddities.
06/01/03 *gasp*
- Garrote overhauled and fixed up. Many things were changed, but the
high points are: mobs will flip you far less often, wires will not break
as often (and hence cost most), you can apply poison to garroting wires,
and the damage is much improved. Try it out, and feel free to mmail
Shevarash with feedback.
05/31/03 Instrumental Recognition
- Identify gives information on instruments correctly,
The higher the better on quality and stutter ratings.
05/30/03 Bloodstone Caches
- The Bloodstone Inn has been moved to Viperstongue Outpost, all caches
are accessible there.
05/28/03 Another one bites the dust...
- You can no longer sing a verse every round. Umm... Nice one Yak!
05/25/03 Helpfile Update
- Huge helplfile update - be sure to thank Shar and mmail her if you find any
errors or omissions.
05/25/03 Bloodstone
- Bloodstone has been...destroyed as part of the ongoing quest..
Necros and Antipaladins have been moved to BG, Liches to Viperstongue.
05/25/03 Freeeeeeeeedom!
- We may have found the bug causing us to have to reboot alot.
(I'm sure you'll all love that).
05/23/03 New and exciting ways to make you hurt
- New zone added today thanks to Savras-the-Cruel. Expect the usual tricks
and be prepared to leave all your toys behind. More details available in
the credits.
05/22/03 Don't string me along!
- The instrument update finally happened. Some of them give various stats
now as well (that didn't before).
05/21/03 New Zone!
- A new road zone has been added to expand the gameplay in the Northlands. More
information available in the credits. Bring your mittens and earmuffs and enjoy.
05/20/03 Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
- Song of Renewal is now 11th level, and won't drain mana.
05/19/03 Compression Fixes
- Fixed up MCCP compression some more - more MCCP clients should be able to
connect with compression enabled now.
- Fixed up the hunger/thirst thing. heh.
05/19/03 A Muse is a terrible thing to waste!
- Song of Travel should work correctly again. Yikes.
05/19/03 You feel comfortably sated.
- Hunger and thirst temporarily disabled to save on bandwidth, enjoy!
- Be sure to read the MOTD for more information on bandwidth issues.
05/18/03 Compression, etc.
- Added a new form of compression (MCCP), to hopefully reduce our bandwidth
usage. While only zMUD 6.x supports this compression protocol, other
clients should notice no difference whatsoever. This is a live test of
this technology - there may be some problems at first, so please be patient.
- Re-added the code from 5/15/03.
05/18/03 Quality Assurance
- Bard song quality is now scaled to the cap for the particular song.
- Offensive Disruption is less likely to slow mobs from one bard,
more likely with two.
- Accompany should be easier to notch.
05/15/03 Fun Stuff
- Yggdrassil has taken on a life of it's own, have fun.
- Fixed some oddness with unkillable shopkeepers.
- New underwater effects added for embodied people..
- Added a smarter form of hunting mobs, look for these in a few zones.
- Fixed a bunch of minor things you probably won't notice.
- Fixed the doppleganger oddness in Pirate Isles.
05/15/03 Will you accompany me?
- Bards can now cast spells while singing. It won't affect songs at all.
- Accompany had its effects increased, including raising the caps on songs.
- Song caps raised some.
- Longer songs increase quality faster, and make it harder faster.
04/21/03 SCT's du Jour
- You can now un-pick lockable items which have been unlocked. Same command.
- Vital strike should now stop mobiles from casting when they fall to their
knees.
- You can now report your condition on acc with "assoc report".
- Remove/Disarm trap skills should be *much* easier to notch now.
04/15/03 This and That
- Added a few mob procs.
- Changed a few mob procs.
- Fixed a few crash bugs.
04/14/03 Zone Rewrite & Stuff
- A neglected zone got some buffing from Savras, including not just cosmetic
fixes, but also changed fights, objects, etc. The difficulty's also gone
up, so pay attention to the credits.
- Made some other changes that observant players will notice pretty quickly. =]
04/13/03 Mid-Level Loving
- Two new zonelettes by Shargaas, expect the usual tricks.
04/07/03 Stupid Coder Tricks du Jour
- Spiffed up scribing - you can now use ACC/OOC/NHC while scribing, you will
see your progress with more detail, and it has been sped up vastly overall.
- New spell: "corpse glamor" - makes a corpse draggable regardless of weight
or flying/levitate status via a powerful illusion. The effects wear off
after a reboot/crash. Illusionist/Necro/Lich 7th circle.
- Tweaked nightmare caster lag - there is now a bonus to save for half lag
depending on the level of the caster.
- A certain beastly mobile is now back in action. And he's not too happy.
04/03/03 Mob Bashing
- Mobiles can again lead off combat with bashing, though at a much reduced
rate. Feedbadk appreciated.
04/03/03 Stop and Smell the Roses
- Some trees and foliage gained something new. Yes, this is vague.
04/02/03 Yet More SCTs
- Overhauled displacement again - should no longer chip on silly stuff and
generally be a bit more effective.
- Fixed up massmorph, it will no longer vanish when players in a different
room move, but is also only castable when you are in the same as the group
leader.
- Even feign death gets some love - it will no longer have any affect unless
every opponent is fooled by the illusion, said opponents have a much higher
chance to be fooled, and the victim will no longer be set to sleeping. Try
it out, if you dare. :)
- PWB un-nerfed. Nuff said, for now.
- Fixed some crash bugs with the last batch of code.
04/01/03 April SCTs!
- Invoker feedback adjusted - be warned.
- The HIDE affect no longer functions on objects.
- The camoflage spell is now dispelled upon any kind of movement, regardless of sneak.
- Power Word Blind adjusted - mobs of a certain level will no longer be susceptible
to permenant blinding, but will instead be blinded for an extra duration. That
level is dependant on the caster's level and spec.
- You can now apply poison on wielded secondary weapons that are identical to the primary
weapon via the "apply 2. syntax.
- Updated the character creation helpfiles.
- Updated and adjusted the most recent weapon proc.
- Revamped a magely weapon proc.
- New command: "empty" empties the contents of one container into another, syntax
"empty
- Burning spells will now be removed from players upon exiting Acheron.
- Newbie elfmentalists will now properly load with their newbie items.
03/25/03 That Voodoo That You Do
- Added a new weapon proc. Have fun.
- Fixed up some oddities with the new cleric messages.
- HUGE Helpfile update, check them out and mmail Shar if you find any errors.
03/20/03 This and That
- Added a new mobile race - several mobs ingame are affected, have fun finding em.
- Fixed up some magely proc weapons.
- Spiffed up cleric spell messages.
- Fixed some crash bugs and other annoyances.
- Rot damage fixed, sorry about that.
02/26/03 Spell Tweaks
- Revamped phantasmal tendrils code, works alot smoother now.
- Split the Curse spell into two spells - 'curse' and 'curse item'. This should
avoid the targetting problems it had in the past.
- Fixed more crash bugs!
- Lots of helpfile updates for the new code, be sure to thank Shar.
02/26/03 A Hunting We Will Go...
- Mobs will be slightly smarter when picking a prey to hunt.
- Fixed some crash bugs.
02/25/03 Defensive Adjustments etc.
- Partial defensive blocks will only occur after all skills have been checked.
- Dodge can result in a partial block now as well - note that PC Rogues are
exempt from this, due to their special training.
- Raised the skill gain chance on all defensive skills.
- Blindness now has a negative affect on defensive skills.
- Adjusted displacement - it will no longer chip on defensive blocks.
- Increased summon totem skill gain chance.
- Summon Totem skill check is now modified by Spirit Specialization.
02/17/03 Fixes
- Fixed the buggy crit messages.
- Fixed up the new awareness.
02/16/03 Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
- Defensive Skills completely rewrittenm added general "defense" skill. Check
the Announcements Forum on the BBS for details. This is an extremely important
change - be sure to read up on it.
- Offensive Spell damage completely overhauled. All offensive spells have been
evaluated and converted to the new system. The majority of spells will do
roughly the same damage, outside of non-Invoker areas, which have been downgraded
by roughly 10-15%.
- Corpses will now automatically begin to decay after 45 days - no more permenant
landmarks.
- Corpses will now decay immediately in the event of the player deleting.
- Yuan-Ti racial stats adjusted upwards.
- Mobs will no longer load hurt - including elementals.
- NHC Level limit raised to 20.
- New casters characters now start with pre-scribed 1st Circle spells.
- Awareness is now a reflexive skill.
- Dire Raiders get Forage.
- Haste duration doubled.
- Displace maximum effect downgraded slightly, effective duration increased.
- New Illusionist Spell: Phantasmal Tendrils, 10th Circle Quest. Helpfile soon.
- Blur no longer works on immaterials.
- Blur maximum effect downgraded by 25%, and scaled differently.
- Jar the Soul no longer has a chance to stun.
- Spirit Wrack stun downgraded a tad.
- Fixed bug allowing Para'd mobs to be Aware.
- Can't be bashed by a prone mob while retrieving a disarmed weapon anymore.
02/12/03 Elementals
- Small change to elementals to fix something that got changed a while back but
then got bugged so it was unchanged. Most of you won't notice the difference.
Don't say I didn't warn you if you do, however.
01/28/03 Day of Rotting... Sort of
- Due to the pile up of corpses we have initiated some new code to clean the
stinky things out.
In a few weeks, new code will go in that will cause a more normal rot of really
old corpses. This will ONLY affect corpses that are more than 45 days old.
Corpses will slowly begin to decay in the normal fashion once they are this old.
You can still preserve a corpse as long as you like, but you'll have to work at
it to keep one around now. No more putting 100 hours on a corpse and it's
lifetime presed.
This is your only warning, if you've been holding on to that 45 day old corpse
looking for a res, get it now.
01/21/03 Breathe In, Breathe Out
- A type of dragons' breath got changed because it was lame before. Not telling
you which.
01/15/03 Bits and Pieces
- Slot machines will now take all coin types.
- Also improved jackpot saving routines.
- Added and changed some procs here and there - is that vague enough for ya? :)
01/13/03 Leading Bash
- Mobs leading into combat with bash temporarily removed. Don't get too used
to it.
01/10/03 Missing Masters
- Mobs will now properly switch off of pets when the owner is not in the room.
01/04/03 Customer Service
- Overhauled the 'buy' command - you can now specify a quantity of an
item to purchase, as well as a container to load it into.
Example: buy 20 ration - buy 20 rations.
buy 20 ration bag - buy 20 rations and put them in .
01/02/03 Mobs Learned Stuff!
- Mobs don't like it when you sunray in their room anymore trying to blind them.
- Certain mobs learned how to open doors while tracking. Enjoy.
12/24/02 Dire Riposting
- Dires actually get riposte at level 30 now. Oops.
12/19/02 Magik Slot Machines
- A breakthrough in Tinker technology has resulted in a slew of slot
machines scattered throughout the realms. If you find one, look at
it's label to learn how to play with the 'gamble' command. Note that
you can only bet and win Platinum for now, and these Tinkers are no
dummies, so don't expect an easy win. Have fun! :)
12/19/02 The SCTs Only Come Out At Night
- You can now send mass mudmails to your entire Assoc by using 'assoc'
as the recipient address.
- Elves under level 20 can now be ressed - but ONLY if their corpse is in
Leuthilspar.
12/13/02 Stupid Coder Trick du Jour
- You can now enter a MOTD for your guild via the 'assoc motd' command -
note that only Officers and above may use this command. You have 10 lines
to work with, and ANSI is available in the MOTD, so go nuts.
12/12/02 Sick Mo Fo!
- A new zone was added today, and I have no explanation for it...it's sick,
twisted, and just plain wrong...if you're brave enough (and studly enough),
slap on a dramamine patch and go nuts. Details can be found in the credits.
12/12/02 Quickening & Missile Shield
- Bard haste now gives bonus offhand attack to those who qualify.
- Magical arrows should work correctly with missile shield now.
12/10/02 The Song Remains the Same?
- Song of Protection now works as intended (changes each verse).
- Bard songs now improve in quality and become more difficult faster.
- Accompany can no longer allow a bard to play more than one song.
12/06/02 SCT Triple Play
- Prioritize now works while memorizing/praying.
- Who 'ingroup' will now show anonymous group members.
- You will now see the message when bashed with mirror image up.
- You can no longer cast camoflage in combat - that was not intended.
12/03/02 Help?
- Lots of updates to help files. Be sure to thank Shar. More still to come.
11/27/02 Consider Fix
- Consider to see which undead types you can animate should work now.
11/06/02 Minor T-t-t-t-Tweaks
- Fixed crazy stutter rate. Report oddness.
- Fixed loophole that allowed people without archery to fire certain bows.
10/19/02 Minor Annoying Change
- Multiple transparent changes made, but one will be noticeable by some: one of the
items from Ribcage is now secret which means if you had it before, you'll still have
it, but you'll have to search yourself to find it. See an admin for help if you're
confused. =]
10/11/02 SCT Double Play
- Corrected an oddity with spell stutter failure. You will now stutter less
overall, though the highest level characters with max skills will not likely
notice a difference.
- Necromancers can now use the consider command to see what kind of undead can
be raised from the corpse of a specific mob.
10/04/02 Player Storage + SCTs
- Added a new system for storing equipment that should hopefully make the
tedious use of storage characters obsolete. You may now store up to 250
pounds of equipment in any Inn for free. The equipment within is of course
saved between boots and thoroughly logged and backed up, just like Player
Files. Note that only the character who created the cache may access the
equipment within, *unless* you know that char's password. This is in
place to ease the moving of equipment between characters, but note that
you should NEVER give another player your password. A help file is coming
soon - for now, type 'storage create' in an inn to create your own storage
cache, aand type 'storage ?' for further instructions on how to use it.
And no, you cannot use it to transfer equipment from one inn to another.
- Fixed the ancient evil meditate bug.
- Fixed a major bug with mob trip - low levels will be worse now, and high
levels will be better.
- Major upgrade to the accompany skill - it will now be much more effective.
- Identify will now show where items can be worn.
10/03/02 Tree Huggers Rejoice
- Your brethren have discovered a new forest to protect and watch over.
Enjoy the new exp and try not to depopulate the forest too quickly. See credits
for more details.
09/29/02 Bards and Liches
- Significantly raised the effectiveness of many bard songs.
- Lowered mana-burn on bard songs.
- Liches have been reset to their racial hometowns. Humans will remain in BS.
- Lich pets can no longer heal undead their master - this was a bug.
09/18/02 ...and you can hide. For now.
- Previous hide change removed pending further review.
09/13/02 You Can Run....
- Tracking mobs will go after hidden players once again.
09/10/02 Wanted...?
- Justice guards learned a new trick.
09/08/02 SCT: The Legacy Continues
- Nature's Blessing will now override normal Bless.
- Disguise fixed! You should now appear to be the correct race when disguised.
- You now have an attribute-based chance to open a door while in combat.
- Feeblemind now has a fail message.
- Other minor stuff you won't notice.
09/06/02 Dire Raiders and SCTs
- Dire Raiders are now open.
- Dire Raider barkskin now equivalent to Ranger's.
- NEW Command added: "appoint" - appoints another player as the leader of your
group. Only useable if you are the group leader.
- Fixed a TON of typos and grammatical errors.
- Fixed another crash bug.
09/05/02 Icy Beholders
- Can't ice layer beholders anymore.
08/24/02 A Little Twist on Something Old
- The mobs in a zonelet just got a little upgrade. Have fun.
08/20/02 Facelift and Reinstitution
- An ancient zone with dreadful descriptions has been given a facelift thanks
to Shaundakul
- A zone with a busted quest file has been repaired and is FINALLY working
correctly (after a year or two without quests) thanks to Mielikki
08/18/02 Tame This
- Rangers' tamed mounts can't tank.
- Rangers can't tame high level mounts anymore.
08/17/02 Strafing Missiles
- Can't autofire and strafe at the same time anymore.
08/10/02 Thought I was finished?!?
- And another zone...this one a mid-level XP zone as requested. Check the
credits for details and enjoy!
08/05/02 Elfentalist
- Grey elves may now be Elementalists.
07/31/02 Hey, so I'm on a roll...
- Yet another zone added...this time it's another midlevel zone as requested.
See credits for details...if you normally spam your way around the mud, you
might wanna be careful or you'll end up smack dab in the middle of this one.
Enjoy! Oh, and try not to start too much trouble in this one...
07/30/02 Oh my god.
- There was a slight (catastrophic) bug in the totem reimb quest, which has
now been fixed. Once again, no more freebies.
07/29/02 Somebody Stop Me!
- A new midlevel zone has been added (ask and ye shall receive) in a place
that's been begging for an area for at least 10 years. Those of you high
levelers that want to go and tear it up, think again!
07/28/02 Vampiric Curse
- The quest was added to mainmud sometime within the past week...could've
been today, could've been last Saturday...I'm not telling!
07/27/02 When it rains it pours!
- Yep, yet *another* new zone and *another* new zone maker! See if you can
find THIS one! See credits for details, and enjoy!
- And there's more! Two of our retired zone writers have had zones
languishing on the testmud for nearly 2 years now. Thanks to their help,
we've been able to finish them up, and they're now up and running for your
enjoyment. The Moonshaes have undergone a serious facelift, a time shift,
and a thematic shift. Try not to get too confused. Supposedly none of the
existing items will go poof, but we'll see...such excitement! Oh, and as a
result of the facelift, some of your items have had their names and/or
descriptions changed.
07/26/02 Had enough of new zone stuff yet?
- Oh my, another oldie but goodie has gotten a facelift. Along with its
new look it comes with a few new friends and surprises. Enjoy!
07/25/02 And another couple of zones...
- Yep, that's right...a new road zone, a new town, and a new badass area
that'll leave you all picking up your characters with tweezers. Lotsa
luck! Details can be found in the credits. Enjoy!
07/24/02 Dire Raiders and a Bushel of Goodies
- Dire Raiders are now in, although you cannot roll them until the
playtesting is over, which will begin shortly. Until then, feel
free to check out the helpfiles.
- Modified bash lag noncombat reorientation.
- Major globe now shows up as bright red on glance/look.
- Afire/Athrow/Fire/Throw now take an argument of a friendly player to assist.
ex: 'afire shevarash'
- Missile weapon damage messages change - they now work similar to normal
melee messages. NOTE: The actual damage values have NOT been changed,
only the message you receive.
- Lowered stun times on a few spells.
- Entangle now works at a reduced effectiveness in non-nature rooms.
- Rock to Mud now does damage to earth elementals.
- Mud to rock now heals earth elementals.
- Non wilderness penalty for druid damage spells reduced.
- You can now blink yourself out of a room if you're alone.
- Life drain got some loving.
- Low level Necro pets have been touched up a bit.
- Beltyn's moved to 7th circle.
- Assoc testtitle can now be used to check a new title before assigning it.
07/23/02 Follow that Zone!
- A new zone was added today! Good luck finding it, and if you happen to
be the first, it might not be where you think it was...make sense? See
the credits for details and enjoy!
07/21/02 Procs Ahoy
- Orb of annihilation should work for Psis once again.
- One of the ranger blades will proc offhand now, enjoy.
- Fixed a crash bug or two.
07/15/02 No way!
- Ancestral Shield quest is in! Will wonders never cease?
07/12/02 Proc ID
- Made some changed to the way proc items are identified, they should
reflect the correct stats now.
07/10/02 Avernus Changes
- Death squads won't repop
- Bug with bleeding after death should be fixed.
07/07/02 OMG! Flee!
- Fixed up flee a little more, fail rate should be more reasonable now.
07/05/02 More Zone Fun
- An extension has been added to a particularly nasty zone for you guys to
have fun and die in. It's geared for level 50's only. Don't say that you m
haven't been warned.
- Other changes in the zone as well. Wasteland rooms are illuminated, some
rares added, the wasteland isn't such a... wasteland anymore, and other
tweaks.
07/05/02 Flee/Missile Fixes, etc.
- Fixed up the new flee, try it out.
- You can now see yourself
regardless of di/invis status.
- Put an end to increased fire rate tricks with archery.
- Fixed fireshield duration on fire embodiment.
- Bards can't cast during song composure recovery now.
07/03/02 Blocking Code and Fixes
- Changing target of a song should actually work now.
- Bards and Battlechanters both get offense skill at 15th level.
- Flee code overhauled, accounts for blocking code now.
07/01/02 Archery, Bards, and an SCT
- Archery damage has been overhauled, give it a shot (no pun intended),
and let us know your impressions on the BBS.
- Bard/Battlechanter Fixes:
- Targeting for offensive bard songs has changed:
Type sing 'song of x' room to sing one on the room, type sing
'song of x' (no argument) to sing on your currently engaged foe,
or type sing 'song of x' target to pick a particular enemy.
- Sing and Play no longer need the 'song of' prefix, it is optional.
- Stopping your song no longer lags you.
- You can now switch the target of your song, with a slight delay.
- Fixed a bug preventing playing while engaged.
- Can't backstab or circle while recovering from song.
- Added spellcast illusion.
- Remove Curse will now work on items in the targets inventory that *can not*
be used (worn, wielded, held) by the target.
- Cursed items can now be picked up regardless of weight, due to their
magical 'magnetic' properties.
- Grey Elves have had their intelligence restored - expect improved mem times.
06/30/02 New Uber Zone!!
- A new zone has been added today that is by far the most advanced in terms
of new item and mob code, and nearly every coder we have on the mud has
worked on it to get it running like a machine. As such, it is intended to
possibly be the most challenging zone ever added. Adventure at your own
risk! Details can be found in the credits.
06/25/02 Bard Fixes, etc.
- Battlechanters can cast firestorm regardless of align.
- Fixed a bunch of oddities and bugs with accompany.
- Bard/Chanter mana will show up on group now.
- Song of Miscast Magic will now default to the mob you are fighting.
- Bunch of other minor bard fixes.
- Thunderblast stun duration downed a tad.
- Rangers get spellcast enchantment now.
- Fixed holy shroud/dark wrath.
06/19/02 Beethoven 2.0
- Completely revamped the Bard and Battlechanter classes. They are for
all intents and purposes NEW classes now. Please see the helpfiles
for more information, and check out the Announcements Forum on the BBS.
- Fixed the insane wraithform dodging problem.
- Scrolls will now check the item restrictions for usage when recited.
- Psi mobs will no longer use their skills while stunned.
- Increased duration of holy shroud and dark wrath.
- Remove Poison is now castable in combat.
- Charge stun duration upped just enough to stop the target from casting.
- Psionic skills will no longer auto-engage the user.
- General object proc accounting - fixed bugs and whatnot.
- Fixed several crash bugs.
06/18/02 Clusterfunk
- Um, due to a slight mishap, the previous fix to hitroll didn't take.
It is now fixed and restored to normal - really really really this
time. I promise. Really. Trust me.
06/16/02 Hitroll
- Fixed hitroll again - really this time. Should be back to normal.
06/12/02 Dodgeball
- Adjusted NPC dodging downwards..was too powerful.
- Player hitroll got knocked down accidently. Fixed as well.
06/10/02 Lions and Tigers and SCTs, oh my!
- Fixed a long standing bug with mobile quick chant and implemented a new
system for it. The good news: low level mobs will no longer be insanely
good at quick chant. The bad news: high level mobs will be a little
better at it. Consider yourself warned.
- Fixed another bug with mobile defensive skills. Mobs will now be a bit
better at those too.
- Removed Psionic shift target consent.
- Elementalist quick chant raised to 99.
06/04/02 This and That
- Fixed the irritating extra space on the assoc cmd, for guild leaders.
- Fixed several bugs - including a couple crashing critters..
05/28/02 Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
- A boatload of changes have been made to items, mostly all upgrades
- A quest that's been hinted at for ages but has never been accessible is now
open and working. Enjoy!
- We have a new method of distributing mobs randomly throughout the mud, and
we are slowly going to be moving quest mobs, rareloads, invasion mobs, and
the like into the system. Assuming it all goes well, you will no longer
be able to run and check your 5 regular rareload sites with each reboot. >:)
05/23/02 New Zone!
- Feeling bored? Feeling secure in your invincibility? Take a hike to the
new Tower and feel the pain. See the credits for details and welcome a
brand spankin' new areas spud to the crop! Enjoy.
05/18/02 Couple Things
- Something was changed, somewhere. Enjoy.
- Some significant bugfixes to missile code, including the uber-damage bug.
- Fixed a bunch of crash bugs.
05/16/02 Poisoned Images
- Mirror image no longer blocks poison. Enjoy.
05/10/02 Old Zone Love
- A very old zone that's been long neglected has been given some love in the
guise of a cosmetic makeover, a bit of beefing of mobs, a wee surprise, and
a spanky new prize. Have fun!
05/10/02 Virtuoso Fixes
- Fixed up virtuoso some:
- It'll actually notch now.
- It was harder to use the better you got at it. Fixed.
- If you ain't got it, you can't use it.
05/08/02 Mmail update
- Added a mreply command. It performs a quoted reply to a specified message
number.
- Fixed the message date stamp - altherog
- Anti-paladins get minor paralysis at 7th circle. They were always supposed
to have it, but somehow it got overlooked. For a year.
05/01/02 Errata!
- Added new who switch - 'who ingroup'. Self explanatory I hope. :)
- Displace will now show a room message on casting.
04/29/02 Floating Away in Astral
- Need fly once again to navigate the astral plane. Not sure when or why it
was changed. Enjoy.
04/26/02 Item changes
- A bunch of items have undergone stat changes, most for the better, a few
for the worse. One is now secret, so if you already have it, you might
not be able to see it anymore...try searching it out.
04/22/02 Enchanters
- May want to check out help skill_enchanter.
- Stone/Dscale exp upgraded a tad.
04/18/02 "Ranjurs r Smarrt" and Titles
- Rangers > 20 who want can petition to have their intelligence and wisdom
switched as a result of the recent change. This will go on until May 1st.
Spellbooks will not be reimbursed, consider them a souvenir of times gone
by. Impress the grandkids with them a year later.
- Guild leaders: You will be contacted within the next few days by Erevan
or myself (Kiaransalee) regarding some of your members' titles. You will
have an opportunity at that time to defend some of the more.. questionable
titles. Freshen up on "help title" beforehand. If we don't talk to you,
assume you're ok.
Members: If you think your title is on the list, better explain it to
your leader beforehand.
04/11/02 Headbutt, Rangers, Corpses and Headbutting Ranger Corpses
- Rangers pray for spells instead of memorizing them.
- The extra time put on a pre-looted, newly made corpse has dropped from 48
hrs to 18. Why? Because 48 was way way way WAY too long.
- 99 headbutt should work properly now.
04/09/02 More Squishes
- Switch success rate for mobs should be more reasonable.
- Buffet stun shouldn't be stacking any more.
- Hyssk elementalist guild should be working.
04/09/02 Squid Squishes
- Canibalize now has more favorable conversion ratios. They start off at
approximately 3v:1p and at high levels can reach 1v:2p.
- Ultrablast received a slight damage boost.
- Psionic resistance has been modified. It is now based on a formula which
takes into account, among other things, the intelligence of the victim and
the power of the psionicist (what? we found a new use for power?). If
the resist is successful, the damage is modified accordingly. This same
formula has been applied to the mindblast stun chance, which, by the way,
is now fixed (i.e. the stun will stick). In related news...
- Squid power notches have been adjusted. Go grab some max_power gear.
04/07/02 What a Drag
- The old version of drag should be back in. We'll evaluate the new version
and may implement some of it.
04/03/02 Title Clarification and Change
- Only association leaders and lieutenants can make changes to titles (their
own and others). This makes these people ultimately responsible for any
poor choices.
- Help title has been updated with clarification on what is and isn't allowed
for titles. Associations have two weeks (4/17) to get their people in
compliance. If you need your title stripped to change or add a
description, petition and one of the admins will remove it for you.
04/02/02 More Fixes!
- You can't stack drags anymore. However, "drag all.pcorpse" and "drag
all.corpse" are functional. We'll see how well it works for a while before
reassessing its value. Comments welcome.
- Can't stack nature's blessing and bless anymore.
- Killed another crash bug.
- Shouldn't have "Undefined" showing up on score anymore.
- Can't use shapechange to run past blocking mobs anymore, sorry droods.
04/01/02 Fixes Fixes Fixes
- Fixed assist on proc issues on various weapons.
- Added proc to a thief item. I wonder which one?
- Fixed some necro issues.
- Modded an anti-weapon to work a little differently.
- Fixed healing on certain weapons destroying max hps.
- Added new ranger spell, Natures Blessing. Enjoy! (See HELP NATURES BLESING)
- Added exp gain to dragonscales (as like stoneskin).
- Mounts should heal when rented.
- Added a new Proced bow to the game. It's on a Who will find it first?
- Added 4 new types of arrows to the game of varying power levels. ;)
- Various fixes to Archery.
03/31/02 Archery
- Missile shield was majorly changed. Only +1 (hitroll) arrows can penetrate
the shield, normal arrows will simply bounce off. Magic (+1 or better)
arrows will all penetrate the shield, but be slowed (thus reducing their
damage) based on the +hitroll modifier of the Arrow (not the archer/bow).
The scale:
+1 Arrow = 75% slowed.
+2 Arrow = 50% slowed.
+3 Arrow = 25% slowed.
+4 Arrow = 5% slowed.
+5 Arrow = not slowed.
Additionally, +3 or better arrows have a small % chance of breaking the
missile shield, causing it to fall. Chance gets better the higher +hitroll
of the Arrow.
- Dragons are affected by arrows again, though it requires a +2 or better
arrow to hit them, lesser arrows bounce off.
03/28/02 Reminder
- In two weeks, on 4/11, all corpses will be destroyed. This is regardless of
if they're one month, one week, one day, one hour, or one minute old. Plan
your actions before and on that day accordingly.
03/21/02 Spell Fixes
- Disintegrate can't nuke equipment in Acheron anymore.
- Small bug in poison that was making it non-functional. Fixed.
03/18/02 New Zone
- We have a new zone from a new areamaker. I'll let you find it on your
own... details can be found in 'credits'. Enjoy!
03/14/02 Prestige from Mobs
- You can now obtain prestige points from defeating certain very high level
and high visibility mobs. Similarly, you can lose prestige points by
killing other mobs. I've almost certainly left some mobs out, but this
should be a nice start.
03/11/02 Day Of Rotting
- In one Month (April 11th) at midnight, all player corpses will dissolve.
This will be regardless of preserve time on them, whether or not they have
equipment in them, or how long they've been around. Any equipment in
corpses will be lost.
This means, you have one month to get any corpses you have out now. Get
them ressed, get them looted.
03/10/02 Quest Additions
- Major changes to Tiamat and the Tiamat-zonelet behind Avernus, balancing
it against Sojourn 3 mob/player power standards. I and a few others agree
that Tiamat is definitely doable now, but only by the truely elite kind
of players and it will still take 4-8 real hours. You can still very
easily fail, but the ridiculous elements of her proc (like insta kill
on a 1 in 8 chance) have been removed, other aspects downgraded or tuned.
03/06/02 A Whole Slew of Code Changes
- Some PCs were inadvertently being set to the wrong hometown. Oops. =) It
shouldn't happen anymore, but let us know if it does.
- Sunray messaging problem should be fixed.
- Some necro balancing tweaks.
- You can no longer summon a target you can't see.
- There is now a way for shamans to receive a reimbursement totem without
any god intervention. No more freebies! =)
- You can now use the score, attributes, and reply commands while scribing.
- A bunch of crash bugs fixed, but I'm sure we created some new ones.
02/26/2002 Arrow Funkiness Resolved
- Can't fire crossbow bolts from longbows anymore.
02/25/2002 Disarm
- Lag on disarm removed, but you still can't spam the command.
02/24/2002 Necro Tweaks
- Ghosts can now get up to level 46.
- Undead pets will now be a little more pro-active about healing themselves.
02/22/2002 Fix of Archery Abuse
- Due to rampant abuse, I have added a wait state to the ceasefire command.
People have been spamming afire/ceasefire and doubling their damage outputs.
As a result, everyone must now wait when they stop firing. :(
02/22/2002 Minor Warrior Lovin'
- Warrior can now max out shieldblock and parry skills.
- Fixed a few necro bugs.
- Cleric mobs wised up a bit.
02/20/2002 Minor Damage Control
- Liches actually do get banshee wail now.
- The new necro pets will die properly now.
- Fixed the insanely uber lowlevel skeletons, heh.
- Death pact and embodiment maintenance effects should both have wear off
messages now.
02/20/2002 Necro/Lich Update (among other things)
- Huge update to Liches and Necros, check the MOTD and the Announcements forum
on the BBS for more info.
- Stone isn't quite so uber powerful on wraithforms anymore.
- Wraithform pets got an HP boost to make up for the above.
- Shaman totems will reset on crash OR reboots now.
- Feeblemind, Maj Para, and Silence Person will no longer have a 'lag'
associated with the effect becoming active on the target.
- Sunray and Glitterdust areasave tweaked a little.
- Fixed some condensed issues.
- Fixed a bunch of crash bugs. :)
02/19/2002 Consent message
- A message has been added to indicate that a consentee has quit the game.
-Alth
02/17/2002 Earthblood?
- Earthblood doesn't work on races that don't have any blood.
02/13/2002 Classless Exp and Damage Control
- Fixed the last known crash bug. This one has been around awhile...adios!
- The exp given for lowlevel un-classed mobs has been substantially increased.
This will hopefully help new players level up a tad easier, as well as
make the solo exp grids a little more desirable at low levels.
02/12/2002 Nerfus Maximus
- Elemental Embodiments will now disappear after a short time if the caster
or victim dies or leaves the game.
- Problems with stun duration addressed - no more uber stun lengths!
- Some skills that affected the wrong target will now work correctly.
- Summoning a mount will only be counted if one arrives.
02/07/2002 Couple Things
- Fixed moonblade proc.
- Fixed prompt oddness with incap/para mobs.
02/06/2002 Stoneskin Exp?
- You will now receive experience when YOUR stonekin blocks damage to the
character it was cast on. The amount of exp gained is directly related to
the amount of damage blocked, the rest you will have to figure out on your
own. Expect these values to be adjusted over the coming weeks, and look
for dragonscales to offer the same feature as soon as it's determined to be
stable and balanced.
02/05/2002 Message Fixes
- Messages where arrows were doing no damage should properly display now.
They've never been doing any damage, the message was just wrong.
- Spell out messages for silence person and holy shroud should be working now.
- Elementalists weren't gaining psps at level, should be now.
02/03/2002 Minor Fixes
- Pet ordering lag issue resolved.
- Death Field has been improved slightly.
- Earthquake messages fixed.
02/01/2002 This and That
- You can now order pets regardless of whether they can currently fulfill your
command. When you order a pet now, they will perform the action as soon as
they are available. No more spam-ordering that rescue!
- You can add spells to your mem list while combat is in the room again,
but not actually start your memorization.
- Fixed some odd bash lag issues.
- Fixed ultrablast/deathfield issues, these psi skills should work much
more reliably now.
- Tweaked curse/hex duration.
- New display prompt - position. Will display your current position when
turned on.
- Whirlwind will actually snag weapons from time to time now.
- Teleport spells will break massmorph now.
- Fixed the assist problem with several proc weapons.
01/29/2002 Elementalists and a bushel of SCTS!
- Altered glitterdust...effectiveness now scales based on level. We'll see
how it goes.
- Ele Ward now gives a room msg.
- Headbutt fixed...target who get KO'd should actually get KO'd now.
- You can no longer start memming if there is combat in the room.
- Fixed some spam with Charge.
- Fixed Camp! You can now camp anywhere but hometowns again - READ HELP CAMP!
- Fixed a bunch of Condensed bugs/oddities.
01/25/2002 Condensed and an SCT
- Group heal messages now condensed by area spell setting.
- Dragon breath condensation setting added.
- Added spell_medium toggle to condensed.
- No more meditate lag.
- Thunder lance is now type Elemental.
01/24/2002 Tell Message
- No more using the tell message to see if you're hidden or not. Sorry
rogues.
01/24/2002 Reply: The Legacy Continues
- Re-added reply. Syntax is 'reply message' after receiving a tell, and it
will be directed to the last person who sent YOU a tell.
- 'reply hold' will save the current target, so you can carry on a
conversation without the target being overwritten by somebody else. 'reply
clear' will clear the hold, and 'reply' with no arguments will show who you
are currently replyin to. Help file coming soon. :)
- Condensing melee hits now correctly condenses fire/cold shield messages.
01/24/2002 SCT!
- Group size will show when you type "group." Enjoy.
- Elementalists no longer have a 75 power requirement in the roller.
01/24/2002 Elementalists (again)
- Elementalists are now in the roller, and all Conjurers will be converted.
- NEW Ele spell: ice tongue, 7th circle: mini-silence.
- NEW Ele spell: earthblood, 9th circle: targetted damage, with a side affect.
- Elemental Ward will now block fireshield/coldshield from chipping stone/dscales.
- Fixed up the Condensed bugs.
01/23/2002 Revamped Condensed Mode and 2 SCTs
- Revamped Condensed, read 'help condensed'.
- You can now type 'spells' and 'skills' to see a listing of skills/spells.
- Elementalists can now pick which elemental they want to summon.
Syntax is: cast 'conjure elemental' fire - etc.
- Elementalists get Clairvoyance at 6th circle.
01/22/2002 More Elementalist Fun!
- Can't dispel embodiment on the caster anymore.
- Ice Layer was allowing some races that shouldn't be bashed to be bashed.
Fixed.
- Other odds and ends not worth mentioning.
01/19/2002 More Anti-Undead Fun!
- Forgot to give liches the anti undead spells when I gave them to necros.
Fixed.
- Prioritize changed. You still can't use it while praying/memming, but you
CAN use it while resting now.
01/19/2002 More Odds and Ends
- Liches no longer emit heat (duh).
- Poison applications no longer add weight to weapons (double duh).
- Fixed a bunch of buggy scrolls and wands.
01/18/2002 Caster Love
- Fixed bug with glitterdust...no longer !fail.
- Fixed Yuan-Ti elemental size.
- Shadow walk is back to old casting time.
- Rainbow pattern will land more often now (and work, too.)
- New Cleric Spell: Divine Blessings, room based bless, only affects those of
the same alignment as caster. 9th circle.
- New Invoker Spell: Fell Frost. Cold based 9th circle targetted nuke with
some neat side affects.
- Necros now get ward, destroy undead, and eradicate undead. These spells
are now spellcast necromancy.
- Clerics got spellcast necromancy, natch.
- Fixed the 'order x.follower' feature.
01/17/2002 Miscellany and an SCT!
- Fixed a crash bug in glitterdust.
- Major para should land a wee bit easier.
- Upped duration of infravision.
- Fixed yet another bug in garrote.
- Added a function to the roller where players who get bored of waiting
for their name to be approved can go back to the name selection screen
and pick a generated name.
01/16/2002 More Elementalists Fixes
- Fixed shops (really this time.)
- The size bonuses for elemental embodiment spells were VERY bugged, fixed.
- Fixed spellout messages for embodiment spells.
- Tweaked Glitterdust.
- Whirlwind got a damage upgrade.
- Chopped the Ress *caster* lag way down.
- Other misc. fixes to messages and the like.
01/16/2002 Mem Priority & Lockpicking
- You can now use the 'prioritize' command to set a particular spell in your
thoughts to the top of your mem list. Syntax: 'prio spellname'. Note: You
must do this BEFORE you start memming.
- Fixed some bugs with lockpicking.
01/16/2002 Non-Elemental Bugfixes
- Mobs shouldn't spam cast holy and unholy word anymore.
01/15/2002 Ele Bugfixes
- Thunder lance, fireball, power word blind, minor creation, and cone of cold
are all now scribable for Elementalists at the proper circles.
- Conjurer guilds should work for Elementalists now.
- Fixed spec error with conjure elemental.
- Shops will hopefully not ignore Elementalists now.
- Few other tweaks.
01/15/2002 Elementalists and Melee Changes, oh my!
- Elementalists have been added for beta testing. See the MOTD, and check
out the help files for more info.
- Critical hit code was given a major overhaul - agility will have a
significant impact on minimizing crit damage.
- Defensive skills (shieldblock, flankblock, parry, dodge, etc) will work
somewhat better now.
- Racial effects for a couple of races are working properly now.
- You can now use the 'x.follower' syntax for ordering specific pets. eg,
'order 1.follower' will send an order to your first follower, and so on.
- Pets will now tag along with their masters when they are summoned.
01/14/2002 Staves
- Area spells from staves should work properly now. Enjoy.
01/13/2002 More Weapon Fixes
- Updated an older buggy proc weapon.
- Various fixes to a handful of other weapons.
01/11/2002 Nightbringer
- Fixed, report oddness.
01/09/2002 Dragons Grew Some New Teeth
- High level dragons learned a new trick.
- Ghosts won't age paladins anymore.
- Small other modifications to mob AI. Report funkiness.
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2/19/99 Group Object Cache Code
- What is it? The idea is to let groups manage items obtained by killing
mobs etc etc.. Each group has a cache visible to each member using
'glist'. Objects can be added to it by using either 'gget' (when
getting something from somewhere else) or 'gadd' (when adding stuff
from inventory).. Things added to the group cache can be removed only
by the group leader with 'gdel' or 'ggive' (gives item to someone else)
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