Change Log for the 5/11/11 System Update

Thursday, 12 May 2011 20:27

Ithrix & Glyph

• The Glyph, a mysterious race of blue-skinned, tattooed humanoids, have traveled to Alyria to assist in warding off the Ithrix menace.
• The Glyph's technomagical Pylons inhibit Ithrix rifting, causing Archon Hunters to struggle for up to a minute before rifting in for attacks.
• The Glyph's Pylons are scattered around Alyria, causing some consternation with their powerful and little-understood technomagical affects.

Miniquests

• Made skill manuals give +1-3% in their skill.
• Added bouncers to Thornstangg Glyffrukk
• an octopus blacksmith will, when given a chipped Orb of Vandemaar, crush it to splinters.

Religion, Clans & Politics

• Added a new mayor power: the mayor may journey to a room and designate it as a custom Iron Worm destination. Its use is restricted to safeguard citizens, and it does not cost any mayoral influence points.
• Added a new mayor power: remove NPK/no-regen from the stone ledge above Rune Temple to bring forth a universal trainer, with 50 sessions/skill that restocks once per RL week.
• Clan merging is now available again.
• Enabled the ability for the Mayor of Rune to add Luzzardo Malvenu there.
• Fixed a bunch of incorrectly-set rooms in Shrines.

Skills & Spells

• Added a new "class resex" command, which allows players to changes sex and associated classes.
• Granted paladins the new spell 'searing touch'.
• Traded rangers' 'fireball' for 'flintstrike'.
• Reduced the cooldown on Channel Faith from 60 seconds to 7, as an experiment.
• Made it so kicking while mounted while fighting against someone who is not mounted will kick them in the head, not the leg. Courtesy Maglor(?)
• Updated the Awaken spell: If you are slept while affected by awaken, sleep has an (awaken level * 80 / sleep level)% chance of being resisted entirely, and if that check fails, sleep's duration is reduced to 2. If cast on someone who is already sleeping, if cast on someone who is already sleeping, awaken will reduce the duration by (3 + class #).
• Reworked color spray: color spray resistance is (victim's sunlight resistance - caster's sunlight damage). Color spray has a (20 * (100 - res / 100))% chance to blind for 1 less duration than level-equivalent blind.
• made telekinetic explosion, bash, slash and pierce take both mental + lightning/bash/slash/pierce resistance into account, respectively.
• Doubled herald 's death efficacy, to restore 4% of a target's max hp.
• Made irritation take both mental + disease resistance into account when calculating duration.
• Made landslide deal earth damage, and bash damage if the victim is slammed through a door.
• Added new spell, cover of darkness.
• Made stone skin, haste, etc be recastable again.

Building

• Fully added 'buildpoints' as possible quest system quest reward.
• Added 'free build' areas in Rune and Lasler, where you can try buildpoint settings out for free, or just build something temporary for fun (no buildpoint or clan gemstone cost, area is reset weekly).

Marks

• Fixed the mark of abjuration
• Made the mark of strength level-scale experience rewards.

Items

• Fixed a significant bug in the animate sceptre of songs
• Made the flanged flail of Ragradorg only affect artifacts held in the hand.

Misc

• Fixed various typos, such as the little dog plushie and the Garbool island.
• Added a bunch of help entries.
• Added self-explanatory new stats healing-others-prcnt and healing- self-prcnt.
• Added a new stat, musical-appreciation, which increases instrument complexity at a 1:1 rate.
• Added 'arct' as a permanent abbreviation for the 'archon talk' command.
• Fixed missing 'clantalk' default setting for Court clan types, for the Courtier rank.