Aetolian Game News
Various Bugfixes
Written by: Galleus, the Sky Sovereign
Date: Friday, August 1st, 2008
Addressed to: Everyone
Nalus and I are trying to get bugs down to record low numbers, so this
is pretty much just a big collection of the changes worth mentioning
from the last day or two of work.
- Added discernment to necklaces of cleansing and necklaces of purity
- Fixed a problem where cleansing necklace thought it was a purity
necklace
- If there are multiple grounding vibes in a room then it should check
the proper one now
- Neckdrag won't bypass grounding vibe any more
- Skills that could hit people in the local area as long as the target
was outdoors will no longer work on people who are burrowed
- Energize and palpitation vibes will now kill people instead of
dropping them to 1 health
- People who use metamorphosis freeze will now get a message when heat
vibe negates it
- Lunge will now drop rebounding and reflections of the user upon
hitting a target
- There is now a diagnose message for being impaled
- If you are an imp then you will no longer lose heatsight upon
reverting to imp from lycanthrope form
- Using quietus will now interrupt lycanthrope returning
- Darts trap will no longer continue to hit blackwinded or mistformed
players
- Clothesline and dustbomb traps should now properly give messages in
the room and to the target
- You will now stop spinning spears/tridents if you are knocked prone
- If anything happens between a person lunging into a room and hitting a
target like noose traps then lunge will fail
- Getting kicked from the chaos plane by failing a pact will now put you
outside the cave and not in a room that doesn't exist
- Domination users can no longer banish entities not loyal to them
- Firelords will no longer attack through closed doors
- Kaido deliverance will no longer fire if a domination user attacks
from a different room
- Throatstrike will now drop rebounding and shield properly when a
person uses it
- Tekura wrench will now properly give messages if it fails
- Fixed punctuation used in conunction with the @ syntax in temotes
- Various plants across the realm that had been stuck in the Growing
state should now be Mature
- The message for pressing a pueri poultice has been changed to
accurately reflect the action
- If the water in a room has been parted, and the room is then flooded,
the parting will no longer apply
- Wearing a Hood of Elusion or having an artifact with the Elusion
property will prevent falcons from observing you in an area
- Firelords can no longer send flames through rooms blocked by icewalls
- Pacing will now allow you to follow those who are galloping away
- Those who have been Shadowed will not be harmed whilst in sunlight if
they are Blackwinded
- The equilibrium time on Ring Return has been shortened by one half of
one second
- If you are prone, you will not be able to stand if you have been
jawlocked
- Spirit anchors should work just swimmingly now
- It is intentional that you can follow someone who is prisming while
off balance or equilibrium
- The Holocaust message will display regardless of whether you are blind
or unconscious
- Lycanthrope mutated descriptions will properly display the descriptor
for their statpack
- House Status will now display properly for Nightstalkers
- House Referendums will now properly be restricted by the
referendum_vote privilege
- Thrustkick is now properly stopped by the target having a Stability
artifact, rather than the thrust-kicker
- The apostrophe character may now be used in orghelp titles
- Being off channel on Houses will now display properly. Previously, if
you were affected by Death Tarot in any way, you were off channel. Yeah,
I don't know either
- You must actually be a member of a House you are attempting to quit in
order to quit it
- Kelende will now greet novices on the Bloodborn guild channel upon
induction
- Anyone in the game of cityrank 4 or greater could start arena events
in the Duiran arena. This is...no longer the case
- Dousing works again
- Keys can now unlock up to five separate locks
- Duiran's Benandanti can now citylock doors within the Heartwood and
Eleusis
- Flame sigiled or Holdfast sigiled items cannot be purchased from a
shop
- The Undead can no longer make purchases from shops in cities they are
automatically enemied to
- CWHO will now conform to the use of the MORE system for pagelength
- Items dropped in a stockroom will automatically have any old price on
them cleared
- You can now make purchases while prone or with a single broken arm
- City leaders cannot contest another city leader for their position
- READLOG SHOP and CITY SHOP INFO can be performed by allies in an
allied shop
- You will be unable to purchase items off of shop shelves not visible
to you because of shopkeeper policies
- SHOP REMOVE LOCK and BUILDING REMOVE LOCK will now destroy all keys
associated with the lock in question
- City shop purchases will be recorded in the revenue log
- Bounties may not exceed 1,000,000 gold
- Players may not probe items in a shop stockroom that are unpriced or
on a shelf unavailable to them
Penned by my hand on the 21st of Lanosian, in the year 251 MA.