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Announce News Post #789

Reanimation Plan

Written by: Varian the Celestine
Date: Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Addressed to: Everyone


PHASE ONE
We will rework several parts of reanimation. The theme of reanimation
will remain exactly the same. The referendum, the countless emails, and
messages I received showed that most people love the idea and theme of
reanimation, just not how it currently works.

Serums and poultices will still exist. We are going to create a third
method of curing within reanimation. All cures in reanimation will have
the exact same curing order and balance times/types as concoctions,
where applicable. This does not mean everything will have a perfect map
to concoctions, as the player support for the current reanimation has
shown us it is important to retain the system's originality as much as
possible. The commands will remain very similar to what they are now,
though we will probably make some minor changes.

All undead players will have the Reanimation skillset and will be able
to learn how to create any reanimation poultice, serum, etc. Dissection,
desiccation and fermentation will all be handled with this general
skill. Inks will now play an optional role in poultices, to be explained
later.

PHASE TWO
At some point during the liaison process we will redesign plants and
harvesting.

PHASE THREE
After bugs and liaisons are done, we will code new skillsets for the
druids and sentinels. One option we are looking at for sentinels is a
venom production skillset. Once these new skills are completed we will
move concoctions to a general skillset. This phase may or may not
happed, it will depend on how things go in phase one and phase two.

TIMELINE
Including bugs and liaisons this is probably six months of work. It will
take 3 to 4 months to finish reanimation and liaisons with Tydeus and
myself working on it full time. New skillsets take about a month or full
time work each.

Penned by my hand on the 23rd of Variach, in the year 207 MA.


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