Aetolian Game News
Liaisons, Bugs, and Other Goodies
Written by: Varian the Celestine
Date: Friday, May 4th, 2007
Addressed to: Everyone
CRYSTALISM
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- Tremors will only work from the enemy list now.
- Players can now lay vibrations in room even if another player has
already laid one of the same type. This will not increase the number
of times players will be hit by the vibes in the room.
- Harmony will now hit all allies.
- Retardation will now randomly kill vibes in a room, rather then in
the order they were set.
- Lullaby and Plague no longer require 2 magi to embed.
- Lullaby and Plague will hit 3 seconds slower now.
- Energize is no longer destroyed when you absorb.
- Silence vibes will block recalling mounts.
- Plague vibe will only give limp veins to the undead, and asthma to
the living.
- All players can now LOOK IN PORTAL, to see what is on the other side.
- Adduction works off the enemy list now.
- Silence no longer blocks clan tells.
- If you enter the editor (newsroom, projects, etc), your vibes will
no longer count down.
- The heat vibration will now cancel all freeze type skills. (If I
missed any freeze skills, please BUG it)
- There was a bug with howls hitting when first issued by the
lycanthrope, even while in a silence vibe. That is now fixed.
- Entering portals should deliver you at the proper elevation now.
(not always on the ground)
DEVOTION
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- Force now has a 100% success rate.
- Movement stopped by piety now delivers a room message.
- Contrary to report 171, piety DOES stop leap and DOES NOT stop
tumble, so I have not made any changes to this.
- Bliss will only give defences you do not already have now.
Additionally the round will not be wasted if you do not have an
affliction or are at max health, willpower, mana, endurance, and
bliss was going to heal one of those.
- Devotion users can now participate in a rite of prayer, however they
will not gain any experience. They will gain a smaller amount of
devotion then the player doing the rite however.
- Changed the messages for deliverance and for failed sustenance.
- The rite of demons was calculating both health and mana loss based
on your maximum health. The mana loss will now be based on maximum
mana.
DOMINATION
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- Call Entities is faster now.
- The ORDER verb will always check for loyal entities first. This
applies to other skillsets with entities as well.
- The doppleganger will now look exactly like the player does.
(unless the owner is in the same room with the doppleganger)
- Dopplegangers can now be ordered to emote and say.
- The slime no longer damages or drains endurance.
- The slime now gives lethargy.
- When entities are banished by rites or orbs, you will get a message.
- The doppleganger can no longer find people with the hood, *IF* they
are not in the same area.
- When the chimeria attempts its stun attack and the target is deaf, it
will now strip deafness.
- There is no longer a time limit on time spent on the Chaos Plane for
those with the skill of Domination. Those without domination will be
removed after 5 minutes.
- There was a request to make ORDER HOUND KILL <player> work like
ORDER HOUND TRACK <player> in report 310. While this sounds simple,
it was not going to be simple in the code. With the change to how the
order verb works, I do not really think it is needed. Additionally
all the other requests of this report were already in place from
previous bug changes.
- I originally approved a way for the firelord to sear icewalls, I have
decided not to do this for several reasons, the main ones being that
magi sell a way to do this and I see no need to reduce their profits
further and it nerfs the icewall skill even more.
- Fixed a bug that kept the gremlin and sycophant from ever attacking.
- Increased the health on some entities.
NUMEROLOGY
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- Deflection now has a chance of failing, if there is a reverberation
vibe in the room. However, should it fail, the eq lost is much
shorter.
- In the past, if there were rites and vibes in the room, rites would
not be effected by deflection. That is no longer the case.
- Vibes and rites will now be destroyed randomly by deflection.
(Reverberation will always be selected first in the case of vibes
however.) Previously there was an order to it, which may or may not
have even been noticed.
HORSEMANSHIP
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- RECALL should be significantly smarter now. You should no longer need
to enter a number if you have an unstabled mount. RECALL MOUNT should
do it for you. If you would like to fetch a stabled mount, RECALL
<mount number> will get it from the stable and bring it directly to
you.
CONCOCTIONS
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- Berries should be harvest, tend, plantable again.
- Fires should spread once again!
- Fixed some minor message bugs/typos with harvesting.
NEWBIES
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- GMs and Secretaries will see when someone joins via the introduction
now.
Penned by my hand on the 8th of Midsummer, in the year 215 MA.