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Changelog News Post #1443

Updates, changes and ideas

Written by: Razmael, the Synthesist
Date: Sunday, April 8th, 2018
Addressed to: Everyone


It was Idea Day at the Pools! I went through and implemented some ideas that you, the players, have submitted to us. With maybe one or two things I snuck in as well.

But first, an update:
* I've removed the alert the NPCs give you if you walk into a room with them and they have a quest you haven't done yet. The problem with this is that it wasn't smart enough to know if a player was even eligible for a quest (and this isn't possible without a lot of backend work, unfortunately) so it would often confuse people, especially new players. We'll be exploring other ways of doing this in the future that won't be as confusing to newbies.

Ideas:
* You can now PSAY (short for player-say). This functions identically to SAY, except that any NPCs in the room won't trigger in response to anything said with that command. Useful for having a conversation around spammy NPCs!
* Updated HELP HONOURS to include info on the new titles system.
* Wheel of Fates now has its own custom blessing line in descriptions.
* Crafters can now CONFIG DESIGN_BACKUP ON to receive an e-mail containing the description of their design if it gets deleted.
* Ylemlog summary will now show the date range you're looking at.
* Added a PATH FIND LOCKSMITH that will work within each of the main player cities.
* Added a ranking for Total Ylem Collected (from any source: foci, eld, mines, etc). Since we weren't really tracking this before in any permanent way, everybody starts from 0. Go and do some foci!
* PUT GOLD IN <item> now requires you to explicitly specify the container by its number, if the container isn't in your inventory. We've had numerous cases where someone has accidentally put their gold in a backpack on the ground because they hadn't noticed their own backpack decayed!
* OFFER CORPSES should be a little less spammy now when you offer a billion corpses. Note: This was actually bugged. If you had BRIEF room descriptions turned on, offer corpses would output a massive spammy list of every single thing you offered. If you had VERBOSE room descriptions turned on, it would just say "all your corpses". I've fixed it so brief turned on will show 'all your corpses' and verbose will show the new less spammy list.
* Updated 20+ fame lines with titles based on suggestions we received on the forum thread. Enjoy!

Penned by my hand on Closday, the 19th of Lleian, in the year 472 MA.


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