Shard updates

[Rhapsody]

Some time today:

• Ettins added to Repond super slayer.
• Oni and Tsuki Wolf added to Daemon slayer.
• Swinging with a ranged weapon now requires to stand still for 0.25s, instead of 0.5s.
• Flutes of Renewal now replenish charges correctly.
• Crafting armors with a normal (non-runic) kit/hammer adds 15 bonus points to resistances, instead of 14.
• Casting Pain Spike on a target alreaedy under the effect of another Pain Spike, the end of the first Pain Spike's effect will be delayed by 2 seconds. That is, if a second Pain Spike is cast on a target after 4 seconds from the first one, the effect of the first will stop after 8 seconds, not 6.
• Wither requires targets to be in Line of Sight. It is no longer possible to harm people inside houses with it.
• Wither cast delay has been raised (slowed) by 0.25s.
• Raised chance of obtaining Daemon Bone Armor pieces from Efreets.
• Fixed a bug that counted Strength bonuses to hit points twice. As a direct consequence, items that give bonuses to Strength will raise hit points by a lower quantity, and spells such as Bless and Curse will have less effects on the target's hit points (strength variation remains unchanged though).

[Rhapsody]

The following will go live later today or tomorrow:

• Vendor sell/buy will only work if said within 1 tile from the vendor (previously it was 4 tiles).
• Added a 5 seconds delay between every vendor transaction (antimacro).
• The Stuck option in the Help menu can now be used an unlimited number of times, but the waiting delay will be longer each time. It still can't be used from within Felucca dungeons or special locations like Doom though.
• Added Sledge Hammers to stealable Blacksmith chests, Chisels to Carpenter chests (2 different types), Small Fish to Fisherman containers (2 different types), Dirty Pan, Dirty Fry Pan, and 5 different types of Dirty Pot to Provisoner containers.
• Stealable artifacts respawn times have been tweaked, artifact rarity 10+ artifacts will now spawn a bit faster.
• Fixed some stealable artifacts locations.
• Pigments can now be used on Shamino's Crossbow and Holy Sword.
• Boats can no longer be placed from within another boat or a house. Error messages have been updated as well. The boat key is now copper, no longer gold.
• Flute of Renewal should now actually work.
• Candle, Dagger and Red Book are no longer given to new players.
• Added Bonsai Seed to Fan Dancer loot.
• Houses can no longer be traded to dead players.
• Discordance effect will be halved if the Barding Difficulty is >= 160.0
• It is no longer possible to cast Invisibility on vendors.
• All customizable houses now have one more floor available.
• Replacing a customized tile with another one will no longer add 10000gp to the customization cost.

[Rhapsody]

Since this morning:

• Added a minimum strength requirement of 10 to all clothes.
• Males can no longer wear Female Kimono, and viceversa.
• Removed the antimacro code on the vendor BUY command. It remains active on the SELL command only.

[Rhapsody]

The following will go live tomorrow (11/9/2005):

• Pets will now be auto-stabled at logout, and will appear next to the player at the next login.
• Monsters are immune to spell disturb once again.
• Monsters can once again cast the following spells in addition to the damage ones: Poison, Bless, Clumsy, Feeblemind, Weaken, Curse, Paralyze, Mana Drain e Mana Vampire.
• Pets will no longer stop casting spells if ordered to Guard.
• Pets and monsters alike will now heal themselves when idle.
• It is now possible to select to receive a Fortuity Necklace instead of a 110 Scroll of Power when receiving a Friend Ticket reward. It will still be possible to choose a SOP if desired, but you cannot get both. Players who already claimed their Friend Ticket rewards in the past will have to get another, it is not possible to modify past choices for obvious reasons.

Please report any bugs you find on our Bug & Fix forum.

[Rhapsody]

In a few minutes:

• Added Chest of Heirlooms to SE minor artifacts.
• Respawned all Tokuno Vendors.
• Other minor things in preparation to the upcoming SE skills tomorrow.

[Rhapsody]

The following went live this morning:

• Minimum cast delay for Chivalry spells has ben lowered from 0.5s to 0.25s.
• Young players will not receive artifacts in the Gauntlet anymore.

• Confidence (Bushido)
• Counterattack (Bushido)
• Evasion (Bushido)
• Lightning Strike (Bushido)
• Momentum Strike (Bushido)
• Animal Form (Ninjitsu)
• Backstab (Ninjitsu)
• Death Strike (Ninjitsu)
• Focus Attack (Ninjitsu)
• Ki Attack (Ninjitsu)
• Shadow Jump (Ninjitsu)
• Surprise Attack (Ninjitsu)
• Armor Pierce (Weapon Ability)
• Block (Weapon Ability)
• Double Shot (Weapon Ability)
• Dual Wield (Weapon Ability)
• Feint (Weapon Ability)
• Nerve Strike (Weapon Ability)
• Riding Swipe (Weapon Ability)
• Talon Strike (Weapon Ability)

What will still be unavailable:

• Defense Mastery (Weapon Ability)
• Frenzied Whirlwind (Weapon Ability)
• Honorable Execution (Bushido)
• Mirror Image (Ninjitsu)
• Virtù Honor
• Perfection (it is a damage bonus given to some Bushido skills, but requires the Honor virtue)

Please report any bugs you find in this thread.

[Rhapsody]

More updates in the morning:

• Lesser Hiryus fixed.
• Animal Form speed bonus now actually works.
• Added BrocadeGozaMatEastDeed and BrocadeGozaMatSouthDeed to Tailoring craftables.
• Added Sack of Flour to Cooking craftables.
• Boards sold by Tinkers now have the correct itemid.
• The 7s delay between usages of the same runebook has been reinstated.
• Valor gain messages will no longer show up unless a path is gained to save on cpu usage.
• Flutes of Renewal now replenish a charge every 5 minutes, not every 5 seconds.
• Tokuno InnKeepers now sell the necessary ingredients to craft Green Tea.

The following long standing bugs have finally been fixed with today's core upgrade:

• Players will no longer freeze on death.
• The runebook not allowing runes to be inserted bug has been fixed.
• The Ihara Soko gump not showing up issue has been fixed.

Save times have also been reduced by approximately 2/3.

[Rhapsody]

The following will go live tomorrow (21/9) morning:

• Added durability to hats.
• Crafted hats will now have base resistances, and 15 points (6 if using a runic sewing kit) will be distributed randomly to all resistances if the item is exceptional, just like armors. Note that crafting a hat with a runic kit does not add properties, it's a waste of a charge.
• Added hats to loot tables, in this case they will spawn with magical properties.
• The Kasa of the Rajin is no longer blessable, and will return to normal if blessed. It will automatically be insured, but please make sure of it. Players with insured Kasa of the Rajin will receive a Clothing Bless Deed as a refund.
• Ihara Soko's gump is now OSI style.
• Added Self Repair 5 property to Black Lotus Hoods.
• The Exiler will now be Exorcism slayer, no longer Daemon Dismissal.

[Rhapsody]

The server was restarted an hour ago to up the following:

• It is no longer possible to cast spells while under Animal Form.
• Animal Form and Shadowjump can no longer be disturbed.
• Focus Attack can no longer be used with ranged weapons.
• Holy Light cast delay moved up from 1s to 1.75s.
• Fixed a bug with clothes.

There was an issue with the Bless Deed refund gump, the refund will be given out tomorrow or the day after at the latest.

[Rhapsody]

More updates coming tomorrow morning (23/9):

• While under Animal Form only the following skills can now be used actively: Anatomy, Animal Lore, Detecting Hidden, Eval Int, Hiding, Stealth, Tracking. Also, the gump will now appear regardless of your Ninjitsu value, but a minimum of 20 points will be required to morph to a Rat/Rabbit.
• AOS weapon abilities present on SE weapons will no longer require 50 points in Bushido or Ninjitsu.
• Added the Defense Mastery weapon ability to Kama and Lajatang.
• Raised to 255 the durability of Burglar's Bandana, Dread Pirate Hat and Polar Bear Mask.
• Fixed a bug that would have SE armors spawn in loots outside Tokuno.
• Using Wraith Form no longer consumes stamina when shoving creatures on Felucca.
• Fixed a bug with players not being able to gain in Parry if Bushido is too high. To gain in Parry, you must now either use a shield and have very low Bushido, or have high Bushido and use a 1 or 2 handed weapon without a shield.
• Items and gold inside locked containers will now only be accessible once the container has been unlocked.

[Rhapsody]

Available tomorrow:

• Fixed a bug preventing Moving Shot form working in certain situations.
• The Samurai skill Honorable Execution has been added in.
• Dart, Poison and Explosion traps can be crafted once again.
• Fish Origami can only be created while drunk.
• Added overhead messages for Bleed Attack very similar to the ones that appear when poisoned. They don't show up if the target is not a player though.
• Modified Concussion Blow damage. The new damage is as follows:
  damage = 10 + | ((hp / maxhp) - (mana / maxmana)) | / 4
  The result is capped at 30.

[Rhapsody]

More fixes tomorrow:

• Concussion Blow damage is now dealt before the normal swing one.
• Confidence, Counter Attack and Evasion will no longer be influenced by Faster Casting, and will have a minimum cast delay of 0.25s (which is the same as the base delay).
• Animal Form and Shadow Jump will now have a minimum cast delay of 0.25s.
• Animal Form can now be used while carrying a faction sigil.

[Rhapsody]

Yet more fixes coming up tomorrow:

• Added caps to how much damage you can deal per hit. Damage Increase + Divine Fury + Horrific Beast is capped at 100%, all other multipliers and special move/weapon ability damage bonuses (such as Slayer, Enemy of One, Crushing Blow, etc.) are capped at 300%.
• Fixed hue of overhead messages appearing when poisoned.
• House visits counter has been fixed.
• Deer Masks and Bear Masks spawn in loots once again.
• Added type, name and owner labels to pets in the transfer window to avoid scams.
• The following monsters are now discordable: Abysmal Horror, Darknight Creeper, Demon Knight (Dark Father), Impaler, Barracoon, Neira, Lord Oaks.
• White Wyrms can once again be fed gold.
• Criminals and players with the attacker flag can now walk through moongates without being blocked (but they still can't use them, the gump will not show up).
• Moongate gumps will now automatically close when walking more than 1 tile away from the gate.
• SE weapon abilities can no longer be used without SE installed.
• Focus Attack will no longer lower property chances if used with low Ninjitsu.

[Rhapsody]

• Balron Damnation and Daemon Dismissal (Daemon Slayer) slayers have been converted to Exorcism (Demon Slayer, the abyss super slayer) and will no longer spawn.
• Added Meer, Ratman, Savage and a couple missing Orcs to Repond Slayer.
• Added Frost Trolls to Frost Slayer.
• Added Giant Spiders to Arachnid Slayer.
• Added Jukas and Serado to Reptile Slayer.
• Added Serado to Snake Slayer.
• Shadow Strike will now hide the attacker once again.
• Fixed a bug with the Doom Gauntlet player count. Bosses will now spawn the way they did before.
• Mage NPCs now accept all magery scrolls once again.
• In order to transfer a pet, the pet itself must now be within 7 tiles from both players.
• Added the new Guild System. It's now possible to forge alliances, declare wars, and manage the guild through the Guild button on the paperdoll. Guildstones are now obsolete and can be destroyed with an axe just like any other furniture. The client's guild and alliance chat keys, \ and | respectively, will now replace our old custom commands (G, GL, GON, GOFF, GY, etc.) which will be removed. It is also possible to secure items with a new accesslevel, Guild.

Please use our Bug & Fix forum for any issues you should stumble upon, thank you.

[Rhapsody]

• When demolishing a house, any guildstones inside will now be deleted, as opposed to being dropped on the floor unmovable.
• Guild members ranked Ronin can no longer modify the guild war status.
• Members of a guild allied with another guild will no longer appear blue to guild members waring with the allied guild.
• Pets controlled by members of a waring guild will now always appear orange.
• Animal Form's speed boost is now automatically reapplied when logging in.
• The boat control algorithm has changed. From now on, if there is a player holding the boat key in their backpack (if the key is insured, it will count as being held by a ghost), that player and only that player will be able to give commands to the tillerman, whether it is dead or alive. If more than one person has the key, or nobody does, the tillerman will accept commands from whoever is closest, dead or alive. From tomorrow on, commanding a boat will no longer be considered harassment: whoever can issue orders has every right to do so.
• Containers will now also show the maximum number of items and the maximum weight they can hold.
• Player corpses' names have been fixed.
• Direction changes will now count as actual movement. This means that archers will no longer be able to fire arrows simply by changing direction because the server would interpret the direction change as the player stopping for 0.25s.
• In-game days are now OSI accurate. It will be dark between midnight and 4am, and bright the rest of the day.