September 2024 Change Summary

By Ais | October 3, 2024

Hello,

The following is a summary of all recorded changes which happened in September 2024.

Artifacts

  • All artifacts in ASHOP that were only purchaseable with aethergoop are now also purchaseable with credits. (Changelog 3025)
  • Winter Curios are now available for purchase in ASHOP. You can search for them with ASHOP LIST KEYWORD WINTERCURIOS. See HELP WINTERCURIOS for more details. (Changelog 3025)
  • All seasonal artifact skins will now be available at all times. There are two sets, Summertime and Valentines. The former were already turned on, Valentines are now available too. You can find them with ASHOP LIST KEYWORD SUMMERTIME and ASHOP LIST KEYWORD VALENTINES. (Changelog 3025)
  • Zemeran Curio packages are now available in ASHOP for regular purchase. (Changelog 3027)
  • Steam should no longer drop from herb pouches on death. (Changelog 3030)
  • Lirangsha Mist should now verify whether a mob has been influenced before using its charge. (Changelog 3030)
  • Wondersaddle breath targeting should now work identically to the non-wondersaddle beast minorbreath attacks. (Changelog 3030)
  • Paintings with master seals will no longer reset from pedestals. (Changelog 3032)

Character

  • You can once again wake up to feeling deliciously well rested. (Changelog 3023)
  • Lesson gains for leveling have been overhauled, with new gains ranging from 25 to 150 depending on the level. See HELP LEVELS for a breakdown. (Changelog 3025)
  • Wondercrystal gains for levelling have been increased. You can now gain 20 wondercrystals total for levelling to demigod instead of 10. See HELP LEVELS for a breakdown. (Changelog 3025)
  • Daily Credit gains have been doubled. You will be gaining twice what you used to for the same work, up to the new limit of 40 credits. (Changelog 3025)

Cities/Communes

  • CR6 members may now use CITY/COMMUNE LASTLOGIN on the council of their city/commune. (Report 538)
  • Council members may now use CITY/COMMUNE LASTLOGIN on other council members and on ministers. (Report 538)
  • Chancellors can now see if shops are linked or expanded in CITY/COMMUNE SHOPS. (Changelog 3037)
  • CITY SHOP INFO now also lists whether the shop has any expansions or has been linked to the aetherplex. (Changelog 3037)
  • CITY SHOP POLICIES has been added to allow review of a shop’s price policies. (Changelog 3037)

Combat

  • Snare traps will now hit either leg, not just the right leg. (Changelog 3023)
  • Shofangi Bullcharge will no longer cause an error if tried without wielding shofas. (Changelog 3023)
  • Shadows created by Night should no longer attack their target upon leaving the arena. (Changelog 3030)
  • Kephera damage conversion should now work properly for Kephera females. (Changelog 3030)
  • Smokestep should now display lines in the proper rooms. (Changelog 3030)
  • Surfboard should no longer allow movement in Aquamancy – Deluge without a waterwalk defense. (Changelog 3030)

Conflict

  • Wildnodes will now last 60 minutes from 90. (Report 566)
  • Wildnodes will now start in 5 minutes after announcement from 10-15. (Report 566)
  • Node point score will be doubled 50% of the time to account for the change to Wildnodes times. (Report 566)
  • A node will have a chance, after 3 minutes of being planted, of unplanting itself and appearing on a different astrosphere. (Report 566)
  • Wildnode minimum player count has been reduced to 15. (Report 567)
  • Wildnodes now has a significantly higher chance of happening earlier in the day. (Report 567)
  • Wildnodes has been added to CONFLICT. (Report 567)
  • Nodes will no longer appear upon the astrosphere of Ophiuchus during Wildnodes. (Changelog 3038)

Defenses

  • Fade messages have been added to all aethercandies. (Changelog 3030)
  • ChaosAura should no longer double up on fade messages when disabled. (Changelog 3030)

Helpfiles

  • HELP DISCIPLES is now available so you can consider which boons you wish to ask of the Avenger. The Disciples will be contacting the organisations this week to make their selections. (Changelog 3022)
  • Orghelps (chelp, ghelp, clanhelp, etc.) now have a RENAME function. (Changelog 3035)

Quests

  • The following quests have been added to the quest system:
    • clarramore_ball (Changelog 3027)
    • pierre_courtship (Changelog 3027)
  • A persistent issue with restarting either side of the Krog quest has been fixed. You will be able to get the medallions now. (Changelog 3027)
  • All Gaaglin and Gorlognal Academy quests have been rated, meaning you will now earn daily credits for doing them. (Changelog 3027)
  • Gaaglin and Gorlognal Academy quests will now reward curios from two new collections: Gaaglin and Gorlognal respectively. These collections follow the usual pattern and consist of travel, damage resist, damage enhance, and magic item curios, while the collection power takes you to the relevant area. (Changelog 3027)

Skills

  • You may now exhibit up to 3 paintings in a room. Triptych painters and gallery owners rejoice. (Changelog 3032)
  • ITEMLIST FOOD will now show the enhancement/infusion on the food, if any. (Changelog 3032)
  • You should no longer be unable to forget the runes skill while holding an active meld in some cases. (Changelog 3033)
  • New skill: Bookbinding – Sorcelcharm. (Changelog 3034)
    • Allows creating a blank sorcelcharm scroll which can be used by enchanters.
    • Requires one blank scroll and 10 magic ink.
    • Appears at Gifted 25%.
    • Syntax: SCRIBE SORCELCHARM
  • New skill: Enchantment – Spellscribe. (Changelog 3034)
    • Uses 10% of reserves or powerstone, requires a sorcelcharm scroll.
    • Appears at Adept 50%.
    • Syntax: ENCHANT ON
    • Usage: READ AT
  • Bookbinding – Manual moved to Gifted 50% from Gifted 33%. (Changelog 3034)
  • Bookbinding – Codex moved to Gifted 75% from Gifted 66%. (Changelog 3034)
  • You are now able to use ASSESS on yourself. (Changelog 3035)
  • Bard songs may now be renamed. (Changelog 3035)
  • Energycubes will now receive 20/30/40/50 charge per tick from 5/6+1/7+1/10. (Report 545)

System

  • Introduced a change to prevent game crashes due to item bloat. (Changelog 3026)
  • WHATCURES INSOMNIA should now properly respond with ‘relax insomnia’ rather than ‘smoke coltsfoot’. (Changelog 3028)
  • Greatly improved logging speed which should assist with lag during busy periods due to buffer flushing. (Changelog 3030)
  • New public board: Updates. (Changelog 3034)
    • Periodically, we will use this board as a collation of changes and changelogs in that period, or for major changes not quite deserving of an announce but deserving of their own dedicated post.
    • This may also include progress updates on roadmap/starmap items and information about future changes.
  • Beasts will no longer die in the stable when the fees are not paid. Instead, they will accumulate a fine the longer the fees are unpaid. Beasts may not be removed from the stable or summoned while bearing a fine. (Report 555)

User Interface

  • Alignment for non-demigods using QSC should now be fixed. (Changelog 3030)
  • You should now be able to WARES SCABBARD to narrow down scabbards and frogges which apply to a specific weapon. (Changelog 3030)
  • Nonbinary fixes for multiple non-standard enter/leave messages. (Changelog 3030)
  • Conversions using the DATE command will now show both UTC/GMT and configured timezone variants. (Changelog 3032)
  • DATE and TIME will now show the current season as part of the output. (Changelog 3032)
  • SEARCHNEWS/NEWSSEARCH will now show more detiled results, including author, subject, and date posted. (Changelog 3035)
  • POWERLOG SUMMARY now shows bard/scholar count in a separate column. (Report 543)
  • A large number of typoes in system messages have been fixed.
  • A large number of generic nonbinary verb conjugation typoes have been fixed.