Changelog Archive #3
Written by: Iosai the Anomaly
Date: Monday, February 13th, 2012
Addressed to: Everyone
Changelog Entry #1 (Posted: 2012/01/18 14:16)
o Dramatics Sober now works slightly differently. It will lower your
chance to suffer from afflictions by approximately 25% instead of
nullifying them entirely. Its effect on speech remains unchanged.
o CITY/COMMUNE CONSTRUCTS will now list the Aetherbubble upon which the
construct is built (if it is).
o Fixed a number of miscellaneous typos (nothing that should upset
systems).
Changelog Entry #2 (Posted: 2012/01/18 21:00)
o Items of jewellery no longer have warmth factors.
o It is no longer possible to extend the timer on Sacraments Inquisition
by marking someone a Heretic.
o The mechanics of Rituals Encipher have been reworked. See the AB for
details!
Changelog Entry #3 (Posted: 2012/01/19 14:58)
o You can no longer check GTELLS if you cannot use GT.
o The family head of a Great House will now receive a message if they
are online when a Lesser House pledges to them.
o Good luck, cryptographers! Rituals Encipher now generates scrambled
text.
Changelog Entry #4 (Posted: 2012/01/21 14:58)
o Geomancy Duststorm, Aeromancy Blizzard, and Pyromancy Smokehaze will
no longer disable the map if the demesne holder is not within range for
the demesne effect to apply.
o ITEMLIST FIGURINES will now work as a synonym of ITEMLIST ESTEEM. Both
will also show the level of the figurine.
o RIFT FILL FROM ALEMBIC will no longer empty the alembic if you cannot
store the fluid in your rift.
o You will no longer be able to melt items of jewellery you are wearing.
Changelog Entry #5 (Posted: 2012/01/22 23:18)
o Fixed a bug with Mount Dio not properly being classed as on a separate
continent.
o GMCP will now send Char.Items.Update when harvesting if the plant is
automatically grouped.
o The Greater Songs of the Minstrels and the Symphonium will now
properly stun enemies.
o Beast health, mana, and ego will now be refreshed on leaving an arena
event.
o Kethuru mobs will no longer generate extreme volumes of gold if
destroyed automatically by a Sealbearer.
Changelog Entry #6 (Posted: 2012/01/23 18:43)
o It is no longer possible to erect shrines in watery rooms that have
been temporarily Tainted.
o Clan leaders can now always write in books that were bound for their
clan.
o Tarot Starleaper will no longer bypass shrine distort.
Changelog Entry #7 (Posted: 2012/01/24 14:50)
o Shamanism Claw and Shamanism Sky have swapped places in the skillset.
o It is now possible to climb up into the treetops in an indoors room.
o Slightly tweaked the functionality of BEAST SUMMON and STABLE REMOVE
to allow targetting by your beast's custom name (NAME <mob> <name>).
o Fixed some more bugs with the new Vengeance tweaks. Emotes and says
can now be targetted towards the faux character names (only!).
Changelog Entry #8 (Posted: 2012/01/25 13:47)
o Shamanism Land will now cause targets to lose their entourage before
they are moved.
o You can no longer teleport to yourself.
o Fixed some bugs with Vengeance character names not being used in
certain emotes.
Changelog Entry #9 (Posted: 2012/01/25 15:06)
o Custom characters can now be enabled and disabled for Vengeance games.
VENGEANCE SETUP, VENGEANCE SET CHARACTERS ON/OFF.
o Fixed another bug with BEAST SUMMON.
Changelog Entry #10 (Posted: 2012/01/26 15:35)
o Lynch votes in Vengeance games will now be shown in the Staging room.
o Fixed some bugs with cults, altars and Veneration skillpoints not
properly being destroyed when the Leader of a Cult leaves his or her
Patron.
o You can no longer STAREDOWN at someone you are snubbing or someone who
is snubbing you.
o Shamanism's ENVISION ROOT will now properly allow you to resummon a
golem if your current one is dead.
o You may now replant plants (Herbs) if you are mounted and have the
AdvancedRiding ability in Beastmastery.
o Fixed a bug with Celestialism/Nihilism Beckon (untargetted) that would
allow it to bypass double firm blocking.
Changelog Entry #11 (Posted: 2012/01/27 10:46)
o You can now append 'FONT' to offering commands to offer via your Font
of the Gods only (ie ignoring shrines in the room). Example: OFFER
CORPSES FONT, OFFER LOBSTROSITY FONT.
o You may now use 'pale', 'dark', and 'amber' to refer to the beers by
those descriptions when using the liquid rift.
o Inscribing tarot cards can now use multiple paint palettes to inscribe
a single card, if needed.
Changelog Entry #12 (Posted: 2012/01/27 14:14)
o Fixed some bugs with snubbing.
o Music songs will no longer boost damage received from Healing other
players.
o READ <scroll> will no longer target magictomes unless you specify READ
MAGICTOME <scroll> (the syntax did not work anyway, but it would prevent
you from reading an actual Scroll of <whatever>).
o Families can no longer confirm political changes or
ascendants/descendants via their elected representative. (This may
change, but was previously actually counting the vote as being from the
representative's guild, not the family).
o When the leader of a city or commune tries to change their political
stance, it will show up in the org logs.
Changelog Entry #13 (Posted: 2012/01/28 00:14)
o Cities and Communes once again require the votes of Family
Representatives in matters of political change, and raising or unraising
ascendants.
o Stag Gore's Impale will now show up on diagnose and be listed in
WHATISCUREDBY WRITHE.
o Fixed a bug that could cause Veneration's SupplicantsPrayer to become
a permanent buff.
Changelog Entry #14 (Posted: 2012/01/28 11:26)
o It is no longer possible to rub rare curios which you do not own.
o Lusternia's Autocuring will no longer trigger while you are dead,
asleep, or stunned, nor will it bother trying to sip if you have an
affliction that prevents this (crucify, anorexia, etc).
o Laying out the consume text for cooking patterns will now use the
editor.
Changelog Entry #15 (Posted: 2012/01/28 17:17)
o The message user-interface has been given a slight update, as well as
new functionality. You can now use MSGS CONVERSATION <player> and MSGS
SEARCH <string>. More to come!
o You can now CLAN <clan> SWAP <clan> to switch the two clans around
with their numeric identifiers.
o The WHATISCUREDBY verb will now accept 'sip' and 'quaff' as synonyms
for 'drink' (in, for example, 'drink phlegmatic').
Changelog Entry #16 (Posted: 2012/01/29 13:01)
o The CLANS command now lists clans in numerical order.
o When an enchanted replica decays, the enchantment that was on it will
be shown in the message.
o You can now MSGS DELETE FROM <sender> to delete messages en masse. The
'sender' can be SYSTEM, LOST SOUL, or a player's name. Note that this is
permanent and irreversible.
Changelog Entry #17 (Posted: 2012/01/29 15:26)
o Ministers will now be listed in CWHO with their actual ministry,
rather than just showing as "City/Commune Minister".
o You can now SHOW SANITY.
o PYRAMID/PENTAGON PROBE [#] will now show the room number of any
remembered locations.
o You can now use MSGS DELETE <start> TO <end> to delete messages within
a certain range, INCLUSIVELY. Ie MSGS DELETE 50 TO 100 will delete any
messages you have with ID numbers bigger than or equal to 50, or less
than or equal to 100. As before, this is permanent and irreversible.
Changelog Entry #18 (Posted: 2012/01/29 18:01)
o You can now check MSGS FROM <person> or MSGS SENT <person> if you wish
to look further back than MSGS CONVERSATION <person> allows (20 most
recent messages).
o Fixed a bug with root members of families not seeing their
relationship with bloodbonded siblings properly.
o Loralaria's VioletVibrato now properly shows a third-person message.
o Fixed a bug with Astrology's Meteor not properly taking into account a
target's negative astrospheres when doing damage.
Changelog Entry #19 (Posted: 2012/01/30 10:06)
o Shamans can now create ceremonial fires within arenas - although they
will be destroyed at the end of the event.
o You can now IMBUE <figurine> WITH ALL ESTEEM.
o Dreambodies will no longer be affected by the weather.
o RMU now uses the new message layout.
Changelog Entry #20 (Posted: 2012/02/01 14:01)
o You can now use MSGS DELETE ALL without causing an error.
o Fixed some other minor bugs with the new message UI.
Changelog Entry #22 (Posted: 2012/02/04 13:51)
o AvariceHorn will no longer collect gold automatically if you are
riding and cannot reach the ground (ie you don't have AdvancedRiding).
o Fixed a bug with Shamanism Tornado affecting the caster's room rather
than the Tornado's room.
Changelog Entry #23 (Posted: 2012/02/06 15:37)
o Fixed a typo in the message for being afflicted with blindness
("Colors fade [...]" is now "Colours fade [...]").
o Dead mobs will no longer be coloured red on INFO HERE if they were
aggressive to you when they died.
Changelog Entry #24 (Posted: 2012/02/07 21:56)
o Updated a number of tables to take advantage of preferred width, where
appropriate.
o Vengeance games now specify the gender of the role in VENGEANCE
PLAYERS, if they are using custom characters.
o Players in the outer circle (only) of a Divine Order will no longer
hear a mob who is talking on the middle circle.
Changelog Entry #25 (Posted: 2012/02/08 16:33)
o IR, ILR and similar rift displays will now attempt to use preferred
widths.
Changelog Entry #26 (Posted: 2012/02/09 12:27)
o The type of an origami item will now be shown after it's short
description in INFO HERE, INFO INV, etc.
o Sips of generic fluids (such as alcohol and water) will no longer be
consumed in the arena.
o To bring it in line with other guild entourage dismissal verbs,
CRYSTALPLEX DESTROY ALL can no longer be forced.
Changelog Entry #27 (Posted: 2012/02/10 12:32)
o Cities and communes may now expand shops on their own. CITY/COMMUNE
EXPAND <shop>. This requires 1,000,000 gold to be in the Chancellor's
funds.
Changelog Entry #28 (Posted: 2012/02/11 14:57)
o The 'ruptured stomach' affliction will now properly check the target's
defences rather than the giver's.
o Momentum will now give natural decay messages if you have KA
MOMENTUMMSG ON.
o Fixed a long-standing and nonsensical bug that would cause an
untrapped error when typing GROUP if the leader of the group was
following another member of the group (Ie Iosai is following Estarra,
who is following Roark, who is following Iosai).
Changelog Entry #29 (Posted: 2012/02/11 16:44)
o Guild Protectors can now properly use Nexus Guardians.
o You can no longer attach flame sigils to eyeballs.
o Drunkenness will no longer cause scrambling in custom emotes.
o The periodic mana drain from Dramatics Review will now respect
Magicrowns.
o When buying esteem from a shop in bulk, each unit will cost the exact
number of sovereigns listed in the WARES rather than taking into account
decimal values when applying discounts. For example, esteem listed at
14gpu with a valid discount of 25% should be sold, theoretically, at
10.5gpu, but it shows up on wares at 10gpu. When buying 1,000 units, you
will now pay 10,000 gold instead of being surprised to pay 10,500 gold.
o FLESHCALL FLESHMOUND once again consumes 10 power.
Changelog Entry #30 (Posted: 2012/02/13 15:49)
o If a person logs out while locked into a module in an aethership,
another player will now be able to lock into the module and replace
them.
o FA is now a synonym for FIRSTAID.
o Clan tells will now no longer bypass snubbing for either the snubber
or the snubbed.
Penned by My hand on the 12th of Shanthin, in the year 317 CE.