Release Notes

[Halaster]

August 12, 2023 (Saturday)

Ataraxis
- back end updated to character application
- Web based Character Application tool can now show the skills, perks, and branching of guild/subguild choice.

[Halaster]

August 19, 2023 (Saturday)

Zorkbob the Inhaler
- fixed issues with Identify spell

[Halaster]

August 26, 2023 (Saturday)

Zorkbob the Inhaler
- Added ceramic and clay to the possible taxable material lists for shopkeepers and cities

[Brokkr]

August 31, 2023 (Thursday)

Brokkr
-Finished a review of all component items
  -Quite a few that were .01 stones in weight are now heavier.
  -Brought back some components that have been out of circulation.  Including some new crafting recipes.
  -Implemented some functionality that has been in for a couple of years but not utilized (have fun finding out what it is!)

[Halaster]

September 2, 2023 (Saturday)

Zorkbob the Inhaler
- Fixed typo in analyzing bandages
- Analyzing bandage now matches how the bandage skill works, w.r.t. telling the
   player if the bandage is better than their character could make use of with their
   bandage skill.

Halaster
- Updated (made more difficult to use) an old Drovian spell, and put it back in the game

[Halaster]

September 10, 2023 (Sunday)

Zorkbob the Inhaler
- Removed a material type, added two new ones to help with shop values & taxes
- Fixed bug in starting gear

[Halaster]

September 16, 2023 (Saturday)

Ataraxis
- Fixes to MSSP implementation.
     - MSSP MININUM AGE set to 18.
     - Discord variable added to MSSP (https://discord.gg/8uNTuQDDJ6)
     - Fixed MSSP Subgenre

Zorkbob the Inhaler
- Severed heads will now keep the same weight between logging out and back in again
- Added logging of PC deaths to a spell.

[Halaster]

September 23, 2023 (Saturday)

Ataraxis
- Fixed an issue where escaped muls could be mistakenly be given bendune and tribal accent (instead of southern accent), and fail to be automatically incriminated
- Fixed issue with (upcoming) account registration web tool

Zorkbob the Inhaler
- Updated a staff command
- Added sytrax to weapon calculations as its own set of numbers
- A new poison has been added
- New Skellebain echoes have been added
- Krathi spell modified to be more effective

[Halaster]

September 30, 2023 (Saturday)

Halaster
- Fixed a bug with an Elkros spell

Zorkbob the Inhaler
- Various backend bug fixes

Ataraxis
- Fixes to our MSSP implementation

[Halaster]

October 7, 2023 (Saturday)

Halaster
- converted Hall of Kings to new javascript, enabling staff to update and make changes much more easily and on the fly

[Halaster]

October 9, 2023 (Monday)

Halaster
- fixed a crash bug
- updated player version to adjust karma

Ataraix
- Drovian and Vivaduan subguilds (excluding touched) are no longer selectable without specapp.
- Full guild Water and Shadow elementalists are selectable in character generation for the appropriate karma.
  -- Full guild Vivaduans are 2 karma, and full guild Drovians are 3 karma.
  See this post for details:  https://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,59929.0.html

[Halaster]

October 15, 2023 (Sunday)

Aesira
- Fixed crash bug with a particular psionic ability

Zorkbob the Inhaler
- Fixed a couple of bugs with staff commands

[Halaster]

October 21, 2023 (Saturday)

Aesira
- multiple memory leak and crash bug fixes
- debug support for javascripts

Halaster
- clean up some logs that staff see

Ursun
- Fixed typo in display of singular items (think coins)
- Fixed a bug with scroll/book titles and keywords

[Halaster]

October 28, 2023 (Saturday)

Ataraxis
- Adding the ability for the game to send messages to the Discord server.
- Wishes will now be sent to a staff Discord channel.
- Tektolnes will notify #general when the game starts ups.

Halaster
- Creatures that naturally poison will now have a limit on how much they can do so, based on size

Ursun
- Rationalizing interactions with ethereal objects
- No falling damage whilst ethereal

Zorkbob the Inhaler
- fixes to staff commands
- fixes to npc_brain

[Halaster]

November 4, 2023 (Saturday)

Ataraxis
- Fixed an issue with skills not showing in the character creation web tool.

Halaster
- Fixed a bug with aggressive flag

[Halaster]

November 5, 2023 (Sunday)

Aesira
- Fixed crash from poisoned darts
- Fixed performance issue with NPC AI routines

[Halaster]

November 11, 2023 (Saturday)

Aesira
- Fixed memory leaks in common NPC and player actions

Ataraxis
- Thryzn can no longer choose full guild elementalists in character creation

Ursun
- Ethereal bug fixes
- Fixed a small bug in new account creation

[Halaster]

Hotfix
November 15, 2023 (Wednesday)

Aesira
- Improvements to the performance of the code causing the recent lag

Ursun
- Fixed some unintended dispel magick side effects.

[Halaster]

November 18, 2023 (Saturday)

Aesira
- Improved file I/O performance
- Fixed common intermittent crash bug
- Fix crash related to logins

Ursun
- Ethereal bug fixes

[Halaster]

November 23, 2023 (Thursday) (Gobble Gobble)

Ursun
- Implemented auto code formatting

Aesira
- Fix to intermittent crashes
- Fixed a couple of memory leaks

[Halaster]

November 24, 2023 (Friday)

Aesira
- Fixes intermittent crashes

[Halaster]

December 2, 2023 (Saturday)

Aesira
- Removed the ability to check if people are online by using contact in a certain way
- Removed the ability to check if people are online by casting certain spells

Ursun
- Bug fix for a psionic skill.
- Look room shows visible people who are riding invisible mounts.
- Various bug fixes to look room.
- Reduced trample command delay for some of the cases in which no trampling happens ("You aren't riding").

[Halaster]

December 3, 2023 (Sunday)

Ursun
- Look room no longer shows you your own mount (reverts unwanted change from previous fixes).
- Bugfix for a nilazi spell.

[Halaster]

HOTFIX
December 8, 2023 (Friday)

Halaster
- Fixed crash bug with a Nilazi spell and the flee command

[Halaster]

December 23, 2023 (Saturday)

Ursun
- Add functionality for changing the current game date (for Seasons).

Zorkbob the Inhaler
- Codified certain scripts that run to fix objects.  It's now hard-coded instead of having scripts automatically fix them every pulse.