[AC] August Developer Notes

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August 2005 Developers' Notes


New Content and Functionality
The size of the Withered Atoll has been increased for additional high-level hunting without offensive Life Magic.
New styles of weapons have been added to the treasure system.
All Hea-style Tumeroks in game have had their art upgraded.

Miscellaneous Changes and Improvements
A new splash screen for this month's event!
Antius has left Stonehold, leaving an Emissary in his place.
The buy/sell rates of the vendors in Sanamar have been adjusted to match the rates in Shoushi, Holtburg and Yaraq.
The War spell Dark Flame has had its damage increased to bring it in line with other level 5 projectile spells.
The burden of many starting items has been reduced in order to help prevent players from creating new characters that start out over 100% burden.
Characters that exit the Sanamar Training Academy now find themselves at the gates of Sanamar, rather than a short distance away. Many of the Portal Guardians have retired, leaving one Guardian at the entrance to Sanamar.
Some creature spawns that were too close to housing have been removed.
Some trees and bushes that were too close to housing have been removed.
Using a Dark Idol on a War Bow no longer changes the name to Dark Longbow.
Collectors will now give you a hint as to what to do with a Ruschk Scalp.
Tirenia now advises characters to take a group before leaving on the Assault quest.
Viamontian Mages and Knights will now protect each other as well as protecting Eaters.
Maddened and other crazed Fiun will now protect Eaters.
Human-slayer weapons will no longer do bonus damage to any Viamontian Mages or Knights. What magic is this?
The chat window margins have been increased slightly.
Lila Fiori no longer checks a character's level when sending the character on her quest or accepting the quest items.
The vitae loss from the final portal in King Browerk's lair has been reduced from 10% to 5%
The Hermit now gives a proportional XP reward in return for completing her quest.
The respawn rate on the Brewmaster Spine and Sdolin Buk has been reduced to 10 seconds.
It should now be easier to select objects by clicking on the object's radar blip.
The signage and portal drop locations for the Samsur Butte and Arida Butte settlements have been corrected.
It is now possible to craft Black Marrow Keyrings from Gold Golem Hearts.
Banished and Fallen creatures now spawn less frequently on landscape.
It is no longer possible to perch on the pillars when fighting Sir Bellas.
Some graphics issues in the Augmentation Realm have been resolved.
Agents of the Arcanum will now correctly reward level 126 characters and above with 15 million XP in return for Gaerlan's sword.
Proportional XP awards received by level 275 characters will now correctly burn vitae loss.
Scriveners that sell level 4, 5 and 6 spells can now be found on the Halaetan Isles.
It is now possible to select Allegiance Bindstones via the keyboard.
Selecting an item in a vendor's shop will now show the number that he has for sale if it is a limited quantity item.
It should no longer be possible to get items stuck in container slots on your paper doll panel.
Scrolling to the end of long vendor lists and then reopening the vendor should no longer display a blank list.
Rare items that have use timers now show the timers when examined.
You should now be able to use healing kits, and other items that require a player character target, on fellowship members by using them on the character's name in the fellowship panel.
The spawn timers on the notes in the Oswald's Skill Manual quest have been reduced to 30 seconds.
Pre-patch Hoary Mattekar Robes should now have the correct icon.
The Snow Flake Charm is now ivoryable.
It is now possible to pick up Tenassa Leggings and Sleeves from the ground by selecting them with the mouse.
The camera stiffness slider now functions properly.
Brightness settings are now saved when you log out.
You can now hit the spacebar to skip individual slides of the login display.
A tooltip now appears when you have dragged an item over to another object, player or NPC in the 3D window, so you can be sure you're about to hand it to the right thing or person.
You can now bind a key to "Create Shortcut." The default is the 0 key.
We've upped the limits on useable hooked items in several categories. For example you may now hook up to 10 portal devices in a mansion.
We've increased the cap on maximum salvage to take into account specialized Salvaging.
Two static Black Marrow Reliquaries did not have the correct 1 week timer, this has been corrected.
The local broadcast when a Rare is found is now bright pink. In addition, an audio cue has been added.
/r now works properly when the shift key is depressed.
Hitting OK in the keymapping UI will now save your changes.
Hitting the Tab key while in an inscription window will now switch your focus to the chat bar.
An extra carriage return at the end of the chat UI has been removed.
Clothing such as undershirts and pants can now be removed by dragging them from the paper doll even if they were equipped via the clothing slot.
The allegiance UI will now show the correct number of followers beneath the monarch even if that number is greater that 9,999.
You can now cancel charging for jump with the Tab, Enter and Esc keys.
A bug that could cause the burden and pack space bars to fill from left to right instead of from top to bottom has been fixed.
Luressi di Maki no longer trades portal gems for I notes.
@log files will now properly show timestamps if timestamps are enabled.

Minor Details
Some tooltips have had their margins adjusted.
The Tumerok Mine portal is now yellow.
There is now an audible click when you press the Chat button.
The Knath Lair Portal and the Snow Flame Charms are now inscribable.
A tree that was clipping into the Ithaenc Cathedral has been removed.
A tooltip for Mana in character creation now correctly indicates that Mana is based on the Self attribute.
Many light flares and inexplicably floating objects have been removed from landscape. (Don't worry though, we didn't remove that vase in Nanto!)
The description of the Pearl of Defending now correctly notes that it works on casting objects as well.
The portraits in Xi Ru's temple have been upgraded.
Minor spell icon graphical issues have been resolved.
The Soul Chalice now looks green when placed on the ground.
Several typos have been corrected in NPC text and item descriptions.
The Hebian-To lifestone has been moved slightly to resolve a graphics issue.
The icorns for the Brighteye's Favor and Ketnan's Eye spells have been tweaked slightly.
A display issue in the allegiance panel when your patron is also your monarch has been corrected.
Graphics issues on white loot casting orbs have been resolved.
Client auto-centering in windowed mode now takes the taskbar and any docked windows into account.
The mouse pointer for resizing the chat window has been improved.
It is no longer possible to try to use Chickens. They never did anything anyways, what were you people trying to do?!
August 2005: Friend and Foe