[AC] Frelorn's Weekly Update

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Weekly Update 2/27/06

Hello there everyone. I do hope we all had a great weekend.

Not too long ago we made some changes to the Temples of Enlightenment and Forgetfulness. While we feel that these changes were a step in the right direction, there was room to make some changes. Coming in the March update we have made some tweaks to this system. When you log in after the March update, all players will have their temple timers reset. This means that once again you will be able to make those changes that some of you could not complete before. The first change that has been made is the splitting of the attribute timers. After the first round of changes were made you could pick up 18 attribute tokens, either attributes up or down. This system caused some confusion among some of the players, and some people picked up 18 tokens of raise or lower attributes, thinking they could pick up 18 more of the opposite tokens. For the March event, we have separated the timers on the attribute tokens, so that players will now be able to only pick up 9 of each type of attribute token.

Another change that is being made is the ability to correct mistakes once inside the temples. I can remember from my days in customer service, players putting in calls saying they had accidentally picked up the wrong gems. In the March event this will no longer be a problem. If for whatever reason a player picks up the wrong token, they can simply turn that token in to an NPC, and they will then be able to pick up another. This way, those mistakes will no longer be an issue. We have also made sure that the books in the temples have been updated to reflect all of the changes to the system.

This week the team will continue to check out the things going in for the March event. This includes any bugfixes or content revision that may have been suggested after testing. This is one of those weeks where a little bit of everything is being done in preparation for the March event.

I would also like to put out a warning/reminder that with the official launch of DDO this week, we may experience some slowness on the forums. There are a lot of people trying to access our websites and other resources this week, and while we do not foresee any issues with this, we will be monitoring the site for anything that may arise.

That’s it for this week. Everyone have a great day, and good hunting.

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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc