[AC] Dev Notes

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New content and Functionality



There is a rumor floating around Dereth that a smith who can craft Viamontian Shadow Armor may be somewhere in Dereth. From what has been told, he is not quite ready to begin crafting the armor yet. His goal this month appears to be collecting information.


The temples of Forgetfulness and Enlightenment both now have the option for players to turn in unused tokens that may have been mistakenly picked up to an NPC. They will then be able to pick up another token in its place.


We have split up the timers on the attribute gems so that players can not make the mistake of picking up 18 of one type of token. Players can now only pick up 9 of the un-train and train tokens respectively. As a side effect of this change, all players will have their timers reset for changing attributes. This will not affect the timers on skill changes. Players will be able to keep all of the tokens they already have.


The books in the temples of Enlightenment and Forgetfulness have been updated to reflect all of the recent changes to the temples.


A language filter has been added into the game this month. It can be activated in the character options section of your user interface. While we know this filter won't catch everything, it will allow those people who do not want to see certain words, the ability to filter them out. We do want to be clear this is not a substitute for reporting language to customer service. If you see someone using profanity we still encourage everyone to report the offending person. This filter is simply a means to help reduce the visibility of these words to those people who do not wish to see them.


We have made a lot of changes to help improve PvP this month. Including damage changes and the ability to make loot generated weapons un-enchantable. You can read more about these changes here. We are really excited about these changes and we feel they are helping us move in the right direction. We will continue to take in all feedback on these improvements and make changes based on that feedback.


A shadowy pair of figures arrive in Dereth this month, promising the ability to help players erase any evidence of their previous service to either Elysa or Varicci. They are essentially offering to knock a player's Loyalty record back to zero, so they would be free to start over on the questing ladder and choose to serve a different monarch. Of course, this service comes at a price, and the mysterious agents will only risk interfering with royal records once per character. Any Loyalty quests introduced after this month will be beyond the power of the agents to erase, so there will be a point (coming soon!) at which a player's Loyalty will be permanent.
Miscellaneous Changes and Improvements

After some changes were made to rares system, we found that non Throne of Destiny players were also getting rares. There was also an issue where PK Deaths had a chance to generate a rare on Death. These have both been fixed for March.


Ciandra has had some typos fixed in her speech regarding the Essences of Magic quest.


Minor and Major Salvaging have been surpassing Alchemy spells of the same strength. This has been fixed for March.


Players were reporting that after they put down their Rose of Celdon ring they could not longer pick it up. This has been fixed.


On the Glenden Wood Invasion part II players were only getting the minimum reward they were qualified for, even though they were eligible to get the higher level reward. This has been fixed and players should now get the proper rewards for this quest.


All characters on the account of a character who owns a house will have greater permissions involving house management. These characters will be able to add and remove guests, add and remove storage permissions, open and close the house, boot freeloaders, and even place items on the house's hooks. There are only two things that a non-owner character on the same account can't do with a house: abandon the house, and change the allegiance permissions. In addition, other characters on your account will be automatically removed from the house guest list the first time they log in, thus making more space for legitimate guests.


We've also made some changes to the command @house available, which lists how many houses of each type and available for purchase and the locations of the houses (except apartments). First off, we added a shorter alias for @house available, called @hslist. Secondly, this command now takes as a parameter the type of house you'd like to list. For instance, @hslist villa will show you a list of only the available villas, while @hslist mansion will show you only mansions. Keep in mind that the list of results is still limited to 400 houses, however, so if there are more than 400 cottages available you will only see the first 400 locations.


Fixed a typo in the magic chat filter tool tip.


You can now bind a key to select (but not open) the next unopened corpse.


Using the @help command to lookup the definition and usage for one of the new global chat commands failed to list the alternate command names for that command. @help now lists the alternate commands for the global channels.


The allegiance panel previously would not show commas in the numbers it displayed. This has been fixed.


Previously when Viamontian players would attempt to un-spec loyalty, they would receive an odd message. Viamontian players should now receive the correct message when un-specing loyalty.