[AC] Dev Notes April 2006

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Developer's Notes

New Content and Functionality

The Viamontian version of Shadowhunter Armor will be available this month. It will be made in the same way that the other versions were made in the past. Make sure to start collecting your Shards now!

There have been reports of some strange gems dropping off of members of the Raven Hand and Shadow Virindi. The reports so far are that these gems lead to some new and exciting places.

Some adventurers have been reporting also finding a gem on the corpse of the infamous White Rabbit. The way the story goes is that these gems may lead to the lair of a younger member of the White Rabbit family.

Ciandra is reporting that the Essences of Magic are on the move again. Make sure to have a conversation with her about what she thinks is going on.

Spring is here. That means the snow is gone and the magic of life has returned to Dereth. The baby creatures have returned and the trees and flowers are blooming again.

There is a new character option called Confirm Use of Rare Gems. It can be toggled in the character options panel or mapped to a key and has appropriate tool tips. This option is on by default for new characters, but off for existing characters to match existing behavior.

When on, this option causes the use of a rare volatile gem to trigger a confirmation dialog, pressing yes goes ahead and uses the gem; pressing no aborts and does not use the gem. When the option is off, the gem is used immediately.


Miscellaneous Changes and Improvements

Worn Old Missile weapons had the wrong wield requirements on them. The missile weapons in the higher bracket were intended to have a wield requirement of 315. However, they ended up with a wield requirement of 350, which makes them rather useless to the players who were finding them. This has been fixed.

The Books of Salt and Ash will now tell players how long they must wait to pick up a new set of pages when players try to use them before the timer is up.

A problem where the Mountain Keep portal would not spawn has been fixed. The portal should now spawn without a problem.

Ulgrim the Unappreciated has finally removed his Ursuin costume. With the coming of the warmer months he decided it was time to get out of that hot costume.

Several typos have been fixed on NPC's.