[AC] Weekly Update 3/12/07

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Hello there and welcome to the March 12th edition of the Weekly Update! Let’s get right in to what is going on this week.

So I know some of you are concerned over the key/chest issues with the Colosseum, and we have not forgotten about you. At some point in the next week or so, those people who have contacted us about the chest errors they got from using the reward key for completing the Colosseum will be contacted. The good news in all of this is that we are very optimistic that we have found a fix for the issues surrounding the chest, and the fixes needed should go live with the March event. In the meantime, we will continue to ask that if you are using the chest please make sure to use caution and to be courteous make sure you loot everything out of the chest before closing it for the next person to use.

We have made some other changes to the Colosseum. Here is a list of some of those changes that we have made for the March event.


• Replaced the second Carenzi fight with a Tukora Lugian fight

• The Swarm Demons have had their AL lowered from 2000 to 1200

• Balanced the Golem Crystal Lord so that it can be hit by Melee/Magic/Missile

• Rebalanced Golem Crystal Lord's resistances and AL, it should be less mage friendly

• The Regen rate on the Elite Guardians has been slightly reduced

• The Ninja fight has been increased by 2 Ninjas

• Ninjas now wield a number of elemental tachis instead of just frost

• Wisps no longer drop treasure

• Master Arbitrator returns your ticket if your fellowship already has access to a Colosseum Branch.

• Alarms in the Arenas now countdown in a more useful way. They inform players each minute for the last 5 minutes how much time they have left.



In recent weeks there have been many inquiries about when Crowley’s Producer’s statement will be released. If all goes well it should be soon. We are in the process of getting all of the final details worked out and making sure that all the t’s are crossed and the i’s are dotted. I want to get it published as bad as you all want to read it, trust me.

As most of you may have heard by now, we will be having a Developer’s chat this week with our friends over at Warcry. It will be on Thursday the 15th at 8pm EDT. You can head over to http://ac.warcry.com/#69404 for all of the details. Please join us if you can. It should be a fun evening.

We have had a small delay in releasing the details of the upcoming make a movie contest I had mentioned last week. Our legal team just wants to go over everything to make sure all of the bases are covered. We should have all the information on the upcoming contest very soon.

Last but not least, we will be paying the maintenance on all housing for the next couple of weeks in order to help out those people who are having issues getting the game to run while using Windows Vista. This is only a temporary thing and is not a substitution for a proper fix for those people having problems. We however do feel that people having problems should not be punished for upgrading their operating systems. We are hopeful we will be able to find a solution in the meantime. We appreciate everyone’s patience while we work though these issues.

That’s about it for this week. Everyone have a great day and see you all in Dereth!
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc