Wednesday, December 31, 2014

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 31, 14 More weather/overcast updates. Raise warrior 'taunt' skill from level 6 to level 9. Upgrade warrior 'flank attack' skill. Add exp to warrior 'rally' skill. Raise druid salve 'cover scent' from level 31 to level 32. Add level 27 cleric curse 'revocation'. Add level 24 cleric skill 'cursebreaker' for removing curses on items. Change stupid exp calculations for withdraw, berserk, and blood rage. The exp on these skills will probably have to be rebalanced in coming months as a result. http://bit.ly/1I0vIQL

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Monday, December 29, 2014

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 29, 14 Changes from Shadowfax: Updates and additions to check command - check cleric, thief, and druid. Fix parsing bug in 'drop all.item'. Raise cleric charisma limit requirement by one point. The next increment is scheduled for around Feb 01, 2015. http://bit.ly/1zs0PAn

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Saturday, December 27, 2014

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 27, 14 Tweaks to hitpoints on a few necromancer minions. Dragonbreath defense now works with worn shields. Help page updated. Display if you're the current bid winner on the auction 'bid' command. Tweaks to weather to hopefully make it a little less overcast in general. Raise level of warrior skill 'unarmed combat' from level 12 to 13. Add new level 12 warrior skill, 'knockback'. Tinctures can now be brewed with only one herb, and no other ingredients. Salves can now be brewed with only two herbs, and no other ingredients. The 'withdraw' command now has a different action when tanking: if your groups contains multiple tanks, one tank may withdraw to hand off the attacker to other tanks in the group. It is not possible to perform a thief withdraw while using the warrior tanking skill. More fixes and tweaks to druid poison mushroom. The ripe mushrooms should be lower level now, but will pack more of a kick. http://bit.ly/1rs06kF

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Christmas may be over, but the end of the year is rapidly approaching! In addition to the events, the advent calendar will be giving out daily gifts to players. We'll also be adding a number of new spells and skills every day or two. The reindeer competition is also open - winners using the reindeer mob set when in an arena will get one of the few remaining 2014 deeds! Lastly, don't forget that Alter Aeon's big 20th anniversary is also approaching. The main event for the anniversary is planned to start on the 15th of January, and last through the weekend.

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Friday, December 26, 2014

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 26, 14 Add appropriate lag to 'call squirrel'. Raise soulforge exp, and make it somewhat dependent on stone level. Various updates to poison mushroom. Don't display auction bidder names. This makes auctions anonymous again. Reduce mana drain for water weirds and shambling mounds. Raise hitpoints of a few druid minions - bears, moose, water weird. Call thunder can now knock down fighting characters when it hits. Riposte can trigger on shield block, and should be easier to land now. The druid 'spook' skill is no longer required for other skills in the animal skilltree, and has been marked obscure. This was an unexpectedly difficult skill to make useful, and this change reflects that. http://bit.ly/1x8l9cI

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Thursday, December 25, 2014

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 25, 14 Allow 'thunder seeds' to use an acorn instead, if no seeds are available. Add level 10 druid skill, 'call squirrel'. Add level 13 druid spell, 'deadoak'. Add help page on item enchanting. The druid 'liveoak' spell is now dependent on deadoak, and is part of the druid 'plant lore' skill tree. http://bit.ly/1EkoM4E

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 24, 14 Fix weight bug in new grenade component autosplit code. Don't idle time out players in mob arenas. Add client information to avatar 'whereis' command. Improve syntax and do other cleanup on the new 'carve weapon' skill. Raise hitpoints on druid called porcupines. Reduce delay when calling animals. Add swarms of bats and swarms of rats to the druid 'call animal' skill. http://bit.ly/1A6skDu

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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

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Our year end celebration starts on Wednesday, December 24, and will continue all the way through January first! We have several sets of events planned, including present cannons, teleporting gifts, mob arenas, and an event area with quests. In addition to the events, the advent calendar will be giving out daily gifts to players. We'll also be adding a number of new spells and skills every day or two. Lastly, don't forget that Alter Aeon's big 20th anniversary is also approaching. The main event for the anniversary is planned to start on the 15th of January, and last through the weekend. We hope to see you there!

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 23, 14 Increase the number of allowed lines in long descriptions. Add new 'shield block' effect for items. Summon demon power now takes a lot less hp to use. Autosplit to one pound spell components when putting them in grenades. Make it a little easier to tell when druid totems are finished. Make it a little easier to tell when druid carving is at its limit. Add cast level to cleric holy weapons. Add new 'shield block' item effect. Parry now only requires 4 practices to learn. Parry is now bypassed by spit and blast damage types. Add new warrior 'shield block' skill, and modify the way parry works. Parry's defensiveness was effectively split in half, with different weapon/shield combinations having different block and parry behaviour. See the help page for details. http://bit.ly/13CsIwL

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Monday, December 22, 2014

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THE FIRE SWAMPS: a new area by Kagome has opened, just in time for Christmas! Visit Blanagan the scientist in Behr'zok for the quest!

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 22, 14 Display help page wis/chr requirements for skills, if applicable. Add cast level to cleric spirit hammers. Revert yesterday's permspell change due to unanticipated issues. Add a token amount of exp for soulforging. Add new level 6 druid skill, 'carve weapon'. http://bit.ly/1GQA5zb

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

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Happy Winter Solstice from Alter Aeon!

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 21, 14 Display login warning for accounts with broken email addresses. Add 'gather staff' to allow gathering of wood to make druid spellstaffs. Raise the number of charges that can be stored in spellstaffs. Improve the gold conversion rate for 'credit buy reforge'. Shut off farsee in closed areas. Limit noxious cloud charisma effect to -5 points. Add level 25 druid tincture, 'trollsblut'. Turn undead now has wisdom and charisma requirements. Raise duration on a few tinctures. Change the composite limits for rune carving to make them simpler to calculate. Probably an overall increase. Add new level 10 skill, 'firebrand', for carving (burning runes onto) leather and hides. Lower 'call waterborn' from level 32 to level 21 druid and make it dependent on animal lore instead of animal magnetism. Add a 'whereis' command for moderators and avatars to pull up information on new players. This is intended to make it easier to help new players. It is limited to players below level 20 that are on the newbie islands. Permspell items can now only override cast spells up to 2/3 the permspell level, instead of up to the same level. Add a few more warning strings when your charisma is near the aggression limit of a mob. Also taper down the rate as your charisma increases. http://bit.ly/1CqBhaa

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Friday, December 19, 2014

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 18, 14 Shut off "intermud tells" warning on login. Change and lower gold costs for most of the 'enchant' skills. Lower necromancer 'soulbind' skill from level 35 to level 32. Add the 'lighteater' skill for necromancers. This is an 'enchant' ritual which can be used to remove light and glow flags from items. Add the 'silence' skill for necromancers. This is an 'enchant' ritual which can be used to remove hum flags from items. Add the 'disenchant' skill for necromancers. This is an 'enchant' ritual which can be used to remove magical effects from items. Instead of gold being left behind in corpses, the game now takes 20% of your gold when you die. There is a hard limit of 100k gold if you happen to be carrying a lot of it. Soulbind now only gives castlevel to bone armor if a purple or better soulstone is used. http://bit.ly/1wvikCA

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 18, 14 Lower the mandatory 'account verify' limit from level 25 to level 20. Don't allow donating of plane-bound items. Improve 'summon demon lockinfo'. Add new level 31 necromancer skill, 'demonic wardbreaker'. http://bit.ly/1Axk2T3

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Alter Aeon Update Summary - December 2014 December 18, 2014 at 07:01AM Here's a list of Alter Aeon updates since the October update: New and updated areas: The underground city of Runn-Khal has opened on the island of Kordan. This level 16 zone provides a fun story and quest line for players not quite ready for Qoorik or the other high level areas on Kordan. The catacombs below Azeroth Keep on the island of Archais have been updated and expanded. The area is now a level 27 group zone, and should provide lots of fun for players not yet ready to approach the mainland. On the mainland, three level 31 areas have opened to the northwest of Ralnoth: Wallachia City, the Village of Vom, and the ruined castle of Radobaj. These areas were put together by the builders Draak and Shadowfax. We've also put a lot of work into adjusting levels on the new player islands to streamline them and make sure players can find zones appropriate for their level. Server code updates: Add item fetch jobs to the new player islands. Use the 'job find' command on each island to hunt down available jobs. Additions to the various event commands, including teleporting players to event areas and making events more friendly to low level players. Vast improvements and additions to mob arenas. Mob arenas can now be used as part of events, and there have been a lot of fixes to allow more class spells and skills to work in arenas. Casting cleric spells now requires the wisdom and charisma stats, instead of wisdom and intelligence. The charisma requirement is currently very low - approximately ten points below the wisdom requirement. The charisma requirement is expected to raise by one point every few months until it is four points below the wisdom requirement. Existing players can buy a stat swap for approximately 150k gold to help update their character. There's a new Mush-Z release which fixes some startup and reinstall bugs. Game events: The December advent calendar has been running since the first, so don't forget to log in and get your advent gifts! These special gifts only appear in December, so if you miss them, you have to wait until next year. Our year end events are coming up in a couple of weeks. Check the 'show event' and 'show schedule' commands in the next few days for more information. Lastly, the Alter Aeon 20th Anniversary event is coming up the week of January 15th. This marks two full decades of Alter Aeon, and we expect to see a lot of older faces as well as new. We hope to see you there! Alter Aeon MUD http://bit.ly/1czgEvf To unsubscribe or manage your email preferences, click on the link below, or copy the link into your browser address bar. http://bit.ly/1z7VXVS

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Thursday, December 4, 2014

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

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http://on.fb.me/1d6mrqp will now point to our Page instead of Alter's personal profile. It is pretty barren at the moment but will soon start being populated with content. I plan on adding other Alter Aeon staff as admin such as Dennis Towne and Darius Spangler in the near future, so they'll be able to post on the Alter Aeon Page, as well. If you are interested in following the posts that I personally make (like event announcements, screenshots and web links) but not automated status updates (i.e. the changelog), you can continue to follow the personal page and not the business Page. You can like it anyway! I'll probably be changing Alter Aeon's name to something more innocuous in the future. Those of you following us on Google or one of our blogs or newsfeeds shouldn't notice any difference, but there might be slight hiccup in those services while I re-align my automation recipes. If something doesn't look right, be sure to notify me right away by mudmailing Shadowfax in-game or messaging Alter Aeon so I can fix it.

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