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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 31, 15 You now need to have a verified account to create new channels. New channels are created by default in 'require account' mode. Ignore is now account based by default. Also update help page. Ignore now works against players below world builder level (107). Remove the 'ignore gods' option. Generally improve ignore commands. Channel bans are now account bans by default. Channel owners can now be account based, but this only works with a very small number of owner commands, and old owners are single character only. From Shadowfax: Silence job failure strings on 'jobs find' command. Add acceptance and completion strings for seeker task. Display correct area locations for missionary and minister tasks. Display probable area location for the targets of hunter jobs. Disqualify cities from being the destinations of pilgrimages. Priest tasks no longer display on job commands if you no longer worship the taskmaster's god. Lower cost of almoner tasks. Raise maximum favor for non-clerics. Raise amount of favor gained by completing priest tasks. http://bit.ly/1Ozo7lk
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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 29, 15 Fix bug with god favor wrapping negative. Don't allow knockback twice in the same tactics combo. Add 'chat' group keyword. Make ground strike a little easier to use in combos. Make breathsave reduce target lag on druid wind spells. Totem carving is no longer required to use the generic carve command. Some changes to the way boat maps are built, so you might be able to sail closer to land in some areas. Shouldn't affect anything beyond that. http://bit.ly/22xQC6Q
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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 26, 15 Minor improvements to general 'check' command. Minor improvements to cleric 'check' command. Display combat tactics sorted by length. Add new level 28 warrior skill 'improvise tactic'. Add level 31 obscure warrior skill 'sunder'. Add new level 37 warrior skill 'create tactic'. From Shadowfax: Fix logic bug in rainbow code. Have autoremove switch out two-handed weapons and shields with their one-handed counterparts and vice versa. Prevent jobs from interfering with a mob's item trading and creating procedures. Validate pilgrimages to instanced areas. Add oblate, missionary, minister and seeker priest tasks. Fix priest job randomizer. Minor updates to job and task displays. Maximum god favor per player and the way favor is displayed has been changed. Even though your favor increases, the amount of favor that is displayed might not. It also takes increasingly longer to increase your favor as it gets higher. This is the first set of updates needed for the level 37 cleric skill and spell update. http://bit.ly/1YF5MI7
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Come and participate in our December Bash event: a Christmas gift from the staff of Alter Aeon to you, our players.
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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 24, 15 Add new level 21 warrior skill 'ground strike'. Add new level 16 warrior skill 'attract'. Raise warrior skill 'dragon lore' from level 16 to level 18. The warrior skill 'roar' is now dependent on 'attract'. Protectors will no longer be effective if berserking. Add 'credit buy comboreset'. Fix bug in new character name checker that was locking out certain names for no good reason. Enraged mobs will no longer telepathically inform their targets when they stop being enraged. Combo attack patterns are now created with taunt, knockback, and ground strike included in them. The way the advanced tactics are created has also changed - there are more of each category, but they're in general shorter. We'll be adding a way to reset your combo attack scheme in the near future, so don't panic. http://bit.ly/1m8qbEp
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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 23, 15 Add new level 24 warrior skill 'enrage'. Taunt can now be used in combat. Updates to morale, including morale display on look and sends when enemy morale is recovering. The Mush-Z developers have released a new update! Make sure to thank the volunteers who work on it for their effort. The warrior skill 'protect' now works on a bunch of different types of incidental hits and some specp targetting. http://bit.ly/1TiylUV
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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 21, 15 Increase exp on mage scroll scribing. More internal reworks to mob memory. Prevent splitting of crystal coated items. Cleanup and changes to the way incidental hits are handled, in prep for various warrior skill updates. The internal combat code has needed cleanup for a while, so expect weirdness until we get things under control. Druid spellstaffs now create without the druid class flag by default. You can create them with the flag by adding the 'druidonly' flag on staff create. See help page. From Shadowfax: Can't pickpocket random objects if they are too large. Bloodmist demons send a different string when withdrawing due to target's low hp than when they otherwise die. http://bit.ly/1JqmYVm
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Happy Winter Solstice, from the staff of Alter Aeon. Only two more days until our big year-end event begins!
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Reminder: our December event will be starting next Wednesday! Don't miss out!
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Level 37, here I come!

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 14, 15 Make the necromancer 'possession' spell obscure. Make crystalline mob types resistant to slashing weapons. Fix up the exp conversion bug for the thief skill change on the 13th. Infrastructure changes to mob memory. If you see obvious brokenness, please report it. From Shadowfax: Confused plural mobs have a chance of fighting amongst themselves. 'Tasks' command aliased to 'jobs'. Add sector options for 'feats' and 'deeds' commands. See updated help pages for 'feats', 'deeds' and 'legacies'. Option to find jobs by type added. The first priest tasks have been added: the almoner task and the pilgrim task. Ability to convert via priest removed. http://bit.ly/1NtVUq5
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Later on in the month will start our Christmas/year end events. This will be approximately an eleven day event starting on Thursday December 23rd and ending sometime on Sunday January 3rd or Monday Jan 4th. It will be two events merged into one. Krampus with the help of the Grinch, Scrooge and their minions think they have found a way to put an end to Christmas. This will be the Christmas event that will run from December 23rd till Friday the 25th, but will be available the entire eleven days. Jack Frost has recruited the Snow Queen and the king of the glacier dwarves to try to prevent the changing of the New Year in hopes that winter will never end. This second event will begin on December 30th and run till Friday the 1st. All wrapping up Sunday night or Monday morning. The EPDS (Emergency Package Delivery System) will be set up in various places for players to try their hand at. We will also have two different sets of monster pk mobs, the Christmas reindeers and the year end mobs. There will be various other fun things added as well.
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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 13, 15 Switch thief shadow bind, shadow strike, reduce antidote, and cloak of fear to use modern exp handling functions, instead of crap custom code. Expect differences to exp and a few rounds of rebalancing after we collect data on the new exp distribution. After discussions on the bovine channel, a new level/exp policy has been decided regarding the maximum exp to level, practice costs, and caps. The details of the change are roughly: - The normal exp cap is now limited to 250k exp. Since the maximum level cost is limited, the exp cap should also be limited. - The maximum practice cost has been reduced to 16 million. This should help slightly encourage people to buy practices with experience instead of levels. - The maximum level cost has been reduced to 1.8 billion, and will be split into 30 microlevels of 60 million experience each. This new design should help clean up some long term balance issues and allow us to add higher levels without having to rework the setup every time. We hope. http://bit.ly/1NOgLrO
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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 11, 15 Shadow asylum is now less tolerant of players hiding in containers. Fix spellcast ordering of infravision. Cleanup to cast fail strings for tinctures and salves. More strongly restrict source and destination for summon spell. The mage 'summon' spell is now obscure. Level 37 is now available! As a side effect of this, the maximum exp cost per level is now 36 microlevels at 56 million, instead of 31 at 49 million. Add level 37 mage skill 'crystal elemental'. Add level 37 mage skill 'greater lightning elemental'. Add level 37 druid spell 'ancient oak'. Add level 37 druid skill 'spirit totem'. http://bit.ly/1QlNZkz
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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 09, 15 Cut charge cooldown in half. Successful cry of victory now clears charge cooldown. Sanctuary now comes before sandstorm in spell parse order. From Shadowfax: There is now a slight delay after completing any quest before associated achievements are checked. The autocalculated level of quests are being replaced with the level of the area to which they are native in various displays. The earthquake spell does extra damage to earth type creatures. http://bit.ly/1Y4awS6
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Log in every day in December for your daily advent gift! I got mine! What will yours be?

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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 08, 15 Lower credit cost of weightless merge and split. Add 30 second cooldown for warrior charge. Split a soulbind spellgroup out of the necromancer spiritlore group. Add level 17 druid salve 'insect repellent'. Add level 30 druid spell 'thorn armor'. Add obscure level 32 druid skill 'call yeti'. Add level 33 druid salve 'sunscreen'. Add level 34 druid spell 'sandstorm'. http://bit.ly/1ITqXtw
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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 04, 15 Various fixes to scroll scribing. Move lance command before land in main parser. http://bit.ly/1RuTkoS
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Alter Aeon server updates for Dec 03, 15 Split druid carving and runes into two separate skill groups. Various exp tweaks to thief steal skills. Fix some display bugs in clan storage. Mage skill 'spell lore' has been lowered from level 28 to level 26. Mage skill 'crystal focusing' has been lowered from level 35 to level 31. Add level 28 mage skill 'scribe scroll'. Add level 33 mage skill 'scroll chaining'. Add level 35 mage skill 'greater lightning elemental'. http://bit.ly/1XE7B7J
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