Alter Aeon Fall 2016 Update

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Twenty Years - A recording of my observations and opinions regarding Alter Aeon. This time I decided to record a video instead of write an article. Fifteen Years: http://bit.ly/2dMnQMS
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Alter Aeon server updates for Oct 09, 16 Infrastructure changes to board posting, note writing, and email. Drop all will no longer drop empty weightless containers. Credit buy chartransfer now clears friends lists. Remove the almost completely unused 'watch' commands. The 'email list recent' internals have changed, and all the messages currently in your inbox are now considered 'old'. New messages will be displayed as recent for up to 30 days. Fix minor bug in clan tithes. From Draak: Add top-level sector entries for the continent of Gianasi. MSP and DClient sound updates. Show whether a mob is avoid-melee on consider. Lots of minor typo fixes. Help page updates. http://bit.ly/2d1ai2j
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Alter Aeon server updates for Oct 06, 16 From Shadowfax: Fix crash bug in acid code. Run acid room send strings through gfighting spam filter. If you manage to delete all your waypoints, a default will be added based on your level. Gag certain strings when solar spells are used against fire type mobs, since they don't take sunlight damage anyway. Move bane weapon display on identify to bottom with other special weapon properties. Bane weapons are fully functional. Add 'thorn armor' to credit buy spellup. Add 'unburden' obscure mage spell. Mobs within instances will attempt to recall to the same instance copy. Autotithe should ignore gold picked up from a player's corpse or player-dropped gold, as well as all auction and playershop-related transactions. It will tithe other gold picked up from the ground and gold taken from mob corpses, however. http://bit.ly/2dyRS71
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Have a safe and happy harvest season, from the staff of Alter Aeon!
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Better Than Pot - Might as well face it, I'm addicted to MUD.
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It's almost time for Halloween Havoc, and you're all invited!
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A new area has been opened on the Isle of Naginag! The North District is a group area with several intricate quests for high level players!
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Checking my stats while running with Felonia.

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Alter Aeon server updates for Sep 24, 16 Make channel http flag admin only. http://bit.ly/2ctDREr
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Alter Aeon server updates for Sep 19, 16 From Shadowfax: Fix guard flag bug with accio spell. http://bit.ly/2cPcuVZ
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Alter Aeon server updates for Sep 17, 16 Add awe, gawk, and sprawl socials from Gandor. From Shadowfax: Allow 'read' command to work with items that can logically be read, such as notes, scrolls, books, etc. Add sonic rainboom spell combo and achievement. Make object nosac flag show up on mortal identify. Acid attacks now have a lingering effect that lowers hpregen. Add 'alkaline balm' druid salve to counter acids. Allow 'field of the grasping dead' to be cast without a target. Add 'picard' social, curtesy of Kagome! Add 'accio' obscure mage spell. Add 'clan advertise', 'clan recruit' and 'clan who' commands. Add 'eldertell' (or 'etell' for short) channel and 'clan broadcast' (or 'cbroadcast' for short) for clan elders. Clan autotithe introduced, both as a clan flag and a player flag. Don't be scared, it will need some tweaking. Add 'show acid' command. Add 'manaregen' and 'moveregen' options to brag/show. Add 'antidotes' as a show option. http://bit.ly/2cvejaU
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Alter Aeon server updates for Sep 17, 16 Limit backstab spamming for exp on single targets. Change exp thwacking on thief steal skills. From Shadowfax: Make 'favor' a mortal command that displays current favor. The 'cwho' (clan who) command now displays players by clan rank. Reserve 'fire' command for future ranged weapons use. Lower cost of 'illuminate' and 'lighteater' enchants. When artificer enchant is used on total level equipment, the level is raised at least 2 instead of 1. Fix bug allowing alignment bind combinations that made equipment unusable. Runes can be added to fabric equipment via the 'tailor' command instead of 'carve'. Add initial support for bane weapon ability. Weapons with this ability do extra damage to their quarry race. New harvested bones will have 'hbone' and 'harvestedbone' appended to their insult strings. This will not affect existing harvested bones. Add ability to 'clanset add' from anywhere. This is help out newbie clans based in the portal islands so elders don't have to physically hunt down new recruits. http://bit.ly/2cFVJ2G
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We have an announcement! Plans for this year's Halloween Havoc have been set in motion. This event will feature two quest lines, with one involving a special event-only area. Also, we will be running Halloween-themed pk wars throughout the event. At its conclusion, Morpheus' building team will be releasing the continent of Gianasi, a huge multi-zone area intended for high-level play. Halloween Havoc 2016 is scheduled to begin on Friday, October 28th and will end on Tuesday, November 1st.
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Reminder that we have a Tumblr page at http://bit.ly/1vhqIQs!
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Reminder that our screen captures and videos can be found at http://bit.ly/2bhweDF
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It's Shadowfax's birthday. Heh 209 years old.

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Alter Aeon server updates for Aug 07, 16 Fix minor bug in email erase. http://bit.ly/2asilE2
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Running Mount Sartus and killing fire ants!

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Alter Aeon server updates for Aug 06, 16 Fix bug in skeletal lich causing normal skeletal mages to do no damage. Limit upper end damage of ground strike when using very slow, heavy weapons. Split/increase personal exp thwacking on thief stealing skills, remove personal gold thwacking to increase the amount of gold available via steal. Massive internal rework of the mudmail system. There's almost certainly stuff that's now broken, or that won't work right - we'll probably have to do multiple boots to get everything back into a properly working state. http://bit.ly/2aPvweU
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Alter Aeon server updates for Aug 03, 16 Minor one notch increase in cleric spellcasting charisma requirements. Three spells affected by one point each. Players can now only have one instance of any given area open at a time, and it has to time out before you can open a new copy of that area. In general very few people will be affected other than those who are used to resetting instances repeatedly to rerun them. It may also cause problems for groups trying to merge, or players joining a group running an area they've recently been in. Eventually we'll be adding an 'instance abandon' command to allow controlled destruct of instances, but in the short term you'll have to deal with it as best you can. http://bit.ly/2azewf8
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Here's a couple of screenshots from last week.
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jul 31, 16 Add initial support for accounts on channel allow and channel admin. http://bit.ly/2aHi9RX
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jul 30, 16 Absorb is now limited by max mana. Various work on the mudmail infrastructure. Improve show/brag email. From Draak: Whips and flails are now parryable, but not shield blockable. Blast, splat, and spit are not parryable. Add foragable eggs. Add static blast and chill touch to newbie mage starting spells. Miscellaneous cleanup to warrior 'stomp' skill strings. Static blast now has a short term duration affect that makes the target more vulnerable to electricity. This can be canceled by the ground spell. http://bit.ly/2ahRs2M
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jul 25, 16 Make Durham's guiding spirit plane aware. Prevent scribe while fighting. Back off some of the idle detectors a bit. Raise damage output and price of constructed grenades. Make enchant more likely to work on most normal equipment. Bug fixes to crystal coat weight changes. Make it possible to pick up gold at max carried item count. Minor improvements to cast level warnings on the 'advice' command. Hopefully improve autolevel area exp. Change the way exp is handled for a bunch of skills, including more consistent thwacking for command spamming and using one function in a bunch of different places instead of having custom exp code everywhere. We're basically going to have to rebalance anything touched by this, so let us know which things are grossly out of whack so we can take a look. From Draak: Add 'stormy', 'blizzard', 'windstorm', and other keywords for control weather. A few minor sound updates. Make it easier to catch big fish. Add an easter easter egg. Add "temp", "weather", and "wind" to prompts. Add help page for skinning, updates to other help pages. http://bit.ly/29VF62W
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jul 15, 16 Dramatically slow down the long term response of the alignment offsets. Lower group join timeouts. Lower resurrect cooldown. Add more label tags to forms on the web site. Make align equipment more resistant to idling. http://bit.ly/29VE6uH
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jul 10, 16 Add a 'lag' command for displaying recent server lag. Attempt to add html labels to the main credit card form on the website. Make 'mend bones' more mana efficient. Now that the money market floor and ceiling are stable, disallow player offers. Sorry, all you arbitragers. Updates to change mob load probability thwacking into a more ordinary exp thwack instead. Note that there will be a startup transient for some mobs, where they will have lower than usual experience until the control system figures out what's going on. This should only happen for things that had low load probability to begin with, which isn't very common. http://bit.ly/29qcleg
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jul 09, 16 Raise cleric charisma spell requirements one more notch. Almost done. You can now do things like 'quest sloe todo' and 'quest sloe done'. From Shadowfax: Add 'gisco's giblet grenade' necromancer spell. Modify the corpse strings of plural mobs to better represent their plurality. Make priest tasks award a bit more favor. Add some monster lore sends for air mob types. Add slight chance of faster recovery for a floating weapon after being disarmed. Prevent 'protector' from working with characters whom you are currently fighting. 'Mass confusion' will now respect mob allies. Prohibit metal constructs from being created from metal terrain in clan areas. Fix weirdness with dual-key doors not properly breaking keys. http://bit.ly/29vclYU
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jul 02, 16 Fix minor weirdness with infravision and night descriptions. Fix minor display issue with money market ceiling/floor. http://bit.ly/29hEuDc
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Draak recently had some family photos taken...

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Here are a couple of screenshots from this year's Puzzlewood event area. It was nice to cut loose and enjoy my own event last Saturday night. Thanks for playing, guys!
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The Summer Solstice Celebration may over, but the city of Airam has just re-opened! The fun never stops on Alter Aeon!
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jun 20, 16 Even more stats collection for looking at exp in autolevel areas. From Shadowfax: There a small chance of gaining favor when sacrificing non-system objects. Mobs are no longer shocked and horrified by their own death. Air creatures can be healed by breath-only damage. Add descriptors for breath/air weapon attacks. http://bit.ly/28OZsIz
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Today is the day! The final act of the Summer Solstice Celebration and other events will be available later today. Don't miss out!
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Here's a sneak peek at the new and improved Puzzlewood Forest!

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Alter Aeon server updates for Jun 15, 16 Allow 'touch http://bit.ly/1PtLFU5
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Act 2 of the Summer Solstice event has begun. Log in and check 'event show'!
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jun 11, 16 Add idle warnings when sending tells to idle people. You must now use the 'ungroup' command to remove people from groups. Slow down the rate of change on the long term alignment offset. Make strings on mana shield a bit more obvious. Cast-only spells can no longer be tapped onto other players. Make setting alignment goal require -f at low levels. Make storage locker timeout a bit more deterministic. Fix bugs in autolevel and group area experience calculations. From Shadowfax: A door's name is now shown when unlocked, instead of just *click*. Knowledge of butchering adds a small bonus of success to the harvest bone and corpsecutter skills. Tweak revocation strings to make them a bit more visual. Add 'keybreaker' lock flag. Send lock flags after oset flag or dset flag commands. Add poison damage to imps conjured via bloodmist by a foulblooded necromancer. Add show/brag option for title. From Draak: Various MSP and dclient audio updates. Various gather mushroom updates and improvements. Fix bug allowing animal lore to be used on non-animals. http://bit.ly/1YirejJ
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Act 1 of the Summer Solstice Celebration has begun! Use 'event show' in-game for details.
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Alter Aeon server updates for May 31, 16 Prevent reforge on items with spells on them. From Shadowfax: Make legendary enchant dependent on artificer. From Draak: Various MSP sound updates. Add a new kind of fish for fishing. String fix for noxious cloud. Add movement loss to target of trip skill. Various monster lore/consider improvements. Add 'gather mushrooms'. Add movement damage to stomp. http://bit.ly/1UcG5qF
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Alter Aeon server updates for May 30, 16 Make minion hitpoints more random. Minor fixes to look command. Compactify the mage lightning spellgroup a bit. Get boats mostly working on planes other than prime material. Reduce mana on soulbind to keep items from autodenting on relog. From Shadowfax: 'Continual light' now adds a light flag to an object instead of glow. 'Faerie fire' can add a glow flag to an object. 'Fly' can be cast on an object to make it float. When cast on an object, 'invisibility' is no longer permanent. Some bystander mobs will now attack or flee when they see a death. Add cleric 'illumination' enchant. Add mage 'levitation' obscure enchant. Add mage 'concealment' obscure enchant. http://bit.ly/1XKKrui
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Alter Aeon server updates for May 29, 16 Increase default alias limit from 120 to 150. Allow the '.' character to match any other character in the grep filter. Fix quest gold bug that was added yesterday. Add new 'varset' socket filter. Add new 'compact' socket filter. Add new 'cut' socket filter. Add hard floor and ceiling GPC rates to money market. From Shadowfax: Give shield location priority over shield block in brag/show. Fix strings when charging spirit totems and casting thorn armor. Add help page for brag/show keywords. All of them! http://bit.ly/1slkYf7
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Alter Aeon server updates for May 28, 16 Prevent system mobs from being fame. Don't allow player corpses to be sold in shops. Thunder seeds now works through magic resistance. Add kxwt_emote support for mush-z. Users of old mush-z versions will not be able to see emotes until they update. Make dodge, parry, and shield block a little easier to improve. Reduce the per-hit mana cost of mana shield. Packet mode dclient paste buffer is now bigger and should overflow less. Add skill exp to soulshatter. Change the freak system for soulsteal to make high freaks more likely and low freaks less likely. Add three minute cooldown on the target of a resurrect to prevent multi-resurrect death griefing. Change the way that resurrect hp are calculated. Attempt to improve the follow lag in groups problem. Make the warrior taunt/intimidate/roar skillsets no longer dependent on user charisma. This is to help handle tanks and players who may intentionally have low charisma. Improve warrior skills feint, bash, knockback, ground strike, cleave, jab, and whirlwind. Dodge practice cost lowered from 8 to 4 practices, and players will be able to dodge a bit better without knowing the skill. The dodge high end/maximum is unchanged. This should help improve survivability at low and mid levels for non-minion classes. The pfile cleaner will now be more aggressive about deleting old pfiles. Specifically, level 1 characters not hooked to an account are deleted after six months of inactivity, level 1 with an account in 12 months, level 12 with an account in 18 months, and level 24 with an account after 24 months. Level 25 and above characters are exempt from the cleaner. As before, characters with more than three total levels per primary level are also exempt, so a level 20 character with 60 total levels will never be deleted. http://bit.ly/1NVmUVC
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Don't miss this year's Summer Solstice Celebration events!
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Not sure if this will let me share like this, but I'm trying to display our trial Reddit ad that will run next week.
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Annalee didn't stand a chance.

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Alter Aeon server updates for May 18, 16 Even more kxwt updates. Closing an object now sends something more than just 'Ok.' Harvest bone is dependent on the size of the creature/corpse. It should be possible to harvest spellstaff sized bone from smaller creatures now. Fix crash bug in fishing. http://bit.ly/1TkVDc2
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We are victorious over the U'ra master geomancer! Well done, guys!

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Alter Aeon server updates for May 15, 16 Make the 'areas' command do basic keyword search, and limit area level range to exactly the specified level. Also hook up 'help area name'. Make an 'advice' command that maps directly to 'check'. Fix missing lag/move cost on certain types of gather/forage. Fix negative practice bug in enchanting. Allow improvement in greater mage elementals. Put obscure spells later in the spell parser order. Skeletal mages can now be cast with a specific element type. Make lower level suncatchers less likely to shatter on carve. http://bit.ly/1qlZ0ao
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Alter Aeon server updates for May 14, 16 Raise creation costs of lightcatchers. Green demon familiar now gives movement, not movement regen. Red imp demon familiar now gives movement regen, not movement. Demon familiar level is now more dependent on soulstone than casting level. Raise cleric charisma spell requirements one minor notch. Force mush-z into hard returns mode on startup. Minor kxwt cleanups. Add 'credit buy nosac'. Turn off default single item identify when looking in containers. The level 37 necromancer is officially out! Included spells and skills: Add level 8 obscure spell 'strawman'. Add level 16 obscure necromancer skill 'harvest bone'. Add level 21 necromancer spell 'spectral ward'. Add level 24 necromancer spell 'skeletal knight'. Add level 26 necromancer skill 'summon demon teeth'. Add level 28 necromancer spell 'skeletal lich'. Add level 30 necromancer skill 'blood bottling'. Add level 37 necromancer spell 'field of the grasping dead'. Add level 37 necromancer spell 'mend bones'. http://bit.ly/27mmBtl
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Alter Aeon server updates for May 10, 16 There has been a new Mush-Z release! Exit Mush-Z and run the updater to grab the latest version. Increase the allowed damage reduction of 'mana shield'. Double damage of warrior 'ground strike' skill. Lower cooldown on knockback. Increase damage on successful riposte. Other minor warrior skill improvements. Remove 'mmarket buy offer'. Fix dependency order of 'fly' and 'shield' spells. Make skeletal warriors dependent on skeletal spider, instead of bone shield. Allow the burning/freezing damage aspect of fire shield and ice shield to work simultaneously, and increase the damage they deal. Deathwalker should now protect minions. http://bit.ly/1TCj4gd
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Alter Aeon server updates for May 08, 16 Slightly raise damage of necromancer skeletal mages. Reduce mana costs for raising undead. Allow channel enable/disable via 'off', 'on', and 'mute' keywords. Display a help page reference to low level players who receive combat points. Changes to the strings for magic missile and fly spells, along with help page updates to hopefully have the spells make more sense. Improve the diffraction spell slightly. Add level 4 'mana shield' spell for mages. This spell is intended to improve the survivability of mages. Raise 'magic missile' to level 11 mage. Minor reorganization of the mage 'force fields' spell group. http://bit.ly/1s65LPq
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Alter Aeon server updates for May 07, 16 Allow bone spellstaffs to use a small number of necromancer spells. Sort animals on 'call list' by control point cost. Add help page for 'worm'. Lower mana costs and drain for sandstorm. Necromancer 'fear' spell lowered from 19 to 18, and made dependent on dread portent instead of Tarrant's spectral hand. Raise necromancer 'free spirit' spell from level 18 to level 26, and make it dependent on fear. Make 'level remove' possible out of fame lock. It still has a high level restriction. Make sure you read the help page for unleveling. http://bit.ly/1Zrh66M
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Alter Aeon server updates for May 06, 16 Fix 'control list all'. Add stats collection to help debug solo class balance. Make heavy carved spellstaffs a bit lighter. Allow spellstaffs and carved weapons to be made from heavier pieces of wood or bone. From Shadowfax: Fix bug in harvested magic venom. Balls of light created by 'continual light' now have random colors. Prevent harvested venom from being higher level than the harvester. http://bit.ly/1QUu1rH
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Alter Aeon server updates for May 03, 16 From Shadowfax: Re-allow multisell list switch. Harvesting venom from creatures with magic poison attacks can result in magic venom. Called vipers will now disappear when released. Fix up total level bug in legendary enchant. http://bit.ly/1WIn7gi
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Alter Aeon server updates for Apr 30, 16 Disallow revenge if dying player is below level 15. Raise default eqset count and brewset count to 5 each. Move 'palm' before 'party' in the main parser. Fix multideath bug in skeletal mages. From Draak: Various typo fixes. Reduce send-to-room spam of lifetap. Add a new fishing achievement. Remove knife requirements from butcher and skinning skills. Add a bunch of new fish types. Help page updates and cleanup. From Shadowfax: Add 'instances' command. Add 'harvest venom' obscure druid skill. Add 'artificer enchant' and 'legendary enchant' skills. Channel cast spells are now much harder to evade. Non-flying minions will wait until their owner exits airfall rooms, instead of spamming fall strings. Note that this also lets them fall to the bottom, if there is any. Add a viper/snake druid animal. Animals called on different planes have elemental saves and other features appropriate to their plane. http://bit.ly/1TBU5fA
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Took out the Greater Pit Fiend, for science!

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Alter Aeon server updates for Apr 24, 16 A whole bunch of cleanup to mob type stuff involving which types have blood, teeth, are alive, etc. This may require mob updates and code fixes, so if you see weirdness feel free to report it. More list search fixes. Don't allow hiding lightcatchers in instances, since that can break horribly. Storage list now uses list search by default. More list/list search standardization. From Draak: Fix one of the sounds for shardstorm. Add an ending sound for sanctuary. Minor 'gather' command updates. Remove the aggro/suspicion checks on the thief 'case' skill. Bloodletting stab should now work on mobs without blood, they just won't suffer from the long term bleeding effect. http://bit.ly/22ZvWlH
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Alter Aeon server updates for Apr 23, 16 Add 'credit buy restore'. You now only see if a friend advances on a leaderboard if they're in the top ten for that board. Add kxwt_idle and kxwt_longterm_idle. 'control list' now only shows one class at a time. Reduce maintain mana cost for mage greater elementals. List search -all now complains about unidentified objects. List search now fails if you use bad search keywords. List search now has a pile of error checks for bad searches. Make the behavior of 'helplast' more obvious. Minion tweaks to shadow fiends, mummies, zombies, bone guardians, flesh beasts, liveoak, ancient oak, lesser ice elementals, greater fire elementals, lesser fire elementals, greater lightning elementals, crocodiles, winter wolves, panthers, yetis, and polar bears. From Shadowfax: Minor bugfixes in list switches. Bugfix for backstabbing weapons on eqcheck. http://bit.ly/1T674ne
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The community came together to help Felonia's group defeat the fire ant queen!

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Alter Aeon server updates for Apr 17, 16 Minor string fix to entangling roots sends. Fix bug in autolevel group areas that was making mobs too powerful. From Shadowfax: Add 'composite' list switch, as a clarifier for relic, antique, epic, remarkable and exceptional composite markers. The old way of just using the marker still works. Add 'spellname' list switch, such as '+spellname ball lightning'. For grenades, potions, scrolls, spellbooks, staves and wands, this will display if the item contains the spell. For spell components, this will display if the item has an affinity for the spell. Add 'charges' list switch. Add 'permspell' list switch. From Draak: Update strings for enrage. Move the consider steal strings to the 'case' skill. Add dragonlance checks to monster lore. Various sound updates, including enrage. http://bit.ly/1U0ApnN
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Exploring one the new dreams in the Monastery of Dreams. They're really neat!

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Alter Aeon server updates for Apr 10, 16 A bunch of DClient/MSP sound updates from Draak. Re-enable the 'ventriloquate' spell as obscure. Make dark objects in storage lockers always visible. From Shadowfax: Add list switch for consumable. Add list switch 'type', which is followed by an object type either as a single or compound term, such as 'typeweapon' or 'type weapon' (either with a space or without). Add list switch for 'quality', which is then followed by the quality type such as 'wellmade' or 'mastercraft2'. (The option of just using the quality word still exists, but this allows searching for the 'exceptional' quality.) Greatly expand the vocabulary of existing list switches. Minor string addition to objects command. Allow drinking while in watery terrain. Minor fixup to strings for various jobs. Ascend/descend leave strings for rising and falling terrain. Add level 37 thief 'evasion' skill. Make escort specp work in instances. http://bit.ly/1VKpyOT
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Alter Aeon server updates for Apr 02, 16 The high-end slot machine jackpot now notifies. Set scribing improvements to the default, standard level. Make carving lightcatchers take less movement. Improve the way that lag is calculated and handled on players. This has the side effect of reducing bigroom movement lag on roads and trails from 4 to 3 slices per room. http://bit.ly/1Ts2Evv
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Alter Aeon server updates for Mar 27, 16 Remove some of the wear location and type restrictions from clan eq. http://bit.ly/1UVNy13
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Looks like Draak had some leftover madder...

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Alter Aeon server updates for Mar 23, 16 Lots of DClient/MSP sound updates from Draak. Event handler bug fixes to drunkenness. From Shadowfax: Add optional reason string for moderator actions. Display string when you are given something while asleep. Disallow dice sends on nobrag flagged channels. Add brag/show options for score, rank, and friends. Add 'objects' command. http://bit.ly/1RCv1HT
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Alter Aeon server updates for Mar 13, 16 Fix exp bug in channel casting. From Shadowfax: Add 'mobs' command. Add brag/show options for nokillsteal, room, area, allies, foes, gridle, lowhp, lowmana, lowmove, gwhere, missing, sky, sun, raining/snowing, players, mobs and objects. Disallow brag for all leaderboards at once. Adjust brag/show parsing to offer more popular options first. http://bit.ly/22cEpU1
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Alter Aeon server updates for Mar 10, 16 Increase better at odds for scroll scribing skills. Raise cleric charisma requirements one minor notch. Add anti-loot code to animate corpse spell. From Shadowfax: Add brag/show options for achievements, combat points, newbie points, explorer points, race, birthday, poisoned, thirst, hunger, sneak, recall, temperature, spent experience, lost experience and clan. Add brag/show options for noleave, defensive fighting, tanking, nosummon, nomelee, wimp, and nogroupcast settings. Add brag/show options for time, day, month, and year. Improve info displayed by brag/show hide and leaderboards. Adjust area autolevel code so that mobs scale better with group size. Add noleave flag to group display. http://bit.ly/1QLl4FS
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Alter Aeon server updates for Mar 02, 16 Make the item randomizer less likely to completely clear objects. Make high quality randoms more likely. http://bit.ly/1RTVJsf
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Fighting random enemies in West Naginag!

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Alter Aeon server updates for Mar 01, 16 Remove custom jobs from http quest lists. Allow tailoring of treasure type objects. Add brag/show options for feats, deeds, legacies, quests, terrain, targets, areafame, weather, protector, THAC0, leader, and leaderboards. Disqualify mobs with magic resistance or that live in antimagic flagged rooms from being targets of minister tasks. Restrict jobs on the newbie islands to level appropriate players. Add jeweler random jobs. http://bit.ly/1QSyiTa
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Alter Aeon server updates for Feb 28, 16 Add 'credit buy chartransfer' for securely selling characters. http://bit.ly/1KW6N8R
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Alter Aeon server updates for Feb 25, 16 Be more clear about how donated equipment doesn't help with conversions. From Shadowfax: 'Tailoring' skill added. Tailoring option added to 'carve runes'. Mobs can cross into instances if they are charmed or following a player. Charmed and controlled mobs should now be properly released on player logout. http://bit.ly/1QAZv6i
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Seems like our media automation had a slight hiccup and shoved a handful of random videos made by a Shawn Dreelin down the pipe. No idea who he is, but the videos aren't offensive, so I'm not going to put a huge amount of effort into removing them. I just wanted to ensure that you, our audience, understands that we here at Alter Aeon do try to maintain a professional profile and limit our content to game-related material so as not to inundate you with spam and that the posting of these video links were unintentional. We thank you for your participation in our social media sites and hope you have a wonderful day.
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Festival of India 2015 - Richmond, Virginia

Time lapse of the UCI Worlds Road Circuit training

UCI Worlds Championship Bike Racing in Richmond, VA - September 2015

Extreme Woodblock Printing

India Spring Festival 2014

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Alter Aeon server updates for Feb 15, 16 Fix ward good and evil so they can be properly recast. Lifetap now won't start if your mana is already almost full. Try to fix group rejoin to disallow rejoin into clan areas. This may have introduced new bugs in both rejoin and group summon. http://bit.ly/20WVfsR
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Alter Aeon server updates for Feb 14, 16 Group members will now automatically stand when the group retreats. Spirit totems now have a small chance to crack when they're charged. Slightly raise level on spellstaffs. Show direction to laggards when leader tries to walk but can't. Attempted fixes to noleave: if noleave is set, it will try to wake or stand sleeping and resting group members. Noleave should also work more consistently with subleaders. Keep in mind that this code is super ugly, and this might actually break other things. Cleric spell charisma requirements raised by one minor notch. Demonic potions now do more damage, and no longer have a chance to utterly annihilate the target. Reduce most of the demon summon timers. Repeated castings of ward good and evil now significantly strengthen the warding. Mobs can no longer use the 'enchant' command. Detect magic, when cast on a room, will now show strings for various room-based spell effects. http://bit.ly/1QBEg4K
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Exploring the Old City of Naginag.

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Alter Aeon server updates for Feb 06, 16 From Shadowfax: 'Wear all' will ignore autoremove with respect to held, wielded, and shield items. Add 'area autolevel' command. Mobs now ignore lightning flash if they are shadow bound or entangled. Gag jobs spam at shopkeepers. Adjustments made to autolevel code. Relevelling calculations will not only take group size into account, but the average group level, as well. http://bit.ly/1T5hE2n
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Draak Vlog - If I Get Any Madder I Could Dye

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The Isle of Naginag is now open. These high level areas represent many years of planning and implementation by our building team. We hope that you enjoy them. Please see board 8 for more details.
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jan 23, 16 Disable voting reminders. Add parser alias for 'llook'. Add new 'helplast' command. Don't allow riposte to be in the same combo twice. Minor improvements to bot detector to reduce certain types of false detects. From Shadowfax: Disallow bound objects from being placed in clan storage. Add 'group rejoin' command. Add 'library random' command. Minor changes to look direction strings. Donated items no longer qualify as oblations. Soulstones and money can be sacrificed for oblate jobs. Remove jobs from 'quest all' list. Add 'still air' to credit buy spellup. Fix bug allowing players who worship no god to accept tasks from any priest. http://bit.ly/1OFsnMN
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Random jobs are fun!

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Alter Aeon Winter 2016 Update

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Tomorrow will be Alter Aeon's 21st anniversary! Alter Aeon went live on January 15th, 1995. Next week, starting on the 20th through the 25th, we will have our anniversary event. Details will be forthcoming!
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jan 12, 16 Improvements to ground strike, making it easier to succeed. Make ward good, ward evil, and bind alignment obscure, since they have only rare/niche use. Setting up mob quest arenas that are too restrictive to give the quest will now send a warning to people joining or respawning in the arena. Raise cleric charisma requirements one notch. Spells below level 21 cleric are at their final values, and high level spells are now only two notches below the final goal. http://bit.ly/1mUdm08
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Woo, advent gift!

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The Christmas presents are now safe and sound.

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Scrooge is beaten!

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One less Christmas bandit to worry about!

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The Grinch has been defeated.

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Spreading holiday cheer!

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Battling winged white werewolves on the way to Krampus' shack.

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Battling winged white werewolves on the way to Krampus' shack.

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Krampus is defeated, and Christmas is saved!

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Alter Aeon server updates for Jan 04, 16 Fix allow list bug with mob arena quests. Prevent both jab and ground strike from being in a single combat tactic. From Shadowfax: Landmarks now display on where commands. Disqualify clan rooms from pilgrimages. Priests will no longer give out seeker tasks on the newbie islands. There just isn't enough equipment there to properly construct them. When multiple jobgivers are in one room at once, all of their offered jobs will be displayed. Fix crash bug in undead hunter jobs. http://bit.ly/1VDONk9
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jan 01, 16 More ignore command cleanup. http://bit.ly/1OBYdxk
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Happy New Year, from the staff of Alter Aeon! Our holiday event will last a few more days, so log in and play soon so you don't miss out!
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