Sun Dec 22 15:09:36 2024 [Jaakan]
It's rolling around to the end of the year, and it's time that we had a bit of
a reshuffle with the powers team! Aardvark and Morkarn are now more involved
with development and have been assigned the rank of Avatar, Thalia has stepped
back from development for the time being and will join Dani as an Archwizard.
Lohium has been heavily involved with testing and map making, and we are
looking forward to his input on the MUD's codebase, as such he will become an
Avatar. Please join me in congratulating our powers! We're hoping with our
renewed focus to be releasing exciting things soon!

Mon Mar 22 18:58:56 2021 [Jaakan]
Please join us in congratulating Morkarn for his promotion to Archwizard.
He has been instrumental in testing new content, and is a neverending source
of bug reports! We're happy to have him on the powers team!

Sun Dec 29 15:15:28 2019 [Jaakan]
Summary of the changes to the MUD:
- Several new achievements have been added.
- Quests Abyss, UndeadKing, Faffner, Spike, Firedemon, Fjord and Warm have been
added.
- Several modifications have been made to the zonefile format to give more
flexibility to zonewriters.
- With the new quests, the requirements for reaching wizardhood have changed.
Wizard is now achieved at 50 quest points and 400,000 points Ultrawizard is
now 100 quest points, Metawizard 150, and finally Masterwizard at 227.
- The magic system has had a total overhaul, with new commands SCI, SDI, SCG,
SDG, and SLOTS added to assist magic users.
- Mobiles can now carry a specific object that can be looted from them instead
of a random one.
- Mobiles can also have an object to be discovered when you butcher them.
- You can now decide if you want the class reviews or your own user defined
ones to show while you are mortal with STICKYREVIEW.
- Shop items can no longer be sold.
- It is now possible to refer to CARRIED as a class, so DROP CARRIED will drop
only things that are not worn or wielded.
- AUTOEQ has had an update and now works for Cavetrolls and Wisps, it will
also now pick up a boat, a portapit, and a moneybag as available.
- VTOUCH will no longer work on undead mobiles.
- You can also refer to MEQ as a class, so TAKE MEQ will collect only items
with mana capacity.
- Adept.zone has had a minor update, as has Gold.zone.
- The MUD now measures the number of consecutive days you have logged on and
there is a new TOP board, TOP STREAK.
- Deathrooms can be switched on and off on a zone-by-zone or quest-by-quest
basis. Expect newer quests/zones to have their deathrooms ON. New command
DSTATUS will show which are ON/OFF.
- Class/Race equipment can now use PUT, eg. PUT ELFEQ IN BAG.
- The IMBUE spell has been added.
- INFO QLEVELS, CRM and QINFO have been cross-checked and are now consistent.

Please also join us in congratulating Morkarn in his promotion to Prophet, in
recognition of the invaluable assistance in beta testing the new material.

Wed Dec 25 14:18:56 2019 [Jaakan]
The silly season is upon us, the powers all hope you have the festive season
that you deserve. Thalia suggested we have a competition to run over the
season, but Jaakan is currently working like a trojan (ie. sitting around and
doing nothing, staring at a wooden horse) to try and get the fabled reboot up
and running as soon as he can. There will be no further new content added
until this is done. Further details about the precise nature of the update
will follow, but Jaakan hopes to be done over the festive holidays. Our
competition will run after this, we are open to suggestions as to prizes...
our current ideas are: a special achievement, a quest flag for a quest that
you can't/don't want to finish, a special weapon, a larger allowance of
fashioned objects. Fun!

Tue Jan 29 10:39:34 2019 [Athagos]
A squashed bug here, another squashed bug there. I really don't like bugs.
Unfortunately one of these was the log file which bugs, typos and ideas was
not working properly. Therefore anything you've reported since Sunday
morning 00:00 game time was not stored in the log. If you can remember
them, please relog them. If you aren't sure if it was this week or last
week, relog anyway and we can sort through them.

This issue has been corrected and shouldn't happen again.

Thanks,
Athagos.