Difference between revisions of "Publish 58"

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The following is a list of changes deployed as Publish 58 on March 19, 2009.

Deployment History

• December 18, 2008 - Expected late January 2009
• March 11, 2009 - Details announced and published to Test Center
• March 19, 2009 - Published to all shards

Trial Accounts

• Removed the 15 day character age requirement for house placement
• Players are not allowed to place a house while on a trial account
• Players are not allowed to co-own or be traded a house while on a trial account
• Trial accounts have travel restrictions –
  • Cannot visit Felucca dungeons or Felucca T2A
• Trial Accounts have the following resource restrictions -
  • Will only receive basic ores and logs (iron, plain logs) even if they'd otherwise qualify for better types
  • Will not receive sand or stone when mining
• Trial Account Misc. restrictions -
  • Will not receive ML rewards for resource gathering (jewels, ingredients, and white pearls while fishing)
  • Will not receive rewards, monster kill points, or virtue points from champ spawns
  • Will not get scrolls while doing champ spawns
  • Will not gain Justice virtue points for killing murderers
  • Cannot use Valor or Justice virtues
  • Cannot Protect or be Protected by another player
  • Can not join factions or faction aligned guilds
  • If in a guild they will be removed from the guild, if their guild joins a faction
  • Cannot use Scrolls of Alacrity, Power Scrolls, Stat Scrolls, or Scrolls of Transcendence
  • Cannot use Commodity Deeds
  • Cannot do Community Collections
  • Cannot use Soulstones or fragment soulstones
  • Cannot use Pet summoning balls
  • Cannot use Bracelets of Binding
  • Cannot use the Bag of Sending
  • Cannot do any repeatable quests – even if they are normally repeatable
  • Cannot acquire BOD’s

Champ Spawns

• Fixed an issue with SoT’s and Alacrity scroll effects stacking
• Champ spawn bosses no longer spawn as Paragons
• Dead players who receive a reward for killing the spawn will no longer see the reward deleted. It will be placed on their corpse.
• SoT drop rate has been adjusted.
• Fixed an issue with the Champ Spawn altar getting stuck if the boss despawns or disappears
• Fixed an issue with the top attackers only getting the right number of scrolls at a champ spawn
• Fixed the drop rate in Trammel with SoT’s
• Fixed an issue where the top attackers were not getting the right number of scrolls at a champ spawn
• Fixed Mephitis small web attack – will not teleport players into the altar
• Tattered Mummy wrappings will no longer stack with unhued bandages
• Fixed an issue with static items spawning at champ spawns
• Champ Spawn special drop items will no longer drop into your back if you are over weight or over item limit
• Serado will now drop unique and decorative rewards
• Exorcism range has been increased to include the entire champ spawn area plus 2 screens in all directions

Misc Additions

• Gift of life will now offer to resurrect you after death
• Gem of Salvation will no longer delete itself if another player resurrects you
• Fixed an issue with champ spawn rewards appearing at the champ spawn instead of your backpack
• Added a Reuse timer of 15 seconds to faction bandages
• Cupid will no longer block in Felucca
• Players will no longer get multi gumps with Cupid
• Players completing the Naturalist quest should now get the correct type of seeds ( fire, white and black seeds)
  • Black and White seeds should only be peculiar plants
  • Fire Seeds should only be legacy plants plus the flowery cactus
  • Completing only 4 nests will continue to give the 4 rare colors on legacy plants only
• Players can now use the Xmas Tree Deeds to place non decorated trees year round
• Arcane power should now affect your summons/familiar, should give a 10% bonus for hit points for summons, necro animates, necro familiars, and necro revenants
• Immolating Weapon should now play a sound when the spells fades
• Gem of Salvation will no longer delete itself on death if the player is resurrected by another player
• Added a profanity filter for Cupid
• Durability on certain items that started as 255 will be changed to 150 and be dyable
• Disabling the WoS Invasion
• Returning the trammel city regions
• Fixed an issue with Cupid not storing messages correctly
• Players will no longer be able to inscribe locked down books
• Removed the 3X player vendor costs on Siege/Mugen
• Insured books will no longer carry over their insured/blessed status when copied
• Players can now trade Grizzled Mare Statues.
• Players can no longer get rare stealables when random stealing from tamed pets
• An issue has been resolved with stealing from players and monsters
• Fixed an issue with durability not working on specific items – rings, bracelets, earrings, talisman, and shoes
• Mirror Images will now copy alignment correctly
• Re-enabled access to the Top level in Wrong dungeon.
• Flowery Cactus and the Spider Tree will now spawn the correct plant
• Reverted the bag of sending to its original state
• Reduced the weight of gold and silver
• Balancing changes previously on TC1 were not included in this publish.
• Upon death all buff/debuffs that show on the status bar will be removed, also modified attributes reset

Updates

Update 1

On March 26, 2009, the following was published:
Champspawns

• Fixed an issue with SOT’s and Powerscrolls (105’s) dropping correctly.
• Fixed the Champ Spawns to cycle correctly in Felucca and Ilshenar
• To reduce lag caused by the gold drops at champ spawns and the Harrower we are doing the follow:
  • Number of gold piles being spawned will be reduced
  • Quantity of gold per pile will be increased
  • Gold will be spread out more
  • Gold piles will stack on top of each other, rather than all be at the same elevation

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the issue that allows players to place bare trees instead of xmas trees year round.
• Mirror Images will no longer be aggressive.
• Paladin NPC’s will no longer be available as a hireling.

Faction Changes

• Paladins NPC’s throughout the world will now attempt to attack Reds and SL/Minax followers on sight.
  • Target must be visible
  • Paladins will no longer respawn once killed
• Obsidian daggers will be available to SL’s twice a day maximum to do extra damage against the Paladin NPC’s only.

Changes to Wood Boards

See Also

• Publishes