World of Dreams :: Archived Changes

Changes for March 2004

3-31-2004

3-28-2004

Rewrote the merchant 'sell bag' and 'sell all' functions to fix an exploit and to work better (sell bag no longer ties up a merchant while its running, meaning that multiple players can now use a merchant without long pauses)

3-27-2004

Huge behind-the-scenes changes to the player merchant system
When a player merchant removes themselves ('commits suicide', 'quits', whatever), they'll now create a backpack in your bankboxed labled "the remains of (name)". This backpack will contain any items they had to sell, had bought for you, were wearing, gold they were holding, etc
Player merchants will now remove themselves during server restarts if they're placed in an invalid location or if more than 30 days have past since their master has logged in
Auto-accept job offers (in .options) now works
Random bug fixes

3-23-2004

Increased the effectiveness of Protection (essentially bringing it back up to where it was before the other changes, though the mage bonus is still gone)
Cooking script now uses all items in your backpack, instead of just top-level items

3-22-2004

3-21-2004

Slightly reduced the effectiveness of all buff spells. The effectiveness now also has a (generally small) dependancy on your secondary mage skill (meaning the highest of invocation, necromancy or animal lore)
Buff spell duration is now dependant on both magery and a secondary mage skill This will, in general, result in moderately longer duration on spells cast by skilled mages and slightly lower duration on buffs from unskilled mages
Removed the 'mage bonus' from the Protection spell
Found and fixed a bug with the Clumsy spell that should make it more effective against NPCs (as effective as a first circle spell should be, at least...)
Reduced the time length of debuff spells (like Curse), but slightly increased their effectiveness (especially against NPCs)
Slightly increased the effectiveness of Magic Resistance
'sell bag' no longer works on locked containers
Did a rather major rewrite of cooking, to fix some bugs and add a few things. It should mostly be behind-the-scenes changes
Cooks can now bake large cakes. Large cakes require 4 cake batters. When you bake a large cake, you can select a color and name for the cake
You cannot directly eat a large cake. Instead, you need to slice it (using a dagger or other bladed item.) A large cake will produce 6 slices

3-18-2004

Did some work on the Guild & Quests page of .status. The 'To next guild rank' display is currently a bit buggy, though
Fixed a few minor bugs with Bobby Bugfixer
Added 'quick-scribe' to Inscription. Quick-scribe gives scribes the option to try to scribe scrolls more quickly, but at the risk of a higher failure rate (the skillcheck is 20 points higher, plus even low-level scrolls can be failed occasionally)
Quick-scribe can be enabled on the 'select a circle' page when inscribing a scroll (turning it on this way only enables it for that scribing attempt)
You can also make quick-scribe the default via the Crafting options page of .options

3-14-2004

Saying 'help' to a player vendor now gives you a pop-up window with a lot more information than the previous help system did

3-4-2004

Auctioneer enhancements:
You can now search all auctions by selecting the 'Search' option on the category selection menu
On the status menu (gotten by saying 'status' to the auctioneer), 'View auctions I've bid on' has been renamed to 'View auctions I'm winning' (which is what it did before anyway)
Added a new 'View auctions I've bid on', which actually does what it says it does. This information was not previously recorded, so this only works on bids from this point on

3-3-2004

The default position of the .msg gump can be adjusted on the Gumps page of .options

3-1-2004

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