The 7th Plane

October09

• Fixed all Monk technique messages to differentiate on presence/absence of body parts.
• Increased timer on 'observe' to make learning Monk techniques more user friendly.
• Added a completely new stance system ('help stance').
• Upgraded the usefulness of 'talk' command - integrating secrets, hints and story.
• Finished Lampryi class redesign and initial implementation phase (not complete).
• Increased experience gain for live catches via the 'fish' skill.
• Fixed 'repair' skill to correctly repair damage to gemmed weapons.
• Fixed a crash bug on certain affect removals.
• Fixed a crash bug on butchering meats from PCs.
• Removed implicit kill requirements on classing.
• Slightly decreased cost on blood healing (Lampryi, Common 2).
• Lampryi can now forget darkgifts via the Elder NPCs ('help darkgifts').
• The regen bug on the Ring of Spidre artifact has been fixed.
• The bless spell and some spells at 0% have been removed from existing characters.
• The yellow bake and brew spells have been removed from all characters.
• New characters now start with three spells: heal, magic missile and preserve.
• Spell books can now be studied to learn new spells.
• Certain NPCs can now use stances in varying capacities and abilities.
• All unarmed techniques now correctly check for gems on hand or foot armor.
• Manually executed unarmed techniques now have a vitality cost.
• Manually executed unarmed techniques have a chance to increase stance and unarmed levels.
• Stance increase bonuses can be earned for effective usage of stances against opponents.
• Fixed a bug with glitched display of oversized maps.
• Changed display of speed on 'combatscore' - higher is better now.
• Modified the variable resistance on Fortitude (Lampryi).
• Changed the display of variable damage resisted on 'combatscore'.
• Removed display of unused faith/will stats from 'score'.
• Slightly increased the speed of regeneration for Spiritual Healing (Monk, Chi 0).
• Fixed bug with wimpy setting to negative values.
• Fixed the erroneous shield/aura application messages on wielding gemmed weapons.
• Removed extraneous skill level output on wielding weapons.
• Gnoll Miners and Tserak Lochnors should no longer enter mines while fighting.
• Zombies should no longer attempt to interact with characters in other planes.
• The Sandlion should now come out to eat more often and stay above ground longer.
• Everyone's luck stat has been updated to a non-zero value.
• New area: Valley of Shadows is now open.
• The Lampryi Laboratory and Ancient Library have been unlocked in Draconia.
• A bug was fixed that prevented Monks from gaining int increases for Sensei/Grandmaster.
• Mage int stat has been adjusted and now increases steadily through class progression.
• The probability distribution for stance and color level increases has been modified.
• Mage classing and promotion requirements have been changed.
• The main door leading into The Academy has been permanently sealed for the time being.
• The effectiveness of the 'bless' spell has been increased.
• Being decapitated by an NPC now correctly increments mdeaths instead of pdeaths.
• The Monk class progression system has been completely rewritten.
• Made numerous cosmetic changes from everything to the login screen to the world itself.
• A few limited actions now have luck checks to give better odds of a good outcome.
• Numerous experience bonuses have been added to producing/procuring/creating type actions.
• All experience bonuses should now properly apply Newbie experience modifiers.
• Magi have a new chant word available: 'fortuna' for luck.
• The unarmed technique 'roundhouse' (Monk) will no longer hit group members.