Editing Announcements - 2002/06 - Castling (section)

== Release Notes ==

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 |  Link = <nowiki>http://zone.msn.com/asheronscall/news/ASHEeventbuild.asp</nowiki>
 |  Date = June 13, 2002
 | Title = Developer's Notes
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Here are just some of the additions made in the June 13 game update, Castling. The following list is comprised of detailed notes straight from the developers themselves. For a summary of things of interest, be sure to consult the official event article,  [[Announcements - 2002/06 - Castling#Rollout Article|<font color=#FFFFCC>Castling</font>]].
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<font color=#ffffff>'''New Functionality and Content</font>

* 150 Cottages and 50 Villas have been added to the game.
* See our earlier letter to the players for all the details about our changes to the magic system.
* There is now a separate panel for negative magical enchantments (the original enchantment panel now lists only positive magical enchantments). Both panels are in the far right upper corner.
* @allegiance info is a new monarch-only command. Typing @allegiance info <charactername> (for a character in that monarch's allegiance) will display the following: the full name and title of the character, the full name and title of the character's patron, and the full name and title of each of the character's vassals. This command can only be used once every 30 seconds.
* The number of allegiance broadcasts the allegiance speaker can make per day has been raised from 3 to 10. In addition, monarchs may now assign speaker status to someone even if they are not currently online.
* The leader of a Fellowship now shows up as a triangle dot on radar.
* You can now use the @filter command to filter out recall messages. See @help filter for more details.
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<font color=#ffffff>'''Miscellaneous Improvements and Changes</font>

* All vendors now accept all trade notes.
* Pyreals now stack to a maximum of 10,000. In July we will introduce three additional trade notes into the game.
* Mansions now have 100 hooks in them, all of them usable.
* Neutral Balm's burden has been reduced from 135 to 65 and is now available in more vendor locations.
* The Select Self key now works to have a targeted action actually work on oneself. For example, a player can use a healing kit and then the Select Self key to heal oneself.
* You now have a number of UI panels and character options that you can bind to a keyboard map.
* A new mana stone, the Superb Mana Stone, can be found at some mage vendors. In addition, many more mage vendors now carry High and Great Mana Stones.
* All Bronze trophy items are now givable and droppable again.
* New characters who start with a magic school will start with the correct focus, 5 Lead Scarabs, and 25 Prismatic Tapers. New characters who start with additional magic schools will receive additional foci, but not additional scarabs or tapers.
* The time it takes to read and learn a spell from a scroll has been reduced to roughly one second.
* When a character attempts to use a mana stone to drain mana from an item, there will now be a confirmation check even if the item does not contain any mana.
* Isparian Bows, Crossbows, and Atlatls are now unenchantable.
* The Isparian Modifying Tool is now unbreakable. The stones, however, will break each time you put them in an Isparian weapon.
* The Arcane Lore difficulty on Gorgets with Nuhmudira's Boon has been altered. The new difficulty levels are Red (High) = 180, Blue (Mid) = 150, and Green (Low) = 120.
* Isparian Daggers now have the correct damage range. Perfect Isparian Daggers have a maximum damage of 8, Superb 7, Good 6, and Quality 5.
* You now get 3 Wood, Copper, or Obsidian Keys when you successfully carve Wood, Copper, or Obsidian Hearts.
* We made a few changes to the Tenkkardun Foundry to reduce the viability of combat macroing in that location.
* Last month we introduced a bug which prevented users from playing if they were using a machine running Win95a. This should be fixed now.
* We believe we have fixed the bug where, occasionally, a character logging into the world would find that their items had lost all mana. This was a difficult bug to reproduce, and we would appreciate any reports if players experience this bug in the future.
* There was a bug with the Fellowship panel last month that kept it from updating properly. This should be fixed now.
* The bug where a character quits a fellowship and the character keeps attempting to assess a person in the fellowship has been fixed.
* We fixed a bug where the cursor appeared as an hourglass on the Fellowship panel before a player actually created the fellowship.
* There were a few bugs with the XP-sharing code for certain fellowships involving players over level 50. These have been fixed.
* There was a bug where you could exploit a vendor by selling healing kits with less than full uses, then buying them back cheaply at full uses. This has been fixed.
* For Creature Mastery scrolls, you will need to ID and read the description to determine if it's a Self or Other scroll. Self and Other do not appear in the title of the scroll. This will be fixed in July.
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<font color=#ffffff>'''Minor Details</font>

* The Invoker now displays the correct inscription.
* The portal to the Arcanum Research Facility now has a level restriction prohibiting those characters under level 20.
* Ciandra decided to reverse her impromptu sex-change operation, and now looks like a woman.
* When using a mana stone on yourself, you will receive a message letting you know when all your items are full.
* All non-used hooks now become visible whenever a house is abandoned.
* Players can no longer open the doors to the inside of the statues from the outside, unless they use the correct key.
* Statue Portal dungeons are now no-recall, no-tie, and no-summon.
* The Isparian Dagger model has been changed.
* The experience point total for a few statue creatures has been reduced.
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