Patch Notes from 1997-08-29

Patch Notes from 1997-08-29

The Latest Patch:

• Elementals are now aggressive.
• Alchemy was changed to work with the scaled skill difficulty.
  • There are multiple variations of some of the potions.
  • Harder variants take more reagents and are more difficult to make.
  • Success at making a tough potion makes you learn more; success at making a potion not worthy of your skill results in not learning at all.
  • The cure potion now works.
• You now get starting equipment from all three of your starting skills.
• When you die, you now never go below 100 stat points total. Likewise, when you die, your skills never go below 100 skill points total.
• You now resurrect with full stamina.
• Ghosts can no longer walk on water.
• Ranged weapons now check line of sight.
• The camping skill is now invoked only by using kindling, not by clicking on it in the skills window.
• Bedrolls should now log you out when used properly with the camping skill.
• Fighting styles are now truly disabled.
• Guards no longer train players.
• Animations are in place for resurrection by a healer.
• Shopkeepers who wander off now teleport back to their shops after an interval, if they are unable to walk back.
• A fix is in for creatures attacking from a distance; we do not know if it will solve the problem for everyone, but it should help accuracy of display of creature location. As a result, you may witness "popping" of creatures as they are shown in their correct location, when the client and server synch up.
• Several changes went into smelting ore.
  • Ore now weighs half of what it did.
  • Ore now leaves behind excess ore when smelted, and tells you when there is insufficient ore to smelt.
  • The useless ingots have been fixed.
• Notoriety has been adjusted.
• The effect of stealing on notoriety has been reduced by a factor of 5 to 10, depending on circumstance.
• The overall notoriety scale has been tweaked so that it is less exponential.
  • Begging now affects your notoriety 1/5 as fast as before.
  • Being generous now affects your notoriety 1/5 as much as before.
  • Death sets your notoriety to exactly the threshold at which a guard would kill you if you did one more bad thing.
  • Attacking non-human NPCs now has half the effect on your notoriety that attacking humans does.
• Several creature movement factors have been adjusted to give slower creature movement.