Publish Notes from 2008-11-05

Publish Notes from 2008-11-05

Posted 05 Nov 2008 18:45:00 by Joanne Laroche on the UO Herald:

Publish 56 Fixes

We've got some fixes for Publish 56. They will go live with maintenance on Thursday morning. Here are the notes:

Halloween 2008

• Increased the number of drones that spawn
• Lowered the cocoons’ respawn timer from 5 minutes to 3 minutes
• Adjusted the drop rate of gossamer and small spider webs
• Gossamer will now appear in the player’s bag if they are among the top damagers. They will receive a random number between 1 and 4
• Rereading the journal can no longer be abused to reset the quest by circumventing the normal flow

Factions and War of Shadows

• Fixed an issue with Factions Elections not working properly on some shards
• Implemented a Town Crier update system for the War of Shadows. Saying “news” to a Town Crier or Sherry the Mouse statue will list one of the towns under attack
• Fixed issue with global Town Crier updates not being sent to Trammel from Felucca, and vice versa
• Increased number of Lieutenants, Captains, and Generals and adjusted their hit-points per rank
• Increased the DI and SDI on weapon rewards by five points across the board
• Added bonus to kill-points and silver for killing enemies of a different side
• Order: TB and CoM
• Chaos: Minax and SL
• Example: If an “Order” faction member kills a “Chaos” member, they receive 2x kill-points, and 2x silver
• Example: If an “Order” faction member kills an “Order” member, they receive the normal points and silver
• This effect stacks in “warzones” in Felucca (any of the eight faction cities)
• Kill-points can be up to 3x, silver up to 4x
• Bonus kill-points are not deducted from the victim, they’re just a bonus given to the victor
• Town sigils will now properly teleport back to their pedestals when a town is “neutralized” as part of the invasion
• Fixed the no spell casting area in Moonglow

General

• Fixed the issue where players were getting power scrolls in Ilshenar