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Rogean
04-24-2010, 04:07 PM
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Rogean: XP Bonus no longer in effect.
Rogean: Fixed a bug with the Random Number Generator not handling values over 32k. This was most noticeable with raid boss spawn variance continuously spawning mobs early in their window.
Rogean: Put code limits on how many packets are handled per player per server iteration. This shouldn't cause any noticable lag unless you are Macroquest McMatty and enjoy spamming the server. Yes, we noticed.
Haynar: Added checks to prevent faction wars triggered by charmed players.
Haynar: Bard song initial duration fix for formula 5, so duration is adequate to trigger starting sounds, when duration is set to 0, for pulse based songs.
Haynar: Several Bard song fixes, to prevent multiple "Song Ends" messages, when a song is stopped.
Haynar: Fix for autoattack not working somtimes. This bug was introduced when I changed the BehindMob() function. I did not account for the wrap around 0 degrees in one case. It should be fixed for all cases now.
Haynar: Reverted Monk Skill Tiger Strike damage type to original type.
Haynar: Mana should now refresh properly for a bard singing a song.
Haynar: The modifier for the instrument equipped when a song starts, will be applied while the song continues, even if it is unequipped.
Haynar: Bard interrupts should provide minimal messages.
Haynar: Updated Bard song durations.
Haynar: Filtering bard songs, should now filter the message and the graphic.
Haynar: Fixed various other little bugs with bard twisting and songs.
Haynar: More faction war fixes for charmed pets.
Haynar: Fixed duplicate messages for Sense the Dead and Sense Summoned.
Haynar: Fixed duplicate message that occurs when gaining a level.
Secrets: Removed Autocombine and Favorites system from the server. You must use the experiment window.

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Haynar: Added recipes for Small Fine Steel Breastplate, Fine Splinted Cloak and Large Fine Splinted Cloak.
Haynar: Sucessful combines for Small Fine Plate Gauntlets and Small Fine Splinted Cloak will no longer eat the Smithy Hammer.
Nilborg: You may now be bound at the gypsy camp in North Karana. Added message to client and caster reminding them their /charinfo won't be updated until zoning.
Nilborg: Volunteer Delharn will now have a loottable. Fixed his face.
Nilborg: Highpass orcs, if left untouched for a few minutes, will march to attack Highkeep.
Nilborg: Added Lislia Goldtune's unique aggro message.
Nilborg: Raztara will now sell cloudy potion.
Nilborg: Created spawn for Barn Bloodstone in Highpass. Fixed his face. Fixed his loot. With the correct keywords, he will abandon Mutt to go drink at the Golden Casino.
Nilborg: Mutt Rootlit will now spawn independently from Barn. Face, faction, loot fixed.
Nilborg: Highpass smugglers primary faction changed to CarsonMcCabe.
Nilborg: Fixed Brenon, Greth Truksorn, Prak, Wres Corber, Crenn Salbet, Breck Damison, Kaden Gron, Malik Zaren, Nenika Lightfoot, Alzekar Kerda, Thurgen Thunderhead, Stump Rundl faces.
Nilborg: Vranol Blackguard will no longer spawn.
Nilborg: Itemized Mistrana Two Notes. She will now be a 12 minute spawn.
Nilborg: Junth and Lars McMannus decreased to 6 minute spawns.
Nilborg: Highpass factions should now be easier to obtain from the orcs and gnolls in surrounding areas.
Nilborg: You may no longer fight "the ground" in east commons.
Nilborg: Brownie guard spawn time increased to 10 minutes.
Nilborg: Added missing highpass citizen spawns in highpass hold. Added missing levels to their spawngroups.
Nilborg: Added missing guard spawns in highpass hold. Added missing levels to their spawngroups.
Nilborg: Fixed Staff of the Wheel text, faction rewards.
Nilborg: Removed the Ice Comet tradeskill combine involving the droppable rune of the astral and rune of frost. The only source of a droppable version of ice comet prior to the tradeskill patch of 2002 should be lady vox. The no drop runes from the Staff of the Wheel quest will still combine to create a no drop version of Ice Comet.
Nilborg: Removed faction hits from Granin O`Gill. He will now be fought by leopards and orcs.
Nilborg: A stray kobold shaman wasn't being killed by steamfont guards. Fixed
Nilborg: Disabled Alun Bilgum's quest text.
Nilborg: Tagnis Ginfarr and Thar Kelgand will always drop Hurietta's Tunic.
Nilborg: Glorin Binfurr, Magnus Boran, Gann Dunbull, Doran Glosgen, Gibi Bilgum, Alun Bilgum changed to 22 min spawns.
Nilborg: Den Ironblend, Lan and Dalbar Tarbrind, Signus Boran, Delin Ironblend changed to 12 min spawns.
Nilborg: Fixed loots and factions for the lvl 35 Butcherblock Dwarves. Upped their max hit to 92.
Nilborg: Fixed combine for a Keg of Brells Blessed Stout
Nilborg: Corrected typo in Orc Impaler quest.
Nilborg: Fixed Corrupt and Loyal Qeynos guards loot and faction
Nilborg: Removed rats from Feerrott.
Nilborg: Guards Donlan and McCluskey will leave their tower to go extort money, once per EQ day.
Nilborg: Choon and Froon will now be 12 minute spawns.
Nilborg: Corrected Brothers Estle, Trintle, and Chintle. They will now path correctly and fight each other appropriately.
Nilborg: Platinum Armband will no longer show a texture when worn.
Nilborg: Enchant electrum, silver, gold, platinum will only be sold in Neriak Third Gate by Mizr N`Mar.
Nilborg: Alicia Starshimmer will no longer spawn.
Nilborg: Broon, Droon, and Proon should now work correctly.
Nilborg: Created recipe for crate of tonic.
Nilborg: Added missing quest text to Kinool Goldsinger and Princess Joleena.
Nilborg: Added "a wooden heart" as a 15% treant drop.
Nilborg: a golden haired mermaid will drop her lock of hair 100% of the time.
Nilborg: hulking gorillas can now drop clumps of gorilla hair.
Nilborg: Fixed the "mane attraction" quest
Nilborg: Renamed Sanfyrd Montop to Sanfyrd Featherhead.
Nilborg: fairy guards in lesser faydark are now 15 min spawn times
Nilborg: Implemented the Rain Caller quest.
DOACleric: Ghoul Assassin drop rates adjusted.
DOACleric: Tentacle terrors in Unrest now cast knockback
DOACleric: Large Spiders across Norrath have had their silk drops increased
DOACleric: Tiny Skeletons should no longer appear under the world
DOACleric: Boats in Lake Rathe should no longer float in the air
DOACleric: Brundar is no longer underwater
DOACleric: Darkforge Armor quests will now reward experience upon completion

Nen
04-24-2010, 04:11 PM
Sweet, but no Kith fix? :(

/oceanoftears

Shamaeso
04-24-2010, 04:13 PM
No fix for the FD bug when your charmed pet dies?

Derpus
04-24-2010, 04:17 PM
thank you for confirming that the removal of autocombine, which was removed a week ago, is intentional. also the small FS BP.

Myrkskog
04-24-2010, 04:17 PM
Thank god, those faces were bugging me.

Just kidding, awesome patch! Looking forward to bard jubilation.

BuzWeaver
04-24-2010, 04:17 PM
Nice outline.

Bones
04-24-2010, 04:22 PM
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Rogean: Fixed a bug with the Random Number Generator not handling values over 32k. This was most noticeable with raid boss spawn variance continuously spawning mobs early in their window.

I knew I wasn't just crazy! Thanks Rog.

Xantarr
04-24-2010, 04:24 PM
Thank you Haynar, you're the man.

And, of course, Rogean, as always. :]

Deathrydar
04-24-2010, 04:24 PM
Lots of love for Bards!
Thanks again, Haynar!!

Uaellaen
04-24-2010, 04:26 PM
Rogean: Put code limits on how many packets are handled per player per server iteration. This shouldn't cause any noticable lag unless you are Macroquest McMatty and enjoy spamming the server. Yes, we noticed.

may this have influence on raids with 30 ~ 50 people? (yeah i know im thinking far ahead ><)

Skope
04-24-2010, 04:31 PM
Glorin Binfurr at 22 minutes. Now where the hell are you mages gonna level? :P

girth
04-24-2010, 04:31 PM
# Nilborg: Highpass factions should now be easier to obtain from the orcs and gnolls in surrounding areas.

This is saying that the orc/gnoll camps in Highpass give more faction per kill right? Or are there other camps in adjacent zones?

Jify
04-24-2010, 04:32 PM
Time to get a Raincaller or 4! :D

Murferoo
04-24-2010, 04:35 PM
Glorin Binfurr at 22 minutes. Now where the hell are you mages gonna level? :P

This is the one at the end of the dock in BB right?

She was pretty good no doubt, but there were and are better options.

Virtuosos
04-24-2010, 05:00 PM
such as lfay ZL for steamfont


forgot the chicks name >.<

Audacious93c
04-24-2010, 05:01 PM
may this have influence on raids with 30 ~ 50 people? (yeah i know im thinking far ahead ><)

Haha, if only the guild killing most of the content atm had that many people when they do it. :p

Anyways, thanks for all your work with the patch guys.

Lonedrahon25
04-24-2010, 05:34 PM
Nilborg: Glorin Binfurr, Magnus Boran, Gann Dunbull, Doran Glosgen, Gibi Bilgum, Alun Bilgum changed to 22 min spawns.

Why was this changed? Was it in line with the classic timeline?

Sckrilla
04-24-2010, 05:36 PM
Aw, sad day with Glorin respawning @ 22 minutes. She was such awesome XP. ;(

Shamaeso
04-24-2010, 05:44 PM
Seriously I appreciate the server and the devs time but why fix faces when issues more then a month since posted are not addressed?

Haynar
04-24-2010, 06:23 PM
Seriously I appreciate the server and the devs time but why fix faces when issues more then a month since posted are not addressed?
Could you be a little more specific, on what you think we should be fixing first?

Haynar

nilbog
04-24-2010, 06:26 PM
Nilborg: Glorin Binfurr, Magnus Boran, Gann Dunbull, Doran Glosgen, Gibi Bilgum, Alun Bilgum changed to 22 min spawns.

Why was this changed? Was it in line with the classic timeline?

Their spawn was wrong.. and I fixed it. Can look it up.

Lonedrahon25
04-24-2010, 06:30 PM
Its cool, just wanted to know. Damn, back to specs now. Lol

Shamaeso
04-24-2010, 07:25 PM
Could you be a little more specific, on what you think we should be fixing first?

Haynar

well the FD issue posted in the bugs forum. Charming an undead, successfully fd and then when pet dies the mobs kill you ignoring the successful FD this started after the patch on charm and aggro transferring.

Nen
04-24-2010, 07:29 PM
Could you be a little more specific, on what you think we should be fixing first?

Haynar

Kithicor! :D

nilbog
04-24-2010, 07:29 PM
Seriously I appreciate the server and the devs time but why fix faces when issues more then a month since posted are not addressed?

Questions like this.. just piss me off.

Because free work is free work, and it took 1.5 seconds to fix those. If you think there's a big list of "fixed" issues we pick and choose what to implement, you're just wrong.

I made the fixes, why don't you PM me and tell me what I should be fixing. Please do.

Rogean
04-24-2010, 07:39 PM
NILBORG CRUSH

Shamaeso
04-24-2010, 07:40 PM
i just asked Nilbog. It was a legitimate question and I had bumped the thread asking about it in bug the other day.

nilbog
04-24-2010, 07:44 PM
We work on different things.

There is a database, there are quests, there is a source which runs the server.

If you notice mine are all database or quest related.

What you want is a source change. If you choose something out of my list, that I have fixed, and point out how you would rather have a source issue fixed, it's a slap in the face.

It's like going to Burger King and ordering a large pizza. They'll say wtf?

Rogean
04-24-2010, 08:02 PM
Was thinking of doing it...

Http://www.rogean.com/images/shamaeso.png

ryuut1
04-24-2010, 08:15 PM
rogean youre 2 boxing!

Shamaeso
04-24-2010, 08:24 PM
the issue started right after the patch where a charmed pet dies and aggro transfers to the player If a Necro fd's successfully he shouldn't get that aggro.

bionicbadger
04-24-2010, 09:25 PM
need more windows open rogean

Rogean
04-24-2010, 09:36 PM
need more windows open rogean

I know right.

It's been worse before.

Zordana
04-24-2010, 09:50 PM
I know right.

It's been worse before.

66 notepads, wtf.. and i thought the amount i usualy have open is high..

Malrubius
04-24-2010, 10:08 PM
I can't believe how much stuff gets fixed/improved every week by you guys. Way more frequently than that other big company ever did back in the day.

So point #1 is, you kick ass - thanks.

Point #2, if I were you, I'd be sorely tempted to "forget" to fix the charm/FD problem. At least for awhile.

Oh, and point #3 - that screenshot scares the bejesus out of me.

Dabamf
04-24-2010, 11:45 PM
the issue started right after the patch where a charmed pet dies and aggro transfers to the player If a Necro fd's successfully he shouldn't get that aggro.

This is balanced by charm not breaking on FD like it used to.

I'd prefer it be classic, since part of necro charm killing strategy involves feigning off a charmed pet when things are going bad (and is fail immune, since a fail won't break charm)

Shurid
04-25-2010, 07:41 AM
The devs dedication to this server is unbelievable. I won't even help a friend move because its too much work for no payoff =P

Hats off to you gents!

BuzWeaver
04-25-2010, 10:48 AM
I can't believe how much stuff gets fixed/improved every week by you guys. Way more frequently than that other big company ever did back in the day.

So point #1 is, you kick ass - thanks.

Point #2, if I were you, I'd be sorely tempted to "forget" to fix the charm/FD problem. At least for awhile.

Oh, and point #3 - that screenshot scares the bejesus out of me.

I mentioned that to a friend the other day as well. Its amazing how much I've learned about the programming (what can be done/tweaked/created) just from reading the EQ EMU Forums. I'm not sure if the current capabilities in the programming allows for the more fluid changes or SOE could have made this changes back in the day themselves and they just chose not to.

Xadion
04-29-2010, 08:43 AM
about time darkforge gave exp...I missed out on a ton of exp- did a whole suite + :( no chance of getting that in make up eh lol...level 45 here- scrapping for any exp I can lol

Good changes keep up the great work all!

Omnimorph
04-29-2010, 11:05 AM
If i were a GM i would be randomly dropping people from the sky all the time... i wouldn't get any fixes done!

Yellow
04-29-2010, 01:10 PM
thanks for the heads up xD

Lonedrahon25
05-16-2010, 11:22 PM
huh....?