Miscellaneous: Fletching changes in September 1999 era

[Dolalin]

From this post sourced from the Guide forums and saved on eqbards, regarding changes in the patch that week:

Date: Tue Sep 14 17:24:25 BST 1999


- Normal arrows (item 8005) have had their range reduced from 50 to 25. This is because fletched arrows are range 50 and a
flectcher making his own arrows should have better arrows than generic storebought ones. No other arrows were affected

-The Fletching kit now has 8 slots. This is to allow more items added into the process to make new bows.

https://github.com/dbsanfte/eq-archi...html/6479.html

The changes are backed up by patch messages in this newsgroup post:

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.game...m/cO8XvgUuxBMJ

From this newsgroup post, the Fletching Kits were originally 4 slots:

For a time, I
carried one for a strictly role-playing aspect, but have
since replaced it with the Fletching kit. Both have 4 slots
to hold 80 arrows and both function equally well.

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.game...m/NEw5IJ1pvmkJ

Finally there seems to have been a bug in archery for quite a long time that meant that arrow and bow ranges didn't add properly. I will do this one in its own thread though because it seems complicated.