Asherons Call: Dev Notes Up!

Miscellaneous Improvements and Changes

• Many town criers have been awfully surly of late!  It can be difficult to find one who will give out information for free.  But all of them are still more than happy to chat for a few pyreals!
  [LI]Due to an issue with Zbuffering on some systems, ACD3Dsetup now defaults everyone to Zbuffering off.  If you wish to turn Zbuffering on you will need to run the setup program and select it.
  [LI]Natural resistance no longer affects the mana that you lose when casting spells, or the stamina that you lose when jumping, attacking, being attacked, or healing.
  [LI]The damage modifiers on the Weeping Bow, Crossbow, and Atlatl have been adjusted, as has the slayer bonus on the Weeping Wand.
  [LI]Thrown weapons have seen some changes, including changes to the damage done by spikes and atlatl darts.  In addition, treasure-generated atlatls and some quest atlatls have had their damage modifiers changed.  See the Letter to the Players for details.
  [LI]The Barbed Fletching Tool can be used on wrapped arrowheads and deadly arrowheads (and even wrapped deadly arrowheads).  In addition, barbed arrowheads of all sorts can be used to make atlatl darts.
  [LI]Light bows and crossbows are now more useful, with the potential to do more damage.
  [LI]Some creatures on the landscape were spawning faster than intended.  This could cause problems for players while hunting, as well as cause problems for the servers.  We've slowed these creatures down a bit.
  [LI]Similarly, the rate at which some creatures summon their minions has been slowed down.
  [LI]A few recent creatures have had their health, armor, and attacks tweaked slightly in order to bring them more in line with their intended difficulty.
  [LI]Runed chests with a lockpick resistance of 400 are once again spawning on the landscape.
  [LI]The Golden Chests at the casinos now give better treasure.
  [LI]The randomly spawning hive dungeons on Marae Lassel have been upgraded.  In addition, the restrictions preventing you from logging into the game inside the dungeons have been removed.
  [LI]Wands with slayer qualities do somewhat better damage against their proper enemy.  Try them out!
  [LI]Heart of Oak now stacks with Minor Willpower.
  [LI]A bug that allowed mansion owners to swear allegiance to others in some circumstances has been fixed.
  [LI]You can now squelch characters and the accounts of characters who are currently offline.

Minor Details

• Isparian bows and crossbows once again wield correctly.
  [LI]Isparian wands now change appearance depending on which stone is in them.
  [LI]The riddle logic in Oswald's Lair has been corrected.
  [LI]The coded message on the Wooden Tablet is now spelled correctly.
  [LI]Some of the Wai Jhou collectors' speech was not correct at times.  It is now fixed.
  [LI]The Wai Jhou sign now welcomes you to Wai Jhou.
  [LI]A number of objects now have the correct plural forms when stacked.  No more "Bunch of Nannerses"!