(April Fools!) Patch Preview (P2.5)

[Deleted User 009 0]

Hey Asulon,

I hope you enjoyed your April Fools day as much as I did; was really fun to write this mockup changelog for you all ^^. For the record, I literally had to sit down and think to myself, what are the worst possible updates I could release, and furthermore what changes would kill the server most absolutely. For those that came late for the joke, all the posts that were "-snipped" on the thread about this joke were actually all comments that said 'HAPPY APRIL FOOLS!!' and gave the joke away way too early, when we still got some people to believe it hehe!

But no, none of the changes listed will ever occur as long as I can help it except for the 1st and 2nd bullet points, I actually DID do that. We'll be working on the real Patch 2.5 and hopefully have it ready for release sometime this upcoming week!

Thanks everyone!

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Hey Asulon,

We're going to start pre-announcing patches before they go live so we can get some general feedback on all of our upcoming updates, and so we can make any changes that may be needed before release. With that out of the way, here is what we have planned for patch 2.5, scheduled to drop in a few hours.

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• Fixed a dependency issue with Citizens, caused the skill system combat and character cards to break.
  
• Fixed mob spawning rates.
  
• Added a 60 second delay to OOC messages to solve some of the apparent trolling and misconduct that has been occurring in the OOC chat.
  
• Extend local chat by 100 blocks to compensate for the changes of OOC. (Original: 30 blocks)
  
• Removed shout and whisper channels, as they were not being utilized the way we wanted them to be; plus they will no longer be needed with the extended local chat.
  
• Fixed the crazy overpowered poison spider venom.
  
• Skill System max level has been dropped from 275 to 200. Any accounts with more than 200 levels have been reset and given 200 skill credits. This is for game-play balancing.
  
• Map size will be shrunken down to 4,000 x 4,000, just like the Aegis map; this is both for fixes to the latency and to centralize roleplaying more on the GM-made structures.
  
• Beds can now be used during the day as well as night!
  
• You will now be required to reroll your character on death. Failure to do so will result in an automatic 1 month ban, regardless if the kill was IC or OOC.
  

We'll be renaming the four default races to better fit our lore and gameplay feel. Here's a breakdown of all the new races:

Human - Zelot

Dwarf - Rockary

Elf - Alfefe

Orc - Grunshie

We'll be enforcing these new race names very strictly, any mention of the old names in lore posts or anything else related to LOTC will result in a permanent ban. We don't normally respond so strictly, but we feel it is critical to the survival of the server. All forums and in-game locations will be renamed accordingly to support this new naming system.

Thanks for your continued support and general awesomeness LOTC, keep it up! (And be sure to let us know what you think of this awesome new upcoming patch!)

p.s: April fools.

[Arkelos 1027]

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Please keep comments appropriate.

[Sykogenic 1333]

Oh you silly goose.

[CosmicWhaleShark 2488]

I'm sorry if I'm being blunt, but is this for real?

[Lexperiments 18]

I'm laughing.

So much.

[Deleted User 009 0]

I'm laughing.

So much.

About what ._.?

[Deleted User 009 0]

I'm sorry if I'm being blunt, but is this for real? I can honestly say I don't like... 85% of these 'patches'

Could you give us some examples of what you don't like in the changes so we can improve?

[Robin Drake 731]

About what ._.?

Could you give us some examples of what you don't like in the changes so we can improve?

Please refrain from double posting or I will be forced to issue you a warning.

[Phlex 0]

I'm sorry if I'm being blunt, but is this for real?

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Please keep comments appropriate.

[nppeck 601]

So if we get killed by lag, we have to re-roll?

[mylimo7 409]

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Please keep comments appropriate.

[TRAY 162]

I love everything about it ;D

[Deleted User 009 0]

So if we get killed by lag, we have to re-roll?

Er... you could try opening a /modreq, but in most cases yes lag is not an excuse to powergame it off.

[VonAulus 2082]

"You will now be required to reroll your character on death. Failure to do so will result in an automatic 1 month ban, regardless if the kill was IC or OOC."

This is rediculous... what about the people that write lore for their character? Take the time to rp personality for them? This is a game breaker... not even put past the players? So there is no point to actually do anything anymore since you might die and have to destroy the character you spent MONTHS creating.

[CosmicWhaleShark 2488]

Assuming this isn't a prank... I like the beds, citizens, spider venom and I could honestly roll with the 200 level count.

Everything else though please don't go through with it o_o

P.S. YOU FORGOT KHARAJYRS' NEW NAME! :P