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

[Akeron 55]

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Please keep comments appropriate.

[Kote (luigimario77) 4]

Trololololololol. But seriously if this happens I'm out.

I would also leave if this patch is legit, which I highly doubt is. At the end it says "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!)"

The awesome new patch part sounds very April fools like.

I'm just waiting for Vaq to shout Poisson D'avril!

[Ryn Chirr 224]

Assuming this isn't an April Fools Joke, here's my feedback...

Fixed a dependency issue with Citizens, caused the skill system combat and character cards to break. - Good, it needs to be fixed.

Fixed mob spawning rates.-Good, also needs fixing.

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.-Who even uses OOC Chat?

Extend local chat by 100 blocks to compensate for the changes of OOC. (Original: 30 blocks) - Again, who uses OOC chat?

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. -Who misused it, so I can kick them in the junk? I use /shout and /whisper all the time for RP. To not have it is stupid.

Fixed the crazy overpowered poison spider venom. -THANK YOU! Those damn cave spiders are horrible!

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. -*clears throat* BULL CRAP! So, if I want to keep my cooking at 100 and get my archery to 100, I can't have farming at 50 and fishing at 25, like I've planned FOREVER? A POX ON YOUR HOUSE IF THIS COMES INTO PLAY!

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. -Seriously? 4k by 4k is too small. There's too many people in Salvus as it is, you'll have the whole bloody server there!

Beds can now be used during the day as well as night! -Ok this is actually a good one. So many RP times someone's been hurt and we've tried to get them into bed at noon and failed horrible...

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. -*RAGE* Do you know how long some of us have worked on our characters? If we have to reroll on death, 100% quitting.

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.

No one will go along with this change! You're going to have one empty server!

Overall Feedback:

[FORƎST 1312]

Da faq?

But this post actually made my day. <3 you Vaq.

[--peerless42 59]

I call trololololo.

[AlphaCentaurus 173]

[Kilgrim 361]

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.

I think you should be permanatley banned for not enforcing your own rules upon yourself :/

[Eleatic 1033]

Yes. .. . * Gets out gun and starts rallying people * BAN VAQ!~

Oh yeah also there is a large amount of people who use /ch ooc if you take that out and make a delay I will leave for another reason >:/

[shiftnative 3103]

Oh and I'm actually a koala dressed up like a human - sorry guys

[Arashiha 294]

I.....don't know what to say other then.... I might leave. Pardon my bluntness but if this is about money then I have lost faith.

^ that

[Auvreaeath 263]

Oh and I'm actually a koala dressed up like a human - sorry guys

I KNEW IT! Does that mean I'm the actualy Human Shift Native dressed up like a Koala?

[Robin Drake 731]

Oh and I'm actually a koala dressed up like a human - sorry guys

I knew it all along

>.>

<.<

[Timayame 198]

I CANT WAIT!!! THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME!!!

[Eleatic 1033]

So. . . . I was thinking about dat sexy koala beard ;~; Not a elf. SNIP - Alfelfie beard

[No_Mortale 54]

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.

• 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!)

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. What you are doing here is making OOC chat a part of IC chat, which frankly is bullsh#t. This is going to ruin RP as you will randomly run into discussions about the weather..

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.

Ok. Extending local chat is simply encouraging OOC chat in a IC chat room. Removing the Shout and Whisper is stupid. They enable characters to express themselves (shouting) and being secrative (whispering). If I want to have a disclosed discussion with somebody everyone within 100 blocks is going to freakin well hear. People are going to wander into the wilderness to have discussions. Also can you imagine trying to RP in a busy city, the chat will be spammed by everyone in the region..

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.

Slight overkill. This will ruin any kind of establishment, whether it be a guild or kingdom. If a mob drops on your head it ruins everything. One thing I enjoy about this server is month long projects. I die an average of once every 4 days. If this is the case then just forget me being a part of the server. You are destroying the community and ruining RP Vaquxine.

You do a great job mate but seriously this is really not needed.

(no insult intended but im not going to be happy if this happens)