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

[Pliz 66]

I really like it.

[Samson (Derick) 123]

i am kinda afraid about the rerolling. does that include wars? because that is little frusturating.

[PoseidonisKing 15]

I do not like any of this at all, re rolling, skills down. Thank god it's a april fools joke.

Also , I am an Elf, there are Dwarfs, Orcs, and Humans in the world!

[Wolf Druid Ouity 1461]

Lolwut.

[Imperial Legion Soldier 34]

Lol, I like this. Great updates :P

[bickando 3967]

April Fools! No seriously, let us all hope this is April Fools.

[Sir_Vilku 15]

Each subrace will have a unique name; we're not sure on them yet, although we found a great fantasy name generating site that we'll probably use.

actually i have a great suggestion for "high elves"!

since they are such flowery people, why not name them after minecrafts most famous flower, the helianthus? (the yellow flower of minecraft.)

also, since dark elves are such darky darky elfelf's, they totally deserve name twilight since it means the zone between day and night!

i mean, who wouldnt want to play a twilight then!? =D

[Divinus 179]

[Groobs03 297]

[Adkai 6]

My reaction when I found out it was a troll (Besides the eating her part :P)

[KarmaDelta 969]

If we re-roll on death, I want to make no-rp killing not a rule anymore.

[Stag 3230]

Ya know.... I actually think this patch will improve gameplay immensely....

It all makes perfect sense!

No more whispering like you have something to hide.

No more shouting like a bafoon.

No more people 10000 blocks away.

Less Necromancy with the character rerolls

Much more abandoned homes from all the dead characters!

This patch is gonna be great guys! Embrace it........

Thank you Vaq for all the hard work you have done to get LOTC ready for this patch!

*insert trollface here*

[spymanx 2]

...wait what? Reroll on death...ok that I do not agree with I can deal with a name change but I find it silly that your hero has to change every single time he is "Killed" (or KOed as it use to be)I do not agree with this one bit, however I do not run the server and can not make these choices but I can assure you the majority of the players will not like this.

[shiftnative 3103]

...wait what? Reroll on death...ok that I do not agree with I can deal with a name change but I find it silly that your hero has to change every single time he is "Killed" (or KOed as it use to be)I do not agree with this one bit, however I do not run the server and can not make these choices but I can assure you the majority of the players will not like this.

Read the fine print ;-)

[Aerinyes 402]

Read the fine print ;-)

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!)

In addition everyone must grow a beard by the end of the month.

Oh my....

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