Publish 52
Publish 52: Apr 28 2008 2:40PM CST
Factions
In order to promote accessibility and invigorate Factions, we’ve made several changes and fixed some bugs. Additionally, Factions will play an important role in the Warriors of Destiny plot arc.
Faction size limit and load balancer removed: individual factions can grow to any size. Previously capped at 200. Multiple characters from the same account may join the same faction An account cannot have characters in different factions on the same shard Removed 30 day character age requirement “Young” players cannot join factions “Young” players will be removed from guilds that join factions One vote in faction elections per account Only one character per account may run in the elections Quit time reduced from 7 days to 3 days
House Placement Changes
This publish implements several changes to prevent house placement exploits.
15 day character age requirement to place or trade a house
Water barrels/magic fields/etc will no longer block house placement
When a house is placed on top of a moongate, the placer will get a message about placement being blocked, and the moongate will be destroyed (at both ends.)
IDOC behavior (houses that collapse through decay)
When an IDOC drops, housing cannot be placed on the lot for a random amount of time
Items that drop from the IDOC will have protections against scripted looting
House placement tool will have a cooldown if used too many times in a given time period
Must now wait one hour after building a home before demolishing it (previously 15 minutes)
Spring Cleaning 2008
Ah, how time flies. Spring has come once again to Britannia, but the sweet smell of blossoming flowers outside our homes can’t belie the memories of battles fought long so very long ago. Or is that the chest overflowing with Ophidian weapons in the corner? Or maybe it’s the bag of cursed artifacts hidden upstairs?
Time to cleanup, Britannia!
Publish 52 institutes the first round of Spring Cleaning collections and rewards Four NPCs around the world collect items in exchange for tickets The tickets can be redeemed for rewards in a new community collection
Turn-in items
Copper Shilling
100pts
Planesword
100pts
Planeshield
100pts
Ophidian Rations Can accept stacks of 1, 10, or 100 100pts per Ration
Ophidian Orders
250pts
Slippery Snake Skins
400pts
Silver Crown
500pts
Power Weapon
650pts
Magincia Rubble
800pts
Vanquishing Weapon
1.000pts
Mystic Weapon
2,000pts
Ophidian Journals
2,500pts
Staff of Pyros
2,500pts
Vorpal Blade
2,500pts
Ophidian Weapon (Power)
3,500pts
Cursed Artifacts
5,000pts
Ophidian Weapon (Vanquishing)
5,000pts
Ophidian Weapon (Mystic)
7,500pts
Berserker's Scythe
10,000pts
Gold Sovereign
10,000pts
Ophidian Berserker's Bardiche
25,000pts
Inavlis's Burchete
2,000,000pts
Rewards
Shirt: "I survived the Ophidian War"
1,000pts
Shirt: "I survived the snakes on the plains"
1,000pts
Shirt: "I saved the day and all I got was this fancy shirt"
1,000pts
Shirt: "Free Ricardo!"
1,000pts
Shirt: "Hang Ricardo!"
1,000pts
Shirt: "Magincia Pride"
1,000pts
Shirt: "Minax is #1"
1,000pts
Shirt: "Council of Mages are #1"
1,000pts
Shirt: "True Britannians are #1"
1,000pts
Shirt: "Shadowlords are #1"
1,000pts
Nocturne Earrings
5,000pts
Sherry the Mouse Statue
10,000pts
Scroll of Alacrity
20,000pts
Snake Skin Boots
20,000pts
RBG Sash (Blue)
30,000pts
RBG Sash (Yellow)
30,000pts
RBG Sash (Red)
30,000pts
RBG Sash (Green)
30,000pts
RBG Sash (Orange)
30,000pts
RBG Sash (Purple)
30,000pts
RBG Sash (White)
30,000pts
RBG Sash (Black)
30,000pts
Knight's Close Helm
100,000pts
Knight's Norse Helm
100,000pts
Knight's Plate Helm
100,000pts
Knight's Bascinet
100,000pts
Knight's Gorget
100,000pts
Knight's Gloves
100,000pts
Knight's Arms
100,000pts
Knight's Legs
100,000pts
Knight's Breastplate
100,000pts
Knight's Breastplate (Female)
100,000pts
Descriptions:
Shirts
Comes with one phrase of choice
Blessed
Dyable
Nocturne Earrings
Grayish silver
Night Sight
RBG Sashes
“Royal Britannia Guard”
One color per Virtue/Town
Blessed
Scroll of Alacrity
Increase skill gain for 15 minutes in the scroll’s skill
Skill is randomly set once redeemed from the collection
Sherry the Mouse Statue
Larger than life statue of Sherry, in marble
Will be hooked into the Town Crier system in Publish 53
Snake Skin Boots
Random snake skin hue
+2% Poison Resist
Knight’s Armor
White
Each piece has 7% resists, +1 HP
Total: 42% resists, +6HP as a set of 6 items
Cannot be enhanced
Turn-Ins
Makiko the Samurai
Turnins:
Ophidian Journals
Ophidian Orders
Zento, Rokuon Cultural Center, 1st Floor
Lozat the Numismatist
Turnins:
Copper Shilling
Silver Crown
Gold Sovereign
Britain (Trammel), East Britain Bank
Calaid the Soldier
Turnins:
Ophidian Rations
Slippery Snake Skins
Britain (Trammel), North guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance
Siege: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank
Onoe the Soldier
Turnins:
Cursed Artifacts
Magincia Rubble
Planesword
Planeshield
Staff of Pyros
Vorpal Blade
Magical Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic)
Ophidian Weapons (Power, Vanquishing, Mystic)
Berserker’s Scythe
Ophidian Berserker’s Bardiche
Invalis’s Burchete
Britain (Trammel), South guard tower at Castle Britannia entrance
Siege: Guard tower southwest of West Britain Bank
Community collection box
Located with Onoe the Soldier
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a bug where players that use the Basket of Herbs could lose 20 points of cooking when the effect wears off instead of 10 points of cooking.
Explosion potion should no longer go off and reveal the player if the player is in no play mode (character transfer).
Pet release gump should now closed the moment a player is in no play mode during a character transfer.
Players should no longer be able to stable pets while a pet trade gump is open.
Spellweaving: Essence of Wind. Casting Speed and SSI debuff potency have been flip flopped
Fixed an issue with Ronin not being able to access secures in their own houses if permissions were set to "guild"
The Curse spell should no longer sometimes last past its intended duration
When a monster casts Curse on players the icon should now show in the buff icon tool bar
Fixed bugs where Paroxymus's swamp dragon can despawn if it is killed
Fixes the 2 rare mounts obtained from peerless mobs.
Will no longer be marked as a summoned pet.
Will no longer be deleted by other monsters special moves.
Fixed a bug where some "Sacks of Flour" could not be used as a cooking ingredient
Players guarded by pets that are attacked via the Paralyze spell in a guard zone will no longer get guardwhacked
Flattened the ground to remove pit in Moonglow, on tram/fel.
Players who transfer to a shard from another will no longer start in Magincia.
Fixed a bug with the weight of stacks of bola balls being incorrect
Small stacks of ore should no longer get stuck in "This object is in use" mode
Runic fishing poles made with Oak will not return values of 0 any longer
Commas can now be seen in checks (instead of 1000000, you will see 1,000,000)
