Welcome Board Archive - Area Updates for 7/1/2020

From: Rufus         Title: Area Updates for 7/1/2020                
                    Posted On: Wednesday, July 01 2020, 12:05PM
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AREA UPDATES

- Minor updates to the following areas: aztecs, malta, dartmoor, salem

- Permanent lights have received a major spec change and some have 
  been updated either in terms of what they do or the rent that 
  they are. We are not, currently, templating these. You will have to 
  acquire another, but we've also changed some of the quests to allow
  that. More to come in the next update.

- There's a new bag in one of the updated areas that can contain only 
  specific types of items (in this case, potions, scrolls and powders). 
  It can only contain 5 of said items, but all of the items inside do 
  not count toward rent, allowing you, essentially to carry around 5 
  consumables for free. If the bag is in a house, it will calculate 
  cost as normal. This bag also happens to soulbound and you may have 
  one on our person at a time.
  
Klein
    - Now more newbie friendly, with slightly less German wording
    - Klein city mobs have been adjusted for players ranged 1-5
    - Eastern forest mobs now ranges from 5-10
    - Ritters and guards are still level 50, but you may find fewer of them
    - Several shopkeepers and some quest mobs are no longer killable
    - Mobs on Herodotus' list were left as-is.

Abilene
- the bowie knife fight isn't so unfair and isn't so buggy

Roman britain
- Re-imagined as a 10-15 level area.
- 3 new small quests added in Orkney with gear for those levels
- A couple of mid-level mobs have been turned into level 50 mobs for 
  higher end XP.

Lima Update

- Lima town was updated to be a Level 1-5 zone.
- Lima reaffirm encounter is now available to everyone (do not have to 
  do the reaffirm quest)
- Some mobs in Lima were made L50 and had their xp adjusted accordingly
- Medieval Andes (outdoor area east of Lima) is now a level 5-10 zone

Bengal

- Bengal town was updated to be a Level 10-15 zone.
- Some mobs in Bengal were made L50.

Ireland

- Ooonagh will give you a reward even if you already have sidhe 
  friendship
- The platinum leaf has been updated. It will not be templated
  
Beowulf

- Levels, reset timers and mobs adjusted to be applicable to characters
  who can take on level 44-50 mobs. 
- Added additional thanes
- Some equipment adjustments

India 

- India has been updated to be a good place to level for characters 
  capable of killing level 10-15 mobs. There are now more mobs in this 
  range, especially in the middle village and northern city and they 
  are on a shorter repop.
- The townspeople and villagers no longer flee as much as they used 
  to. 
- The Brahman ring is now all level 50.

Shadowlands

- severed head of a demon king has been updated. It is now a permanent
  light as well as some other changes. It will not be templated.
  
Shadowlands 2

- Fix for bane of Dagda fight

Morrigan's Maze
- 5 new encounters added
- 5 new items added to the load pool
- wobble won't trigger info lauding
- Morrigan removes you from your instance of MM when you ask her to leave.
- I somehow managed to expand the scavenger quests 5x but forgot to put in the
  single line command which starts the player on the new content.
  That's been fixed.
- Players can no longer soft lock themselves from completing a scavenger quest

San Francisco
- Better alignment in the newbie level 1-5 mob range

Black Forest
- The black forest has had a make-over!
- Not only is it now a level 10-15 area, it has had a few new rooms,
- a handful of new mobs, and yes, even a couple new quests.