MOTD
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Nodeka is still under relatively active development. Below is a list of the entire known changelog in it's original form when quoted, barring any typos or in rare cases, the shifting of lines to fit MediaWiki formatting. Any commentary will not be in the code block.
MOTDs by year, in reverse order:
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2020
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There are currently no updates or MOTDs posted for 2020.
2019
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Total updates: 5
Update 4/27/2019: - Reign of spirit is now trainable beyond 100%.
Update 4/21/2019: - Summoning of the grey has been improved slightly such that the follower created by it has slightly improved stats.
Update 4/7/2019: - The shielded aylakia run time decrement bug has been fixed. - The hyper-unique period has ended and a new double gold, exp, stones event has begun!
Update 2/16/2019:
- Hyper-unique period through the end of March. During this time all
donations reward 3x infuscated marbles.
Update 1/5/2019:
- Nodeka is moving on January 11th! As such, Nodeka may be down for a few
days from Jan. 11th - Jan. 18th while we re-establish our IPs and DNS.
For updates, check http://justingottschlich.com
We likely will have the non-bound DNS IP address the day of the move, which
you'll be able to connect to directly. Check the above website for details.
2018
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Update 7/1/2018: - Natural attunement has additional benefits and has notable strength in training beyond 100%.
Update 6/23/2018:
- Super summer deal!
For two weeks only (6/23 - 7/7), all donations will receive 3x stones!
In addition, any character who maxes out in donations for either June or
July donations while the 3x stones is active, will receive an extra 1x
on all stones (a total value of 4x stones!).
Lastly, gem costs are at a reduced rate *and* one character will be selected
at random each day during this event period and receive a random number of
additional gems up to 1,000!
Update 5/11/2018: - Change in 2x damage: now it only applies to PCs and their NPC followers. That is, NPCs no longer do 2x damage.
Update 4/16/2018: - Improved race: oji-oem - keepers of the word.
Update 4/13/2018: - Rune-ring has been improved for beyond 100% training.
Update 3/25/2018:
- New feature: when a player has reached the maximum number of augments for
the first tier, he/she will open up a new set of sun stone modifications that
were previously hidden.
Although these modifications are permanent, they are extremely costly! Each
modification has its own unique base cost, incremental cost, and maximum
number of improvements.
These modifications can be accessed using the normal sun stone command:
"stones sun" -> list the options for sun stones
"stones sun, xxxx" -> use stones to improve one of the categories
However, keep in mind, that until you reach the maximum number of augments
for the first tier, they will be hidden and unaccessible to you.
Good luck!
Update 3/24/2018: - New bifold wizard spell: wizard's violence
Update 3/23/2018:
- New event from 3/23 - 5/1:
- 3x gold on mobs, 3x platinum on donations
- Conjure deity has been improved to include consideration of the user's
wisdom
- Red robes of the mjol has notably reduced prevention time and a
significant boost in caster-based bonuses and increased randomization
Update 1/11/2018:
- New event from 1/11 - 3/10:
- 2x gold, exp, and infuscated marbles (on all donations)
- Hyper unique items possible on drops and when using marbles
- Hyper salvage drops
2017
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Update 10/14/2017: - More scrounger gnomes have set up shop in the Aur-Vindi [[crafting guild]] for your salvaging convenience!
Update 10/2/2017: - A variety of schematics have been added, allowing for crafting gemstones to be converted. The Magnificent Osbert in Aur-Vindi possesses the necessary scrolls to get you started.
Update 9/17/2017: - Ataghan of inheritance, staff of the gate, and Lorhus's claymore have been increased in power, again! :)
Update 9/3/2017: - Ataghan of inheritance, staff of the gate, and Lorhus's claymore have been increased in power, especially for training beyond 100%. More to come ...
Update 9/2/2017: - The duration of the anti-nim affect has been significantly reduced. - Highwayman's speed and hand of the thieves guild now have the potency to reduce the affects of anti-nim. Highwayman's speed is based on both the user's skill % and the user's affect and will actively reduce the anti-nim duration even when the affect is not active. However, hand of the thieves guild only has the chance to reduce the impact of anti-nim when it is active.
Update 9/1/2017: - Nim has been changed in a fundamental way. First, once nim is used on an mob, successfully or not, the mob is made aware of the nimming attempt and no further nims are possible on that mob for a period of time (see the mob's affects). Secondly, when nim is successfully executed on a mob, it draws from a special nim pool, separate from the mob's gold pool. This means players who are aiming to kill mobs can simulateneously run an area that a nimmer is running. Additionally, a nimmer can nim and then subsequently kill the mob for extra gold. This also means that nimmers who don't end up slaying mobs will likely need to rotate through more areas due to their inability to nim a given mob more than once (which Nijlo likes a lot, due to their special resistence to the run-time affects all other classes are impacted by). :) Hooray! Happy Labor Day Weekend!
Update 8/20/2017: - After receiving numerous requests, we've increased the extra infuscated marbles during the 8/19-9/15 event from 2x to 4x! All donations made between 8/19-8/20 have been retroactively increased on the marbles they've received to be 4x instead of the original 2x.
Update 8/7/2017: - Spiritual judgement now has powerful effects for beyond 100% training. - Undefiled benignity now has powerful effects for beyond 100% training.
Update 7/15/2017: - The gold cap for nim has been raised fairly substantially. However, we will continue to adjust it as necessary (even if that means reducing it some).
Update 6/11/2017: - Hum ofValkyries Bastion] [sic] has been changed, slightly.
Update 5/5/2017: - The preventions for glacious stones have been broken into separate categories: - glacious stones - pool (when restoring health, endurance, etc.) - glacious stones - run time (when clearing run time) - glacious stones - daily prize (when clearing daily prize prev) This means you may now use all three together, while the pool prevention is the shortest and the daily prize is the longest.
Update 4/30/2017: - You can now use five glacious stones to clear your run time affect. This can be done, at most, once every five hours. - The run time algorithm has been changed. It now has the following values: Hour 1: 300% experience / gold (previously 200%) Hours 2-4: 150% experience / gold (previously 125%) Hours 5-8: 100% experience / gold (same) Hours 9-12: 50% experience / gold (previously 80%) Hours 13-16: 25% experience / gold (previously 50%) Hours 16-24: 5% experience / gold (previously 10%) See "help run time" for more details.
Update 4/29/2017: - Trewan of the rising forest has been increased in its prevention time. This means when using this ability, the user will be unable to use it again for a longer period of time than before this change. - Ruan awareness and combat instinct now have 1/2 round lag when their affects are active as opposed to having 0 lag. - Cleric's heavenly smiting now usually will have lag associated with it. However, if the user's ability % is high enough, sometimes when it is used it will be lagless. The higher the user's ability %, the higher the chance for lagless execution.
Update 4/18/2017: - The bot check system is no longer automatically active. In addition, the last pk system has been changed to encourage mass PK of botters. See "help run time" and "help bot check" for more details.
Update 3/12/2017: - Due to numerous requests, we have begun hyper unique month! During this time all unique items have increased chances of being more powerful than usual (e.g., use of infuscated marbles on items can improve items to levels not normally achievable). Hyper unique month will likely run until the end of March. Maybe longer? For more details see "help unique" and keep in mind that hyper uniques are even more powerful than super uniques, but their complete details are secret.
Update 2/26/2017: - Fenrir has returned to Nodeka. He will be resuming his previous duties in charge of mortal affairs. Details: As some of you may know, Fenrir left the immortal staff in 2014 but continued to play Nodeka thereafter. Later, he (using his mortal) caused some disturbance on Nodeka in 2015. Because of this and in spite of after years of outstanding service, his mortal was deleted and he was banned from the game. Over the last few months, starting with a dialogue with Nijlo, Fenrir has been actively working on Nodeka and with Nijlo behind the scenes. During this time his mortal was reinstated and he recently asked for his immortal to be reinstated. Whim and Nijlo spent several weeks discussing this and finally came to the conclusion that given Fenrir's superior track record prior to the incident in 2015 and his continued and sincere desire to assist Nodeka that we would allow his return upon two conditions. First, that regardless of any outcome he will remain professional at all times, which he has promised. Second, that he send a formal apology to all of Nodeka for his prior behavior. He has fulfilled both terms and his apology is as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To all Nodeka players, As many of you know I stepped down three years ago from my Immortal Position. In the following year I continued to play my Mortal character towards the end of this time I became frustrated and used my position to sabotage Nodeka and undermine Nijlo. My actions were unprofessional, inexcusable and truly unbefitting of a member of the Nodeka staff, active or not. There is no apology I can offer that will do justice to make up for my actions, I truly regret what transpired and can never make up for what I did. I would like to request of you to allow me to return and with the efforts of Nodeka staff attempt to rebuild some rapport with you the players, whom without this game would not be around, and make Nodeka better. Fenrir ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are excited to have Fenrir return to Nodeka and are moving forward in a disciplined and measured fashion to ensure we do not have a repeat of the incident of 2015. What Fenrir has done by making a formal and public apology to the entire game is no easy task. It takes an incredible amount of humility and courage. We ask that you give him your support as he transitions back to his former role.
Update 2/5/2017: - Crash bug fixed.
Update 2/4/2017: - Lay hands now has strong benefits for beyond 100% training. In addition, its base cost has been increased. - Updated abilities list to show training beyond 100% for Tholec's rising, singularity of fate and singularity of focus have benefits. Thanks Odinn.
Update 1/22/2017:
- Added code in attempt to fix these mysterious Nodeka stall events that
currently require reboots.
Update 1/15/2017: - Training beyond 100% now improves weave of balance uptime.
Update 1/10/2017: - Platinum rewards for Invasion events have been strongly increased.
Update 1/6/2017: - Extending hyper triple through 1/31 due to January lottery!
Update 1/1/2017: - The last pk system has been changed in the following way. If a player PKs another player, the killer's name is removed from the victim's last pk list (assuming it is on it). - New super map will become active for characters who receive $250 or more in donations over an entire year. For more information, see "help super map."
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2005
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Update 12/28/2005: - fixed combat crash bug - New (1st) battle-lock ability: continuum of combat The following classes have received this ability: 1st/2nd remorts: footpad, marauder, necromancer, ninja, hunter and valkyrie - New (2nd) battle-lock ability: mystical huri 1st/2nd remorts: barbarian, paladin, poliir, warlock, valkyrie (yes, valkyries get both of these abilities) 2nd remorts: marauder and hunter (yes, marauders and hunters get both of these abilities) 2nd remort specific: all nojohrs except lernen and magos - New map feature: aggro NPCs (see 'help map')
Update 12/27/2005:
- Holiday madness in affect until midnight (MST) January 2nd, 2006!
Holiday madness benefits:
- double gold on all mobs
- double experience gained (in any way)
- four times more likely to find/create unique items
- double the power benefit of normally found/infuscated unique items
- 400% more likely to find/create super-unique items
Note: all unique item holiday madness benefits apply to mob loaded items
and infuscated made unique items
Update 12/18/2005: - evasion was broken (ack!), now it should be fixed! Whoohooo! Sorry for the inconvenience of it being non-functional, it is my guess that it was broken when the parry/dodge code was updated awhile back. - fixed the Eicile bug - dajain and falladian light shields have been improved - new healer skill: dajain light shield - new fallad skill: falladian light shield - stealth and regional deception have been revamped - they now affect combat bonuses - see related help files. Additionally, as stealth and regional deception are so much more powerful now, they have increased endurance costs and are much harder to achieve 100%. - new hunter skill: hunter's discipline
Update 12/12/2005: - Tloka's spirit quest can now be completed in the event that you failed to wait for her to give you the completed spirit, previously. Simply return to her and *wait* (do not check) and she will request 30 spirit particles from you. If you do not have the 30 spirit particles, she'll request you go get another 30 particles and not lose the binded spirit she'll give you again.
Update 12/7/2005: - New proxy map on the Nodeka website. This one features: - item icons - toggle for graphic animations (on or off) - toggle for pass-thru map (on or off) - throttle for frames per second for the map (1-10)
Update 12/2/2005: - Corrected bizarre "classless", "raceless", "nameless" player bug - The tripled gold and exp has finally been turned off. - New map feature: 1) inviso/hidden players no longer sometimes show up on the map and sometimes do not. This was done for a number of reasons, one being bandwidth optimization the other being we figure you can "sense" a presence of someone, just not see them directly. - New map feature: items in rooms now show up as 'i' and are color configurable. - The order of map display is: player, other players, quest mobs, mobs, items Thus, if a room contains another player, a quest mob and an item, the room will display that it contains another player. Likewise, if a room contains a mob and an item, the room will display it contains a mob. The proxy map client is already being worked on to handle "collections" of things. For example, soon the proxy mapper will be able to display an NPC non-humanoid player who has a quest for you, another PC and an item all within the same room.
Update 11/27/2005: - New Nodeka proxy map executable. This executable gives you a real time map while allowing you to use your current client. Simply download the proxy mapper, unzip it and launch it. Then launch your favorite client and connect to your local host port 23. In JMC it looks like this: #con 127.0.0.1 23 Download the proxy mapper at: nodeka.com/proxymap.zip Once unzipped launch the proxymap.exe if on Windows, or the proxymap.jar if not. - Quest mobs now show up as $ - this has been done for the new Nodeka proxy mapper. - Ninth quest in the monk quest series is now available. This quest requires all other eight quests be completed before beginning his (he will, however, give guidance on how to get to the other eight quests when he's approached). Ninth quest in the monk quest series is somewhere in Misty Tower.
Update 11/26/2005:
- As promised, we are giving out a Thanksgiving surprise! Here it is:
All mob gold and all experience gained (in all possible forms)
has been increased by a factor of 3 ( gold * 3, exp * 3) for the next
few days as a bonus for all players due to the recent downtime.
This is our way of apologizing for the recent downtime and any
inconvenience it may have caused.
Most likely, this added gold and experience bonus won't last long more
than a few of days - so get it while the getting's good.
Nijlo
Update 11/22/2005: - The recent server downtimes may be resolved. However, please ensure you "save" consistently in the event of another system crash. We are monitoring the server closely and have located and fixed one problem which we believe may be the cause. We appreciate your patience through this trying time. We know that you are not use to any downtime (in fact, these last two down times for 11 hours and 5 hours are the most we've seen in years). Paypal and eBay are down for maintenance each week more than Nodeka has been down in the last two years and that's a fact we're proud of. We hope to get this server issue resolved and put into the past as quickly and as painlessly as possible. Thank you for being so patient with us while we get things "chugging" again! Additionally, no matter what server problems we undergo, you can rest assured that your player files will remain backed up and intact. Your player files are our #1 priority - your years of work will not be lost! No matter what! =) - Nijlo / Justin Gottschlich
Update 11/12/2005:
- Bot check failures now result in a 5 day penalty duration and a 5 times
lag multiplier. Additionally, end of combat lag now ignores the botter
lag affect, which keeps players out of the 100+ second lag scenarios.
All players previously within botter's lag affect are cleared of that
affect as of this reboot (due to the reduction of penalty period).
Update 11/11/2005: - Bot check lag affect now prevent changing race and remorting to prevent bug abuse to remove botter affects.
Update 11/5/2005: - New bot check implementation: in addition to the loss of all gold, experience and six stats, the new bot check incurs an eight times lag modifier which lasts for 10 days. This flag causes all actions to incur an eight times lag penalty and is being used as a method to slow down botters to the point where they will make less profit botting than they would had they simply "played".
Update 10/31/2005:
- Happy Halloween! Now go check out Raindancer here:
http://www.raindancernet.com/
Sign their guestbook, buy their CD, love them and be happy! I usually don't
advertise for other businesses/bands/whatever, but I've loved Raindancer
since I first found them on mp3.com years ago. Now they have a CD and
boy do they rock!
Check them out, do it for your mom!
Update 10/13/2005: - bot checks are now reverted back to 6 stat points per failure. However, I will soon add the code that refunds lost sun stones to remortals when failing bot checks and then the bot checks will charge 30 stat points when failed. However, until that code is in place, the bot check failures will incur 6 point stat losses. Short story: things are back to the way they were (there was a 2.2% chance of that happening, by the way, according to Bayesian reasoning)
Update 10/12/2005: - bot checks for remorts now charge 30 stat points when failed. Update 9/30/2005: - five new quests in the following areas: empire ants, G'kir, Rheorn, Xuvgra and Lycaeum - clan hall trainers can be purchased again, see 'help clan hall'
Update 9/9/2005: - fixed bug giving rp points to players who are killed by their own followers - extensive modification of Mejath quest format. If you run into any problems with Mejath quests not working correctly, please contact Nijlo (nijlo@nodeka.com)
Update 9/5/2005: - witches broom is now maxed at 35% shield affect while retaining its 100% flight affect - death gamble and curse of spellbound death now have a 3 second prevention when failing instead of a 3 minute prevention. This prevention will allow death tries once per round while still allowing other spells/skills due to the lagless nature of the death abilities. If this improvement makes the death abilities too powerful, they will be revisited again. You may again perform intermediate radiance feat abilities.
Update 9/4/2005: - new quests in Ruushi and Grunfeld - mentalis vefr and weave of balance are now on different prevention types
Update 9/2/2005: - new map feature: mobs that the player can quest with are now identified by on map (note: a maximum number of 5 mob checks per room are done due to the massive amount of computational overhead this new feature incurs)
Update 8/30/2005: - curse of spellbound death and death gamble incur a 3 minute prevention when used but fail to kill their target - augmenting pool limit now costs 1 sun stone, in addition to decremented stats
Update 8/26/2005: - updated graphical client on the Nodeka webpage. This is a very critical update as it fixes the memory leak issues which were causing the client to die after running for some time before. This new client can run for days, weeks, months without crashing with its latest fixes. Check it out today (http://nodeka.com/downloads.php).
Update 8/18/2005: - hack to manipulate nojohr's lightning choice and nojohr's combat choice has been corrected: you can no longer receive an affect for those preventions longer than the prevention itself.
Update 8/12/2005: - new paladin spell: spiritual judgement
Update 8/9/2005: - two new Nodeka clients are now available on the Nodeka website: http://nodeka.com/downloads.php both clients have JavaScript/JScript scripting functionality, both clients are largely fully functional. One client is more graphically driven, one client is more slim-lined driven.
Update 8/7/2005: - augmenters can use the master channel regardless of what their current stats are - buff on paladins: +4 class hit/dam to non-remorts, +7 class hit/dam to minor remorts, +11 class hit/dam to major remorts - fixed master channel usage (only chars with natural 300s can use it now) - new command: augment pool limit
Update 8/6/2005: - new quickbolt heiton: quickbolt - oe naj'k
Update 8/5/2005: - corrected output for healing to include rp exp gained
Update 8/3/2005: - fixed shut down crash bug - new warding rain heiton spell: rains of the thunder gods - new warding rain heiton spell: rains of prolonged life - new warding rain heiton spell: rain of druidic protection - updated stones (see 'help stones') to help those players who were previously trying to save up donations to hit the $200 mark, now no longer need to do that as $100 is now exactly one quarter the stones of $400 (rather than its previous layout which would give additional infuscated marbles). In addition, the number of infuscated marbles received has been increased. =) - new rule addendum - see help rules. Characters found breaking this rule will be zapped immediately. - convert options #3 and #6 have been re-enabled. Is it our hope that this can be done and people will not take advantage it. If it is found that these options are enabling people to cloak private donations to personal accounts, we will again disable these options.
Update 7/22/2005: - donations now give rp points as well as platinum, stones and the enlarged map. See 'help donations' for more information. - Afani now has one three month quest item for each major class category. When visiting Afani make sure you check out selection number 5. - Afani's selection of quest items is growing: +8 more one hour items worn on wrists (+180 in a single statistic) - newbie quests now give exact directions on where to find the quest mobs in the open quests list. When helping newbies find their remaining quest mobs, simply have them refer to their open quests log (by typing: quests open)
Update 7/17/2005: - time-walker (second and third) now reduce prevention time by 12.5%. Previously the prevention reduction was 10%.
Update 7/17/2005: - the undead racial lineage has been improved (+fast magical regen)
Update 7/10/2005: - a change has been made to the current Nodeka system when rebooting. In the past, Nodeka would forward the calendar by 60 minutes so players returning from a reboot would have most (if not all) of their prevention time exhausted, allowing them to reuse their prevention skills. However, with the new 1 hour quest items, forwarding the calendar by 60 minutes will cause these items to be destroyed on reboots. Therefore, a new solution has been made that does not involve forwarding the calendar by 60 minutes, but instead forces player affects of those who are currently logged on to be advanced by 60 minutes. This new solution gives players the best of both worlds: rebooting will give players their prevention usage back but will not cause time based items to decay prematurely. This feature has been implemented specifically to make your playing experience at Nodeka the best it can be - putting you, the players, at the forefront of our priorities. Thanks for playing. =) - Important: for those who have completed Thalden's Afani quest, you should return to him for a belated role-playing point reward. - rp pk prevention time has been reduced from 10 minutes to 5 minutes. The double rp pk prevention time has been reduced from 20 minutes to 10. - Afani's stock has been updated to include 8 additional quest items that last one hour and boost a single statistic by +200 points - the undead race lineage has greatly improved sustained life percentages - the benefactor judgement and nojohr fate abilities now has increased prevention time
Update 7/8/2005:
- due to continual requests of enabling a feature to allow blind players to
play Nodeka without bot checks, I have created a feature that disables bot
checks for players with the "Blind Player" power turned on.
This power will only be turned on for players who give sufficient proof
they are blind.
With this in mind, Nodeka is happy to see our player population grow. And
we are very happy to make special accommodations for those who are visually
disabled.
- new rules on arbitration - see help rules.
Update 7/5/2005: - fixed Afani's AI - she'll no longer be taking RP points away from people that have left her room (without giving them their quest items).
Update 6/6/2005: - new Nodeka client found here (http://nodeka.com/downloads.php) features 100% password hiding new lava tile
Update 5/22/2005: - corrected bug that wasn't giving morality points for moral players when killing true impartial players.
Update 5/13/2005: - soul egression now charges less than one full round of lag (1600 ms). Therefore, in some timely circumstances, it can be used more than once per round (or a secondary skill/spell can be initiated within the same round). - removal of rp_inc and role_play_decrement player commands (thanks Grim).
Update 5/13/2005: - lots of new secret stuff =) - ice blade's damage has been upped slightly - "who" now contains morality and long player names are no longer visible - the "who" command has been updated - you can now "who non-remort, remort", "who major remort, remort", "who major, remort", "who minor remort, remort" "who minor, remort" - additionally, you can now "who immoral, morality", "who moral, morality", "who impartial, morality", "who true impartial, morality" - Henisor has been toned to make completing the Thalden/Henisor quest a bit easier for non-uber-buffs. - a new quest has been added to Thalden which is going to open new doors in Nodeka. Unfortunately, there is a downside - one sun stone is required to continue questing with Thalden. Some quests will require a sun stone to open up further questing. While you can be sure this'll be a rare occasion, it will happen from time to time. This is done to ensure Nodeka stays afloat. We appreciate your ongoing support of Nodeka.
Update 5/9/2005: - snakeskins now load more frequently in Grunfeld Bogs so new players can more easily complete the snakeskin quest. However, snakeskins now have lifetimes (of 20 hours) so Nodeka doesn't get overpopulated with them. If you are aware of other quest items that should load more but have lifetimes, please let Nijlo know (nijlo@nodeka.com). Thanks!
Update 5/8/2005: - quests leading to Mejath are now more user friendly. Hopefully, this change will ease the transition for newbies completing the fields of guidance quests who are then trying to get to Mejath.
Update 4/30/2005: - silent malevolence has been removed from Nodeka - to show our thanks to the Nodekian players, we've added a small little bonus to all level 100 major remorts. But what is it? =) Thanks for continuing to play Nodeka, we're continually driven to make your experience on Nodeka the best it can be! - redesigned class and race selection in character generation. - redesigned "display class" and "display race" output for more organized and continually self-correcting output
Update 4/29/2005: - nasty bug with item string matching has been fixed. Hopefully no side-effects will be caused by this correction. If you notice any bizarre behavior due to this (which you shouldn't), please notify Nijlo (nijlo@nodeka.com). Previous bug caused weird behaviors in many cases where multiple keywords were used to identify an item: drop silver earring and get silver earring would work, but "look silver earring" would not. Additionally, throwing/shooting items with multiple keywords would not work previously, but will now (i.e. valk-fire metal arrow, target) - new arrows available at Ileana's and Bukaal's! - new valkyrie skill: valk-fire - maximum attribute value for sun stones: 320
Update 4/25/2005: - instrumentation of riposte can now be used in combat
Update 4/2/2005: - archery is in - see "help shoot" for more details - all hunter classes now have the skill "shoot". Additional classes may be receiving shoot in the next couple days (weeks) or a variation of it. Stay tuned!
Update 4/1/2005: - new ne'kai tholec skill: tholec's return - new shadow archer skill: the shadow's recoil
Update 3/31/2005: - liches and thoes have had their sustained life toned due to its overwhelming power =) sorry guys
Update 3/27/2005: - role-playing help files and morality help files have been updated to include the recent revamp to the role-playing system. If you are curious, please read: help role-playing, help role-playing points, help morality, help morality side-effects and help morality lean - help player killable has been updated to contain the following: - if a player is level 100, the player is player killable
Update 3/20/2005: - remort jadiors have been improved (less negative NR)
Update 3/19/2005: - rp pks are now only disallowed for major remorts killing non-remorts. Therefore, major remorts can kill minor remorts for rp points. Minor remorts can kill non-remorts for rp points. And non-remorts can kill any remort tier for rp ponits.
Update 3/13/2005:
- you now receive rp points for pking only if you kill another player of the
same or higher remort tier (for example, remorts killing non-remorts no
longer rewards the remort players with rp points, even if opposing morality.
Update 3/13/2005: - the Nodeka client has been updated to fix the wrapping problem with bot checks and score "wrapping". The new client can be downloaded here: http://nodeka.com/downloads.htm
Update 3/12/2005: - role-playing points are no longer given for master's slaying their followers (although it did make sense in some cases). - role-playing has new meaning: morality based player kill role-playing! Quick overview: Moral players: You get 2 rp points for killing immoral players, you get 1 rp point for killing impartial players (but a 20 minute prevention instead of a 10 minute prevention - since good people killing neutral people isn't really a "good" thing, but it's also not a "bad" thing so I'm giving good people points for it - at least for now) Immoral players: You get 2 rp points for killing moral players, you get 1 rp point for killing impartial or other immoral players Impartial players: If you are impartial *and* have at least 5 total morality points, you get 1 rp point for killing moral players and 1 rp point for killing immoral players. If you are impartial and have less than 5 morality points, you do not get any rp points for pking as you have not yet actively decided on a morality and therefore have not "chosen" to be impartial (or otherwise). Currently, impartial players that have "chosen" to be impartial are now labeled "true impartial" as they are truly impartial, rather than circumstantially impartial as other impartials are. each time you pk and get an rp point for it, you have a delay before you can receive more rp points (currently 10 minutes) Help file updates will follow. As the rp-pk system is relatively new, expect a great deal of changes over the next couple weeks.
Update 3/8/2005: - new tholec of the hunt ability (replacing "the hunt for bounty"): tholec's perception tholec's perception literally replaces the hunt for bounty. Any practice percentages for the hunt for bounty cross directly over to tholec's perception.
Update 3/5/2005: - Citadel of Paragon is open. It's located somewhere on Foldroth. Send any area comments / corrections to nysin_nodeka@hotmail.com. - Maglor Elensar is open. It's located on Foldroth as well. Send any area comments / corrections to nijlo@nodeka.com and he'll forward them to Elrohir.
Update 3/1/2005: - fixed bugs related to shield's fusing, shield's emplacement which wouldn't allow the user to restrict opponents' use of preventions which had commas inside of them. For example, shield's emplacement sanctity feat, intermediate, nijlo where "sanctity feat, intermediate" is the prevention. These bugs are now fixed (thanks Mazus). - two new areas are nearing completion: Citadel of Paragon (built by Nysin) Maglor Elensar (built by Elrohir) Further updates will be given this weekend regarding their opening and their location in the world.
Update 2/26/2005: - new rules for creating clans, the three month waiting period no longer applies - however there is now a sun stones charge (as requested by players to validate seriousness, rather than the previous waiting period). See 'help clan'.
Update 2/21/2005: - Amras mobs have had their health increased by about 30-50%
Update 2/19/2005: - an example of a religion is in: help solstyn (or display help religion) - as many of you have asked, soon you will be allowed to convert your morality points to another morality or immorality. This will be a costly process, but if decisions you are unhappy with were made, you'll be able to correct them soon. While the code won't be in for a couple of weeks, you can rest assured you can follow whatever religion you want (adjusting your morality points as needed).
Update 2/17/2005: - corrected seeing targets move and arrive while sleeping (this bug was introduced with the revamp of arrival / departure for introduction of sa'duroth abilities on 2/12). Thanks for all the bug reports on this one, Syveral was the first to report it so he has been rewarded. Thanks to everyone who reported though, it's great to know you guys/gals are so on top of the introduction of bugs. =) - fixed "stuck" bug with rlist where if you are 'rlisting' an area and someone recalls you (or drags you) into an area you cannot rlist, you are automatically booted from the rlist.
Update 2/12/2005: - the jadior race has been buffed slightly, additional attacks added
Update 2/11/2005: - infravision has been changed slightly, see: help infravision - new spectral sa'duroth skill: spectral vision - new spectral sa'duroth skill: death's touch of insight - some minor fixes
Update 2/6/2005: - Nijlo will be mostly unavailable from 2/7 - 2/10. While he'll still try to process donations, he may not have access to a computer. Any donations not processed will be immediately handled upon his return home on 2/11. Our apologies for any inconvenience, The Nodeka Staff - the max character description length has been increased from 800 characters to 1600 to allow you to add those extra long RP oriented descriptions you've asked for - any level 100 major remort with at least 150 role playing points will automatically gain the ability to "rpinc" (increment role-playing points) on other players. Keep in mind, whenever a player uses this command, all other players who can set rp points are informed. Thus, players of all groups will be policing each other. Players caught given out rp points to only their friends or to players who are not role-playing will be punished, up to player deletion. A new power, "disallow role-play powers" has been added which will be set on any character caught misusing his or her gained "rpinc" powers. Thus preventing even characters with high RP points from giving out role-playing points. With that being said, this is an exciting time. Nodeka is now giving *YOU* the players, control of your fate. Power to the people! - help role-play has been updated. It is suggested all players read through all role-playing help files via, "display help role". - barbarians have been toned: accuracy of insanity decreased from 90%-130% to 70%-110%. Havoc accuracy 100-140% to 80%-110% (the accuracy range of havoc has been reduced from 40% to 30%). - fixed bug with visibility for mentors/guards/rp-setters regarding seeing players morality and role-play sheet for rp point allocation. - all rp-setters (not just guards and mentors) can see RP points being handed out. This allows non-guards/non-mentors to see how guards and mentors are handing out points and makes it easier for them to follow suit. - guards/mentors/rp-setters: command shortcut for role_play_increment: rpinc - elemental malediction is now more accurate (see help file) - bug of selling 0 gold items for 1 gold has been corrected (mobs now sell these 0 value items for 2 gold) - guards/rp-setters/mentors - role_play_increment has been updated, please see help file - players: your role-playing points can no longer drop below 0. You can never receive negative experience for non-RP. - updated role-play help file (specifically what you can gain for role-playing). Role-playing points will be given more generously for players getting conversations outside of OOC back into RP mode.
Update 2/5/2005: - new channel: ooc, see: help ooc - new toggle: ooc - new command: role, see: help role - new command: rp (alias to role) - new feature: role-play, see: help role-play - guards/mentors also see: help role_play_increment help role_play_decrement - role-play points are now in your score sheet
Update 2/1/2005: - immoral characters now get bonuses for killing neutral aligned NPCs as well as evil NPCs (updated help file, "help morality experience"). - some massive generic tree container changes - this is important to you only in the rare case everything breaks and Nodeka crashes every 5 minutes. Otherwise, don't even worry about this point =)
Update 1/30/2005:
- the Nodeka client (nodeka.com/downloads.htm) has been updated. This
latest version has some #math command bugs fixed
Update 1/26/2005: - some Kliuarg equipment has been toned, one other item will now load correctly - the tracking range of all NPCs has been improved - socials to targets who are sleeping are no longer seen by the target
Update 1/25/2005: - new Nodeka client (nodeka.com/downloads.htm). This new client has a configurable graphics file for users to fiddle with and a auto-selected input window, so focus is never lost from the input text field. Additionally, it has auto-copy mouse click and release functionality like JMC.
Update 1/16/2005: - corrected NPC socials so they do not appear in the Nodeka client comm window, unless they are followers (note: the command "say"'s behavior for the Nodeka client is still not perfect as the user gets a line feed when someone says something in his or her room, which they shouldn't). All NPC channel output should always appear in the main output window. This is very important for quest integrity and seamlessness (otherwise, parts of NPC quest behavior would appear in the main window and another part in the comm window). This crazy bug fix was over a thousand lines of code to make normal clients behave right for socials and have the Nodeka client behave right for socials (including all kinds of invisible possibilities and so on). Just a testimony to our level of effort for you Nodekian players. =)
Update 1/15/2005: - new Nodeka client (nodeka.com/downloads.htm). This client has a new layout, a number of new tiles and a really slick use of screen real estate. Check it out today, free. =) - the new Nodeka client requires at least 1024x768 screen size. Anything smaller will wrap the client output incorrectly. We figure if you don't have 1024x768 screen size, then you don't have the processing power to even run the client. =) - the cutoff date for the client screenshots has passed. We thank everyone for their submittals and we may request screenshots again in the future!
Update 1/4/2005: - dark elves no longer have hasted attack, instead they now have bonus attacks (with lower percentages) - overall, this should make dark elves more powerful
Update 1/4/2005: - wizard tone: wizards lose fireball and get lightning in its place. - compelled rejuvenation's misspelled name has been corrected - drows have been beefed up - new dark elf affect: faerie fire (see 'help affect: faerie fire') - with three sun stones, you can now permanently change your handedness To perform handed change, use the command: "stones sun" - Amras NPCs health now sit somewhere between the original health and the health of the last change. This may need some more tweaking, but the NPCs are substantially less healthy now (the area will need to be cleared once before the changes take affect).
Update 1/3/2005: - Amras NPCs have been greatly beefed up due to their health being disproportionate to their stats (and gold). - corrected bug that would prevent a character that had both a spirit shield and mana shield from ever trying the second shield - some minor bugs fixed - added two basic quests in Mejath regarding saving (master warlock)
Update 1/2/2005: - screen shot contest: take a couple of screen shots using the LATEST Nodeka client (and only the Nodeka client) that you think look REALLY cool and send them to nijlo@nodeka.com. If we use your screen shot on the website, we'll give you 10,000 platinum and 10 sun stones! - new race (brother race of oji-oem): rhras - updated help files on "affect: mana shield", "affect: spirit shield" and the spells which put up these affects (ruah kyf and shield of lectokke) - happy new year! - new Nodeka client: water and mountain tiles are now available, with a nice little water animation. Go get it at: nodeka.com/downloads.htm - additionally, the Nodeka client has been somewhat optimized. It'll run a decent amount faster (using about 50% or less processor usage as it did before).
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Update 12/26/2004:
- corrected bug with warrior's study and warrior's magical study allowing
infinite use of the ability learned if pked before its affect time has
run out
- new race: oji-oem
- critically wound now only leaves an affect on its target if it lands
- corrected output for group tells for mobs so they don't display in the
communication window when using the Nodeka client
Update 12/25/2004: - happy holidays! - ataghan of inheritance has been *slightly* improved - its algorithm gives slightly more +hit and more +dam - new warlock remort spell: Lorhu's claymore
Update 12/19/2004:
- massive internal code change to increase the robustness of the Nodeka
server code. Special thanks for testers: Eru, Morelf, Nemesis, Sal,
Tenshihan and Trebax.
- new Nodeka client (nodeka.com/downloads.htm - beta version 007). This
is the version of the client you've been waiting for:
1) animated map (the beginnings)
2) plethora of scripting functionality (new in yellow):
action
alias
bell
help
if
ignore
kill
loop
math
multiaction
output
read
showme
unaction
unalias
unvariable
variable
write
- My hat goes off to our two Java guys, Kevin Roeder and Paul Rogers. Their
ongoing efforts and masterful coding expertise has brought to you the full
blown Nodeka client we now have.
Thank you gentlemen and thank you players for continuing to be patient and
supportive while we get this client up and running.
Nijlo
- forge of magical dampening prevention time has been increased
Update 12/15/2004: - warrior's study and warrior's magical study no longer restore lost endurance or mana due to a bug restoring cost when the ability to study is not found. The bug fix to this is to simply not restore any lost endurance or mana due to internal complexities of the ability. These abilities will *not* restore lost endurance or mana in a future bug fix. Warrior's magical study and warrior's study help files have been updated appropriately to document this.
Update 12/14/2004:
- Khanlith recolorized / remapped (no major design changes, just corrections
and overall beautification)
Update 12/10/2004: - New Nodeka client available at nodeka.com/downloads.htm. It's now loaded with the following killer features: - native speedwalking which then calls Nodeka's speedwalking (making it as easy as any other client to speedwalk but faster than any other client's speedwalking) - multi-command (using the semi-colon) - support of user created aliases - support of user created variables - support of user created actions - file reading and writing - support of reading JMC files (only aliases, variables and actions) - command history, using the up and down arrows - and of course, the communication capture window is still capturing all channels and *socials* and the map window is still doing 100 millisecond updates to maps making your map TRULY real time The Nodeka client has been the work of several people, but this last revision was due primarily to one individual: Kevin Roeder (also known as Uda on Nodeka). The entire Nodeka staff and population owes the current state of the Nodeka client to Kevin's nonstop work and fantastic programming skills. So if you see him in the realms, before attacking him ceaselessly, tell him thanks. =) As always, thanks for playing and loving Nodeka as much as I do, Nijlo p.s. Expect many more rich features coming to the Nodeka client in the near future. =)
Update 12/4/2004: - map area changes for G'kir and Rhall
Update 12/1/2004: - several fixes to Nodeka client/server communication
Update 11/30/2004: - the wulniothe have lost some of their learning curve - corrected double social output Update 11/28/2004: - the recall command now resets your home if your home was previously set to a safe room no longer safe. I could have sworn that code was already there. My dog ate the code. Bad dog!
Update 11/27/2004: - new Nodeka client and server package: better layout, smaller map, socials now appear in channel window, prompt and room name are no longer controlled inside of panes, but output is optimized so Nodeka clients only receive prompts when the user is using a channel (not when others are) allowing the Nodeka client to run faster than other clients. - if you've downloaded a previous version of the Nodeka client, you should download the newest as soon as possible as the channel output has changed (your old client versions will no longer organize channel output correctly) - more tiles drawn for the new Nodeka client and with a less intrusive appearance - alteration and adaptation now give warnings and require all uppercase command entry to initiate race or class change.
Update 11/25/2004: - more fixes to the Nodeka client on the server side - thoes now have higher sustained life
Update 11/24/2004: - sustained life now flags the PC/NPC that sustains life so they cannot sustain life again for 17 minutes. - due to this sustained life change, undead now have a much higher chance to sustain life =)
Update 11/22/2004: - the Nodeka client is now receiving 250 millisecond map pulses. The map updates are now so fast, players can now see other players speedwalk by them without missing a *single* player move! In *addition*, the Nodeka client is now only sending updated maps if the map has changed since it was last sent, guaranteeing Nodeka client users run faster than anyone else. It's impossible to obtain this kind of speed and useful data using any client other than the Nodeka client. - Nodeka aliases have been increased to 50 and the alias system will soon be revamped to allow the use of variables with in aliases. Once the alias system is revamped (this code is over 5 years old), we'll increase the maximum number of aliases to 100-1000 (perhaps more depending on how fast we can make the alias lookup). - new "speedwalk" command, guaranteed to speedwalk faster than any client can (see help speedwalk to see why)
Update 11/22/2004: - new beta version of the Nodeka client (http://nodeka.com/downloads.htm): - several bug fixes - up and down exits now display - doors in all directions now display (including up and down) - new area question marks now display - all areas in Nodeka have been modified to work with the client - another amazing area created by master builder Elrohir: Amras Calanor - Ocean Remnant Elrohir's latest masterpiece can be found somewhere on the continent of Tarsis.
Update 11/21/2004:
- bug fix: kills that followers make now count towards the follower's
master's slain numbers
- bug fix to allow you to see which area you are trying to see quests
completed for when you get 0 quests completed. This is important so you
know you are trying to see the quests completed for the correct area
(instead of being fooled into thinking you have no quests completed in
that area simply because a different area is being searched than what you
expected, i.e. quest com, fortress)
- important: the most complex quest story line created yet is now
available at Thalden Questor's retreat. You must have already completed his
other quests to begin his latest quest line, but it should be easy enough
for most second remorts to get those out of the way.
This new quest line begins Nodeka's step into extremely complex story lines
that we've been dying to implement. Nodeka's AI engine and quest system is
now complex enough to allow almost all kinds of quests we've been wanting
to deliver to you.
Good luck with Thalden's latest quest and remember: actions have
consequences - tread carefully!!! This is like no quest you've seen before!
Update 11/19/2004: - wulniothe's blackfrost cloudburst has been toned - updated beta version Nodeka client (http://nodeka.com/downloads.htm) - it has several bug fixes and is running over 300% faster than previous versions. See 'help nodeka client' for more details - even more quest functionality allowing even more complexity and control with quest building - new Thalden that quest that's guaranteed to blow your mind. If you're a remort start working on the Thalden quests today! This latest quest is guaranteed to raise interest to even the most veteran Nodekians! - jadiors have been slightly improved - trial of aggression has been toned - new race: wulniothe (pay special attention to their learning curve) - Henisor has been weakened a great deal
Update 11/15/2004: - several fixes to make the Nodeka graphical client work more correctly. There will be another updated version of the graphical client later this week that integrates the changes made on the Nodeka server.
Update 11/14/2004: - the new Nodeka graphical client is now downloadable on the downloads page on the website (http://nodeka.com/downloads.htm). The client is in beta. - new command "map only" - this command is primarily used for the new Nodeka client (as it's now graphically displaying the surrounding map) - items that have lifetimes decay much faster in the donation room
Update 11/14/2004: - new feature: all affects now save to player files. Keep in mind that the same rules apply to affects on reboots, affect duration is cut by several hours. However, normal login and logout will keep track of the exact affect duration. - new functionality with quests - quest NPCs can now send you out on quests to slay creatures which are kept track of in your affects. These quest NPCs can also determine the amount of time you have to complete the quest. See the monk master in Mejath for the first quest of this type. - if you notice any bugs with affects now being saved to player files, please let me know (nijlo@nodeka.com). Rewards should be fairly large if any major bugs are found with the new affects saving code. - New area: Fortress of Bule (located on the Isles of Drale) - fixed convert problems with 7 and 8 allowing a player to convert exp to gold beyond the one billion gold cap - modified quest output to allow more flexibility - changed some quests to now search for items that decay (i.e. G'kir King quest, withered souls quest) - corrections to several zembori NPCs
Update 11/11/2004: - jadiors now have a holy light racial attack
Update 11/9/2004: - jadiors now have a low percentage of impairment invulnerability
Update 11/7/2004: - bot checks now allow 8 tries before failing - bot checks now give two minutes to answer - bot checks give triple the experience as before and twice the gold - bot check system revamped - see help bot check - bug fix: bot checks no longer trigger on use of socials
Update 10/30/2004: - more 'display help affect:' help files - jadiors now have improved celestial ray, see 'help affect: improved celestial ray' for more information
Update 10/24/2004: - jadiors once again have adaptive combat tactics - this time the bugs have been worked and it behaves as it should have initially
Update 10/23/2004: - new sun stones behavior - they can now increase stats beyond 300, to 310. See 'help sun stones' I'm currently playing around with the idea of allowing sun stones to increase attributes beyond 300. For now, this is just a simple test. If the results are favorable (people are doing it and people agree they like it), I may increase the 310 cap to 320 - or maybe not. The reasoning behind this is 1) it's a donation incentive, 2) it's common that people sell platinum for donations. This way, some of the uber buffies can share some of their gazillions of platinum with less powerful people for a mutually beneficial situation. This change should encourage bigger players to help smaller players and smaller players to help bigger players. Again, this is only a trial run. If the general opinion is negative on this I'll remove this capability from sun stones. Players who increase their stats beyond 300 will remain beyond 300 if this feature is removed. - more "display help affect:" help files
Update 10/20/2004: - jadiors have lost adaptive combat tactics. They will probably get something else in replace of it, but for now they'll stay as they are. - many affects (skill, spell or racial) have help files now. To see the entire list of documented affects, type: display help affect: For each item listed in the display help output, type "help <affect name>".
Update 10/16/2004: - new race: jadior - three new quests at footpad master in Mejath - the undead race lineage has been buffed (+nat rest, +shield %)
Update 10/16/2004: - fixed crash bug in bizarro player rename functionality =) - cleaned up some description errors in Thinthan - corrected some problems in Aur-Vindi seen by mages stepping through doors - gaining now correctly uses base (natural) stats again, instead of mod stats
Update 10/12/2004: - clan building is now more robust on protecting users from making mistakes. You can no longer disconnect rooms indirectly in a number of bizarre ways (that some players have managed to do in the past).
Update 10/8/2004: - shifted accuratus has been toned - gnomes and their race lineage now have -damage and -hit, their other racial stats have remained unchanged - all Rumil mobs now have gold - new area: Rumil Ancalimon located somewhere on Foldroth. Be warned, magic has no place here!
Update 10/2/2004: - new sorcerer master quest in mejath that rewards a piece of lowbie quest equipment when completed - an interesting bug with using channeled anger / stun / or any other skill that lags one second was leaving a character with 500 milliseconds of lag if used to start a battle that lasted one round. This suite of bugs has been fixed to leave the player with one second of lag. If you notice any bugs of this nature that I've missed, please let me know (nijlo@nodeka.com) - all disarm abilities are now player usable only - spellbound death succeeds more now (although it's still much weaker than it was before the tone a day ago, if 10 was the original power and 1 was the power yesterday, the power level is now about a 4). - red firebeam has been slightly improved (if 10 was the original power level and 1 was the power level yesterday, the power level in now about a 2.5). - bounties now last for 10 days once created (whoooo, boy was that a tediously large amount of code to write for such a simple piece of functionality, hehe =). All bounties created before this reboot have a remainder of 5 days.
Update 10/1/2004: - bash is now an iah impairment prevention ability, bash help file updated, all mejath quests about preventions have been updated - fixed clanset so correct output is given when failure to do clansets happens based on prevention flag - spellbound death has been toned - red firebeam has been toned - combat instinct's duration has been reduced
Update 9/28/2004: - healing radiance prevention time has been doubled
Update 9/24/2004: - "train practice" bug abusers conclusion: The results have been gathered from the guards/mentors and several others regarding their opinion on whether those players who blatantly abused the "train practices" should remain zapped. All votes (every single one) has been in favor of keeping the players zapped. This unanimity has reinforced my original decision to zap the players for their blatant bug abuse. The players involved clearly used the bug with intent of massive abuse, with exceptional numbers of uses in the log files (nearly 8,000 abuses in one week). The players who were zapped for abusing the train practices bug will remain zapped. This conclusion is final. - Voting for Nodeka no longer displays a flag on players. However, when voting Nodeka still gathers data on the player who's voting, so please continue to vote - we know who's voting and appreciate your votes. Additionally, a vote counter has been added to the who list which is displays all the votes made in the last 12 hours. - Modification to the rules: 10. Racial or sexual slurs on Nodeka will not be tolerated and it is requested that you use good judgement when using global channels. The Nodeka aids, however, will not censor comments aside from slurs listed above. If a slur of one of the types above is made, you will be dealt with as the Nodeka aid feels is appropriate. - the dismiss command now lags 15 seconds
Update 9/19/2004:
- I just wanted to take a moment and make sure you were all on the same page
about Nodeka not voting on mudconnector anymore. I realize some of you
might be questioning whether this move has anything to do with Nodeka's
ranking being reset due to Nodeka's violation of TMC's rules. I can assure
it has nothing to do with it. Read on.
Andy (TMC's admin) and I have no bad blood, with the exception of a
questionable double standard regarding a certain other mud. In fact, once
Nodeka's rank was reset on TMC, we started discussing Nodeka buying the
front page on TMC. This discussion led us into why Nodeka is no longer
voting on multiple sites - as you'll see.
However, Nodeka currently does not have $2,000.00 a month to bid for the
front page on TMC, so for now we'll sit tight and wait until that day
comes. Nodeka has offered a substantial amount for TMC's front page, but
unfortunately, it's not enough to take that spot. =(
I have spoken in great detail with Andy (TMC's admin) about what Nodeka did
for 12 hours and openly see now that it violates their rules. I had
originally thought only "rewards" weren't allowed on TMC (and since I knew
of another mud that was giving out incentives, I thought it was allowed).
After Andy pointed out that incentives weren't allowed either, I realized
we were in clear violation of that rule and openly accepted Nodeka's rank
being reset on TMC.
However, as Andy and I continued to discuss another mud being a double
standard on TMC (since they are allowed to have 'incentives' given out to
their players for voting), he pointed out that this other mud only
seriously votes on topmudsites and that's why TMC allows their 'incentives'
to be ignored on TMC:
"[nameless mud] is not participating in any way with the TMC voting
system."
"As for the voting thing, Michael doesn't even consider it a priority
for his mud promotions, his opinion is there is no point in
concentrating on more than one voting site and TMS has been at it longer
than us and is doing well for him. TMC serves its purpose for him with
the front page, the button, the text blurb and all, and TMS has its
purpose and he concentrates on having his players keep his muds on top
there ..."
Nodeka is simply "following suit" here - I believe Andy's point about
Michael's muds only voting on one site is a valid one and since TMS does
generate more click-thrus than TMC, so we will follow suit to match that.
As for Nodeka and TMC - we're still on perfectly fine terms, Andy is "glad
Nodeka is doing well" and Nodeka is still advertising on TMC. You will
continue to see Nodeka ads on TMC for months to come. I eventually hope to
buy out the front page on TMC, when Nodeka can afford it.
As for TMS, I am currently working on discussions with topmudsites to find
out what measures I can take to legally encourage players to vote. A
certain mud (which will remain nameless) is known for implementing voting
tactics that offer 'incentives' and have been for quite some time. I am
hoping we can get topmudsites' approval on my own method of minimalized
incentive to help encourage players to vote, much like the other "nameless"
mud has been for ages.
Nijlo
- New voting layout:
To show your support for Nodeka, please go to www.nodeka.com and click the
vote button. Please vote every 12 hours.
Make sure you vote when you're connected to Nodeka. If you are not in the
game when you vote, that's ok too - Nodeka will note your character the
next time you login so we know who you are!
Lastly, thanks for voting and continuing to support Nodeka!
- see 'help nodeka support' for a help file reference
Update 9/17/2004: - Vect, Nyz, Valor, Nefeer and Vivec have been zapped for abusing the "train practices" bug. - minor bug fix regarding training/enhancing costing platinum based on modified stats, rather than base stats - The uber-stat bug has been fixed. This type of bug was fixed awhile ago in a way that would prevent bugs like this one surfacing and causing any kind of permanent damage. Because of the foresight of building this "preventative" measure in the code, the lifetime of this bug now over. Had we not coded a solution to prevent these kinds of bugs from causing permanent damage, we'd be in a real pickle right now. =) Some of the players caught abusing this bug have begged me for leniency. I'm driven to consider this bug abuse very serious, but knowing there are no permanent side-effects, save one day of a bit of craziness, I'm going to be lenient on those who have abused it. To all of you who reported this bug (there were a great deal of you), we sincerely thank you! It's players like yourselves that keeps Nodeka head and shoulders above the rest - you make Nodeka as stable as it is! Thanks, Nijlo
Update 9/16/2004: - godly intervention is now applied to all players, voting no longer increases chances of godly intervention being applied. - new feature: godly intervention (see 'help godly intervention')
Update 9/12/2004: - Evo's mentorship: To those of you who happened to be part of Evo being spam killed which then led him to threaten those players spam killing him with a freeze, should read on. To begin, Evo has lost his mentorship. This was NOT done because he was wrong about the rules. The truth be known, both parties in a spam kill are *generally* at fault. The player spam killing generally has a trigger which is continually going off which is causing spam kills. The player being killed, generally knows the player with the trigger is waiting for him or her and is intentionally walking into a spam kill, thus promoting the spam him or herself. It should be noted that Evo did not lose mentorship because he was spamming. Rather, he lost his mentorship because he was not acting like a "mentor". It should also be noted that the players spam killing Evo were just as in the wrong as Evo, however, none of them had mentorship, so no loss of mentorship can be applied. In the future, if you see spam killing, both parties are really at fault. And generally, simply asking those players who are spam killing to stop is enough to get at least one of them to quit being an ... "idiot". Thanks, N
Update 9/11/2004: - new poliir skill: elementary left disarm - new poliir skill: elementary right disarm - new minor remort valkyrie skill: valkyrie's left disarming - new minor remort valkyrie skill: valkyrie's right disarming - new knight-errant skill: august left disarm - new knight-errant skill: august right disarm
Update 9/9/2004: - lightning strike has been toned slightly - lightning strike can no longer be used by followers =)
Update 9/7/2004: - fixed grouped capped exp for morality (exp was not capping when soloing, but for groups it was, which it shouldn't have been).
Update 9/5/2004: - red robe of the mjol spell has been buffed - red robe of the defender now grants health - red robe of the fighter has been revamped, it now offers massive bonuses to strength and plus hit
Update 9/4/2004: - marauders now have kick and ashi barai kick - new mjol of the red robes spell: red robe of the mjol - new mjol of the red robes spell: red robe of the agile - new mjol of the red robes spell: red robe of the arcanist - new mjol of the red robes spell: red robe of the defender - new mjol of the red robes spell: red robe of the fighter
Update 8/30/2004: - lions and warriors in the Kon-Taro jungle are now extremely slow to aggro (10 minute cycles on their aggro, up from 100 seconds). - added ishtl's choler to barbarian master's quest regarding preventions
Update 8/29/2004: - new toggle: pk protection - pk protection flag is no longer triggered when pked in the citadel - increased player killer protection to 10 minutes - beautified morality output - toned holy hammer - decreased mana / spirit cost for fireball
Update 8/28/2004: - new morality quest in Mejath (sorcerer) - warning: the Kon-Taro jungle has gone crazy - beware when wandering its depths as you may find the inhabitants more aggressive than they were previously - important: morality experience is in! See 'help morality experience' - new rule for player killing (see 'help pk'): the short of it is, when you are player killed, your player killable flag is turned on for five minutes which means you cannot be attacked by another player nor can you attack another player for five minutes (additionally, you get 50% for experience). This change aids the player being player killed by preventing them from being "trapped" by a mob of players that won't let the player move, while at the same time making the player suffer by getting 50% exp for the duration of the flag. We realize this opens the door for increasing the likelihood of corpse recovery a great deal, but for now we're willing to sacrifice that in order to gain overall "fairness" - yes, this change aids the underdog. If you or your clan is a dominating force on Nodeka, this change probably won't help you. For the other 80% of you that play Nodeka that aren't the dominating force on Nodeka, this change should make Nodeka more enjoyable to you. - new oracle skill: eye of fate
Update 8/26/2004: - ishtls thrashing has been changed to: ishtl's thrashing - new barbarian skill: ishtl's choler - ice blade has been toned
Update 8/24/2004: - trial of aggression is now a basic trial prevention ability - trial of amplified vigor is now an intermediate prevention ability - trial of aggression's endurance cost has been cut from 1028 to 107. - trial of aggression's prevention time can be reduced all the way to 37 seconds AND can be used while berserking/insane
Update 8/19/2004: - rename to many base classes so new players will more easily understand the Nodeka class system. This goes for base classes only, the remort classes have been unchanged. - four new sorcerer riddle-quests - the [troll] race now receives massive health bonuses to entice players to check them out
Update 8/15/2004: - sa'duroths of death now receive curse of spellbound death. Additionally, sa'duroths of death are going to get either a new spell or a revamp of death gamble (please be patient while we figure out how to move forward with them) - barrier behest, behest of the angel and virile behest of restoration are no longer all on the same behest prevention - they have been broken up to increase lo-fents power a touch - barrier behest is now an intermediate behest prevention - behest of the angel is now a basic behest prevention - virile behest of restoration is now an interemediate behest prevention
Update 8/14/2004: - undead race has been improved (+wis) - weretiger race has been improved (+hit, increased attack %) - troll race has been improved (+continuous regen) - gargoyle race has been improved (+fire resistance, +winged slash %) - cloud giants race has been improved (attacks cannot be parried / dodged) - frost giants race has been improved (attacks cannot be parried / dodged) - ruanbaere's class +hit has been improved for all ruanbaere class lineages - aylakia's class +hit and +dam has been improved for all aylakia class lineages - dreynen curse is now a basic curse prevention - curse of spellbound death is now an advanced curse prevention - mystic wand of fleetness has been improved - hexed scepter has been improved - fireball has been changed. For weaker people, fireball will do more damage. For more powerful people, fireball will do less damage. - crash bug fixed
Update 8/9/2004: - correction to curse of spellbound death - hobbit lineage toned
Update 8/8/2004: - Thains have been toned
Update 8/5/2004: - Corrected master channel
Update 8/3/2004: - Please remember to vote daily! Go to www.nodeka.com, click on the "Vote Nodeka" buttons and click through on the popups. We need all your votes! - curse of spellbound death has had a massive increase in prevention time (max prevention time: 230 minutes, min prevention time: 170 minutes). However, the spell itself has not been toned. - focused sphere has been toned - stoicism has been toned - heightened precision has been toned - you no longer auto-join when a player leads an attack on another player's follower
Update 8/1/2004: - 11 new quests - these quests continue the drake lord storyline. See the fallad or sa'duroth master (depending on how you finished the drake lord quest) to continue the storyline. And don't fret, even if you finished the drake lord quest line in a way you didn't like, you'll have the option of correcting that.
Update 7/31/2004:
- Massive coding change (around 10,000 lines of code changed) to introduce
a new level of protection in the Nodeka source code. This protection now
blocks permanent side-effects from happening with pools (health, mana,
spirit and endurance) EVEN in the event a bug is coded in the source.
Nodeka isn't smart enough to track down where the bug is, but it is smart
enough to correct the bug's side-effect limiting it to a single login.
This has been the case with side-effect bugs with stats (str, dex, agi,
etc.) for awhile, it's now also the case with pools (health, mana, spirit,
endurance). Whooohooo!
This new level of protection guarantees that when coding mistakes happen
(and they WILL happen), no permanent side-effects are created in them.
This is good for everybody - no "cheat" bugs can be exploited which give
some players permanent gains while others suffer who don't know about
the bugs. In addition, there's never a threat of a player file wipe or
rollback, due to a cheat bug existing - since now, they can't exist (at
least not with permanent gains in any of the eight stats or the four
pools).
Special thanks to the testing team who thoroughly went through a huge
number of scenarios ensuring the thousands of lines of code that needed
to be changed to make this protection possible, didn't cause any
unintended side-effects. =)
Nijlo
- increased power of healing radiance, decreased prevention time
Update 7/29/2004: - Please vote for Nodeka daily! We need everyone's votes! Go to www.nodeka.com and click on "Vote Nodeka" then "cast my vote" or "vote for this site". Your support is greatly appreciated! Please vote every day!
Update 7/27/2004: - more quests in Mejath explaining experience and bounty hunting - bounty posts can now only be placed on players logged on
Update 7/25/2004: - players who have followers: you can now use SCORE on your follower. Your follower must be in the same room as you, type: score <follower name>. See 'help score' for more details. - the hunt for bounty has been disabled until we figure out what to do with it, sorry tholecs (Selberhad) - it conflicts with the new bounty system - the experience model has been improved slightly, player fighting now gives even greater experience (see 'help experience') - mobs are now easier to hit. How much? See for yourself. =) - experience is now gained for doing damage and taking damage, including gaining experience in player battles - see "help experience" - experience from mob kills slightly lowered (from 150% to 133%) this was done to ensure the bonus experience for doing damage and receiving damage in combat didn't increase experience too much - jerof race +hit improved - there is now a 'bounty' channel for all bounty related output, when the bounty channel is off you do not see any bounty related information, including new requests for bounty approvals or new bounty posts. However, you _DO_ still see when YOUR bounty posted are completed. - glacious stones now prevent for 300 seconds when used - lag is applied based on page length size for controlled output (the bigger your page length, the more you'll lag when iterating over output)
Update 7/23/2004: - NPC kills by player followers are now added to data - all +hit overpowered races have been toned - minimum to post a bounty has dropped to 50 platinum - more exception handling for safer runtime environment (more crash invulnerability - new Nijlo racial power) - the prompt "all" and "allcolor" has been changed to remove maximums on pools. We think this'll be easier on your eyes - so if you use the old default prompt, please switch to the new one, it's smaller but still as useful. =) - global bounty output when a player collects a bounty on a player kill (so other hunters know a their bounty reward may have been collected) - private output to bounty poster when a bounty request arrives - private output to bounty poster when a bounty is completed - you can now use all bounty commands while sleeping - players making comments over the newbie channel are now always visible - player kills made by your followers now count towards your player kills - the data command has been updated to include bounties and bounty rewards - player killable rules have been updated (see 'help player killable') - all remorts (minor or major) are now player killable - huge new feature: bounty hunting (see 'help bounty hunting')
Update 7/21/2004: - the "quests completed" command now outputs the total number of quests that can be completed per area, in addition to the number of quests you've completed for the area. This should help a great deal in enabling players to see where new quests are being added. If the player doesn't have any quests completed in the area, the player shouldn't be seeing any updates for the area anyway. Here's why: If a user has completed any quests for an area, it's possible the user is unable to do quests in the area. While the quest system isn't linear (you can do the G'kir quest at level 1) it is driven to move in "sections". For example: When the player has completed all the newbie training field quests, the player is led to Mejath. When the player has completed all the Mejath quests, the player is led to Upper Mejath. And so on. Therefore, showing new players all the quests available in, for example, Ruushi would not be useful - it'd actually cause more problems than it would solve. So, in case you're wondering why I don't just list all areas that have quests and the number of quests that can be completed in those areas, now you have that answer. =) The good news is that when new quests are added in an area that you've ALREADY completed at least one quest in, you'll see the total quests available for the area grow. This'll be especially useful when you've finished questing an entire area and new quests show up in that area, prompting you to return to the area to finish the new, fun, exciting quests.
Update 7/20/2004: - new storyline quest in Mejath (lo-fent master). - for those of you who have already completed the blue sphere quest, return to the quest mob that originated the quest for a final piece to the quest cycle. The blue sphere quest cycle is now the most complex quest cycle we've introduced - spanning four different quest mobs, six different quest item rewards and completing around 8 quests in its cycle.
Update 7/17/2004: - summary of quick fixes: fixed players getting stuck in building, fixed all area room numbers being shown when 'toggle show room number' was toggled on by the player for his / her clan hall, prevented players from being able to disconnect their clan hall from the world accidentally (this'll ensure even if the most drastic of mistakes are made, players won't be able to strand themselves - all mistakes are recoverable). - new command: dismiss - clan halls can now be built entirely by clans themselves, see "help clan halls" for new clan hall purchasing requirements and see "help clan hall building" for directions on how to build clan halls. - a slew of new commands have been added to make player clan hall building possible - a huge amount of code reworking has been done to optimize Nodeka for memory and for the new "rlist" command which iterates across a potentially massive number of rooms per area
Update 7/16/2004: - another seven quests, one quest rewards a piece of quest equipment, another one of the quests is a mental puzzle for you brainy types
Update 7/14/2004: - fifteen more newbie quests in Mejath, however some important expert information resides in them which most veterans won't know - go do the new mjol quests today!
Update 7/12/2004: - exp for healing spells tripled - ten more quests, including the first quest with a real quest item reward (albeit, this rewards a lowbie piece of quest eq)
Update 7/11/2004: - New areas: Foldroth (continent, south of Gedaon and east of Mhaldryn), Hades Fissure (on the Isles of Drale) and Vunagi Jungle (on Foldroth, in Flothian Woodlands) - antei of formation power has been cut in half, as the +hit eq out there has been severely reduced in power, this skill was a bit overpowered. - builder related optimizations - the Nodeka calendar is now only pushed 60 minutes forward with each additional reboot (down from 300 minutes). This has been done to try to balance the benefit of prevention reduction and the deficit of non- permanent savable item reduction. - help reboot is now available to explain this - reduced willed protector prevention time to 10 minutes, from being equal to the lifespan of the protector. - fixed the ouput problem of decaying corpses in groups showing all corpses being the same name as the first corpse - NPC's bonus to hit has been reduced by 66% (this is not their entire +hit algorithm, but a main part of it). This change may be too severe, so let's just play it by ear. Some of the obvious effects of this (although it's much more wide-reaching than just this): - NPCs will hit fewer times (potentially far fewer times) - NPCs will do less damage - players will be able to run areas suffering less damage loss - players will still run at the same pace, just for a longer period - this brings the damage level between PC and NPC combat closer together, thus making healing more balanced for both kinds of combat - obviously there's more here ... - fixed dis ski heal / dis spe heal (not including certain healing types) - The below healing skills / spells / racials have been halved in power: skills: fentian solace, lay hands, healing radiance spells: holy analgesic, light order continuous healing, wounded abatement race: ryven - rain of healing sanctity has an increased prevention time - bequeathal of sustenance has an increased prevention time - willed protector is now a prevention - new feature: ***savable*** non-permanent lifetime items - item lifetimes are now output when identifying the item (id an item, you'll see what we're talking about) - all magically created items are now unsavable (for some coding limitations, we may be able to get around this at a later date) - items with non-permanent lifetimes NO LONGER decay when suffering player death (i.e. ataghans, mystical wands, etc., won't decay when you are pked or leave the citadel) - ataghan of inheritance and mystical wand of fleetness are now preventions (Mejath quest for prevention spell list now includes ataghan of inheritance as a possible answer), this was done to ensure keeping the ataghan and wand through citadel battles but losing the item lock would prevent players from duping the items. The prevention time is the same duration as the item lifetime, so you'll still be able to have an ataghan and wand pretty much all the time. - all keys in the game now have a lifetime of 7 days (real life), make sure you keep your keys on you as keys will now save with your character through both reboots and crashes - fixed hexed scepter's double hit
Update 7/8/2004: - crash bug fixed - the areas command has been rewritten (see help areas) - not all the areas have been assigned level and remort ranges. Please bear with us as we iterate through all the areas and get them sorted out by minimum suggested level and remort status - the exits / where command has been modified
Update 7/6/2004: - train/enhance pool caps are now in place at 50,000. I have an idea on how to make stat growth still happen even while the pools are capped. The idea is not fully fleshed out yet, but it's in motion. Anyways, for you uber-buffies, there's a hard cap at 50,000 in every pool. I realize this creates some issues for those of you who just train hp/endurance. Don't worry, we'll figure out how to manage that. - upgrade of most created items (not all though). This will probably be the last improvement that created items see for awhile, I'm pretty happy with their power at this point.
Update 7/5/2004: - tempalus, hexed scepter, blue invocation, spiritual symbol, staff of the gate, mystical wand of fleetness and call of nahfiotos have been improved - there will no longer be weekly clan battles, as we now have automated citadels that run all day (and give out smaller rewards, but many more of them) - improved all magically created items - partial directions to empire ants are now including in the nojohr master quest - the maximum stat you can reach through enhancing has been raised - All created items have been toned: calling the red blade, bringing of the staff, ataghan of inheritance, spatha of vylryvn[[]], three points of complexity, quiet trident, hexed scepter, blue invocation, spiritual symbol, tempalus, the call of nahfiotos, okaelis cloak, mystic wand of fleetness, staff of the gate
Update 7/4/2004: - gold for all mobs has been increased by 50% (up from 25%) - morality lean is now displayed in the score and morality commands - morality degree is now displayed in the score and morality commands - attention guards/mentors: when freezing players, the players are now automatically locked to Nodeka for 60 minutes. This will prevent malicious players from attempting to spam Nodeka and then quit out and recreate additional characters to continue to spam. The 60 minute lock is automatically added to the player being frozen any time the freeze command is used. - the toggle command has been modified for easier multi-word toggles on and off - the extended map can now be activated for the entire year (see help donations and help extended map) - experience for all mobs has been increased by 50% - gold for all mobs has been increased by 25%
Update 7/2/2004: - The item revamp is completed. All items in the game now follow our new item algorithm, including the ones you currently have. Please take a deep breath and get use to the new layout. Most likely healers are going to be toned because the overall damage gained from equipment has been reduced. Before e-mailing anyone complaining, please look at the system as a whole and see if things make sense. Keep in mind experience and gold will be modified (increased) to generally match what you were making before. The fundamental idea of the item revamp was to follow a specific algorithm for all classes and to balance all classes and their equipment. We appreciate your maturity when considering this new system. Nijlo will be out of town for the next couple days, so e-mailing him complaining won't do anything immediately. Hopefully this'll encourage you to think about the new system and consider it completely before jumping to conclusions. Again, since Nodeka has been up we have never done a player wipe. That's over five years of having your characters development stay intact. And we have no plans of doing a player file wipe any time soon. Please try to keep this in mind when considering the impact of this change. In all relativity, this change is relatively minor. Thanks, The Nodeka Staff - Revamped all Ruushi quests, including sun cult druid quest actions and Tloka's spirit quest. The revamp was done primarily to follow the new structure of quest output, so Nodeka is consistent across all fronts of quests. The exception is the fields of training quests, however the fields quests have been left in place for new players to see different forms of communication. - Fixed several bugs
Update 7/1/2004: - New feature: extended map - New toggle: extended map - minor bug fix with critical attack not lagging when the opponent is killed before primary attacks are used. - corrected non-extended map extra return lines before and after map display (now the non-extended map should appear just like it use to, except that it's a bit more centered, but doesn't have the extra carriage returns)
Update 6/30/2004: - New automated citadel functionality (including a Nodeka plug each time a citadel happens - hope this doesn't bother you players too much). The automated citadels will open about every hour and a half. Each time an automated citadel is opened, the citadel type, level and stat range is randomly chosen from a predetermined list. Hopefully, this allows everyone to get a fair shot at hopping into the citadels.
Update 6/29/2004: - Thanks for voting and please keep voting at www.nodeka.com with BOTH vote buttons! Thanks for voting!! - You can now reset your colors to the default value by using: "color <color type>, default" (rather than using "normal default"). However, "color <color type>, normal default" is still supported. - Added more NPC artificial intelligence functionality. Smarter last command checking now. - "Quests completed" can now be accessed and interpreted by any combination of characters (this was a little more work than other commands because of the way the quests completed command works when no target is supplied). - Around 20 more mini-quests on Mejath that explain color manipulation and cover some basic channel understanding. Again, nothing too concrete for you uber-buffies, but a morality quest will eventually be tacked on to the end, so you might as well do the mini-quests now. =) - Ruan awareness toned as it should have been previously to match the tone of combat instinct.
Update 6/28/2004: - Additional fix to the CHECK / QUEST CHECK to prevent any multiple outputs from happening (it seems I missed a couple cases). I've now tested check / quest check thousands of times and have not seen even 1 multiple output bug occurrence. Hopefully the bug is fixed now, entirely. - Fixed the bug with CHECK / QUEST CHECK that would occasionally output the quest information multiple times. This was a nasty recursion bug.
Update 6/26/2004: - Added more NPC quest functionality. - Another five quests in Mejath - including a witch morality quest. - Thanks for voting! Please continue to vote on BOTH buttons at nodeka.com. - Gain and practice commands no longer require guildmasters presence. This has been done largely to make Nodeka easier to play for newbies. In addition, when you now have enough exp to level, Nodeka informs you that you can use the 'gain' command to level. Finally, when you gain a level, Nodeka displays information about 'practice' and explains how to see your list of skills/spells and how to increase them (I've also removed those unbelievably annoying actions the aids were making continuing to harass players about 'gaining' - since all the information that's needed about gaining is in the reminder message that's given when you have enough exp). - Modified gain and practice help files so they no longer reference guild masters. - You might be asking yourself, "so what's the point of guild masters then?" Ah-ha! Class-grouped quests - combat/magic/spirit (coming soon, hehe). - Continued to clean up the fields of guidance area: 1) decreased in size, it's smaller and the guides are closer together, 2) tried to make output more user-friendly, 3) give information at the end of quests about how to see open quests and completed quests, 4) exact directions to Mejath are now told to players by the aid and stored in the completed quests, when the aid quest is finished.
Update 6/25/2004: - Another 6 quests in Mejath, including some new quest functionality - New morality quest in Mejath. Warning: making a morality decision in this quest (the nojohr master quest) has a direct outcome of what future quests are available for the nojohr master. This will be how many of the more advanced quests behave. - Morality help topics are now accessible. Help topics include: morality, morality side-effects, morality lean, morality degree, morality aggression - Morality side-effects have NOT been implemented yet, but are coming. The help topics are just giving you preparation for what's ahead.
Update 6/23/2004:
- Fixed bug that allowed completed quests to be opened, even while the
quest was already completed. For awhile I was debating if this was really
a bug, but due to the problems with the ruanbaere master yesterday, it
became clear this behavior was buggy as I had to create an entirely new
quest just to clear the ruanbaere bug of opening a quest that was already
closed.
- About 20 more quests for Mejath - including 1 more MORALITY quest!
Update 6/22/2004: - Altered channel output: players output their real name only now, but NPCs output detailed NPC names - New channel: debate - New mob AI functionality to allow silent opening of quests, which is now used in the fields of guidance. When you complete the first aid quest, the aid now opens ALL 17 quests for you to complete. The advantage of this implementation of the training quests is that the new players can see exactly what quests they have to finish as soon as they begin the training area. Sweeeeeet. - If you failed to complete the morality quest in G'kir before the time limit expired, you now can go back and wait for the G'kir king to reoffer you the chance at getting that morality point. You won't get the exp bonus you got from the first quest completion, but you'll be able to add to your morality. - Mejath now has 20 more mini-quests (mostly for training newbies) but they'll be required to get to the morality quests, so you better go and do them. =)
Update 6/21/2004: - Quest mobs in Mejath, now inform you when you've answered incorrectly. Almost all quests in Mejath follow this form (all prevention quests now do), but some may exist quests that don't inform you when you've supplied an incorrect answer. - Clan battle results: 1st - Callers, 2nd - Arcane, 3rd - Legion - new 1st remort tholec skill: augmented senses
Update 6/20/2004: - Quest mobs that clear a players history now is output, so the player sees this. Nothing new here - quest mobs previously cleared players history, the only difference is now it's seen. - New functionality: when a quest mob is clearing a player's history, the quest mob now also clears the players stored ANSWER. This should alleviate any confusion where players thought stored answers were being used in quest mob answers to quests.
Update 6/18/2004: - Nodeka is #1 on mudconnect.com!!! Please keep voting daily! - fixed minor output error on time to answer bot check (it's actually one minute, not two) - removed incorrect Tloka quest which was saying there are 62 quests - there really are only 61 quests (at least at the time of writing this) - added total possible quests output on "quest complete". Please keep in mind that while there are a total number of quests available, not all players will be able to compete in all quests. However, as new quests are added, you now have two reference points for it. - fixed guard channel toggle not saving - updated web page to display available quests (this way, both the players and Nijlo will be focusing on that number - the players to see if new quests have been added and Nijlo to make sure the number keeps rising)
Update 6/16/2004: - some more updates to the web site (it's getting there)
Update 6/15/2004: - corrected players online bug that was outputting the maximum players on since reboot, rather than the current players on. - Nodeka's webpage and Nodeka itself are dynamically linked together so updates to Nodeka news (in-game), automatically link to the website. Oh yeah. That's right. - integrated players online and news through website (Nijlo finally got off his lazy butt and decided to put this feature in). Gee, that was easy.
Update 6/12/2004: - fixed problem with spam quest opening with "quest check" - fixed Loden, so when he asks for answers to the riddles, he repeats the one he's asking for (since now more than one can be open at a time) - New quest functionality, this is so awesome! - There are now two ways to start/continue/complete quests with NPCs: - Way #1: wait for the NPC to talk to you about new quests, current quest status, etc. Sometimes, this can take several minutes. - Way #2 (the new way): use the "quests check" command to check to see if the NPC will open/continue/complete a quest based on your current state. As long as the NPC isn't already interacting with another player, this means absolutely NO WAITING to initiate any kind of quest action. This means you won't have to wait to start new quests, you won't have to wait to continue quests or complete them. - We thought making both methods available was impossible. So we're very excited to be able to offer this functionality to you now. Whoohooo!!! - Be sure to read the new "quest check" help file. And remember you can use the CHECK command as a shortcut for quest check. - The fallad master in Mejath now offers five total quests, one of which is a morality quest. Be sure to see him - and use the new "check" functionality on him. =)
Update 6/12/2004: - new quest mob functionality, "quest_give" which enables quest mobs to give players or other mobs items, regardless of if their inventory is full. This is fundamentally important for a number of reasons. - new Mejath quest: fallad master
Update 6/12/2004: - fix to Loden's quest (regarding "check" not working on him). The problem was caused by him opening 4 different scroll quests, of which he would only assign one to each player. When I created him, we didn't have the quest check functionality working the way it is now, so I didn't realize it would be a problem. I can still do Loden riddle quests, like the way Loden does them, but they have to be *slightly* different. That being said, Loden will now allow ANY player who's completed the quest prior to the riddle quests, to finish all four. He will offering you quests as soon as you complete the four riddles. Please visit Loden to complete the remaining three riddles, if you've already solved one. Once you do, "check" will work on Loden again, which is very important, considering he *WILL* be offering more quests in the future. - fixed canon of the second hammer, so it now requires creed of the first hammer to be up first, before even attempting the spell. Note: this is really new functionality, but I consider it a bug fix since in the ideal world, it would have worked that way from the beginning. However, there are probably other skills/spells that currently need this fix too. Let me know if there are (e-mail at nijlo@nodeka.com) - new guard channel for guards (*smack Diamaunt*)
Update 6/11/2004: - new format for quests completed and quests action (when not showing summaries). Check it out, type: quests com - two important fixes caused by 1 a.m. update on 6/11/2004: Real death bug where your equipment wasn't appearing in your corpse has been fixed. In fact, your equipment WAS going to your corpse, it just wasn't being unequipped first, so it wasn't showing up in your corpse when you examined it. However, if you held on to your corpse and had it decay in your inventory, your equipment automatically went right back to being equipped. Follower equipment overflow fixed. If your follower inventory overflowed your inventory when it died and its equipment was going back to you, the equipment wouldn't transfer. That's fixed now too. Note: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you suffered any equipment loss from EITHER of these bugs, please let Nijlo know (nijlo@nodeka.com) and he'll restore your player file to 1 a.m. MST, 6/11/2004, right before the auto-loot was implemented last night. You'll lose about 12 hours of playing time, if you have your pfile restored to the last archive point, but all your equipment will be intact. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Update 6/11/2004: - new auto-loot functionality, instead of auto-get-corpse functionality - corpses now decay in 1 tick again
Update 6/8/2004: - altered output for "look" and "scan" regarding players (color clients are expected - you don't *have* to use one to login, but we're getting to the point now that if you don't have color on, you won't be able to determine certain things. And yes, I know about the "PlayerNameOnWhoHack") - the "clans" command output has been changed to alphabetically display clans now - we've just got too many clans to sort through them. - fixed magical resonance drain and spiritual resonance drain - they now move all items in the corpse to the corpses container (either player or room) before destroying the corpse
Update 6/6/2004: - Mejath has been moved, it's just north and east of Ruushi, in the wheat fields just north and east of Ruushi. Very close to Ruushi now. - new sweet functionality with "quests check" - quests check will now tell you if you've completed all the NPCs current quests - quests check will now tell you if you haven't completed all the NPCs current quests - quests check now has an alias command: CHECK (see help check) - all field of training mobs have been updated so they open quests so they properly respond to quest checks - the 'pk' part of who has been removed. It is now up to the 'killer' to determine if a player is player killable or not. And since the new rule of all major remorts being player killable, it shouldn't be that hard to know who is player killable and who *might* not be. This'll also make killers work harder to find lowbie/newbie prey. - two fundamental changes to the player killable policy (see 'help player killable' for more details) - player killables no longer get any bonus exp (non-player killables still lose 50% exp) - all major remorts are player killable, this rule supercedes all other player preferences and/or clan preferences - reign of spirit is now a prevention ability and it has been toned
Update 6/5/2004: - unsavable items now exist as a concrete item type. All keys are still unsavable, but now certain items that are not keys, will also be unsavable. To determine if an item is unsavable, just identify it - it'll identify its type as "unsavable" if it can't be saved. basic help file: help items - corrected incorrect alignment for mjol demons and seraphs - sigil of the undead army now creates an army with lower stats than they had before - sigil of the undead army now caps at 8 skeletons
Update 6/3/2004: - corrected output error with rescue (sorry about that, thanks Drayke) - mjols toned - lose entrapment - ataelos improved - gain reign of spirit (formerly known as entrapment) - evasion success for SHIELD avoidance (and only shield avoidance) has been heavily improved - added reign of resistance help file (whoops, sorry about that)
Update 6/2/2004: - Fallad master in Mejath has a new very simple quest - Whoops. Bad "rebuild races" command! Sorry about the crash. - new quest area: Mejath located near the Isles of Drale - all 18 class quest NPCs now have a quest (albeit the quests are very simple at the moment). Once the early quests of the class quest NPCs are passed, the complexity and difficulty of the quests will increase. - and yet more AI/quest functionality
Update 5/30/2004: - important change: players with pk flags can now move into class-specific rooms, race-specific rooms, and remort-specific rooms. However, player killers (those players with a pk flag) still cannot enter clan halls. It's important to understand how this will affect you: players with pk flags will now be able to hide in areas that others cannot enter. This was done primarily to allow players to run areas that have race/class/remort restrictions on them without being stopped from running them as soon as they get a pk flag. The important piece here is that some people will abuse this change. It's a lose lose situation. Scenario 1: if I make flagged rooms non-enterable by pk flagged players, I discriminate against pkers and disallow competition in areas Scenario 2: if I allow flagged rooms to be entered by pk flagged players, I open up a potential room flag abuse in that players that are flagged as pkers can hide in areas others can't enter (i.e. a pker kills someone and then hides in a drake only area, etc.). There is no "win" solution. I'm simply choosing the solution I feel best fits the mold of what I want to allow. That solution being the solution that promotes competition. - fixed rescue bug where non-player killable players could rescue player killable players (thanks Arma for reporting this bug)
Update 5/29/2004: - stratagem of the cloak now costs 2 endurance - some fundamental optimizations made
Update 5/24/2004: - corrected bug with lagged quest mobs that was preventing the druid quest from working without ordering the druid to do something to clear the lag once you arrive to your location. Now the druid quest should work for all cases (if you actually get to the end location in time). Update 5/21/2004: - the sun cult druid quest has been fixed
Update 5/20/2004: - unsilence and unfreeze have been added so mentors/guards don't silence and unsilence or freeze and unfreeze spammers accidentally. See help on silence, unsilence, freeze and unfreeze.
Update 5/18/2004: - quest mobs are no longer charmable. Der.
Update 5/17/2004: - reduced lag on item manipulation commands, including fixing lag on sell, buy and list.
Update 5/16/2004: - Arma has been allowed to have a clan hall back. Due to Arma's exceptionally respectful attitude towards the decision made regarding their loss of a home some three months ago, we have lifted 3/4 of a year from the original punishment. Thank you Arma for being so respectful of the decision made. We appreciate you acknowledging the mistake and now reward you with a 9 month ahead of time clan hall return. - new mob ai functionality: quest mobs that are in the middle of a quest cannot be attacked (this allows smaller mobs to give out and complete quests without players interrupting them). - other new and fixed mob AI functionality for quests - new quest somewhere in G'kir ... - massive rewriting/redesigning of item manipulation code. Special thanks to Yaga who discussed the potential abuses of the current slow performance of the item manipulation code. The new code (and this is no exaggeration) is over 1000 times faster! This means, you should never again see performance slow downs due to many items being manipulated. With the old code, Nodeka's item manipulation code was a disaster waiting to happen - and it had happened on several occasions where mass manipulation of items caused Nodeka to come to a crawl. All item manipulation commands now lag 500 milliseconds. Item manipulation commands we're talking about are: GET, PUT, GIVE, DROP, REMOVE, WEAR, LIST, BUY, SELL, INVENTORY, EXAMINE (wear and remove still follow their own lag system) Special thanks to the great testing team (Eru, Manifesto, Ruk, Runar, Seraphim, Syn, Timeo) - they managed to find two MAJOR bugs which we were able to quickly 'put down'. If you notice any bizarre item manipulation bugs, please e-mail Nijlo (nijlo@nodeka.com). Just to ensure you don't worry about any bugs slipping through the cracks, we've archived all the player files before releasing this code. So if there is anything major that's missed, you won't lose a darn thing! =) The primary purpose of this optimization is to enable more quest functionality. The next quest is already being worked on. =)
Update 5/15/2004: - new command: morality - important note: as more and more quests are added to Nodeka, you will begin to see more and more morality points being allocated to you for your actions. If you wish to play a specific role on Nodeka (good/bad) it is suggested you stay "in character" at all times. Otherwise, you will eventually perform an action which you didn't realize would assign you a morality point that differed from your character goals.
Update 5/14/2004: - important bug fix / feature: quest mobs no longer accept items from players that are not currently questing with them. For example, if Loden sends Nijlo to get 20 ogre hairs and Nijlo returns and immediately gives the items to Loden without waiting for Loden to acknowledge Nijlo, the items WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED by Loden. This is a vital fix/feature to prevent players preempting quest mobs and losing all their timely gathered quest items. As soon as the quest mob acknowledges the player, items can be given to the quest mob.
Update 5/12/2004: - new Loden quest
Update 5/11/2004: - new help files on guard and mentor - new Loden quests - you can now recall people following you (even if they are not grouped) or if they are following your followers. If you're a group leader, someone following one of you group members can now be recalled by you, as well as if someone is following one of your NPC followers. - help recall has been updated - group sizes now cap at 8 players - once you have 8 members in your group, you cannot group any further members unless you remove someone. Important note: NPC followers do not count towards group size maximums - if people follow you to try to abuse the fact that you can't group them (since it would increase your group size beyond 8), you can now recall them just for following you (or your followers)
Update 5/11/2004: - fixed crash bug that happened during clan citadel today. In addition, I've fixed all potential crash bugs of the type we saw today so we never see them again. This required a couple hundred lines of source code changes, but I reviewed each one manually after I made the change, so hopefully no bugs were introduced with the rather large changes. =)
Update 5/9/2004: - fixed a bug with disband and with quest mobs that need to follow players - added new functionality to affect output - toggle clan is now working again - more cleanup of code in the corpse retrieval area - hopefully nothing's broken. =) - Loden has a new quest. Just an "fyi" because some of you will be thinking this, the Sun Cult quest *can* be completed by anyone (of any class). You just have to be creative in some cases. =) - more bug fixes - tons of bug fixes: - non-corpse leaving kills should now deposit items to killer - follower kills when grouped (must be grouped) should now give corpses to the group leader - follower deaths give corpses to master of follower - and tons of other fixes - new 'guard' role - who is now updated to contain "pk" activation
Update 5/8/2004: - new clannable toggle - corpses now output in decayed groups - player corpses decay in 5 ticks (thanks Thystonius) - mob corpses now decay in 2 ticks - outcasting from a clan now flags the player with an outcast flag which prevents them from outcasting again for a month. I could have made this a lot worse - i.e. preventing players from joining another clan for a month, but I didn't want to hurt clans like that. If I find clans abusing the fact that their advisor or leader can still outcast the player who's using this to avoid the pk rules, the advisor and leader of the clan will be dealt with severely. - pc followers now send corpses to the group "leader", if possible - nim exp now follows the player killable rules - canon of the second hammer - fixed - magical resonance drain and spiritual resonance drain are now usable on the user's inventory - new toggle: clannable (see help clannable)
Update 5/6/2004: - group leaders now get corpses when the group kills a mob (if in the same room). Throw killing targets and gathering corpses by the killer is intentional. I may add a toggle auto-loot. - mob corpses now decay in one tick, player corpses still decay in 5 - some important changes: when a player kills a mob, the mob's corpse automatically goes to the inventory of the killer (item capacity is ignored, this always succeeds) clans now have an is player killable flag that can be toggled on or off by clan advisors or leaders only. Same rules apply for toggling player killable flags in clans - no changing for a month. Additionally, when a clan leader or advisor toggles the player killable flag he/she loses the ability to promote a new advisor or leader until the flag goes away. important: clan player killable setting OVERRIDES all individual clan member settings - if your clan is player killable, so are you, if your clan isn't player killable, neither are you - See 'help clan player killable' - PLAYER KILLABLE and CLAN PLAYER KILLABLE preventions are now non-drainable. This means, you can no longer use abilities to decrease their prevention duration. - I've made a huge number of changes to make all of this new code work. It's likely that I've made at least some mistakes. If you find any, please e-mail me at nijlo@nodeka.com. Thanks!
Update 5/5/2004:
- fixed crash bug (including really crappy error checking code) - the crash
bug itself *and* any kind of error of that type will never crash Nodeka
again. =)
- note: nothing's permanent on Nodeka. If we all agree that this player
killable setting sucks, we'll remove it. However, making commentary that's
disrespectful is not the way to communicate your opposition to this change.
If you have feedback and want to share it, do so in a constructive,
non-offending way. Otherwise, your comments will be ignored.
- exp string corrected to output the actual exp gained rather than the
exp before modification.
- Extremely important change: new toggle PLAYER KILLABLE
See 'help player killable' for more information.
p.s. If you see any odd behaviors with the PLAYER KILLABLE setting, please
e-mail Nijlo (nijlo@nodeka.com). Most likely, there will be some pieces
that were missed and don't work exactly as they should.
- more quest additions, new quest for Loden, new quest layout for newbies
- "quests open" is now reformatted to output full quest summaries for all
open quests (not just when sorting by area).
Update 5/4/2004: - new quest command: quests check (this command will eventually become VERY important) - new quest mob somewhere in Ruushi - *more* quest functionality - Fixed anti-pk bug - Fixed anti-pk cheat bug - Nodeka server was down for a day due to some crazy machine problems. We're still not sure what's causing the random restarts of the machine (it's not a virus and it's not me accidentally restarting the machine). We have taken several immediate courses of action in order to prevent the problem from occurring but we're not sure if the problem has been fixed. It is suggested you save often. - O'esrus renamed: Thalden And due to the sweeeeet layout of quests, the changes to open, completed and action quests, the change from O'esrus to Thalden automatically cascade throughout everything you've already logged. Sweet. - want to earn some extra donation platinum *and* stones, without donating money to Nodeka? See 'help flyer'.
Update 5/2/2004: - All quest data has been cleared to fulfill the new quest system layout. - You are NO LONGER REQUIRED to complete the newbie quests to begin questing with O'esrus. - new command: quests completed quests open quests action - summary information of all quest types (completed, open and action) are revealed when you list quests by AREA. See help on each quest type for more details. - Important message to the Nodeka players: First off, I would like to thank Whim for his ongoing assistance with Nodeka over the last three or so years. He has played a pivotal role in the growth of Nodeka in so many areas, I cannot even begin to list them. Whim - what Nodeka is today is largely due to your work. Thank you. Now for the reason behind this message: As some players continue to question the character of myself and Whim, Whim and I have come to the mutual decision that he should step down from his position as implementor. The primary reason for this is to satisfy any questions or concerns Nodeka players may have about the morality of the Nodeka staff. By Whim stepping down we hope that these questions and (and quite honestly, disgusting) accusations will stop. While the Nodeka staff strictly prohibits cheating of any kind and I have proven myself to strictly enforce this rule time and time again by zapping immortals who have cheated, we are also aware of concerns from some players who simply cannot understand that there can be a separation of function - they simply cannot believe a player who has an implementor and a mortal, would not cheat. So, we are now relieving this thought from your mind by having Whim permanently resign his position. The only implementor on Nodeka now is me. I cannot stress the importance of the message we are trying to make to the Nodeka players. Nodeka will, undoubtedly, suffer a serious loss of growth without Whim continuing to function as an implementor. However, we both feel that in this particular situation, the concerns of the Nodeka players come before even the game itself. Our decision on this is final. Whim will not be reinstated as an implementor, so please do not try to rally for him to be reinstated, that will not happen. He and I have both agreed on this decision in hopes to put down any concerns anyone might have about the character of Nodeka. If this action doesn't instill within you an astounding level of trust and faith in Nodeka, I have no idea what will. - Nijlo, creator of Nodeka p.s. I don't have a mortal. Please don't zap me next. =)
Update 5/1/2004: - Quest mobs should now notice you, regardless of your invis/hidden/blackened status (hopefully this works for all the number of cases where invis/hidden /blackened occur - but I can't guarantee all cases will work). If you see any issues, let me know. Quest mobs will also send tells through the sleep position. This might seem bizarre, but it'll be very useful in case you leave O'esrus before he finishes giving you all the details of your quest and you sleep and miss it. - Super-duper bug find for Syveril and his group! Yay! =) - important: tough NPCs now have stats over 300. This includes older NPCs you may have grown accustom to running solo. Proceed with CAUTION! - massive quest additions - quest command revised (see 'help quests') - 1st *real* quest - find O'esrus in Ruushi to begin - new command: quests (see 'help quests') - get ready for some very complex quests
Update 4/30/2004: - new follower equipment saving rules: Nodeka now saves follower equipment on players EVERY time the player saves (even if the follower is not in the same room as the player). The only way follower equipment can be lost when Nodeka reboots or crashes is from the follower not having the equipment or the player not saving (and in a number of cases, Nodeka auto- matically saves for you, anyway). - *sweet* code optimization - exp amount to train pools (not stats) has been increased - when heavily training pools, the maximum experience required to train a pool no longer stops at 100 million. - want to earn some extra donation platinum and stones? We're looking for a professional looking banner to use on Mud Connector. The banner should be 360x72 or 468x60. If you're interested, create a Nodeka banner and send it to Niljo (nijlo@nodeka.com). If we use your banner, we'll give you a *very big* donation. - citadel changes, statistical based citadels - new citadel type: sun stone citadel. See 'help sun stone citadel'
Update 4/24/2004: - combat bug fixed - new Nodeka idea: mentor (see 'help mentor' for more details) - 'prompt all' now defaults to color. 'prompt allnocolor' does no color. And 'prompt allcolor' still does color. - ending combat now reduces lag by no more than 6 seconds. If you have lag beyond 6 seconds, you suffer the remaining lag after the combat ends - the lag on wearing items is now cut in half for all items - more cleanup of connection and new character generation code - Nodeka now has a random name generator built into character generation. I just whipped up the name generator, so it's not by any means perfect, but for new players stuck on appropriate names, it seems to churn out fairly good names overall. Create a new character and give it a try (just don't expect it to be "perfect"). =)
Update 4/23/2004: - the wear and remove command now lag based on the item type being worn or removed. The lag is cumulative, so if you wear several items at once, get ready for some heavy lag. (wear and remove help files updated) - training aids updated to tell players how to leave the training area (hopefully, it's sufficient) - bot check correction, whoops (thanks Cly)
Update 4/20/2004: - I finally decided to ditch the color question at startup. - slight change to the map output for purposes of the new Nodeka client project (you should see no change)
Update 4/20/2004: - Important: Nodeka will be down tomorrow (4/21) for a server upgrade. While I would like to believe the switch to the new server will be seamless, I've been doing software development long enough to know that it probably won't be. Expect anywhere from 1 - 4 hours downtime. Starting around 4 p.m., MST (-07:00:00 GMT). (hopefully this new server won't have the same problems with its CPU as last server) =) - passage of dark summoning and summoning of the grey are now follower abilities. - exits position has been moved so you can see exits at all times, even when moving using "map". It also consolidates output on "look". If you don't like this location, just toggle "compact exit" and it'll return the exit output to its original location. By default, the compact exit setting is on due to confusion newbies are having with the map (not recognizing up/down exits). - max nim exp amount has been raised (thanks Cly)
Update 4/19/2004: - the master channel is now truly for masters of Nodeka - some changes with skill/spell types (there will be more) - new ability type: follower (see help display skill, help display spell) - hire has been made a bit more powerful (for those who are more powerful)
Update 4/18/2004: - combat instinct duration time decreased, prevention time increased - new functionality in display skills, display spells, see "help display skills" and "help display spells" for more information - fixed some bizarre cases where skill study and magical study weren't working correctly. Please see the updated help files on warrior's study, application of study, warrior's magical study and application of magical study. - some more nojohr changes: - silvern nojohr gets gate-crash and encircling ambience - gate-crasher loses gate-crash and encircling ambience - gate-crasher gets red portal - nojohr judge gets red portal - gate-crasher renamed to: magos nojohr - new magos nojohr spell: warrior's magical study - new magos nojohr spell: application of magical study
Update 4/17/2004: - quester's gallantry now can exceed the max exp amount (by three times) - hire and seduce now incur lifespans when creating followers - the nojohr one shield has been removed from nojohr of voq and given to defensive-nojohr. In addition, the nojohr one shield is now a zmo naj'k skill (so all three uniques of defensive-nojohr can be used simultaneously) - nojohr of voq is now: lernen nojohr - new lernen nojohr skill: warrior's study - new lernen nojohr skill: application of study
Update 4/12/2004: - the bot check system, for now, is complete. An additional rule has been added to the bot check system, see 'help bot'. - Whim and Nijlo have been working on revising the current item database on Nodeka. Due to changes required for balancing, many items will be changed within the next coming weeks. The Nodeka system was built with the idea that the item database might become unbalanced. With this in mind, Nijlo created a system which allows changes to the template items to cascade to all existing items (ones which players already have). In addition, unique items were built with this in mind as well. If an item is toned/improved, the uniqueness of the item may also change in reflection of the base item changing. All of this was done beforehand in the attempt of keeping Nodeka balanced and having cascading changes affect items (unique and non-unique) universally the same way. Expect the item changes within the coming weeks.
Update 4/12/2004: - new nojohr skill: combat instinct - new 1st remort ruanbaere skill: ruan awareness
Update 4/11/2004: - new channel: flame - nim has been slightly changed, nim now gets less gold but more exp (overall this is probably a tone to nim as the gold reduction is probably more severe than exp improvement) - the bot check is now a bit more advanced (but still as easy to answer) - skill output when not supplying a second word will now output more meaningful information.
Update 4/10/2004: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Two years ago, this day, Josh Rollins passed away. Josh played Nodeka and all who knew him adored him. We remember you and miss you, Josh. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - with a little thought and a little tweaking, I've been able to get the following, often used, channels working as they use to: say, tell, reply it took a little bit of tweaking, but I managed to do it without coding a hack, so I'm happy with the solution. You can now use the following shortcuts to invoke the commands: sa -> say t -> tell rep -> reply thanks for your patience. =)
Update 4/9/2004: - new command: display channels - new command: channel - new channel: master - new channel: sing - new channel: trivia - new channel: race-native - new channel: class-native - new command: skill - new command: initiate - new blackened-ataelos skill: gate displacement - new help files for each of the new commands/channels/skill - aylakia of the gods renamed to: fire-goddess - new fire-goddess skill: forgetful fire
Update 4/6/2004: - To play Nodeka, you must now use a client that supports color (including background color). If your client cannot display background color, you cannot play Nodeka as you will not be able to correctly answer the bot checks. For those of you who use wintin95, you have two options: 1) change your background color to something "off-black". Changing your background color to off-black will allow you to see background colors sent to wintin from Nodeka. Wintin always outputs background colors as black. Due to using an off-black background, you'll be able to see bot check questions (in black) and continue using wintin95. 2) switch to wintin.net - it supports background color. Download it here: http://www.wintin.org.dotnetlist.com/DesktopDefault.aspx For those of you who cannot connect to Nodeka with a color client, then my most sincere apologies go out to you for this change. However, at this time, there is no plan of removing the color requirement. - Nijlo
Update 4/6/2004: - fixed crash bug
Update 3/21/2004: - fixed Thelgarron's fusing bug not being able to use it on self which was broken once I made it usable on others (thanks Syveril) - fixed some other minor bugs - new 1st remort nojohr spell: nojohr's lightning choice - heitons now have a specific prompt feature for natural attunement. Add "$n" or "#n" to your prompt to put your attunement spheres in your prompt (see "help settable prompt" for more details).
Update 3/20/2004: - new 1st remort nojohr spell: nojohr's combat choice - Thelgarron's fusing is no longer usable by npcs (including followers), thanks to the person who turned this in (big big platinum reward for the quick report) - I believe I finally have the definition of nojohrs I've been looking for. See "help nojohr" for my latest rewrite of the class definition (of course, I'll probably just change my mind about what they are in another month, but hey - for now I'm content). - new nojohr spell: Thelgarron's fusing
Update 3/17/2004: - There will be no trivia this week. - alleviate has been removed from Nodeka - white flames of prayers has been toned
Update 3/16/2004: - wings of the dragon, winged attack has been toned - hurricane kick is now on par with vicious fist. Previously hurricane kick was less powerful than vicious fist - now they have equal potential - new 1st remort joufu skill: au-sem-mao - all hunting skills now lag 500 ms, rather than the old 1000 ms - other minor fixes
Update 3/9/2004: - trivia contest every Friday 9 p.m. Mountain Time (-07:00:00)
Update 3/8/2004: - fixed bot check forced presence - it now lasts for six minutes (not 15) - lowered weapon duration for spatha of vylryvn and quiet trident - lowered duration of spiritual symbol
Update 2/28/2004: - fixed lag bug with Xandar botting and continually loading guides eq to around 1500 items. The guides will now always wipe their eq before starting another quest (we _thought_ that was already in there *sigh*). Xandar will be dealt with for botting in a most severe fashion. - new white dragoon spell: morgal's shield
Update 2/27/2004: - big change: all elemental resistances now resist 50% of incoming damage. This is a 30% increase on damage resistance. Other resistances may also be increased to 50% resistances. Help files: fire resistance, frost resistance, earth resistance, lightning resistance, elemental resistance Physical resistance will NOT be raised to 50% resistance. No race has elemental resistance (yet). However, it has been implemented for some time. - red drake race lineage: fire resistance increased - blue drake and frost giant race lineages: frost resistances decreased
Update 2/25/2004: - spiritual symbol's item lifetime has been increased - new sentinel of the halo spell: tempalus - new sa'duroth of death spell: death gamble (warning! read help file before using) - new vision guild skill: aspect of the seer - new fallad of vengeance spell: spiritual symbol - fixed soul egression bug: targets no longer healed when hp below 0 - fixed spatha of vylryvn bug: weapon now does its special action - fixed spellbound death: incorrect calculation *favoring* the target. With this fix, witches will be more successful casting this than they have been in the past - updated "help clan hall" - clans may have two clan halls
Update 2/24/2004: - ephemeral discord of speed now has improved duration - massively improved affect duration - monks, minor remort monks and major remort monks now all have remort tier specific hand dice/roll (thanks for clarifying your point Farva) - charge's prevention time has been increased. - charge now lags the user
Update 2/23/2004: - constricting hex has been toned.
Update 2/22/2004: - changes to the bot check system, five strikes and you're out (rather than 10) and some other interesting changes.
Update 2/19/2004: - witching frostband has been toned: higher prevention time, and now the affects added to the user are only speed (no wil bonus)
Update 2/17/2004: - after a detailed discussion with Thilion/Selberhad, I have been convinced that he had no knowledge of the Arma clan portal. This is important, because Selberhad had an immortal. Thus while no individual Arma clan member was punished directly for their misuse of the portal, Selberhad's immortal was zapped (even though Selberhad's character remained untouched). Due to this new information, Thilion has been unzapped and I offer my formal apology to Thilion/Selberhad for zapping his character without concrete evidence that he knew about the portal. Yes, there is no concrete evidence showing he didn't know about the portal, but I choose to believe him (and in all the time I've known him, I've never known him to lie). Sorry Selberhad, the mistake was mine. - Nijlo, the mistake maker
Update 2/12/2004: - Type "help arma clan hall" - you gotta see this. - Arma has lost their clan hall!! Due to Arma abusing a secret exit that was working as a portal, and failing to report it, they have lost their clan hall. Ouch! The short version of this story goes like this ... All clan portals were deemed illegal awhile ago and were removed from Nodeka. All clan's were then refunded the cost of the portals, even though some clans had their portals for years and basically got to use them for "free" (man, we're really nice guys to have done that). Arma's portals were removed as well - at least, until recently ... When Arma requested a clan hall move from Gedaon to Mhaldryn, we happily accommodated them, but in the process we forgot to move their secret exit. Whoops! Bad us! But instead of being good citizens, like we all know Arma to be, and informing us of our error, they used their secret exit from Mhaldryn to Gedaon like a Star Class Warship's Hyperdrive System! Beaming all over the place! (ok, just beaming from Mhaldryn to Gedaon) Bad Arma! This portal was especially useful for pking flagged people recalling to Ruushi! Bad bad Arma! In addition to losing their clan hall (and this is where the pain really sets in), Arma will be unable to purchase a new clan hall for ONE FULL YEAR. Bad Arma clan hall! We feel that this is a sufficient punishment for the "cheat" Arma was abusing, while at the same time, it's a lenient enough punishment as to not fault Arma permanently. Man, we really ARE nice! If you see any Arma members in town (and we're sure you will), wave and say hello and make sure they hear the new Arma slogan: "If you can't beat um, cheat with your secret exit!" A post-it label they have truly earned! - Your friendly Nodeka Dungeon Master, Nijlo - mystical regen is toned to just restore mana and spirit now - ryven now get continuous physical regeneration, in place of continuous endurance regeneration. Continuous physical regeneration restores health as well as endurance.
Update 2/10/2004: - joufus lose wings of the dragon - wings of the dragon has been improved (100% attack now, raised from 50%) - new joufu spell: joufu's arc - the ninja class is now the joufu class
Update 2/7/2004: - halwen fire output corrected (thanks Rahamezedral) - skyline interchange fixed (thanks Selberhad) - new nomad of the watch spell: the ground's edict
Update 2/5/2004: - new white dragoon spell: halwen fire
Update 2/4/2004: - Ninja changes: Antei of hakanai shouten is a basic antei prevention ability. Whispering wind antei is a basic antei prevention ability. Antei of the clouded mind is an intermediate antei prevention ability. Antei of formation is an intermediate antei prevention ability. Ryou spirit of hananoki is a basic spirit prevention ability. Flowering spirit is an intermediate spirit prevention ability. non-remort, 1st remort and 2nd remort ninjas now have more class +hit and +damage
Update 1/26/2004: - new help file: client abuse - followers can no longer convert experience to gold. Sa'duroths using their skeletons could gain insane amount of platinum by converting their skeletons experience to gold after long runs (and having all their skeletons grouped). The person who turned this bug in is getting a nice reward (I'm keeping the name of the person and the amount of reward he/she is getting private, but you can be sure it's above 50,000 platinum). This bug was potentially not seen as a bug by those who were abusing it, so I'm not going to penalize anyone who had abused it. In most other cases, I would have zapped the players abusing a bug of this magnitude. Yet, this case isn't so clear ... some people may have seen this bug as completely intentional, while others may have known perfectly well it was a bug they were abusing. I'm talking specifically about using red skeletons here, using other single followers couldn't produce the sheer amount of experience that using red skeletons could, simply because of the way the exp algorithm works. Regardless, it always pays more to turn in bugs than abuse them. This case is no different.
Update 1/25/2004: - 1st remorts lo-fents now have: fentian solace - 2nd remort tholecs now have: lektron clout
Update 1/24/2004: - reserved anger can now only be used with insanity - this will help prevent ruanbaeres from becoming completely unstoppable - new 2nd remort ruanbaere skill: havoc
Update 1/20/2004: - dwarves are now ryvens. See "help ryven". They also have new and different racial powers.
Update 1/19/2004: - half-elves are now kedoejis - kedoejis have boosted (and new) racial powers - however, kedoejis have lost hasted attack
Update 1/17/2004: - red skeletons now have life spans - all khehusods now have bash - katarun khehusod -> khehusod of the arc - new khehusod of the arc spell: time bending: inverse
Update 1/16/2004: - deft link of thatios can no longer be used on immortals - using a glacious stone now prevents the user from using another glacious stone for 30 seconds
Update 1/15/2004: - fixed rather serious bug regarding dispelling affects which could leave followers around permanently (thanks Orlijn, +30,000 platinum). Change applies to: mystical fading, orphic disbanding, orphic disbanding: najk, orphic disbanding: grei, soundless strike, soundless strike: najk, soundless strike: grei strike of the quiet art, If I missed any dispelling skills/spells - please let me know. - withdrawing failing due to obstacles no longer prevents (thanks Legend)
Update 1/13/2004: - corrected all fleeing commands/skills/spells so that exits which are blocked by doors or obstacles will not be attempted to be passed through. In addition, prevention locks won't be added on attempts to withdraw if there are no valid exits other than closed doors or obstacles (this also includes using any of the other withdraw-like skills or spells). No, it is not a bug that you'll now be able to sit in a fully closed room and increase the skill/spell % of these withdraw-like abilities. It isn't a bug because the skill/spell cost is still incurred. - clan members are now seen when entering and exiting the realm
Update 1/07/2004: - all heitons now have dodge
Update 1/06/2004: - fixed nojohr teleportation bug - you can no longer teleport out of the citadel (thanks Doos)
Update 1/03/2004: - the ruining song has been toned, quite severely. Go ahead, get angry. - new 2nd remort nojohr spells, that work together: beacon of white light < - > white light teleportation red mark of location < - > red mark teleportation raising of the silver symbol < - > silver symbol teleportation see help on each of the above for more information The above spells give nojohrs no damage advantage in combat. However, the above spells do give nojohrs an extremely powerful talent that no other class has. I'm hoping this helps makes nojohrs more playable without giving them the same ole damage boost ...
2003
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Update 12/22/2003: - The benefactor judgement and nojohr fate have been toned. - Heightened precision's prevention time has been reduced by four minutes, this should make it a good deal more powerful. I'm still tweaking changes so don't get too set on anything being concrete (I just don't want to disappoint you if I have to improve or worsen it).
Update 12/21/2003: - As promised, double donations will run again: January 1st - January 9th This has been done to accommodate those who missed the first double donations because they didn't have their PayPal accounts setup. Setup your PayPal accounts *now* so you don't miss it this time. PayPal accounts generally take a week to setup, so get them started TODAY. - "toggle" has been reorganized, it's better now. =) - hints -> auto-hints - auto (features) -> auto-join - map (auto-mapping) -> auto-map - new toggle -> auto-sense - being spammed by astral travel is no longer considered spam as you can now toggle auto-sense off. Help rules has been updated. - followers created by sigil of the undead army have been improved - now three types of heightened abilities: basic, intermediate, advanced - heightened defiance now - basic heightened form - heightened precision now - intermediate heightened form - heightened instinct now - advanced heightened form - slightly increased prevention times of heightened abilities due to the fact that they can all be used simultaneously now. - heightened instinct has been revamped - new tholec spell: tholec's rising
Update 12/20/2003: - word of withdrawal and withdraw both now have 50 minute prevention times - storm complexity now has a slightly increased prevention time - nefarious combat infusion has been toned
Update 12/20/2003: - fixed eq output when looking at inviso people - more more more newbie mini-quest updates
Update 12/15/2003: - more newbie mini-quests, the place is getting frickin huge now - fixed bug where guides would join you to kill the guide aids - fixed some other minor bugs
Update 12/15/2003: - corrected "q" and "r" of line pauses so that entering something like, "reply <message>" wouldn't refresh the screen pause. - changed the way eq looks on output - changed color settings from worn eq brace and missing eq brace, to worn eq border to missing eq border (I'd suggest they stay the same color unless you really want some crazy ugliness to show up. But, maybe that's what you actually want ... - Made a ton of changes to the newbie mini-quests to be much less repetitive, thanks for the feedback Cryaxx. - modified, updated, corrected several help files
Update 12/13/2003: - Modified the way the mobs react to actions by players. It's now done in a manner that allows players to perform the action the mob is waiting for and then perform other actions afterwards while allowing the mob to still identify that the action it was waiting for was performed. In addition, the mobs are still smart enough to know that if you perform the action before they ask for it, it'll be disregarded. - Added four more newbie mini-quest mobs. - Nodeka lock for all players reduced to 5 minutes - internal code cleanup and more newbie mini-quests - more newbie mini-quest stuff
Update 12/13/2003: - Finally! The page pause the way it should have always been! - more more more - more newbie quest area updates. - Huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge update. Create a new character. - safe rooms can now be identified by room name - new command "disband" - and tons of other changes, including truly "reactionary" mobs
Update 12/4/2003: - DOUBLE DONATIONS! December 4th - December 7th only. All donations made from December 4th - December 7th will be doubled. This includes stones. This offer is good only through Sunday, December 7th. The maximum number of stones given out per month has also been doubled for this double donation period. Which means if you donate $200 while the double donation period is active, you'll get: 40 sun stones 100 glacious stones 4 storm crystals 14 infuscated marbles
Update 11/17/2003: - new command: where - which is an alias of the exits command - exits command revamped - see help exits - new interesting rules for continental travel. Credit goes to Smo for the curiously brilliant idea. For more info, see help on: continental travel - fixed bug where if a player's follower was pked and Nodeka crashed, the player would lose the follower's eq. This would only happen if the follower was pked (it would not happen if the player ordered the follower to give the follower's eq to the player or if the player and follower were in the same room at the time of the crash). - fixed crash bug - you can now use stones while under impairments (like while berserking or while stunned, thanks Orlijn). You were suppose to be able to before, this was a bug.
Update 11/15/2003: - fixed crash bug - fixed oracular vision (thanks Legend) - made some other minor changes
Update 11/15/2003: - glacious stones have been implemented Message from Nijlo: For all of you who were online last night (Friday, November 14th), I would like to apologize to you for shutting down the Nodeka server. While the point I was making, was a valid point, I could have used a number of other methods to get my point across without negatively affecting those people who are supporters of Nodeka. Last night, two hours prior to shutting down the Nodeka server, I received news from my father that my grandfather passed away. While I had thought I was handling the situation well, it seems my subconscious mind was struggling a bit to come to terms with this. My grandfather (Herb Gottschlich) and I were close, although we had some differences, I loved him very much. The only time I have ever shut down Nodeka (at least to my recollection) was last night. You can expect that will not happen again. I apologize again, my emotions got the better of me. Thank you again for your ongoing support of Nodeka. I really do appreciate it. - Justin Gottschlich
Update 11/13/2003: - mental tiaran has been improved (it's now much more friendly to use when having low con and it's minimum prevention time has been reduced from 9 seconds to 4 seconds).
Update 11/12/2003: - full color control on 'data' (see new 'data' color settings) - revised/finalized look for data command (type 'data')
Update 11/11/2003: - mental tiaran is now a basic ranged attack prevention skill (yes, I am well aware that lightning of the array is a basic ranged attack prevention skill and that by having two abilities that prevent on the same type, ateoli will now have to choose which to use). Yes, I'm very aware of this and have made the decision to overlap the abilities preventions quite intentionally. - cleaned up output from lightning of the array - fixed crash bug in lightning of the array - nojohr fate and benefactor judgement have been toned, slightly - heightened instinct has been toned - prayer of the gods disfavor has been altered, slightly - hex of menthijan's prevention time has been increased - palladium of sanctity has been toned - palladium of sanctity is now a basic sanctity prevention ability - rain of healing sanctity is now an intermediate sanctity prevention ability - rite of sundering's prevention time has been increased - passage of the bleeding moment has been toned - blindsided machination has been redesigned - it behaves differently now, pay close attention (help blindsided machination has been updated) - forge of magical dampening's prevention time has been increased, a good deal - titan's fortitude's prevention time has been increased
Update 11/10/2003: - fixed bug with data adding follower kills to its data (data adding kills and deaths to its toll for clannies, is correct) - you can now use 'data' on others. However, this functionality is limited to only be able to use on others in your same room. If you could "data" anyone in the world, you'd be able to see if they were running or not (and that would somewhat invalid astral, etc.) - bhikshu monk now: Tloh-monk - new tloh-monk spell: directed guidance
Update 11/8/2003: - who <base race name>, race now lists all players of that race type, including minor and major remorts - angels lose anti player killer racial - angels now have invulnerability to anti-casting/invoking magic racial - demons now have anti player killer racial
Update 11/4/2003: - new race: faehr - blindsided machination's anti-recall affect has been reduced and blind- sided's incurred prevention time has been upped so that targets now have a chance to recall between blindsided attacks. - races can now have second based racial affects (gnomes are the first) - gnome race lineage improved (again, lowered mana/spi, added new racial) - new behavior regarding mob gold when the mob's area repops, see: help mob gold repop - frost giant race lineage has slightly more +dam now (on each tier) - black drake race lineage has been improved - gnome race lineage has been improved - jerof race lineage has been improved - pixie race lineage has been improved - new command 'data'
Update 11/2/2003: - nojohr fate and the benefactor judgement now have longer prevention times - you can now convert experience into gold
Update 10/29/2003: - fixed crash bug in nojohr fate - fixed crash bug - storm crystals now always save you from any loss when real dying (this includes saving you from losing any experience, any equipment and any attributes - str, dex, etc.). 'Help stones' has been updated. - cleaned up login to be as user friendly as possible. I know what you're thinking, "gee Nijlo, that stupid color question is still there, if you're trying to make it user-friendly, why not get rid of that pain in our ass?" Well, yes, you're right. It is a pain to have to answer that stupid question every time you login and it's a pain to have to enter in a stupid number every time you login, but both are necessary evils. As you know, color is activated as soon as you hit enter to the color question. If I omit the color question at first connection to Nodeka, the Nodeka presentation I want to make I can either "force on players" or remove. If I force it on players and those players are creating NEW characters, they won't be able to read the output about how to create a new character nor will they be able to read the line that asks for them to type 'create'. The character options is similar, if I don't do character deletion in the character options while the character is not directly in the Nodeka world, we get some weird bugs, all of which continue to present themselves each time I add more functionality to Nodeka. Anyways, I'm doing my best to continue to make Nodeka as fun and as usable as possible. As you can tell, I'm very concerned with making the presentation of Nodeka as professional and as usable as possible. I'll continue to do this as Nodeka continues to evolve. =)
Update 10/27/2003: - there is now an 'auction' channel (due to Nijlo finally breaking down and coding auction the weak way rather than the right way, because he didn't feel like rewriting 'toggle' just yet - but realizing that ingame item sales occur very often (sorry for the three year delay, heh) ) - cleaned up and made all global channels consistent in output format - ephemeral discord of speed has been redesigned
Update 10/21/2003: - arctic colossus's attacks has been toned - angel and arch-angel now have the 'anti player killer' racial
Update 10/21/2003: - new oracle of weird skill: seer's understanding - new oracle of weird skill: oracular vision
Update 10/20/2003: - all sa'duroth classes now have: infernal curing - new blood sa'duroth spell: blood-magic
Update 10/19/2003: - you can no longer delete your character while logged into Nodeka. Type delete to see the new instructions on deletion. Thanks Farva. - fixed some more output errors, thanks Legend.
Update 10/18/2003: - I've fixed a line of sight bug that was allowing players to throw around multiple corners. In the process of fixing this bug, I've added new functionality to existing skills/spells. Each ranged ability/attack now has a distinct and unique number of corners it can travel around. Use these abilities to determine their unique cornering (note: some abilities corner the same number as before). - new 'update' functionality shows minimal information upon login, but full update information when typing 'update' online. This has been done to minimize players being spammed by the news and hitting enter 20 times in a row to login. =)
Update 10/18/2003: - I have attempted to correct all skill and spell output so no extra (or missing) return lines show up. For example:
Bad:
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You chant the words, 'slmlp.'
Increased mastery in your ability of qolok!
You lose your concentration.
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Increased mastery in your ability of path of the righteous!You are
guided by the gods and driven by the light.
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Increased mastery in your ability of dodge!
The Temple Guardian lands [ 5 of 6 ] attacks on you: MUTILATING damage!!
You land [ 9 of 9 ] attacks on the Temple Guardian: battering damage!
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Good:
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You chant the words, 'slmlp.'
Increased mastery in your ability of qolok!
Time bends to your will, wind-runner.
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Increased mastery in your ability of path of the righteous!
You are guided by the gods and driven by the light.
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Increased mastery in your ability of dodge!
The Temple Guardian lands [ 5 of 6 ] attacks on you: MUTILATING damage!!
You land [ 9 of 9 ] attacks on the Temple Guardian: battering damage!
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If you see any output problems that don't follow the well formed examples
below, please let Nijlo know (jgottschlich@runbox.com)
- new lo-fent, lightseeker spell: path of the righteous
Update 10/17/2003: - lo-fent of the light order changed to: lo-fent, lightseeker - new lo-fent lightseeker spell: quester's gallantry
Update 10/16/2003: - adapt can now be used by mortals and minor remortals - moon nojohr is now: silvern nojohr - new silvern nojohr spell (yes, spell): champion's battle
Update 10/12/2003: - Nijlo will be allowing a grace period of two weeks for players to request password changes to Nijlo. The password changes will only be accepted online, will only be accepted by Nijlo directly and will only be accepted pending Nijlo is satified the password change is not an attempt to sidestep the rule prohibiting character selling. Password change requests that will generally be accepted: - "I share my password with five other people and need to stop access" - "My password is currently way too easy to guess" Password change requests that will NOT be accepted: - "I just bought this character and need to circumvent the rules." - "I just traded characters and want to stop the previous owner from accessing my new character." Each password change request will be handled on a per case basis.
Update 10/11/2003: Hugely important update - read everything very carefully - the rules have been updated: see 'help rules' - character selling/trading is now illegal. Any characters caught trying to sell characters or trade characters will be zapped. - you can no longer change your password. This has been introduced to prevent character sales. Would you buy a character from someone whom you know will always have your password? I wouldn't. Even if you do risk breaking the rules and buy a character from another player which could get you zapped at any time after the character sale, you put yourself at additional risk: the person you are buying the character from will always know your password. Think about that risk in addition to all the others. - adaptation has been changed - you may now perform class crossovers (i.e. changing from a poliir to a sorcerer) for an extremely large amount of sun stones and platinum (this has been introduced to adjust the previous need for character trading/selling which is now illegal). - type 'update' or 'motd' to see the latest update - type 'help update', 'help news' or 'help motd' for all old updates - Nodeka may, at some point, allow character sales to be performed through Nodeka itself (with a certain percent of the character sale profit going back to Nodeka). However, at this time, that functionality is not being allowed. Character selling and trading in all forms, is now illegal. Anyone caught advertising for it on Nodeka or outside of Nodeka will be zapped. For the current updates, type: update
News 10/10/2003: - important: Nijlo's new e-mail address is: jgottschlich@runbox.com - important: Whim's new e-mail address is: whim_of_nodeka@hotmail.com - As Nodeka continues to grow in users, so do its operation fees. This is a good thing for Nodeka, but not such a good thing for Nijlo. More money is spent on advertising, more money is spent on hardware, more money is spent on bandwidth, more money is spent on development and so on. Please remember donations are what keep Nodeka free. Nodeka has a fully dedicated T1 to it, so you don't lag at all. How many muds can tout that? Nodeka is also the only process running on the Nodeka box, to keep Nodeka running as fast as possible, again to keep you running as fast as possible. And that's what we'd like to continue to do - give more and more to our players. But all of these goodies don't come for free. If Nodeka fails to continue to support itself, we may have to resort to other means of making income. Has Nodeka ever had a player base wipe in the five years its been active? No. Well why do other muds do it every other year? I'll tell you why - its economically sound, it makes a lot of sense fiscally. If the players get too tough, they have no more incentive to donate to the game and therefore all profits go bye bye. Well I come from a mudding background, and I know what it's like to lose a super character that was worked for, for over three years. And to lose that character because some jackass in charge thinks its a great way to line their pockets is something I'm not about to resort to. How do you know I won't? Look at my track record: five years and not one player base wipe. And I'm not about to change that, but Nodeka does need to support itself. And the worst thought of all, what if Nodeka were to go under? You can help prevent that. One way to help Nodeka keep its head above water is to continue to donate. When you donate, you do more than just get tools to make your character more powerful, you provide means to keep Nodeka running. Buying super characters may make you tough, but they won't help Nodeka continue to operate. And if Nodeka stops operating, all the super Nodeka characters in the Gedaon aren't going to do you much good. Please continue to support Nodeka - donate, Nijlo
News 10/2/2003: - follower's aura has been removed from the game (willed protectors no longer incur a follower's aura) - demonic affirmation is no longer a prevention ability. - all skills and spells which are used to receive followers have been changed to follow a single lifespan algorithm (hire and seduce are the exception to this rule). All followers of the above mentioned skills and spells now have lifespans and follow the same *new* lifespan algorithm. The lifespan algorithm has been created to make followers, in general, last longer than they currently do, have their lifespans more dependent upon the user's stats and have prevention times (when applicable) more closely relative to their lifespans. Willed protector, demonic affirmation, persuade and tame are not prevention abilities - they only create followers that now have lifespans. These abilities (willed protector, demonic affirmation, persuade and tame) create followers with lifespans but are not prevention abilities. Meaning, when the lifespan wears out, another follower can always be created immediately thereafter. See 'help lifespan' for more details.
News 9/27/2003: - Mjol followers: - conjure elemental is now: follower feat, basic (no change) - conjure golem is now: follower feat, intermediate (no change) - conjure deity is now: follower feat, advanced - all mjol followers have lifespan (except persuade - at least for now) - all mjol followers lifespans are 1/3rd the prevention of their master
News 9/25/2003: - when a follower's lifespan ends the follower death message is no longer sent to the world. Now the death message is sent just to the room the follower was in at the time of the death message. This also means the master may not see the death message if he/she is not in the room with the follower at the time of death (although the corpse will still be given to the master). This change has been done for obvious reasons. If those reasons aren't obvious to you, ask other players. Aylakia prayers: - defying prayer is now: prayer feat, basic - prayer of the gods disfavor is now: prayer feat, intermediate Fallad prayers: - prayer of greater aegis is now: prayer feat, basic - white flames of prayer is now: prayer feat, intermediate Daja prayers: - the prayer of guardianship is now: prayer feat, basic - prayer of mental restoration is now: prayer feat, intermediate - the shielding prayer is now: prayer feat, advanced Sa'duroth passages: - passage of dark summoning is now: passage feat, basic - passage of the bleeding moment is now: passage feat, intermediate - lowered cast/invoke cost for passage of dark summoning - support Bruce Campbell's latest movie and get a free $10 donation! See the help file: "bubba ho-tep"
News 9/24/2003: - crash bug fixed - nojohrs now get redirect - thunderous strike no longer nullifies regeneration - slight tweak in ability gains beyond 50%, 75% and 90% (see 'help ability mastery' for more information). - all uber-followers (with super prevention times) now have lifespans. All lifespans of uber-followers are exactly 50% of the prevention time incurred by the ability to create them. All prevention times of uber-followers have been reduced to around 50 minutes. This means your uber-followers will have around 25 minute lifespans. This is a massive change and is meant as a way of controlling uber-followers power. This was #462's idea, so blame him. When the time out of the lifespan of an uber-follower is reached, the follower will die automatically. It is your responsibility to monitor your follower's lifespan, as a lifespan timing out in battle may have disastrous effects.
News 9/23/2003: - support Bruce Campbell's latest movie and get a free $10 donation! See the help file: "bubba ho-tep" - link to the Bubba Ho-tep trailer: http://bubbahotep.com/ And a totally unbiased, extremely professional review: http://portlandmercury.com/current/film2.html
News 9/22/2003: - clouded spirit-shift prevention reduced from maximum of 7 minutes to a maximum of 20 seconds (this should be interesting) - the ability mastery system has been revamped, see 'help ability mastery'. This new system will greatly increase newbies ability to become proficient in abilities and help bigger remorts improve in long prevention time abilities more quickly. - kick endurance cost reduced - kick time prevention greatly reduced - mental blast maximum time prevention greatly reduced - trip has been improved (still not a prevention though) - newbie starting health raised to 100 - slight level change on aylakia's ability set
News 9/18/2003: - it seems some players did not understand the last post I made about the bot check so I'm adding a new one to hopefully clarify some things. The bot check system, for all intents and purposes, has been relaxed as of the most recent changes. When you fail the bot check questions, you are drained once and the bot check ends. Before the latest change to the bot check system, if you failed a bot check question set (i.e. got 9 questions wrong) you'd be drained stats and then the bot check system would CONTINUE to bot check you. With the new layout, if you fail the bot check question set, you are drained and the bot check stops. The "speed" bot check that happened during the 5 minute uptime of the last reboot was an accident. That's my normal "testing" mode. When this "test" mode is active, bot check questions have a 10 second delay between them. This is NOT the change to the bot check system. This was an accident and has been reversed. The time between bot check questions has not changed, it is still 60 seconds. Lastly, any players adversely affected by the bot check when it was in super speed mode will be (and have been) restored +1 billion exp and 500 platinum for the inconvenience INCLUDING any statistics and gold they lost. Tyrant and Alucard are the only remaining players who have not been restored due to their inability to keep an active connection to Nodeka. Conclusion: the bot check system is MORE relaxed now than ever. - concentration of killing revamped - the bot check system has been changed: failure to respond to the bot check system will result in a drain of stats at which point the bot check will stop (no more cyclic bot checks). The bot check will start up again at a later time when the player is active in battle or (coming soon) casting a spell, using a skill or ordering a follower (and perhaps other circumstances where players should be present in order for certain commands to be processed). This change addresses all concerns regarding players losing connection to the internet due to ISP failures and worrying about bot checks draining them continually or simple player negligence. - new minor remort footpad skill: thieves' sidestep - new skill for most 2nd remort joufu classes: blurred movement - new skill for Eaststar Khehusod: eaststar crossing - new skill for Nameless Ones: thieves' directional sidestep
News 9/17/2003: - crash bug fixed - blindsided machination has a new "feature" which is bound to make battling a footpad a more than just a recall fest.
News 9/15/2003: - the 'target' command now is usable on targets (potentially) twice as far away. This was done because some of the ranged attacks go much further than the 'target' ability does. However, this may have some side-effects. For example, it is now possible to target someone that you cannot hit with throw or telekinetic projection from where you are currently standing. This might lead this change to be less useful, but we're hoping not. Let us know your thoughts after you've used it a bit (whim@nodeka.com). - blindsided machination has been given a face lift - it's a totally different (and more fitting) skill now. - light order, continuous heal has been toned down. - light order, restoration has been improved. - cloak takes over the role of prowl (in that it does something instead of doing nothing). Cloak use to have an affect on critical and stratagem of the cloak, but that was changed awhile back. Cloak was effectively doing nothing and with the recent changes to prowl, footpads can only stay hidden for a certain duration before they *must* become visible again. Due to this, prowl has been removed and cloak has taken over prowl's functionality, just as a mortal class ability. =)
- prowl has been removed from Nodeka
News 9/14/2003: - new 1st remort footpad skill: malignant injury
News 9/11/2003: - Nodeka remembers September 11th, 2001
News 9/8/2003: - bot checks no longer happen during player fights (this includes citadel battles) - fixed color bug where if you had a colorless prompt, color turned off and logged in, your screen color would remain black (only happened on telnet as far as I can tell)
News 9/7/2003: - new command: "repeat bot check", see "help repeat bot check" - competing while ambushing no longer works - continuning to blindside and decay touch while unconscious no longer happens - lots of other minor bug fixes
News 8/30/2003: ************* NODEKA NOW HAS OVER 400 TOTAL SKILLS AND SPELLS ************* - new 2nd remort joufu skill: strike of the quiet art - new 2nd remort ruanbaere skill: mystical fading - joufu of the Awaikage becomes Mahoutsukai Joufu - new mahoutsukai joufu skill: soundless strike - new mahoutsukai joufu skill: soundless strike: grei - new mahoutsukai joufu skill: soundless strike: naj'k - Ruanbaere-of-war becomes Mordant Ruanbaere (with alignment restrictions) - new mordant ruanbaere spell: orphic disbanding - new mordant ruanbaere spell: orphic disbanding: grei - new mordant ruanbaere spell: orphic disbanding: naj'k
News 8/29/2003: - fixed prevention name redundancies - time walking has been improved a good deal - if it's too powerful now, it may be toned somewhere between its current power level and its last power level - Nodeka pulses are slightly faster now (old: 250 ms, new: 200 ms) - this has been changed primarily for the affects of time walking to be seen more clearly (i.e. time walkers jumping up in pulse groupings). If this doesn't make sense to you, don't worry about it. =)
News 8/26/2003: - reserved anger has been revamped and boy is it mean now - decaying touch prevention time increased - new design channel functionality
News 8/25/2003: - fixed display races command (thanks Kismet)
News 8/24/2003: - new jakaen skill: immunity: lightning - new jakaen skill: immunity: fire - new jakaen skill: immunity: frost - new jakaen skill: immunity: impairment - fixed problem with practice due to capitals in ability names - petrify is now a prevention ability - see help petrify - new infinity guardian spell: guardian's quickness - new infinity guardian spell: guardian's unwavering eye - new infinity guardian spell: infinity ray
News 8/24/2003: - valkyries agility is now valkyrie's agility - aylakia of the shield is now shielded aylakia - new shielded aylakia skill: shield's binding - new shielded aylakia skill: shield's fusing - new shielded aylakia skill: shield's emplacement - new shielded aylakia skill: shield's greater emplacement
News 8/23/2003: - new command: display locks / display preventions - new darkhand monk spell: black threshold
News 8/20/2003: - skills and spells can now have apostrophes in their names. Places where apostrophes should go in skill and spell names will soon start appearing - spell name change: 'lectokkes vision' becomes: 'Lectokke's vision' - new stoic ruanbaere skill: titan's fortitude - new shisou skill: amassed reflex - updated 'affects' command - see 'help affects' - heiton of the greater trewan is now the only heiton that gets the spell, "enclosure of trewan" - enclosure of trewan's prevention time has been upped significantly - trewan of the rising forest is now a basic trewan prevention (updated help) - enclosure of trewan is now an intermediate trewan prevention (updated help)
News 8/19/2003: - new dajain angel spell: lesser extolment - new radial daja spell: word of raising
News 8/18/2003: - new radial daja spell: extol - new ataelos of method skill: battle learning - new cloud-ring khehusod spell: nefarious combat infusion
News 8/17/2003: - prevention time for constricting hex has been upped a decent amount. - the hunt for bounty has been altered so players who kill bounty hunters receive a smaller portion of bounty than before. This has been done to help promote the uniqueness of tholecs of the hunt and re-establish their playability to a certain degree. Previously, players killing a bounty hunter would receive 1/2 what the bounty hunter received in loot. Now players kill bounty hunters receive 1/5th. This may be too harsh of a cut back for players killing bounty hunters, but it may not. We'll see and tweak it further if needed. - hurricane kick now lags for a little over a round. This may change if hurricane kick has been found to be too powerful (yes I know this means vicious fist lags for nearly twice as long as hurricane kick and that might seem unfair to monks. Truth is - monks have far more power in their prevention abilities and so I believe this change to be fair). - "who <class name>, class" now shows all remortal classes when supplying a base class name as the <class name> parameter - word of withdrawal is now castable and invokable
News 8/13/2003: - haotien stance has been toned - guarding circle has been improved, slightly
News 8/12/2003: - Important: the company which has been hosting Nodeka's server for the last couple years is going out of business. The Nodeka server will be relocated immediately to avoid any unforeseen downtime. Due to this however, you may be unable to connect to Nodeka for a day. However, due to this being a fairly fast move, we cannot predict which day we'll be moving the Nodeka server. When the Nodeka server has been moved, the motd will be updated again. This will be done to inform you that no further downtime is expected. Thanks for your continual patience and support, Nijlo p.s. Thanks to some of the networking connections the Nodeka staff has established over the last couple years, the new network connection we are going to get is going to be *screaming* fast. - decaying touch has been toned, perhaps too much - if that is the case we'll work to find the correct median for it.
News 8/11/2003: - monk of the stolid path becomes: stone-guard - new stone-guard spell: guarding circle - sunbind works again - players who are below level 50 and are not remorts are no longer penalized when failing bot checks. Instead they are given warnings explaining what they did wrong, what would happen if they were penalized and how to get more help. The current level implementation of this feature may change. For all of you who have been screaming, "bot checks hurt newbies", well, now it doesn't (although it does open up a potential hole for botting, for now, that is an acceptable loss).
News 8/10/2003: - successful bot check answers now reward gold as well as experience
News 8/9/2003: - reimbursed players from bot check bug: Acie, Aedon, Airon, Akriloth, Alpha, Amaetheon, Anasazi, Azbleck, Blitzkrieg, Bradnewmanxx, Browser, Chasui, Diamaunt, Demented, Dominic, Evernite, Flamel, Fleshtear, Gannon, Hamfast, Iblis, Jigen, Khelin, Klatu, Lamar, Leanna, Leviticus, Mazus, Monoxide, Morelf, Mortimer, Ninevein, Nomade, Nomag, Nosha, Phantomlord, Plink, Salve, Selberhad, Shahe, Socrates, Sorn, Soulshadow, Spider, Starvic, Tekka, Tirana, Thoran, Thugger, Varath, Zelda, Ziii It's probable that the bot check bug did not falter on some of the above bot checks, however, we feel that reimbursing on the side of generosity is more appropriate than not to. If you were drained from failing a bot check and your name is not on the above list, it's because we are 100% sure the bot check system did not fail inappropriately with you and you were in fact botting (i.e. we know Farxa was in fact botting and the bot check system was not failing in Farxa's case). For those reimbursed players, your stats have been returned to you in the form of sun stones (type 'stones' or see 'help stones'). We apologize for the bug and delay of its fix (Nijlo was out of the state). In addition to the stats returned to you, each player above has been given 5,000 platinum for the inconvenience caused by the bot check bug. You have our most sincere apologies.
News 8/9/2003: - bug with double bot checks has been fixed - but with not resetting number of failures when performing a successful bot check has been fixed - bot system is now more complex - see 'help answer' - new command: clear - read 'help clear'
News 7/30/2003: - new bot checking system created - botting no longer results in zapping/freezing, see help rules - all characters zapped for botting will be unzapped upon request to Nijlo (e-mail requests only: nijlo@nodeka.com) _____however_____ no passwords will be recovered or changed. If you do not know the password to your bot zapped character, do not ask for it from Nijlo (you may just end up getting zapped for asking). We are very serious about this as we have no way of knowing who is who, giving out or changing passwords will be considered unethical and will not be done under any circumstances. Do not expect any favors regarding this. - fixed prevention bug where remaining prevention time could not be seen
News 7/29/2003: - corrected plural mob names in NaPali - new footpad skill: blindsided machination
News 7/26/2003: - summoning of the grey now has a 370 minute prevention period - new grey-forest heiton skill: soothing touch - each time Nodeka starts Nodeka's internal calendar is now incremented by 300 phases. This has been done to prevent players from suffering unfairly due to new feautures being added to Nodeka, maintenance issues needing to be addressed or even the unlikely Nodeka crash. - awakening of the guard has been toned - fallaj to fallad - daja and fallad no longer have gender restrictions on their classes. You may also notice that daja and fallad have significant differences between them that make them fall more into separate healing classes, one based more in healing, one based more in harming. - please let me know if you notice help files that refer to fallad and daja as being male or female only classes and I'll fix them (nijlo@nodeka.com) and reward you - witch/ataelos will lose gender class restrictions as well (when a rename for witch becomes available) - ruanbaere/aylakia may or may not lose their gender restrictions - I'm a little disappointed in the aylakai class name, if you have suggestions please let me know (nijlo@nodeka.com) - fixed endurance drains on throw/projection, thanks Pagan - fixed crash bug with continually acting affects that could get the user killed by the affects which would lead to Nodeka crashing. Currently, the only skill that would have caused the crash was decaying touch, however, as more skills/spells are created that work in the same vein as decaying touch, the likelihood of stumbling upon this crash bug becomes more and more likely. The fix changes the way affects are removed at PVPpk. Previously when you were pked on Nodeka, your temporary affects were removed at the time you were killed. This solution is no longer possible. The only way to allow you to get pked while iterating through your affects and not crash is to have the affects be removed after pk - which is how things are done now. You'll notice some minor output changes on pk. Other than that, nothing should have changed.
News 7/23/2003: - crash bug fixed - apologies for the downtime
News 7/22/2003: - dajain angels get keepers vociferation - heiton lose: keepers vociferation - heiton lose: dignitary manifestation - heiton lose: soothing touch - heiton lose: entrance - heiton get skill: decaying touch (same skill # as entrance, so it'll be whatever % entrance was)
News 7/21/2003: - ecliptic pattern becomes: healing ecliptic pattern - new heiton spell: lunar vision - new heiton spell: rock formation of the druid - full affects on players/mobs can now be seen by everyone
News 7/19/2003: - fixed negative range of natural attunement - new major remort heiton spell: ecliptic pattern
News 7/17/2003: - to fix Plik's bug I had to rewrite the gold code. In the process, a couple compiler bugs were introduced (stupid compiler) - fixed now. Izod reported it first - Izod will be rewarded. If you discover any other gold related bugs (all of which should be relatively minor at this point, please report them to nijlo at nijlo@nodeka.com) - invoke cost of holy analgesic has been lowered - natural attunement bug fixed - natural attunement is no longer a prevention ability - Plik/Orlijn reported a bug to me a couple days ago about losing gold when giving gold to a follower, killing the follower and then quitting Nodeka with its corpse in his inventory. After much discussion on what the bug really was, I began looking into it. It turns out that Plik's original bug led to the discovery of a much bigger bug - one which would be very hard to duplicate, but if duplicated properly could duplicate gold. The actual ability to reproduce this bug was largely based on the users on (i.e. nearly 30-100 players individual actions). It is because of this, the bug itself was incredibly hard to duplicate. In addition, the only way the reproduce the bug was to logout and log back in. Due to the ten minute wait period, even trying to reproduce it once would take at least 10 minutes. In order to fully abuse the bug, you had to give a certain amount of gold to something, which would set the gold template object's value. Then when a character logging in that had a gold item in its inventory was loading its gold object, the object would be copied from the gold template object. The gold template object's value being whatever the amount you gave. For example: have friend logout with a corpse that contains a gold item in it give 999999999 gold, elf kill elf have friend login, gold item is loaded with value 999,999,999 The only way to abuse the bug in a controllable way was to use the "give" command. It was actually the combination of two bugs that caused this gold dupe bug to exist: 1) loading gold from player files based directly off of the gold template item, 2) the gold template item's value member changing when the give command was used. The difficulty of reproducing the bug was that the template gold value could be changed (and would be changed) by anyone who used the give command with gold. Considering that on top of the fact that the bug only occurred when gold was loaded at login made it very difficult to control. I feel fairly confident this bug was not being abused, but was rather stumbled across indirectly first by Plik and then fully discovered by my integrated work thereafter (I'm fairly confident that Plik wasn't abusing this bug, as the bug he reported had nothing to do with gaining gold - only losing gold - it wasn't until my "playing around" that the full bug regarding gold duping was discovered). That being said, this is, without a doubt, the largest bug discovery in the history of Nodeka (larger than Rar's compose bug find). Both of the bugs used to create the gold dupe bug have been fixed. Due to Plik's initial involvement regarding the indirect bug, which led to my discovery of the gold dupe bug, I am rewarding him as if he had reported the gold dupe bug itself. Plik's reward: +500,000 platinum, +300 stats Plik, thank you.
News 7/15/2003: - new heiton remortal spell: winter storm of satio - holy analgesic has been improved, slightly - plane of safe housing prevents for a slightly longer period - more class renames (we're getting close to all unique class names, which is my goal)
News 7/14/2003: - complete rewrite of how preventions interact with skills/spells. If you notice prevention problems relating to skills or spells, please let me know (nijlo@nodeka.com). - skills can now be prevented from being used based on the user's current affects - this is vital to some of the future work being done on skills and spells (especially when considering keeping mobs intelligent enough to not try to use abilities that cannot be activated due to the mob lacking the appropriate affect needed). - new heiton spell: natural attunement - new heiton spell: illuminated lightning - note: heitons are going through a complete class revamp. Once I feel the new structure of heitons is complete or complete enough, they will lose nearly (or all) ability to control followers.
News 7/12/2003: - holy analgesic and wounded abatement mana/spirit costs have been increased - bug with telnet and backspace characters not working correctly has been fixed - holy analgesic has been toned slightly - wounded abatement's prevention time has been increased, slightly
News 7/10/2003: - bug with incorrect visibility checks being done on most distance location abilities. This bug was reported by Yaga and was affecting the following abilities: astral travel, visit, shadow gaze, transient alteration, inosculated crossing, methodic shift The problem was each of the above abilities were performing two checks on the user's ability to see the target; the first check was being performed when trying to initially locate the target in the world/area in order for the ability to properly process, the second check was being done inside the code of the individual ability. This meant that targets cloaked or invisible were much more effectively cloaked or invisible. All other spells/skills that look for targets in the user's area or the world were also checked for this bug, however they were not making the same mistake (i.e. summon, greater summon, clairvoyance - all working correctly). Huge thanks to Yaga for taking the time to look into the behavior of astral travel closely enough to come up with empirical evidence that proved it wasn't behaving correctly. - names can now have hyphens in them (i.e. Kor-el) - mobs delay in tracking has been randomized, mobs will now track anywhere from 0 milliseconds after being fled from to 2000 milliseconds from being fled from - fixed many bugs - mental blast, psychic shock and mental tempest are now mental attack prevention abilities - new orange-cloud sorcerer spell: quiet fog of Lectokke - new orange-cloud sorcerer skill: clouding cogitation - leoht of war, leoht of spirit, celestial ray and clouding cogitation now only add prevention affects if the attack hits. This has been done because it use to be possible to use the ability, have the target be in battle (which prevented the attack from going through) yet still prevent the user from using the ability again. While the new layout obviously allows the user to continue to spam the ability until it hits once, this is much more acceptable than prevent the user from using the ability again, even when the ability was unsuccessfully used (due to circumstances outside of the user's control - that the target was in battle at the time the ability was used).
News 7/7/2003: - sweet new feature inspired by a conversation with Leviticus regarding skills and spells (also note that you can customize the colors using the "color" command). use the 'skill' or 'spell' command to look through the list of skills and spells of the classes of Nodeka and see some new stuff - celestial ray now costs less endurance, can be used to attack targets and is a prevention skill - new warred lo-fent spell: leoht of spirit - new warred lo-fent spell: leoht of war - the crash that happened right before the last reboot was caused by one of the third party pieces of software we use to transfer files to the Nodeka machine. It corrupted one of the help files, so when I went to rebuild the help files prior to rebooting we crashed. Our apologies for the inconvenience. - assassins keep nim for now, but this may change - I'm considering the decision to remove nim from assassins very carefully - assassins gain disengage combat - new assassin skill: critically wound - new assassin skill: concentration of killing - new nomad of the watch spell: skyline interchange - new furied aylakia skills: furorem of one, furorem of two - fix in mobs not aggroing when trying to initiate combat with skills. This was caused by a crazy C++ standards rule that says (not that you really care) that the order of operations performed on function parameters is undefined. Therefore, the code I had: GetRandomAbility(*(++iter), *(++iter)); was not equivalent to what I was trying to actually do: int32 actionType = *(++iter); int32 powerLevel = *(++iter); GetRandomAbility(actionType, powerLevel); what's neat is that I just learned about the standard's rule about any ordering of processing of instructions on parameters being undefined. So when I tracked down the code, I knew immediately it was my fault. Heh, cool. The undefined ordering of processing instructions on function parameters wasn't the only rule I was breaking - I was also breaking the rule that says modifying the same object twice in a single lexical statement is undefined. The really cool part about all of this, is it's just because I had read another C++ book on the way back from India that I knew what the problem was - the book specifically talked about this problem and how many people run into it because you'll often expect certain "incremental" operations to be performed on function parameters in the order they are supplied. Had I not read that book, I definitely wouldn't have been able to identify the problem immediately, nor would I have thought it was a problem with my code. Moral of the story: stay in school - fury has been fixed so it will not miss if there is a valid target in the room. This has been done to accomodate that fury is now a prevention ability and can be used much less frequently.
News 7/6/2003: - fixed peacekeepers auto-kill-everyone bug - fury is now a prevention skill - fixed crash bug (was caused by bad AI code) - redesigned/recoded artificial intelligence engine - fixed AI problems in areas - class name changes - new gate-crasher skill: gate-crash - new gate-crasher skill: encircling ambience - new zerkorian skill: ram door - reactivated AurVindi and new newbie area
News 6/17/2003:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - New area south of Ruushi - newbie-lowbie area with *tons* of secrets! - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- News 6/17/2003: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - New area south of Ruushi - newbie-lowbie area with *tons* of secrets! - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - you may now log out while preventions are active. When logging back in, Nodeka will determine the time remaining on each prevention. Prevention affects countdown while logged off. This only works for preventions and most likely will *never* work for affects for some very very important reasons (ones which I don't care to discuss on the motd).
News 6/16/2003: - bug in vanish and retreat if the user had skill % above 100% has been fixed - vanish now uses the user's agility, not the user's wisdom to consider the likelihood of success - vanish and retreat are now more likely to succeed - fix to withdraw and word of withdrawal bug, you can no longer sit in a room with all doors closed and increase withdraw/withdrawal to 100% - Iblis has been rewarded 50,000 platinum - new skill for nameless one, shadow archer and shadow rogue: disengage combat - new spell for mist warriors and shisou: unka
News 6/15/2003: - all fighter type classes now have the new skill 'withdraw' - all caster type classes now have the new spell 'word of withdrawal' - withdraw and word of withdrawal have been created in an attempt to take the strategy used in Nodeka to a new level - see help files on each for further details - ambush now has 0 lag when used to initiate battle ************* NODEKA NOW HAS OVER 350 TOTAL SKILLS AND SPELLS ************* - prowl is now a prevention skill - new shadow tracker spell: dimming of Yezlon - Nijlo will be traveling out of the country on business for the next two weeks. In that time, updates will be very minimal, if at all. This would be a good time to start running those hard to run areas due to the number of keys needed for entrance. Hopefully (cross fingers) Nodeka will run for two weeks straight, without reboot or crash.
News 6/12/2003: - new blade virago skill: calling the red blade - new blade virago skill: bringing of the staff
News 6/10/2003: - new nojohr judge skill: nojohr fate - new nojohr judge skill: the benefactor judgement - fixed bug that prevented remorts under level 30 from being attacked
News 6/9/2003: - mjol of enchantment is now "link mjol" - new link mjol skill: deft link of thatois - fixed problem with 'summon' - new mjol of summoning spell: summoning of intellect - instrumentation of riposte has been toned
News 6/8/2003: - radius abilities (i.e. blackfrost cloudburst) now only do not target group members. Clan members and followers that are not grouped are now fair game. - new firebrand spell: silver inferno - new death-angel spell: third act of malice - first act of malice has been changed
News 6/7/2003: - new death-angel spell: second act of malice - demonic affirmation is now a basic follower prevention ability - new death-angel spell: first act of malice
News 6/6/2003: - new combatant of the barbaric order: reserved anger - instrumentation of riposte toned
News 6/3/2003: - new deistic lo-fent spell: wings of ontonai - increased prevention time on wounded abatement, slightly - change to continuum of thunder durations - holy analgesic has been improved significantly, it's not as powerful as wounded abatement, but it's been increased in power a good deal - mana/spirit cost of holy analgesic has been increased - wounded abatement now heals 1% more of the target's max health - the healing affects of wounded abatement are now influenced by many new factors which increase its potency a great deal - holy analgesic now heals like wounded abatement heals: a flat point amount (say, 205) + a percent of the target's health - was it my plan from the beginning to make healers use a combination of holy analgesic and wounded abatement? Gee, what do you think? - mjol seraphs are now of the lo-fent class - if I feel they are too powerful being this class, I will change them again
News 6/2/2003: - wounded abatement upperbound prevention time has been lowered to 14 seconds, lowerbound lowered to 8 seconds. This may be tweaked further if I feel it is too aggressive or too passive. - lay hands upperbound prevention time has been lowered to 24 seconds, lowerebound lowered to 14 seconds. This may be tweaked further if I feel it is too aggressive or too passive. - wounded abatement prevention time has been lowered. Upperbound is 30 seconds now, lowerbound is 12 seconds. This may be tweaked further if I feel it is too aggressive, too passive.
News 6/1/2003: - wounded abatement is now a basic healing prevention - both wounded abatement and lay hands have been reduced in their prevention time - wounded abatement now heals more - mjol seraph's are now nojohr - conjure prevention times are now inline with other created followers (i.e. passage of dark summoning, prayer of greater aegis, etc.) - corrected prevention time in heightened precision and heightened defiance - new solar poliir spell: solar-flame - regen rates are now capped at 10% - another change to sunbind - slight improvement in healing done by sunbind, lay hands and wounded abatement (any one may be toned if it's too high - especially wounded abatement because it isn't a prevention skill, or it may be turned into one) - new solar poliir skill: sunbind - darkhand monks are now alignment free - lay hands has been revamped: - it is now a basic healing prevention ability - it can be used in combat - it heals what it use to heal + 2% of target's max hp - it has 0 lag so you can perform another action immediately after performing the heal - improved healing affects that use to affect the lag, now affect the prevention time (so they are still useful and used)
News 5/31/2003: - archway of entrance is back in action (and the Nodeka source code is much better off now that it can handle all the complications that archway of entrance brings with it) - new shepherd of the way spell: archway of entrance
News 5/29/2003: - monstrous fury has been changed so its affects are not lengthened with slaying creatures - the help file has been updated - fixed flee problems with mobs stalking too fast to ever escape due to new trailing battle lag (thanks Anasazi) - stoicism and focused sphere have been entirely rewritten/redesigned, see the new help files on each - because stoicism and focused sphere are now prevention abilities, these abilities have no lag and can be followed by the use of other skills in combat (this was not always possible before with focused sphere). The prevention time of stoicism and focused sphere is relatively low. - stoicism now makes the user much more difficult to hit - the affects of stoicism and focused sphere are now visible on your "affects" list (type: affect) - fix to trailing battle lag change - followers are now clearly labeled as such
News 5/28/2003: - change to trailing battle lag
News 5/27/2003: - lightning of the array, mercurial spirit-lightning and crystalline wind have been given overhauls (both in output and damage)
News 5/26/2003: - renamed 'sage of fire order' to 'substance magus' - new substance magus spell: crystalline wind - spirited-witch now has no alignment restrictions - new spirited-witch spell: mercurial spirit-lightning - bug fix in prayer of the gods disfavor (thanks Roderon) - the continuum of thunder changed to the oe continuum of thunder - the oe continuum of thunder has been altered, slightly - new bounty hunter skill: the oe continuum of thunder - new lightning strider skill: the tih continuum of thunder - fixed output problem in ice discharge and red firebeam - new anointed healer skill: bequeathal of sustenance - the following mjol abilities have been toned down: - mentalis vefr has been seriously toned down - broken vorpal dimension has been minorly toned down - page of competence turning prevention time has been increased, slightly I have contemplated how to tone down mjols very seriously for the last two months - these changes hopefully will balance the class that has largely been overpowered. These changes are not reactionary, they are well thought through decisions based on the extremely obvious problem of mjols being overpowered.
News 5/25/2003: - red firebeam buffed up - inharmonic-helix tweaked, slightly - auto-resizing of titles/names on who happens now to prevent natural overrun on clients that have set line width to 80 characters (standard) - new lightning strider skill: the continuum of thunder - skills and spells prevented from being used now follow a single output method. This will help create a more consistent user experience. - new counterspiral mage skill: inharmonic-helix
News 5/24/2003: - increased chain lightning prevention time a touch - red firebeam now benefits the user by granting solar regeneration and improved intellect after being used - see 'help red firebeam' - monstrous fury duration increased slightly when slaying creatures - chain lightning has less prevention time associated with it
News 5/23/2003: - new sage of fire order spell: red firebeam - kick prevention time has been reduced, updated "help kick" - due to the changes to the ranged attacks becoming preventions skills two changes have been to them (ice discharge, chain lightning, lightning of the array and charge): a) the attacks no longer skip targets (removal of chance to try to hit) b) the maximum number of targets that can be hit by each ranged attack has been increased - when killing bounty hunters with the hunt for bounty up, only half the bounty is received. This has been done to help promote the use of the hunt for bounty, as using it places the bounty hunter under greater danger and greater potential loss if the reward is equal on both sides. This change was made to favor the bounty hunter. - new color setting: who border - updated who output so more class name can be seen and the same length of race name can be seen. I know some of you don't like borders, but there was no other way to keep the output length the same for races and increase the output length for classes without using a single character border. In the future I'll add another color to turn the border off. - broken vorpal dimension has been toned, slightly - the bad news: ice discharge, holy hammer, charge, chain lightning are now basic ranged attack preventions - the good news: all of the above ranged attacks have 0 trailing lag now - lightning of the array changes from array prevention to basic ranged attack prevention - lightning of the array spell cost has dropped significantly - time bending now works not only on lag, but also on reducing lock time - onillin bend time more effectively now - bug fix in waters of enfeeblement (thanks Tonka) - new sea hag spell: waters of enfeeblement - attackers with the affect of the hunt for bounty can now only take loot from players of equal or greater remort status than themselves. This should help resolve the leaning incentive of the hunters going after weaker targets (thanks Selberhad). - fixed all radius skills and spells so they always remove players/mobs in the room of the user last. These skills/spells include: quickblade, collapsed ellipse, north wind, broken vorpal dimension, blackfrost cloudburst
News 5/22/2003: - new viking of the fury spell: monstrous fury
News 5/21/2003: - the hunt for bounty help file has been updated - when the hunt for bounty is up, if the bounty hunter is killed, a bounty is rewarded to the player that kills the bounty hunter - the duration of the hunt for bounty has been increased and prevention time decreased, slightly - new bounty hunter skill: the hunt for bounty - affects code now working in seconds again. This code has been highly optimized (so much that there's an improvement in system performance rather than a degradation) and the timing issues that the second based affects code had are now fixed. Yes, I have huge plans for this. =)
News 5/20/2003: - affects now work in seconds rather than minutes - battle affects no longer exist. Rather, they are second based affects which time out like normal affects (and can therefore be used across multiple battles) - singularity of fate's prevention has been altered - shifted cognition's prevention has been altered
News 5/18/2003: - Nodeka now has 325 skills and spells - new arch-fallad skill: spiritual cleansing - new cleric of the order of light spell: light order, continuous healing - nim bug that was not auto-saving the user has been fixed
News 5/16/2003: - fixed two bugs with eighth rule of the halo (thanks Diamaunt) - new sentinel of the halo skill: eighth rule of the halo - new ijiwaru joufu skill: watermark of binshou
News 5/15/2003: - fix in flee/vanish code (thanks Gygar/Mazus) - new defensive-nojohr skill: parry of symmetry
News 5/13/2003: - when quitting, keys are automatically dropped from the player. This code was added to prevent the auto-boot system from causing players to lose keys from uncontrollable disconnects from Nodeka. - new defensive-nojohr skill: unilateral front-sided parry
News 5/10/2003: - the raider class is now: nojohr - new nojohr of voq skill: the nojohr one shield
News 5/9/2003: - when using a shield all attacks are blocked, for all classes, this change is important for the direction that I plan to head with monks (and ... the whole shield thing allowing attacks was lame anyway) - monks have been boosted in class +hit and +dam to compensate for this - you will now see all mobs/players left and right weapons, even if they possess no "physical" weapon. Instead, you will see their default handed attack (this will begin to play a characteristically important role) - darkhand monk alignment restriction change - new darkhand monk spell: strike of the black arts
News 5/8/2003: - ataelos of the blade now: archimage of war - new archimage of war spell: quiet trident - new archimage of war spell: spatha of Vylryvn - most recent crashes have been fixed! These crash bugs were all being caused by the same problem, one which is too complex to explain (it would take me pages and pages to give you the background information to understand why it was happening). Nonetheless, it's been fixed! That resolves all outstanding crash bugs - Nodeka should be running smoooooooother than ever!
News 5/7/2003: - ataelos of drift now: ataelos - ataelos class has changed alignment restrictions - new ataelos spell: koloq - new ataelos spell: qolok
News 5/6/2003: - witch of wonderment is now: arcane witch - the call to nahfiotos has been improved, greatly (see help file) - new frostbladed sorcerer spell: blue invocation - new arcane witch spell: wilting of the occult
News 5/5/2003: - hand of the thieves guild has been improved - all heiton major remort heitons lose rite of virility, save ritual heitons - new grey-forest heiton spell: summoning of the grey - remort follower bug fixed for real this time (I hope) - new storm-valkyrie spell: Okaelis cloak - mystical monk changed to: monk of the mystic arts - new monk of the mystic arts spell: qekon-oku - remortal npcs are no longer tamable, persuadable, etc.
News 5/4/2003: - properly fixed output error bug (thanks for all the output error bug reports!) - new black hellion spell: the call to nahfiotos - second crash bug fixed, although this bug was output related (nothing to do with any code changes over the last several months) - crash bug in battle code fixed. Oddly enough, the retreat code that was causing it was not the problem, the problem was the battle code not handling a case it should have been. So in a bizarre way, the retreat code change bringing this crash bug to light was a good thing. Since the battle code would have inevitably crashed Nodeka, and most likely in much more curious cases than the obvious one it was found in with the changes to flee/retreat/ vanish. Special thanks to Gygar who guessed on the cause of the bug and reported that to Whim and Nijlo, perfectly.
News 5/3/2003: - retreat is now a stepping skill - vanish is now a stepping skill and only valid exits are attempted, similar to the flee change on 5/2/2003. - retreat, vanish and flee now have no trailing lag beyond the lag incurred by the retreating move. While these three forms of exiting battle may require more time to perform, initially, the benefit of these exiting moves is now that once they are performed, the user can continue to try to escape from the opponent without lag. - the changes to flee, retreat and vanish have been made to increase strategy and create a fair balance of gameplay on both sides of the fight.
News 5/2/2003: - fixed help file scrolling (when hitting characters other than R or Q, the help file will continue to scroll, rather than refresh) - flee is now a stepping command (there is one round of pause between beginning a flee and the finalizing a flee). - flee is now much more successful (only valid exits are attempted and fleeing favors the fleer) - new fallen deacon spell: black magic of prolonging - new mist warrior spell: clouded spirit-shift - new aegol-defender spell: the hermetic shield
News 5/1/2003: - wounded abatement has been removed - wounded abatement, divine has been removed - wounded abatement, immaculate has been renamed to: wounded abatement - fallads and dajaes had a deceptively long skill and spell list due to having four healing spells, two of which were never used. Removing those two (wounded abatement and wounded abatement, divine) now shows a more accurate size of the usable skills and spells of fallads and dajaes. - new healing goddess spell: augmented divine healing - new daja of the order of light spell: light order, restoration - new goddess of battle spell: warring seraph
News 4/30/2003: - correction to practice name overflow - new nameless one skill: blackening of the thieves guild - new highway bandit skill: hand of the thieves guild
News 4/29/2003: - more website updates - wind wall is now a basic counterattack prevention (with lower uptime) - help file system is now fixed regarding multiple carriage returns in help files. In addition, the scrolling text system has incorporated this fix as well (i.e. "who" command pauses) - new help files (one big one - "help world") - coma characters in safe rooms are now auto-booted (if they can be)
News 4/24/2003: - more updates to the website (check out the "classes" page) - default prompt for new players is now an actual prompt - fixed settable prompt help file
News 4/24/2003: - help bug with 'q' and 'r' caused by compiler bug, workaround fix is in - "classes" is now "display classes" - "races" is now "display races" - help file system, rewritten - new command "display help" - new general help layout - new rules on adaptation (see 'help adaptation') - many website modifications
News 4/20/2003: - the "classes" command has been improved, see "help classes". This is not to be confused with the "class" command. - class changes - new command: adaptation - changed remort command to work with class changes - right now, each of the five major remorts per class have exactly the same skills and spells and alignment range. That'll be changing. My next task is to start going through each base class and adding five new skills or spells to each of the five major remort classes of that specific base class. For example, when I work on tholecs, I will add a skill or spell to each of the following classes: tholec bounty hunter shadow tholec lightning-strider nomad of the watch The same idea will be applied to all 18 base classes. In addition, I'll be playing around with the alignment restrictions ... heh. It will take some time before each major remort class of the same base class has a different skill and spell set. For the most part, you can expect that major remort classes won't be losing any skills (they'll only be gaining skills). There will be some exceptions, for example the "assassin" class will most likely get an "assassinate" skill and it will lose "nim". These are just my initial rantings and thoughts, as I work more with this new concept, we'll have a more concrete idea of where we're going. Nonetheless, this'll be fun.
News 4/18/2003: - website has been altered to be more maintainable - channel endurance drains have been reduced - channel endurance drains are lifted when you reach level 30
News 4/17/2003: - holy light has been toned - output for deific amelioration has been corrected - new command: social
News 4/16/2003: ************* NODEKA NOW HAS OVER 300 TOTAL SKILLS AND SPELLS ************* - new lo-fent skill: deific amelioration - new lo-fent spell: spiritstone - new ruanbaere skill: rolling elbow - new ruanbaere skill: knee-smash - new 1st remort ruanbaere skill: spartan grapple
News 4/15/2003: - there are no longer any holes in the IP checking system. Multi-playing is no longer possible through matching IP addresses. However, multi-playing through different networks is still possible and will result in character deletion if caught.
News 4/14/2003: - all clan hall portals have been removed, each clan will be reimbursed clan hall portal fees - continental lag has been reduced by nearly 2/3rds - pker flags have been reduced from 2 ticks to 1 tick
News 4/10/2003: - quiver is now 'keiiken'
News 4/8/2003: - fixed bug that prevented players from using skills/spells on mobs when fighting a player and a mob. This bug was reported several times by several different players. The first report in my inbox was from Thystonius on 3/9. Therefore, Thystonius gets the reward. Nonetheless, thank you all for reporting the bug, it's greatly appreciated. =)
News 4/7/2003: - mentalis vefr has more prevention time (use to be 4 phases, now is 11) - new 2nd remort valkyrie skill: collapsed ellipse - new 2nd remort joufu skill: quickblade
News 4/4/2003: - fix to obfuscous spirit-talon - new 2nd remort witch spell: witching frostband
News 4/4/2003: - soul guardian is now an intermediate counterattack - new 2nd remort sa'duroth spell: obfuscous spirit-talon
News 4/2/2003: - new 2nd remort tholec spell: north wind - north wind now behaves in the manner it should, it has not been toned down, but rather the "secret" aspect of the spell is working more correctly now - conjure elemental, conjure golem and conjure diety have been recoded. All of these spells are now follower preventions spells: conjure elemental - basic follower prevention conjure golem - intermediate follower prevention conjure diety - intermediate follower prevention in addition, the power of these followers have been vastly improved - new 2nd remort mjol spell: broken vorpal-dimension - fixed bug with super-followers (necros, fallads, dajaes) stats being higher than they should have been - 1st remort mjol's lose earthened veil (practices will not be reimbursed) - 1st remort mjol's get: speckled field - earthened veil and speckled field are now basic counterattack prevention skills - entrapment's demon has been improved - blackfrost cloudburst prevention time has been reduced
News 4/1/2003: - fixed rescue bug that was being abused to tag players with pk flags - new 2nd remort heiton spell: blackfrost cloudburst
News 3/30/2003: - important: fixed ambush crash bug the fix was fairly challenging, however, thanks to the exception handling model (the thing I was ranting and raving about several weeks ago) the fix to this bug is actually achievable. Without the exception handling model, this fix would have been very very difficult, and it would have taken at least a week or so to do. Really. Gosh exceptions are great! - fixed problem with ambushing mobs where using one full word of the mob's name did not ambush the mob (now it will) - ambush can now kill its target - fixed pk flag bug with throw/telekinetic projection, where you could obtain a pk flag if you threw in a direction through players that were fighting. You no longer get a pk flag when doing this (thanks Salvador).
News 3/28/2003: - fixed bug where real death was still preventing player movement if the player had a pk flag (the pker restriction is now restricted to just pdeath). Terror, please return all Zhakar's eq to him, immediately. If you no longer have the eq, then we can work out how to round it back up. But if you give away the eq after this message has been read the repercussions will be severe. We will refer to log files to verify you haven't tried to avoid returning Zhakar's eq, if need be.
News 3/27/2003: - atemi ai now stuns, rather than cripples. Atemi ai now has no trailing lag and has the same prevention algorithm as alluring grace (the valkyries version of this spell) - dragon stance has been toned - all basic and mid prevention skill/spell costs have been reduced - new 1st remort ruanbaere skill: Ishtl's thrashing - new 2nd remort ruanbaere skill: acute might
News 3/26/2003: - fixed bug with damage sliding scale, damage avoidance behaving incorrectly the problem was related to the opponent's inability to avoid a hit actually causing them to improve in their ability to dodge (signed bug) - more detail added to the damage sliding scale, for more information, see 'help damage sliding scale'
News 3/23/2003: - important: see help 'damage sliding scale' - new footpad, 1st remort valkyrie and 1st remort joufu skill: one of four, pivot - new footpad, valkyrie and joufu skill: glancing pierce - footpads now get extra class +hit bonuses - the damage sliding scale has been tweaked, just a little bit - followers now no longer tag their masters with pk flags if they perform aggressive actions. This fixes the bug where masters are tagged with pk flags after their have already died. You can now re-enable follower ai without any negative pk consequences - ok, from here on out when I use the word "follower" it'll mean I'm talking about an npc that follows a pc's orders (a slave, a charmie, etc.). When I'm referring to a pc following a pc, I'll use the term "groupie". Ok, I'm glad we cleared that up. =)
News 3/22/2003: - Naj'k and Grei no longer exist - the following output has been reformatted, if you find any errors please e-mail Nijlo at: nijlo@nodeka.com hurricane kick, charge, holy hammer, ice discharge, chain lightning, vicious fist, mental tempest, mental tiaran, critical attack, celestial ray, holy light, channeled anger, stun, temple touch, focused sphere, beguile, magic arrow, fireball, static charge, elemental malediction, ice blade, lightning, petrify - all impairment and multi-attack abilities (fireball, hurricane kick, etc) have been internal recoded for coding simplicity. No functionality has been changed - winged arc-bolt prevents for a shorter time and does slightly more damage
News 3/21/2003: - I wanted to take a minute to send out an apology for anyone who was on last night and heard my global rant on Syveril. While I was only responding to his negative commentary towards my work on Nodeka, I was being reactionary, ill-mannered and it was largely inappropriate. As the creator of Nodeka, I carry with me the heavy task of always being in the spotlight. Lord knows I don't do the best job with that task (I'm a game designer, not a diplomat). But this is the role that comes with my position and it's important that I strive to fulfill that role to the best of my ability. One of the ways I can do that is apologizing when I make a mistake, rather than pretending that it didn't happen. So for all of you Nodekians, you have my apologies for my comments last night (including you Syveril). While I can't say it won't happen again, I can say I will try harder to be the leader I should be. Nijlo - sorcerers lose firebolt - firebolt has been changed into: winged arc-bolt (basic mystical pattern ability) - mjols and ateoli retain winged arc-bolt, but the level in which they begin to use it has changed
News 3/20/2003: - cyclone of the guild is now an intermediate storm generation - bolted lightning is now a basic storm generation - spectral windstorm is now an intermediate mystical pattern - unhallowed scathing is now a basic mystical pattern - cyclone of the guild has been improved, slightly - flaming arrow has been changed into "star of the green flame". Star of the green flame is a basic fire generation prevention spell. The three classes which previously had flaming arrow (sorc, ataelos and witch) still have star of the green flame, but it is available at a higher level than flaming arrow was available to them previously. - new ataelos skill: oblique pattern (intermediate mystical pattern) - new witch skill: oblique pattern (intermediate mystical pattern) - new 1st remort monk skill: oblique pattern (intermediate mystical pattern) - new 1st remort poliir skill: oblique pattern (intermediate mystical pattern)
News 3/19/2003: - regarding the new name for preventions, while I kept the word "prevention" I added the word "lock". Lock was suggested and strongly promoted by two individuals: Yaga and Zanubis. Yaga and Zanubis split the 100,000 platinum reward: 50,000 a piece. Zagro, Doos and Blood also submitted lock, but it was sometime after my discussions with Yaga and Zanubis about it. However, Zagro, Blood and Doos still received 20,000 platinum for their push for the word. Thanks again for everyone who offered suggestions on renaming prevention. - new prevention skill: breeze of hand - new prevention spell: bolted lightning - new prevention spell: cyclone of the guild - classes that get breeze of hand: tholec 1st remort, heiton 1st remort - classes that get bolted lightning: tholec 2nd remort, heiton, sorcerer, fallad, daja - classes that get cyclone of the guild: heiton 2nd remort - heitons no longer get infravision (sa'duroths are next) =) - bug in regeneration skill fixed - the follow command output has been corrected - new command: preventions - skill/spell preventions are now placed in the prevention command. For more information see 'help prevention'.
News 3/18/2003: - new sa'duroth skill: unhallowed scathing - new 1st remort sa'duroth skill: spectral windstorm - new 1st remort khehusod skill: unhallowed scathing
News 3/17/2003: - new prevention skill: banded smiting initiative (basic combat initiative prevention skill) - classes that get banded smiting initiative: nojohrs, ruanbaeres, valkyries, khehusods, lo-fents, poliirs - 1st remort valkyries now get ashi barai kick
News 3/16/2003: - new prevention skill: striking fist (the fist version of kick) - classes that get striking fist: nojohrs, ruanbaeres, valkyries, tholecs, khehusods, joufus, poliirs, footpads, monks, ateoli - new monk skill: yikwon hand form - new joufu skill: yikwon hand form - kick is now a prevention skill (with increased endurance cost and no lag) - new joufu skill: ashi barai kick - new monk skill: ashi barai kick - new 1st remort tholec skill: ashi barai kick - new 1st remort nojohr skill: ashi barai kick - new 1st remort footpad skill: ashi barai kick
News 3/15/2003: - redirect has been changed to follow the battle locking rules that flee, vanish, retreat and rescue follow. - follow has been altered - followers can now be grouped by the player leading a group, so long as the master of the follower is following the leader of the group. For example: Nijlo has Kiskr as his follower. Nijlo begins following Zed. Zed can now group Kiskr. If you notice any glaring mistakes in the new follow code (as more than just what I've mentioned here has changed), please let me know via e-mail: nijlo@nodeka.com - new 2nd remort ataelos skill: spanning fluctuation
News 3/11/2003: - new 2nd remort heiton skill: the bending codex - citadel should now restore the citadel winner, even if the citadel winner is killed in the same round as the loser (i.e. by a the loser's follower) - decreased prevention time of step of phasing - endurance cost of movement has been changed. You can now move until you are at negative endurance, regardless of what the negative endurance amount you end up at (-1, -10, etc).
News 3/9/2003: - new 2nd remort poliir skill: uprooting maneuver - added poliir skill: redirect - new 2nd remort sorcerer spell: step of phasing - correction in step of phasing's behavior - movement code has been redesigned - thanks to the testers: Gygar, Jaiven, Epix, Manifesto, Selberhad and Yaga - fixes to flee: - you will no longer see repetitive output when bashed, stunned, etc. - you will no longer suffer over two seconds of lag for failed flee attempts (in some cases, people were suffering up to twelve seconds of lag for failed flee attempts - ouch! I only stumbled across this just recently, and since I didn't see any bug reports regarding it, it's been around for awhile outside of my knowledge. Thankfully, it's fixed now) - successful flees now have one second of lag - fixes to vanish: - you will no longer be able to vanish through obstacles - successful vanishes now have one second of lag - you will no longer suffer over two seconds of lag for failed vanish attempts (the cause and fix of this is the same as for flee) - fixes to charge: - you will no longer be able to charge through obstacles - charge now lags constant time, charging across the continent with little lag is now possible again (as it was never intended to be broken) - output is given only when charge is complete - when charge fails on exits, useful information is given in each case - charge is a thing of beauty (I'm somewhat proud of how elegant this skill is now) - charge no longer drags group members or players/slaves following the charger - fixes to ambush: - ambush has been prevented from ever laying in the killing blow. This is very important to the stability of Nodeka. If ambush is allowed to kill mobs, mobs may be deleted from memory before Nodeka has a chance to finish the command the mob was performing before being ambushed. This can cause very evil things to happen and thus killing mobs with ambush has been prevented. - output for ambush now happens in the middle of moving output. There's really no way around this at present. - ambush now works on targets that have unseen movement - what's been modified: - mob movement - player movement - groupie following movement - immortal commands: at, goto - all "visit" type spells - flee, retreat, vanish - charge - help file written for radiant awakening and awakening of the guard
News 3/3/2003: - new 2nd remort mjol spell: page of competence turning
News 3/2/2003: - new 2nd remort valkyrie skill: defying prayer
News 3/1/2003: - the citadel code is now hack-free. This new code fixes; numerous potential RK bugs, a number of potential crash bugs, and opens Nodeka up to more elaborate skills and spells that won't be limited by the old incorrect citadel code. - many things about the citadel have changed, here are some of the major ones: - only the challenger of challenges is prevented from performing subsequent challenges - player/mob flags are no longer stripped when joining the citadel (yes, this means friends can aid someone to help turn the tables in a competition) - challengers of battles can no longer quit to avoid citadel punishment when not joining - the following skills and spells no longer have dangerous or unwanted side-effects when used in the citadel: fury, charge, ice discharge, chain lightning (witch/ataelos), rite of sundering and any other multi-target skill/spell - clan citadel output has been improved. I plan on improving it further, but at this point, how I should proceed is still unclear. So rather than moving forward in haste, I will pause and re-evaluate the problem and potential solutions before implementing anything further - many more citadel features will be expanded upon in the future
News 2/27/2003: - atemi ai trailing lag reduced, but not removed - sensual sedation is now beguile - new 2nd remort valkyrie skill: alluring grace
News 2/25/2003: - changed atemi ai again so it now has trailing lag. Without the trailing lag monks could keep their targets crippled for an extremely long period of time (this does prevent the strategy I hope for in preventions). Still though, the point of atemi ai is to give monks an edge and allow them to use combinational affects of stances. My current change allows that. I've now added trailing lag to atemi and decreased the prevention time again. Now monks will be able to use atemi ai to cripple a target without any front-ended lag, but won't be able to then turn to temple touch to keep a target crippled for over 9 rounds of combat. If this approach correctly solves the problem in the manner I see fit, I may then reduce the prevention time on atemi ai again. Until I know this solution is right, I'll leave the prevention time a bit higher than I would have it if this was a known working solution. - fixed bug with casting/invoking invalid spells - increased the prevention time for atemi ai and made the duration based on the user's dexterity
News 2/24/2003: - prayer of the gods disfavor has been made more deadly: - it is automatically 100% anti-recall - the valkyrie's agility now affects the prevention time. Having beyond perfect agility can still affect it in positive ways - the use of the skill is hidden to all but the user, therefore a valkyrie may be making the gods disfavor you and you would have no idea it was happening until you tried to recall (or checked or affect flags)
News 2/23/2003: - introduced base exception handling model - general commands are now throwing exceptions consistently when error states arise. This is beneficial because as I start to migrate into more bizarre skills like charge, I can handle the error states/cases as I see fit, rather than just one general way - spitting out the failed info to the user, over and over. The implications and magnitude of this change are simply unexplainable. Most likely, this change will be the primary force shaping the future of Nodeka. Yes, it's that big. - fleeing, retreat, vanish, etc. now will try to break impairment like all other abilities. It was a bug in the code that was discovered and fixed while I was implementing the exception handling model. - followers and mobs understand prevention skills now. They should not repeatedly try skills or spells which they have the prevention up on. So cool. - a special thanks to the testing team: Lanfear, Aalynor, Mazus, Swarm, Wyshmere and Dazz (and Whim).
News 2/20/2003: - changes to all prevention skills/spells to work more correctly. Using offensive prevention skills/spells when you already have the prevention affect up of the skill/spell, should no longer give you a pk flag. If you notice any prevention skills allowing you to use the prevention skill continually, ignoring the fact that you have the prevention affect up, please let Nijlo know via e-mail (nijlo@nodeka.com). You will be heavily rewarded. - slight changes to battle code (this was my original change to the pfight code, but I backed it out because I thought it was too preventative. It's possible that it still may be too restrictive - I guess we'll see).
News 2/19/2003: - new 2nd remort ataelos skill: resolute mind of the array - significant decrease in methodic shift lag time
News 2/18/2003: - ranged abilities recoded: chain lighting, lightning of the array, holy hammer, ice discharge, throw, telekinetic projection, celestial ray, charge The recoding was done due to certain "hacks" being done in the code to make things work. All ranged attacks now use normal and correct system flow and because of it behave more correctly and are much less likely to break due to further enhancements in other areas of the source (for example, charge was never intended to break through obstacles - if that behavior is desired I will code it, I don't however, want it to work naturally due to a side- effect of poor design). - charge has been drastically changed regarding its output. If you want to minimize the output you see for charge, tog map and turn brief on. Thanks to the testers who did an excellent job running through all ranged attacks and the numerous possibilities they allow.
News 2/17/2003: - fix to battle lock abuse where players were attacking another player and then starting battle with a mob to lock the player in battle that they just started battle with. The fix is: players that do not have pk flags are allowed to flee pfights where the player they are fighting is in a real kill battle. Players with pk flags, are not. Therefore, if you have a pk flag and attempt the above situation, the player you fighting can potentially RK you. An interesting twist ... This also makes player killers potential RK targets in other ways. - new 2nd remort ataelos spell: lightning of the array
News 2/16/2003: - Note to players with followers, please pass this information on to other players who may not be aware of this (or who don't read the motd): Followers don't know anything about preventions yet. Because of this, followers can't determine which skills/spells can't be used based on which prevention type they are currently affected by. This even includes a single skill/spell that is being used over and over again. The more intelligent the follower is the more he or she will try to use powerful skills/spells. This may result in smart followers trying the same high powered prevention skill/spell over and over again. This is not a bug. It will take Nijlo months to change Nodeka so mobs are smart enough to not use skills and spells of the same prevention group over and over. Please be patient as there is only one Nijlo trying to do everything. For the time being, if you want your follower to perform specific actions in battle, use the "order" command (and turn follower AI off). Thanks for your patience, The Nodeka Staff - fixed crash bug - new 2nd remort sa'duroth spell: sigil of the undead army - follower skills/spells changed to use more robust code: persuade, the prayer of guardianship, prayer of the greater aegis, passage of dark summoning, dignitary manifestation, demonic affirmation, willed protector, conjure elemental, conjure deity, conjure golem, tame, hire, seduce, entrance The bug this new code resolves is when playerB is following playerA and playerB creates a follower, which never becomes playerB's follower due to playerA speedwalking (and the follower never "following" playerB). This new code should prevent the above bug from ever happening - please inform Nijlo if you see it continuing to happen (or see any other bizarre behavior in your follower skills/spells due to the above change) via e-mail only. - corrected mana/spirit drain on prayer of guardianship, prayer of greater aegis and passage of dark summoning - to reduce spam, orders given to followers are no longer visible to other players in the same room
News 2/14/2003: - healing in pfights is no longer cut in half. Abilities affected: lay hands, meditative healing, holy analgesic, wounded abatement, wounded abatement, divine, wounded abatement, immaculate, soothing touch
News 2/13/2003: - recall now lags one second, per attempt (successful or not) - new 2nd remort valkyrie skill: prayer of the gods disfavor - new 1st remort sa'duroth spell: followers gaze of return
News 2/12/2003: - new player fight battle rules - new 2nd remort footpad skill: bandit tactic of enmeshing - fixed error with palm - shadow gaze is now a gaze prevention spell of sa'duroths
News 2/10/2003: - changed safe room code so mobs in safe rooms can use skills and spells against their victims so long as their victims are fighting them - increased plane of safe housing prevention duration - new 2nd remort sa'duroth spell: sigil of banishment
News 2/9/2003: - new 2nd remort ruanbaere spell: forge of magical dampening - another vital bug fix (this time for building) - bug fix on plane of safe housing thanks to Callers - new 2nd remort sorcerer spell: plane of safe housing - follower bug fixed regarding lingering following affects until the leader has quit Nodeka
News 2/6/2003: - crash bug that's been hiding from me for over a month now has finally revealed itself to me (thanks Crayon) and has been fixed! This was the only known unfixed crash bug (and I lost sleep over it several times). - Round two of optimizing affects - we should be running extremely fast now as far as affects are concerned (thanks testers) - improved power of three points of complexity
News 2/4/2003: - redesigned/recoded the pc/npc affects, thorough testing thanks to Jagas, Rar, Yaga, Tezrik and Ziii
News 2/1/2003: - bug with trewan and mobs/followers has been fixed - new 2nd remort heiton spell: enclosure of trewan - bug with needing to order words alphabetically to manipulate them has been fixed. For example this: drop insight yellow robe Use to not work because the words "insight", "yellow" and "robe" weren't ordered alphabetically. Now the above command will work (as it should)
News 1/31/2003: - fixed bug in entrapment - improvement to trewan of the rising forest
News 1/30/2003: - new 2nd remort heiton spell: trewan of the rising forest
News 1/27/2003: - new 2nd remort heiton skill: hastened codex - rite of virility and rite of sundering have been changed
News 1/26/2003: - new remort tholec skill: surrounding sense - onillin and jerof races have been changed - new 2nd remort joufu spell: ryou spirit of hananoki
News 1/25/2003: - new 2nd tholec remort spell: sweeping insight
News 1/24/2003: - new tholec remort spell: hawks acumen - scouting sense has been lowered in endurance cost - multi-directional hunt has been fixed for joufus and tholecs. The direction you now see first, is the direction you should move towards. For example: east-south, means move east first, even though the target is east and south, if you move south first, you may not be able to walk there from where you are. - scouting sense now automatically is at 100% skill, so it can be useful for even those players without super high con and int. However, int and con now affect the duration, and therefore con and int at a very low amount will give scouting sense an extremely low duration.
News 1/23/2003: ************* NODEKA NOW HAS OVER 250 TOTAL SKILLS AND SPELLS ************* - new 2nd remort tholec skill: scouting sense - new remort ruanbaere skill: fervent war cry - all prevention skills/spells no longer drain mana/spirit/endurance if you are prevented from using them (if any still drain when its prevention is up, please notify Nijlo via e-mail)
News 1/22/2003: - new remort fallad spell: guided canon of mending
News 1/21/2003: - fix to riposte victim and other output - increased cost for low level damaging spells (fireball, lightning, etc) - increased power of rain of healing sanctity - new remort daja spell: rain of healing sanctity
News 1/20/2003: - new 2nd remort daja spell: palladium of sanctity
News 1/19/2003: - new 2nd remort fallad skill: canon of the second hammer - new 2nd remort fallad spell: creed of the first hammer - remort fallads now have holy hammer
News 1/18/2003: - new 2nd remort khehusod skill: storm complexity - all damaging skills/spells can now be used to start battle and will be followed with a full round of attacks. Some skills/spells that are not damaging follow with a round of attacks (i.e. petrify) but some do not (i.e. circle of bane). These were done intentionally based on the skill or spell's power. - new 2nd remort fallad spell: creed of the gods volition
News 1/14/2003: - throw crash bug has been fixed, our apologies for the short downtime. - massive internal code modifications (slight detour from skills/spells, sorry!) - new 2nd remort khehusod spell: three points of complexity
News 1/14/2003: - ranged attacks can no longer be riposted - new remort lo-fent skill: barrier behest - new 2nd remort lo-fent skill: behest of the angel - resistances and vulnerabilities are now calculated by highest amount possible. What this means is, the resistance or vulnerability that yields the highest amount is the rest/vuln that is used. For example, since Thoe's now have physical invulnerability, if invulnerability hits, its resistance will supercede physical resistance. Therefore, if multiple vulns/resists hit in a single attack, only one is still used, but the one that yields the highest absolute number is the one that's used. Keep in mind, this also means the most damaging vulnerability is always the one that's used if it is successfully rolled. - fix to 100% item loading in lowbie areas (thanks for all the bug reports) - thoes now have physical invulnerability (reduce any attack to one point of damage) as a low percent racial - other race changes (+spe to thoes, drow lineage loses all speed, but gains other stats - these gains/losses were not meant to be equivalent)
News 1/13/2003: - shortened the prevention time on healing radiance - greatly shortened the prevention time on radiance of atonement - new 2nd remort lo-fent skill: virile behest of restoration
News 1/12/2003: - instrumentation of medicine usage and prevention time algorithm has been changed so it's more usable. - new remort nojohr skill: instrumentation of medicine - shields are counterattacks - riposte is a counterattack - when you see shields briefed and output as "counterattacks" it is not a bug (thanks for all the bug report e-mails, I should have mentioned this change before putting in the new system and expecting all of you to understand and not think it was a bug) - new 2nd remort nojohr skill: instrumentation of riposte
News 1/11/2003: - new 2nd remort nojohr skill: taktikos of ranged warfare
News 1/10/2003: - fixes to several output messages for skills (thanks Ziii) - minor toning to dreynen curse
News 1/10/2003: - new remort nojohr skill: clashing taktikos - new 2nd remort witch spell: dreynen curse - passage of the bleeding moment has been made slightly more powerful - reduced prevention time for constricting hex - the character Terror has been unzapped. His character has undergone a substantial downgrade and has been zapped for several months. We feel Terror has been made to serve a valid punishment term and is now being *mostly* reinstated. This message is primarily being made to inform the players (you) that you may see Terror around again. This has been done by the Nodeka staff and you do not need to report this to Nijlo. If Terror shows any form of misconduct to the Nodeka staff again, he will be punished again, accordingly. - new remort witch skill: constricting hex
News 1/9/2003: - new 2nd remort witch spell: curse of spellbound death - followers can no longer use the command [gain]. It was causing some followers [pools] (hp, mana, spi, end) to become negative. - corpses of a player and his or her followers no longer show up in the same room as [ 2 ] corpse of follower.
News 1/8/2003: - new 2nd remort monk spell: atemi ai - new 2nd remort joufu skill: flowering spirit
News 1/6/2003: - hex of menthijan now caps at 90% - petrify offers greater power for those with *extremely* high wisdom
News 1/4/2003: - the bug with not being able to get items from your own corpse has been resolved. The problem was a hack was being used in the code. The code is no longer using the hack. Please note that followers' corpses no longer have the follower's name in the corpse name. Followers' corpses only consist of the master's name and the word 'corpse'. This was done to prevent further hacks in the Nodeka source. In order to get items from a followers corpse, simply use your name (i.e. get all, nijlo). - massive optimizations made in the Nodeka source. The following information relates to Nodeka before and after the optimizations: Before After --------------- --------------- Nodeka startup time: 53 seconds 35 seconds Ruushi repop time: 1070 ms 130 ms Citadel repop time: 310 ms 50 ms You may also see speed improvements in actions relating to items. - lag problems with the server have been resolved. We apologize for this interruption. The lag was not caused by Nodeka itself, but by another 3rd party piece of software running on the server. That piece of software has been removed.
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News 12/29/2002: - major tree change - special thanks to the testers: Akylius, Alpha, Amaetheon, Murdoc, Pesmerga, Sabre, Salvador and Ulrik - commas are now in gold strings - aulora's gift changed to aulora's gambit - new nojohr remort skill: gambit of the warring shield
News 12/27/2002: - fixed bug with multiple worded world searches. The initial fix allows players to find players and mobs with the same name (i.e. doing cast 'visit' 100.mage will now go to the 100th mage, not the pc Mage (PC)). But now it gets more complex. In order to prevent invis affects from screwing with players trying to find players with mob names, I've changed the way the world searches work. Before explaining the fix I made, consider this scenario: - a pc that has 90% invis named Mage - an aggressive mob with 0% invis named Mage Obviously it'll be a real pain to prevent all mob names from being used by players. In addition, mobs may be created after a player already exists with the same name. The Nodeka staff can't possibly monitor those cases easily. So the above scenario could happen very easily with a number of different names. Now consider someone doing a cast 'visit' 1.mage, not seeing the player named Mage because of Mage's invis affect, visiting the aggressive mob named Mage and then rdying because of it. Seems highly unfair. And that kind of "protection" isn't going to work on Nodeka. So I came up with this solution. Doing a player find, always finds the player in the count, but will fail if the player attempting to locate the other player can't see him or her. For example: 1. Ziii casts 'visit' 1.Mage. 2. The player Mage is logged on, but is highly invis to Ziii. 3. The search finds the player Mage as 1.Mage. a) Ziii succeeds his check on seeing Mage and Ziii succeeds with his visit b) Ziii fails his invis check, and the search ends. The important part above is that the search ends if Ziii fails to see Mage. The search doesn't continue on to mobs at this point. That's because Nodeka knows Ziii meant Mage the player by his "1.Mage" search term. This then means Ziii will either visit Mage the player, or fail. He will *not* visit Mage the aggressive mob (unless, of course, Mage the player logs out). Hope that all makes sense. I know my explanation was rather weak and too short-winded, but I have tons of work to do and I can't spend all my time explaining how things work. Sorry. =) - profiling code has been put in place to monitor Nodeka real time activity. Once this profiling information is gathered, we'll have a better idea where Nodeka lag is coming from. For example, doing test runs we know that ticks only delay Nodeka 300 milliseconds, which is less than 1/3 of a second. However, results may differ under live running conditions. As of today, we know the citadel lags Nodeka for 250 milliseconds every time it repops and Ruushi lags Nodeka for an entire second every time it repops. Once we have gathered the results of all major lags areas, code optimizations can be made to address each problem, individually. - follower initialization and deinitialization has been modified for optimization and simplicity. - certain world wide commands can now handle multiple keywords. For example: cast 'astral travel' 100.devil blue will now work. This new functionality required an incredible amount of optimization to not bring Nodeka to its knees when doing multiple word, big number searches. Boy was that fun! We're currently limiting the multiple words to two words, so you can't cause Nodeka to come to a full stop when you do your world mob find action. When the Nodeka server is more capable, we'll allow more worded searches (it's as simple as incrementing an integer). For now, be happy with two. As far as I know, Nodeka is the only mud that allows multiple worded world-wide mob searches. And if you knew the optimizations required to make this thing work, you'd understand why most muds don't / can't allow it. Of course, some yahoo will now e-mail me with a mud that does multiple worded world wide searches, just to prove me wrong. What he or she will leave out is the mud only has 100 total mobs and never has more than 10 players online. Try allowing that functionality with over 50,000 mobs and see if the results are the same. =) That's one helluva fast frickin algorithm to make that work ... I just want you players to appreciate the coolness of the coding side of things (it's too much fun for you not to experience it!). - fixes to help files - invis followers can always be seen by their masters now
News 12/14/2002: - new 2nd remort fallad skill: prayer of greater aegis - new 2nd remort daja skill: the prayer of guardianship - the Nodeka server has been upgraded (now has 1.5 gigs of RAM). This is first of at least two upgrades. The next will be the cpu or the entire machine. - due to the Nodeka machine upgrade, you should notice most everything working faster. Even things that don't immediately make sense, like receiving your score output faster. This would seem like it's entirely related to bandwidth, but it's not. The output for score is first stored in a memory buffer on Nodeka before it is transmitted. It's because all mobs/rooms/pcs can be stored in RAM now simultaneously that accessing and storing information in Nodeka is much faster. The reason why the previous example of score output scrolling faster happens is because Nodeka no longer uses virtual memory (i.e. hard drive memory) to store data pertinent to Nodeka. RAM is faster than disk access and because of it, score output is faster. This logic can be applied to numerous areas where improvements in speed don't seem to be caused by increased RAM.
News 12/13/2002: - Nodeka will be going down for maintenance for approximately one hour today around 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Mountain time, GMT -07:00:00)
News 12/11/2002: - more questing AI functionality added
News 12/10/2002: - more AI added for questing
News 12/9/2002: - help buy the most powerful machine in existence for Nodeka! Nijlo's going to be upgrading the Nodeka server within the next month to help assist in the amount of quests Nodeka can handle. Show your support in this process and donate today!
News 12/8/2002: - new mob AI stuff - mobs can now give quests (right now there's only one quest mob, but the quest system will allow any mob to give any number of quests). Please note that we are logging all quest experience that is handed out. If you come across a bug with the quest mob (i.e. a mob that will allow you to quest for infinite amount of experience) please report the bug immediately. As we are logging all successful quest completions, quest abuse will be highly visible. Please report any quest bugs you find so we do not have to enforce Nodeka's bug abuse rule. - the bug that prevented players from logging out of Nodeka due to unconscious mobs stalking forever has been fixed
News 11/24/2002: - the newbie channel can again be used by all new players. However, it still requires endurance to use. I made this decision based on the wise counsel of Rar. - minor immortal code changes for purging the donation room - unconscious <2% targets no longer do shield damage (yes, this may not be a realistic implementation, but this is Nodeka not Street Fighter - double KO's are bad.) - pc/npc death is done slightly different now to counter for the growing power of sustained life - ateoli lose trip and get bash (there will be no practice reimbs)
News 11/15/2002: - startup crash bug has been fixed (our apologies for the couple hours of downtime)
News 11/12/2002: - new Nodeka theme: Crossroad to a thousand journeys. - the newbie hint system has been revamped, turn hints on to take a peek (i.e. toggle hints)
News 11/9/2002: - heightened instinct now requires 8 phases to use again Nodeka theme contest winners below. All players, with the exception of the winner will receive 20,000 platinum. Winning Nodeka theme (submitted by Rar): Crossroad to a thousand journeys. Other finalist themes: Bringing imagination to life. (Kinshin) Deceit? Intrigue? Betrayal? Yeah, we got that. (Khaled) The dream that never wakes. (Leviticus) Of arms and incantations. (Liege) Struggle. Build. Thrive. Dominate. (Maggoty) Adversity builds strength. (Maggoty) Forge your own destiny, leave the dying to someone else. (Jub'ae) Bold adventure. Limitless potential. Unsurpassed excellence. (Jagas) Be spellbound. (Nomade) Of mjols, witches, ateoli and warriors. (Nomade) The edge of innovation, the heart of imagination. (Tezrik) Limitless horizons, endless adventure. (Tezrik) Wield friendships. Wear hope. Bear skill. (Feline) Building character, stone by stone. (Calypso) Outwit. Outhunt. Outsurvive. (Booya) In perfect night... in flawed daylight... A noble villian... a murderous hero... The choice is yours, which will you be?? (Ebonfyre) Humorous themes: Rar, Rar and Rar. (Aalynor) I'm gay, are you? (Flashstar) The one place to find hot women. (Flashstar) Don't trust Tsilloa. (Hate) Unlike real life, your equiptment matters more than your attitude. (Jaiven) Unlike real life, being naked sucks. (Jaiven) Real life sucks, this isn't much better. (Jaiven) Everquest is better. (Jaiven) Fireball, it's what to cast. (Klatu) Death, destruction, and a little bit of dismemberment. (Salvador) Where Darwinism is a lifestyle, not a theory. (Sentry) Dueling Spoons at ten paces. (Sentry) Where the men are men and the women are too. (Wyshmere) The good, the bad and that fucking Terror guy. (Wyshmere) Where you throw spoons at dragons and attempt to beat up statues. (Xeddiex) Adventure, excitement ... a Jedi craves not these things. Good thing you're not a Jedi. (Ziii)
News 11/2/2002: - infinite loop in passage of the bleeding moment has been fixed - long lag spells after a citadel finishes has been partially resolved. You'll still experience some lag, but much less than before - followers not killed in a citadel are now transported to their master's home (not killed) - recall bug where followers would recall to their area, not their master's homes has been fixed
News 10/31/2002: - races, classes and character generation output has been corrected - fixed throw crash bug - fixed bug that allowed antei of formation to be used without prevention (thanks Jagas)
News 10/30/2002: - new joufu skill: whispering wind antei - new major remort joufu skill: antei of formation
News 10/29/2002: - fixed problems with mental blast and psychic shock - minor output corrections - prompt all and allcolor now contains the lag identifier - new prompt setting (lag) in 'help settable prompt'
News 10/28/2002: - fixed output bug with impairment attacks - three new races (nine including remorts)
News 10/27/2002: - Attacks now do a variety of damage - see help resistances - A bazillion other changes that we don't feel like detailing through
News 10/20/2002: - Minor bug in character generation fixed (thanks Doos). - Theme contest winners will be announced no earlier than next Sunday (October 27th).
News 10/19/2002: - Remort crash bug has been fixed. It was caused by Nijlo changing the name of the "albino drow" to "drow of the blue blood". The source code was weak and was unable to handle the extended length name. Now the source code is strong!
News 10/18/2002: - All races are now on a single experience table. Experience tables only exist per remort tier now (i.e. one table for all non-remort races, one table for all minor remort races, one table for all major remort races). Race improvements will be happening throughout the course of the following week. If race changes are made to your race, but do not seem to be affecting you at the moment, log out and log back in.
News 10/15/2002: - Two bugs fixed, one regarding leading mobs out of areas and one regarding seeing hidden exits when exits were being locked/unlocked.
News 10/13/2002: - Nodeka is currently running a "best theme" contest. Right now, Nodeka's theme is "Stronger. Faster. Better." Well, we don't like that theme any more! We're looking for something more fantasy based, something more contextually based. So now's your chance to help come up with a new Nodeka theme! Not only will the winning theme be used for Nodeka, if your theme is ranked in the top five best themes, you'll receive the following reward: 1st place - 50,000 platinum 2nd place - 30,000 platinum 3rd place - 20,000 platinum 4th place - 10,000 platinum 5th place - 5,000 platinum Please send all theme suggestions to Nijlo at nijlo@nodeka.com. Be sure to send theme suggestions no later than midnight Friday, 10/18/2002 (mountain standard time).
News 9/25/2002: - thunderous strike has been toned, slightly
News 9/22/2002: - tracking system change, you can no longer "quit out" while a mob is stalking you - this means for certain areas, just by entering them you may be forced to wait several minutes before being able to quit (waiting for the mob's stalking period to end). However, the purpose of this change is to prevent aggro-luring abuse. - new method-ataelos spell, staff of the gate
News 9/19/2002: - fixed crash bug with the shielding prayer
News 9/11/2002: - non-remorts can no longer use their remort status to hide in non-remort areas when flagged as a player killer - fix to item manipulation commands and the use of 'all' and additional characters causing dangerous side-effects
News 9/3/2002: - critical attack now does 1/2 its previous damage but has no front-ended lag - cloak is currently unused (but don't worry, I'll find a use for it) - stratagem of the cloak success is based entirely off of stratagem's skill percent now
News 9/2/2002: - new diva skill, the shielding prayer
News 8/20/2002: - change in shifted cognition, prevention lasts a good deal longer than the affects now - change to lightning, until I figure out what to do with it, the lag is increased to two rounds
News 8/19/2002: - heroines charge and savage assault now work more off of skill % than before (thanks Brooke) - invisibility and hidden now cap before 100% (prowl caps at a higher % than invisibility due to footpads greater need for it) - nojohrs no longer have dodge - valkyries and poliirs no longer have enhanced damage - send all complaints to Whim, send all praises to Nijlo ... heheh
News 8/18/2002: - resonances can be used in battle now - hakanai shouten has been renamed to 'antei of hakanai shouten' - akisunerais now get antei of hakanai shouten as well as kage-kyoukans - new kage-kyoukan spell, antei of the clouded mind - help files on both new spells are in (apologies about the month delay in getting a help file for hakanai shouten)
News 8/17/2002: - new witch skill, spiritual resonance drain - new remort sorcerer spell, shifted cognition - new sorcerer and witch skill, magical resonance drain - all created followers (dignitary manifestion, willed protector, etc.) now have pools (hp, end, spi, mana) that closer match their master's.
News 8/16/2002: - new method-ataelos spell, temporal gate of bending (this spell may in fact be too powerful. We will be monitoring its use and may have to tone it down if it is found to be too powerful - please keep this in mind)
News 8/15/2002: - new remort ruanbaere skill, trial of aggression - new man-of-war skill, trial of amplified vigor
News 8/14/2002: - new ritual heiton spell, rite of virility - new remort heiton spell, rite of sundering - new remort lo-fent skill, radiance of atonement - new white dragoon skill, healing radiance
News 8/12/2002: - new dark creator spell, passage of dark summoning - fixed off by one error that would occur in any "attack" affect. Thanks Brooke. Now when you have an attack affect (by race or spell/skill) when it says "100%" that means 100%, not 99%. =) - please see 'help follower' if you play a character that controls NPCs, there is new information in the 'follower' help file that will make your life a bit easier. You may also want to revisit 'help order'.
News 8/11/2002: - new dark creator spell, passage of the bleeding moment - new chaos lord skill, ephemeral discord of speed - new remort valkyrie skill, song of striking - new demigoddess skill, the ruining song - tholecs have ambush again (thanks Littlesmoke) - fixed major bug with throw/projection being used on targets through doors - fixed weird bug with seeing followers when entering rooms
News 8/5/2002: - followers now take full damage in battle (not half) - players can no longer entrance/persuade/tame followers of size bigger than their current pool values (i.e. no getting huge charmies after you just got pked, you'll have to regen first now)
News 8/4/2002: - new khehusod remort spell, discorded corporeal sinew - ice blade can now take shield damage - modified layout for "class" / "skills" / "spells" command - internal modifications
News 8/1/2002: - fixed prayer of mental restoration, it can be used in battle now - changed output for clans (hope you like it, freaks)
News 7/30/2002: - Rearchitecture of affects, invisible, mostly to players, but it was a huge change which has a number of positive affects on Nodeka including increased performance, improved design (flexibility and robustness) and massively decreased memory requirements to run Nodeka. p.s. Thanks to the testers - who found several bugs with the new affects code (bastards). - a ton of new socials, send complaints/errors to Whim. - new remort daja skill, prayer of mental restoration.
News 7/22/2002: - fix to witch's hexed scepter
News 7/21/2002: - monks have better class dice now (more damage for monks, they didn't do enough before). - new oracle spell, hexed scepter. This spell may be too powerful, so please note it may be subject to change within the immediate future. That being said, this spell is one that I've been excited about doing for some time now (simply because it finishes one of my original ideas of witches).
News 7/20/2002: - the "item loss" issue having to do with item limits for rooms and players preventing items from going to players and then getting destroyed, has been rolled back out of the system - item losses will no longer happen, but players caught openly abusing and exceeding the *room* max item limit will be dealt with very severely. For those of you who are unaware how this could be done but are worried about breaking a rule - don't be. It's a complicated task exceeding the room max item limit, in most cases you have to intentionally be trying to exceed the room item limit. - an alteration to the endurance drain for channel use has been put into place - only those below level 50 will suffer endurance losses for channel usages. - new witch remort spell, hex of menthijan - super bug of the universe dealing with over 1000 items in a single room bringing Nodeka to its knees, has been fixed (finally). - new sorcerer skill, shifted accuratus
News 7/18/2002: - Endurance charges have been added to many channels, however, many global channels which require actual leveling haven't had endurance drains added to them (yet). Of course this change has been made due to our most recent spammer attacks. =) We apologize, but in order to protect you and ourselves from spammers we currently have no other choice. Site-banning someone who's using an alternate IP address to spam on seems pointless (as they can just find another IP address and continue the cycle endlessly).
News 7/17/2002: - Charge can no longer be used while in combat (to leave combat).
News 7/9/2002: - More socials, if you run into mistakes in the socials, please e-mail Whim (not Nijlo, Nijlo's too busy being lazy to fix social mistakes). - p.s. Ileana is now really Ileana and not sometimes Ileanna. - Bishops, mjols, ateoli, witches, heitons, sorcerers, sa'duroths and dajaes now have: telekinetic projection. Ileana is now selling spoons.
News 7/8/2002: - Throw has been changed to do more damage - see "help throw". This is our first attempt to make throw more useful, however we may adjust throw up or down within the next several days to balance it as needed. - Bug fix with ranged attacks being used "right here". Thanks to all of you who turned this in (there were several of you). - Winning a citadel with throw now behaves correctly.
News 7/4/2002: - Ice blade lags one round again, but costs a great deal more to cast and invoke. Thanks for the logical argument Mage (PC), as always, that kind of reasonable conversation is appreciated (and as you can see, it gets responded to). - Fireball and ice blade are now invokable as well as castable. - Shield of lectokke and ruah kyf have been changed to charge the user more mana to resist damage. - Shield of lectokke no longer falls when mana reaches 0, therefore when a sorcerer regenerates, shield of lectokke becomes active again. Ruah kyf didn't fall before at 0 spirit, so no change has been made it its existing behavior in that regard.
News 6/30/2002: - Chain lightning now greis properly.
News 6/29/2002: - Flee succeeds much more now. - Slight change to white flames of prayer - Mentalis vefr has been slightly toned down - Lag on alleviate has been removed (at least most of it) - New diva and arch-fallad skill, white flames of prayer - New poliir spell, awakening of the guard - New remort poliir spell, radiant awakening
News 6/22/2002: - Weekly clan battles now happen on MONDAY (see below)! - New mjol remort spell, mentalis vefr - New mjol spell, weave of balance
News 6/17/2002: - New clans output - Singularity of fate has been changed, thanks ... uhhh, Terror? Crazy, we know.
News 6/16/2002: - New thunderer skill, aulora's gift
News 6/15/2002:
- New tholec skill, heightened precision - New remort tholec skill, heightened defiance - New strider skill, heightened instinct
- New remort footpad skill, singularity of fate
News 6/9/2002: - New kenpo skill, annulment stance
News 6/8/2002: - change to the command 'affects'. See 'help affects'.
News 6/7/2002: - New shadow rogue skill, singularity of focus - New monk (and all remorts) skill, mantis stance - New gesko/kenpo skill, dragon stance - New kenpo skill, hao'tien stance - Bug fix to godly mediation - thanks Ziii. Also slight modification in its functionality. !Important! New City! - Situated in the harsh lands of Mhaldryn, the city of Aur-Vindi has broken its two-hundred year exile and is now open for you to explore. Aur-Vindi is a fully functional city designed for remorts, equipped with [[its own safe rooms, citadel watchtower, trainer, identifier, race and]] guild masters and more. The city boasts a number of shops with a very large selection of remort equipment (some much rarer than others), as well as rotating inventories (the merchandise for sale will constantly change). Keep in mind that the populace of Aur-Vindi does not tolerate violence. Aur-Vindi is designed for remorts - mortals enter at their own risk.
News 5/30/2002: - You can now recall your followers. You can also order your followers to recall themselves or have group members recall your followers (so long as your followers are grouped).
News 5/29/2002: - Change to track - Tame/entrance/persuade have been changed. Details coming soon, but please try out the new system today! - Lag on tick bug has been fixed. - New command: clanset - see 'help clanset'
News 5/28/2002: - New man-of-war spell: ancestor song
News 5/27/2002: - A potential fix for the lag on ticks has been coded. We're not sure if this fix will work or not, because we still aren't 100% sure of the cause of this behavior. - Mobs regenerating massive amounts of health on a tick prior to being knocked unconscious will no longer occur.
News 5/22/2002: - Starting this coming week (the day after Memorial Day) we will have a clan battle. The winning clan will receive some kind of prize. We will continue to have these battles every Tuesday at 6 p.m. Mountain Time (-07:00:00).
News 5/16/2002: - New 2nd remort khehusod spell - hold alignment - New area in the southern part of Ruushi - the towers of Lkkt'vao. This area is the first of its kind, a racial area. Lowbie/newbie area. Thanks Arwyn for building another winner!!!
News 5/15/2002: - change to stratagem of the cloak, the basic premise is still the same, except now stratagem happens immediately before critical. No more extra round of your footpad being visible to the world. You still must successfully be cloaked in order for stratagem to succeed. - willed protector levels are now equivalent to that of their master. - corrections with the lower end scale of using target and throw. Target and throw should now work correctly for newbies and veterns, alike. - throw is now fully complete as to what I originally had in mind when first developing it: - throw can be used in a direction - throw can be used to hit a target - see 'help throw' - see 'help target' - right now targetting only works for throw, but I envision it working for a couple of the other ranged attacks.
News 5/13/2002: - Due to numerous requests the donation cap per month for stones has been raised. See 'help stones' for more details. The change is effectively immediately (i.e. this month). - For a quick list of the stone system see 'help stone system' - If you are a graphics artist or are looking for a way to make some platinum, we're looking for a new Nodeka banner for our Nodeka advertising. The banner size should be 468x60, please submit all banners to Nijlo at nijlo@nodeka.com. Rewards will be given for any banners we plan on using. All work in the banner must be original or free (no stolen art).
News 5/11/2002: - new ruanbaere skill, savage assault
News 5/6/2002: - Fix to real kill bug found by a group of players doing the most crazy kind of battle I've ever seen in my life (why the hell were they casting offensive spells on each other while running? Isn't that a little dangerous). Crazy. - Fix to battle awareness / min sali tra bug.
News 5/2/2002: - Neat little "sell , <mob>" bug that sold all your inventory has been fixed. Thanks Doos. - Quickness now plays a slightly bigger role in battles. - Lightning strike now gives less quickness.
News 5/1/2002: - All racial restrictions on all items in Nodeka have been removed. This was done for several reasons, most were concerns of game balance.
News 4/28/2002: - Oracles now have chain lightning.
News 4/26/2002: - Fixed the spam of "Not in a safe room." when throwing an object through a safe room. - khehusods now have |throw - Bukaal is stocking thin axes. - Raiders now have [throw] - Norruk is stocking light hammers. - ruanbaeres now have [throw] - Norruk is stocking light hammers. - Aegols and Jakaen now have celestial ray. - Monks now have throw - Khaleth is stocking shurikens. - Valkyries now have throw - Akthar is stocking thrusting spears. - tholecs now have throw - Akthar is stocking thrusting spears.
News 4/25/2002: - Cosmetic output error for seeming changes in handedness have been fixed.
News 4/24/2002: - Footpads now have throw - Alyshe is stocking throwing daggers. - joufus now have throw - Khaleth is stocking shurikens. - Help files for battle awareness and insanity are now available. - The crash bug in the socket code has been fixed. - Men-of-war now have battle awareness.
News 4/22/2002: - Two potential crash bugs have been fixed, one which was clearly a crash bug and locally tested to prove this. The second crash bug I believe is the correct fix, however I cannot verify it locally - it can only be verified on the live Nodeka server. Therefore keep on your toes, it's possible I have made a mistake and this bug fix, in fact, does not fix the crash bug. As always, thanks for your patience.
News 4/21/2002: - Alignment bug in healing spelling has been fixed. The bug was related to the healer's alignment not improving if he/she/it had max experience. Thanks to everyone who turned this bug in. - Insanity has been reworked. Thanks Mel.
News 4/20/2002: - Celestial ray is now a distance attack ... super-distance. - Field aid now lags two rounds. - Flee has been modified to succeed much more. - Petrify has been rewritten, entirely. It is now greiable and has a new help file to explain the stats which are considered when using it. !Important! - The major impairment skills in the game have been redesigned. These skills and spells are the following: Stun, Channeled Anger, Sensual Sedation, Temple Touch and Petrify The basic format of these skills and spells are now in favor of shortening recovery time after the skill or spell has been used, rather than the previous format which increased the impairment time. For example the new layout for the skill stun is as follows: Impairment ability | Pre-lag | Impairment duration (rounds) | Post-lag ------------------ ------- ---------------------------- -------- Stun (0-149 dex) 1 2 4 Stun (150-299 dex) 1 2 3 Stun (300+ dex) 1 2 2 As you can see, as the dexterity of the user increases, the lag associated after the skill has been used decreases drastically. However, you will also note that impairment duration is constant, not dynamic as it had previously been. Impairment skills can still miss however, and therefore naj'k and grei are still important to their use. Even though the skill stun now has a maximum impairment duration of 2 rounds, it does not mean the impairment will be 2 rounds each time stun is used. Rather, it means stun can impair anywhere from 0 - 2 rounds. The same is true for the other impairment abilities as well. It should be noted: this change is very similar to the old system in terms impairment to lag ratio. I would be lying if I said it was the "same", it is not "that" different. The major difference is that instead of having a huge amount of impairment duration and a huge amount of following lag, the impairmment abilities will now have breaks between the impairments. These breaks will allow the opponents of impairmers to fight back, which they have been unable to do previously. If you have complaints with this new system, do not e-mail me (Nijlo). Please e-mail Myx (myx@nodeka.com) or Whim (whim@nodeka.com) with your complaint. The Nodeka staff appreciates your compliance.
News 4/17/2002: - New kage-kyoukan spell: hakanai shouten - New configurable colors: Map: Me Map: Mob Map: Player
News 4/17/2002: - New dark creator spell: shadow gaze - The command "challenge" has been reactivated. - I believe I have fixed the problems with challenge, although I can't be 100% sure. I know that I've fixed at least *one* problem with the citadel, but there may be others. Please note any bizarre behavior with the citadel when challenging others and e-mail me (Nijlo) immediately. Thanks so much! - Crash bug fixed.
News 4/16/2002: - Unique items now have greater potential for power (albeit rare, heheh).
News 4/14/2002: - A real kill bug has been fixed which related to a player being real killed when killed by another player who was already engaged in another battle. This bug while reported in ice blade is in fact much broader in scope. Thanks goes to Feline, Drayke, Melkor and Whim. - The clan hall entrance problems have been resolved.
News 4/13/2002: - Real kill bug fixed in ice discharge and holy hammer (it did not exist in charge nor mental tiaran). Thanks Ziii and Orin. - New [arch-fallad] [spell]: holy hammer. Please note, this spell may undergo some slight changes in the next couple days. - In memory of Josh Rollins "I don't have exact full details as to what happened, but sometime between the night of April 9th and the morning of April 10th, Josh Rollins, otherwise known as Cytic, was in an automobile accident that took his life. Many of you knew Josh personally, more of you knew Cytic from the game. I myself only knew Josh from Nodeka, but that was all I needed to know. He was a great guy, and I am proud to say he was my friend. Oh behalf of myself and Clan Har'luth, I would like to send our deepest condolences to his family and friends. And from our hearts, God speed brother. We'll miss you. On a personal note, this is the first time I have lost a friend like this, so I'm very much at a loss for words. Something like this really makes you wonder what tomorrow will bring. Hold on to what you have, make sure those who mean something to you truly know it, because you honestly never know if you'll get another chance. Rest in peace Josh. I'll miss you, bro. -Tezrik / Andy"
News 4/7/2002: - !Important! - The battle code has been changed again. The new system will mark any battle ending in player death as a player kill if at least one player or follower is attacking the player when he/she/it is killed. This is slightly different than the previous battle system which held any attack on a player as a player battle until the battle ended, even if no players or followers were attacking the player when the player was killed. This system is still likely to be altered further to help prevent players from abusing the system and getting player kills where mob kills should take place. However, the good news is that since a player must be attacking another player when the player dies for it to be marked as a player kill, abusing this system for eq runs will only work on the first tank death (the following group would most likely not have time to cheat the system and would most likely suffer real death). This satisfies both sides of the fairness scale (at least partially). Lastly, I would like to thank the *reasonable* arguments I received requesting a change to the battle system. Those arguments coming from the unnamed website were not rational, but rather emotional tirades and did nearly the opposite of encouraging me to change the battle system. Had it not been for the "rational" voices of a few very unbiased unopinionated players, the battle system would not have changed. I greatly appreciate those of you (you know who you are) for taking the time to e-mail me in a calm and logical fashion. Your friendly neighborhood Nijlo-man
News 4/6/2002: - New lowbie to midbie area that has over 1,000 creatures to pummel! Located somewhere on the continent of Tarsis - hail Arwyn for his great work on this one! - Super-memory leak of the universe has been fixed.
News 4/2/2002: - Mob artificial intelligence bug fixed - rescue. - lo-fents can now use lay hands only outside of battle.
News 3/28/2002: - Shields worn in battle now still use base class damage and +damage. - Rescue can no longer be used on non-players and non-followers.
News 3/19/2002: - Fix to ice discharge, thanks Mel. - Help stones has been updated for infuscated marbles. - You can now get 3 infuscated marbles per month. Help 'stones' has been revised to correctly outline the new infuscated marble layout. - Infuscated marbles are now fully implemented. - Critical citadel follower bug fixed. Thanks to Dade, Namlehse and Melkor. - Ticks/phases no longer "skip". - Quiver crash bug fixed - good job Saron (3,000 platinum reward). - The Nodeka battle engine has been completely redesigned and recoded from ground up. What we now have is an ultra-light, smart and well contained battle engine that's ready to handle some serious complexities and handle them flawlessly. The new battle engine fixes a numerous number of bugs as well as correcting "poorly formed" battle behavior. Special thanks goes to all the testers involved in this project. - There will be new help files explaining the new battle engine in the next couple of days, keep your eye on "help battle". Some of the more important aspects: - Kills are determined by "last hit". The last hit that takes a player to death determines whether that death is a player kill or a mob kill. This functionality has been carefully thought through and will not change (this fixes a huge number of "cheats" players were abusing with followers and groupies). - Kills are handled at "last hit", not "end of round". This means things such as the citadel ending improperly because both players die at the end of a round are fixed. - Battles re-evaluate themselves immediately. You'll no longer see breaks in battles when fighting groups of enemies. Also, auto-join has been updated to reflect this behavior. - Rescue and redirect have been reworked and recoded to work exactly as they work now. Rescue will only redirect incoming attacks from a victim to the rescuer, it will *not* remove the victim from the battle. - A huge amount of code has been reworked and rewritten. Before you assume something's broken, ask. Many of the testers know what the correct behavior is and why it's correct.
News 3/14/2002: - ateoli now have parry. - Correction in mob, thanks Namlehse. Correction in beg command, thanks Cerberus.
News 3/12/2002: - New spell: slow - Changes to stoicism, shorter lag, increased endurance cost. - IP blocking code preventing players from logging in which didn't have a user logged in from their IP address has been fixed. This bug was caused by your clients keep sockets active that were supposedly already disposed. The work around for this on Nodeka is to only prevent users from logging in if their characters are already logged into the world, rather than the old way which prevented characters from logging in even if another socket was active which didn't have a player connected inside Nodeka. - A long standing bug with tell has been fixed (tell NIJLO blah, now works). The *all* capitals problem has been a bug for awhile. - Something major has changed. It's up to you to identify what it is. - Correction to created followers (i.e. conjure astral), thanks Aimless! - Flee has been rewritten. Now all of the "leaving battle" forms follow the same algorithmic patterns. See help flee for more details.
News 3/11/2002: - Fix to vanish. Thanks Drakmorden. - One of the most elusive bugs in the history of Nodeka has been fixed. This bug had to do with lagging group members, other than the leader of the group, in much greater form than should have been taking place. This bug was caused by a coding misunderstanding by calling the CorrectLag() method after lag was applied, rather than calling it before lag was applied. The Nodeka staff sincerely apologizes for this erroneous behavior. The intent of lag code change was to prevent things such as people casting heal in a group and then having that group's leader move one space in a non-lagged zone to clear the healer's lag. This *use* to be done commonly prior to the lag code change. However, with the new lag change, group members were lagged incorrectly. As you will soon see - casting up while traveling will now be possible again, however the lag will continue over a duration of moves as the spell lag is diminshed with each "extra" time between steps. This was the original intent of the change in the lag code, and the lag code now produces this expected behavior. To summarize, the lag code works now as intended. Lag in continental movement along with spell/skill lag are merged together to work under a single lagged period - the intended timing and delay mechanism. - Output for holy light corrected. Thanks Beowulf.
News 3/9/2002: - Critical area fix - Fix to idle character booting code - Stones should reset properly when month rolls (rather than retaining old values as it did previously). This should be a bit more clear now. Thanks Onys. - Architecture change for main branch of affects now (even bigger than last time). - ateoli ataghan's have been improved.
News 3/5/2002: - Architecture of affects code heavily altered - Ambush fix (thanks Flea) - Non-abusable train/enhance bug fixed (trust us, anyone who stumbled across this bug wouldn't exactly be *happy* with -260,000 practices ... hehe) - New spell: celtic resilience With the heitonic circle increasing in size and intellectual prowess, a new power was formed, deep within the inner circle. A power that alone was no great wonder, nor inflicted no intolerable damage. Yet, this power was of the simple sort. The sort when carried by intellectually guided hands could foil even the darkest mage's plans...
News 2/27/2002: - Retreat has been altered to succeed more. - Vanish has been rewritten and has some new capabilities.
News 2/21/2002: - String correction to sacrifice attempts in a donation room (thanks Drak). - Retreat has been rewritten, it can now fail. See 'help retreat' for info.
News 2/10/2002: - Bug fix in the multiple IP code. - Crash bug in the multiple IP code fixed. - New clan code, mostly just design fixes, interface changes. Nothing directly related to players.
News 2/6/2002: - Mighty mighty Nijlo destroyed the five million crash bugs he introduced with the last build (we're still trying to figure out why he's so mighty, since if he wouldn't have created the crash bugs in the first place, they wouldn't need to be fixed ... o_O). - The spit social has been fixed. Thanks to all 300 of you for turning the typos in. =)
News 2/4/2002: - Celestial ray bug fixed - thanks Asguard.
News 1/31/2002: - Lag when failing trip, stun, temple touch, sensual sedation, channeled anger has been made consistent! - Lag when failing bash was already consistent. - The following impairment skills algorithms have been modified to what we consider more appropriate: stun, temple touch, bash, sensual sedation, focused sphere, channeled anger. The rest of the impairment skills will follow (we just haven't had time to get to all of them yet). - Stun and temple touch are now fully naj'ked. - Temple touch is now a weapon of destruction. - Nijlo is a super-hero, his name: PATHETIC-PUN-MAN!!
News 1/30/2002: - the first verse of the riddle has been solved and closed - a new riddle will replace the old solved riddle soon
News 1/26/2002: - new secret stuff - A note to all players - Drakmorden nor any other player assisted me in the revision of the lo-fent class. I would also like to say that blaming other players for any change that happens on Nodeka is ridiculous, as no change to the game structure is done without my consent (as I'm the only one who touches the Nodeka code, so I must personally approve of them). The changes I make to Nodeka are the changes *I* feel should be put into the game, not what anyone else feels should be put into the game. If you would like to have a target of someone blame for anything and everything being done on Nodeka that you dislike - blame me. Your friendly world leader and tyrrant and destroyer of all that's good and holy, Nijlo p.s. SEND HELP
News 1/23/2002: - the "it" gender can now be any gender restricted class, such as; ataelos, ″witch, ruanbaere, valkyrie, fallad and daja. - plenty of new ″immortal code - ″lay hands now only works in battle and has increased lag - soothing touch now has increased lag ############################################################## NEW CITY - ILLURIEN ##############################################################
News 1/21/2002: - String corrections - New immortal stuff =)
News 1/15/2002: - Fixed door code, thanks Whim. - Multiple IP address logins are now prevented.
News 1/9/2002: - Prompt crash bug fixed. Bye bye. Thanks Myx.
News 1/6/2002: - Compose fixes, creating new nodes doesn't add the extra word it use to. For example, "new message blah" would create message "message blah" rather than creating message "blah". This has been fixed. - Annoying $$ # characters are gone.
News 1/5/2002: - Parry, dodge and evasion have ... altered, something different. See help. - Minor fix to skill/spell code (thanks Mordru). - Minor fix to retreat (thanks Tyrrany - and nice spelling)
News 1/3/2002:
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- Parry, dodge and evasion have been reworked and redone.
- The skill code has been rewritten - this should have no affect on players
This was done to clean up some of the more "ugly" code in the source. The
work that went into this was pretty large, but it makes Nodeka even better
and was a necessary effort.
News 1/1/2002: - Spam-guard for newbie channel implemented. We apologize if this solution inhibits any other newbies, but it is clearly the most effective solution without inhibiting all Nodeka players overall. And thus, when you reach level 30 you can use a channel other than newbie. - Happy happy happy!!!
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News 12/30/01: - HOLY CRAP, MOTHER OF ALL MEMORY LEAKS FOUND!!! (and fixed) - rewrite of all the door code, joyous. - so many bugs fixed, I won't even bother trying to list them all. News - over the past two months: - Please read 'HELP BUG' or 'HELP BUG REPORT' - Fix to summon and greater summon output - thanks Velkyn - Fix to output in "quit" - thanks Montecarlo. - Fix to focused sphere - thanks Xxx/Drakmorden. - Fix to stoicism. - Fix to mental blast and psychic shock output - thanks Exar, you rock!! - Player killing help file has been corrected to follow the modified rules of Nodeka - thanks Kakaroth! - Spear plant "liche lord" bug acknowledged - thanks Telstra!! - Stoicism output error fixed - thanks Exar (sheeez, you go)!! - Ice blade help file fixed - thanks Zorro! - Another minor help file fix, removal of "wield" in general help file. Nice work Exar! - Yet another fix, to the help file "wind wall" - Exar, you are amazing! - Throw will now at least have some success on level 100 characters.
News 10/10/01:
- Crash bug in FindExactWorldPlayer() method has been fixed. This bug was
introduced with the new source code that was pushed last night. So far
this is the only crash bug we've found in the released source (knock on
wood). We appreciate your continued patience
- Nodeka's string system has been rewritten (3 days work nonstop).
- Crash bug fixed regarding immortal setting and removing. Nice catch Azrag!
- Reply in prompt problem resolved, thanks Rar!
News 9/30/01: - Another major change to all offensive spells. Offensive spells and skills now include +damage to their damage, with the exception of a couple of spells/skills. - Greater fireball completely wiped out, but instead of removing it, it's been renamed, reconfigured and redesigned into: ice blade. It's a completely new spell derived from an older spell which was essentially not very useful (however your spell percentage of greater fireball will roll over into ice blade). Ice blade is more cost intense and is frost based, rather than fire based. In addition, non-remort sorcerers don't get it. Sorry, it's too powerful for you non-remort folks. Don't worry though, the changes spells took today, you'll have more than enough power with the arsenal you have already (trust me). - Upon a suggestion of what I was asking previously, I received an e-mail which brought something important to light. This e-mail will require some background. The basic story is as follows. When I was first creating Nodeka, I had to put boundaries on certain skills, but more importantly spells from doing too much damage. This was done because other classes didn't have skills which could counter the spells damage, nor did enough equipment exist to support fighter classes. Believe it or not, casters dominated Nodeka. To fix this, I put damage caps on a good majority of spells, this solved the problem perfectly, or so I thought. In effect, what I had done was prevent those spells from ever doing the full amount of damage their counterparts could do without a damage cap (something I missed when initially making my first observation). This ends up leading to completely disproportionate damage structures of spells/skills. The spells which I had thought would do the most damage, end up doing the least. And the skills/spells which I had never intended on doing much damage, ended up doing the most (i.e. holy light). In conclusion, all spells which had damage caps on them have been removed! In case you're curious if you or your spells were affected, here is a list of all the spells which had damage caps removed: magic arrow flaming arrow firebolt elemental malediction fireball lightning greater fireball - More changes to the who command's visuals. The basic idea here is that I wasn't happy with the way the output was because it created to much overhead with empty space (empty lines of output). Specifically, this was caused by the "who" headers. The way I wanted to do this was to have the color scheme figure out what each player's preference of foreground color was for the race, class, clan and then create the appropriate background color based on that initial discovery. Well, it was too much work for something I wasn't sure I even wanted initially. Now, however, I realized that's the way I wanted it, and implemented that "color finding" functionality. What happens now with the "who" command is Nodeka will look at your colors and then put up the appropriate background color based on the foreground color selections you have set for your character. Keep in mind, some of these foreground/background color combinations won't work. It's the players responsibility to choose a foreground color that will work with a background color. Don't send me a bug saying "when I set my who race color to white, I can't read the who race headers." Or even better, "when I set who race color to black, I don't see a background color for race". These aren't bugs, for as much as I would like it to be, Nodeka isn't psychic and can't read your mind on how you want it to perform. Sorry. =) For those of you who are laughing right now, don't laugh too hard. You'd be quite surprised by some of the bugs that get reported. - Changes to follower names when competing (finally). - A HUGE ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR WHIM!!! Whim went through every mob in the game and added the new name to make followers new names work!! If you see him on-line give him some praise! Thanks Whim!!!
News 9/30/01: - More "who" functionality, see 'help who' - Cloud giant help file changed/fixed, thanks Ravon! - Major randomization bug fixed. Three people to thank for this fix, Zorro for first identifying it, Rar for e-mailing Nijlo about the possibility of its existence, and finally Myx for pulling what is being an unbelievable feat of analysis and correctness of the source of the problem. In short, Myx was able to identify not only that the bug was occurring, but exactly *how* it was occurring without ever seeing any of the source code. Myx, how the heck did you do that??? This bug was causing unique items at startup (and only at startup) to load exactly the same each time. This bug did not continue with subsequent area repopulations. Nijlo has run over ten rigorous tests to verify the fix put in place for this bug fixes it completely. We apologize for any inconvenience. - Revamped "who" command, following options are now IN!!! who blac, race who raid, class who har'l, clan who nijlo, name
News 9/26/01: - Minor bug in the string code fixed. - Myx is a super-hero. - Made some minor improvements to display skill. - Made display spells more maintainable and fixed the page problems with it.
News 9/25/01: - The help file for "list" has been updated. See "help list" for more information. - Bug in "display skill" has been fixed, thanks Knight! While I was working on fixing this bug, I decided I would work on implementing a piece of code which would make both my (Nijlo) and yours (all players) lives easier. After several hours of analysis and design, I have built a system which makes player controlling output very easy to implement. Player controlled output is output where the player can pause at his or her set page length (see 'help page setting') for certain types of output. - The command "list" now allows for player controlled output (list output will now pause at your page setting). - The crash bug that has caused the last several crashes (and has been in the code base for only about 2 months) has been fixed. The curious part about this crash bug is it could only be accomplished through telnet and it was caused by the implementation of more robust code in the player input buffer arena which then propegated this new "better" code to areas of the code which were still very stupid (read as: Nodeka 1.0). The current fix is a solution that will eventually be removed when all the strings in Nodeka use stl strings, rather than char pointers or arrays. Until that time, the current fix will correct any potential crash bugs of this type because the fix is placed in a location which prevents input from being oversized. Oversized input was being blocked by most clients, but because of the way telnet sends data (one character at a time, even before you hit the return key), it was able to skip past our initial size check. The new size check is located after the strings are complete and verifies the size isn't too big for the other "bad" code to work with it. Keep in mind, both size checks (the initial and the new check that was just added) are totally necessary. Moral of the story: debuggers are no susbstitute for the human brain.
News 9/24/01: - New undead racial (and will be a skill for at least one class): Sustained Life (see 'help sustain life') - Drolls are now stronger and have more +damage. - Pixie racial lineage: are stronger vs. stun. have more quickness have more agility have ... been redesigned.
News 9/21/01: - Fix to recuperation string (if only Nijlo could spell). Thanks Virion! These strings have been external to the Nodeka source now, so they are easier to change on the fly (no reboot required).
News 9/19/01: - Fix to help citadel, thanks Exar. - Fix to help answer, thanks Liege. - Minor change to Ruushi mobs, thanks Exar! - Recuperation messages have been modified. - Some more string/file reading improvements. - Help 'reminder' has been modified to be more useful, thanks Gilgamesh.
News 9/18/01: - Retreat lag reduced, thanks Harbinger! - More minor modifications to the Citadel. - Player kill output has been revised (simplified and standardized). - Some low level string and file reading code has been modified.
News 9/16/01: - Slight modification to ascension of the templar help file. Thanks Exar. - I rewrote the mob number code, because it was evil, and managed to break something. Harbinger was the first to bring this to my attention, thanks Harbinger! The mob number bug has been fixed. - Output for Celestial Ray, when Naj'ked, has been fixed. Thanks Beowulf! - Spit social has been fixed -- thanks K'jin! - Change to the mental tempest help file -- thanks Mustafa. - Rage now lags for the same duration as it lasts. - Minor bug fix with glance, thanks Exar. - Minor bug with skill/spell order of checks on alignment, ability drain and target attackable as been fixed. Thanks Hate.
News 9/13/01: - Citadel bug fix, crazy! - Social bug of all socials ending up being "yawn" has been fixed. Thanks Harbinger. - Minor destructor bug for CSystemCommand (the new command hashing code) has been fixed.
News 9/12/01:
- Modified some of the output code for future maintenance.
- Modified a couple hundred lines of code for more correct C++
grammar.
- Redesigned the command hashing (skills, spells, socials as well) which
ended up being a couple thousands lines of code changes, reductions. I
made a great deal of logic changes as well, hopefully no bugs made it into
the new code (unfortunately I'm guessing if nothing else, at least minor
bugs slipped through. It's difficult changing a couple thousand lines of
code without making at least some mistakes. Especially when you are making
all those changes in the course of two days). In addition to changing the
design of the command hashing, I also have attempted to make the command
hashing safer (char*s to stl strings). Making this change, however,
required a pretty massive amount of other changes to make everything else
work. Nonetheless, I had a blast, I hope it all works =)
- Made at least another thousand or so line changes to the code, ran diffs
on all changes for single pass verification of code. Made stronger code
with more preventive measures in place to protect memory and increase
object safety. What does this mean to players? Maintainable code, which
means Nodeka continues to have a future (rather than eventually building a
code base that becomes unworkable preventing any new features).
- After a long debate, mental tiaran can no longer be used to attack players
or creatures already in battle. Alternative solutions or changes to balance
mental tiaran may be implemented in the future. However, for now this
change will stand, there will be no discussion about its removal for the
time being.
News 9/6/01: - Battle stance and defensive stance now lag only one round. Thanks Brooke.
News 9/5/01: - More soft citadel code fixes/cleanups. - Major bug fix with a door code problem, all hail Azrag!!!! - Speaking of Azrag, Soth has promoted Azrag to Assistant Head Builder!! - Minor output bug fixed, thanks Gehenna. - Hurricane kick, vicious fist and quiver all no longer execute a full round of damage. Special thanks to Gades and Myx!
News 8/30/01: - The citadel has been fixed. Thanks to Sisco, he was the first person to send an e-mail to Nijlo. - Minor change to the affect output, thanks Beowulf. - The entire affect layout has been altered, affects now drop under the same similar string. Some minor changes will still be made, however the basic layout is decided on. Thanks to Beowulf and Kakaroth. - Rescue now lags if successful and if not successful. Thanks Drakmorden. - Redirect now lags for a longer duration of time if successful. Thanks Drakmorden. - Psychic shock, mental blast and holy light no longer can be used at the beginning of battle to reap an attack and a full round of attacks. These skills now work like all other damaging skills and spells when used at the beginning of battle. Thanks Drakmorden. - A good portion of the Citadel code has been rewritten. Whew! This was mostly to clean up bad code. Still a number of other Citadel changes coming (I hear ya Myx, I hear ya).
News 8/20/01: - Minor output error on ice discharge. Thanks Beowulf. - New skills: climb and swim. Special thanks to Mel for discussion regarding these two. For more information see 'help climb' and 'help swim'. - Three new races from the dark, warped matter we call: the Mind of Soth. - A minor change to the bash output string. Thanks to Disease. - A logical change of beggar's gold from whatever to 0 was suggested and implemented. Thanks to David Miner. - Ambush has been changed. If the ambusher is in lag while ambushing and the target of the ambush arrives, no ambush will be made. Specifically: - Nijlo ambushes Myxlplyk - Nijlo casts 'bless' - Myxlplyk enters the room Nijlo is in while Nijlo is still in bless lag - Nijlo does not ambush Myxlplyk Special thanks to Blitzkrieg. - Earthened skin has been recoded. See the earthened skin help file for more details.
News 8/15/01: - Lightning is now both castable and invokable (reflecting the help file). Nice catch Auberon! - Mental tiaran now displays output to players in the room of a player who is being mental blasted. Special thanks to Abram.
News 8/12/01: - A change of output for flow of nobility has been made. Thanks for the insight Tyranny (and Myx).
News 8/10/01: - New character item max bug fixed -- thanks Skater. - Typo in Newbie training area fixed and names modified due to missing keyword in long name -- thanks Strega. - Miscalculation of mob statistics found (finally). Racial affects were being applied twice, which was causing some extremely weak mobs to become nearly double or triple in power. This bug was two-fold: - Error found in applying racial stat bonuses twice - Maximum statistic was always doubling. Therefore is a mob had a max staticistic of 100 constitution, the mob's constitution would always be 200. Both of these errors have been fixed. Special thanks to Gibran. - Newbie training mobs have been toned down, special thanks to Joe Alias!
News 8/10/01:
- Industrial strength C++ code optimizations in place, turned on and
debuggable. The basic jist, Nodeka runs *really* fast now.
News 8/9/01: - Typo in winged attack found by the player Holiday. In addition, Holiday helped come up with the replacement string for winged attack, thanks!! - Field aid can be used when the player is less than 75% full of health, rather than 50% full of health. Thanks Soth.
News 8/7/01: - Reign of resistance has been toned down - Follower bug *may* be fixed. This relates to followers dying and those followers not being removed from the master's control. This bug prevented master's from getting new followers. Thanks Auberon. - Lag now properly placed when casting spells which create followers and a follower is already in existence. Also output for these spells have been corrected. Thanks Losati.
News 8/6/01: - Khenpo to Kenpo, thanks Jesus. - mjol class modification - Conjure golem has been moved to 1st remort - Conjure deity has been moved to 2nd remort - Conjure elemental has been improved - Conjure golem and deity will be improved soon - Race modifications: - 1st remort gnome has 4 natural resist - 2nd remort gnome has 8 natural resist (thanks Soth)
News 8/5/01: - Race modifications: - 1st remort dwarf is now: Mountain Dwarf - 2nd remort dwarf is now: Whitebeard - 2nd remort half-elf is now: Elven Psionist - 2nd remort drow (Matron) is now: Dark Elf - The below race information is in relation to new racial bonuses or racial modifiers the race previously did not receive. Use the 'race' command to see the full list of racial bonuses the below races have. - Demon statistic modifiers: - Daimonikos statistic modifiers: +5 strength +6 strength +2 dexterity +3 dexterity +2 agility +2 agility +3 constitution +4 constitution - Angel statistic modifiers: - Arch-Angel statistic modifiers: +2 agility +5 agility +2 speed +4 speed +3 willpower +4 willpower +3 to hit +8 to hit - Mountain Dwarf stat modifiers: - Whitebeard statistic modifiers: +3 strength +5 strength +5 constitution +10 constitution +3 willpower +4 willpower +101 health +237 health +112 endurance +281 endurance - Elder Half-Elf stat modifiers: - Elven Psionist statistic modifiers: +3 agility +3 agility +2 dexterity +2 dexterity +3 intellect +11 intellect +3 willpower +3 willpower +2 speed +2 speed 36% psychic shock 91% psychic shock - Minoi statistic modifiers: - Svirfneblin statistic modifiers: +8 intellect +12 intellect +5 wisdom +7 wisdom +5 willpower +8 willpower +130 mana +246 mana +201 spirit +412 spirit - Stoor statistic modifiers: - Thain statistic modifiers: +5 agility +8 agility +7 dexterity +9 dexterity +4 speed +6 speed +272 endurance +611 endurance - Albino Drow statistic modifiers: - Veldruk statistic modifiers: +4 agility +6 agility +2 dexterity +8 dexterity +4 speed +6 speed +1 intellect +4 intellect +1 willpower +3 willpower - Dark Elf statistic modifiers: +5 agility +4 dexterity +8 speed +6 intellect +1 willpower +4 damage - Troglodyte statistic modifiers: - Droll statistic modifiers: +9 strength +15 strength +8 constitution +14 constitution +3 damage +6 damage - Sylph statistic modifiers: - Sprite statistic modifiers: +3 agility +4 agility +4 dexterity +4 dexterity +3 intellect +3 intellect +2 wisdom +2 wisdom +7 speed +12 speed - Undead statistic modifiers: +91 health - Liche statistic modifiers: - Liche Lord statistic modifiers: +3 intellect +5 intellect +3 wisdom +6 wisdom +5 willpower +6 willpower +288 health +623 health - Wind Titan statistic modifiers: - Storm Wielder statistic modifiers: +10 strength +21 strength +2 dexterity +4 dexterity +4 constitution +2 constitution +6 damage +9 damage - Titan of Ice statistic modifiers: - Arctic Colossus statistic modifiers: +6 strength +11 strength +2 intellect +2 intellect +2 wisdom +2 wisdom +6 willpower +10 willpower +3 constitution +3 constitution +3 hit +7 hit - Fire Drakontos stat modifiers: - Crimson Draco statistic modifiers: +6 strength +9 strength +5 intellect +5 intellect +4 wisdom +6 wisdom +4 willpower +5 willpower +4 constitution +5 constitution - Ice Drakontos stat modifiers: - Frost Dragon statistic modifiers: +7 strength +13 strength +5 intellect +6 intellect +5 wisdom +7 wisdom +7 constitution +11 constitution - Greater Weretiger stat modifiers: - Weretiger Khan statistic modifiers: +4 strength +7 strength +5 agility +7 agility +5 dexterity +8 dexterity +3 hit +8 hit - Onyx Protector stat modifiers: - Obsidian Guardian[[]] stat modifiers: +4 strength +7 strength +3 dexterity +6 dexterity +3 willpower +4 willpower +7 speed +10 speed - Dark Drakontos stat modifiers: - Shadow Derkesthai stat modifiers: +5 agility +8 agility +4 dexterity +6 dexterity +5 intellect +7 intellect +5 wisdom +6 wisdom +4 willpower +4 willpower - Dayenar statistic modifiers: - Koj'ehr statistic modifiers: +8 willpower +13 willpower +2 constitution +3 constitution +6 speed +9 speed News 8/3/01: - Invigorate has been made more powerful - Petrify has been corrected for out of bounds statistics - New socials: sneeze, mitee, punee, nijlo (change). Thanks Trinity!! - Bug fix: followers can no longer use any means of communication. This includes global channels, private channels and public channels. - Bug fix: using ice discharge 'west' now shows it traveling 'west'. Thanks to Soth, Zhakar and Axel for all turning this bug in. - Bug fix: unique items changing names with subsequent identifies has been fixed. - Bug fix: unique items losing their "identified" flag when logging back in has been fixed. - Elf lineage change (addition): -> Grey Elf -> Silver Elf Elf -> Green Elf -> Elven Guard - Contradiction of the rabbit has been toned down - Way of the panther has been toned down - Way of the bear +strength has been lowered - Way of the bear colossal smiting percent has been increased - Godly mediation duration has been greatly reduced - Godly mediation output has been corrected - Concentrated attack has been toned down - Vtshinnes frenzy no longer adds +hit - Vtshinnes frenzy now adds to current health as well as max health - Convergence of balance has been slightly modified - Nefarious shift has been toned down - Divinity has been toned down - Inviolable Asylum has been toned down - Heroes Crusade has been improved - Soul guardian output has been corrected - The 300 statistic cap has been removed for skills/spells/equipment. Statistics still cannot be trained/enhanced beyond 300, however [[racial affects]], item affects, skill and spell affects can raise statistics beyond 300. No absolute maximum exists.
News 7/24/01:
- The crash bug, which appeared twice this weekend, has been fixed. Special
thanks to Myxlplyk who gave outstanding insight into the bug's location
which also happened to be 100% accurate. Had Myxlplyk not supplied Nijlo
with the amount of detail into the bug, it would have taken a considerable
amount of time longer to fix. Thanks Myx!
News 7/16/01: - Many changes/additions. The message of the day will be updated soon.
News 7/9/01:
- Please continue to support Nodeka through donations. Special thanks to
all the donators who showed their support last week. We greatly appreciate
your contributions for the new Nodeka development machine!
News 7/2/01: - Fix: Valkyries agility now increases agility less but for a longer duration of time.
News 6/27/01: - Fix: Mana and spirit regeneration rates -- thanks newbie channel - New: Equipment can now raise attributes above 100 ---------------------------------------------------- - New: - - - - Unique items ... everywhere. - - - - - ---------------------------------------------------- - Special thanks to the following testers: Rar, Monoxide, Mel, Raolin, Soulcage, Morkai, Gideon and Myxlplyk!
News 6/16/01: - Fix: Container full message typo fixed, thanks Nijlo. - Fix: Improper auto-completion for spells fixed. - Fix: Left wrist wear typo, thanks Beowulf.
News 6/12/01: - Fix: Auto-join bug fixed. - Fix: Architecture rewrite for output strings (save often, there may be a bug hidden in the new code somewhere). This rearchitecture was a pretty one to make. Nodeka is looking really nice after this design change. - Minor bug with Naj'k/Grei -- thanks Exar!!! - Other minor modifications with tree code and tree objects - Special thanks to the following testers: Veldrin, Exar, Morbid, Haran and Eowyn!
News 6/6/01: - Fix: Minor bug with ... well we can't tell you, but it's fixed. - New: Skill -- Art of imbalance - Fix: The crash bug that has been causing the crashes over the course of the last three days (and long before that as well) has finally been fixed. The details of the bug itself are complicated, so we won't waste your time getting into that. The important thing here is to give our utmost thanks to Whim for bringing what he thought might be the cause of our crashes to our attention. Thanks Whim, we're extremely grateful for your help!! - Fix: Yet another elusive Nodeka 1.0 crash bug coming into light in 2.0 has been fixed. How this bug was overlooked until now is beyond us, all we know is that it has been in the source code for months. Our only guess is that the stability and correctness of the 2.0 code has forced this bug into showing its head. Regardless, this crash bug has been the cause of a major rash of crash bugs recently which will come to an end now. This is not to suggest Nodeka won't crash in the future, merely, we've nailed two major crash bugs in the last two days which means things are going to be at least more stable than previously. Nonetheless, you should always save often. Thanks for your patience while we correct many of the lingering Nodeka 1.0 bugs. - Fix: Staff related bugs fixed.
News 6/5/01:
- Fix: SUPER-DUPER CRASH BUG FIXED!! This one has been around since 1.0 and
we were ready when it revealed its ugly head this time!
- New: You can control the color of your joins now! Note, you can only
control your join strings -- not the strings of joins for others. The
added control is in your "color" command.
- Fix: Minor cosmetic fix to Naj'k/Grei
- Fix: Minor logical fix to Naj'k/Grei
- Change: Naj'k and Grei have been drastically altered. Before the final
touches are added we're going to give you some time to get accustom to
the new layout (to help you figure out how it all works). This new system
should be more intuitive and somewhat easier to understand than the
system worked before. The Naj'k and Grei system will continue to remain
extremely challenging to master, although now staying within an aura
should be relatively painless ... at least in most cases.
- Change: Cow udders have been removed from Nodeka. All NaPali items load
less frequently now. Cypress staves load less frequently.
News 6/4/01: - Fix: Lag for the petrify spell has been fixed. Thanks Legend!! - Change: The skill throw can no longer be used by any class.
News 5/31/01:
- Fix: Secret, evil, deceptive, and really mean memory leak/crash bug has
been found and fixed. Hail Winter for finding this very well tucked away
bug!!! Thanks Winter!
News 5/30/01: - Fix: When trying to give to a mob/player who's inventory is full a message indicating their inventory is full is now displayed. Also, colors have have been added to any type of give, even single gives. This is done specifically to deter from fake item selling. Those who choose to have their color off give up their right to determine fake sellers from real sellers. Thanks Renard!
News 5/29/01: - Fix: Another crash bug with tree this time -- boy and we thought it was stable. Heh... - Fix: Crash bug fixed with new follower code (Nijlo forgot to add one line of code -- whoops!). Did we mention that the follower code is being rewritten? Well, now you know. And as G.I. ... nevermind. - Fix: You can no longer sacrifice in the donation room, thanks Tedo!!! - Fix: Commands; look, inventory, examine have been highly optimized. For example, Nodeka can now handle literally thousands of items in a room and not skip a beat when command "look" invoked. The same applies for inventory and examine. - Fix: More optimizations for get, drop, give, etc. Specifically, the donation room can now handle thousands of items within it and execute a get without any processor performance issues. - Fix: More tree internal optimizations which make things run even faster. This affects everything, from slaying mobs to wearing equipment. As many of you already know, most of the 2.0 foundation is tree based and making even the slightest optimization of the tree code affects Nodeka on a global level.
News 5/28/01: - Fix: You can no longer use socials when silenced -- thanks Tedo!!! - New: Immortal features and internal maintenance. - Fix: Mobs who use the skill regenerate will automatically "stand" when unlagged. - Fix: AI mobs who were ending up "resting" bug has been fixed. - Change: More internal cleaning. - Change: Slight changes to many strings. - Fix: Immortal fixes/changes.
News 5/26/01: - Fix 2: Lightning spell lag has been corrected, for real this time. Thanks Gades.
News 5/25/01: - Fix: Lightning spell lag has been corrected. - Fix: Logging in from non-safe rooms will automatically transfer you to your home. If your home is not safe, Nodeka will transfer you to the default safe room. - Fix: Crash bug in the tree system fixed. - Fix: Output bug related to citadel count fixed. - Fix: Crash bug due to Nijlo having a mental lapse. Once Nijlo got his brain back he was able to easily correct the bug. Problem was related to a minor change in the "wear" code. Be careful there may be some other crash bugs around. - Fix: Citadel bug has been fixed, the citadel will not break nearly as often as it had in the past. However, there is still one citadel bug remaining. We are beginning our work to fix the second bug now. - Fix: Both the winner and loser of a player fight in the Citadel now see number of players remaining on their exit. - Improvement: Tree code has been optimized, this will speed everything up. The implications are too far to list, mostly this was done now to ensure future growth can be sustained without any performance loss. - Fix: Wear bug related to eq locations fixed (boy was this a pain). Wear now handles things like: wear xxx, left wie wear xxx, right wrist wear xxx, l ear The command 'remove' still needs work.
News 5/23/01: - New area: The Bhalin Deeps -- hail Soth!!!!! - Fix: Crash bug related to invalid naming (it's complicated) - Fix: The give command has been fixed to correctly handle nim-flagged PCs - Change: Pay attention to this one Lag is now cumulative. Be prepared, things are going to get interesting. - Fix: Lag is no longer removed by movement. Special thanks to Cookie for pointing out a bug related to movement removing all lag. He's received a 10,000 platinum bonus for finding and turning in this bug.
News 5/21/01: - Change: Shielded mob gold has been decreased. - Siteban: The player controlling Khaled has been site-banned. Please remember to always follow the rules and show the Nodeka staff the respect they deserve. The character Khaled will remain unzapped, however the player controlling the character previously no longer has access to Nodeka. The Har'luth clan has been given the right to do whatever they choose with the character. It should also be noted that the clan Har'luth has rarely broken rules in the past. The majority of rule breaking, bug abusing, was from the player behind Khaled. Lastly, the point that needs to be driven home is: no matter how important you think you are, if you mistreat the Nodeka staff and you break the rules you will be dealt with severely. No matter who you are. - Change: Svirfneblin magical regeneration has been increased. Thanks Atim!! - Change: Spam kill rule has been REMOVED.
News 5/18/01: - Fix: Greater summon can now only summon players.
News 5/16/01:
- Fix: Bug with strings has been fixed (i.e. using sun stones works again)
- Change: A good deal of performance improvements have been made, in general
this means Nodeka will run more smoothly. Many more to performance
improvements to come, of course.
- Fix: Significant item fixes (mostly cosmetic, i.e. naming)
- Fix: Track help file.
News 5/14/01: - Fix: Color bug fixed. - Change: Help get, put and give have been updated. - Fix: Crash bug has been located and fixed. - New: Naj'k/Grei design has been altered greatly -- work is not finished yet. - Fix: Failed output for skills, fury, frenzy, and hammer. Thanks Black!
News 5/11/01: - New: Check out the new badass website at: nodeka.com! Thanks Mirinda!! - Change: E-mail addresses have been updated. - New: Social moon. - Change: The hammer skill output has been altered. Thanks Exar!!! - Fix: Help file fixes. Help e-mail is right now. - Fix: New socials have been fixed.
News 5/10/01: - Fix: Opening/closing doors now outputs correctly -- thanks Theophrastus!!
News 5/9/01: - Change: Berserk/Insanity lag reduced. Excellent points Hreow! Thank you! - New: Socials - headbutt, stare, spit, wiggle. Please e-mail Trinity with problems in socials. See 'display social' for the full social list. Please e-mail Trinity with new social ideas (or post them in compose). Trinity's e-mail is in 'display staff'.
News 5/7/01: - Fix: Several fixes to help files. Thanks Sashi!!
News 5/5/01: - Change: Storm Haven [sic], Xuvgra Output [sic], Ancient Barrows, and Braggi's Proving Ground have new mob AI. Be careful.
News 5/4/01: - Fix: Critical crash bug has been fixed. Thanks Myx - Also, we forgot to mention the two excellent testers who helped us test the race change functionality. Special thanks to: Eldomir and Drakmorden!!!
News 5/3/01: - New: command 'alteration', see 'help alteration' for more details. - New: Race changes can now be purchased. See 'help race change'.
News 5/1/01: - Fix: Major fix on active socket connections being blocked at 64, this problem has been fixed (we sincerely apologize for not recognizing this bug sooner). The new socket connection maximum is 1024, meaning 1024 players will be able to connect before login attempts will be turned away. Special thanks to all the testers for bringing this to our attention. - New: command "map" can be used interchangably with "peripheral". Both commands trigger the same action. - An evolutionary step forward: auto-peripheral now works everywhere and it's lag-free!!! (world travel still lags slightly) Exits will not be included in auto-peripheral (as of now at least) due to the extra amount of processor usage it'll require. It should be noted that it took a great deal of optimization to get peripheral to run fast enough everyone could use it at all times! In addition, it took a good deal of testing, and we have the following individuals to thank: Izod, Mel, Myx, Nix, Rar, Veldrin, Yadvashem Thanks testers!!! In addition, a special thanks to all the donators who allow Nodeka to stay abreast with the fastest hardware both CPU and this beautiful dedicated T-1 we have, without the support all of you give to Nodeka none of this would be possible! Thank you so much!! - See 'help map' or 'help peripheral' to understand how it works. - Typing: "toggle peri" or "toggle map" will toggle auto-mapping on and off.
News 4/30/01: - Fix: Crash bug related to stratagem (and soul egression) fixed. - Change: Modifiers such as "hovering above the ground" as well as all others no longer appear (there's a reason for this). - Fix: stratagem draining endurance when manually entering the skill name has been fixed (it only drains when it's being used now). - Major internal speed optimizations.
News 4/26/01: - New: Remort footpad skill, stratagem of the cloak - Fix: Nim gold amount fixed for minor and major remorts (thanks Flea).
News 4/23/01: - Change: heitons now receive dignitary manifestation at level 30 and keepers at level 49 (this applies for all heiton remorts as well). - Change: Dignitary manifestation has been serious altered. - Change: Meditative healing costs less, lags less, and heals less. Output for this spell has also been touched up.
News 4/22/01: - Fix: Follower equipment loss bug when your inventory is full and the follower is killed (corpse would not be transferred back to you). This did not occur with followers who didn't leave corpses. Major bug, major reward to the player that found it. - Fix: Conceal ANSI attribute yanked due to some UNIX boxes misinterpretting its behavior. - Magically class based mobs (i.e. sorcerers, mjols, but not joufus) are no longer valid followers. This applies for all ways of ways of getting them. However, this does not include followers which are created (i.e. conjure diety). - Gold string has been altered. You will most likely want to change your splitting trigger to the following: ^You get a pile of %0 gold %1 We realize this change forces you all to change your splitting actions. However, it should also be noted that this change will reduce the amount of spam you get by one line for each corpse you loot. If you kill on the average of 100 mobs per hour, you will receive 100 less lines of spam each hour. We believe this is more beneficial then the change required to alter your splitting action. It should also be noted that you can change the color of the gold string via: color coins gol, <color name> or a more concrete example: color coins gol, lig red - Many other internal changes to make Nodeka faster and your transfers faster. Special thanks to the testers: Tezrik (lead), Rar, Kerlyn, Mel, Sashi, Jesus, Kakistos, Vagrant, and Myx
News 4/21/01: - Built in help for storm crystals is now active through the command: stone storm Please refer to it if you have any further questions regarding how storm crystals work. - Fix: Crash bug that has been haunting us for the last couple days is now fixed! Yay!! Had to do with character names exceeding a certain amount and then offsetting an index into another string. Anyways, fixed now!
News 4/20/01: - Visit, transient alteration, inosculated crossing and methodic shift no longer work when attempted in battle, period. - Minor help file fix (thanks Eramis)!
News 4/19/01:
- Fix: Finally!! That annoying display problem with the experience line
of your scoresheet in *some* clients has been fixed. Let me also say, this
bug was ENTIRELY the fault of the client. This is why most of you probably
have no idea what the fix really is, while others have been dying for it.
Two words: ampersand. Ok, that's not two words, but those clients which
were failing to display it properly were failing because they were
displaying the ampersand with TWO characters, not one!!!
Want to test your client?
The following two lines are identical, except the first line has an
addition sign and the second line has an ampersand. If the words fixes
and client stick together, on the second line your client is affected by,
the bug known as "the ampersand zone":
+ Nodeka even fixes client problems
& Nodeka even fixes client problems
For Jaba users who want to see a really cool trick: highlight the
ampersand on the second line. Whooa, cool eh? =)
- Fix: Rescue strings fixed (thanks Mitee Mel!)
- There was a log file problem which was just noticed on the last crash.
We've been unable to determine the reason of the last crash due to
corrupted logging information. This has been fixed, we'll be ready for
for the crash when it rears its ugly head. This is a different bug then
the one early with the old code. We're not sure where this bug lives yet.
Apologies for the inconvenience. We'll get her. Grrrrrrr!!!
- The crash bug of this morning has been fixed. We are currently calling
this bug: "Justin wrote bad bad code again" bug. We hope he seeks
professional help soon as Nodeka cannot continue to undergo this type of
mistreatment (in truth, the code which broke Nodeka most recently was
extremely old code -- we're talking at least eight months old -- we all
know that the *new* and *improved* Justin doesn't code any bugs. Ha ha ha.
- Rescue is being worked on (not finished yet, but strings are changed)
- Safety: Added internal code to make certain functionality more safe. We
realize this is vague, it's suppose to be. =)
News 4/18/01:
- Fix: Internal modifications, be more cautious for a crash than normal.
Although the new code has been tested thoroughly, it still may have a
crasher in it somewhere. Save often.
- Fix: Internal performance optimizations (both space and time complexity
improvements).
- Fix: Minor discrepancy with description string in player files. Nothing
major. This fix won't change your description in any way.
- Fix: Holy analgesic will now let the caster/invoker know when the target
of the spell is fully healed (as is the case with wounded abatement).
Thanks Allegra!!
- Fix: Modification to circle of bane to better fulfill its purpose. Circle
of bane will now, more effectively, make the target which has been baned
less accurate in battle.
- New: Storm crystals are now fully functional. Storm crystals can save up
to; experience loss, stat loss and item/eq loss. In the event that the
storm crystal saves you from nothing, the storm crystal is not taken from
you. For each affect the storm crystal saves you from, a message will be
displayed stating such, for example:
Your storm crystal protects you from stat loss.
Your storm crystal protects you from experience loss.
Your storm crystal protects you from item loss.
Please remember storm crystals can save you from all three affects or
any combination thereof. This means the storm crystal may save you from
stat loss but you may still lose experience and items. All combinations
are possible, for more information see 'help stone'.
- Fix: Ignore string held in player files was incorrect, it is now saving
properly. You may need to manually clear your ignore string.
- Fix: Another well hidden shield crash bug has been fixed.
- Fix: Potential problems with the new help file structure have been
resolved in all locations (we hope) that may have caused corruption.
- Fix: More internal code cleanup for better overall performance. Again,
this type of work will continue for several months until Nijlo is
satisfied with the state of the code.
News 4/16/01:
- Fix: Race/Class help in character generation now works again. Special
thanks to Veldrin.
- Fix: Alignment change in fallad and daja classes for healing spells
is now changing alignment to a more reasonable amount. Special thanks to
Atim.
- Fix: Finally!! We've tracked down and fixed the infamous ambush crash bug
that was eluding us. The way it was done was by ambushing a target and
then shadowing *anything*. The character would then stop shadowing and if
the ambush target walked into the room, Nodeka would crash. Somewhat
complex, but fixed now! Hooray!!
- New: Kneecap biting racial for dwarves and hobbits!! Beware the uncanny
power of those under four feet!!
- Slight cleanup of the helpfile system. It's a little bit easier for us to
add help information now, but this modification is far from being
finished. Nijlo will work on this in more detail at a later time, for the
time being the current change will suffice.
- Fix: Description bug (where only the first word was being accepted in the
in each line) has been fixed. You can enter a description for your
character now in the login screen (under option 3). We apologize for any
inconvenience this may have presented.
News 4/15/01: - New: Soul egression decreases alignment, slightly. - New: All fallad/daja healing spells now improve alignment, slightly. - Change: Flee now lags for 1 second with each use, and will fail more often - A large number of internal optimizations have been made to help Nodeka run faster and with more stability. This type of work will continue for several months.
News 4/12/01: - New: level 78 remort ruanbaere skill, frenzy - New: the undead race and its remorts now have physical resistance - New: level 25 ruanbaere skill, vehemence
News 4/10/01: - Whocitadel command is usable again. - Quiver will no longer do insane damage for 300 dexterity players. It still has the *chance* of doing insane damage, but it won't happen every time as it did previously for characters with 300 dexterity.
News 4/9/01:
- Maximum items carried is now 30 until the character reaches level 30 at
which time it begins increasing by 1 per level (as before).
- Newbie training mobs are now easier to kill.
- Tracking bug, regarding name hiding, fixed.
- Gargoyle's fury +hit/+dam lowered, duration raised
- Insanity altered a lot, it's better now. It can actually increase the
user's ability to hit, but it can also decrease their chances as well.
I'll get a more detailed help file out when I have time. Also it only
drains 3 endurance per hit now, rather than 4.
!!! Pay attention to this one !!!
- The role of agility/quickness has been severely altered. Just what that
means will be revealed soon enough. Mob fights will be different. Player
fights will be extremely different.
- Bellow bug fixed, thanks Soth/Fayte.
- Whocitadel command has been temporarily disabled.
- Fixed: casting/invoking on a player with an apostrophe in their name
(thanks Allegra)
News 4/7/01: - Major internal cleanup (save often, some of the changes may cause a crash) - Soul guardian no longer regenerates health! - Summon/Greater Summon can no longer summon people in battle. - Naj'k/Grei string bug fixed - Over 30,000 lines of code modified to integrate new command object since the work began last Sunday. Too many things modified/fixed to list. Overal goal: make Nodeka more stable Special thanks to testers: Eldomir, Myx, Veldrin and Mystic
4/1/01: - Fix: Palm bug fixed, output cleaned up. Thanks Junior. - Fix: Input stack fixed, internal re-architecture. - Fix: Stones roll-over bug fixed.
3/31/01:
- Crash: 99.9% sure charge crash bug is now fixed.
Hreow and Myx -- you guys rock!
- Item manipulation: bug fixed regarding not being able to look at items
correctly.
- Charge available to ruanbaeres again. Save often, there may still be a
crash bug in it.
- "Track" command overhauled -- cool output.
- Several other internal cleanups/fixes.
- New: See "help donation", "help stone"
- New: Command "gems" changed to "stone"
- New: Sun stone code is complete, try: "stone sun," or "stone sun"
- New: Glacious, Infuscated and Storm stones should be active soon!
- Crash: New character generation crash bug fixed *correctly* now.
3/30/01: - Crash: New character generation crash bug fixed - Train: Less than 100 stats back to original train/enhance prices - Train: Interal code corrections - New: Command "donations" - New: Command "gems" - New Commands will be explained when they are fully functional in the next day or so. This is sort of a preview of what you will be able to access. A good majority of the "gems" code is finished, it should be finalized by 4/1 or 4/2. There is no help on either of these commands yet, it will go in as soon as the functionality is finished.
3/29/01: - Train: Primary stat exp needed back up We're still not done with these changes, so try not to freak out too much. - Score sheet fix: Aura bug finally fixed
3/28/01: - Train change: 8 Primary stats: Experience needed, way down Platinum cost, way up Pools: Experience needed, up - Enhance change: 8 Primary stats: Platinum cost, up - Infinite Nijlo: buy/sell infinite loop bugs fixed - Buy syntax: buy <item keywords> , <mob> buy, <mob> (buys "all") Notice the comma (type "buy" to see the syntax) - Sell syntax: sell <item keywords> , <mob> Notice the comma (type "sell" to see the syntax)
3/27/01: - Crash fixes: two time to live crash bugs have been fixed
3/26/01: - List syntax: list <item keywords> , <mob> list, <mob> (lists "all") Notice the comma (type "list" to see the syntax) - Buy/Sell should be finished tomorrow. Apologies for the delay. - Note: List Commands, List Spells, List Skills, List Races, List Classes, List Staff are now: Display Commands, Display Spells, Display Skills, Display Races, Display Classes, Display Staff. - All player files of 1.0 converted to new XML format of 2.0. - Two very important immortal commands fixed (thanks Myx) - Followers can now be attacked in safe rooms. - Masters can see their followers equipment missing locations - Nodeka 1.0 crash bug related to tracking has been fixed - Please remember you can change your "page length" setting in toggle which will allow you to scroll through more than 21 lines at a time. 21 lines is the default screen size for old-school terminals, thus we need to maintain compatibility with that older technology. However, most of you can probably see nearly 50 lines of text on one screen, so please look into the "toggle page" option.
3/25/01: Nodeka 2.0 is released. - Get syntax: get <item keywords> , <container> Notice the comma (type "get" to see the syntax) - Put syntax: put <item keywords> , <container> Notice the comma (type "put" to see the syntax) - Give syntax: give <item keywords> , <player/mob> Again, the comma (type "give" to see the syntax) - Wear syntax: wear <item keywords> , <specific or general locations> Notice the comma (type "wear" to see the syntax) Enter the command 'LIST EQUIPMENT' for locations - Remove syntax: remove <item keywords> , <specific or general locations> (type "remove" to see the syntax) Remove is a *bit* buggy, I think specific locations don't work yet, we'll get that worked out though - Color syntax: color <color setting> , <color name> Notice the comma. Also, you'll see some new color settings, many more to come. (type "color garbage" to see the syntax, I'll fix this) - !!!!! Important: Sacrifice corpses !!!!!! - Due to a change regarding [[]]item ordering, all items placed in rooms are now grouped in a queue formation. What this means to you: Freshest corpses at the bottom Therefore please change your looters to the following: "get all, corpse; sac corpse" Or: "get all.gold, corpse; sac corpse" March 25th, 2001. A date that will forever be special to me. The day Nodeka 2.0 was released. As I don't want to prevent you from getting into Nodeka 2.0, I'm going to clutter up the message of the day AFTER it's released. This message is to give you a heads up on things you're going to want to make sure you pay attention to. So, here's the quick list: - Get syntax: get <item keywords> , <container> Notice the comma (type "get" to see the syntax) - Put syntax: put <item keywords> , <container> Notice the comma (type "put" to see the syntax) - Give syntax: give <item keywords> , <player/mob> Again, the comma (type "give" to see the syntax) - Wear syntax: wear <item keywords> , <specific or general locations> Notice the comma (type "wear" to see the syntax) Enter the command 'LIST EQUIPMENT' for locations - Remove syntax: remove <item keywords> , <specific or general locations> (type "remove" to see the syntax) Remove is a *bit* buggy, I think specific locations don't work yet, we'll get that worked out though - Other item commands which have been seriously revamped: Drop, Sacrifice, Donate, Inventory, Equipment (same syntax though) - Color syntax: color <color setting> , <color name> Notice the comma. Also, you'll see some new color settings, many more to come. (type "color garbage" to see the syntax, I'll fix this) - Output syntax is the same, but the command should "feel" more comfortable. However the NAMES are a bit different. Just type what you see and it'll switch the output on and off. - !!!!! Important: Sacrifice corpses !!!!!! - Due to a change regarding item ordering, all items placed in rooms are now grouped in a queue formation. What this means to you: Freshest corpses at the bottom There was no way getting around this, but we will have a very VERY sweet addition coming soon that it sure to please the lot of you. Until that solution is implemented please make sure you sacrifice corpses. You'll need to do this so you can continue getting gold from other mobs that you kill in the same room. Thus if you kill 5 mobs in a room and you do "get all, corpse" each time one dies, you'll only get the gold from the first mob you killed. Therefore please change your looters to the following: "get all, corpse; sac corpse" Or: "get all.gold, corpse; sac corpse" We apologize for any inconveniences this may present, but we GUARANTEE you the solution we have for this is going to make all of extremely happy! Until that solution is made available, we humbly request you follow the above example. - You'll see all sorts of subtle changes, some of them may annoy you, some of them may entice you. Whatever the case, please keep in mind all of the changes were made with a greater plan in mind. This is the beginning of that change. - Several months ago, when I first stumble across the creation of the tree object I mentioned that one day, everything would be based off of its form. That day is here. As of now, almost every object is derived in one way or another from the tree object. It has opened up the doorway for many many things to come. - Much of what has been done in the past several months has been making internal changes to support the direction we have wanted to take Nodeka. With this in mind you may be disappointed, you may have expected to see more concrete results. I personally guarantee you that once 2.0 stabilizes these ideas will go in at a pace unlike anything we've seen before. Not only will these changes go in FAST, they will be nearly bug free. I can guarantee this because the new layout prevents me from most of the typical coding mistakes. You don't have to take my word for it, I expect that many of you will have hoped for me; but I will give you what it is you're looking for. The hard part of the road has been traveled, now we're ready lay down the future in whatever way we so choose. Nodeka 2.0 has opened up a number of opportunities that I had not only never considered implementing, I had never even *thought* of implementing. The road that we have just finished traveling has been long and hard, but we now not only have the ambition of creating a master piece, we have the underlying technology to make it happen. You can expect a more detailed explanation of the future later today, but before I sign off I want to thank EVERYONE from the beta testing team: Rar - Lead Tester, you gave direction to the group (including me) throughout the entire testing period. You kept us focused, on target and took a good majority of the stress on your shoulders. You kept the testing team closely organized and kept me up-to-date on all the major show stoppers. In addition, you spent countless hours helping me and arguing with me about bugs. The burden of all the bugs was on your shoulders the entire time. It's nice to know, because if things turn out poorly I can just blame you. Seriously though, it couldn't have been possible without you. You played the most vital role of all us and we cannot thank you enough for it. Blitzkrieg - If your communication skills were as fine tuned as your persistence you'd grow up to be president. Thankfully I'll hold you captive on Nodeka for years to come and we'll have 100% access to your talents. Fantastic testing Blitz. Drakmorden - Your experience in Nodeka is astonishing for the amount of time you've been here. I still remember when you first showed up and were still a newbie to mudding in general: boy have you made strides. And even though our personal history hasn't been the "best", I'd be a fool if I didn't recognize the talent you bring to the table. Excellent work Drak. Eldomir - Easily the "newest" Nodeka player of the testing group. I think you've only been here for ... a couple months? In that time you've shown us just how quick to learn and eager to find ways of improvement. It has been a pleasure learning all we from you in the past month, and much more to come in the future I'm sure. =) Izod - Playing a much more crucial role than you could possibly know, you and Rar pushed the upper limits of compose. Your testing and bug finding is what will make the future possible (in addition you covered races and classes and just about anything else you could get your grubby footpad hands on). But I gotta ask, did you really need to create a 500 message board??? Heh, rockin work Izod. Kakistos - All your European punks are the same to us Americans: cocky as all hell, outspoken, totally over-confident ... so basically, you fit right in. In addition, you're extremely driven. Your attention for detail and ability to communicate that clearly and concisely is a tribute to everyone. Khaled - What can I say, you went through every class and skill in the game. And then some. It's been argued that you have a greater understanding of Nodeka than anyone, and I think your work only further agrees to that. Legend - You came on late, but did just what was needed. Thanks Legend for being there when we needed you and allowing us to probe into your expertise. Loki - You're a crazy one Loki. In the last couple days the amount of bugs you found surpassed everyone (partially because I was coding them on purpose to make you feel better and partially because you're just badass). Difficult to understand at times, I half the time want to hug you or kill you. Still haven't decided which would be more rewarding... Myxlplyk - You were a real pain in the ass. Did I say "were"? Oenryth - Kick ass job on all aspects, even though I left a major part of your area till the end, you covered a huge spectrum of aspects in addition to your own and were eager to try anything and everything thrown at you. Great work in the early, middle and especially the late stages of testing. Phenomenal. Soth - Our work has only begun. You and I have gone over all the aspects of what building is and what it should be. And we're going to make those ideas come to life. Thanks for being so patient Sother, we're going to be driving your ideas home now. Veldrin - Charismatic, diplomatic and just generally a mastermind. Not only did you keep Khaled and I from tearing each other apart at times, you covered a huge number of aspects in getting 2.0 out the door. And finally, yes, you also managed to destroy Nodeka more times than anyone else. Yes, I'm still pissed off. Yadvashem - You is da man. Unparalleled level of understanding, patience and vision. You've been a mentor to me as well as a truly unbiased visionary. I can't count the number of times you and I have gone over aspects of Nodeka to improve what we have now are further express our original environment. In testing, you showed your prowess for being able to understand the deep complications and not let those distract you. More to come about 2.0 later ... Now buckle up folks, ground-shattering technology awaits...
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News 12/02/00: - Fix for "Experience" line in scoresheet to work with faulty clients. - Login character options screen strings externalized. - Login character password change strings externalized. - Login character description change strings externalized. - Final acceptance step of character creation cleaned up. - Strings for deletion of character through character options externalized. - We're going out on a limb here and allowing players to do something which seems to follow along lines of allowing more player creativity and control: Apostrophes are now allowed in names. There are some restrictions: your name can't begin or end with an apostrophe. You are limited to having a single apostrophe in your name. Thus: Valid Name: M'nliir Valid Name: Mnl'iir Valid Name: Mnlii'r Invalid name: 'Mnliir (begins with apostrophe) Invalid name: M'nl'iir (contains more than one apostrophe) Invalid name: Mnliir' (ends in an apostrophe) Keep in mind that permanent name changes cost 500 platinum. If you wish to change your name to take advantage of the new feature make sure you have the 500 platinum available BEFORE requesting a name change. - Important: rules have been updated, see 'help rules' - Colors have been updated: black is now a valid color, as well as [[background colors]]. See 'help color' for more details. - Note: background colors start with 'b', for example: blig red. You'll probably only want to do this for the border color of the score sheet. - Who and Score are now customizable. Set your own color preferences with the color command. - Help files for all of the color settings coming soon! For now, just play with the color setting and see what they do (most of them are obvious). - Note: the mind-boggling new feature is NOT implemented yet! The above changes were brought about by beginning to implement the new feature and running across each item as the implementation begin. We appreciate your patience while we continue to implement it.
News 11/28/00: - Some more internal engine changes/fixes. Mostly for stabilization. - Code cleanup. - Nijlo locate crash bug, Nijlo verify crash bug, Nijlo smash crash bug into millions of tiny pieces because crash bug make Nijlo very very angry. Crash bug die. - Another crash bug has been fixed. This being the second crash bug that's been found in the new code, we felt it was appropriate to take a minute and explain what's been going on behind the scenes which has been causing these events. When the score sheet was changed what most of you were probably not aware of is that a huge amount of code had been added. This new code is fairly new ground in terms of what it can offer, however with new designs come new issues. These issues, unfortunately were not all caught before the new code was released. We apologize for not catching all the possible errors beforehand, however the code was heavily tested and through our passes no errors were found. You, the players, have been great quality assurance testers for pointing out all the mistakes that exist and we are thankful for your efforts and patience through all of this. The good news is that once this code is 100% stable it will be reused over and over. The new code that's been causing the crashes is very low level, therefore it's already touching a huge portion of Nodeka. It will continue to be used even more thoroughly but the low level portion which has been causing crashes will not change. This means you will begin to see more and more features implemented with almost 100% stability. The downside of achieving that level of stability is that the low level design needed to be rehashed and in doing so, we've missed two crash bugs. The most recent crash bug was very easy to rectify once located and we believe it may be the last of the crash bugs with the new design. Again, please accept our apology for any inconvenience this may have been to you while we've located and fixed these bugs. We appreciate your ongoing support, The Nodeka Staff
News 11/27/00: - Help for every score field has been finished (boy was that fun). - Bug with gender appearing incorrectly on score has been fixed. - Slight problem with score misprinting commas for negative values greater than 100 million has been fixed.
News 11/26/00: - Toggling reminders will turn on/off recuperation strings. You will still regenerate faster, but you'll be able to dismiss those annoying strings. - New internal object code written - Score sheet redesigned - XML parser optimization finalized, it really hauls ass now! - New string code written to help enhance user interfaces and will allow more code to be written without Nijlo screwing it up (this was coded to ensure Nijlo can't code string memory leaks =) - Expect something mind-boggling soon!
News 11/16/00: - Learning curve has new meaning: it now affects experience gained. For quite awhile now we've been probing possible solutions to make pure caster/invoker classes easier to level. Through an indepth conversation with Cixelsyd (you rock Cix) we were able to take an initial idea he had and propegate its affects throughout Nodeka. Learning curve now affects experience gained in a logrithmic way, this means differences in learning curve at high values have little difference between them, whereas differences in learning curve at low values have large differences between them. For example: Player A has 50 learn curve (approx: 100 int, 100 wis) Player B has 60 learn curve (approx: 120 int, 120 wis) Difference in learn curve experience bonus: minor Player A has 10 learn curve (approx: 10 int, 10 wis) Player B has 20 learn curve (approx: 30 int, 30 wis) Difference in learn curve experience bonus: major This change of course has other purposes than just making the leveling of pure caster/invoker easier. We have been trying to find new and creative ways of making intellect and wisdom more important to all types of players (we're still searching for a constitution end-all). This feature adds a subtle but nice incentive to increase intellect and wisdom for all players. Also note the experienced gained string has been changed and we realize many of you will have to rewrite your 'get all corpse;sac corpse;save' triggers. We apologize for any inconvenience. Note: all experience gains now factor learning curve, this includes nimming experience bonuses and healing experience bonuses. Future implementations of experience gains will include learning curve bonuses as well. - Nimming experience has been decreased slightly. Nijlo has has been analyzing footpads for quite some time and has reached this conclusion based on several case-studies. Keep in mind the amount of gold (tier 1) nimmed was up for alteration but was shot down by Nijlo as to keep footpads as great money-runners. However, this addition will create an environment where footpads will need to do more than nim. - Help on learning curve, intellect and wisdom have been changed slightly. - Inventory bug allowing inventory to reach negative numbers has been fixed. - Monks Hand Roll has been raised. - Real death can drain up to 500 million experience now, rather than the old cap of 100 million
News 11/15/00: - Cls Dice/Cls Roll are now: Hand Dice/Hand Roll. - Hand Dice/Hand Roll have new meaning in battle. See 'help hand dice' and 'help hand roll' for detailed help files. The jist [sic] of the change is that hand dice and hand roll now compute not only +damage but +hit as well. The most obvious advantage of this change is giving extra hitting accuracy to joufus and monks, however monks are targetted [sic] more directly. This is because monks have a much higher Hand Roll and much lower Hand Dice than joufus. Because of monks higher hand roll and lower hand dice their added hitting accuracy will be consistently higher than joufus (although joufus will feel a nice benefit from this). This improvement, while still affecting joufus, was directed towards monks with the above idea in mind. The other, not so obvious, change this brings about is granting mobs more +hit (since most mobs are weaponless). This additional hitting power should affect most mobs in an insignificant way. In addition, we realize every class is affected by this change, but monks and joufus are the only classes who can fight with no weapons (or with shields) and actually fare well. P.S. Yes, this will make monks one of the best raw hitting classes in all of Nodeka. And that was our intent. To quote Master Monk Haran directly: "they practice fighting with one weapon all of their lives. You're damn right they're going to be accurate with that one weapon." (maybe there was a little adlib) - 'Score' has been altered slightly to adhere to the above change. - Door bug fixed (thanks Theophrastus)
News 11/12/00: - Minor bug with open/close commands fixed (thanks Mordeath) - Focused sphere now works in any condition. - Focused sphere no longer reduces +hit of incoming attacks. - Focused sphere has reduced lag and can be re-vitalized even if the affect has not fallen (this will not double the affects, but rather it allows the user to keep the sphere up at all times). - Practices can be enhanced (this has been in for awhile now, but we failed to mention it in the message of the day ) - Character statistic roll code cleanup (another use of CGenericPair)
News 11/12/00: - The commands 'open' and 'close' have been revamped. This change will make opening and closing a doors much easier and much more intuitive. It will allow multiple doors of the same name to be opened/closed by repeating the open/close command. For example: open door (opens first door in directional checks) open door (opens second door in directional checks) This change also includes logical directional checks (as identified above)\ which will open exits in the same order each time based on the direction ordering (i.e. checking order: north, east, south, west, up, down). Some other small touches have been added to make the user interface better.
News 11/6/00: - Problems with peripheral has been fixed. These problems specifically relate to showing exits where hidden doors were. - Peripheral code entirely rewritten for speed optimizations and clarity improvements. This was a 40-50 hour effort, the good news is peripheral is flying fast and very readable. Some new toys are going to be coming out for peripheral and hunting. These new features (which aren't fully identified yet) are possible because of the clarity improvements. In basic terms, the code's easier to read so it's easier to enhance. - Hunt/shi-ku/shadow now require an exact name for finding a target. If you were going to hunt Fayte, you'd type: hunt fayte. You would be unsuccessful in hunting Fayte if you typed: hunt fay. Keep in mind this alteration was done to help you hunt more successfully. By forcing an exact name to be searched for, you can remove other 'catches'. An example of this is as follows: Player: Legend Player: Legendary Previous hunt action: hunt legend Will find both Legend and Legendary -- depending on who's closer. New hunt action: hunt legend Will find Legend only. - Some code tweaks to improve stability and speed. Also general code cleanups for increased clarity. Mostly this was done to help decrease the time spent creating new features -- this will be an ongoing effort. - New dark creator skill: cubic dissonance
News 11/1/00: - The door problem has been fixed, however Har'luth and Avarus clan halls have undergone some door losses which could not be inherently fixed. Please e-mail Myxlplyk the door(s) which were lost and they'll be fixed immediately. All other doors which were corrupted have been fixed. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.
News 10/30/00: - Enhance bug fixed -- nice catch Fayte - Cool battle round bug fixed (thanks Yadvashem) - Mental Tiaran fixed - Color: new message in 'compose' on how to add color to your messages
News 10/29/00: - The meta command is gone - Three new commands: train, enhance, and convert. See help on each.
News 10/23/00: - New 2nd remort ataelos skill: mental tiaran (watch out, this one's deadly) - Mobs will now track you down much more effectively and require no tracks to do so. We realize and accept the implications this has upon vanish.
News 10/20/00: - Crash bug with affects and critical fixed (thanks Cutie)
News 10/18/00: - Ignoring someone now ignores their socials as well - Inviolable asylum now shows a message when the affect falls - After great consideration, multiple shield hits have been re-inserted This change will allow more than one shield to hit per attack. Therefore, if you have 3 shields up, you can return 3 shield hits to any single attack. Feel free to post your argument within 'compose' and it will be considered. The main reason for this change was the inhibition that was being applied for races with shields and classes with shields. Keep in mind that shields do relatively low damage and usually shield spells are only given to classes which have no non-offensive healing method. - Finally, I've implemented a new idea which works with what most of you know as the "compose" system. I won't go into detail about it's implementation but I'd like to give just a brief explanation of what it is and why it's good. I'll be taking this conversation to 'compose'. If you'd like to hear more about what this addition gains us, look for the message entitiled: [ Hooking ] For those of you who might have been wondering what's been going on for the last week, you'll want to read my Hooking message.
News 10/10/00: - Visit, transient alteration, methodic shift and inosculated crossing no longer work on creatures who are beyond your remort tier. Non-remorts cannot visit 1st remorts, 1st remorts cannot visit 2nd remorts. - Summon and Greater Summon work in the same manner as visit-type spells. - Failing to summon someone in your area will no longer display an identifiable message different than normal failing which was leading people to make logical conclusions on whether or not a player was in their area.
News 10/10/00: - Hunt, shi-ku and shadow have all been altered. They will now work in any area and continue to stay active until the user stops using them or the user runs too low on endurance. These skills will also drain endurance with every step that is made and each "look" that is done (as looking also shows the target's location). Lag has been added to hunt/shi-ku/shadow when the target is located, however no lag is appended while the target is not located. There is no lag penalty for stopping hunt/shi-ku/shadow. See help on each for more details.
News 10/7/00: - tholecs no longer have ambush (stripped from remorts as well) - Vtshinne's no longer prevents ambush as tholecs no longer have it - tholecs now get hunt at non-remort - New skill: Acutus Videre - New skill: Grete Sja - New skill: Shi-Ku - New skill: Rokkan - New skill: Shadow - New skill: Takushiki - tholec remorts get: acutus videre, and grete sja - joufu remorts get: shi-ku and rokkan - Footpad remorts get: shadow and takushiki - Necromancer remorts get: shadow - The above batch of skills are all "hunt" related but vary greatly in implementation. However, we're not going to tell you "how" they differ. =) But don't be fooled -- they are not replicas of each other.
News 10/7/00: - New Online Resource Library (ORL) will be explained when it's integration is finished. This is just another example of Nodeka's tree system (which you use 'compose' with). - Door opening/closing is now back to one letter (open n.door). - All door issues are now resolved
News 10/4/00: - Tree (Compose) Issue: Nodekians: Recently a change was made to the XML parser for optimization. This change needed to be made and seemed quite stable, showing no outstanding flaws. It was fully tested and verified before implemented. Unfortunately, while the optimization was mostly correct, there was one line of code that was incorrect, which was overlooked. This line of code has corrupted the entire tree (compose) structure at almost every location. Nijlo has repaired the code and has verified the corruption will no longer happen. However, the data which has been affected cannot be reversed. Therefore, Myxlplyk and Zed have taken it upon themselves to piece the information back together by hand. Because of their efforts, we will soon have 'compose' back on-line. Please note that some of the messages may have been lost due to this corruption. I would like to take a moment and thank Zed and Myx for their outstanding efforts in repairing the tree structure. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience, Nodeka Staff - Hunt has been optimized (over 1000 times faster) - Peripheral has been optimized (over 1000 times faster) - Due to the optimization to Hunt, all lag has been removed (this was Nijlo's intent from the beginning) - P.S. We know what you're thinking, the last optimization took out the entire tree structure why are we doing more? In answer to that question, these optimizations are required of Nodeka to satisfy Nijlo's plans for the future. Peripheral and hunt needed to be optimized in order for his future skill/spell development to continue. As of now, hunt and peripheral use less than 0.1% of the processor cycles. Previously they were using up to 97%. However, we guarantee these optimizations will not have the disasterous [sic] affects the XML parser optimization had. We can boldly guarantee this because there's only one tree ... ... and Nijlo already completely obliterated that sucker! =)
News 10/2/00: - Hunt now works PERFECTLY!!!! It needed some multiple fixes.
News 9/30/00: - Vanish works while under conditions again, but will fail more often - Charge/Ice discharge work with Naj'k and Grei now (these may be toned down) - Hurricane kick/Vicious fist have increased accuracy - Bug: Cloak % staying up for 100 phases is now fixed - Please read the critical message left by Myx in 'compose'
News 9/23/00: - Gargoyle 2nd remort colossal attack fixed - Vanish will no longer succeed under impairment (unless broken) - Charge and ice discharge lag HEAVILY reduced - Ambush/quit bug dealing with breaking anti-ambush/Nodeka-lock is fixed - Tree is now nearly 100 times faster (optimized)
News 9/20/00: - Inviolable asylum now shows up correctly on the 'affects' list - Minor bug with charge fixed - The command 'class' now lists skills/spells of that class - Output on track altered slightly (it'll makes more sense this way) - New spell: ICE BLAST (2nd remort Sorcerer)
News 9/19/00:
- Fury and hammer don't give pk flags improperly anymore - New skill: CHARGE (2nd remort barb, level 100) - Hammer is going to be altered soon ... - Fury is now a remort barb skill - Defenders discipline has been given to ruanbaeres
News 9/17/00: - Change to compose for ease of use.
News 9/14/00: - Vanish allowing entry into clan halls and other rooms which should be inaccessible has been fixed. - Flee/retreat/vanish now access each direction with an equal chance of success. - Astral travel now works as intended with non-remorts, 1st remorts and 2nd remorts.
News 9/9/00: - The main "help" has been updated, type 'help' to see changes - Astral travel, clairavoyance and sixth sense have been altered. Remortal type now factors into the equation. Non-remorts cannot astral 1st or 2nd remorts. 1st remorts cannot astral 2nd remorts. This applies for all three spells/skills above. - Peripheral has changed, see 'help peripheral' (thanks Bargle) - Petrify has been changed again. The latest change will do three things: 1) Easier targets will be much more easy to paralyze 2) Similar targets will reflect balanced success and failure 3) Difficult targets will be much more more difficult to paralyze - New clan hall features, see 'help clan hall'
News 9/2/00: - All affects names now match skill/spell names. Some players were having a hard time seeing what affects were up because of the naming. - Important: See 'help riddles' and 'help answer' if you haven't already - Important: The infamous Citadel crash bug has been SMASHED!
News 9/1/00: - Critical attacks can now receive partial shield damage. This decision was reached to provide a compromise between criticals being too powerful and criticals becoming the "end-all" skill. Please keep in mind this decision was made to maintain a slight advantage for critical attacks while disallowing it from becoming all powerful. - Citadels rewards improved! See 'help citadel' - New Gaa'el racial: detect invisibility! - Wings of the dragon altered. Duration now lengthened, also the fly affect percent has been increased but the wing attack percent has been decreased.
News 8/30/00: - Petrify has been toned down, it will miss more often now - Petrify now has extra lag associated with it - HP/mana/spirit/end metas are now individually calculated, rather than being calculated as a sum. This will decrease EVERYONE'S meta cost (guaranteed) - A ton of code optimizations/cleanups - Some resource strings have been altered/improved - Petrify has even more lag, but mana and spirit cost dropped severely - Witches now have fireball - Visible toggle fixed in toggle list and output string
News 8/29/00: - The 'visible' toggle is now in. - Holy light fixed (it now Naj'ks correctly) - Elemental Malediction hits much more often - Sensual sedation slightly more difficult to break - Some minor resource fixes
News 8/23/00: Message of the day will no longer be in. Messages of the day will be stored in the message board for message of the day. This'll be implemented soon.
News 8/21/00: - Tree enhancements, bug fixes, no color login now works
News 8/20/00: - 'Compose' is now in, and may be accessible for players this boot
News 8/6/00: - Nodeka experienced a crash bug today after putting in some of the more powerful code that's been written. To help clarify the situation, I thought I'd take a moment to explain. Software almost always has bugs. If you manage to code a program that has no bugs you are either Albert Einstein or you're writing a 2 line program. What I (yes, it's me Nijlo) have been working on recently is to help insure Nodeka's growth stays steady for the next decade and is based off of three fundamental ideas: i. Spend more time designing it, and the code will naturally be better. This hardly needs an explanation, but I'll delve a little. In the past, I would write code profusely, which would seem to show that I was doing a lot (and in some sense, I was). The side-affect, however, of doing this "mass-production" of code is that maintanence [sic] and bug checking becomes a nightmare. Not to mention that most design improvements become unattainable if not impossible. It's fairly obvious that I've undergone several growing pains while building Nodeka, from redesigning things 3, 4, 5 times to failing to solve the description bug even after 15 attempts. These experiences have been painful, but very needed for me to understand how to design the system I envision today. ii. Reuse, reuse, reuse. Build objects which can be applied everywhere. Instead of trying to build things which are issue specific, and require a complete rewrite to accomplish the same thing with a slightly different face, create things which will work with everything, but may require a slight tweak for each individual case. This slight tweak will save hours of development time, and days of bug checking. Most importantly, and easily the most difficult to design and code: build abstractly (definitely harder than it sounds). Build boxes that come in every shape and size, that will carry anything ... and then reuse the hell out 'um (optimize later). iii. Quality over quantity. One of the best examples of this is the rave of MP3 software out there. Many boast to do a number of things, and turn out to crash more than they run. In the end, the software that's the most stable will win (Linux's race with Windows is a great example. Some don't know this, but Linux servers now take 29% of the server boxes out there). Considering that Linux isn't backed by a software giant as Windows is, this is truly a feat which leaves me in awe by Linus' (the creator of Linux) initial attempts. And not to get "too" side-tracked, but Linus is working on doing it again with a shot at completely revolutionizing laptops. The company, he and a number of the top brains in the world work for, are building low powered laptops. These laptops (supposedly arriving in the fourth quarter of the year) may turn the mobile PC industry on its head. As I'm an avid supporter of inovation [sic], feel free to by Transmeta's web page (www.transmeta.com) or just go to this URL to read up on them: http://www.transmeta.com/press/011900-1.html Now, back to my explanation of the crash tonight and the my direction with Nodeka. The crash tonight was, as most of you guessed, caused by the new code which I had just implemented. What most of you may not have guessed, is that my new code actually "found" the bug which then crashed Nodeka. The crash bug was within code that was causing a memory leak for over a year. Once I was pointed in the right direction, it was only a matter of minutes before the damage was repaired. Very cool ... So, some of you may be thinking, "how does his new code 'find' bugs"? I'll spare you from asking: it doesn't. What it does do is secure and release memory much more frequently (and much more properly) than most of the other "older" code. It is because of this "packing" memory that memory leaks are found much more quickly (of course, I won't tell you "how" to pack memory, trade secret ... ya know?). Anyhow, the reason you're hearing about this now, and not a year ago, is because I'm a much more disciplined coder than I was when I first ventured into the depths of Nodeka. I'm by no means a master, and doubt I ever will be, but I can assure you Nodeka will continue to thrive and implement the "coolest" but most stable things you can think of. Now, I'm going to share with you a small piece of information, just a tease of what's coming. The explanation above of the future and past wasn't induced by the crash that took place and some funky new code that I've developed overnight. In fact, it's taken me four weeks to develop the new secret system I'm going to share with you, and boy-oh-boy has it been a testament of faith ("Let's just do it the easy way" and such and such). Finally! What we have built is an integrated UNIX-expanding on-line access hierarchy supporting group/individuals, group-ownership/individual-ownership, smart searching and a bunch of other buzz words to wet your appetite. We're calling it: tree (it's a tree-based system) It is with the exception of Nodeka's AI and peripheral systems, the most complex "thing" I've written. That being said, it is by far, the most robust system I have yet had the pleasure to design. Now you may be wondering why this is important to you, here's just a couple things tree can do for you: - Message Boards (topic grouping: flames, ideas, Mel's troll hut, etc.). Most other muds/on-line games have multiple boards for multiple dialogs. While we'll be giving all the clans their own message board, we'll have one major board broken into topics so you don't have to go wander off into the Abyss to find the next one. We'll also be placing them conveniently around the globe to make your access to them easier. - Mortal building. That's right, we'll be able to do it. We'll have a mortal building area just so you can take a stab at building your own mobs, the way you think they should be. And if we use your ideas, of course the platinum will be flowing your way. What about items and areas? Well, maybe ... often times items are more difficult to create accurately, and areas take a good deal of time to produce. We're considering it though. - Corpse-saving. Never again will you have to worry about a crash stealing your corpse. Nodeka's tree system will automatically cover that for you. So in the unlikely event of a crash, you won't be searching for the oxygen mask, tucking your head between your knees and kissing your ass goodbye. - On-line bug fixing. The truth is many things still require a reboot, but we're doing our damnedest to find new and creative ways to make your stay at Nodeka as smooth as Cindy Crawf ... well, smooth. - Massive time improvements for building areas, items, mobs, and whatever else you can think of. Anything that can be built through tree, will be. And it'll be done faassssst. - Did I mention the possibility (and yes, this is still hypothetical) of building skills and spells through tree? We'll keep you updated. Even if this isn't fully possible, the development of skills and spells will continue, hopefully at a rapid pace (like the old days, but without the bugs). - Quests. This is, I'm sure a big one for the lot of you. We've been holding off on quests because we didn't want to give you the generic, "go kill an ant and bring back its corpse" type of quest. We're talking about level by level, chapter by chapter quests that will leave you in a blubbering foam of sweat begging for more abuse. So now that I've hopefully gotten your attention, we still have some major pieces to get wrapped up before we can start pushing the above ideas in. So please don't get "too" excited. Right now, it looks like anywhere from 2 weeks to a month before a template for the builder can be done generically and work for everything (as it should). Hopefully you're coming away with a good sense of what to expect in the future and a reinforced belief that Nodeka has been, and will continue to stay under development until it eventually rules the civilized world (or at least a good portion of your neighborhood). Mad Scientist signing out, Nijlo-man
News 8/6/00: - Nodeka's been getting a serious tune-up. We're almost to the turning point where you, the players, will be able to start seeing the power we've been building. Hold tight, things are gonna start moving fasssssst!
News 8/4/00: - Our apologies for the recent downtime. There was a power outage a few days ago which corrupted some of Nodeka's resource files. This prevented anyone from being able to put Nodeka back on-line, but Nijlo. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience. - The Nodeka Staff
News 8/1/00: - More additions to new functionality - Minor bug fixes with new functionality, restructure of access rights/priviledges system [sic] (immortal only (for now)) - Soon, the mystery of all this functionality will be revealed
Cheaters 7/31/00: - Shie and Noah have been zapped for multi-playing - Kazzet has been zapped for botting - Enigmapotpie and all of his alts have been banned - Bhaal, Pestilence and Helm have been zapped for multi-play - Seven more players zapped for cheating
News 7/31/00: - Massive internal re-architecture, Nodeka is smarter, and much more versitile [sic]. Three more pieces must be complete before the internal restructure is finished. Three weeks of non-stop coding is now almost done
Cheaters 7/12/00: - Shie and Noah have been zapped for multi-playing - Kazzet has been zapped for botting - Enigmapotpie and all of his alts have been banned - Bhaal, Pestilence and Helm have been zapped for multi-play
News 7/16/00: - Necromancers followers are now MUCH more powerful
News 7/14/00: - Cool new system architecture
News 7/12/00: - Stepping skill/spell pair association crash bug fixed - Stepping skills/spells modified. More solid structure base now and they have a more visible look to them - Stepping skills work more properly when under affect (baned, stunned, etc) - Extra string added to celestial ray - Alleviate now lags an extra round
News 7/10/00: - Soul egression now mimics soul guardian, preventing stat peaks above maximum - Celestial ray damage string fixed - Lightning damage strings fixed - Mob typo fixed (thanks Nix) - Shield crash bug fixed - Evasion strings now included on shield damage - Grouped shield damage now shows average damage, for consistency - Attack damage strings fixed (some genders were incorrect)
News 7/8/00: - Updated Rules: See 'help rules', ignorance of rule changes will not be accepted - Updated Rules: See 'help bot' - Shield strings fixed (thanks Soth)
News 7/7/00: - Feature: shield damage now seen more correctly! Rockin!!! - Critical attack cannot take shield damage (just like other naj'k/grei attacks) - Hurricane kick cannot take shield damage (just like other naj'k/grei attacks) - Vicious fist cannot take shield damage (just like other naj'k/grei attacks) - Illusionary Displacement improved - Planar Sage class +hit now fixed (thanks Zhakar) - Major Fix: one shield hit per attack (my apologies for letting this bug slip by)
News 6/25/00: - Fix for return line failures
News 6/22/00: - More than 30 bug fixes
News 6/13/00: - Another 100 strings externalized (yay!) - Anti-recall affect now in (but not used ... yet)
News 6/12/00: - 'nodeka staff' converted to 'list staff' (nod social now works again) - 'commands' converted to 'list commands' - 'socials' converted to 'list socials' - Logging modification
News 6/11/00: - Help on building is in, see 'help building' - New planar sage spell: mist of lectokke - New remort sa'duroth spell: arhkarret's form
News 6/3/00: - Player fight damage is now cut in half (for player fights only) - Regeneration rates are now coded properly (regen % is while sleeping) - All healing skills/spells now heal half on player fighting targets (with the exception of compelled rejuv, now it'll be worthwhile to use) - Mana and spirit regen are increased by 52 points per tick - Two special cases with 1/2 pfight damage fixed (working properly now)
News 6/1/00: - Critical is now more accurate - Partial hits are now in, meaning you can hit with less than full damage. This allows for more accuracy for landing a blow in battle, but it may mean you hit for less than full damage. Instead of an "all or nothing" type of combat, you can get those imperfect hits to still land.
News 5/31/00: - Phases are now only seen when on the world map - Channeled anger and sensual sedation's duration now based off of willpower (as it was suppose to be, thanks Soth) - The 'race' command now shows each race's lineage - The continent Tarsis has been added to the world map!
News 5/29/00: - More social fixes - New skill: Prowl (Shadow Rogues only) - Prowl fixed - New area: Stormhaven! - Stepping skills/spells template improved (easier to code them now, and less chance for error) - Soth has a new title! (wizlist) - Prowl skill modified, strings modified as well
News 5/27/00: - Loss of concentration is no longer seen by others - New socials in: ponder and twitch! (hail Luminata) - Some other socials slightly modified - New spell: Sight of Divestment! (remort heitons) - New skill: Hunters Vigilance (remort tholecs) - Elf remort racials fixed!
News 5/25/00: - The Scobie-Noyola Fund raising is over. You will no longer - receive double platinum for donations. Thanks to all who - contributed to the cause.
News 5/24/00: - New Spell: Bestow Vision (remort witches/daja)
News 5/23/00: - New Skill: Lectokke's Vision (remort sorcerers) - Hobbits "cloak" now is extremely powerful in concealing their existance - "list skills", "list spells" are now two worded commands (for easier use) - A few strings now display more correctly - Invisibility, Blended, Cloaked and Unseen flags are now displayed The Scobie-Noyola Fund has raised over $1900 dollars so far!! (see 'help fund raising') Thanks to: Soma, Blitzkrieg, Auberon, Yevroth, Avalanche, Monster, Zhakar, Ishmael, Jato, Utxsudo, Arkenon, Jagas, an anonymous donation, Drayke, Shandara, Cixelsyd, Shierkahn, Drakmorden and Grit, and another anonymous!
News 5/22/00: -Multiple bug fixes -Crash bug fixed! (thanks to Myx for reminding Nijlo to fix this)
The Scobie-Noyola Fund has raised over $1900 dollars so far!!
(see 'help fund raising') Thanks to: Soma, Blitzkrieg, Auberon, Yevroth, Avalanche, Monster, Zhakar, Ishmael, Jato, Utxsudo, Arkenon, Jagas, an anonymous donation, Drayke, Shandara, Cixelsyd, Shierkahn, Drakmorden and Grit!
News 5/18/00: - Trolls/Trogs/Drolls have been improved, thank Soth and Nijlo.
The Scobie-Noyola Fund has raised over $1300 dollars after two days!! (see 'help fund raising') Thanks to: Soma, Blitzkrieg, Auberon, Yevroth, Avalanche, Monster, Zhakar, Ishmael, Jato, Utxsudo, Arkenon, Jagas, and an anonymous donation.
News 5/16/00: - Hail Soth! The new area Stormhaven is in!!!! Special thanks to Myx for checking every room for typos, Zed for checking every item and mob, and Soth for doing all the work!
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News 5/14/00: - Stoicism help reads more correctly. - Multiple string errors fixed. - Silent Malevolence made more powerful. - Stormhaven item fix (thanks Nijlo)
News 5/11/00: - Player description bug fixed.
News 5/6/00: - Stoicism toned down (sorry folks, it was doing some things I didn't realize) - Soth's new area is in (thank Soth for building, Zed for clean up, and Nijlo for figuring out why it broke Nodeka, so it can actually go in). - Crash bug fixed -- another crash bug fix when builders go bad...hehe.
News 5/1/00: - Invisibility bug fixed (mobs will show up correctly now) - 2.mob will work now if a player with a similar name is on (thanks Khaled) - Methodic Shift to [ataelos]] Remorts
News 4/19/00: - Yulek non-damaging hits fixed! (hail Akari for the help) - Rescue bug fixed (rescue now leaves lag on the rescued target)
News 4/17/00: - Alleviate modified - Learning curve now helps in combat? (see 'help learn curve') - Humans race modification - Newbie school mobs altered, slightly - Lots of other internal code clean-ups/modifications - Toggling channel info now blocks clan changes and citadel information
News 4/15/00: - Link dead bug fixed (thanks Jesus)
News 4/9/00: - Crash bug fixed (still shocked that we crashed) - Sell issues fixed - Some follower issues resolved (thanks Nix)
News 4/8/00: - Groups of mobs now appear in group order properly. Previously, for example, you might see 2 ladies in a room and a female soldier. It was possible that when you typed 'k lady' three times you might attack them in a number possibilities. These would be: Attacking a lady, attacking a female soldier, attacking a lady Attacking a lady, attacking a lady, attacking a female soldier Attacking a female soldier, attacking a lady, attacking a lady This 'bug' can no longer happen. The *only* way that the above will happen now is as follows: Attacking a lady, attacking a lady, attacking a female soldier This is the correct behavior. My apologies for overlooking this for so long. - Player items and room items follow a similar ideology as the above - Fury fixed (thanks Legend) - Strength and Dexterity tables *slightly* toned down (very slight tone down for 100+). Remember, this means more powerful mobs will be down-graded as well. This change was not put in to reduce player power, and the gold algorithm was *slightly* increased. The only reason this was put in was to reduce the gap between small and large players (very slightly at that) - The barter/buy command now takes this syntax: buy <item #> <mob> - SELL IS NOW IN - it'll undergo changes, but it's in - Peripheral now gives more information (expect more) - Mobs that are trying to lure you out of a safe room are less spammy now - Corpses now align in the frestest first in the room (for killed mobs only) - Sell bug fixed
News 4/7/00: - Battles shouldn't end improperly anymore - Stoicism is more powerful than before! - Outcast now auto-sets home to Ruushi - If you have fly, you will now always succeed on terrain movement, but that doesn't mean you will always get a lowered endurance drain - Hammer and fury should work properly now - Lag has been removed from commands: scan and peripheral - Stoicism will now show up in Citadel battles - Bug with tracking mobs showing up in your prompt is now fixed - Bug with "You don't have enough endurance" fixed - Stoicism completely revamped! See 'help stoicism' - The Citadel now deals with 300 levels, see 'help citadel' - Important: Real Death now has a chance of reducing a stat PERMANENTLY! See 'help real death' for more information Note: To all you mass-suiciders to Raash/massive guard and Abyss mobs -- you've had this coming for a long time. Be thankful I was kind enough to give you advanced notice that this was implemented instead of letting you find out the hard way. - N
News 4/1/00: - Cogline's Giest Mist items and mobs in (Artificial Intelligence!) - Sea Hag to Oracle (thanks Legend, I like this one more) - ruanbaeres [sic] now have fury, it took awhile for me to decide to allow this - Bishops have regalement, they lose invig and greater invig - Bishops lose cure light/serious/cure critical|critical]] (those spells sucked anyway) - Bishops gain holy analgesic (and this spell is badass) - Peripheral now usable in battle! - Room mob default colors changed (if you don't like it, change it) - Command say modified (just color/cosmetic) - THE BEST EQUIPMENT MONEY CAN BUY -- DONATOR ONLY EQ NOW AVAILABLE!!!
News 3/31/00: - More mob/item fixes -- Zed's the man! - Minor changes to mental blast and psychic shock - Astral Travel is more powerful than ever... - khehusod skill reordering (minor change)
News 3/30/00: - Gaa'els double willpower fixed (thanks Fizzle) - Mob/Item fixes -- hail Zed! - More social fixes (thanks Lum and Myx) - Witches' major remort: SEA HAG! (Muhahahah, thanks Pandora)
News 3/27/00: - Alleviate bug fixed (thanks Ziii) - Major Character Generation bug fixed - Nodeka lock is now ignored when deleting a character - Major race alteration - please see command 'race' and read Nijlo's indepth reasoning behind the alteration: 'help nijlo's race change'
News 3/26/00: - Nodeka Lock doesn't re-apply on reconnections (thanks Potem) - Luminata and Myx have modified/added new socials! Comments to Lum - Character generation now shows racials!! =) - Another cool crash bug SMASHED! - 200+ internal strings externalized! - Alleviate altered again (usable on self, but lagged) - Major race alteration - please see command 'race' and read Nijlo's indepth reasoning behind the alteration: 'help nijlo's race change' - Commands - Identify/understand and Extrinsic Elucidation slightly altered. Nijlo will be heavily modifying its interface for easier understanding - Command - Affect more organized (will undergo more changes)
News 3/21/00: - Alleviate altered - Blue, Red and Black Drakes altered (and their lineage) - Humans now have racials - Gnomes and their lineage altered - Frost Giants and their lineage altered - Angel/Arch-Angels and Demons/Daimonikos altered - Forced connections are in (astral travellers, you'll dig this) - Note: All donations are handled by CHAOS now (see 'help donation') - Race strings fixed (thanks Khaled)
News 3/18/00: - Races are now creatable while Nodeka is running (finally) - Many racial changes: if your racials changed, it was intended - So many changes, I could write a book about it...
News 3/8/00: - Some social fixes (including 'nod') - Many more socials added (hail Luminata and Soth!) - Peripheral design restructure -- super fast, super clean! - Cosmetic race changes including proper names (i.e. An angel, A human) - Please e-mail Luminata with social errors
News 3/6/00: - Collision with illusionary displacement and ill fixed - Crash bug with event logging fixed - Overloaded input buffering fixed (truncated lines now work properly) - Holy light lag time reduced (damage/hit unmodified) - Lord Braggi item fixes (thanks Myx)
News 3/5/00: - Crash bug with over 50 of the same mob in a room fixed - Many more socials in! (hail Luminata and Myx) - Tracking now lags slightly
News 3/1/00: - Another 20 or so socials add (thanks Luminata and Myx!!!)
News 2/29/00: - More socials added (hail Luminata), more will come soon
News 2/25/00: - Crash bug fixed with invalid items on mobs - Socials revamped (please bare with us while we convert them) - Holy light toned down and made more willpower dependent
News 2/23/00: - Items in container crash fixed
News 2/21/00: - Socket problem is NOW fixed - Items in containers STAY in containers upon quitting. - Channeled Anger string fixed (thanks again Atlas)
News 2/20/00: - Bug with clan halls fixed - Rhall mobs updated, hail Soth! - Visit and astral travel fixed (thanks Ryv) - Socket connections problems should be solved -- if you have trouble logging in, please tell an immortal - Phase string fixed (thanks anonymous) - Continent mapping is now seamless ('?' won't show between continents) - Stepping skills now stop properly if the user drops to 0 hp - Insane skill string fix (thanks Atlas) - White Dragoons now have celestial ray (thanks Iron)
News 2/18/00: - Inside and outside area types now settable per area - Mapping/Peripheral functionality improved (fixed bleeds, overlapped terrain now blends)
News 2/17/00: - Feature added to output contol: Brief My Attacks - Feature added to output contol: Brief Enemy Attacks - Help on output control simplified
News 2/15/00: - Many color incompatibilities between clients fixed - Exit colors are now player settable (see "color") - Color layout heavily modified - Output layout heavily modified
News 2/14/00: - Character Generation heavily modified (ugly parts cleaned up) - Gender Generation now allows becoming an "it" - Handedness more greatly explained in char gen - Stats generation informs player of max and mins - Stats generation briefly explains stats now - Gender generation and password generation cleaned up - Classes no longer require *ANY* stat requirements: any race can be any class (we realize the implications of this, so you don't need to inform us) - Alleviate fixed: it now behaves as it should - Petrify is lagging somewhat properly (it will step eventually) - lo-fent's Holy light beefed up majorly - lo-fent's Holy light is now Naj'ked - ateoli no longer have globe of fluctuation
News 2/10/00: - Soth's NEW area is in! All hail Soth! - Who bug fixed (logging in chars no longer included) - Race problems with Khan-lith and Iron Claw items fixed (hail Akari) - Self-deletion string error fixed - Sweet stepping bug fixed (thanks Black, great find!) - Who invisible miscalculations now fixed (thanks Wrath) - Aggros finally up to Nijlo's standards
News 2/8/00: - Anti-where tactics work on peripheral and scan, this includes footpad skills, black drakes and so on. This also works with invis - Invis bug with scan and look fixed (thanks Akari) - A bunch of new races added (these may be playable in the future) - Yet another memory leak found and fixed - Soth's new area coming soon!
News 2/6/00: - Crash bug fixed with replies in prompt
News 2/3/00: - Temple touch now startable under a condition - Sensual sedation now startable under a condition - Channeled anger now startable under a condition - Stun now startable under a condition
News 2/2/00: - Temple touch now steps (success rate improved) - Sensual sedation now steps (success rate improved) - Channeled anger now steps (success rate improved)
News 2/1/00: - Critical memory leak fixed - Stun now sequential stepping (lag is still the same) - Stun will now hit more often (success rate improved) - Auto-join no longer works for player fights - Critical attack slightly altered
News 1/30/00: - Vanish and retreat now lag properly (thanks Soma) - New Footpad skill: Cloak - Critical Attack modified again (some really cool stuff going on now) - Dropped sockets throughout the code fixed - AFK freeze after dropping link fixed (only took 2 minutes, 37 seconds) - Thieves to Footpads, Rogues to Shadow Rogues - Critical attack restructured: added time delay and enhanced power ('help critical' rewritten)
News 1/29/00: - Strings externalized - PC descriptions fixed (thanks Akari) - Sixth sense fixed - Inventory corpses string fix (yes yes, it took awhile) - New high lo-fent skill: Celestial Ray (this is the start of yet another new breed of skills/spells)
News 1/28/00: - Command input blocking fixed - A couple more memory leaks isolated and fixed - Fireball evade string fixed (thanks Atlas)
News 1/26/00: - Bug fixed related to losing ability to input commands - Mobs/items can now be added or modified while running - Aggro bug fixed (buffering finalized) - Two memory leaks found and fixed - Crash bug fixed - Command buffering fixed
News 1/25/00: - Tracks now stay longer - Sensual Sedation and focused sphere now show Naj'k (thanks Sheep) - Hunt bug fixed (thanks Dwiggs) - Where has been removely [sic] completely -- let's see how this turns out (We do realize this present a problem of Anti-Where people, but not to worry we have a solution) - Buffer leak fixed - Modified command buffering
News 1/24/00: - Whocitadel now only shows players (not locations) - Contradiction of the rabbit +quickness toned down slightly - New skill for hunters/striders: hunt (remort only) - Where now lags for two seconds (no more "spam where") - Memory leak fixed (one more down!)
News 1/23/00: - Bug with willed protector has been fixed (thanks Dwiggs) - daja equipment now works (my apologies for the delay) - Agility bonus on quickness has been toned down, e-mail Nijlo with comments
News 1/21/00: - daja class for fallad-like females only. This class will undergo many changes, please be patient while Nijlo restructures them - Automatic conversion for female fallads to female daja (you won't need to recreate your character from scratch, or ask for a class change) - daja statistic variation from Bishop is complete - Remorts, minor and major, for dajaes are named - Knight class and remorts all renamed and will undergo multiple changes that will make knights more appealing (not necessarily more powerful) - Riposte has been removed completely (practices automatically reimbursed) - New Raider skill: Field Aid (thanks Potem) - New item type: bandage - Randomized repop on some "seller" mobs inventory (each mob is unique) This means sellers can now "restock" items for selling purposes without being slain - Time functionality revamped -- Nodeka will flow more steadily now - Sockets optimized using sleep-splitting for maximum response time (this means you should be able to communicate with Nodeka even faster) - New shop somewhere in Ruushi - Remorting now requires at least a $20 donation (if you don't like it, don't remort)
News 1/20/00: - This is now nodeka.com. Most of you can just use nodeka.com, but in some areas you may still be forced to use the IP 207.238.190.4 (for another day) - www.nodeka.com is now accessible on the web! - A big THANK YOU to Akira for his great work on the web page redesign!
News 1/19/00: - New T1 is up, ALL PROGRESS WILL BE SAVED (while we wait to get Nodeka.com back)
News 1/17/00: - Item loading has been fixed (thanks Myx)
News 1/16/00: - Insanity modified again (much better now from the last degrade, but uses more end) - Time command heavily modified
News 1/13/00: - Nodeka now runs on multiple platforms (still some major bugs) - Nim bug fixed (thanks Soma) - Lightning typo fixed (thanks Ith)
News 1/9/00: - Mystic Wand of Fleetness has been fixed (thanks Legend) - Witches completely revamped - New witch spell: Cathianas Guidance (help 'cathianas guidance') - New witch spell: Ruah Kyf (help 'ruah kyf') - Revamped spell: cat of summoning to mystic wand of... (help 'mystic wand') - Improved race: Svirfneblin - Berserk and Insanity fixed (thanks Gavial) - Bishops now have sixth sense
News 1/8/00: - Incorrect behavior for missed affect fixed (thanks Myx) - Fixed problems with bash and channeled anger (thanks Dwiggs!) - Bash and channeled anger now use Naj'k - khehusods [sic] now have: mental tempest - Help on Naj'k and Grei has been changed - Followers can no longer be attacked in safe rooms - Ordering followers to attack newbies will no longer work - Newbie "no-pk" range is now at level 30 - PCs within a Grei/Naj'k sphere are now seen
News 1/7/00: - Some new damage strings - Naj'k has been made a little less complex - Critical now uses Naj'k - Grei has been made more visible, and somewhat less complex - Some spell costs mana/spirit) have been slightly altered - Bishop protectors, and sa'duroth zombies have been improved
News 1/5/00q: [sic] - Fixed output problem with Grei and Naj'k - Fixed vicious fist string (thanks Jaxon)
News 1/3/00: - The mysteries of Grei and Naj'k have been implemented (thanks Demonlord and Overman) - Soothing touch bug fixed (thanks Yaga) - Raider remort name changes (thanks Ishmael)
1999
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News 12/24/99: - New area: Kobolds! (hail Forge and his great work!) - Newbie school can no longer be entered by remorts - New drow remort: Veldruk - heitons skills/spells layout modified again - Soothing touch can now heal the user as well as followers (help 'sooth') - New spell: inosculated crossing (help 'ino cross') - Notice: Followers now enter ANYWHERE you can (clan halls, guilds, ect.) - 'help news' has been added to review old news you may have missed
News 12/23/99: - Massive speed optimizations (you should immediately notice an improvement)
News 12/22/99: - Nim bug fixed (thanks Soma)
News 12/20/99: - Syntax fixed for retreat and palm (thanks Pin) - [[[heitons]] new spell: song of the trees (see 'help song of')
News 12/19/99: - Recall typo fixed - Minor bug fix with shield damage/hits (thanks Gambit)
News 12/18/99: - Scan bug fixed (thanks Synn) - Hit roll algo has been modified - Hit roll on critical attack has been fixed for mob battles - Lag on lightning has been shortened - Hammer lag on non-action has been fixed (thanks Orson)
News 12/15/99: - Stun like skills are now back to full damage, but retain the lag/battle initiative change
News 12/13/99: - Join string for auto-join removed for reduced spam/lag - Scan strings externalized/modified - Alignment aggros have been completely removed (this may be temporary) - heitons skills/spells have been revamped - heiton spell: keepers vociferation - New e-mail!! (hopefully this'll last): nijlo@crosswinds.net - Inventory/items carried bug fixed (thanks Atlas, Jagas, Scarlock) - Many fixes to "Increased Mastery..." at incorrect locations
News 12/13/99: - Concentrated attack has been modified (see 'help concentra') - Defenders discipline has been modified (see 'help defenders') - Focused sphere lag modified (still less than the skill duration) - Group follow bug fixed (thanks Zorachus, Sheep, Dwiggs) - Identify/understand now costs 10,000 (to keep the spell desired) - New Area: The Asylum is in, great job Forge!!!
News 12/10/99: - Fairy, Sylph -> Sylph, Sprite - 'P' aliases to 'peripheral' not 'password' (fixed yesterday) - Race command will work for partial names anywhere (i.e., race r dra) - Undead, Zombie, Liche -> Undead, [[Liche], Liche Lord (thanks Asmo)
- Fire Derk/Ice Derk racials are now finished - Tracks work properly with movement again - Lag bug fixed with world map movement - Chivalrous Valor now gives greater bonuses on willpower - Typo with Ascension of the Templar fixed (thanks Atlas)
News 12/8/99: - Map group/follow bug has been fixed - Gedaon is now complete...world movement will lag one second per move, however all areas are much closer in distance, so your travel time will actually be shortened by a great deal. Peripheral now lags for one second as well, instead of three. The outside world is completely visible through peripheral, see 'help peripheral' Time for a little exploration... - TRUE LINE OF SIGHT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD MAP!!! - Peripheral can now be used EVERYWHERE!! (only 1 second of lag)
News 12/5/99: - Sight renamed to: 'peripheral vision', see help on 'peripheral'
- HOLY COW!! TRUE LINE OF SIGHT IS IN!!!! See 'help sight' for more information. Only these areas have been approved as non-mazes for use with 'sight': Ruushi, G'kir, Citadel, Sun Cult, and Vl'lak (more will be added)
News 12/4/99: - Ruushi now has multiple exits to the Continental Highway - Enhanced error checking code added, broken mobs/items fixed - Internal restructure to streamline PC/NPC stats. A BIG thank you to; Dwiggs, Gavial, Godz, Jagas, Moltave, Ramiel, Soma, and Trill for helping test all of the changes. Great work folks!!
News 12/3/99: - Internal optimizations (command parser is much faster now) - Two memory leaks isolated and fixed - Sixth sense should now work properly (thanks Gambit)
News 12/2/99: - Modification to the lag algorithm for nim - Gargoyles and their remorts have increased in power - Gargoyles Fury now is more powerful (twice as much +dam)
News 12/1/99: - Login prevention fixed (it's complicated, don't bother with the details) - Check out: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/nodekamud and leave a post!
News 11/?/99: - Gold will repop on area repops (to balance out nim) - Major memory leak fixed (yay!) - Daemon to Daimonikos - Archaic Angel to Ancient Angel (Arch Angel racials now visible) - New! Nijlo's e-mail: nijlo@yifan.net - The ':' command now aliases to emote (see 'help :') - Minor bug/string fixes (thanks Ryv!)
The game launched in 1999.
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