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15Mar2016 @ ~2340 hr GMT

Small mostly scripts patch:
- Deity validity check now fires once per character, per reset.
- Study Spell ability refined, item validity check factored out.
- Project Image line of spells updated with most recent Framework code.
- Archmage Qualification tweaked and fixed.
- Amplify and C&C tweaks.
- DMFI language tweaks.
- Faction hostility tweak.
- Language Thesaurus tweaks.
Also added torch to Matlz's shop. Every adventurer needs a torch. :!:

Notes on personal Language testing:
New PC, work: Common, Elf, Celestial, Draconic, Sylvan, Mulhorandi, Animal
New PC, broke: Arcane (d^o^e^s t^h^i^s)
Old PC (exist pre-March 3), work: Illuskan
Old PC, broke: Mulhorandi

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Happy St. Patrick's Day! :mrgreen:

17Mar2016 @ ~ 0245 GMT

- Language dictionary final tweaks to population.
- Spell item property dictionary final tweaks to population.
- Projected Images updated.
- Rune XP gain adjusted for difficult and masterwork DCs, pending testing.
- Eldritch Doom should only affect hostile creatures.
- Silence adjusted to use proper Silence effect.
- Plot Item duplication resolved.
- DMFI Languages no longer use INT modifier portion that boosted by items or spells.
- Solipsism recompiled.
- Hide in the Shadows recompiled, confirmed as breaking target lock like HIPS.
- Blindsight reverted.
- Study Spell tweaked to deal with Summon Spells, and with Radial spells.
- Ranged Combat mechanic: Penalty for attack line obstruction reduced from -4 to -2 AB.

- Changed dispell level/type and added a few non-casting versions to ~ dozen creatures

Note: As of this writing, this is not live. It will go live when the server auto-resets around 0245 GMT. There are 60+ persons IG and I did not want to interrupt that. :)
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Update 19Mar2016 @ 1400 GMT - Server-side Only.

- Amplify no longer does SR check.
- Amplify and C&C no longer show savingthrows to the caster.
- Bladedance tweak.
- Spirit Weapon tweak.
- Lawful Sword and Holy sword duration tweak, dispel removed.
- NPC taunts recompiled.
- Consumable Item crafting limits removed for available spells.
- Consumable Items can't be crafted with other items unless you have Imbue Item.
- Potions and Scrolls now ask for a desired casterlevel.
- Casterlevel is 15 max, currently.
- Castlerlevel may never be less, or equal to, the stock casterlevel for the enchantment.
- Merchants don't offer more money for higher casterlevel items: they don't care.

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20Mar2016 ~ 1500 GMT
Cubicle wrote:-Stonestave - tweaks+changed NPC into statue
- UD Crypt Lower - Walkmeshed hole next to bone dragon
- Goblin Lake Cave- removed extra door leading to boss
- 7th Circle door fix + name correction
Rasael wrote:- Mark Rune and Mark Plant changed to Divination school.
- Disabled Sleight of hand as active skill, exploit fix.
- Class descriptions moved into BGTSCC descriptions file, for skill adjusting.
- Spell Dismissal interface fixed, got broken.
- Archmage qualification feat now requires different spell schools, properly.
- Archmage spell slot sacrifice tweaked, was sacrificing too many 5th level spells.
- Ranged Combat Cover: Only a select number of placeables qualify as cover now.
- Hide in the Shadows now resets correctly.
- Reserve Spell Feats only target hostiles.
- Mass Heal and Epic Mass Heal range / radius extended.
- Updates on class-skill lists
- Pathfinders' Hall updated w/ guards
- Cleaned up remaining rubble in farms and BG-PD, dwarves ready to start re-building
- Added torch to basic merchant in East Farms market
- DW guild area adjustment by SL
- Other small changes behind the curtain

Some languages are still broken. Issue with locked-things and keys may still be buggy. These are at the top of our next to-do list.

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24Mar2016 Update:

ADL/TLK issue should be resolved.
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First off, the ADL for TLK file broke again. :( Get it here:
Duster47 wrote:Latest HAK/TLK for 24Mar2016 update:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/563 ... AK_TLK.rar
tfunke wrote:east chionthar ruins:
-fixed the mmo spawner, no more rats
-tweaked the dc on some locked doors
-turned on directional lighting, was a little too dark

east of wyrm's crossing:
-fixed a map note issue
-changed name of chionthar ruins doorway from 'mine entrance'
Rasael wrote:- Paladin and Ranger casterlevel set to all-full progression, 30.
- Description mis-copy rectified for certain classes.
- Skill changes and content changes worked into (certain) class descriptions. In progress.
Other:
- Numerous spelling fixes in areas and class descriptions
- Temporarily disabled BARDIC KNOWLEDGE :shock: - Bards no longer know-it-all w.r.t. Lore-Arcana - This is a work-in-progress
- Updated CaveStalker Class Skill List
- More NPC spawner adjustments in BG-PG & Harbor Districts Interiors - work-in-progress
- A few other things behind the curtain
- Finally found and killed deleted last lingering copy of the reportedly-dead-but-keeps-reappearing-NPC-MiraHelder. :?
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After a week of testing on Server 2....

1APR2016 Updates

- Removed 10-each bg_pi*.hak's from module - already in bg_head_hair2/3
- Update bg_head_hair2/3 with new content from PI
- Revised half-drow stats to use half-elf heads
- Repaired broken door on Temple of Helm in BG-PD
- New NPCs in Winding Way tavern
- Revised Morninglord lore skills
- Revised Techsmith Pre-requirements
- Adjusted bridge
- Adjustments in Quest Journal

From Tfunke:
- Continue update for Northern Expansion around Soubar
- Monster CRs reduced
- 4 new low-level PC quests
- Add Temple of Bane ruins under Soubar
- Revisions around orc-home
- Revised Boareskyr bridge NPCs/encounter

From Rasael:
- Techsmith requires Divine or Arcane spell level 4
- Removed casterlevel and DC report from options dialogue, values reset too quickly, caused confusion.
- Summon scaling refined further.
- Ranged Combat mechanic now applies properly to NPCs.
- Party chat adjusted to avoid chat log clutter.
- Holy Weapon at round / level, with dispel enabled now.
- Lawful Weapon at turn (10 rounds) / level.
- Tweak to remove enchanted blade and bow on rest.
- Tweak to avoid NPC hostility after casting caltrops, wall spells.
- Red Wizards now only have to pick one opposition school.
- Dispel code refinement.
- Ki step use expenditure logic fixed (was inverse).
- Bigby NPC hosility adjustment.
- Ranged Combat cover-mechanic tweaked, and made more efficient.
- Several scripts recompiled.
- Exploit fixes and exploit preventions.

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7Apr2016 ~ 0150 GMT

- Revise two UD areas for walkmesh issue - Cubicle
- Added new NPC merchant somewhere in BG-HD-Interiors - Thanks mrieder79 & QC
- Mirror-mirror in the hall... in DAWT - Lisa
- Updated errors in TLK/descriptions
- Updated Shadow Adept pre-qualifications and Sacred Fist skill list
- Numerous spell script updates - Ras
- New hair styles for humans, elves, halflings, and races that use the same hair models. Yet another reason to RCR your my PC. :oops:

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9Apr2016 ~ 14:15 hr GMT

- Bigby hostility when hit, adjusted.
- Shades: shield no longer stacks with regular shield spell, if cast first.
- Spell-choice-menu no longer opens if a study spell action is attempted.
- Techsmith of Gond accessible again.
- Language dictionaries loading slowed-down, less performance required.
- Counterspell should work again, performance improved.
- DMFI Language totals should now account for racial bonuses.
- DMFI Languages should now work properly for non-RCRed characters.
- Certain weapon-bonuses now transfer when using strikes, blows, other new attacks.
- Abberant Claw should now be disspellable at will by subject(s).
- Moved Death/Delete NPC to other side of the Nexus. Pay attention to which NPC you are talking too! :o

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10Apr2016 ~ 18:10 hours

- Other counterspell casterlevel issue resolved.
- Embrace the Wild, Protection from Alignment, Aura of Glory, Blessed Aim, now use BGTSCC casterlevel calculations.
- Blood Magus doesn't progress casterlevel at: levels 5 and 10.
- Experimental tweak to melee strikes and blows, to stop bard songs triggering.
- Added one more hair style to bg_hair_head2.hak - new one clips chest but some may want to use it.
- Changed Lore/Knowledge icons on Skill List for the ten new categories - from BG Art Team.
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13Apr2016 ~ 0000 hr GMT - hot-drop fix - server side only

- Revised "floating skull" creature summon to be less powerful
- Dropped in update on spawner-scripts - hopefully should find fewer rats and more other creatures/monsters in areas, especially around Soubar and nearby connecting areas.
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15Apr2016 ~ 15:30 GMT
Rasael wrote:- General crash-proofing.
- Deathcloud now supports multiple cloud instances.
- Recompiled Bless and Holy Aura.
- Spiritual Weapon updated to fully use BGTSCC's magic framework.
- Minor memory and performance optimizations.
Tfunke wrote:*Most recent journal file updates (including durlag's tower and undercity quests)
*Full Soubar surrounds fix
*Dragonspear exterior
*Undercity area + updated ragefast dialogue to accept ectoplasm for gold.
*3 new items (all quest related)
*Most recent mmorpg.spawnlist script (compiled using skywing's compiler!! -i finally installed it!) - script includes Durlag's Tower areas
- Start deploying deity banners in stores
- Numerous small area bug repairs noted in the forums
- ASOC should be getting all 10 Lore categories as Class Skills

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Rasael wrote:- Abberant Claw must now be cast on a playable creature to function.
- Lesser Orb of Cold now accounts for Piercing Cold.
- Many shot can be enabled to fire automatically in combat, through player options dialogue.
- Further counterspell tweaks.
- Some code maintenance work.
- Crash proofing.
- DMFI langauge tweaks.
- Various bugfixes.
- Spawer adjustments
- Deployed more deity banners to surface temples
- BG east farms is growing crops again - quest not yet re-enabled
- BG walls showing more signs of repair
- Astronomy added to scope of Lore: Geography
- Forbidden Knowledge added to scope of Lore: Arcana

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24Apr2016 ~ 14:15 GMT Update

- Re-enabled Farmer Todd's quest
- Deployed more deity banners
- Converted drink items from (Ale)-format, etc. to be hidden category again

There were no script changes in this update. So, yes Language problems persist. Big update is still Work-In-Progress. :geek:

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Update 27Apr2016 ~ 01:15 GMT.

- Harper Agent progression for Spirit Shaman enabled.
- Added feats 1687, 1688, 1689, 1690, 1691: Extra Language 1 to 5.
- DMFI Language tweaks.
- Shield Slam target validation tweak, avoid target resetting to self. - I'll miss this feature! :lol:
- QC tool access granted to authenticated team members.
- Disguise DC rework, in-progress.
- Amplify: roundly will-save bug-fixed.
- AI tweaks, may rarely use power-attack, will use HIPS less abusively, may taunt.

My own quick check, the problems with languages continue.

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29Apr2016 ~ 14:15 hours update

- Appraise Creature adjusted, validation was too stringent.
- New AI feature: Calling for help, added experimentally.
- AI: Stealth detection tweaks.
- DMFI language tweaks.
- Bloodmark and Bloodwalk fix for permission request mechanic without PC target.
- Various maintenance related adjustments and tweaks.
- Dimension Door & Shadow Jump allow targeting, experimentally.
- Teleport Timer reduction, in view of loot reform.
- Epic Spells should use highest available casterlevel-class, experimentally.
- Languages: Common granted to everyone, definitively.
- Languages: One regional language slot granted for free.
- Hide in the Shadows: Feat incrementing, experimentally.
- Fighter bonus feats: Now include melee styles, attacks, shield feats.
- Casterlevel and DC bug fixes, on-going work.
- AI tweaks.

- Changed ~150 FP item names to not display "(Fullplate)". 150?! :?
- Updated Sacred Fist prerequisite "Lore" to be "Lore-Religion", as it should be.
- ServerVault Backup just prior to update.

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