Minions of Mirth - Patch 1.24 (Spring Edition)

Minions of Mirth, the venerable Torque made MMORPG, has been updated to version 1.24

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Minions of Mirth Patch 1.24 (Spring Edition)

A huge thanks to the following members of the Community Development Group for their help and hard work on this patch: Citrine, Gylan, and Llarlen! Thanks also to the community for helping test the changes.

Added New Dynamic PvE/RvR/GvG/PvP System. Thanks to Llarlen!

+ Players log into the world with PvE (Player versus Environment) set. Players may change to RvR (Realm versus Realm), GvG (Guild versus Guild) and PvP (Player versus Player) on the settings pane of the character window.

+ In general, for hostility to occur the two opponents must have hostility enabled on lowest mutual encounter level. From low to high: PvE, RvR, GvG, PvP. For example, a PvP and GvG flagged player can hit RvR flagged players of opposite realm only, but a PvE flagged player can not be hit by any player.

+ There is no death penalty when getting killed by another player.

+ Added 'PvE on Death' checkbox to settings. When checked, encounter status gets reset to PvE on character death. This setting is persistent and saved per character. Default is enabled.

+ Added 'PvE on Zoning' checkbox to settings. When checked, encounter status gets reset to PvE on zoning. This setting is persistent, enabled by default and saved per character. Note that this setting will not override any blocks to encounter status if present.

+ Attacking, casting, or changing encounter settings disables the ability to change an encounter settings for 2 minutes. Attacking and casting is checked for all alliance members as well as pets.

+ Tracking now gets modified by a mob/player's visibility. Player visibility will only affect tracking if the target is hostile. See invisible can bypass the effect.

+ Healing or buffing another player or player's pet with a higher encounter setting than your encounter setting will overwrite your encounter setting to match the other player's encounter setting.

+ Pets cease attacking if either attacker or defender changes an encounter setting to no longer be hostile.

+ Targeting another player's pet now is possible if the targeter and the pet's master can be hostile towards each other.

+ /eval (or 'g') is now used to determine hostility of another player. The message displays the evaluated target as 'battle ready' if they can be attacked.

+ Removed zone information from /who commands.

+ Static encounter setting is displayed red if block is active.

+ Quick targeting, such as cycling through targets, includes hostile players.

+ Attacking or casting will now increase visibility by 0.5 (not over 1). This does not increase aggro or track range.

+ Combat and defense skills do not raise in PvP battles. (Players and pets)

+ Hostile players have a skull icon associated with their name in 3d view.

+ If selected, friendly players show a smiley instead of a skull. Both smiley and skull are color coded with relative encounter setting. Green = lower, Blue = same, red = higher. Therefore, if a player buffs or heals a 'red' player, (s)he will inherit their target's setting.

+ Track window indicates hostile players by placing the player's name between asterisk (I.e. If a player named Soandso can hurt you, then track will show *Soandso* instead of Soandso). Hostile player names are shown in red as well.

+ The initiator of a PvP fight should now be remembered. Kill penalty only occurs if the initiator was the higher level. This functionality will not preserve across zoning, as after zoning technically a new battle is started.

+ Previously any player in PvP killing a monster player would not get an xp penalty ever. Made the system fairer so now monsters do not get xp penalty in killing other low players either.

+ AoE spells can now be used in PvP battles, previously would only affect target.

Tradeskills

+ Added Blacksmithing tradeskill. Thanks to Citrine!

+ Blacksmithing is now used to make all the items needed for other crafts: rods, tips, sheets, baking trays, etc.

+ All players receive Blacksmithing at level 1, it will eventually cap at level 100 (1000 skill).

+ The current max for Blacksmithing is skill level 100. In future patches, questing will allow you to reach higher skill levels.

+ After reaching a certain skill level in Blacksmithing, you will get more efficient and be able to produce more from the same raw materials. For example, at low levels of Blacksmithing 8 materials produces 5 sheets, at 1000 skill in Blacksmithing you would produce 10 sheets, increasing output as your skill increases.

+ Added new recipes for weapon crafting.

+Updated skill levels for Masterwork Perdurium, Adamantium, and Cobalt shortsword recipes.

Enhancements

+ Added a camp of Reavers to the Eastern Wasteland. Thanks to Citrine! Ingimo drops a couple of the new Wondrous weapons.

+ Added Part II, Part III, and Part IV of the Cooking and Brewing quest to advance in both skills. Talk to the twins in Talrim Hills to continue with Part II. Thanks to Citrine!

+ Added the Padloper monster template quest. Talk to Cooma Blue to get started. Thanks to Citrine!

+ Updated some hand icon textures. Thanks to grom!

+ Vaults are now able to autostack items.

+ Added a 'Character Description' button to the settings pane in party window, triggers /mydesc. To show a target's information, shift-click on target or use the command /desc.

+ Journals are now managed on a per character basis. These new journals will use the existing shared journal as a baseline. Future entries will be added by character.

+ The /craft command has been made case-insensitive.

+ Vendors now repair items they resell.

+ Added an auto-response feature. If a player sends a tell to an away player, the away player will respond with an automated response:

*Use "/away" or "/afk" with no additional words to toggle the feature on/off. If toggled on, a default away message will be provided.

*Use "/away [custom message]" or "/afk [custom message]" to provide a custom response. For example, after using "/afk Walking the dog. (back in 5)" all received tells will be replied with "Away Message: Walking the dog. (back in 5)"

+ Added a getting inspected message if someone else queries target information about your character.

+ Added descriptions to the inhabitants of the Burning Fields.

+ Adjusted the resistances for Xal Thulu and Chaos Beasts. Lowered casting resists on Xal Thulu and Chaos Beasts. Increased Xal Thulu's difficulty modifier.

+ Added a message to let players know that they can add a secondary or tertiary class upon reaching level 5 and 15.

+ When looting Soulbound items, the confirmation window will only appear if a player is in an alliance.

+ When a player levels, power set sound effect should no longer get played and the text is no longer displayed.

+ Added an "Enable Populator Groups" field to Options -> More Options -> Gameplay, which enables populator groups in single player mode. Zoning will take slightly longer if enabled.

+ Item stat descriptions are a bit more informative. Percent modifiers should now display as a percent.

+ Private Vault window now displays how many slots are available.

+ Online friends now appear at the top of the friends list.

+ Double clicking (alt+click) a friend in friends list will bring up /tell friend.

+ Monsters should start with advancement points. Old monsters should be rewarded these points when logging in as well.

+ Clicking the chat window's text entry field now activates chat.

+ A message is now displayed when charges collapse into a single item when autostacking in a character's inventory.

+ Double clicking on a name in the Track Window will attempt to target the mob.

+ Added the ability to cycle through replies. The responder list will remember the last 10 people who sent a tell. Reply Cycle will cycle to an older teller. (Default: ctrl tab) Reply Cycle Reverse will cycle to a newer teller. (Default: ctrl-alt tab) The default keyboard shortcuts may need to be set if you already have custom keyboard settings. These are changeable through the options menu. Keep in mind that some key combinations will not work because chat will recognize the keys as text entry instead of a keyboard shortcut.

+ Big speedup to world loading in single player and for dedicated servers.

+ MANY optimizations, should help a bit in reducing lag.

+ /Ignore and /Unignore now treat "Soandso the Evil" and "Soandso_the_Evil" the same. This should make ignoring a monster character that has space(s) in his/her name easier.

+ Name tags now have the same visibility as their owner.

+ Mobs can now cast party or alliance spells on themselves.

Pet Updates

+ Pets now have their master's name displayed on screen, similar to a player's guild name.

+ Pets now correctly inherit their master's realm.

+ Fixed aggro inheritance from pet to master and master to pet.

+ Pet speed is now inherited from master properly.

+ Added slight randomization to the pet attack message.

+ All pet commands clear the pet's aggro list before assigning new command. Pet should follow orders better this way but still retain some free will.

+ Added a check if target is valid on the /pet attack command.

+ Increased initial aggro on /pet attack so pet reacts less jumpy to multiple opponents. Initial aggro scales with pet's and master's level so higher level pets of higher level masters focus better on their opponent.

+ Fixed a bug in proc refreshes on items equipped by pets.

+ If a pet is too far away from it's master, the pet will stop attacking and warp back to it's master.

+ A player's pet now shows up in the tracking window and on minimap.

Enchanting System Updates

+ Updated max enchanting value calculation. The max values should increase at a smoother rate. In general, the max value on lower level items increased in some areas, and the max value on higher level items decreased in some areas.

+ Max number of attainable raw focii through disenchanting has been raised to 5.

+ Enchanted focii can now be disenchanted into raw focii.

+ Decreased overall max values for some enchantments.

+ Arrows, poisons and other crafted items like arrow tips and shafts can no longer be enchanted. Items that are meant to be enchanted still can.

+ Disenchanting will no longer give more raw focii than the max number of enchantments the item can hold.

+ Stackable items now need to meet default stack (one drop) to be disenchantable.

+ Added statements to indicate that an enchanted item has reached max value. It will state that the enchanted item becomes stable as some energy escapes.

+ Neck items as well as other future craftable items are now enchantable.

+ Added physical resistance and armor to enchantable shoulder pieces.

+ Added all but physical resists to enchantable neck pieces.

+ Updated enchanting encyclopedia pages to reflect the new enchantable items.

+ Fixed baneweapon enchantments.

Encyclopedia Updates

+ Added Encyclopedia linking. Thanks to Llarlen!

+ Many game messages will now provide links to the encyclopedia. Note: This is a work in progress, not all quests or areas have been updated to support linking.

+ Putting an element present in encyclopedia in <and> (for example <Himmorlian>) in the Chat Window will reformat the text into a link. If the page is found in the encyclopedia, the link can then be used from the Chat Window.

+ Clicking on the chat text entry area of the chat window with an item, a spell, or a skill in cursor automatically enters appropriate encyclopedia link into existing chat text.

+ Added an 'Add to Chat' link to pages.

+ Invalid link message displays which page was not found.

+ Updated skills in encyclopedia to show duration in seconds instead of ticks.

+ Added item set, faction, more skill descriptions, and History of Mirth pages.

+ Added exclusion information to spells.

+ Buff Window integrated with encyclopedia links:

* Single left click will open up encyclopedia page with spell info.
* Single right click will create an encyclopedia link in chat.

+ For spells in spellbook, skill buttons, and inventory items:

* Shift-single-click opens encyclopedia to the appropriate page.
* Shift-right-click enters a name in chat enclosed by <>. An encyclopedia link will appear when sending.

+ Spawn pages now state if a spawn does not leave a corpse when it dies. "Note: This spawn does not leave a corpse!" should appear in the loot section.

+ Completed item crafting lists with missing elements. (Cooking, Brewing)

Game Commands

+ /empty - Removes items from craft window slots to character inventory slots. (15 second cooldown)

+ /stack - Stacks items in a character's inventory. (15 second cooldown)

+ /sort - Sorts items within a character's inventory.(15 second cooldown) Possible Options: alpha = Sorts items in alphabetical order(default). stack = Reduces item stacks (default). nostack = Sort stacks in alphabetical order, but does not reduce stacks. reverse = Sort items in reverse alphabetical order. all = Sorts all inventory pages (default). page1 = Only sorts items on first inventory page. page2 = Onlys sort items on second inventory page.

+ /assist will attempt to assist the current target.

+ Added target information window! Activate by shift-double clicking target or targeting and using the /desc command. A player's own description is available through /mydesc.

+ Add /agree and /disagree emotes. These are equivalent to /yes and /no.

+ /interact with player as a target now triggers trading, even when hostile.

+ Added a /clear command that clears the chat window.

+ Added an option for the chat window to open upon receiving a tell. This can be toggled on/off through the Options -> Gameplay window. The default behavior is to not open chat upon receiving a tell.

+ Crafting window now supports:

* Ctrl-double-click to use items. * Shift-double-click to quick sell. * Alt-double-click to quick equip.

+ Added a command to send a message to your game window. You can use it by typing "//[text]" or "/memo [text]". Players may find this useful to add text reminders for short-term buffs/macros. The "//[text]" format also allows for players to set a macro line to be 'unused' instead of deleting the line completely. For example, "/skill Feign Death" will attempt to activate the feign death skill, but "//skill Feign Death" will print "Memo: skill Feign Death" to the game window instead of using the skill.

+ Added a /resize command. This command may be used once every two minutes. It will toggle the size of a player's avatar to either the standard human size or the actual character's size. Players using large monster templates may find this quite useful in small areas or when attempting to interact with players and NPCs.

+ Emotes now support default and custom messages:
* "/point" will display "Soandso points ahead." with no target, and "Soandso points at a Frail Skeleton." when a Frail Skeleton is targeted.
* "/point points into the distance." will display "Soandso points into the distance."

+ Character names in chat now work as invisible links for tells.

Macro Commands

+ Added filters to macro command lines.
%t target name,
%g target gender,
%p possessive pronoun,
%s subjective pronoun,
%o objective pronoun,
%r race

For example, if you have a macro with the following text: /a Oy, %t is coming this way. Prepare for battle!.

When pulling a monster for the alliance, if you target 'a Frail Skeleton' and activate macro, alliance chat would say: Soandso tells the alliance, 'Oy, a Frail Skeleton is coming this way. Prepare for battle!'

Bug Fixes

+ Fixed a bug for Druid's mana pool calculations. It is now based on wisdom instead of mind.

+ All dialog windows now display character name instead of Public Name.

+ Emotes to a channel now get filtered out if the channel is turned off.

+ Mounted objects like shields, helms, and weapons now inherit their holder's visibility.

+ Fixed a bug that prevented flying after a player used the /unstick command.

+ Players can no longer equip unusable items if their inventory is full. The item will now remain on cursor.

+ Ethereal items now work as originally intended. They now get destroyed upon leaving the game. There are 3 keys in the game with this flag: Key to the Upper Room, Safehouse Key, and the Key to the Abandoned House. Items with this flag cannot be placed in player vaults.

+ Added missing mods to regeneration effects.

+ Fixed trade bug.

+ Fixed rooms behaving as exteriors in the Sewer.

+ Fixed reuse time on Archery to match other crafting skills and updated the 'no skill' advance message.

+ Revealer spell 'Cloud Vision' no longer generates aggro, as originally intended.

+ Realm filter on spells now works as intended.

+ Fixed skill range to use source instead of destination scale modifier.

+ Removed the healing component in the Doom Knight's Death Touch skill, it was damaging AND healing enemies.

+ Disabled size modifier on wondrous morph proc for now. This will be replaced by an illusion size modifier which does not multiply size but sets size to a new value sometime in the future. (Otherwise, a dragon template wielding this weapon will get as big as the Trinst towers.)

+ Fixed skill check in dialogs, another validity check that was reversed.

+ Fixed evade skill.

+ Removed Parasitic Worms from Doom Knight vendor.

+ Added Parasitic Worms as drop to Ogre Caster.

+ Prices now show up in Cooma Blue's dialog.

+ Fixed repair levels on some crafted armor.

+ Reduced aggro range for Warlord of Death to prevent him from easily aggroing through ceiling to second level.

+ Adjusted spawn point for two turtles that tend to spawn partially in the ground.

+ Added level requirement of 75 to Burning Orb, as originally intended.

+ Fixed a bug that prevented stamina from regenerating properly.

+ Fixed a bug that caused a spell's level from not being set properly if the spell's target was party or alliance.

+ Fixed a bug with tome descriptions.

+ Fixed 'Chat Bomb' issue.

+ Predefined emotes now cancel Feign Death. Laughing, Screaming and Moaning also cancel sneaking.

+ Fixed a bug in clearing aggro.

+ Fixed Monstrous Pauldrons to go in shoulder slot instead of neck.

+ Reduced maxStack (to 20) and defaultStack (to 5) for all food and drink.

+ Fixed spelling error for water breathing spells.

+ Clamped the max Presence calculated per character. There was an exploit that allowed players to repeat the Burning Fields quest for unlimited presence. Players will receive an error message if they attempt to complete a presence giving step of a quest and their presence has been clamped.

+ Autoattack gets disabled upon character death.

+ Added a button in crafting window that will empty items into the player's inventory.

+ In the inventory window, double clicking (alt+click) the page buttons will sort the items on that inventory page.

+ Increased backstab damage output.

+ Players should no longer be able to walk off of the edge of the world in Anidaen Forest.

+ Increased repair values on Coral armor.

+ Fixed a bug causing invalid damage messages to be sent when an inflicted mob had damage reflection effects.

+ Ranged Attacks no longer receive damage from damage reflection effects.

+ Non-harmful spells like buffs now re-target self if target is a hostile player.

+ Feign death interrupts the feigner's spell if the feigner is casting when feign death is activated.

+ Players can no longer cast spells that are higher level than the player. This became an issue when a player would learn a spell then delevel.

+ Removed a check to allow creatures with higher swimming than move speed.

+ Fixed an error on projectile collision.

+ Fixed a rare error in trading updates.

+ XP loss is now able to handle the loss of multiple levels and displays the amount of lost XP.

+ Fixed a bug that caused buff effects to disappear when a player did not completely finish zoning.

+ Fixed a bug that allowed players to target any mob or player in the zone regardless of distance or visibility.

+ Fixed effect message on Fear and Fear of the Blight.

+ Updated tool tips for inventory pages.

+ Spell casting bar is now in sync with actual spell casting time, even when haste is applied.

+ Corrected despawn timers on day boundaries.

+ Several stability fixes to the OSX platform.

+ Craft and Loot windows now remember their location.

+ When slash is the only value entered in the chat box, it will no longer attempt to launch a command.

+ Completed channel lists, so filtering can not be bypassed by using full version (/world instead of /w for example).

+ Effects' spell tome level now persist when zoning.

+ Fixed begin and end message on Tempest elemental debuffs (was using messages from lightning debuffs).

+ Fixed exclusions on Cleric damage shields.

+ NPC interactions now should finish properly if ended due to dialog action (teleport, respawn, etc). This should also fix a possible bug with Roz Stormecho teleporting characters to FB.

+ Added code to catch if player issues cast command on empty spell slot client-side.

+ Fixed Ogre Skull description.

+ Fixed illusions on monster characters, textures should no longer 'go missing'.

+ Fixed a 'floating' flame in the desert.

Balancing/Economy Issues

+ Adjusted the amount of exp gain players will receive when grouped if there is a large level difference, Players will continue to receive experience regardless of level difference however.

+ Lowered the sell value of tomes to 50% of previous value.

+ Item worth now gets modified by relative repair value. An item with a 10/10 repair value will fetch more coin than the same item with a value of 1/10.

+ Prolonged delay of regeneration after taking a hit.

+ Added a regen delay when in a fight, meaning disabling target while kiting should no longer allow a player to continue to regenerate.

+ Increased the cost to buy non-crafted food and drink.

+ Significantly increased xp kill penalty for higher levels, scales now more with level.

+ Istri's Purification, Istri's Party Purity, and Istri's Alliance Purity no longer stack with one another.

+ Slightly increased skillup chance for Grievous Wound, after all Grievous Wound only has a chance to occur on a critical.

Code Updates - Torque MMO Kit

+ Changed difficultyMod on mob class definitely to a float to allow for more precise tweaking.

+ Changed spellProto.spellType to a flag. Instead of spellProto.spellType = RPG_SPELL_HEALING use spellProto.healing = True (or = False to reset). Persistance, aiCast and harmful now also gets stored in this flag but can be used as before.

+ Added a noAggro flag to spell protos. Use with spellProto.noAggro =True (or = False to reset). Casting this spell won't produce any aggro, even if harmful.

+ Changed Bard interrupt songs to use effect.interrupt instead of stuns.

+ A single spawnpoint can now support a whole horde of spawns, preparing for first kind of swarms.

+ Fixed a check in mob.equipItem.

+ consumeWater and consumeFood race attributes now determine how fast a race gets hungry.

+ Fixed a bug caused by extra whitespace when dealing with private messages.

+ Gravestones are now available to all servers with maxparty = 1.

+ Added a lifeTime field to itemProtos. If 0 (default) life time is infinite, else in ticks. After life time expires, item gets destroyed. Life time only ticks in bank or on character.

+ Added support to Dialog Actions to send a game message.

+ Added the ability to spawn mobs at partial health.

+ Changed the addReamRequirement to have a level argument on dialog requirements.

+ Vendors can now have limited stocks of items at limited frequency. By default recheck every 10 minutes (as long as no one is interacting) if this item type should get added to stock. Variables could be set but were disabled before.

+ Added an immortal command 'visibility <float>' which affects the whole party.

+ Immortal 'renew' command now affects all party members.

Have fun!,
-Prairie Games