Patch 39: June 11th 2013 Detect Hidden, BugFixes, Reg Spawn

• Body Parts
  • Fixed a problem in which (non player) Rib cages could not be cut into bones.
    Note: This will not work on Rib Cages from humanoid critters.
  • Fixed a problem with leg bones being labelled improperly.
  • Removed the ability to obtain a bountyable head from a player with less than 5 short/long counts. A head taken from someone with less than 5/5 will not be eligible for a bounty turn in.
• Boss Monsters
  • Minor adjustment to the boss monsters hit point levels damage resistance.
  • Minor adjustment to the locations in which boss monsters spawn, most should now spawn in more specific areas.
  • Fixed a mistake in patch 38 that reduced the elder wyrm's platinum drop to 1 from 2. It should now drop 2 platinum.
• Camps
  • Resolved a problem with the monsters that spawn with a camp, were refreshing the camp.
  • Camp should now only self refresh when a player enters a camp region (30 minutes).
  • Created over 100 locations in the old world and lost lands where camps can spawn.
• Champion Spawn
  • Minor adjustment to the drop rate of platinum during the progressive spawn.
  • Removed some leftover debugging code that was indicating that a player did not stay close enough to their target in order to earn platinum from working the progressive spawn.
• Crafting
  • Re-wrote the carpentry and masonry crafting list to not require a localization upgrade in order to allow for our custom crafting changes.
• Client Feature Negotiation
  • Disabled this system.
• Detect Hidden
  • Allowed detect hidden to provide assistance when unlocking a locked container (Detect Hidden Skill / 20) = bonus to required skill.
    Note: This does not currently make the lock easier to pick, it just allows you to attempt to pick the lock at a lower skill.
  • This check is based on your base skills.
  • Players with detect hidden of 50 or above can successfully detect trapped containers in a general area.
  • Each container found will trigger a skill gain check, allowing for faster training.
    
• Factions
  • Disable skill loss for faction deaths (This is temporary while we work on factions in upcoming patches)
  • Removed faction point atrophy for the time being (a new system will be put in place to replace this down the road)
  • Lowered the price of bloodmoss and black pearl to 4 gold each on faction vendors.
  • Moved the True Brit Faction from Lord British's castle to Lord Blackthornes.
    
    
• Lockable Containers
  • Allowed the magic lock spell to be unlocked with the magic unlock spell, regardless of your magery skill and the containers required skill.
    Note: Previously you could magic lock a chest, and then not be able to magic unlock it.
• Message Boards
  • Resolved a minor problem with various lines having the last character truncated.
• Monsters
  • Fixed a minor spelling error on the Horrifying Plague Monster.
  • Adjusted the min/max damage for this creature as well.
  • Added some missing event loot code to this creature.
  • Minor adjustment to the plague spawn, damage, looks, damage immunity.
  • Removed some leftover speech dialog from the horrifying plague monster.
• Public Moongates
  • Disabled the public moongates from revealing you when you pass through them.
• Shipwrecked Items
  • Allowed the bone piles from shipwrecks to be cut into bones.
• Tracking
  • Removed some debug code that was left in on accident .
• Vendors
  • Removed some naming code from the vendor system related to sandals
  • This was causing vendor sandals to be named when the vendor expired or ran out of money.
• World
  • Enabled overworld reagent spawns for all towns (guarded areas)
  • Enabled overworld reagent spawns for all dungeons

Re: Patch 39

In the situation of where you open a container, that contains a runebook, and via means of a key or magic lock, lock the container. You will now be able to use the runebook while the container is open to your client. Once the container with the runebook is closed you would have to unlock it, in order to access the runebook again.

Re: Patch 39

Correct for the purpose of attempting a lockpicking action. At the moment you still have 95 skill when attempting to pick a lock. This will allow you to attempt to pick a level 5 treasure map chest at 95 skill vs the normal 100 if you have detect hidden.

This could change going forward as I do more research on the bonus.

Re: Patch 39: June 11th 2013 Detect Hidden, BugFixes, Reg Sp

This was fixed in patch 38 by adjusting the amount of HP that Barraccon has.

Re: Patch 39: June 11th 2013 Detect Hidden, BugFixes, Reg Sp

Yes they were balanced a bit in patch 39. Still tougher than they were before, but manageable.

Re: Patch 39: June 11th 2013 Detect Hidden, BugFixes, Reg Sp

The way it is designed now is the bosses should never spawn organically, they require player activity in the area in order to appear. So they would take the place of one of the normal spawned monsters, So you still have to address local spawn, just less of it.

Re: Patch 39: June 11th 2013 Detect Hidden, BugFixes, Reg Sp

Yes. The only change to detect hidden was allowing it to properly work on trapped containers when use as an area of effect skill.

When using it in this manner it makes a skill gain check for each detected player/container as was the proper UOR mechanic.

Re: Patch 39: June 11th 2013 Detect Hidden, BugFixes, Reg Sp

The rate that made it live for patch 38 was never intended was just there for staff testing. So we basically had a 4 day bonus platinum weekend . . on accident. The correct rate is around 1% with some minor scaling for difficulty.

So a group working the spawn from start to finish should earn as much platinum from the spawn as they do the champion itself.

Re: Patch 39: June 11th 2013 Detect Hidden, BugFixes, Reg Sp

Yep, with patches as large as that, completed in just 21 days, small things can be overlooked.