Patch 14: Sept 1st 2012 - Line of Sight, Live Changes.

• Server Core
  • Fixed a problem with the dynamic region priority.
  • Continued work on the general problems with the RunUO LOS code.
• The Land Rush, Housing
  • Applied the system that will control the release of land for players.
  • Created the initial zones of allowable housing that will be open as the server goes live.
• Mobiles
  • Resolved a problem with the Mage AI resulting in the casting of the invisibility spell, generally wasting their mana.
  • Resolved a problem with monsters detecting, and engaging a player from a range of 16 tiles, when they were specifically given a correct range. Monsters become aware of players at a range of 10 tiles.
    We initially did not think this was a problem, however on further research found an override in the RunUO code causing the issue of hyper aware monsters.
  • Adjusted HellCats, HellHounds, and Predator Hellcats so they now break items like all other monsters.
  • Adjusted a variety of monsters to no longer drop "young" treasure maps. They now drop the appropriate level maps that are usable.
  • Disabled the glacial staff spawn on ice serpents until the item completes our review process and is determined fit for addition.
• Skills
  • Pet Bonding has been disabled while it is reviewed, and determined if it is fit for addition to Renaissance.
• Items
  • Updated runebooks to the correct weight of 3 stones.
  • Updated Bulk Order Books to a regular loot type, rather than a blessed type.
  • Updated the weight of Bulk Order Books to be 8 stones per the loot type change.
  • Updated the leather hues to custom hues selected by our beta testers as more appealing than the default hues.
    These hues will apply to armor created using the different hides.
  • Updated the line of sight functionality on ballot boxes.
  • Updated the line of sight functionality on bulk order books.
  • Updated the line of sight functionality on containers.
  • Updated the line of sight functionality on dices.
  • Updated the line of sight functionality on guildstones.
  • Updated the line of sight functionality on the base light class.
  • Updated the line of sight functionality on the base map class.
  • Updated the line of sight functionality on bulletin boards.
  • Updated the line of sight functionality on communication crystals.
  • Updated the line of sight functionality on corpses.
  • Updated the line of sight functionality on the base book class.
  • Updated treasure maps to only display the name and level of the map, without the indication of the felucca facet.
• Internal
  • Updated the page system to allow for Ezekiel to send extensively detailed responses to pages, as is his style.
• NPC Vendors
  • Additional work on the prices vendors buy/sell items at were applied
  • A variety of raw materials were removed from the vendors buy lists, to increase player interaction.
  • A new formula was added to calculate the value of scrolls.
• Factions
  • Removed the 4 existing resource vendors from the faction system.
  • Replaced those vendors with a new combined vendor, called a faction vendor.
  • These vendors will sell all of the items that the previous 4 vendor types sold, at slightly higher starting amounts.
  • The cost and upkeep of these vendors has been increased, but drastically less than the combined cost of the old vendors.
  • Limited these vendors to 3 per town to suit the free server environment and reduce client lag (that the old system of 41 total vendors per town could cause)
  • Updated the prices of the items faction vendors sell to match the NPC vendors.
  • Added some new items to the vendors such as arrows and bolts.