Patch 22: Oct 22nd 2012 - Halloween Event, Combat Fixes

• Halloween Events
  • Added a new Holiday Event, the Night of Horrors Challenge
    • Created 8 new monsters for this event
    • Created some new core functions allowing the tracking of monsters kills in an event scenario.
    • Designed this system to track kills by direct player damage, indirect damage, barding control kills, and tame kills.
    • Created a new type of event called a "Challenge Event" that is designed for Player versus Monster event models.
    • Used this new system to create the Night of Horrors Challenge
      
  • Added a new Holiday Event, the Haunted House
    • Created a new overworld area and dungeon area for the event.
    • Created 7 new monsters for this event.
    • Designed this event to be challenging for our more experienced players.
      
      
• Items
  • Created a variety of new items to serve as Halloween gifts
    
  • Created a variety of new rare items.
  • These items will not decay if left unlocked in a house, like their corpse counterparts.
• Combat / Spell Changes
  • Continued research on the problems with armor absorption.
  • Extensive Verification of the basearmor variables for all armor to make sure it was in line with the proper stratics documentation for the Renaissance era.
  • Found and fixed a problem with the handling of damage application after it is passed from the weapon code into the armor code.
  • This change should apply evenly to all levels of armor evenly.
  • Armor of all types should no longer provide such an extreme level of protection.
  • You will no longer be able to stack damage from the explosion spell.
  • You will no longer be able to stack damage from the magic arrow spell.
  • "Creation" animations have been added to the proper summoning spells.

• Factions
  • Adjusted Faction Atrophy to only occur once every 7 days.
  • Faction quit time is now 7 days.
  • Faction Horse Breeder NPC is now invulnerable.

• Monsters
  • White Wyrms will now rummage corpses.

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