Patch 67 - November 26th, Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving Renaissance

- The thanksgiving event has started.
- The event will run from 11-26 to 12-2.
- Updated 9 monsters for 2015 with new drops, looks and behavior.
- Created two new camps with two new escortable npc's
- For more information see this thread. http://uorforum.com/threads/happy-thanksgiving-renaissance.14257/​

Bandages / Healing

- After doing some research on healing and bandage timers it was discovered the formula for healing yourself was based on a possible 120 unmodified dexterity.
- This was resulting in players being penalized 1.2 seconds per heal.
- The timers for healing pets or other players also did not account for players having middle ground stat values.
Note: Ergo when healing another player 41 dex was the same as 79 dexterity.
- Updated the timing in which you can heal yourself to be based on a max of 120 modified dexterity (potions, spells)
- Updated the timing in which you can heal/cure others to better factor in your dexterity.
Note: This does not affect the timing, just better rewards players with varied dexterity when healing others.
- You can review the mechanics in these two compendium articles
http://www.uorenaissance.com/info/Bandage
http://www.uorenaissance.com/info/Healing​

Monster AI

- Resolved a problem in which pets once released, abandonded, or otherwise returned to a passive state would try to pathfind to their home location.
- Releasing a tamed pet, turning a pet in for the Zookeepers quest or leaving a pet to go wild will reset their home location correctly now.​

House Placement

- Resolved a problem in which dead bonded pets were blocking house placement.
- Bonded pets (that are in ghost form) will be moved to the house sign in the event a house is placed.
Note: Blocking house placement is part of UO mechanics. However it has to be a situation in which players can interact. As players have no recourse to moving a dead bonded pet they cannot be allowed to block house placement. Much like player ghosts cannot block the placement of a house. ​

Player Deaths

- Resolved a problem in which players who died while holding an item were able to retain the item through the death process.
- Items being held when a player dies will now be placed on the ground where they perished.
- Unless the item in question is a blessed or newbied it that would be protected by normal understood possession/death mechanics.​

Server Performance

- Adjusted how the server handles Pet AI after a player has tamed an animal to improve server performance.
- Animals once tamed will cease to use the advanced pathing algorithm they would normally use in the wild.
Note: This is not needed as the players generally direct their animals to attack, stay or follow. ​

Currently they should have advanced pathfinding. The change is more about server performance in methods I would rather not explain publicly as we found a few ways to cause massive overhead using some various AI quirks.

I will make sure to run some before/after tests in this area to see if it is an issue. It is also possible we will exclude a few creatures from the change. For now this is just in tested based on results we saw from small scale performance tests.

This would have no effect on sacrifice as it is a completely different process. This is just to address when you die holding an item, the item should drop to your corpse, drop to the ground or return to the location in which you picked it up. (If you are holding it with the cursor, not in your hands like an equipped weapon)

That is correct. You can view the exact methods used here.

http://www.uorenaissance.com/info/Healing

We may tinker just a bit with that, the goal was to not make any of the timers any worse.