Publish #12
By Comparison this was a relatively small publish. But we made quite a few background changes in
terms of security and stability. We have a ton of great changes coming in future publishes and I
hope everyone will hang on for the ride!
Fixes:
- Iron beetles are now 100% working as intended. They have been modified to work with a regular shovel instead of the Iron Beetle shovel. You can give your iron beetle the following commands: "mine" or "take break" Your iron beetle can only mine in caves or while he is standing on minable tiles.
Iron Beetle Commands: (Use the commands by typing them in chat in lowercase)
"mine" - orders your iron beetle to mine the ground he is standing on, mining beetles can only mine inside caves.
"take break" - orders your iron beetle to stop mining.- Hundreds of monsters have been "toned down" in terms of damage and fire breath attacks to allow players an easier transition into the parry changes that were made over the last two publishes.
- Ninja Champion armor has been reduced by 10%
- Ninja Champion's Damage handler has also been reworked to allow for roughly a 2.5% increase in damage given and a 10% increase in damage taken.
- The 10% DI increase from using a two handed melee weapon should now show correctly on your
[mystats information sheet.
- I have added multiple minor fixes to the bod system;
1. Internal Timers have been revamped so that players will not be timed out incorrectly as much.
2. Added needed functionality for future updates to get the custom bods working 100% as intended.
** These fixes are minor in nature and will NOT solve ALL of the problems we have been experiencing with the bod system, however it does pave the way for me to correct the massive issues in the future **
- Drop change for talisman's have been increased on the Stygian Dragon (and various other monsters who drop them) by 5% and an additional 5% with 2,500+ luck.
Security:- I have added a custom "traffic monitor" bot that will add users to the white list or black list based on packets being sent to our server. If the packets are larger than the typical connection packet or are deemed malicious by the bot they will be refused, Thus stopping large DDoS attacks from affecting our play time. This bot is currently in beta (as I wrote it in 2 hours) and is running off of cron on our web server and communicating directly with our dedicated server and teamspeak.
Pets:- Added Pseudo Dragon's to our pet database, These small fairy-like dragons will cast healing spells on you and itself while focusing on supporting you and dealing spell damage to its enemies. They will also function as a tank based pet if the need arrises.
** Pseudo Dragon Wiki:
http://uoevolution.com/wiki/index.php/Pseudo_Dragon **
- Added a Mimic to our pet database, This creature is extremely unique in the sense that it can
transform into ANYTHING you ask it to. It will also naturally learn and take on the attributes of enemies it is fighting at the time.
- The Mimic is limited on what creatures it can change into and attributes it can attain. It will naturally gain the hitpoints of its enemy up to a cap of 1,500 and resists up to a cap of 75-80 depending on what it is fighting.
The commands and stats for the Mimic are listed here:
http://uoevolution.com/wiki/index.php/MimicI will also list the basics here:
Change <insert creature name>
ie) Change Daemon
or
ie) Change Cat
Change Color
*Pet will change into a random hue color.
Change Normal
*Pet will revert back to its normal body type.
Change Color Normal
*Pet will revert back to its natural hue color.
Thanks for all the hard work you and the rest of the staff put in to make this shard special.