UO Odyssey

June 2020

Update 001 - 6/01/20

Updated Sosaria map to the latest version of the odyssey maps

• Killing a guard will now give you a kill
• Killing a red: you can now carve up the corpse and drag the head on a guard for a gold/karma reward!
• Added bounties given by guards for ALL human enemies... carve them up and drop a head on a guard
• Updated spawns to match Odyssey - new map changes.
• Fixed issue where a red would discord a player
• Tweaked the difficulty of blues and reds somewhat - they should hit harder, but die easier
• The Town Herald might gossip about your lottery purchases now and other acts that are specific to this server!

Update 002 - 6/03/20

• Reduced red spawns
• Gadget fixed issue with reds who are bards
• Added: The wench! This lady of pleasure will make you feel better and can also be used to change your stats! She can be found near most inns in Sosaria
• Fixed store inventories to match odyssey

Update 003 - 6/06/20

• Added weather! it can rain/snow in odyssey again! Thanks Gadget
• Tweaked the amount of bandages red/blues have (lower) and increased bandage timer a bit for all
• Added Hiding Powerscroll (was missing)
• Fixed numerous crashes and bugs
• Changed squire control slots to 3 instead of 5

Update 004 - 6/09/20

• Updated to latest odyssey version, you can now become a librarian snooping into dungeon bookshelves using a monocle! rewards are very varied - more content thanks to Djeryv in Odyssey!
• Added the original OSI library books to the game. Look for them in dungeon bookshelves
• A number of fixes and updates to a few systems
• DOOM added!
• New Underworld Map!
• Morph Armors

Update 005 - 6/11/20

• Mages now sell a special item: Linked Gates!! These two gates will allow you to move freely (without penalty) between eachother, but are only effective within a facet/world. They are sold at mage vendors.
• All Guild vendors now sell MUCH higher quantities of goods... ingots, cloth, regs, you name it. You need to be a member of that guild to buy from the guildmaster vendor, but it might be worth it! Select items are also cheaper at the guildmaster.
• Reduced the skill gain rate of focus/mediation by a factor of 4. was way too fast before.
• Fixed issue where ClassicUO would show a no tile for a brazier that was not lit
• Players who are over 90% in hunger and thirst will receive a 10% well fed bonus to skill gain chances
• Tamables who are trained over level 25 will now have a chance to lower their control slot requirement by 1 control slot (as long as it is above 2), and all tamables who reach level 50 will lose a control slot requirement. Training and breeding a tamable to level 50 is very difficult, however if someone spends this much time with a tamable they will find that controlling them is much easier.
• Introduced monster nests, these items spawn enemies until they are destroyed- will start populating them around the lands and add a different mechanic to the way dungeons work.
• Skillgain was a bit too easy, so tweaked the skill gain factor for a few skills to adjust the rate of gain.
• Blueguards will now have the same cost as healers for resurrection services
• You can now buy mannequins from tailor vendors! Use them to display your cool armor and suits
• Added 15 new custom artefacts to the loot tables - more content for all to collect.
• Tweaks to henchmen. They were healing 100% of their damage too often, so we added a timer so they can only heal once every 5 seconds now, also, their stats/skills were based off a function of the player's stats and skills/skillcap. Because we have no skillcap, they were SUPER strong by default for almost everyone. this has been tweaked, Henchmen now spawn as a function of the player's stats and will scale accordingly. a 250 stat player will get the henchmen as 100% capacity.

Update 006 - 6/14/20

• Thanks to some amazing constructive and positive feedback given by someone in servuo, we have now made it so any style of play will have unlimited skillcap. Thanks for bringing that to our attention!
• Casino is now open! Look for the door from the Inn - we will be adding games as time progresses.
• Sarth library now has usable bookshelves to store books in! IT's a great place for us to collect all the books int he game and create a public library
• The animal broker can now appraise a pet's value and purchase pets based on a complex calculation that takes into account a pet's max damage, resistances, stats, hits, taming skill required, and control slots required. You can use this to compare two of the same types of pets against each other.
• Corpses will now no longer have weight limits (dump you crap in them when in a dungeon please!)
• Tweaked reds to make them more challenging (again) - blues as well
• Revised widow's keep to make it more challenging... zombies are now more dangerous.
• Zombies can now drop a special unique armor set
• Added a completely new revised Monster Gauntlet in Ambrosia! Has menus now, allows you to pick which spawn you want, and had some special rewards if you're lucky. It also keeps a tally of all persons who complete the gauntlet (score and time to complete). Also, you can't die playing the gauntlet - you just teleport out, so try it!
• Added studybooks and original OSI books to the librarian searches.
• Completely revamped librarian drop rates. as it was before, a powerscroll had the same chance of being found as a magery spellbook :/ now, rewards have different difficulties.
• Changes were made to the way the AFK command works! Instead of the bland *is AFK[TIME]* message you see now, you will now see a randomized sentence! Try it! Also, gaining a skill will now remove the AFK status. If you are macroing, the player is doing an action :)
• Changes were made to begging! You can now receive up to 600gp a shot from begging, and the amount is determined by your LACK OF karma/fame... the closer you are to 0 fame/karma the more likely you are to get 600gp. ALSO, you can now beg other players!! and if they have gold, they will give you some on a successful check!
• Minotaur labyrinth spawns now have a special effect to counteract persons who use the maze hedges in order never to get hit a single time by any of the monsters, minotaurs have a chance of dropping item bless deeds, and slayer stones.
• The virus at widow's keep may now go airborne (wear a mask!), carving a red's body should now no longer cause karma loss
• Changed how tamables follow you... they used to stop when out of sight range and you had to double back and get them... this should now be dramatically improved.
• Trash barrels will now "talk trash" when you put an item in them! Try it out! They will say randomized insults to brighten up your day.
• Fixed an issue where dynamicbooks spawns empty
• Changed how stealth attacks damage was calculated... in odyssey they can do up to 4x damage at gm hiding and stealth. at 60 damage (with damage increase) this can result in 240hp hits, on top of weapon abilities and spells like enemy of one in chiv. reduced this to a random range now between 133% and 240% damage.
• Fixed squirecare book to work correctly, and uses image gump too (thanks gadget)
• First implementation of Morph Armor sets! Morph armor are VERY RARE drops from boss type monsters that will morph you into that monster. Each set will be geared towards a particular play style (melee, magery, stealth) and will have a special ability usable once every 24 hours. In this edit, the first morph armor is the minotaur morph armor. Obtainable from minotaur in the cracked labyrinth. Note that this is very powerful armor, and very rare - all 7 pieces are required for the morph effect.

Update 007 - 6/24/20

• Fixed a crash related to the recent change in OnDamage.
• Fixed an issue that made the [go command stop working and apparently the [sr command start crashing.
• You can now recall out of a dungeon, but you can no longer recall into a dungeon. This is to ensure people need to explore before they get to the big boss, instead of simply recalling in and farming the boss.
• Odyssey was a game meant to be played solo, so Djeryv didn't put any caps on Hp/Stam/Dex regen rates. As such, it was possible to have a character that had 120+ HP regen. We have implemented hard caps (configurable in myserversettings) for these regen rates and they are currently at 35, as well as spell damage increase (maxed to 100%). These had the possibility of making players overly powerful and invincible.
• Implementation of the Doom Gauntlet! This is meant to be ultra high-end content as the mobs there are much harder than in standard OSI servers (because of our no skillcap). I would recommend players really be careful when trying to enter doom and trying the gauntlet - the dark father has over 30,000 HP. This new dungeon will likely need balancing - but all functional parts work properly. The doom entrance can be accessed by asking a NPC in Sarth's abbey about it...
• Aether Globe: The dark father has come and made his mark on the lands of UA! Travel by recall/ dispellable moongate has a chance of incurring the dark father's curse in UA. The dark father is corrupting the Aether slowly but surely, and players need to kill the evil that spreads through the lands in order to counter-act his evil corruption. The Aether globe (there is one in the common bank) indicates the danger level and the corruption of the Aether by the dark father. Killing the dark father completely resets the corruption, and killing monsters with negative karma also reduces the curse based on their karma.
• Dark Father's morph armor now has a chance of dropping in Doom! Various mobs have random odds of having one of these very rare drops. The dark father morph armor will give the wearer the ability to be the lord of death, with a very special (non-aso attribute) feature which I won't write here in order to keep the mystery.
• Conversion of the Underworld! our new Ilshenar map is now live, giving us ample room for new content (stygian dragon anyone?) going down the line. The entrances to odyssey dungeons and features are placeholders at this point, as we did not have enough time to go in and edit the maps to ensure they are seamless. you will see floating mirrors, which are placeholders for now (if anyone wants to work on this, we would welcome it!). Note that we have kept only 6 dungeon dwellings.
• Imported the mounts appearing as they should from the latest odyssey version, thanks Djeryv! great change.

July 2020

Update 008 - 7/1/20

The release includes a number of different elements - namely around the evil curse taking over the land.

• The math has been reworked and works much more as intended now - when players fight evil, the evil fights back
• There is an investment bag which allows you to invest your money - be careful as the investment returns follow an algorithm around the evil curse which is plaguing the land... if at times of high risk, investments are more likely to fail, but have much higher returns.
• Implemented a dynamic curse calculation that takes into account 3 day moving averages and the rate by which the curse went up or down. In other words, if NO ONE kills a monster for a few days, the rate of change will even to 0, and if the curst goes up by too much, the curse level might actually decrease to help the players out. The system is much more dynamic now - if players rock the house and kill tons of enemies, the rate of change of curse will increase to adapt to the players' activities.
• Implemented an investment algorithm that takes into account the dark father's curse! If times are good and the curse is low, returns should be stable and good (the economy is doing well), but if times are dangerous and the curse is high, you might lose on your investment. Also, i made it so the higher returns are earned (if you are lucky) during times of high risk.
• Also, as an added bonus, I have made it so negative karma characters have a MUCH LOWER chance of suffering the dark father's curse. He is evil after all and so is a negative karma character. to make things fun, i also made it so killing a POSITIVE KARMA mob HELPS the dark father's curse increase! Now, negative karma characters can make things harder for the good guys by killing positive karma mobs (purple mobs, etc)
• I found that with 80+ remove trap i would never trigger a single hidden trap. This is because the hidden trap avoidance is based on a number of different elements (like stats), but the remove trap check is a skillcheck with 0-125 min/max range. A character with 80+ remove trap skill would rarely fail this. So, I have randomized the minimum skill trap difficulty level to make things more fun. A player with gm remove trap might still get stung here and there, albeit rarely.
• With this in mind, hiddentraps will now emit a faint light to make them "spottable". try and find them in dungeons, and use remove trap to deactivate them.
• Complete rework of the curse calculation and investment calculation, tested and works as intended now (10+ hours went into this!)
• Entrances in the new underworld map were placeholders, I added some proper map changes for these entrances, as well as new mobs, etc. you can now fight the stygian dragon in the enslaved goblin fortress!

Lots of changes, much time spent making it all work. note that the client is set for the server, you need to change to localhost if you want to run offline (but why? come join us and ask for the discord link! its more fun with others)

Here is the latest server state - with the latest save. Note that if you're not using the save, at least do the spawngen method to get the mobiles. I highly recommend using the save here since there is lots of content that won't be present if you just update the scripts and use spawngen.

DOWNLOAD the AUGUST 3rd version. I highly recommend you get the ClassicUO Launcher

New Features:

• Working DOOM gauntlet
• Evil/good curse is balanced and re-tweaked (massive update to the algo)
• New dungeon under the widow's keep with quest, etc.
• Underworld is now fully spawned with new mobs

What we're working on:

• All lands have a good-focus, and i have a problem with that (good cities and evil mobs around in the wilderness). *We are in process of creating a land for evil players - where the cities are for evil players, and all the *wilderness is "good". This way an evil player can exist in this land and go out hunting "good" mobs. Spartans, gods, and all those types of goodie two shoes. It's a new concept as far as I can tell (making an ENTIRE MAP this way). This will hopefully encourage players to be evil, and therefore add to the good/evil curse mechanic.

Update 009 - 7/4/20

• Tied in the curse to the mob's HP: the higher the evil in the lands, the higher the HP of the monsters that spawn (global)
• Tied in the curse to the mob's gold drop rates: the higher the evil in the lands, the higher the gold drop rate of the mobs that spawn (harder enemies, more evil, more gold)
• Enhanced necromage AI which was added
• Added paladin AI (chivalry)
• Added 18 new SA artefacts to the loot tables, and simplified how artefacts are excluded from the name generator
• You can now claim a bod whenever you want, there is no 6 hour timer (it was ridiculous to wait that long for a bod and would take weeks to get a decent one).
• New high end smith bod rewards: AOS enhancement deeds - add attributes to any weapon or armor. One handed deed, make any two-handed weapon one-handed
• Added a new quest in the underworld (bill and ted are lost in hell)

Update 010 - 7/14/20

• Evil bards will now ... be bards! they can peace/provoke/discord. AI change
• Doom Lever puzzle added (not yet tested)
• The new dungeon "Widow's Lament" is now live. it's meant to be harder than doom, so be warned. New quest line, as well as an innovative mechanic to get through the dungeon. I won't put spoilers here, but it will change the way you play throughout the dungeon.
• the travel curse will now scale with the evil level. e.g. at max evil the players will lose 1% of at most 50% of their skills. at low evil players might only lose 0.1% of few skills. alternatively, at low evil you might only lose 0.1-0.2 of 2-3 skills
• death penalty will be linked to the curse, which means you won't simply loose 1% or 2% of skills, but rather 0-1% of skills with healer and THREE times that when auto rezing. so if the death penalty stands at 0.5, auto rezing will be 1.5. at worse (the max), healer is 1.0 and auto is 3.0 - at best, healer is 0.1 and auto is 0.3
• Stealing pedestals are now much harder, but have greater gold reward
• tweaked luck calculation to add greater randomness (real luck!)
• Just added the gravedigger NPC - a summonable npc that will fetch your corpse for you - useful when you died deep in a dungeon and don't want to bother going back... will cost you 30k however so its very pricey!
• fresh off the press, taming bulk orders! I'm still in process of adding the tamables (there are what seems like hundreds), but the rewards for completing the BODS will be both gold and a chance to get very special items : pet dyes, pet control slots, pet trainers... and the most impressive of all: a pet paragon deed.
• added a new command: type [changecharacter from your home or in an inn to quickly change characters
• did multiple tweaks to taming bods, including tying in the price the animal broker is giving for tames on the doomcurse. in good times prices are lower, in difficult times prices are higher
• PetEasing deed now a reward for taming bods... this (should) lower a tame's minimum taming skill required by 10, meaning lower skilled tamers (or even non-tamers if many are applied) will be able to control the pet
• Changed so anger on tame now takes into account the player and animals skills was 95% before regardless if the creature was easy compared to your taming skill or not
• Changed taming messages (they were boring) to add more diversity
• Fixed champ spawn body types for some of the mobiles
• Major changes to taming bods for balance, namely odds for rewards and amounts that need to be tamed.

Update 011 - 7/21/20

• Hopefully changed it so tamed animals won't attack their owners with breath area attack (unless the tame is directly attacking the owner)
• Changed it so tamed pets won't passively reveal their owners (unless they are attacking the owner)
• Big revamp of the curse today - looks like too much credit was given when killing high end enemies. I reduced the rate at which the doom curse can be decreased (now that our players are more powerful and killing more than skeletons). To balance this, I reduced the rate at which the curse increases. Also, did another pass of the math to ensure things are working as intended
• Fixed crash with the serpent pillars
• Players dying will now affect the curse - a good player dying will raise the curse (the evil has been able to defeat the forces of good!)
• The fame/karma value of ALL mobs was a static fixed value just arbitrarily placed in every mobile's script. I've changed it so its dynamic now, based on the mobile's attributes. tested skeleton/lichlord/balron/drake/primeval dragon and the fame/karma values seem to work very well. for example, lichlords were -15k karma before.. they are *4k now (they are easy after all)... now the values make much more sense.
• Added what I call spammervendors - npcs that sell unusual items (some buy them) and deal in unusual items. they are meant to simulate the spammers that used to sit in brit bank selling/buying wares.
• I've changed the calculations for pet levelling to make it easier to level them. it will still be a challenge but the way it was before made it nearly impossible to bring a pet to breeding level. e.g. a dragon would have to kill 600 other dragons just to get from level 9 to level 10. Reduced.
• Just implemented Colored equipment names (Thanks @AgetianMaywind). @garthavan (Harrington) found this and we have added it to the server. Now equipment names will have a hue indicated (very roughly) how many attributes and the quality of the item. Note that this system isn't perfect but should help to sort out the garbage from the quality items when in a dungeon. https://www.servuo.com/archive/colored-equipment-names.404/
• Breath damage maximum has been increased, so beware!
• Stealing pedestals have been made significantly harder now - damage from flame traps and failing to steal the chests have gone up significantly.
• Changed the luck calculation to make getting artifacts a little harder. It was common for someone to get 2-3 per dungeon run before...

August 2020

Update 012 - 8/1/20

• Adding Life Essense and Soul Essences! lower karma mobs will have higher chance of dropping life essence (that heal you), and higher karma mobs will have higher chance of dropping soul essence. Soul essence allows you to "attempt" a skill gain, like you were trying to use a skill. It won't always mean a gain, but you could gain blacksmith skill from walking on a soul orb for example. This adds a bit of fun to the game
• guildmasters should now accept checks for guild fees
• Spirit Speak is now a way for an evil character to offer the soul of the dead to their evil lord. Using spirit speak will now increase the evil by a small amount, It makes the evil stronger
• Introducing the new public crafting space. Anyone who is the member of a crafting guild can enter this area. It's meant to give crafters a place to hang out that is "common".
• Introducing the new evil (negative karma) class: the Cursed. these mobiles are a revamped version of the blues/reds you all see. they are not in game just yet but will begin appearing soon. if you see one and you have positive karma, I would run!
• Map update! Sarth now has walls and is a proper "city" I've added a few hidden access holes in the walls for those wanting to sneak in
• Randomized the amount of time it takes to get a new customer for shops from 15 minutes to 1 hour
• In an effort to promote player crafters, NPC repair has been creased to 100gp per durability. crafters can create repair deeds which they can sell on their vendors, which would be dramatically cheaper
• We have switched and installed One Time from ServUO. It's a central timer that can be hooked on to by any script, it's a really ingenious idea. before, each script needed its own timer. Now, there is only one timer running for all the scripts, thereby reducing server load and simplifying everything. Upgraded to latest version

New update with Massive new content, tweaks, fixes. Entirely new land populated for evil players; DarkMoor. We are in process of populating Darkmoor, a land for evil players (all cities are evil, and mobs are positive karma).

We have made some modifications to the client - changed some of the mobile animations (unicorn changed to look better per the version here on ServUO, frenzied ostards are back in, children added, new mobs as well) We've also added new art (from outland's client), new decor, items, statues, walls, etc.

• Odyssey had evilkarmaoffset method ended up raising karma loss for evil players by 4x. unsure why, so I removed this to be stock per RunUO 2.6
• Coffers and stealing: when a thief got caught before in trying to steal a coffer, nothing happened, the vendors just stood there. Now, the vendors will attack the thief, and call in any guards nearby to help too. had to change basevendor and vendorAI to add the required subroutines
• fixed the issue where necro forms didn't transform the player, also changed the bodytypes to the original bodytypes
• I've implemented a new mechanic by which dungeon doors will be randomly locked/unlocked every 4 hours or so. the system works like this: 80% of all doors will be unlocked per normal. 20% of the doors will be locked. Of those, 65% will be easier locks, and 35% will be harder locks. Skeleton keys can be used for easier locks, master skeleton keys can be used for harder locks. magic unlock has a chance to unlock easier locks only. the doors will randomly reset/change every 4 hours
• The death penalty (not the travel penalty) will now scale based on your karma and the curse level. also, the lower the curse, the higher the penalty for evil players, and the higher the penalty, the greater the penalty for good players.
• You will start seeing some mobs appear as blessed or cursed. these are much harder versions of the mob and appear as a result of the curse level. if times are good, blessed mobs will appear in the evil lands of Darkmoor, and if times are bad, cursed mobs will appear in the lands of Sosaria/Lodoria

players can now influence how the opposite group experiences the game (good players can make the life of evil players harder and vice versa) also, since all loot is dynamically generated, fame/loot will be greater for those mobs

• Another thematic change: Stam/HP/Hit regen will now be affected by hunger and thirst. the hungrier/thirsty you are, the slower your regen will go
• Fisherman vendors will sell a movable trash chest for 5k each.
• Added a new system whereby mobs are hidden from the player until in line of sight. This stops players from seeing the entire dungeon or even what mobs are behind a closed door. this is much more thematic when exploring dungeons.
• Added a passive tracking skill check to reveal mobs even if they are in another room or behind a door. Tracking is now useful again! (next restart)
• Fixed a bug where archers could get more arrows than they used by picking up arrows dropped and having high lowerammocost
• Made a change to allow for multiple prison crystals to be held by players. previous prisons won't go "poof" when you pick up a new one.
• Since using LRC means you are conjuring regs out of thin air, it's been decided that using LRC should also increase mana cost for spells for every 1% of lrc, spell mana will increase 0.5%
• In an attempt to revamp the existing mobs to make them more in line with players, I've increased the difficulty of balrons. New players are not likely to be fighting them so I think the change is a good one. I'll be revamping stock mobs as an ongoing thing to make the world more balanced.
• From henceforth, the "evil curse" will be known as the "balance". the balance can tip towards good or evil. The globe in the bank indicates which side the balance is tipped towards, green is good, red is evil. On next restart, I've added a cool new feature where you can now double click the globe in the bank to see by how much you've affected the balance.
• Increased weight able to be carried a little bit for players
• Added with Lanky's help, a new system that adds ambient sounds to the world. It was pretty quiet before, with sounds only playing if there was a mob nearby. now, a selection of sounds will play based on where you are. Hopefully this adds a bit more atmosphere to the game.
• Travel penalty has now been changed: It moves with the balance. when the balance is towards good, GOOD PLAYERS CAN MORE FREELY TRAVEL, when the balance is towards evil, evil players can more freely travel.

Of course, if the balance is good, evil players will get heavily penalized. if the balance is evil, good will get heavily penalized. To balance this out a bit, evil players will have access to corrupted moonstones, which can be sold from thief/necro vendors.

• Darkmoor is live! A land specifically crafted for evil. Darkmoor has recently been taken over by the hordes of the Accursed, but their hold on the land is weak, and the forces of good still have a strong hold on the surrounding lands. Two new characters have been added to the world: a mysterious stranger has appeared in Lamut, and an odd character appeared in Umbra. See what they need and perhaps enter the land of Darkmoor!
• Change made so that killing anything with positive karma in Darkmoor does not give murder counts if you are evil. Killing vendors, etc. will still give counts if you are evil.
• A note on the balance: There are 3 ways to play the game - neutral, evil, good. they are all karma-based playstyles. Someone who has high positive karma is a good player, and can affect the balance, but his penalties also get affected by the balance too. A neutral character (with near 0 karma) will have less effect on the balance, but also be less affected by the penalties. It's possible therefore to play a neutral character and "opt out" of the balance system. However, if you choose to play as good/evil, you can tip the balance your way and affect the battle between good or evil. A player with 15k karma will have a 150% multiplier on every kill that person does on the balance. A player with 0 karma will have 0% affect, if he kills something.
• Introducing the Champions of the Balance! The player with the top effect on the balance (either good or evil) will NO LONGER be affected by skill loss on death/travel (this does not apply to the insta-res option). They will also be able to resurrect without paying the resurrect fee in gold. The balance champion (for good or evil) will be chosen daily. In order to ensure that someone cannot become champion and stop playing, balance effect points will now decay by 10% per day. Meaning if someone becomes champion and stops playing, he has a higher chance of being overtaken by another player.
• Squire corpses will now take longer to decay
• Changed the lootpack entries to increase the base intensities of items generated on mobs but reduce the number of items generated. The intent is to have less junk to sort through, and higher chance of better items.
• Studybooks (offline) are now craftable using inscription skill
• Fixed an issue where guards in Darkmoor were harming tames with positive karma
• Fixed and issue where ADMIN chars were granted champion status
• New rucksacks were introduced - mining rucksacks and logging rucksacks that reduce the weight of items inside by 50%. useful for any crafting types. Craftable via tailoring only.
• Hitching posts work great, but some people would leave their pets on the posts for months. In order to ensure there's a little bit more interaction, pets on posts will still lose loyalty, albeit at a slower pace. A pet with 100 loyalty will last 666 hours on a post (27 days) before reaching 0 loyalty. Bonded pets with 0 loyalty shouldn't go wild.
• Changed skillgain to make it easier to gain after 80. This is to balance the skill loss on death - it's now a bit easier to gain skill back after losing it.

September 2020

Update 013 - 9/10/20

This update adds harvesters, balance spikes, as well as a ton of additional content

• Added restricted mode to the game: restricted mode players won't lose skill points or stats on death or travel. BUT, fame/karma will be substantially higher on death/travel penalty, and gold cost for death will also be increased.

this will be a difficulty option that will be set on character creation. I'd like to note that it will be very difficult to gain game/karma in restricted mode that means easy mode players will be able to travel using recall/gate at will, and if hit by the penalty, will only lose fame/karma, but won't be able to affect the good/evil balance.

• Increased skill learning speed for non-restricted players, added non restricted players luck bonus, and a bonus to harvesting resources.
• Added tradesmen from odyssey latest
• Since there are many positive karma tamables in Darkmoor, tamed pets with positive karma will now be Enslaved/Dominated instead of Tame/Bonded. Will just add a bit of flavor to the game - you can now walk around with a dominated titan! further, animal taming a positive karma pet will now incur a negative karma hit
• Ethereals will no longer use a slot
• Changing the taming messages to be karma dependent. a good player will see different random messages than an evil player
• Children will no longer show (tamed) when following a player
• Loyalty for pets will go down slower now and fixed bug where loyalty rating on the name of the pet wasn't updating properly
• Added a gate to the casino from the bank. makes it easier to go gamble!
• Mounted blues/Reds will now have a 1/300 chance to drop their ethy on death
• Saw the harvestable drugs system in ServUO and thought it would be a good addition to the server. Added as of this morning, you can now plant/harvest pipeweed! Kits and seeds are sold by pipeweed merchants, who rarely spawn in wilderness, and more often in Lodoria and Darkmoor.
• Town guards will now be able to throw bola balls to dismount mounted criminals
• The math for control chance was buggy. I fixed it. should be easier to control tamables at next restart
• Lockpicks will now weight 0.1 stones
• Adding a new system: TombStones. Instead of just having bodies lie around, you will start seeing tombstones on player death appear on the ground, commemorating the glorious dispatch of the player.
• Fixed wooden items art
• Player backpacks will now be able to hold more than 550 stones
• Tinkers will now sell tinker tools 100% of the time
• Revamped some legacy artefacts that were unimpressive*Changed the animal brokers logic to factor in if the pet is a mount and if the pet can carry things for the player when calculating the pet's value
• Pets with backpacks will now get you more $$$, mounts too
• I have been gradually changing the core systems of the game to be more dynamic - for example fame/karma/loot are not dependent on the script of the mobile, but rather on a complex algorithm when the pet is generated. I will be incorporating taming difficulty to this dynamic algorithm. pet taming difficulty will be dependent on the animal's AI, resistances, skills, poison/breath abilities, whether it is a mount or has a backpack and more factors

- live on the server, dynamic animal taming. this system determines the minimum taming value needed for a creature based on a very complex diminishing returns algorithm. Each tame will now have a different taming difficulty, so if you can't tame one drake, try another - you might be able to tame a weaker one! Also, instead of the "you have no chance of taming this creature" message, you will now get feedback which will tell you how far you are to being able to tame the creature. also, taming creatures in difficult dungeons will sometimes yield stronger tames - but they will be harder to tame!

• Made levelling pets much easier
• Made it so vendors aren't on cocaine anymore, moving around super-fast. (Thanks Shin) they are now easier to click on
• Made it so you can launch a boat and dock it using a docking lantern (from anywhere)
• Added a system of linked gates in the isles of dread to make moving about easier. many isles still need a boat to reach, but some moving is now possible without teleport/gate spells.
• Added new clothes - these clothes will act as a robe (meaning you can have shirts/sash etc. under them). I felt there were too many robes in the game, so this will give people an alternative to robe-wearing for the robe slot
• Reduced children spawn rate
• You can now obtain forged letters! You can place these in the world to make words, say anything you want. are available from librarians for 250gp.
• Updated lady luck - she now says what she does when a character approaches, and understands the "buy" command
• Made the new random letters dyable
• Thanks to @drobcek pointing out that a red pk could be balance champion for good, I've made some wide revisions to the balance champion. also, neg. karma players would be helping the balance whenever they killed anything in a regular dungeon. So I've changed the system to the following: Any effect to the balance will be a function of your karma. In you have 0 karma your kill will have 0 effect on the balance. If you have 15k or -15k karma, you will have a 120% effect on the karma. additionally, any kills form a neg. karma player will go towards evil based on his negative karma (a player with -15k karma will have 120% of the kill go towards evil) also, being a PK now increases your negative effect on the balance, PKs will get a bonus towards their effect on the balance, meaning it will be easier for a PK to gain champion of evil status
• Dungeon doors locking will now be scaled based on the difficulty of the dungeon!
• Added some code to basecreature to try and stop purple names from attacking the pets of positive karma players
• Weight of potions reduced to 0.65 from 1, bottles reduced from 1 to 0.45
• Increased lich form mana regeneration. This form, with a familiar is now useful for magery/mana when training and macroing
• Added AI checks for Darkmoor for pets. Vendors will now look at the pet's owner (not just the pet's karma)
• Because our server is growing, the tasks running in the background are starting to take longer, and cause lag periodically. I have consolidated these tasks and added broadcast messages when they occur to allow us to debug

- Mining harvesters are in! These are area control mining devices that let you mine ore while you're away. some notes: 1. they run on copper, 2. they can be destroyed by another player (who will get all the resources mined, so remember to empty them often), when attacked, they spawn sentries, 3. there are 4 tiers, each tier will mine more and rarer ores

• Tombstones are now no longer droppable in corpses to get rid of them
• Added 3 tiers of lumberjack harvesters. Also, when the defenses of a harvester have been breached, the looter will have full access to the resources within, but this will NOT destroy the harvester. It will simply disable it, and the owner can come and fix it with a repair kit (the owner will also have a chance to move the device). Also, owners of harvesters will get a substantial bonus in the yield of the harvesters if they have the associated skill (mining/lumberjacking)
• Added 3 tiers of Hides harvesters - these devices grow organic matter and harvest the hides at regular interval. Like all harvesters, they need to be placed on certain ground, can harvest multiple types of resources, and a bonus is given to owners with forensic evaluation skill
• I've removed the restriction for addons to only be placed in houses. You can place any decoration you want, anywhere you want in the map now. Want to place a table in the grass in the middle of the woods? go ahead. I want players to be able to customize the world how they see fit.
• Doom entrance relocated in the isle of Islegen in Lodoria
• Tinker now selling low/mid-tier mining/lumber/hide harvesters, as well as repair kits of anyone disables your machine
• Rares spammer vendor now has a chance to sell TOP tier mining/lumber/hide harvesters. As usual, his prices are quite high. doing this as a temporary measure until they are added to crafting tables
• JUST ADDED! The spikes of the Balance! These devices will influence and manipulate the balance for you, at a cost in silver. When placed in a dungeon, they may also, once changed, resurrect you (and only you) but this will deplete their power. A player can easily become, and keep, the title of champion with many of these running throughout the lands. They are obtainable as a rare drop from enraged or righteous mobs that you've no doubt seen but fore you may use them, you must choose which side of the balance you will fight for - creation or destruction, good or evil, light or darkness. You may want to visit this well-known man to do so and ask him of the balance.
• Fixed a bug where kills made by a negative tame mob would count towards evil. the pet owner's karma will now be used to determine where the kill goes (evil or good)
• Tweaked breeding a bit, now babies will start at a level between the baby's max level divided by 5 and same divided by 2. For example, a baby with 30 max level will start at a level between levels 6 and 15. this. they will also have a higher max level, based on the level of its parents two parents at level 15 will yield a baby with a max level of 25, and a level between 5 and 12
• Spirit speak now also costs 20 mana (instead of 10), but yields back up to 10 mana when used. using SS on a body now gives you free mana
• Changing so the time lord no longer attacked anyone (he will defend himself though)
• Time Lord also gives a balance spike when someone pledges to good or evil
• Hidden traps will no longer be ctrl-shiftable to disarm a hidden trap, simply target the ground where you think there is one. the system will search a 1 tile radius, if a hidden trap is found, an attempt to disarm is made
• The client is now much easier to understand and use
• diminishing return algos added to open up late game
• harvesters, balance spikes
• soulbound system

January 2021

Update 014 - 1/19/20

• PvE gauntlet is now active near clues moongate. simply double click on the gauntlet master. Note: you cannot die when participating, there is a running tally of scores for each type, and this is still mostly unbalanced (try and survive as long as you can)

To see scores, say "scores"

• Fixed a few issues in the gauntlet (thanks veryance for testing). I also added a special commemorative plate armor set (plate of honor) to spawn on completion of the gauntlet (1/60 chance)
• I always hated how all pets of a certain type were all pretty much more or less the same. This forces players to use pets that they might not want to use, just because that's the pet that gives the most damage for their taming skill. For example, I love the look of a drake, but I have to move to a dragon if I want something stronger. I've therefore added an algorithm on animal spawn that has a (small) chance to randomize pet stats and damage. This way, it would be possible (but rare) to find a pet drake that could take on a dragon. Of course, this is only doable because of the dynamic taming skill algo that was added - pets with elite stats will be harder to tame. So don't be surprised if you find a horse you can't tame at 50 taming, or a dragon you can't tame at 105 taming. This will encourage players to go out and scout for the best of their favorite pet type
• Also, will be adding gravediggers to most cities these npcs can fetch your corpses for you for a price. You can also summon the gravedigger using the [gravedigger command, but for double the cost
• Powerscroll vendors have had a price revamp
• In order to prepare for upcoming changes, I am tweaking it so only persons who have pledged with the time lord can become champions of the balance. To pledge, ask him about the balance
• I've had a lot of time to work on the pet-value algorithm with the dynamic fame/karma and pet taming skill changes. I updated the prices of pets at the animal broker. hopefully the value of the pets haven't changed much, but if they had and are out of whack, please let me know
• Champions who die and travel so not suffer skill point loss, but will now suffer a 5% loss of balance influence for healer, and 15% of influence for insta-resurrecting.
• Craft vendor now sells bulk scrolls
• Fixed an issue with the max followers math (thanks for pointing this out @Qarinah) now people with gm herding should get an extra control slot
• Soulbound system added!
• Fixed issue where tames would still exist after soulbound died
• Mapmakers would decode maps for a base of 1k per map level, but because of the balance changes, the price was more like 350gp per level... I've upped this somewhat
• Soulbound characters will now show "soulbound" on mouse hover, and show the date the character was created
• Increased rate of balance spikes spawning on enraged/righteous mobs
• Adding a balance champion item on the mouse hover over a player. That way it's easy to see if you or someone else is champion
• Dynamic algos tweaked: Max taming skill required set at 120, increased Max possible fame/karma to 45k from 35k. this is to accommodate the new elite creatures. Taking down high-end elite mobs will now reward greater fame/karma
• Poison strike was doing 180+ damage to mobs due to a tweak in Odyssey. lowered this 3x
• Assassin quests now have a 5% chance of giving the assassin a high-end item or artifact
• Story records are going live! click your character to mark an item which will be left in the world. You can tell your story using these records. choose a sound, choose the art you want, and tell your story. No one will be able to edit or remove these. this makes leaving stories in the world super easy. Explain why you chose your spot for your house, explain what happened when you died next to a gravestone
• Fixed bug where npc bards would discord you, but would increase your stats, not decrease them. reduced the effect to be 5-10% of stats. Reduced duration from 50 seconds to 20-30 second
• Fixed issue where harvesters didn't have proper hit points
• Fixed crash with pet levelling
• Fixed issue where auto resurrect gump wasn't appearing on death
• Further tightened the balance algorithm which had some inconsistencies when one side won too often. the multiplier will now be much less intense, making the transition from good to evil or vice versa smoother.
• Fixed instance where breeding baby didn't have a father and crashed the server
• Story items is now live! You should be able to click on your character now and see "mark item". use that to create a new story. once in the gump, select an item (top middle icon) and sound if you want a sound to play when players come near. write your story, choose flavor art (I will be fixing this soon), and close gump. you should see an item in your pack. double click to place in the world
• Fixed an issue where 100 power scrolls were being created
• Fixed some algo and math issues with the balance calculations when values were over a certain amount - balance will now be more "balanced" in how it reacts to crazy players doing too many champ spawns.
• Champ spawn mobs will now count for half of the normal effect on the balance. Reduced a mobs balance value by 50% overall
• Crafters can now contribute to the balance! In order to contribute, crafters need to pledge first with the time lord. once pledged, any gold made in shops (and withdrawn) will have an effect on the balance, based on the crafter's pledge
• Crafter golems now take 3 control slots
• You can now trade in balance influence for new balance spikes at the time lord, by saying "I want another spike" they cost 2500 influence
• Increased the drop rate of spikes, and fixed issue where spikes could be destroyed easily (hopefully!)
• As a reminder, spikes allow you to resurrect in a dungeon if it's charged. also, I am making it so only persons who pledged can attack a spike
• I have revised story items now which will allow you to write book-length stories when selecting "mark item" now you can write a full book length story
• Sailor / adventurer quests (from bulletin boards) will now give good balance influence, and have a chance to be rewarded with a high-end item
• Luck cap increased to 4k from 2k for gear
• Major vote on trello: control slots will no longer reduce based on the tames level. this feature will be removed due to majority vote
• Bank will now sell copper and silver. note that due to limitations, copper will be 1 gold each, and silver will be 2 gold each. I know the rates are very much higher than what banker trades it for, but there is always the possibility to purchased / trade from players as well.
• Fixed issue with house teleporters. restricted players will no longer have the curse be applied to them. note that there is a chance of curse if the destination is over 50 tiles away (they are house teleporters meant to be used within a house)
• Major New addition to the Server today! Thanks to @Qarinah , we now have a full legacy system for the soulbound playstyle! Quite a bit of work went into this one...playing soulbound now allows you to grow your character's strength and powers over time, so that every incarnation of your SB char can become more and more powerful. Ultimately, a SB char will not require any items to be as powerful as a regular character. This is live on the server.
• The bard system has been completely redesigned as it was broken in more ways than none before (effects could stack to make you invincible, etc)
• Gauntlet challenges have now been reworked. they should be more difficult now, feedback welcomed, try them out today! I also added a new gauntlet challenge: elementals
• Soulbound: A player reset template system has been implemented to provide players with a more purposeful resurrection, instead of being completely random. This includes resetting characters back to 3x 75 skills instead of 2 x 50 skills to assist with being able to "jump back into it". They will also be provided useful items for their template, such as a bag of reagents, some scrolls and a spellbook for a mage - etc. There are 10 templates you can receive, and each one has been designed thoughtfully for grouping
• Bandage self-healing timer is now minimum 4 seconds, max 9 seconds, depending on dexterity of the player.
• Using the vet skill with bandages on a pet will now vary depending on the players dexterity (was fixed 2 seconds before, now varies from 1 second to 5 seconds).
• Hitpoint / Mana / Stamina bonuses are now affected by diminishing returns, with a max of +100. In other words, if you have +100 bonus hitpoints on your items, you will not get +100 hits (you will get closer to +70). Also, a player with +300 hitpoint bonus will get very close to the +100 max. This allows for more flexibility with stat bonuses from items and is a better alternative to just putting a +100 hardcap (and everything above that wouldn't count). You can now stack as much of a bonus to the stats as you want on your suit in order to get closer to the 100 max.
• Hopefully fixed a crash issue where a player is on a boat (related to ambient sounds).
• Increased Gold drops for all mobs (change applied to mobs on use of resetmobs command)
• Fixed null crash issue where someone breeding a pet that is stabled would crash server.
• Reduced area damage area from 10 tiles to 7 tiles and added a 33% chance that a mob won't be hit by the area attack.
• Mobs' damage dealt (non-humans) will now take into account their strength and their wrestling skill (only took into account their strength before).

- I increased the armor resist bonus for armor crafted with colored materials by 3x. meaning A valorite plate armor piece will now have much more resists than before. This should give more incentive to enhance armor with special materials.

• Npc thiefs and other nefarious npc rogues will no longer be able to steal a SoulBound's Phylactery.
• Fixed issue where gauntlet mobs were not spawning in the correct region
• Fixed AOS enhancement deeds where it was possible for self-repair +3-+12
• Life/mana/stamina leech has now been tweaked. area attacks made this very OP. Leech percentages have been reduced to 15% of hit
• Karma hidden traps will now bring karma to 0 for any player who is pledged to either good or evil with the timelord otherwise will still warp the karma as per usual
• I'm changing how soulbound works slightly: we had started by adding a flag to all items making them "normal only" items, which souldbound couldn't wear. The idea is to ensure that you could not simply give a +200HP/DEX/INT item to a soulbound character. Soulbound playstyle is meant to be a hardcore playstyle. I've opted to remove this flag completely. Now, all soulbound characters can freely wear any item they want (no more restriction), HOWEVER, item attributes and bonuses will not apply to them. This will be a work in progress as some tweaks/bugs are likely to prop up.
• Dungeon pedestals are also going to change dramatically over the next few days - we're adding a puzzle element for a player to get the prize. more to come on this soon
• Additionally, the Gauntlet gold reward will now scale with the gauntlet level the player completed. higher levels means higher rewards (was 5k on completion before regardless of level). The gold cost will also scale with the level as well, starting at 1k and going up from there. More risk, more reward.
• Any houses which have not been refreshed within 60 days will be made public. All secured containers will remain secured and the player won't lose anything - however other players will be able to enter the home and use any addons and look around.
• Armor resistances were changed today to make it more difficult to reach 70's on all resists. each point of resist gets put through a diminishing returns algorithm. this opens up late game options
• Diminishing returns for resistances, AND a full revamp of colored material bonuses is live on server for feedback and testing
• As a quality-of-life change, and due to overwhelming support, I've changed pack animals max carry weight to 2400, max weight for player backpack to 800, and max items in a players backpack to 600
• Melee damage has now been moved to the diminishing returns system. What this means: NO MORE DAMAGE INCREASE CAP! Yep, you can have 1000% damage increase on your suit now. The algo now increases damage dealt by diminishing returns (meaning anything over 400% will give very little difference, but its still something you can do). the system is much better this way, as it includes anything that increases melee damage (enemy of one, etc etc). what happened before: people were able to stack different damage modifying things together and do 250+HP hits. this will now be much harder to do (but still doable) so players can now stack as much damage increase as they can, opening more options for late game players.
• Applied same as above to spell damage - no more spell damage increase cap
• Added a new feature today which will enable offline players to learn skills, and players who want to accelerate skill gain to learn up to 80 skill: When a player logs out, a clone npc will be created which will roam the lands when the player is offline (if their stats are over 150). The clone will be able to teach any player up to 80 of any skill the offline player has GM'd. The cost will be 300gp per 0.1 of skill, and HALF the amount paid for skill training will be dropped into the offline player's bank. this will enable offline players to earn passive gold from skills they have gm'd
• Chaging it so bringing in heads to town guards will now award fame (every little bit helps for a SB).
• On resurrect, a player's hunger/thirst, HP/mana and stamina will be 50% of max - didn't make sense to have a player resurrect fully fed and healed up