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removed stillwater from wandslinger vigils

#	3901
Type	content revision
By	Twilight
When	Aug 27 2008 4:38 PM
Description	can't defend this town anymore
Result	me less irritated
Reason	people uniformly picked it just to get easy ka. while i like the idea of someone picking it to actually defend a noob town, let's be realistic
Projects	Wandslingers
Version	not updated
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removed combat med for wandslingers entirely

#	3900
Type	content expansion
By	Twilight
When	Aug 27 2008 4:17 PM
Description	replaced it with something more wandy
Result	better
Reason	wanted to
Projects	Wandslingers
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "removed combat med for wandslingers entirely"

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removed combat med bonus from attuned, reduced combat med ka reward for wandslingers

#	3899
Type	content revision
By	Twilight
When	Aug 27 2008 12:51 PM
Description	self-explanatory for attuned. wandslingers now only get 1 point of combat med (at 300 ka)
Result	less combat med hoarding
Reason	the power is too prominent in proportion to the role i wanted it to play in these affiliations
Projects	Attuned, Wandslingers
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "removed combat med bonus from attuned, reduced combat med ka reward for wandslingers"

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slight AI improvements to guardian extension

#	3898
Type	lib revision
By	Chaos
When	Aug 27 2008 12:38 PM
Description	Revised the guardian extension (what a player might think of as the 'swarming controller') to be smarter in the way it handles assigning guardians to targets, in particular allowing wounded guardians to flee rather than forcing them back into combat. Also doesn't give assignments to incapacitated guardians and some other sanity checks.
Result	Guardian extension is a bit smarter; 'swarming' areas possibly less likely to just let you chop everybody up without trying to save them.
Reason	Non-stupidity.
Version	revision incremented to Ain Soph 2.2.896
Rating	Rate "slight AI improvements to guardian extension"

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deryni racial specialty revisions

#	3897
Type	lib revision
By	Chaos
When	Aug 27 2008 12:34 PM
Description	Replaced deryni magick affinity and entropy resistance with extropic affinity, changed aging retardation, extropic affinity and psychic integrity from required degree 1 to bonus degree 1, changed various minor specialty access to be accumulative only.
Result	Deryni work a bit differently.
Reason	Better coherence with theme.
Version	revision incremented to Ain Soph 2.2.895
Rating	Rate "deryni racial specialty revisions"

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new affiliation type: agent; stalkers now agents, not soldiers

#	3896
Type	content revision
By	Twilight
When	Aug 25 2008 8:06 AM
Description	agents are more like operatives or special forces than infantry or cavalry, and most of the affiliations excludes on soldier seemed to be targetting that latter category.
Result	stalkers can be joined by affiliations that exclude soldier
Reason	more appropriate classification of stalkers, and better intergration possibilites with other affiliations
Projects	Stalkers of the Gate
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "new affiliation type: agent; stalkers now agents, not soldiers"

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Re-opened Losthaven's pet store

#	3895
Type	content bug fix
By	Lysator
When	Aug 24 2008 11:13 PM
Description	Updated some of the older code, changed some descriptions, changed some chats, added some animals, and added some gear.
Result	No more monkeys waving he arms above he head.
Reason	They needed some updating
Projects	Losthaven Pet Shoppe, Losthaven
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "Re-opened Losthaven's pet store"

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added shoggoth form to shapeshifters

#	3894
Type	content expansion
By	Chaos
When	Aug 23 2008 9:46 PM
Description	Made sufficiently skilled Shapeshifters able to assume shoggoth form.
Result	Shapeshifters can use shoggoth form.
Reason	Because I can.
Projects	Shapeshifters
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "added shoggoth form to shapeshifters"

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extended fleeing mechanism

#	3893
Type	lib expansion
By	Chaos
When	Aug 23 2008 9:24 PM
Description	Created a mechanism that allows extended fleeing where you attempt to reach a reasonably safe distance instead of going one room and stopping. See 'help start fleeing', 'help switch extended fleeing'.
Result	Can flee in a generally 'far away from trouble' sort of way.
Reason	Fleeing only ever meaning one room is kinda sad.
Version	revision incremented to Ain Soph 2.2.893
Rating	Rate "extended fleeing mechanism"

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reduced usage of 'here' in targeting name retrieval

#	3892
Type	lib revision
By	Chaos
When	Aug 23 2008 3:03 PM
Description	Rewrote the code that figures out what to call things for targeting purposes so that it only appends "here" (or, not that you would normally know this, prepends "my") if it needs to in order to tell the target apart from something else in the targeter's inventory (or its environment, in the "my" case).
Result	Hopefully, this should eliminate the whole "Hello there, human here!" issue. The cost is that the additional checking against inventories is expensive, and may increase lag or cause eval limit errors. (ESPECIALLY IF PEOPLE ACCUMULATE HUGE NUMBERS OF OBJECTS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENTS OR IMMEDIATE INVENTORIES. It helps everything if you try to avoid doing this. Putting objects in containers is a good way of both making your inventory better-organized and helping it not lag the MUD or cause errors.)
Reason	Tired of listening to people bitch about the 'here' issue, tired of being the only developer who goes in and fixes NPCs so they don't do that in the actually optimal way (this way is not optimal), decided to take the CPU-usage hit in order to make it all stop.
Version	revision incremented to Ain Soph 2.2.892
Rating	Rate "reduced usage of 'here' in targeting name retrieval"

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attempted smart parsing of 'and'/lists in show

#	3891
Type	lib revision
By	Chaos
When	Aug 23 2008 12:39 PM
Description	Revised 'show' so that if it parses a show command as multiple things (because it contains the word 'and', contains commas, etc.) and some of those things come up as invalid, it tries again with the whole thing considered as one showable value, and if that works okay, uses it instead.
Result	Hopefully less trouble with using show commands on things that have 'and' in them, like 'whois law and order'.
Reason	It wasn't working so well.
Version	revision incremented to Ain Soph 2.2.891
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made blindness affect movement speed

#	3890
Type	lib revision
By	Chaos
When	Aug 21 2008 11:20 PM
Description	Made it so that being blind slows down your movement dramatically (by the same degree that stealth mode does).
Result	You move more slowly when blind, which also means people doing attacks of opportunity on you as you run away from combat get more free activity, it's harder to elude, and so on.
Reason	Why do you think?
Version	revision incremented to Ain Soph 2.2.890
Rating	Rate "made blindness affect movement speed"

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made unarmed attacks not vary in activity cost by size

#	3889
Type	lib revision
By	Chaos
When	Aug 21 2008 5:11 AM
Description	Took out the code that made basic unarmed attacks vary in activity cost according to your size (and the size of the limb being used) and replaced it with unarmed attacks in general being as fast as using a very small weapon.
Result	Unarmed attacks by very small people are slower, unarmed attacks by large people are faster.
Reason	Couldn't seem to get sane behavior out of the whole concept (for instance, it's nuts for a fomor to be slower attacking someone barehanded than using a dagger), so just ditched it.
Version	revision incremented to Ain Soph 2.2.889
Rating	Rate "made unarmed attacks not vary in activity cost by size"

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removed combat med from elicats

#	3888
Type	content revision
By	Twilight
When	Aug 20 2008 10:45 PM
Description	gave them permanent situational awareness instead, and also upped their flight slightly
Result	elicats a little less good for autodidacts, a little better for nonautodidacts probably
Reason	hard to justify an animal conferring a sophisticated combat trance that's specifically geared towards beings with abstraction... also, balance issues
Projects	Rangers
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "removed combat med from elicats"

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added skills: artillery, siege engineering

#	3886
Type	lib expansion
By	Chaos
When	Aug 18 2008 11:55 PM
Description	Added the skills artillery and siege engineering; made catapults, ballistae, and trebuchets based primarily on artillery for launching skill.
Result	These skills exist.
Reason	Wanted them.
Version	revision incremented to Ain Soph 2.2.887
Rating	Rate "added skills: artillery, siege engineering"

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padme chakra harder to get for attuned

#	3885
Type	content revision
By	Twilight
When	Aug 18 2008 8:55 PM
Description	made padme chakra prestige check a little less responsive to attunement level... used to be level / 50, now it's level / 100.
Result	harder to get padme
Reason	working on a guild to go on top of them, and it would be too easy to get padme
Projects	Attuned
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "padme chakra harder to get for attuned"

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help ethics/alignment updated to help ethos

#	3881
Type	content revision
By	Arafelis
When	Aug 17 2008 5:57 PM
Description	Changed and updated the alignment and ethics helps to the current system.
Result	updation!
Reason	needed upate after change 3806
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "help ethics/alignment updated to help ethos"

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bludgeon/axe/hammer: dex -> str

#	3880
Type	lib revision
By	Chaos
When	Aug 17 2008 3:40 PM
Description	Changed bludgeon, axe, and hammer from dexterity-based skills to strength-based skills.
Result	These weapon skills are now strength-based.
Reason	Arafelis convinced me it was appropriate.
Version	revision incremented to Ain Soph 2.2.883
Rating	Rate "bludgeon/axe/hammer: dex -> str"

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Losthaven Pet Shoppe taken offline pending code review

#	3879
Type	content revision
By	Lysator
When	Aug 17 2008 12:16 AM
Description	Taking Losthaven's Pet Shoppe offline so I can look back over the code and do the necessary updates.
Result	No more pets until I make them correctly.
Reason	I really didn't know what I was doing when I made it the first time.
Projects	Losthaven, Losthaven Pet Shoppe
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "Losthaven Pet Shoppe taken offline pending code review"

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made kill history not affect alignment changes

#	3878
Type	lib bug fix
By	Chaos
When	Aug 16 2008 4:08 PM
Description	Previously, the same kill history that reduces experience when you fight the same things repeatedly without breaks would also reduce the alignment change from those things. This is no longer the case.
Result	Alignment change is unaffected by kill history.
Reason	It was wrong.
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "made kill history not affect alignment changes"

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alternate energy sources

#	3877
Type	content expansion
By	Twilight
When	Aug 16 2008 1:33 PM
Description	two, one general--a discordian reward--and one specific--an azure artifact. these will help with the alternate energy types that show up in your vitals bar when you're e.g. an azure mage
Result	have some stuff
Reason	want more stuff to help with this
Projects	Azure Magi, Talaxia, Discordians
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "alternate energy sources"

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new affiliation type: agent; stalkers now agents, not soldiers

#	3874
Type	content revision
By	Twilight
When	Aug 13 2008 10:40 AM
Description	completely rewrote/updated dragonsabre... should work (roughly) like it used to, be modernized and happy, etc.
Result	very powerful artifact that you actually have to quest for
Reason	coolest weapon in the game
Projects	Corna
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "new affiliation type: agent; stalkers now agents, not soldiers"

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changed math for resistance skills

#	3872
Type	lib revision
By	Chaos
When	Aug 10 2008 2:04 AM
Description	Changed the mathematical function that determines what level of resistance is produced by having the resistance skills. This only affects the resistance skills; affinity skills are unaffected.
Result	Generally, resistance skills will produce less resistance at low levels and more resistance at high levels.
Reason	Liked the math better.
Version	revision incremented to Ain Soph 2.2.879
Rating	Rate "changed math for resistance skills"

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reversed effect of hunger/thirst on SP

#	3871
Type	lib revision
By	Chaos
When	Aug 10 2008 1:01 AM
Description	Inverted the effect that being hungry and thirst has on your maximum SP: the more hungry and thirsty you are, the more it increases your max SP, up to doubling it.
Result	Being hungry and thirsty increases your max SP.
Reason	Mortification of the flesh is generally thought to empower the spirit. And it feeds into the whole physicality vs. spirituality tradeoff thing. And it amuses me to do so.
Version	revision incremented to Ain Soph 2.2.878
Rating	Rate "reversed effect of hunger/thirst on SP"

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yog and cthulhu upgraded

#	3869
Type	content revision
By	Joku
When	Aug 3 2008 2:14 PM
Description	yog and cthluhu have been upgraded quite a bit. was kinda tired of cthulhu being a pushover and yog being not worth his xp. their levels have been increased quite a bit as well. the cthulhu change is not in game yet but will be shortly
Result	they are real gods now
Reason	they sucked
Version	not updated
Rating	Rate "yog and cthulhu upgraded"

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