Drakkar Version Notes

Updates / Fixes / Current Issues
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10/8/2012 - Updates

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Skill level 40 bonuses are now implemented for every class!

- Barbarian - if holding a weapon at skill >= 40, you will never target a player!
- Healer - You may now create a twig in a no-twig zone
- Paladin - Your HEALINGTOUCH now heals you for up to 60% of your maximum health


Also added:
- Events can now speed up Party Leadership gain!
- Increased the UGH bonus for quirk gain, and increased the "spontaneous" quirk rate with one chance per guild hall subscription on the account ( each round )

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11/8/2012

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Now on NL:

- Primal experience gain on creatures with experience gain cutoffs ( 78th, 80th, etc ), no longer give zero experience. Instead a formula has been adopted to scale down experience based on level difference.

This should assist players "stuck" in certain level/power bands

Enjoy!

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11/20/2012 - New subscription plan

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New Subscription Plan: Platinum

After receiving massive feedback to create a reduced-rate plan that encompassed guild halls for all slots, we have spent the significant development effort to create a new PLATINUM subscription plan.

This includes:

- All the benefits of GOLD
- Premium guild halls ( including all benefits ) on each of your four character slots

Also included:
- No natural aging to your characters
- Reduced "stress" based aging per month subscribed to platinum
- Increased bank maximum per month subscribed
- Increased leadership gains per party member with a platinum subscription
- Additional leadership gain bonus for each month the leader has been subscribed to platinum

All at only $24.95 / month ( a 40% savings ).

We have been wanting to put this in for a while ( players #3 requested change ), but technical limitations made it difficult. Please give us feedback if you have any issues.

*NOVEMBER SPECIAL* Subscribe to platinum in november and incur *NO* upgrade charges over your current plans!

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11/29/2012

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- "Autos" should now correct determine "platinum" plan when dealing with your bank account!

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Nameless Land Wrapup coming soon!

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The final portion of the Nameless land, the Green Dragon Encounter ( GDT for short.. Green Dragon Temple ), is coming very soon! I almost have the scripting done for the encounter itself.

This, along with the "Dark Knowledge" quest line will finish out the content areas for the Nameless Lands. ( And then on to some fresh ideas for a new area ).


So, how is this going to work:

- Hopefully the week of the 8th I will be releasing a frontend AND backend patch that will allow people to complete the "Dark Knowledge" quest ( all those scrolls you find all over SDC).
- This will give people ample time to gather the pieces necessary to finish the DK quest line, and be prepared for the GDT event.
- Assuming all goes well with the DK quest, that next week I will be opening up the final encounter area for the Green Dragon Brood Mother herself ( the mother of all Nork dragons ).. one day we may find the red consort in a far off land, who knows!

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New Version 07/17/2013

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- Primal Form is now implemented!
- It is now a toggle, activate as desired. Side effects: Ages you Benefits: cool stuff..
- New frontend implementing some of the quirk changes is now available for download ( from the normal download link ). Make sure you grab it so you get the primal form toggle and can see ( Lobby 1.37, frontend should say 4.24 ). Note, if you are running "unofficial" version of drakkar, you may need to uninstall them before installing this version. Make sure you exit from ALL versions of the game before installation.
some of the quick changes when the NL content goes live
- Fixed a major issue with game time which messed up some quests and timers
- Globalized the discipline data on the backend.. no more out of sync scenarios!
- The dark secret pages that now drop in NL should be correctly numbered and labeled.
- The dark secret reward is a reward in and of itself, not necessarily linked only to the final encounter
- Fixed a character save issue on game shutdown
- Cavern Creeper, Air Head and Tree Hugger now show when active ( and their affects have been boosted, and they now work TOGETHER ( hunting on air near a cave while beside a tree is max effectiveness )
- Some important notes:
- The final Nameless Land encounter is now up, and is *VERY* different than traditional drakkar encounters. It utilizes a lot of new tech.
- Just to avoid confusion, i'll let you in on the fact that the new encounter starts the moment the Silver Consort is killed. ( The timer for phase 1 of the encounter starts ).
- The encounter is in phases, and each phase has a fail timer
- The encounter will be VERY difficult without completion of the dark secrets quest
- The encounter is going to take some study and strategy to get through
- In order to maximize your reward options for winning the encounter, make sure you have completed all other NL quests!

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8/1/2013 Bank Updates

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- Grab the latest frontend from the website!
- Banks now correctly avoid overflow/underflow / overbalance operations that cause money to be lost
- You may now deposit / withdraw enormous amounts of coin ( using the new interface )

Note: The GUI is the ONLY supported method of accessing banks. All other methods are unsupported, and have side effects ( And will be removed in a future version )

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8/10/2013 NL Test Patch

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Some experimental patches to NL

- CRITCURE should now behave better when done in combat situations ( no more multi corpse critcures )
- The ice flows have had their auto-hit reduced
- More crits drop the dark secrets quest scrolls ( more crits in each area )

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08/19/2013 - Bank Limit Increase

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- We have extended the max coins in bank by a base amount of 10meg

Also

- We have doubled the drop rate of the Dark Secrets scrolls on all appropriate creatures

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9/5/2013 Host Update - Nameless Lands

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- Adjusted the drop rate of dark knowledge scrolls based on the creature/health difficulty in a few of the later SDC areas
- Fixed a character save bug
- Fixed a glitch with first time use of lockers
- Adjusted early GDH creatures to be more "explorer" friendly
- Fixed an issue with certain NL quests creatures who tagged based on who they 'saw'

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Careful Brewer - New Effect

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Careful brewing now has a far better effect on item loss during experimentation.

Accordingly, maxed careful brewer quirks now prevent item loss for most recipes in the nameless lands.

Enjoy!

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System Wide Updates

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- Several system wide host issues have been corrected:
- Scrying locations should now work correctly, and cause random game issues
- A problem with scenario access being lost has been fixed

- The final NL encounter can now take you to level 5 of air head / cavern creeper / tree hugger ( assuming you meet the requirements )

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