May 2 – New Region Bonus, Follower Pulling, Misc Updates…

Player Rankings

• Banned Players will no longer appear in player rankings/records for Arenas / PvP Events / Strangelands

Region Bonuses

• Each week, one dungeon will now receive a -30% Aspect Essence Usage bonus that reduces the chance that players will burn Arcane Essence while using Aspect Gear at that location (and will stack with bonuses received from Arcane Essence Runes placed on ground)
• Aspect Essence Usage is now also a Guild Favor guilds can acquire, with essence usage reduction amounts of -30%, -40%, and -50% for Common / Uncommon / Rare versions respectively

Server Reboots

• After a server reboot, items left on the ground (in houses and in the game world) won’t decay for 6 hours instead of their usual 2 hour decay time (this is a safety measure for players)

Interior Decorator

• Interior Decorators should now close if the Decorator is no longer in the player’s backpack

Corpse Creek

• Players can now use the Corpse Creek Moongates during a Corpse Creek Contest if they are not currently in combat

Storage Shelves

• Storage Shelves now require a LOS (line-of-sight) for Stocking and Resupplying
• Fixed an issue where Neckwear (Scarves and Neckerchiefs) could accidentally be added to Storage Shelves

Floor Traps

• Fixed an issue where player Floor Traps could sometimes be detonated twice (triggered + detonated)

Overkill Damage

• Fixed an issue where players/creatures could do “overkill” damage to other players/creatures: damage will now always be capped by the remaining hitpoints of a player/creature (this should preserve arcane essence and give more accurate “Damage Tracker” / Looting Rights results)

Pull Followers

• Players can now use a “Pull Followers” mechanic to retrieve any of their followers within 5 tiles (if they get stuck) once every 5 minutes
• Players cannot use the Pull Followers mechanic if they have recently been in PvP
• To activate the Pull Followers mechanic, players can type [pullfollowers or use shift-click themselves and in the context menu select “Followers” (we will be updating this context menu text to “Pull Followers” on our next server patch)

Players Stats Profile

• Fixed an issue where the [Stats page for players was not correctly capping a player’s Supplemental PvP Damage Caps for Spells (Inscription / Tracking / Camping / Forensic Eval)

Arena Tournaments

• Murderers should now be able to use the Arena’s Banker and Stables 30 minutes prior to a Tournament and during Tournaments themselves

Ship Bombs

• Fixed an issue where players who died after using a Ship Bomb could potentially get locked out of using another one once resurrected

Poison Spell

• Players who upgrade a Poison spell to Lethal (which consumes a Lethal Poison Potion) will now receive an empty bottle in their backpack

Performance Upgrades

• Fixed an issue related to GuardRegion criminal checking that was causing server lag
• Fixed a large number of CPU-intensive handling issues with our AI code, that should hopefully reduce CPU usage as well as server lag