Description
The following is a brief overview of some of the many changes and updates released with the 4.3 update to the I-MOTION game server, as well as links to message board discussion threads for additional comments and information.
The full game system changelog, which presents a more complete (yet not exhaustive) list of 4.3 changes, is available at http://www.materiamagica.com/news/updates
- Religion: Added religion, a competitive PK-oriented game that occurs every
- week or so, and grants powerful new elemental spells. Added several dozen
- clergymembers for religions, and hundreds of religious followers for
- deities. Some clergymen are located below the Shrine of St. Wisehart in
- Lasler. Different deities will grant their followers different deaths when
- they pray death. Added the religion channel for automated announcements
- regarding what is going on in religious shrines in the Sigil Underground.
- Unlike other channels, the Religion channel has a verbosity setting,
- "channel religion [brief|normal|verbose]". Added Piety rewards to the
- marks of enlightenment, ministry, philanthropy, reincarnation, ablution,
- prayer and benevolence. Religious spells may be practiced near the high
- priests of Xaventry. 'Who shrines' now works. If more than 85% of the
- members of your alliance are in the same religion, you will get a
- significant bonus to the power of your religion spells.
- Added 'channel faith' for Priests and Shamans who have chosen a religion.
- Associated help entries: shrines, religion, map of the shrines,
- benevolence, channel faith, powers, religious spells, piety, monument,
- landslide, megalith, bathe, waterspout, quicksand, air blast, buffet,
- air halo, enhanced fireshield, ember carom, lava cloak, illumination,
- magnetic field, soul sacrifice.
- Areas: Opened the Sigil Underground, a new wilds map located between the
- surface of Alyria and the Underground. It's located beneath Sigil, and has
- ten or so pathways down, most located near or in Sigil. The Sigil
- Underground contains five areas, as well as five Shrines to the Powers,
- which is where religious battles occur. Also opened the Old Amaunet
- Clanhall and the villages of Gorth, Dorathon, Naulitas, Muldar Lohk Mulvar,
- Glarshak and Shlarksh. Krampus Van Pelt and his temporary RU items are
- available in Rune. Numerous wilds-specific objects have been set to work in
- the Sigil Underground. Reworked scatters to be more equitable, Fixed some
- issues with entrances to the Domain of Arbaces. Players that have not
- logged on for a while will be welcomed back and given some temporary,
- generic equipment to help them get back on their feet and find old friends.
- Improved functionality for digging in some terrains in the Underground,
- summons in no-form rooms, healing clerics, certificates of achievement, the
- Altar of Gath in Xaventry, dungeon keys in Riga/PG, death insurance and
- rocking horses for the Lost and Found. Changed worldgate pairings/times.
- Halved the price of Decara lockers. Implemented trading at bankers globally.
- Enhanced telescopes to let you see further in the wilds when held.
- Associated help entries: shrines, rewardunits, arbaces, death insurance,
- trading, lockers, perception.
- Skills: Added fifteen new spells for Religions, and a dozen more for NPCs.
- Added cursed fog to archons. Increased armor's duration at low levels.
- Reduced the level of delay reincarnation on coffin lids from Ice Witch.
- Added the 'perception' proficiency, along with making search and dig be
- time-based, rather than command-based. Removed the ELEMENTAL spell school,
- sorted existing spells into more appropriate schools. Elemental shield will
- be largely unchanged. Improved feed and foraging as well as a few psi/witch
- spells. Split the slow spell and hinder song into two new ones each, one
- of which will remove attack/defense, and one which will slow cast times.
- Added skill cooldowns to teleview, delay reincarnation and resurrect.
- Replaced bards' wizard eye with a traveling song. Increased the cost of
- 'delay reincarnation' to 2 astrals.
- Associated help entries: religious spells, monument, landslide, megalith,
- bathe, waterspout, quicksand, air blast, buffet, air halo, enhanced
- fireshield, ember carom, lava cloak, illumination, magnetic field, soul
- sacrifice, cursed fog, perception, perception, search, dig, slow, slow
- magic, hinder, hinder magic.
- Quests & Quest Items: Made QUEST COMPLETE check items you are wearing.
- Added a lifespan to daedal scrolls, and prepared Baron Nezak to give out
- another round of them. Added a new epic quest to Baron Nezak, as well as a