Bug & Minor Alterations Thread

[Hopea]

Uncertain if bugs or undocumented changes but if intentional I would think at least one if not both of them would seem weird considering the discussed drop of dev crit DCs.
1. Drowned Lands "chicken" mobs have their Stunning Fist DCs in the 70s now.
2. Drowned Lands Channelers seem to have had their Shielding score increase by 30 or so, I'm seeing numbers in the high 260s. Very difficult to Shield even at Aes Sedai rank without specifically building for it. For women.

E: To add to number 2. I am not 100% how much the bonus for over 35 levels in a Channeler class is, but assuming it a flat increase, the Drowned Lands Channelers have scores such that a theoretical fully optimized for Power Strength Aes Sedai can Shield them consistently, but to achieve this, they have no Epic Spells, have all physicals at 8, and have their body and hand slots occupied by awful items (SC gloves and the Traveller cloth) apart from the SC boost (also Malkier Hood but that is actually good).
They can afford to lose three points, but losing four would mean that if the enemy rolls 4 and you roll 1, you're tied (and the defender wins ties).
And yes, this is for the normal ones - I'm not sure how high the end boss is.

E2: They also need the Shadow Temple SC belt - but that isn't awful either. Or the fabled Drowned Lands ring I've yet to see, but they'd need it to get it in the first place (or someone else to Shield)

E3: Asche disagrees with my theoretical maximum score and we have differing theories on a few points so I am going to say that do take my numbers as a somewhat educated opinion, HOWEVER the difference in mine and Asche's results is 2. So whichever of us is correct (bet it's her) it doesn't change my above points a lot.

[kaito]

The stunning fist DC is a surprise to me. I'll have to look at that.

As far as the channeler strength, I didn't want them shieldable. I should have worked the numbers out better, but I'll have to raise their strength by another 50 points or so. When I do that though I'll also add in a method to disable them that doesn't involve shielding. Unless everyone feels this is too harsh?

Also the drowned lands ring with spellcraft is from another server, and a few players got imported in with it. Its removed whenever its noticed that someone else has one with spellcraft. Though at this point I'm more tempted to just put a spellcraft ring in the game so everyone can stop stressing out over it. I won't do this anytime soon though, it would need to be discussed first.

[DeathProphet]

The cook in the cotl garrison 4kings is hostile. Please remove the flag in which the inquisitor is meant to stand. The exterior door does not auto lock.

[Hopea]

Jan 26, 2014 17:14:42 GMT -5 kaito said:

The stunning fist DC is a surprise to me. I'll have to look at that.

As far as the channeler strength, I didn't want them shieldable. I should have worked the numbers out better, but I'll have to raise their strength by another 50 points or so. When I do that though I'll also add in a method to disable them that doesn't involve shielding. Unless everyone feels this is too harsh?

Also the drowned lands ring with spellcraft is from another server, and a few players got imported in with it. Its removed whenever its noticed that someone else has one with spellcraft. Though at this point I'm more tempted to just put a spellcraft ring in the game so everyone can stop stressing out over it. I won't do this anytime soon though, it would need to be discussed first.

Ok, good to know the strength was intentional and there's an alternative method coming.
As it is, they're fairly nasty with their quickened super lethal spells (can't keep them from casting even with KD, even if alone) even against groups, and I'm pretty much down to Ray of Frosting them because of all the immunities and resistances.

E: Also thanks for telling there's no such ring anymore. I'm not sure if it's a big deal if there is or is not a spellcraft ring really, as long as the situation is the same for everyone.

[Aurell]

Drowned lands should not be soloable, we need one area like that

[Hopea]

Currently, it's soloable - though not easily.
However, a group faces the same problems, Channelers that cannot be stopped that throw lethal spells (often 2 Channelers at a time, along with other mobs) and a 72 DC stunning fist from the chickens. Add to this dev crits and the dc 60 webs and it's quite the challenge.

[Aurell]

webs don't really do anything, freedom of movements negates that I think

but dunno really I'm no expert on this matter

[Azelle]

The Channeler Strength up/down objects in the OoC room don't do anything.

[Hopea]

The Vouch Wand still recharges to 12 uses at relog - though I'm not sure it's a huge problem, the rewards of the system call for DM actions anyway and as such will be manually monitored, plus the number of tokens you can benefit from the same person at a time is quite limited - you still need to have your tokens come from minimum 3 people, plus one GM voucher.

[kaito]

Jan 27, 2014 10:19:33 GMT -5 Hopea said:

The Vouch Wand still recharges to 12 uses at relog - though I'm not sure it's a huge problem, the rewards of the system call for DM actions anyway and as such will be manually monitored, plus the number of tokens you can benefit from the same person at a time is quite limited - you still need to have your tokens come from minimum 3 people, plus one GM voucher.

That's embarrassing, I got it fixed though and it'll go in on the next update. You're right though with the time constraints its not nearly as important to have them be limited. Still the idea that its limited was supposed to make people think twice before handing out their vouches. To decide if what they've done was truly a session of "strong RP" or not. Maybe we'll increase the charges per reset.

[kaito]

Jan 27, 2014 5:49:14 GMT -5 Azelle said:

The Channeler Strength up/down objects in the OoC room don't do anything.

Oh and this is a work in progress, which is why it isn't in any update notes. I really can't figure out why it isn't working though, the script looks solid to me. Until I get it working, DMs will be able to handle it just fine though.

EDIT:
Fixed. I forgot brackets after an if statement, lol. Simple coding mistake. Will go in on next update.

[kaito]

Jan 27, 2014 3:23:02 GMT -5 Aurell said:

Drowned lands should not be soloable, we need one area like that

This was the idea originally. I'll have to rework the area so it isn't soloable like it is now. The line between "not soloable" and "requires a team" is pretty difficult though, since the best methods of not making something soloable involve damage immunities/resistances. Like many other things, this is a work in progress.

[Hopea]

There's no key for the Fal Dara Inn Private Quarters door, and the door that seems to be leading upstairs doesn't actually have a transit.

[kaito]

That used to be someone's player house that got removed. Hence "private quarters."

[Azelle]

The /vis none function doesn't appear to work.