Code updates: Survival, postures, notice, backstab/charge, CoL/HoL titles, and Tanchico

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Aureus
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Code updates: Survival, postures, notice, backstab/charge, CoL/HoL titles, and Tanchico

Post by Aureus » Tue Jan 25, 2022 10:26 am

Several code updates are now live:
  1. Children of Light and Hand of Light now have the "Child" pre-title if they aren't clan masters (who are still Lords/Ladies) [brought to you by Itesh]
  2. Trollocs now gain additional movement regen that scales with pracs in Survival. Base regen is unchanged. This bonus is reduced (though still active) when you are haggard. This change will bring trolloc mobility more into line with horses, whose cheaper movement terrain costs mean their effective regen is quite a bit stronger than trollocs. The availability of human blood and vials in DS shops will be adjusted, but overall this is a mobility gain.
  3. Master Postures' OB and PB bonuses have been decreased, to lower the combat gap between masters and non-masters. The new bonuses are:
    • Offensive: +5 OB
    • Normal: +3 OB, +2 PB
    • Defensive: +5 PB
  4. A movement cost has been added to Backstab and Charge. It is 2 for Trollocs and 1 for everyone else (different due to Trollocs' larger movement pool). This is because of the defensive play style that has emerged with people sitting in a room spamming backstab/charge to gain the advantage. We want the play style to reward more offensive behavior.
  5. The maximum effect of Hide's skill impact in Hide vs Notice checks has been capped, as mobs' skills go beyond 99% as they scale with level. This was causing extremely high level mobs like that one grey man (we all know the one) and the assassins in Shadowspawn Stronghold to be effectively invisible regardless of your notice level. Now they are still very hard to detect, but not completely invisible if you have high notice levels. Zero impact to players hiding since you never scale beyond 99%.
  6. Seanchan can now rent properly in western Tanchico with a Tanchico warrant

Aureus
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Re: Code updates: Survival, postures, notice, backstab/charge, CoL/HoL titles, and Tanchico

Post by Aureus » Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:52 pm

DS loads adjusted:

- Human blood is no longer available for sale, and is only available from human corpses.
- Vial loads were changed from having a low chance 1x/boot to having a lower chance but 1x/repop (which was inconsistent across shops). This should favor most of the player base, since previously they were always bought out right after the reboot if they'd loaded, in a very narrow window of playtime. So worth checking in periodically.

I've also removed the restrictions on using the basin in Thakan'dar, now that human blood is only available from PK. This part is a test and we'll see how it goes.

Aureus
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Re: Code updates: Survival, postures, notice, backstab/charge, CoL/HoL titles, and Tanchico

Post by Aureus » Tue Jan 25, 2022 3:16 pm

Moonstone dirks PB also dropped by a few (-5) with these changes, to give a slight defense advantage to those who choose to prac 1h short blades + shields.

...and all weapons +5 base OB to compensate for the loss of master OB, such that overall bash % vs dodge remains unchanged.

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