Patch 17: Sept 12th 2012 - BOD's, Virtues, Lots of Fixes

• Network
  • Resolved a problem with our hosts QOS service that was not prioritizing the traffic on port 2593 to the game server at an elevated level.
  • This was resulting in short busts of 2-3 second lag during the communication between the game server and web server.
• NPC Vendors
  • Added a missing 2 story house deed to the architect
  • Implemented a scaleback system for selling items to vendors
    Vendors will slowly reduce the amount they pay for items when they are sold repeatedly to the vendor
  • Add a vendor transaction message that was missing
• Anti AFK Gathering/Selling System
  • Resolved a problem with repeat checks after the first check
  • Improved logging of unattended activities for the staff review
  • Implemented a system of staff comments that integrates into the afk logging
• Items
  • Fixed a problem with monster loot on several Khaldun specific monsters.
  • Updated the loot type of a Golden Suit of Armor Deed to regular
  • Updated the loot type of a Silver Suit of Armor Deed to regular
  • Updated the loot type of a Decorative Shield Deed to regular
  • Updated the loot type of a Brazier Deed to regular
  • Resolved a problem with a missing name for the Brazier Deed
  • Updated weight of the BOD books to zero stones, making them stealable only via a random steal.
  • Minor change to the way boat plans names are handled.
  • Created 3 new items, Hanging Leather Armor, Leggings and Sleeves
  • Created 3 new items, Hanging Studded Leather Armor, Leggings and Sleeves
  • Created 2 new items, Hanging Chainmail Chest and Leggings
  • Created 3 New Items, Hanging Ringmail Chest, Leggings and Sleeves
  • Created the new special dyes for masks
  • Fixed a problem that was keeping shoes from being cut into leather.
  • Cutting up shoes returns only standard hue leather.
• Leather Dye Tub
  • Extensive updates to the leather dye tubs to convert them into bulk order rewards.
  • Leather dye tubs can now be used to dye sandals
• Runebooks
  • Updated Runebooks to reduce the use delay from 7 seconds to 1 second. We didn't have time to research the reason for this but after staff testing this was verified to be terribly annoying.
• Bulk Order Deed System
  • Complete redesign of the smithing rewards
  • Complete redesign of the tailoring rewards
    Look for a blog post tomorrow with details and pictures of all the changes
  • Create a new command that can be used with tailors and smiths to determine the status of your next bulk order deed.
    Simply say "Order Status" in the presence of a vendor to determine if you have a chance to get a new bulk order deed.
    You must have at least 0.1 in the respective skill in order for the NPC to acknowledge you
• Virtues
  • Disabled the Honor, Justive and Valor Virtue systems
    The default code is incomplete, this could be reused later
  • Disabled descriptions and links of inactive virtues
  • Adjusted the functionality of the sacrifice virtue to resolve some problems with the functionality.
• Skills
  • Zero stone steal test was incorrectly treating light-weight stackables as unstealable (applies to target steal only).
  • Stealing from stacks should always use max-steal-weight to determine steal amount (it wasn't when target-weight < max-steal-weight).
• Misc
  • Summoning Daemons now lowers your karma to the appropriate level.
• The World
  • Added the "Deceit Brazier" to the dungeon Deceit. (Random unit spawn upon double click, 15 min cool down)
  • Minor adjustments to various spawn levels across the world based on player findings.
  • Created a variety of forge & anvil sites across the world to benefit our miners and crafters. Thanks Solar.