At this point Town Invasion rewards have seen a lot of changes. Every change has been an effort toward making the rewards fair and balanced. Town Invasions are supposed to be very rewarding, because they draw players together for an hour or two each day to work toward a common goal.

My goal has never been to make the rewards of town invasions stingy or hard to get, but to balance them over all the players attending and make sure everyone gets a nice reward from it. Some of the changes have missed the mark, some were just overall too rewarding.

Our first iteration of the town invasion reward system worked like so:

• Players who did enough damage to the boss got 10 platinum.
  
• Mobs had twice as high of a chance to drop a single platinum.
  

• Damage was tallied over the whole invasion to determine who got between 4-12 platinum after the boss died.
  
• Mobs had a flat chance to give a player platinum when killed (multiple players could get platinum from the same mob).
  

• Platinum drops are now guaranteed. Each level of an invasion will give out a set amount of platinum (not counting normal "corpse" platinum drops).
  • Level 1: 20 drops of 1 platinum.
    
  • Level 2: 25 drops of 1 platinum.
    
  • Level 3: 20 drops of 2 platinum.
    
  • Level 4: 25 drops of 2 platinum.
    
• If there are 250 mobs in the first level, and first mob in the level has a 20/250 chance of dropping platinum, the second will have either a 19/249 or 20/249 chance, depending on whether platinum dropped off the first mob. The less platinum which is dropped, the higher the chance the next mob will drop it, and vice versa. This guarantees at the end of a level that the invasion level has given out exactly the amount of plat that was intended.
  
• When an invasion is scaled up to have more mobs, the amount of platinum given out will too.
  
• Since the amount is now flat, players are almost guaranteed that the more work they do at the invasion, the more platinum they'll get.
  
• The highest damager of a mob will receive the chance for the platinum drop, instead of everyone who attacked it.
  
• Highest damage uses "scaled" damage, so if multiple people attacked a mob, the person who is more likely to get the platinum is the one who did the most total damage after bard/tamer/direct scaling. This means simply running around "tagging" every mob at an invasion won't be as effective as someone else is doing the majority of actual killing.
  
• The calculation for eligibility for the rare drop at the end of the invasion is unchanged.
  
• Bosses will now explode and leave gold piles again instead of gems/plat.
  

Starting Bid: 1 gp

Event Timer

• Huge revamp to the way the event timer works. Staff can now easily add new events with the click of a button. This will allow us to better suit the needs of players, with less effort.
  
• Town invasions can now be automated.
  
• The IRC bot will be more responsive and give better information about upcoming events. Namely:
  • If an event is during the signup period, the bot will recognize that and tell you that the event is currently in signups (and how long until the event starts).
    
  • If an event is currently running, it will tell you so, instead of telling you when the next event is.
    
  • The bot will tell you when a town invasion is currently running.
    
• Changes to this webpage: https://uolostlands.com/event-schedule
  • The schedule will now rotate so the next event is always top in the list.
    
  • The schedule will include events that are "one off" or started manually by staff.
    
  • The schedule will automatically update whenever the in game schedule changes. Keep an eye on this to see what's coming up!
    
  • The schedule now shows you the current EST time to make it easier to tell how far away an event is.
    

• Fixed a bug with tournaments that sometimes caused a player to "lose" twice in the same match. This happened when a person disconnected and died, because they lost for both conditions. If this happened in the final match, it caused a crash.
  
• Fixed a bug where event gates did not get deleted sometimes when nobody signed up to an event.
  
• Players who do not have the 5.0.8.3 client can no longer enter event gates.
  
• Your horse will not be given back to you in CTF until you are actually returned to the lobby.
  

• Provoking a creature onto yourself is no longer a criminal action. Provoking spawn at the Forest Lord invasion is no longer a criminal action either.
  
• When a creature is guarding you, it will now appear grey to you (or green if you are in a guild).
  
• When a creature is guarding you, or in attack mode, it will also be orange to enemy guilds.
  
• The broken chair rare will now spawn with more item ids.
  
• When smelting an item that will overload your pack and the ingots drop to the ground, they will now stack with other ingots on the ground.
  
• Receiver crystals are now available from jewelers.
  
• You can now telekinesis ore to combine it with another pile.
  
• When Pixelclicker feeds a horse wheat sheafs, the horse will now die. Wheat sheaves are not good for horses.
  
• The flame spurt trap no longer blocks movement.
  
• NPC beggars now actually beg. They have the behaviour that has been observed on the demo. You may find them quite annoying.
  

You can't trade the seed box through the trade system.

I'm guessing it's doing the same weight check as a wooden box and finding it too heavy:

Stacks of gold in the main bank box are adding to the item count at the moment

Hey all,

I would like to gauge the general interest level in having a "craft off" type event, perhaps yearly even where rewards will be given to the top finishers (haven't decided if top 3 or whatever yet) I am considering a contest for who can make the fastest spellbook (for scribes), who can make the quickest keg (for alchemists).. you get the idea.  Please let me know what the interest level is and if sufficient, maybe we can hold our first annual "whatever" contest this weekend.

Darwin

Hello everyone !

I am currently selling one of the following hue of Bridals !

909, 910 or 916 !

Contact me If you would like to buy !

Thank you

I bought a pack llama and told it "all guard me" .. then tried to steal a pouch from it, in town, and got guard whacked.

I assume the same would happen if you bought an NPC hire, and told it to guard you, and tried to attack it in town..

Thanks.

Hello, I have noticed on a few different mage and scribe vendors, the amount is not doubled after each time. Say you buy 20 and next hour respawn should be 40. only about 2 vendors I found actually increase, the rest just reset back to 20 or 40, same npcs too, no ones killing them. Look into this pls jack?

Welcome Myrnae as a new staff member to the shard. Myrnae will be giving up his player accounts to become a Gamemaster and possibly helping out with coding on the shard depending on time commitments. He has been a long time and dedicated player, helping out with creating rune libraries and the museum for the shard.

Everyone please welcome him aboard!