Patch 4 - 10/03/14 - Pre Launch

[Jack]

• Removed monster pathfinding.
  
• Crafting menus have been reverted to the original RunUO state, with non-era items mostly removed. The only non-era items should be the mapmaker's pen and scribe's pen, as these are required to activate Cartography/Inscription. Crafting will be worked on at a later date for T2A accurate menus.
  
• Blade spirits and Energy Vortexes have undergone a big overhaul. In the following, consider any mention of "EV" to include BS as well:
  
  • • EVs will only attack non-players when they are directly adjacent to the target (eg, 1 tile or less)
      
    • Aggressive NPCs will no longer "acquire" an energy vortex as a target, unless attacked by the energy vortex. Wandering monsters will ignore the existence of the EV.
      
    • Energy vortexes do not "stick" to a target. They will always check to see if there is a better target available.
      
    • EVs never miss their swings. They still retain their default wrestling values (99.0), so it is still possible for monsters/players to damage an EV with melee/archery.
      
    • EVs deadly poison on hit, BS greater poisons.
      
    • EVs have around 650 hit points, blade spirits 400.
      
    • Overall, these changes make EVs and BS extremely powerful, yet difficult to control for a novice.
      
• You can no longer lock an item down that is inside a container.
  
• Monsters no longer stop moving to cast spells, with the exception of the evil mage lord.
  
• Tweaked dispel, heal, cure rates on monsters again. Healing should be very rare, dispel rate is based on magery. Cure is a bit long winded to explain, but the fire rate seems good.
  
• All skills in the game have been tested for gain rates, I have personally GMed every skill in the game with the current gain rates. Most skills are around 18-24 hours to GM, action based skills take around 6-8 hours, combat skills around 12 hours. Craft gain rates are based on the amount of resources they take.
  
• Treasure map guardians now spawn in a pack of 5 when the chest is dug up.
  
• Treasure maps are now much easier to decode when you are at the minimum skill level to decode the map. There is around a 10% chance to decode a map at the lowest skill levels.
  
• Monsters will carry T2A accurate treasure map levels.
  
• Started making rune names for regions. As many regions in the game are not mapped by default, this will be a big project. For now, towns and dungeons will have accurate rune names.
  
• Characters now spawn in the location they selected in the client.
  
• Masks are much more rare than they were before. Possibly too rare.
  
• Stats will no longer "atrophy" unless you are already at the stat cap. By default, any stat which was set to decrease had a chance of decreasing when another stat was gained.
  
• It is possible to cast any spell in town. To do: summons should not be castable in town (eg: elementals, EVs, daemons).
  
• Fixed a bug where provoing an animal onto yourself would result in the animal getting guard whacked.
  
• Sheep now give 1 wool when shorn.
  
• Taming no longer requires a "path" to the target. They target must still be in LOS.
  
• If you attempt to provoke a blue NPC as your first provocation target, you will lose karma. This will take you to the "despicable" row of karma, and is a criminal act. You can not actually provoke an NPC in this fashion.
  
• Tames no longer drop a backpack when released.
  
• Fixed a bug that was causing client crashes with hirables.
  
• Fishing has been gutted, post UO:R stuff removed (namely from MiBs). The treasure chest you pull up has loot equal to a level 1 treasure map chest. I am not sure if this is accurate.
  
• Taming values are T2A accurate, based off stratics.
  
• Archery has a delay on fire after equipping.
  
• Fix to sextant coordinates as we do not display unicode font.