Status Update

Events so far this week on Alter Aeon:

- The first pass of microleveling is installed. It's required to get to level 31 and level 32. We're still thinking about the best way to handle level 33 and higher. There's also a new mode for showing the who list that can be toggled with the 'set who' command.

- We got a new article up on the web, courtesy Morpheus: The Black Art of Poison Brewing, which talks about brewing poisons using the 'brew poison' skill.

- Minor additions and updates to the Mud Terms Glossary.

- Various web page updates, which I've been slacking on recently. One of the more interesting ones is the Alter Aeon Quests List, which is now sorted by geographic area. You can see which quests are on which islands, or on the mainland.

- A 'resurrect' spell has been added, which is effectively a more powerful summon using the corpse of a dead teammate. Resurrect ignores distance and various nosummon flags, making it easier to put a group back together after deaths. You must be grouped and have a corpse to use the spell, so there's not much potential for abuse.

- A new 'faq' section has been added, detailing how the in-game text editor works.

- A new version of the TinyAeon custom Alter Aeon client has been released, with hopefully improved screen and scroll handling. Even better, a new version is on its way and should be uploaded in the next couple of days.


There's also been a boatload of minor fixes, to everything from specp 25 (the shopkeeper reload specp) to channel replay. This week has seen a lot of cleanup and improvement to various things, though the microleveling additions spiked a lot of controversy. It's looking fairly good now though, thanks to good comments from lots of players.