Patch 00123

Thursday, March 16th 2006 - patch 123

[ C H A T ]

. Region chat bug is fixed; you should not hear what is said in other regions.

[ I T E M ]

. All tools have their HP reset, yes one more time; this includes tools in your apartment, guildhall, mektoubs and in your bags.
. Rilonyx vest action penalty has been reduced to the same as any other medium armour.

[ O U T P O S T ]

. OP weapons with the critical effect have had their critical rate increased.

[ S A F E Z O N E ]

. We have been doing some modifications on safe zones. In a nutshell, safe zones now apply also for OP PvP and faction PvP.
. Safe zones are activated when a character respawns, uses a teleport ticket or passes an Intercontinental portal.
. This zone will stay safe until the character starts a PvP action, which means that if the player starts a PvP action in the safe zone, he is not safe anymore.
. Also when the player leaves the safe zone he is not safe anymore and is attackable. If the player does not engage any PvP actions he can rejoin the safe zone he left or go to another safe zone in order to be safe again. If a player initiates a PvP action, all safe zones will be deactivated until his death or the use of a teleport ticket.
. When logging out in a safe zone, after the relog all safe zones will be active for him. If he logs out anywhere in Atys, on his return all safe zones will be inactive and thus even if they were safe when logging out.

[ F A C T I O N P V P ]

. The faction PvP timers have been reviewed.
. You now have a 2 minute timer to activate PvP mode (was 5 minutes). Once active, to turn off it will take 30 seconds (was 1 hour). However there is a minimum period of 30 minutes before deactivation.
. Once this 30 minutes periods is over, if you do nothing you will stay in PvP. If on the contrary you want to leave the PvP gameplay, it only takes 30 seconds. During this 30 seconds period you must not engage any PvP action nor be in combat (e.g. if you receive a hit this timer will be cancelled).
. If after the initial 30 minutes, you are engaged in PvP there is a timer of 10 minutes, before the deactivation is allowed. If in the 30 seconds deactivation any PvP action against you does not reset the timer, but any action by yourself will activate the 10 minute PvP timer. learn more

[ I N T E R F A C E ]

. You notice that in the character window, there is now only one PvP icon. This icon has 3 representations and illustrates 3 differentstates:
- Icon is green (equivalent to tag off-flag off). When your icon is green you are not engaged in any PvP game mechanism. If you click on the icon, the 2 minute timer in order to enter PvP starts. If during those 2 minutes you click again on it, it cancels the 2 minute timer.
- Icon is orange (equivalent to tag on-flag off). When your icon is orange, you are engaged in PvP gameplay. You can leave the PvP gameplay by clicking on orange icon. It would then take you 30 seconds to leave that state, ONLY if you are passed the 30 minutes minimum PvP timer. During those 30 seconds, you can give up your will to leave PvP gameplay.
- Icon is red (equivalent to flag on-tag on). When your icon is red, it means you are or have taken part in PvP activity in the last 10 minutes. There is no interaction possible with the red icon.

[ M I S C E L L A N E OU S ]

. Some developer and debug commands were available from the client. This is no more the case.