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2008-06-03

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Crafting

• You can now convert silver and gold sigils for ancient platinum coins

World Population

• Ancient Port Warehouse
• Dresla: Fixed an issue where her adds would never spawn.
• Nerksawl and his placeholders now wander a different path. Also, 2 additional spawn locations have been added. These spawn locations are not independent of each other.
• Nusibe Necropolis
• Leopard Hides will now update for the gahren leopards. NOTE: Players will need to abandon and reaccept this quest. CODING
• Client Optimizations
• Shader version has changed so all cached shaders will be deleted.
• Client Optimizations
• Changing your render quality will no longer wipe your shader caches.
• Client Optimizations
• Memory leaks fixed.
• Client Optimizations
• Increased client stability.
• Client Optimizations
• Reduced hitching.
• Client Optimizations
• With this update, you will see an option to Pre-Compile your shaders. Doing this will result in not having to compile shaders for new materials during normal gameplay.
• Client Optimizations
• New tab files have been patched and will be pre-loaded by the client. They contain information about assets and will prevent unnecessary disk access during normal gameplay.
• Lighting Changes
• Fixes have been made to ambient lighting calculations. This effects indoor and outdoor lighting
• Lighting Changes
• Night ambient lighting will be slightly brighter.
• Lighting Changes
• Bump should be more pronounced in outdoor areas, especially at night.
• Lighting Changes
• Fixed an issue with lighting on billboard trees.
• Fix for being dismounted when you item preview a flying mount item in your inventory.
• Fix for levitate being stripped when cast twice.
• The /who command now allows for searching for diplomat, artificer, blacksmith, and outfitter. It also shows the level/profession info for all three spheres now. The "Advanced Find" in the Social window has been updated with these new features also.
• Housing: Items that do not show up visibly in your house will appear in red text in your building item list now. These fixtures can also be moved to your current location which will make them visible again.
• The command /assistoffensive now works.
• Targets hit by Area of Effect spells now properly do conditional checks on all targets hit, not just the first target of the ability.
• You can now share lockout timers with other players.
• Fix for combat forms returning to the unbound state if you ran out of endurance.
• Item tooltips have had their displays standardized. All statistics will now appear in the same order on the item.
• Added Tanvu riftway to UI.
• Some NPC's in non-raid areas had their Area of Effect abilities broken and are now fixed again.
• Fix for rescuing someone who was targeted by a dead NPC/PC. It will no longer try to attack the dead entity.
• Abilities now correctly display the effects of spell/melee haste items and buffs as well as updating properly when cost-modifying buffs are applied.
• The distance at which the name of harvesting resources and NPC's names has been extended.
• Fixed a bug where druids could summon infinite amount of pets.
• Fixed the name tag offset for the Jharu warrior model.
• Petition System
• The old petition system has been replaced.
• Petition System
• The new system can be accessed through the main menu by clicking on Help.
• Petition System
• Clicking on Help will bring up an information window that contains the server MoTD along with general help information.
• Petition System
• Clicking on the petition button in the Help window will take you to the Vanguard knowledge base where you can submit a petition through the webpage.
• Petition System
• Guides( Knights of the Crimson Fellowship ) are now always visible to players.
• Shadows now render correctly for transparent materials on creatures such as the wasp. Quest Journal Revamp:
• Quests are now time-stamped when they are received.
• Quests glow for five seconds after being added or updated.
• Timed quests are now colored blue, although they turn bright blue when they go under a minute remaining.
• Quests that are ready to complete are now colored light brown.
• Timed quests glow for five seconds when they go under a minute remaining.
• The time remaining on timed quests glows off and on every second when they hit 15 seconds remaining.
• Quest names (but not any of their information lines underneath) glow when they contain a location in the player's current chunk.
• Timed quests always sort to the top, no matter what sorting option is chosen.
• On almost all of the sorting options in both the tabs of the Quest Log and the Quest Tracker, selecting the same option again will reverse sort that option. So selecting sort by date, after sort by date was already selected, will reverse sort by date, with the oldest quests on top. The only exceptions to this are Sort by Chunk, which always sorts by nearest quests first, and Sort by Sphere. Sort by Sphere iterates through three different ordering algorithms-on its first selection, Adventuring, Crafting, Diplomacy, on its second selection, Crafting, Diplomacy, Adventuring, and on its third, Diplomacy, Adventuring, Crafting.
• The last three sorting options for each type of quest and the quest tracker are saved when the player logs out and are used to recreate the lists when the player relogs. The use of the last 3 sorting options is to ensure that the list will be exactly how it was when the player logged out. So if the player sorted by date, then level, and then chunk. The list will be sorted by chunk, but within the chunks by level, and within the levels by date. One additional feature with this is that if a player selects Sort by Level twice to sort by reverse level, it is not recorded as two sorting options. So the previous sorting order shown on startup, with a reverse level sort in place of the level sort, would be sort by date, sort by reverse level, and sort by chunk, and not sort by level, sort by reverse level, and sort by chunk. This is to make sure that no accuracy is lost in recreating a list on startup.
• The details options for each type of quest and the quest tracker are saved when the player logs out and are used for recreating the lists when the player relogs.
• The quest log is sorted by tab into Adventuring, Crafting, and Diplomacy quests.
• Adventuring quests are sortable by Chunk (based on the nearest chunk in the quest's location list, also including the completion chunk), Date, Level, Name, and Size.
• Crafting quests are the same but without the size option.
• Diplomacy quests are the same but also without the size option.
• When a new quest is added to the quest log, it is sorted into the list based upon the player's past three sorts. Also, the quest log automatically switches to the appropriate tab and selects the new quest. That way, when a player opens the quest log, the new quest will be the one selected on the left and showing on the right.
• When a quest is updated the quest log automatically switches to the appropriate tab and selects the updated quest. That way, when a player opens the quest log, the updated quest will be the one selected on the left and showing on the right.
• There is now a details button available for each of the three quest log tabs. The Adventuring detail options are "Show All Relevant Chunks", "Show Completion Chunk", "Show Nearest Chunk", "Show Start Date", and "Show Group Size". These options are the same for the Crafting and Diplomacy tabs, except that they leave out the "Show Group Size". These options decide what details show beneath each of the quests in the quest log.
• Only one or none of the first three options, "Show All Relevant Chunks", "Show Completion Chunk", "Show Nearest Chunk", can be selected at the same time. Any chunk shown includes both the name of the chunk and the chunk coordinates.
• Quest Tracker
• The quest tracker is only visible if a quest is being tracked.
• Quest Tracker
• The quest tracker is resizable.
• Quest Tracker
• Right-clicking on the quest tracker will open up an options menu.
• Quest Tracker
• Left-clicking on a quest name in the quest tracker will select the quest in the quest log.
• Quest Tracker
• Double-clicking on a quest name in the quest tracker will select the quest in the quest log and open the quest log.
• Quest Tracker
• Double-clicking on an already selected name in the quest tracker, while the quest log is open, will close the quest log.
• Quest Tracker
• The quest tracker is sortable by Chunk (based on the nearest chunk in the quest's location list, also including the completion chunk), Date, Level, Name, and Size, and Sphere.
• Quest Tracker
• The quest tracker can now show additional details of quests, with the options, "Show All Relevant Chunks", "Show Completion Chunk", "Show Nearest Chunk", Show Start Date", and "Show Intent". Show intent shows either the sphere of the quest, or, if it is an adventuring quest, shows the size of the quest.
• Quest Tracker
• When a new quest is added to the quest tracker, it is sorted into the list based upon the player's last three sorts. Also, the quest tracker automatically moves its position to the new quest.
• Quest Tracker
• When a quest is updated the quest tracker automatically moves its position to the new quest.
• Quest Tracker
• When a timed quest goes under a minute, the quest tracker automatically moves its position to the quest (this is in order to alert the player that the quest time is running out).\
• Quest Tracker
• There is a new filter available for the quest tracker options, "Filter Distant Quests". This filters out any quests that don't have a location in the current chunk.

Recovered from a developer post on SOE's own board.