arianne-announce — Announcements of new releases (low traffic, read only)

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.97 released

[Katie R. <ky...@st...>]

Hi, Stendhal 0.97 is released, with a colour blender for player outfits allowing customization and infinite experimentation!

It's also Semos Mine Town Revival weeks time again, with newly decorated Halooween areas, games and challenges.

To read about more of the changes, see screenshots and the full change log  please see http://arianne.sourceforge.net/news/stendhal-0-97-wear-a-rainbow.html

kymara on behalf of the Arianne team.

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.96 released

[Katie R. <ky...@st...>]

Hi, Stendhal 0.96 is released, with a focus on improving the experience for players new to the game. We have examined and tweaked quests for new players, now hinting in the Travel log when a quest is not recommended for that player level. A protective wall around the starting city, Semos, helps direct players to quests within the city - and looks good. 

An interactive map using Google maps technology is accessible from within the client or http://stendhalgame.org/world/atlas.html?poi=npc, and the Beginners Guide http://stendhalgame.org/wiki/BeginnersGuide can now be launched from the help menu like the Manual and FAQ. Further client side improvements include better placement of tutorial messages, the option to hide heal and poison messages from the chat log.

To read about more of the changes, see screenshots and the full change log  please see http://arianne.sourceforge.net/news/stendhal-0-96-welcoming-new-adventurers.html

kymara on behalf of the Arianne team.

[Arianne-announce] Marauroa 3.8.6 and Stendhal 0.93 released

[Katie R. <ky...@st...>]

Hi, Marauroa 3.8.6 and Stendhal 0.93 are released.

Marauroa 3.8.6 features performance optimisations for RPObject, by reducing the number of instantiations and creating internal maps and lists only on 
demand. More changes at http://arianne.sourceforge.net/engine/marauroa.html#changes

Stendhal 0.93 features a new convenient behaviour for corpses with automatic raising of corpse windows and closure when empty.

There are improvements to NPC understanding of compound words, a new type of source, for water, a new quest and some quest improvements.

Stendhal 0.93 is also is an Easter release, players can try to find easter Bunny and the eggs he drops, or visit Semos which is decorated.

More detail on the changes can be found at http://arianne.sourceforge.net/news/stendhal-0-93-birth-life-and-death.html

Happy Easter,

kymara on behalf of the Arianne team.

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.92 released

[Katie R. <ky...@st...>]

Stendhal 0.92 is released, featuring an achievement system. Achievements mark milestones reached while playing the 
game. They track how rich and varied a character's life has been, and provide new goals for things to do. 
Achievements include completing quests, visiting places, looting items, killing creatures and producing items. 

A groups system is introduced, which facilitates small groups of players who embark on an adventure together. 
Features include shared access for looting corpses, chat channels, and a group GUI for management which also shows 
the health of group members. 

To read about these changes and all the others please see 
http://arianne.sourceforge.net/news/stendhal-0-92-achievements-and-expedition-groups.html

Have fun!

kymara on behalf of the Arianne team.

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.91 and Marauroa 3.8.5 released

[Katie R. <ky...@st...>]

Hi all, 

Did you know that there are now over 250 NPCs in Stendhal and nearly 100 quests? With Stendhal 0.91 you can now view your quest progress in a 
detailed log which is part of the client. 

There is a screenshot at http://arianne.sourceforge.net/news/stendhal-0-91-quest-progress.html and from there you can read about the other changes 
too.

Marauroa 3.8.5 was also released, please see http://arianne.sourceforge.net/engine/marauroa.html#changes for the changes.

Happy New Year!

kymara on behalf of the Arianne team.

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.90 released

[Katie R. <ky...@st...>]

Hi all, seasons greetings to you!

Our new release Stendhal 0.90 is a Christmas release, with Semos decorated for Christmas and Santa ready to give out presents. There's also new quests and NPCs to meet. On the development side has been a big drive to reduce the number of findbugs warnings, 70% of warnings are now fixed. To read about more changes please see http://arianne.sourceforge.net/game/stendhal.html#changes

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,

kymara on behalf of the Arianne team.

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.89 and Marauroa 3.8.4 released

[Katie R. <ky...@st...>]

Hi all, this email is to announce the release of Stendhal 0.89 and Marauroa 3.8.4.

Stendhal 0.89 features many new NPCs, mostly to produce, or offer via a quest, new food and drink items. There's been refactoring of drawing methods for map layers, refactoring of quests and NPCs to make the code easier for new contributors and some new client features. You can read about all the changes at http://arianne.sourceforge.net/game/stendhal.html#changes.

Marauroa 3.8.4 adds features for supporting a game test server sharing a database with a production game server. We're making use of this for Stendhal testing and if you want to try the same you can follow our guide at http://stendhalgame.org/wiki/Testserver_with_shared_database. For more changes please see marauroa's changelog at http://arianne.sourceforge.net/engine/marauroa.html#changes. 

With friendly greetings,

kymara on behalf of the Arianne team.

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.88 released

[Katie R. <ky...@st...>]

Hi all, we're happy to announce a new Stendhal release.

Stendhal 0.88 fulfils another long-requested feature: a trading GUI for player-to-player trades. There are also quite a number of new NPCs, with quests and new items. 

You can read the news article at http://arianne.sf.net or the technical changelog here:

0.88
*features*
- right click on a player to start trading with them using a GUI
- corpse and chest windows raise themselves if one with an already open window is inspected
- buddies are sorted first by online status, then by name
- don't reset to townhall on minor releases
- deathmatch assistant announces completion and player can directly claim victory
*world*
- new NPC Andy in Ados near the church
- new NPC Haunchy Meatoch on Ados market with a new quest
- new NPC Florence Boullabaisse on Ados market who will make a tasty Fish Soup for you
- new NPC Fritz on Ados market
- new NPC Barbarus in Semos Mine
- new NPC Ortiv Milquetoast in Kirdneh River House
- new music in Orril Castle
- new items fish soup, garlic, grilled steak, coal, pick, red lionfish
- coal sources for extracting coal
- added garlic to Sues sales list
- new game for Semos Mine Town Revival Weeks: 9 switches
- Mayor Chalmers enlisted the Pied Piper to help with the rat problem
*website*
- animated/large NPCs like tomi and vulcanus now have an image
- display ranks on character page 


Enjoy!

Regards from kymara on behalf of the Arianne Team

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.87 released

[Katie R. <ky...@st...>]

Hi all, this email is to announce the release of Stendhal 0.87.

Stendhal 0.87's client has been ported to swing, so that the floating game windows like bag and character panel are now off the main game screen. There's some minor changes in world too, like handling of /away using postman to store messages, and some new NPCs. NPCs who are 'attending' a player show an ear icon.

Our website http://stendhalgame.org also got some attention, now you can read postman messages to and from your characters, and also see a summary of recent events in the game.

To see all changes please check http://arianne.sourceforge.net/game/stendhal.html#changes

To download a new client please go to http://downloads.sourceforge.net/arianne/stendhal-FULL-0.87.zip

Hope to see you soon,

kymara on behalf of the Arianne team.

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.86 and Marauroa 3.8.1 released

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

Hi all, we have released Stendhal 0.86 and Marauroa 3.8.1.

Stendhal 0.86 features a unique new quest, to complete the Wizards
Circle in a magical tower. It builds on the magical damage types of
fire, ice, dark and light, now introducing wizards who may one day
teach spells. There's a lot of new sound and music in the world,
including bells which ring regularly. There have also been many client
improvements, including a settings panel with icon buttons and more
help menus, circles instead of squares for visualising attack targets,
and a karma scale for players. All the changes are summarised at
http://arianne.sourceforge.net/?arianne_url=games/game_stendhal#changes

Marauroa 3.8.1 is mostly a bug fix release, with some additional work
around characters. For full details please see marauroa's changelog at
http://arianne.sourceforge.net/?arianne_url=servers/server_marauroa#changes

There is also a nice news update with screenshots at
http://arianne.sourceforge.net/

Kind regards,

kymara on behalf of the Arianne team.

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.84 and Marauroa 3.7 released, and Stendhal development meeting

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

Hi all, this mail is to announce the release of Stendhal 0.84 and
Marauroa 3.7, and also the upcoming Stendhal development meeting.

Stendhal 0.84 features many new or improved quests, suitable for all
levels. There are some new types of quest including killing many of
one race of creature, and item collection quests where the request is
randomised per player. Kill quests have been reworked to really check
that creatures from a specific place were killed. The user interface
has been improved to display animation for ranged attack using arrows
or missiles. Also, status icons like being away and eating are
displayed as part of the stats panel. To read about all changes please
see http://arianne.sourceforge.net/?arianne_url=games/game_stendhal#changes

Marauroa 3.7 has also been released, the changes are at
http://arianne.sourceforge.net/?arianne_url=servers/server_marauroa#changes

We'll hold a short Stendhal Development meeting in Semos on Tuesday
the 2010-06-08, 20:00-21:00 server time. (That is 18:00-19:00 GMT). A
rough agenda is at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/arianne/forums/forum/3190/topic/3728257

Thanks and hope to see you soon,

kymara on behalf of the Arianne team

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.83 released: Dark or Light, Fire or Ice?

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

There is a new release of Stendhal, version 0.83, and it is packed
with changes.

It features damage, resistance and susceptibility types for magical
weapons, armor and creatures, according to the elements Fire, Ice,
Dark and Light. Some creatures have an 'attack the weakest' strategy,
changing their attack if a new, weaker enemy arrives.

On the client side, mouse cursors are displaying different icons
depending on what object is below: attack icons for creatures, look
icons for NPCs, and so on. These actions can be performed with a
single click or a double click depending on what clickmode is chosen
by the player.

The trading manager is tweeting new trades to
http://twitter.com/stendhaltrade. There are also new NPCs, quests,
zones, and plenty of other features, please see the full change log
below:

0.83
*features*
- Rat City extended
- Find the Rat Children quest
- some creatures have attack strategy choosing weakest opponent (e.g.
dragons, military commanders, bosses)
- Zynn Iwuhos has some maps on display in the library
- Tab completion for online nick names works now without /who called before
- orc spearman creature
- /atlas /faq and /manual commands to open useful pages in browser
- Harold tweets trades, the official stendhal server uses
http://twitter.com/stendhaltrade
- magical damage types of weapons (fire, ice ...)
- resistance/vulnerability of creatures to magical weapons (fire, ice, ...)
- attack sweeps look different depending on the attack type
- Haizen's maze has music near the exit
- Plan a new route when a player following a path hits another entity
- single click for most actions and contextual mouse cursors (use
/clickmode if you prefer doubleclick)
- sub-zone teleport restrictions
- NPCs can respond to emote actions
- fertile ground inside houses
- zone changing using mouse is possible
- a family of NPCs holidaying in Ados
- more rats and zones for the Pied Piper quest
*bugfixes*
- archer behaviour
- zero value offers supported at market
- Monogenes easier to use
- kill spiders and dark elves quests check you killed creatures from
those relevant areas
- recover automatically from corrupted cache files
- ghosts have low hp like intended
- turns walking along a path are now smooth
- using a portal from distance walks the player to the portal
- the client can cope better with differing tile sizes
*code*
- creatures xml split into smaller parts
- attacks are now events
- signs can show an image instead of 'You read: ' text, or a description
- Charas Converter jar available to download
*website*
- new domain stendhalgame.org
- rss feeds

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.82 released

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

Hi all, the Arianne team have released Stendhal 0.82!

Stendhal 0.82 introduces an automatic raid system: Ados City now has a
rat problem. Other features include a magical orb for teleporting
players to a random (fun) destination, based on level and a new quest.
Added to the client is the ability to set sound volumes, and single
click walking. For details of these and many other changes, please see
http://arianne.sourceforge.net/?arianne_url=games/game_stendhal#changes

Or, if you like our in-game style news releases with screenshots,
please see http://arianne.sourceforge.net/

Thanks,

from kymara on behalf of the Arianne team

[Arianne-announce] Arianne is SourceForge Project of the Month

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

Arianne has just been announced as SourceForge Project of the Month!

There is an interview here: http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201003/
and we even appear on the front page http://sourceforge.net

Thanks to everyone who has contributed over the last 10 years to make
Arianne what it is today.

Special thanks go to hendrik for his huge effort recently on
documentation: our wiki, javadoc and server website are looking
fantastic.

Kindest regards,

kymara for the Arianne team

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.81 and Marauroa 3.4 released

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

Hi, the Arianne team have released Stendhal 0.81 and Marauroa 3.4.

Marauroa 3.4 adds support for the H2 serverless database system, as an
alternative to MySQL. There are a number of other new features,
relating to setting the max number of players, temporary bans and
inactive accounts. Full details can be found at
http://arianne.sourceforge.net/?arianne_url=servers/server_marauroa#changes

Stendhal 0.81 features a whole new sound system with support for
music, looped sounds, stereo, fading up and down volumes, and more.
Now that Marauroa supports the H2 database, this can be used instead
of MySQL for fast and simple Stendhal 0.81 server setup with no
external dependencies. For details of these and many other changes,
please see http://arianne.sourceforge.net/?arianne_url=games/game_stendhal#changes

Or if you like our in-game style news releases with screenshots,
please see http://arianne.sourceforge.net/

Thanks,

from kymara on behalf of the Arianne team

P.s. incase you missed it , there is a real life meeting planned for
the 10th birthday of Arianne and 5th birthday of Stendhal, details at
http://stendhal.game-host.org/wiki/index.php/Arianne_Project_Meeting_2010

[Arianne-announce] Arianne is 10 - real life meetup plans

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

Hello all,

In order to celebrate the 5th birthday of Stendhal and the 10 1/2
birthday of Arianne we are going to have a meeting in real life.

It's for anyone who has contributed to Arianne and Stendhal, past and
present. The activities will include a day of talks from key speakers
from the project (past and present). Also there'll be some social
events - dinner and a party.

When
    13th and 14th of March, 2010
Where
    Hannover, Germany

For more details and to register your interest, please see
http://stendhal.game-host.org/wiki/index.php/Arianne_Project_Meeting_2010

Kindest regards,

kymara (Katie Russell, for the Arianne team)

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.80 and Marauroa 3.3 released

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

Hi,

Stendhal 0.80 and Marauroa 3.3 have been released!

Stendhal 0.80 introduces a Trade Manager NPC to facilitate
player-player trading, a list of items with their stats, images and
prices for NPCs buying or selling items, new quests for Carmen, Jenny
and Mrs. Yeti, a maze below Haizen's, and /ignore now working for
public chat. For more information please see the changelog below.

Marauroa 3.3 introduces new features: RPEvents can have RPSlots. This
means that events sent from the server to the client can contain more
complex data. Games using Marauroa can now check the structure of the
database using doesTableExist and doesColumnExist in order to update
it. There are also some bug fixes, to make Marauroa more stable, for
example in the case of database errors. Full details can be found in
the changelog below.

Changelog
---------

Stendhal 0.80
*features*
- Player-to-player trading facilitated by Harold in Semos Tavern
- a maze created especially for you by Haizen
- Help Mrs. Yeti quest
- Herbs For Carmen quest
- Kill Gnomes quest
- Sarzina has nicer answers when asking about your karma
- ShopSigns show item images, price and stats in a popup window
- /ignore <player> ignores public chat from player as well as private
*bug fixes*
- Semos Village and south east of Semos city redesigned to direct new
players better
- '/sound mute on' command is now simply '/mute'
- /mute is remembered across restarts
- fixed unwanted popping up of minimized keyring window
- collision fixes
- entwives are faster, entrance to them has level check
- allowed distance to pass an item on the ground now matches the
allowed distance to throw from bag
- tell the user where the chatlog has been written after they
right-click 'save' it
- black pearl image is larger, in line with the other gems
- /altercreature works
- keyring cannot be used at all till enabled by quest
- add warning if a player is too far away from fish,gold,well source to use it
- order corrected for using/removing scroll
*code*
- use item transformer for loading items
- QuestCompletedSeller and Buyer types
- NPC chat and creature noises using RPEvent
*website*
- nicer urls for subpages on the website
- a new version of the atlas with dungeon entrances:
http://stendhal.game-host.org/wiki/index.php/File:WorldWithMarkedDungeons091122.png
- dedicated testing page on wiki
http://stendhal.game-host.org/wiki/index.php/Stendhal_Testing
- Stendhal Manual on the wiki updated with new images

Marauroa 3.3
- games can now check the structure of the database using
doesTableExist and doesColumnExist in order to update it automatically
- RPEvents can now have RPSlots
- RPObject.getContainer() and RPObject.getContainerBase() continue to
return an RPObject, use the new getContainerOwner() and
getContainerOwnerBase() method to get a SlotOwner object
- properly free transactions in case of exceptions
- fixed a problem which caused parts of messages to be dropped when
the size field was split across two tcp-packets

Happy new year from Arianne RPG!

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.78 released

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

Hi,

Stendhal 0.78 and Marauroa 3.2 have been released.

Come join Susi this year at the Semos Mine Town Revival Weeks - you
can play tic tac toe, try a puzzle, play a treasure hunt game, hire a
fun outfit and most importantly, make friends with Susi.
In case you don't know the story, three years ago Susi was captured on
her way back from the Semos Mine Town revival party. She was missing
for two years and there was no
party during that time - all of Ados searched for her. Last year, she
was found aboard a pirate ship by players who had been defending Ados
from a pirate attack. Mein_Dino, IschBing, Maja and Peka were heroes
at that raid! This year there will be no fighting or danger, just lots
of fun.

Changelog
---------

Stendhal 0.78
* changes for players
- various map fixes
- added a note about logging on account creation
- destroy the old wedding ring, if another is added to the same slot
with it and use up the energy of the new one
- renamed Stichard Rallman
- balrog and his corpse redrawn
- semos mine town revival weeks with outfits, tic tac toe, paper chase and susi

* changes for developer / hosters / admins
- replaced old forked map editor with the official one from
http://mapeditor.org/
- fixed error message: object does not have slot !quests
- check existence of character to be jailed
- check that the player in /jail-command exists

Marauroa 3.2
 - removed dependency on com.sun.*-classes
 - automatically add new columns in existing database tables
 - improved logging

Happy Halloween.

[Arianne-announce] Marauroa 3.0 and Stendhal 0.76

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

Hi all,

We are pleased to announce the release of Marauroa 3.0 and Stendhal 0.76.

With Marauroa 3.0, the game engine now supports multithreading, and it
is possible to run parallel transactions in different threads.
JDBCDatabase has been split into several small *DAO (Data Access
Object) classes. Low level database operations are now in the new
package marauroa.server.db. These changes will require you to port any
application using Marauroa, so for help on how to port your
application see
http://stendhal.game-host.org/wiki/index.php/Refactoring_Database_Access_in_Marauroa
. Additionally, we have begun work on supporting other database
systems beside MySQL.

Stendhal 0.76 has been ported to use Marauroa 3.0. Also thanks to help
from an OpenJDK developer, omair, the Stendhal client now works with
OpenJDK! Stendhal 0.76 also features some new artwork; corpses, and
the code has been refactored to allow specification of corpses per
creature rather than per class, allowing much greater flexibility.

The stendhal website is gaining new features all the time, our IRC
logs can now be read from the website, and the links to freenode's
webchat service found there. Admin have some very useful new features
through the web interface, and it's also now possible to search
information on NPCs (similarly to the feature for items and
creatures.)

Finally as a side note, we only restarted the server once during the
0.75 period and that was  to install a little bug fix. So it seems
certain that the memory hole which was found and fixed for the release
of Stendhal 0.75 is the same one which was causing the server to run
out of memory, it's great news that it is now fixed.

Thanks,
from kymara and the rest of the Arianne team.

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.74 and Marauroa 2.6.2 released

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

Hi all,

There has been a new release of Stendhal 0.74 and a bug fix release of
Marauroa (2.6.2). The news on what is new in the stendhal release is
at http://arianne.sourceforge.net/, you can also read the full
changelog below. If you haven't pleyed Stendhal for a while, come
check it ou!

Thanks,

kymara

Stendhal 0.74:
- player karma affects what skills they lose on death
--max 20% for non ring wearers with negative karma, and 10% as before
if player karma was 0. if they had positive karma they lose less
--Ring wearers lose max 2%, average 1% and less with positive karma
- new hybrid spider creature in nalwor drow tunnels
- new houses in ados, numbers 69 to 77
- tutorial event linking to stendhal rules
- find out content of Ignore list by typing /ignore (with no parameters)
- deathmatch: if occupied then challenging player is told who is
inside so they can say yes/no about entering
- feedback to player given on successful buddy and sentence actions
- feedback messages about failure when trying to drop or displace
items too far from current location, displacing an item without being
next to it, dropping onto a collision, adding to full slots
- inform player who dropped item into a nearby corpse, incase the drop
was not deliberate
- Sarzina suggests some ways to get karma
- Daily monster, daily item and weekly item quests give karma.
- Daily Item quest gives less XP than monster now, (as it gives more karma)
- max level players get a large karma reward from daily and weekly
quests (as they cannot earn xp from it)
- in fighting, made the 'level difference to not need karma' be
dependent on level instead of being a fixed 20 levels
- answer a riddle to leave hell, as another option instead of losing karma
- more creature descriptions
- new raid scripts added, and list raids which gives the names.
existing scripts renamed to be all same format
*Admin*
- gag is adminlevel 200
- support and supportanswer messages coloured orange to make more visible
- supportanswer keywords which abbreviate longer replies
- postman sends new account messages and npc shout to a zone messages
to support channel
*Bug fixes*
- PersonalChest removes its own turnlistener in onremoved(rpzone),
fixing NPE when leaving vaults
- karma for large scales was never achieved due to a wrongly used log
- karma for canHit was factored out early by a cast to int
- adding buddies using right
-click fixed
- house tax problem fixed
- added missing logic to BringListOfItemsQuests
- monogenes shows map, ilisa shows picture, liliana shows outfits again
- don't allow pets or sheep in death match
- remove possibility of dropping or displacing items to places where
they can't be retrieved (or where it would be v long walk to fetch
them)
- minor map and graphical fixes
- unignore: check first, and if target not being ignored, tell player so.
- now getting points in dm for the final creature killed *behind the scenes*
- Conversationstates changed to enum
- reflection removed from stendhalQuestsystem
- QuestsXMLReader changed from singleton to just create one.
- Iquest.getName() abstract in Abstractquest. every quest knows its
name now (not the descriptive one yet)
- moved a lot of tilesets to correct homes

Marauroa 2.6.2:
- changed zones to ConcurrentHashmap to accomodate the needs of multi
threading and changing number of zones

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.73: Houses sweet houses

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

There is another new release of Stendhal!
Stendhal 0.73 is here, with lots of new updates. If you own a house
you should definitely remember to login so you can see your name on
the door, and get your check out the house chest! In any case, if you
don't come to pay your tax, you risk losing your house to the state in
six months. There are more details on the release at
http://arianne.sf.net or the you can read the full changelog below.

Thanks, kymara and the rest of the team.

Changes:
- rare monsters that do not appear in DM or daily quests: pegasus and centaur
- lord durin, a high level boss in ados abandoned keep
- new npc condition and action for events with any kind of delay to be checked
- replace mountain orcs in -2 semos mines n e3 with chaos creatures
- added high level boss, gashadokuro, based on japanese legend
- new outfit lender in magic clothing boutique who lends costumes
including slime and goblin face
- messaging areas to give atmospheric messages to players entering or
leaving them
- semos community chest stored between server restarts
- min respawn time for creatures (10 seconds)
- NPCs will not buy items from a player killer at all
- NPCs will sell to a player killer but they charge 1.5 times the normal price
- doors into the oni palace now a level checking portal
- Thanatos says the new def of trophy helmet, and says if it is at
max, as he changes it
- marked scrolls don't get player bound (old ones to be unbound)
- postman reports newly created account names to admin

*Bug fixes*
- bugfix to /alter, now doesn't reject a heal which takes hp over base
hp, instead sets hp to full
- quoting #-characters
- fixed chat bubbles and changed appearance to be more bubbly
- fix feedback of buyer/seller npcs asked to transact large numbers of items
- wedding ring checks !visited and pet distance
- push action sends a feedback message to player if pushing is not
allowed because of the time limit
- gagged players can use /support only once per minute
- levels 5 - 60 respawn time slightly increased
- placeat fixed so that doors do not shift player aside and algorithm is smarter

* Player houses*
- house doors remember lock number and expiry time
- house keys only open door if lock number and house number match
- player can look at house door to see owner and knock on it which
sends message to players inside
- house keys show who owns the house
- chests which are accessible to everyone in the zone inside each house
- chests prefilled with a note and gifts for new house owners
- houses made no teleport In
- postman no longer used to remember which houses are bought
- house tax charged monthly, if unpaid for 6 months, house confiscated
- reselling houses is possible, regain 40% of value minus taxes owed
- changing locks feature
- can ask npc what houses are available
- many houses redecorated inside to use new tiles

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.72 released

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

There is a new release of Stendhal and loads of new things to try and
do. Check out the news article at http://arianne.sf.net or read the
full changelog below:

Stendhal 0.72

*Features*
- dagobert creates personal vaults for players, so they can access
semos bank slot without spies
- vaults contain a wastebin for disposing of items; other items left
on ground get returned to player on leaving
- /me shows emotes
- /clear clears gamelog
- chatlog can be saved by right clicking on gamelog. it is saved in
home/stendhal/gamelog.txt
- /info returns current server time
- Susi and her father living in a house in Ados
- special outfit lender Liliana in magic city
- creatures equip the items they have, and use the respective attack rate
- infantry gnome, archmage elf, dark elf knight, dark elf sacerdotist,
black dragon and balrog attack at different rates from the default,
and hit either harder or weaker accordingly
- rare monsters that do not appear in DM or daily quests. a big bad
wolf and an unicorn added for now
- new item, red dragon cloak
- walkblocker squares coloured pink on minimap

*Improvements*
- player level info added to character panel
- player atk and def displayed as base 'times' (weapon + 1) on character panel
- Deathmatch recruiter walks in safer (upper) part of swamp
- find out which heroes are in the deathmatch already by asking
Thonatus, the recruiter
- increased spawn delay of creatures in DM by 5 sec
- decrease how long player is forced to wait after requesting bail
- increased the XP given for some of the low and mid level quests
- optimal distance for archer to attack from is 4. Less effective when
farther or nearer and not all if distance > 7. Switches to melee at 0
distance.
- reduce the archer speeds else many left unkilled at zone boundaries
- fence around semos village w closer to house to be less obstructive
- some creatures in bad places for very new players moved
- arrows dropped more often
- some elves dropping food and potions
- cherries and apples heal faster
- Yorphin Baos (Fado) buys hell dagger
- all tables in fado and semos tavern walk blockers instead of
collisions so items can be placed on them
- teleporting out of semos bank now possible, as in teleporting out of
a few other areas which only had magic scrolls disallowed for stopping
players teleporting in

*Bug fixes*
- /ban reason is no longer eaten on client side
- NPCShoutZone.java: messages are now also send to all supporters as
stated in todo
- Snowballs.java: let NPC say when new snowballs could be needed
- Soup making exploit to boost karma now fixed
- Zara re-offers quest if player previously rejected
- security measures on nalwor jail removed so players can heal there
- sheep and pet only get hungrier when there are players in the same zone
- rose leigh says Bye directly after giving flower so other players can say hi
- dwarf golem moved to giant animal instead of giant human

*Misc*
- mossy rubble pic has been added to rock
- wood grower shows branch till picked
- Collisionmap is now backed by Bitset
- zones can be implemented by subclassing StendhalRPZone and
specifying it in 'zones'.xml
- LoginDialog positions caret on name now


Hope to see you in game soon or at #arianne or #arianne-chat on irc.freenode.net

kymara and the rest of the team

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.71 released

[Katie R. <ka...@ma...>]

There is a new release of Stendhal!
Pirates raided Ados from their ships which were anchored at the city. They 
attacked the town hall and castle but brave players defended the buildings 
and people. IschBing, Maja and Mein_Dino were particularly courageous.

During the raid the pirates got stronger and stronger - not just smugglers 
and buccaneers but evil pirates and leaders too. The leader pirates seemed 
to hint of a captive girl on their ship. The players became worried, and 
wondered - is this the lost girl Susi? At one time the whole of Ados was 
looking for her. After they heard Susi shout for help they were sure she 
must be captive - but where? She said she could see water, so Peka and 
IschBing realised that the place to go was the pier. The other players 
followed. Once on the ships a wide search began for the lost girl. 
Mein_Dino found Susi first and the players led her back to Ados. She was 
reunited with her parents Mr and Mrs Ross.

Susi had been captured on her way back from the Semos Mine Town revival 
party, two years ago. Last year there was no party as everyone was still 
so sad at Susi going missing. This year we celebrate the party again. Go 
to http://arianne.sourceforge.net to learn more about the new release.

Thanks, kymara


-- 
Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity
registered under charity number SC000278.

[Arianne-announce] Date, time and topics for next developers meeting

[Oslsachem <os...@ya...>]

These are the details for the next Stendhal developers meeting:

*Date and time:
Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 18:00 UTC/GMT

Please, find out your corresponding local time ("Current time zone offset") at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ 

*Place:
IRC
network: freenode - irc.freenode.net
channel: #arianne

*Topics:
(suggested list so far)

- Roadmap for the next release of Stendhal
- Celebration of Semos mine town revival for Halloween
- Adoption of "Community feel"-enhancing splash screen voting system
- Impact of the new damage system and proposal of adapted raids and new sociable offerings alternative to training to promote team work and encourage users to stay longer online.
- Coordinating support between Game Administrators.
- Evaluation of the eficient use of the means available to the project: IRC, forums, trackers, patch submision, and other collaborative tools like plone, wiki and testing procedures before a release ...
- Suggestion on ways to improve interpersonal relations inside the project.

As previously stated, this list is just a starting point, so feel free to add or comment on these topics in this forum thread:

https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=5412573




      

[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.70: "Rules of War" released

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

We are proud to announce the long awaited Stendhal 0.70, which has a
reworked battle system. It needed no database reset to implement the
new rules for damage.

Have you played recently? Check out the server website
http://stendhal.game-host.org/ and see what you're missing.

Here are the release details for 0.70:

Warriors, take note! For the rules of combat have changed, and to be
ignorant of them is to be in mortal danger!!

The Revised Battle Creed, applying to all beings, creature and human:

    * Experience level and attack skill both influence the fighter's
ability to damage
    * Experience level and defense skill both influence the fighter's
ability to defend
    * Even weak beings can harm the strongest being
    * Against fearsome creatures a heavy weapon is mightier than a
knife or dagger
    * Be wary when patrolling in hostile areas. Enemies may appear at any moment

...for only human warriors:

    * A warrior shall not attack another human soul if he is much
weaker than himself, except in defence
    * All shall know when they are safe from attack by any other
warrior, by the green aura of protection
    * Those who kill another soul shall be branded with the red skull of death

Be very aware, the principles of damage apply equally to creatures.
You experienced warriors will notice much faster, harder battles than
you are used to. Therefore, be cautious until you are again confident
of your abilities, and then, go forth and fight!

Full change log:

- damage calculations place greater emphasis on weapon attack and level
instead of mainly base skills (this means heavy weapons are now better against
strong creatures than a dagger type)
- PVP only enabled for those of close enough level
- constant change/time unit for monster spawning, for same average
respawn time but no memory effect
- minimap shows protected areas as pale green
- away and grumpy message added to player description on 'Look'
- no XP reward for killing a player
- player killers marked with an icon
- healers won't heal player killers (even if they want to pay)
- Io Flotto removes player killer icon
- tutorial event for first player kill
- using a balloon within 6 hours of using the last decreases the time
on 7 kika to 5 mins
- using rainbow beans within 6 hours of using the last makes you sick
- although snowballs and vomit are missiles, they don't show stats now
- immortal sword redrawn
- poison prevents you from using double click to walk
- improved stats of : great sword, claymore, vampire sword, fire sword, golden
orc sword
- reduced stats of: sword, katana, scimitar, elvish sword, twin swords
- extra semos chest in ados bank
- script for GM to run which corrects the slot of a player in DM so they can
claim victory
- NPCShoutZone script for GM
- /ban command for GM
- invited guest cannot use invitation scroll to get to church unless the
engaged player is online
- older invitation scrolls with a different format will not work now
(magic lost)
- dresses corrected to fit female body better
- a new hair and some new GM outfits
- new players start with a random unisex outfit instead of nekked
- pet Look description tells how hungry it is
- pet Leave and Own refactored, fixed bugs
- NPCs say something when you 'attack' them
- client reports all killers of an entity
- Ognir now distinguishes between bound an unbound rings when fixing
- Wikipedian fixed for new wikipedia.org API
- some wooden furniture items redrawn
- admin inspect, admin destroy, and admin alter now work for contained
items too.
- pushing creatures with an area > 4 is no longer possible

Thanks, from kymara and the rest of the stendhal team.