L2 Equanimity News

November and Updates!

Sorry about the delay in this news post, been too busy with our l2j sync its been taking more time then expected to do everything that needs to be done before it hits our live server. It shouldnt be too long now though, and our banner contest is almost over and we have had a ton of great entries so if your still thinking about it, you only got a few more days! Here is last months updates  

 
HIGHLIGHTS: .DRESSME COMMAND, VOTE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS  


- We are currently in the process of syncing the server with the newest verison of l2j, so normal development has been on hold until its done. Along with this sync will come new features, such as siegable clan halls like Devestated Castle are "supposed" to work after the update, along with other updates, expect the update do be done sometime with in the next week or two, but hopefully sooner.
- Fixed an issue where Hair Dye potions were missing from the Voting section of the GM Shop, and there was mistakenly 2 different versions of face changes instead.
- .dressme shield issues involving zubie and dynasty are now fixed.
- You now get more prizes for voting! Your votes are now recorded and for example for every 20 votes you get an S grade Blessed Enchant. Every 40 votes you get a Giants Codex Mastery and every 5 Votes you get 1 Kinship and 50 Cracked KC. Just type the command .vote to see how many votes you have. These prizes are subject to change.
- Fixed some random Event/html bugs.
- Some issues reguarding .dressme's recent shield support have been fixed.
- Added .dressme support for shields, it will only work on sets is heavy and that you actually have a shield and if set even has a shield.
- Added another top site to our vote reward system.
- Added a new section to our websites library called "How to make Hostname" its for those out there who have multiple people playing from your location and need an IP exception but your IP is not stable and changes too often, this will resolve that problem and will make it where a GM dont have to keep re adding these peoples IPs.
- Some people dont like attacking their clan mates/friends in Events if they are on the opposite team, this is officially against the rules, anyone beight cought not fighting their friends when you are supposed to will be punished.
- Players can no longer invite enemies into their parties in events, it will be completely blocked, for example attempting to make a group in DM wont work, or trying to make a party with someone on the RED team in ctf while you are on the BLUE team.
- Added a big FAQ section called "How do Fortresses work?" it will give pretty must all information about forts, how to sign for them, their benefits, how to take them over, etc.
- B Grade Armors were added to .dressme feature.
- Added a few new hats to the Voting section of the GM Shop.
- The RB Event got more updates, it now has the ability to turn invincible for short periods of time if its being killed to fast.
- When someone died in an event, or was killed in an event it was not removing all their debuffs, it was only removing 1 of them, this is now fixed.
- CTP was missing the new team party information feature, but no worries, it now has it, just type .ctp while in ctp to see your teams party info.
- Schuttgarts castle siege got out of sync with the rest of the sieges, so it was adjusted to the correct time.
- Face and hairstyle potions have been removed from consumables and added to just the voting section.
- For now on when players type for example .tvt in tvt, it will now also tell you your whole teams party/class information, if each team member is in a group or not, tell you if someone is a party leader, and if so how many party members they have, this should improve teams ability to so build a proper party. This new feature applies to tvt, ctf, ctp, and rb.
- Updated the "When do events happen" section of the FaQ, it was out of date after we added the "Voting" for events feature.
- When the Rabbit Chest Event now starts, it will not spam the whole server with the "how to play" information, instead it will tell you to type .rabbit for instructions how to play.
- Reverted the clan wh change, for those of you who didnt know if somone has the privledge to view the clan wh, they can also withdraw from it, this is your warning, and i will soon put up a warning pop up window for when you make a clan that tells you this information.
- We are having a banner contest! to see what you can win and more information type .contest (our new command that will give information about w/e contest is currently in progress).
- Auto Events now have better AI, it now tracks the last event that was played and will use that info to choose its next event, for example if a CTF event was scheduled fot 2 AM, and there was a random Event was chosen at 3 AM, it would not chose CTF as the random event cause it was just played.
- Some more RB Event updates to adjust the difficulty better when alot of people join.
- Added the command .news to check the news window... since i know people already try to type it and nothing pops up lol.
- The VoL ports/areas "Backside/Stonehenge" have been expanded!
- Fixed a problem where 2 Events would sometimes start at 2 AM (my time).
- Now only clan leaders can withdraw from the clan wh (this is the normal way) our custom way was confusing people and was ending up with clan wh theft (people that were given the "see clan wh" privledge was given the ability to withdraw from it).
- Olympiad matches now only last 5 minutes (retail like) it was 6 (l2j mistake).
- Fixed some .dressme sets that were missing pieces due to typos.
- Custom Raids (not epics) got their respawn time reduced a little again.
- Created new GM commands that allow GMs to directly port to a ward, that way we can easily find out if its underground or something.
- Fixed a few issues that can happen when a player is jailed in an event.
- The Raid Battle Event has been updated, the intervals in which it checks how the raid is going has been increased, so it has more time to react (with skills and buffs) if its being killed too fast.
- Event code optimizations.
- The command .dressme has been added, the command brings up a window where you can choose what armor set you want your character to look like its wearing, for example, you could have elegia and use the .dressme feature to make it look like your wearing Apella instead, read the information button at .dressme for more info (more sets will be added soon).
- The way olympiad points were obtained were reverted, the reason why is the High Five patch notes was wrong, it was a typo lol, to give an example how bad their typos are, the high five patch notes mentions tyrants having frenzy which everyone knows is not the case, Sorry for any issues.
- The how to become hero section at the olympiad manager has been renamed and contains more information about olympiad.
- The warning about olympiad as been removed from the announcements and been added to the bottom of the page at the olympiad managers main page.
- A WH keeper is now spawned at each side of the Coliseum.
- For now on when a CTF flag is captured, the persons run speed is reduced until they lose the flag, due to this the time your allowed to hold the flag was extended.
- Fixed an issue with people dying right before an event starting and not being revived when they get ported in.
- The solo instance Event has been rewritten in java from python, this has been done to make it easier to edit and add new features to it.
- For now on if you dc or die in the solo instance (infiltration) you may re enter it where you left off if you dont wait around too long that is.
- You will now be told the time it took for you to complete the Solo Instance when you complete it.
- Other small upgrades to the solo instance, like when you find a mob in a blistering flesh the mob will auto agro/attack you.
- Removed "Improved Shield Defense" buff from the "mage", and both pet presets cause that is typically no use to them.
- Their was a problem with people getting the proper points in olympiad, it was counting two people who didnt have a clan or ally as the same clan/ally, thus recieving one point due to our antifeed feature, also you will now recieve the right amount of points when you when 1/5th of your own points when you win (10 max), and lose 1/5th of your own points (10 max). - There is now a large area in Giran where you are not allowed to set up a shop, the main shop area is down below the steps, and back behind the first rectangular path on the ground.
- People have been complaining that that in giran bunch of offline lags them out, so for now on, offline shops will show up as a very small npc, it will be much easier to load rather then characters with different armors, weapons , accessories, glows etc.
- Players may no longer use Clan/ally Chat while in DM/DMS to help prevent team ups.
- a few people such as Sawachika, crotos, and vengodelfin got their hero removed due to feeding, they simply made several alts and played themselves in class competition, taking advantage of the ip exception we gave their pc cafe they play at. These players are jailed for 72 hours, have had their noblesse removed, and un able to join olympiad for a month and the pc cafe they play at will suffer too, their ip exception has been decreased. Now the rightful players to those classes have recieved hero instead.
- Some typo fixes ub events, and fixed a problem with a pop up window not happening when you died from T rexes/nymphs.