EE 11.2 Release Notes

Bob 05.18.2016 10:10
	These are the Release Notes for Early Enrollment v11.2. This update was deployed to the Test Server on Wednesday, May 11, 2016, and to the Live Server on Wednesday, May 18, 2016. What Is In This Release This release includes one new escalation (Gathering of Legends) and one upgraded escalation variant (The Revenge of Nhur Athemon), both featuring a mix of hero-/legend-level enemies dropping lots of T3 goodies. Some of these higher-level enemies have also been added to new events that run in several of the higher-end escalations. Several improvements have been made to the Auction House (your last week of sales/purchases can be viewed in the History tab, purchase prices are set to those of the specific offer you requested to purchase, and a few UI issues were fixed), and many other highly-requested improvements have been made (the click-through problem when clicking on UI elements was fixed, stacks can now be split when transferring between various windows, Auspicious Critical will only return power on critical hits, and Thornguards stop attacking after their target is killed). Many other smaller fixes were made as well. Full Release Notes Escalations/Events: Added Gathering of Legends escalation, filled with a variety of T3 enemies dropping a variety of T3 loot. Added The Revenge of Nhur Athemon, a variant of the existing Nhur Athemon escalations featuring tougher crystals and skeletons, as well as a tougher Win Boss, with correspondingly better drops. Added Hero/Legend Events to Crystal Ogres, Dark Elves, Duergar Slavers, Elemental Rift and Mordant Spire escalations. High-end Win Bosses are now extremely likely, and in some cases guaranteed, to drop T3/Structure Recipes and T3 Expendables. Adjusted Max Instances for several escalations to make T2-T3 escalations more likely, and to make it more likely that rarer escalations will launch when it comes time to choose a new escalation. Switched bosses in Ustalav Invaders to a Hero Boss for the Home Hex version and a Legend Boss for the Monster Hex version. Also increased the number of Generals and higher-level knights at the boss encounter. Ustalav Invaders now includes a final Phase where the toughest random enemies are Generals, and the only efficient way to get T3 drops is to kill the Boss. Set most escalations to start at 100% and to decay in strength over 10 days (15 for Home hexes), and set remaining phased-escalations to increase in difficulty as their strength drops. Rebalanced escalations to take roughly 4 hours for an appropriately-leveled party to clear from 100% strength (6 hours for Home hexes), and so that tougher escalations generally have a higher max strength than less difficult ones. Reduced target numbers for several events to make them more feasible for small parties to complete during a single play session. Changed Elemental Rift event Element Amok to launch a variety of Berserkers, not just Ice Elementals. Changed text of Goblin Pickles events to make it clear that players need to talk to an apprentice, not Londor Sefurd. Fixed difficulty ratings for Elemental Rift phases to reflect that the escalation gets more difficult as the strength drops. Removed Heroes from random encounters in Ustalav Home Hex when the home escalation isn’t running. Removed extra structure recipe chance from Dark Elf Win Boss drop. Removed level 1-2 knights from Ustalav escalations. Auction House: Added History tab to see past week of sales and purchases. When clicking Buy next to a specific offer, the purchase price is now set to the sale price of that specific offer. Coin can't be sold. Items which can't be sold (such as coins) are no longer shown as available to be sold or bid on. The Buy button is no longer shown when there are no active offers to purchase. Switching to a different item now resets the scroll bar on the list of offers. Performing a new search now resets the scroll bar on the search results. UI: Mouse clicks are now caught by the UI, not passed on to items behind them. Ctrl-click or Ctrl-drop will open quantity dialog for transferring partial stacks of items between windows. Added paste (Ctrl-V on or Cmd-V) to all text input fields. Fixed icons for Greater Cure, Greater Inflict, Mass Greater Cure and Mass Greater Inflict. Unrecognized/misspelled slash commands will now display an error message in the chat window. For Vaults and Auction House, switching filters will now clear the sub-filters. Inventory Trashing and Stack Splitting UI now supports up to 6 digits. Ability scores on Character Sheet now show to 3 decimal places when moused over. Settlements: Tavern in Aragon again returns Power to characters. Settlements with large numbers of structures no longer suffer sever lag issues. Added Expert and Freeholder trainers to Thornkeep (near Auction House). Terrain: Added shrines to monster hexes -12,18 and -2,14. Smoothed out multiple player traps, including several in player settlements where the retaining walls met the ground at the top of the walls. Also fixed a trap by the stairs near the Taverns that affected all player settlements. Reduced steepness of road in -5,14 so that it can be climbed. Removed obsolete Attacker Shrine from hex -5,3. Removed bumpy 15m encounter from hex 2,13 that could result in unusable smallholdings. Crafting: The list of crafting queues stays properly updated at downtime. The “lost” crafting queues were still being completed properly in the background, but not being visible on the crafting window was causing understandable confusion. Scroll bars for list of available ingredients are reset when switching to a new stock or recipe. Quests: The Rogue Tutorial Kill Quest is now called Whispers of Unrest. Changed Insidious Hero Gods text to mention Staalgard instead of Live Oak. Feats: Auspicious Critical now returns the correct amount of power, and only does so on a critical hit. Added Crafting option to Freeholder Armor gates. Added Dexterity into Clothing Armor Proficiencies to support Tailors. Added Dexterity to Holdout Weapon Maneuvers and Wisdom to Toolkit Maneuvers. Added Dexterity to Passionate in the Workship and Holdout Weapon Implement Proficiency. Added Wisdom to War Willing and Toolkit Implement Proficiency. Fixed Outfitter 9 to require Int/DEX/Per instead of Int/INT/Per. Fixed typo on Ability bonuses for Medium Armor Proficiency 2. Fixed typo on Feat Requirements for Passionate in the Workshop 9. Campfires: Campfires now return the proper amount of power. Previously, they were restoring power up to at least the amount listed (if you had 50 power and used a campfire set to restore 200, you’d end up with 200 total power or your max, whichever was lower). Now they restore the amount of power listed (if you have 50 power and use a campfire set to restore 200, you’ll end up with 250 total power or your max, whichever is lower). Reduced power cooldowns for camps from 4 hours to 1 hour and made them last 4 hours instead of 10 minutes. Added clearer feedback on campfire power regeneration and cooldowns to chat messages when campfires are used. Logging In: Getting disconnected from the game will bring up a message stating that the application will close after ten seconds. Getting back into the game will require running the application again, but this will prevent multiple strange issues that occur when re-entering the game world without fully exiting the application. Added tabbing and paste (Ctrl-V on or Cmd-V) to login screen fields. Delete button on unused character slots was removed. Trade: Players are rooted when Trade window is open. Confirmation is shown in chat window when sending a trade request. AI: Thornguards stop attacking after their target dies. Deposit All: Invulnerable items (Premium items like Smallholding deeds) remain in Inventory and a chat message states which items were left behind. Testing Achievements: Added GM command to grant achievements. This will make it much easier to test advanced characters on Zog. Achievements can only be granted to a character standing near the GM, so arrangements will still need to be made to meet in-game, but now any achievement can be quickly granted. Company Names: Added GM command to change company names. This is primarily intended to be used to change names that violate the Terms of Service, or to fix typos. Mules: Fixed typo in error message for expired mules. Holdings and Outposts: Outposts can no longer be placed while a holding is being torn down. Company Leaders can change the colors on company buildings. Previously, only the character who placed the building could change the color. Documents: All document fragments drop again. Recipes: Cold Iron Broadhead Arrow Recipes drop as loot. Quote

Bob 05.18.2016 10:10

These are the Release Notes for Early Enrollment v11.2. This update was deployed to the Test Server on Wednesday, May 11, 2016, and to the Live Server on Wednesday, May 18, 2016.

What Is In This Release

This release includes one new escalation (Gathering of Legends) and one upgraded escalation variant (The Revenge of Nhur Athemon), both featuring a mix of hero-/legend-level enemies dropping lots of T3 goodies. Some of these higher-level enemies have also been added to new events that run in several of the higher-end escalations. Several improvements have been made to the Auction House (your last week of sales/purchases can be viewed in the History tab, purchase prices are set to those of the specific offer you requested to purchase, and a few UI issues were fixed), and many other highly-requested improvements have been made (the click-through problem when clicking on UI elements was fixed, stacks can now be split when transferring between various windows, Auspicious Critical will only return power on critical hits, and Thornguards stop attacking after their target is killed). Many other smaller fixes were made as well.

Full Release Notes

Escalations/Events:

Added Gathering of Legends escalation, filled with a variety of T3 enemies dropping a variety of T3 loot.
Added The Revenge of Nhur Athemon, a variant of the existing Nhur Athemon escalations featuring tougher crystals and skeletons, as well as a tougher Win Boss, with correspondingly better drops.
Added Hero/Legend Events to Crystal Ogres, Dark Elves, Duergar Slavers, Elemental Rift and Mordant Spire escalations.
High-end Win Bosses are now extremely likely, and in some cases guaranteed, to drop T3/Structure Recipes and T3 Expendables.
Adjusted Max Instances for several escalations to make T2-T3 escalations more likely, and to make it more likely that rarer escalations will launch when it comes time to choose a new escalation.
Switched bosses in Ustalav Invaders to a Hero Boss for the Home Hex version and a Legend Boss for the Monster Hex version. Also increased the number of Generals and higher-level knights at the boss encounter.
Ustalav Invaders now includes a final Phase where the toughest random enemies are Generals, and the only efficient way to get T3 drops is to kill the Boss.
Set most escalations to start at 100% and to decay in strength over 10 days (15 for Home hexes), and set remaining phased-escalations to increase in difficulty as their strength drops.
Rebalanced escalations to take roughly 4 hours for an appropriately-leveled party to clear from 100% strength (6 hours for Home hexes), and so that tougher escalations generally have a higher max strength than less difficult ones.
Reduced target numbers for several events to make them more feasible for small parties to complete during a single play session.
Changed Elemental Rift event Element Amok to launch a variety of Berserkers, not just Ice Elementals.
Changed text of Goblin Pickles events to make it clear that players need to talk to an apprentice, not Londor Sefurd.
Fixed difficulty ratings for Elemental Rift phases to reflect that the escalation gets more difficult as the strength drops.
Removed Heroes from random encounters in Ustalav Home Hex when the home escalation isn’t running.
Removed extra structure recipe chance from Dark Elf Win Boss drop.
Removed level 1-2 knights from Ustalav escalations.

Auction House:

Added History tab to see past week of sales and purchases.
When clicking Buy next to a specific offer, the purchase price is now set to the sale price of that specific offer.
Coin can't be sold.
Items which can't be sold (such as coins) are no longer shown as available to be sold or bid on.
The Buy button is no longer shown when there are no active offers to purchase.
Switching to a different item now resets the scroll bar on the list of offers.
Performing a new search now resets the scroll bar on the search results.

UI:

Mouse clicks are now caught by the UI, not passed on to items behind them.
Ctrl-click or Ctrl-drop will open quantity dialog for transferring partial stacks of items between windows.
Added paste (Ctrl-V on or Cmd-V) to all text input fields.
Fixed icons for Greater Cure, Greater Inflict, Mass Greater Cure and Mass Greater Inflict.
Unrecognized/misspelled slash commands will now display an error message in the chat window.
For Vaults and Auction House, switching filters will now clear the sub-filters.
Inventory Trashing and Stack Splitting UI now supports up to 6 digits.
Ability scores on Character Sheet now show to 3 decimal places when moused over.

Settlements:

Tavern in Aragon again returns Power to characters.
Settlements with large numbers of structures no longer suffer sever lag issues.
Added Expert and Freeholder trainers to Thornkeep (near Auction House).

Terrain:

Added shrines to monster hexes -12,18 and -2,14.
Smoothed out multiple player traps, including several in player settlements where the retaining walls met the ground at the top of the walls. Also fixed a trap by the stairs near the Taverns that affected all player settlements.
Reduced steepness of road in -5,14 so that it can be climbed.
Removed obsolete Attacker Shrine from hex -5,3.
Removed bumpy 15m encounter from hex 2,13 that could result in unusable smallholdings.

Crafting:

The list of crafting queues stays properly updated at downtime. The “lost” crafting queues were still being completed properly in the background, but not being visible on the crafting window was causing understandable confusion.
Scroll bars for list of available ingredients are reset when switching to a new stock or recipe.

Quests:

The Rogue Tutorial Kill Quest is now called Whispers of Unrest.
Changed Insidious Hero Gods text to mention Staalgard instead of Live Oak.

Feats:

Auspicious Critical now returns the correct amount of power, and only does so on a critical hit.
Added Crafting option to Freeholder Armor gates.
Added Dexterity into Clothing Armor Proficiencies to support Tailors.
Added Dexterity to Holdout Weapon Maneuvers and Wisdom to Toolkit Maneuvers.
Added Dexterity to Passionate in the Workship and Holdout Weapon Implement Proficiency.
Added Wisdom to War Willing and Toolkit Implement Proficiency.
Fixed Outfitter 9 to require Int/DEX/Per instead of Int/INT/Per.
Fixed typo on Ability bonuses for Medium Armor Proficiency 2.
Fixed typo on Feat Requirements for Passionate in the Workshop 9.

Campfires:

Campfires now return the proper amount of power. Previously, they were restoring power up to at least the amount listed (if you had 50 power and used a campfire set to restore 200, you’d end up with 200 total power or your max, whichever was lower). Now they restore the amount of power listed (if you have 50 power and use a campfire set to restore 200, you’ll end up with 250 total power or your max, whichever is lower).
Reduced power cooldowns for camps from 4 hours to 1 hour and made them last 4 hours instead of 10 minutes.
Added clearer feedback on campfire power regeneration and cooldowns to chat messages when campfires are used.

Logging In:

Getting disconnected from the game will bring up a message stating that the application will close after ten seconds. Getting back into the game will require running the application again, but this will prevent multiple strange issues that occur when re-entering the game world without fully exiting the application.
Added tabbing and paste (Ctrl-V on or Cmd-V) to login screen fields.
Delete button on unused character slots was removed.

Trade:

Players are rooted when Trade window is open.
Confirmation is shown in chat window when sending a trade request.

AI: Thornguards stop attacking after their target dies.

Deposit All: Invulnerable items (Premium items like Smallholding deeds) remain in Inventory and a chat message states which items were left behind.

Testing Achievements: Added GM command to grant achievements. This will make it much easier to test advanced characters on Zog. Achievements can only be granted to a character standing near the GM, so arrangements will still need to be made to meet in-game, but now any achievement can be quickly granted.

Company Names: Added GM command to change company names. This is primarily intended to be used to change names that violate the Terms of Service, or to fix typos.

Mules: Fixed typo in error message for expired mules.

Holdings and Outposts:

Outposts can no longer be placed while a holding is being torn down.
Company Leaders can change the colors on company buildings. Previously, only the character who placed the building could change the color.

Documents: All document fragments drop again.

Recipes: Cold Iron Broadhead Arrow Recipes drop as loot.

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Seraph 05.18.2016 10:21
	Great work, Bob, looking forward to getting in game later today! Seraph Cleric of Sarenrae Brighthaven Quote

Maxen 05.18.2016 10:37
	If anyone is missing a copy of the 'Unresearched Scientific Report', I have several…thousand. Thanks for fixing that Bob. And awesome job on this release! Quote

Bringslite 05.18.2016 10:54
	Killed off the Usties and it was nice to have something pretty much for sure. I didn't farm them as much as others, not even same ballpark, but I found it real tedious. Edit: Oh, that's right. The Usties popped again in our crater hex. Praise Iomedae! The mysterious esc killers can't keep The Righteous down. ;P Virtute et Armis -Unknown Quote

Seraph 05.18.2016 12:32
	Bringslite Edit: Oh, that's right. The Usties popped again in our crater hex. Praise Iomedae! The mysterious esc killers can't keep The Righteous down. ;P I'd be careful about advertising that. Seraph Cleric of Sarenrae Brighthaven Quote

Bringslite 05.18.2016 13:08
	Seraph Bringslite Edit: Oh, that's right. The Usties popped again in our crater hex. Praise Iomedae! The mysterious esc killers can't keep The Righteous down. ;P I'd be careful about advertising that. The foul Ustalav invaders have already been chased off this day, after server up. Unless you mean to be careful about being Righteous. That is good advice. Virtute et Armis -Unknown Quote

Bringslite 05.18.2016 13:08

Seraph
Bringslite
Edit: Oh, that's right. The Usties popped again in our crater hex. Praise Iomedae! The mysterious esc killers can't keep The Righteous down. ;P

I'd be careful about advertising that.

The foul Ustalav invaders have already been chased off this day, after server up. Unless you mean to be careful about being Righteous. That is good advice. smile

Virtute et Armis
-Unknown

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Stilachio Thrax 05.18.2016 13:34
	Bringslite Seraph Bringslite Edit: Oh, that's right. The Usties popped again in our crater hex. Praise Iomedae! The mysterious esc killers can't keep The Righteous down. ;P I'd be careful about advertising that. The foul Ustalav invaders have already been chased off this day, after server up. Unless you mean to be careful about being Righteous. That is good advice. Not for us Paladins Virtus et Honor Steward of Ozem's Vigil, Lord Commander of the Argyraspides Iomedais Quote

Stilachio Thrax 05.18.2016 13:34

Bringslite
Seraph
Bringslite
Edit: Oh, that's right. The Usties popped again in our crater hex. Praise Iomedae! The mysterious esc killers can't keep The Righteous down. ;P

I'd be careful about advertising that.

The foul Ustalav invaders have already been chased off this day, after server up. Unless you mean to be careful about being Righteous. That is good advice.

Not for us Paladins smile

Virtus et Honor

Steward of Ozem's Vigil, Lord Commander of the Argyraspides Iomedais

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Decius 05.18.2016 14:15
	Stilachio Thrax Bringslite Seraph Bringslite Edit: Oh, that's right. The Usties popped again in our crater hex. Praise Iomedae! The mysterious esc killers can't keep The Righteous down. ;P I'd be careful about advertising that. The foul Ustalav invaders have already been chased off this day, after server up. Unless you mean to be careful about being Righteous. That is good advice. Not for us Paladins Paladins recognize good advice, they just don't always follow it. Quote

Decius 05.18.2016 14:15

Stilachio Thrax
Bringslite
Seraph
Bringslite
Edit: Oh, that's right. The Usties popped again in our crater hex. Praise Iomedae! The mysterious esc killers can't keep The Righteous down. ;P

I'd be careful about advertising that.

The foul Ustalav invaders have already been chased off this day, after server up. Unless you mean to be careful about being Righteous. That is good advice.

Not for us Paladins

Paladins recognize good advice, they just don't always follow it.

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Edam 05.18.2016 14:37
	Bringslite Killed off the Usties and it was nice to have something pretty much for sure. I didn't farm them as much as others, not even same ballpark, but I found it real tedious. Edit: Oh, that's right. The Usties popped again in our crater hex. Praise Iomedae! The mysterious esc killers can't keep The Righteous down. ;P The downside is in the past smaller groups/solo players always had a place to go or group to join when the farming still occurred. There are a number of smaller settlements split across time zones that simply cannot take down a large escalation, even more so now expendables have been rebalanced to "use once or twice an hour or less". Keeper's has a small very active population but it is split across all timezones for example and Keeper's has had dark elves for nearly two months and its still at 70% . A quick experiment has revealed the strength drops far faster per kill which will offset things a little. Overall a good patch, but the elimination of expendables (which made solo play viable) and farming (which gave opportunities to join mixed settlement hunting groups) taken in combination is risking shifting the balance in favour of players in the US timezone, and more significantly, in favor of bigger settlments/groups capable of fielding regular parties of 3 or more players. That may be working as intended of course. Quote

Edam 05.18.2016 14:37

Bringslite
Killed off the Usties and it was nice to have something pretty much for sure. I didn't farm them as much as others, not even same ballpark, but I found it real tedious.

Edit: Oh, that's right. The Usties popped again in our crater hex. Praise Iomedae! The mysterious esc killers can't keep The Righteous down. ;P

The downside is in the past smaller groups/solo players always had a place to go or group to join when the farming still occurred. There are a number of smaller settlements split across time zones that simply cannot take down a large escalation, even more so now expendables have been rebalanced to "use once or twice an hour or less". Keeper's has a small very active population but it is split across all timezones for example and Keeper's has had dark elves for nearly two months and its still at 70% . A quick experiment has revealed the strength drops far faster per kill which will offset things a little.

Overall a good patch, but the elimination of expendables (which made solo play viable) and farming (which gave opportunities to join mixed settlement hunting groups) taken in combination is risking shifting the balance in favour of players in the US timezone, and more significantly, in favor of bigger settlments/groups capable of fielding regular parties of 3 or more players. That may be working as intended of course.

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Bringslite 05.18.2016 15:25
	Anyone that wishes can come bunk with us(which does not mean join), use facilities, and therefore add to our own small late night crowd. Or perhaps all nighters(completely perspective talking) should "hang out" around Emerald Lodge. That is a pretty central location. Virtute et Armis -Unknown Quote

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