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Alter Aeon server updates for Jun 30, 19 From Draak: Fatigue and exhaustion can no longer take you deeply into negative movement. Channel cast strings will now be gagged by spam gcast. (Mathayas) Softened damage from high level traps. You can use metallurgy to load any wooden weapon, increasing its weight and changing its dieroll. Carve mooncatcher can no longer be taught by demonic tutor, and has a proper place to learn it. Mobs that can recharge select wands and staffs will now show what objects and for how much gold on 'list' and 'sell list'. Spruced up strings for wand/staff recharge trades. Mooncatchers can be converted into moondust, a brew component that boosts the level of a brew without altering the outcome of the recipe. This might see some level tweaking as we assess how powerful it is. Added 'craft quality' command. This uses profession points to increase the quality of a crafted object. You must know how to craft the object in order to upgrade it. The point cost goes up sharply for each tier of quality an item is improved, and also increases with level. http://bit.ly/2Xid4aC
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Alter Aeon was down for about an hour while the server conducted power down maintenance. We now return to our regularly scheduled event, already in-progress.
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jun 21, 19 From Draak: Lag reduced on crafting skills a little bit. Fixed bug in leathercraft that did not allow a 'blank' composite bonus on non-dragonscale equipment. Warrior skill rebalancing: Tanking is now level 22, down from level 24. Lag and movement cost for crippling strike has somewhat increased. FYI it is still quite a bit faster and less costly than leap attack. New geology type: salty, for highly saline, non-marine environments. New angelic wood: thyine Mage practice rebalancing: Ground is now level 12, up from 10, since it was the same level as shocking grasp. Obscure spell chimes is now level 10, since there were multiple obscure spells at level 11. New mining minerals: selenite, alabaster (both forms of gypsum) and very rare polyhalite and bloedite. These favor salty geology, along with various halide minerals like sylvite. http://bit.ly/31L2SG4
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Happy summer solstice, from the staff of Alter Aeon!
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The Summer Solstice Celebration starts this Friday!
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Pending event information is now available via 'event show' and 'event schedule'.
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Alter Aeon server updates for Jun 08, 19 From Draak: A successful feint will reduce the cooldown timers that lessen the chance of a successful flourish and lower the damage of crippling strike. Added a couple of tips to the bottom of slist. (Duckworthy) You can no longer scribe high level spells onto low level scrolls. Areas can now have different geologies set that affect what minerals are most abundant there. You will see a message about the local geology when you start prospecting. Most druid called animals are gaining the ability to eat food they are given. They will be picky eaters, so don't try feeding apples to a mountain lion or fish to an ape. Mage practice balance changes: Prism is now level 18 instead of level 12. Level 12 spell shield is now critical and dependent on mana shield instead of fly. Dependencies within the force field spelltree have rearranged. Thief practice balance changes: Contortionism is no longer critical. Shadow decoy is now critical. Stealthy movement is now level 22, up from level 21. Shadow bind is now level 15, up from level 14. Brew poison is now level 14, down from level 15. Case is now level 12, down from level 13. Cloak of darkness is now level 13, up from level 12. Backstab is now level 9, up from level 8. Survrey is now level 8, down from level 9. Feint is now level 6, down from level 7. Pickpocket is now level 7, up from level 6. Crippling strike is now level 20 and critical. Shadow strike is now level 28. Necromancer practice balance changes: Consume is now level 17, up from 16. Skeletal warrior is now level 16, down from 17. Cleric practice balance changes: Breath of life is now level 31, up from level 28. (Lokar) http://bit.ly/2EYEcQK
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Alter Aeon June 2019 Update

This month we will be conducting our big league summertime event, the Summer Solstice Celebration! This will be the seventh such annual event. It will begin on the day of the summer solstice, Friday, June 21st and end on the evening of July 4th. Like last year, the Puzzlewood Forest will return. We will be presenting a solo version for players of all levels with endless experience level mobs, and a group version with wave after wave of mobs of increasing strength to challenge high level players, just like last year. We'll also be lifting a couple of elements from the 2014 event and the 2016 event for the main story areas, namely the portal dispelling from the former and the point defense of the latter. Players will be presented with instanced battleground zones, with specific missions to accomplish for each one. A special effort was made last month to balance the skills and spells of the various classes. The goal is to even out the amount of practices necessary to gain the critical abilities of each class, giving each class roughly the same number and at regular intervals. In particular, several abilities have been spread out quite a bit to prevent clumping at lower levels. In keeping with this vein, there are no longer any critical abilities beyond level 30, only important, helpful and obscure ones. The theory is that by level 30, your selection of primary class abilities will be heavily influenced by your choices of secondary and tertiary classes. In addition, some spells and skills that are outdated will be receiving improvements, such as 'cure blindness' and 'feint'. So far, the mage, cleric, warrior, necromancer and druid classes have been updated, and the thief class is soon to follow. In June, we have a number of a code updates planned. For example: - Druid called animals will eat food they are given. Most will be finicky eaters, so don't try to feed fish to your wolf or berries to a mountain lion. - Specialized geology will be added to some zones, making them more likely to yield certain classes of minerals. - Update to 'dread portent' and 'soulsteal' spells to make them work together better and be more fair in groups. - Numerous updates to jobs are in the works to make them more efficient and easier for builders to construct. - Random land-based encounters. This is very new and experimental, and if we feel it is not up to standards or not sufficiently stable before the summer event begins, we will delay turning it on. Our latest upcoming area, the Valley of Sacerdotes, a level 41 zone, is near completion and will be released in a week or so. A whole host of new features and sounds has been added to Mush-Z, our comprehensive MUSHClient package designed for the visually impaired. One set of updates in particular focused on giving players the ability to better customize their audio experience. Sample options include: - an add-on making it easier for users to mix and share their soundpacks - partial matching for adjusting volumes on individual and groups of sounds - a toggle for automatic muting and unmuting when switching between windows, panning, vocal, randomization and battle music controls - sneaking steps - reduced sound clobber and more! We also started working on a new Short ID module which will finally let players see the spell levels on objects, and will be preparing for Mush-Z to be upgraded to the latest version of MUSHclient. And now, some links! Here's our June 2019 monthly update audio presentation on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64NFyRiO2kA Next, an interview with Morpheus, senior staff member of Alter Aeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-5Vn2TYfjQ Follow us on our new blog created to replace the discontinued Google pages: http://bit.ly/2I9ewSc And finally, a list of social media sites that we currently support: http://bit.ly/1vxJAOv
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We've got a new Alter Aeon blog on Blogger: http://bit.ly/2Wadcn0!
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Hello and welcome to the new official blogger site for Alter Aeon!  This blog is taking the place of two previous blogs that are no longer updated but can be viewed here:

http://mobfactory.blogspot.com

http://alteraeonproductions.blogspot.com

Interview with Morpheus, May 2019

An interview with Morpheus, world builder for Alter Aeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-5Vn2TYfjQ
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