Alter Aeon October 2019 Update

As our first order of business: it is my pleasure to announce the dates of this year's Halloween Havoc! This Halloween-themed event is something of an annual tradition and is our biggest and best event of the year. If there is any event on Alter Aeon that you do not want to miss out on, this is it! The event will be for players of all levels, with content for both newcomers and old-timers alike. It will begin sometime on Wednesday, October 30th, and run until the morning of Tuesday, November 5th. Sometime that following week a new island for the continent of Gianasi will be released. Major crafting changes in September include the following: - The cost for splitting and combining metal has been reduced. The cost of smelting has been significantly reduced. - Grips can be added to woodcraft bows. - Nearly a dozen new weapons were added to metallurgy to emphasize differences in speed and damage between the various handle lengths. - A new alloy was added: liver copper. - Hone weapon is now directly dependent on metallurgy instead of forge simple weapon, so that hone weapon and balance weapon do not require you to be able to craft weapons yourself. You must still know forge simple weapon in order to learn customize weapon, however. Job changes include: - Having incomplete jobs save across reboots, except for delivery jobs because that wouldn't make sense with delivery objects not saving on logout anymore. - We added five new 'gather' type jobs: lumberjack, slaughterhouse, fishmonger, ironmonger and skinner. These involve having to bring the jobgiver a certain amount of wood, meat, fish, ore or skins, respectively. - We also added a 'job reject' command, that way you can disable a job that you have no intention of fulfilling so it doesn't keep showing up in your jobs list. Here are some other changes in September: - Sea encounters have a higher chance of occuring, and the cooldown between them has been lowered. - Moondust can now be quite a bit higher level. - Added an option for 'set keep