Reboot 5/30 Changes

[Xevode]

The last reboot (5/30/2010) included:

Magi's now cast their trapping walls as was intended from the beginning

Stealing skill now check both the players destination when using the skill, and destination when using the target.
(This will prevent players from using the skill outside a restricted region and then using the target cursor inside the restricted region.)

Travel spells now check their casters location both on initial cast and target. This prevents players from marking illegal locations and
teleporting to them afterwards.

Chief was changed to only add powerscrolls and reward tickets upon death. (preventing stealing from being used on him)

Magi were changed to only add their loot upon death. (preventing stealing from being used on him)

The next reboot will introduce a gold tracking system to the shard. With this new system we will be able to track massive inflows of gold
to the server. This will allow us to fine tune the gold economy of the shard.

[Locke]

Allure has a patriot act, i'm impressed.

[Xevode]

Would be more like the patriot act if we knew who was looting the gold. This system just tracks what is created and a source, i.e. corpse, bods, claim, treasure chests, things like that. Its more like the national treasury keeping track of the amount of money they print.

[Locke]

Well we need to fix that then don't we..tracking who has it is a lot larger of a task though. Lots of variables for each player (even if you did it by account, not character), and new players coming in on and off, lots of work.

[Xevode]

While it would be fun to have a ranking of player gold, tracking individual player gold is not really necessary for our purposes. The information is really used to see if someone is using an exploit to duplicate gold. If the shard is bringing in an average amount of gold per week, and suddenly it brings in 16x that amount, we know there is a problem