STICKY: Small Updates and Tweaks

[Mooncalf]

Fixed an issue with the weather system. You should start seeing snow, rain and sleet more often now. The weather report on CrowNet will also update properly now.

[Mooncalf]

Just a quick note to update everyone on my own personal Path progress:

I've been quite busy over the past month trying to get things up to speed on various fronts, which is why I've mainly had time to fix bugs and update story related things on Path for a while. I've also been working on my new game 3 days a week. However, my new game (Rise of the New Gods) is very nearly ready for open beta now, and then things will calm down on that front, so you can expect Path to have a lot of my attention again.

So with that said, you'll start seeing new updates, content and features added to Path on a more regular basis starting from now. We're also going to use Rise to test the waters, so to speak, of certain new concepts which may or may not see their way to Path in the future. The good thing about that is, all of the coding I've been doing on Rise will be easily integrated into Path, if we decide to adopt some popular gameplay elements from over there. So there's absolutely going to be some exciting new features in Path of the Vampire over the coming few months.

Thanks as always for playing and supporting the game.

[Mooncalf]

There was a security issue found with the karma purchase page, so we've had to disable that code for a while, until it's fully fixed and tested.

If you desperately want to purchase karma in the mean time you can contact me via PM if you want to do it manually.

[Mooncalf]

All issues we were having with the karma page have been fixed. The system is now much more secure and reliable. In addition, you no longer need to wait for Paypal to redirect you, as our server communicates with Paypal directly now. Your karma might take a few minutes to show up after purchase, however.

Please report it immediately if there are any issues at all with this new system.

[Mooncalf]

Fixed a bunch of possible exploits and bugs which could have been gaming breaking, to do with auctions, RP traits, teleportation and more.

[Mooncalf]

The lair resale fee has been lowered from 10 karma to 5 karma. This is to encourage lair resales, so that the game doesn't become over-burdened with too many new areas.

[Mooncalf]

Alerts are now kept for a maximum of 1 month. This should help speed up the database a little, especially on top of the other optimization measures we're implementing.

[Mooncalf]

We've had to increase the price of lockboxes from 10 karma to 20, purely because the inventory table in the database is insanely large (nearly quarter of a million items), which isn't a good thing for game performance.

[Mooncalf]

A public forge has been added to 12, 7, Abandoned Factory 15 in the Newborough district.

[Mooncalf]

Skirmish attacks now work on a 12 hour timer, instead of allowing you to attack again as soon as day change comes around. When attempting to attack a target a second time, the time remaining until you can attack again will be displayed.