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Just a post to let people know that we've been working on things behind the scenes the past few days. We have several new updates almost ready to go live, I've been setting up the bug mod with a control panel and getting Josh set up for helping with the coding, and I've made some slight progress with possibly speeding up the database and avoiding forum database crashes in future. Just letting you all know so that you don't wonder what we've been doing recently. Expect good things next week!

Character creation on both mobile and browser has been fixed and uses the same system. No more flash, and no more buggy, ugly mobile version of this system.

This has also hopefully fixed a few bugs with sire selection and random childer type settings.

'Lowest labyrinth floor' and 'lowest labyrinth temple floor' have been added to the leaderboards page. Records have only just started for this, however, so there are no high scores for this yet.

The NPC ritualist now completes rituals for individuals without the need for them to collect ingredients. However, the ritual prices have been increased by 300% on average.

Blood fountains in the Labyrinth and the Labyrinth Temple areas now only allow you to feed on each one once. This means you can no longer loiter on one floor for long, before your blood / anima starts to run low and you're forced to progress deeper. Being defeated will reset this and allow you to drink from the same fountain again when you're next on that floor.

However, XP bonuses for these area remain at +20%, even now that the chapter has ended.

Aeryn the NPC ritualist no longer offers ritual services.

This change was made due to the ritualism skill being less useful since Aeryn has been around. There isn't an NPC hacker, and there isn't an NPC b&er, so there probably shouldn't be an NPC ritualist either.

The NPC still offers mastery unlocks, however.

The music player visible in location chats is now fixed for the youtube playlist update.

It should appear something like this:

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The music player will play from the chat window, which should make things a little more seamless for things like live chat events, etc.

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Chats have been optimised for mobile devices. Text and buttons are bigger, so there's no need to zoom in to read / click things. The online users side panel has also been turned off by default, but you can switch it on again by clicking a button at the top of the screen. All in all, it's just much easier to use on phones, which will hopefully keep newbies chatting a little longer.

This is part of the ongoing quest to get the game ready for mobile devices, pending the app launch.

Due to requests for chat font colours which are easier on the eye, I've added a bunch today. Also, the input field won't change colour, which means you won't end up typing with white text and not being able to see what you're writing.

Also, there's now a switch on the settings page which lets you turn off chat font colours entirely, so that everyone's text will show as very light grey.

A new roleplay power called 'Ancient Mentor' has been added for Paladins and Sorcerers.