News Do you want to stay tuned and receive the latest news with your email client or browser? Subscribe to our RSS feed! !bag function extended Right now I extended the !bag function. Now you can use it to save a 10 character label with each bag. To do this just say "!bag mylabel" (without quotes and substituting mylabel with your label) and afterwards simply use the bag. Note that the bag must be on the floor in front of you or located on your back as backpack. Enjoy! :) written by Vilarion on 07. December 2006 11:24 pm
Multi-drop/skillloss-bug solved This enerving bug has been solved with the last server update. Its effect was that a killed character used to lose skills and items repeatedly in short intervals. Now this will work as intended. written by Vilarion on 14. October 2006 11:51 am
Disabling wide parts of the account system From now on you do not have to write an application which is checked by the Gamemasters in order to create a player account in Illarion. As was the case in the past. This means that everyone who enters a valid e-mail address and confirms it can immediately create characters without having to wait for their application to be accepted. Furthermore, there is no check of the characters name anymore, which means that you just have to download and install the client and can start playing. We are aware of the fact that this step will bring, among the intended advantages such as to get more players into Illarion, several huge disadvantages. It will probably happen that characters with inappropriate names will log in and that "problem players" will enter the game and act in a disturbing way. To act against this, we made several arrangements; the most important and hopefully effective is that a program was developed which enables every GM to see what's currently going on in Illarion. They can see who is online, where characters are, what skills and stats they have (and alter them), what they are actually saying and so on. The most important thing is that they can ban players without being logged in with the client (similar to a instant messenger like ICQ). Moreover, we can also talk to players using that tool, explaining to them what they might have done wrong and how to change their behaviour. See it as a kind of mighty monitoring camera with additional functions to suppress several negative effects. Of course we expect that our established players help new players from time to time wherever and whenever it is possible. We are about to create an island for new players to take away a lot of that work from these players by having an automatic processes ("tutorial island"). We want to point out that it's still necessary to write applications for the new races, such as fairies (as it was before). The automatic checks will only affect account applications and characters of the "old" races, such as humans, dwarves and so on. We realize that this "experiment" may also be a complete flop. Therefore we have implemented a system which enables us to let all new accounts and characters that were automatically accepted set back to a not accepted state, meaning that they will once more have to write applications to be able to play. We ask you, the players of Illarion, to take this as an opportunity to improve roleplay in the game and hope that you see it this way. We ask you not to judge too quickly and see how things develop instead of judging in advance. We especially want to ask you to not leave the game because of this step. It is you who will play an important role in the equation. We rely on you because we need your feedback to point at troublesome cases and, additionally, because you try to help new players by showing them the most important features and places of Illarion. written by martin on 20. July 2006 03:22 pm
Character profiles From now on there is the possibility to create individual character profiles.
In order to do this, you have to log in the account system and view the details of your character. There you can find a link, where you can edit this profile.
The profile is disabled by default. So you are able to enable and fill it, if you like. The upload of a picture is also possible.
The fields before and behind the character name show the pre- and suffix of the character. If you change them here, they chance automatically IG, too.
Have fun with it.
Nitram written by Estralis on 24. June 2006 11:51 am
Major server/client update The following changes did happen:
- Smooth transitions between single map tiles
- Bridges and many new items
- New Race: Gnome
- New Race: Fairy
- New Race: Goblin
- Due to drastic changes the old client is no longer useable
written by Vilarion on 18. June 2006 07:51 pm
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