Archive 2007

- Religion Ranks support
- Quick Access Bar for the top inventory row
- Displayed Smilies/Clan Icons limit (max of 3 icons in one message)
- Repeated characters limit
- Drop All button (with confirmation)
- Experience Bar
- Familiar support

- Added a Password Expired message
- Added an ability to set up client hotkeys (saved to Darkswords.ini)
- It is now possible to change tray icon (put your ds.ico into the client application folder)
- It is now possible to make partial changes to the background (main.jpg in the client application folder)
- Added an announce for Ignored users entering the game
- Added clan_ban command to the control panel
- Added inncheck and inncancel commands to the control panel
- Added display of current statuses on the main window
- Added a confirmation window for doppel and invisible buttons
- Away From Keyboard mode support
- Fixed a few minor glitches
- New tutorial system support
- Ability to quit tutorial by declining quests from Quest window
- Own corpse will now be highlighted red
- Added character gender support (being set up automatically, personal avatars owners may use set_sex "1" command to select male gender, set_sex "2" to select female gender)
- New opportunity to cancel flee order by renewing your attack/attacking your target again.
- Improved the effect of “Doppel” (suppressed message about taken from corpse etc).
- Cloth which has been dressed on a corpse of your character henceforth will automatically be put on without taking into account requirements for each subject. Check on an possibility to carry a item/cloth is run after the process of clothing thet has been put on the body.
- In some regions of the world (marked green in the encyclopedia) it is possible to find various plants. They can be found by densely cutting out inhabitants of that region. Plants are components for preparation of elixirs (recipes for which are available for sale in Scribe shop near Ruby Fort).
- In artifact shops elixirs Potion of Vivacity is available. They are removing the effect of "Weakness" (temporarily stops the affects of Lycanthropy or Porphyria)

Change of passwords.
For security measuares all players have to change password on their characters. Without password change you will not be able to enter the game.

Changes in Vampirism:
* Have removed penalty for vampirism during day-time
* Amonth of damage under use of vampirism is not use soaking, armor of faith, defence spellbuffs? into consideration. but sancturie counts

Increase of Inn and the costs:
Coming with next update you can increase your in space by +450 cells or +1800 weight! You can choose this option in the Inn window.

The costs are as follow:
- To start the service you pay 30 plat to begin with. That will increase your inn for 30 days. After that an additional 1 plat will be taken from your bank account per additional day you use the increased in. If you dont have enough plat in your bank the additional space will be blocked (dont ask me what will happen to the items then, cause I couldnt find anything about that).
- There will also be a command with which you can cancel the service, but you should remove your stuff before doing this.

In the menu of artefact shop the opportunity of Religion Reset (change of religious guilds and changes of religion) have been added. Cost of the given service - 250 Platinum.Make sure your character has been offline for at least 10 minutes before you reset.

Also you cannot attack opponents of same religion in religion zones.

We invite all players with religion to participate in a autoquest with will be availeble on for a limited time. Players from 140 to 260 level can take a quest in Rainbow Kingdom. The quest consists of two parts: the first - repeated (quest will be failed if you die), the second - without repetition. The quest will be active till 21.11.2007. A prize: the Gift +20%HP for 5 days.

Note: you need to kill Demogorgone 4 times.

There is aggresive monsters on both islands (Outcast and Robinson) now.
Step carefully friend.

Characters up to 50-th level and vampire-characters are not subject to infection. Occasionally at death from hands (paws, teeths, claws) from non-human monsters can be infected by lycanthropy. This illness is similar to vampirism (has 3 stages, it is transferred from the second stage, etc.), but there are also distinctions.
1 stage: is treated by bottles with sacred water. Cannot infect others.
Duration of a stage: 6 hours.
2 stage: is treated by an Aspen cross. Can infect others. 50 % efficiency of healing. 25 % absorption of a magic and physical damage. Recycles 10 % maximum of HP each round.
Duration: 12 hours.
3 stage: is treated by Sacred Graal. Can infect others. Cannot use cureheal. 33 % absorption of magic and physical damage. Recycles 20 % from maximum HP each round. In 33 % of cases even with a miss impact – will hit never the less.
Duration infinitive.

New official exchange rate for Platinimum in Banks across the world is now
1 Platinum = 15 000 gold coins
There will be 40% discount on installation price of the personal artefact (for weapons -60 platinum, for jewelry - 20platinum and -40 platinum on the rest of artefacts types).

To celebrate Halloween there has been introduced 2xGold. There will be also a special Halloween Quest. More info about the quest will be given later. Stay Tuned and Happy Halloween!
Also:
A contest for best Halloween story has been initiated. Read Forum for more information.

Due to new technology all the boats can go faster now. Especially cruise liner “White Scull” which goes from Last Harbor and to Dr. Kronys Island Also some new addition to Dr. Kronys Island
-Stairway to Heaven, Bank and Inn near the dock
-Bar and Alchemy Shop has been added to neighbor location
-Magic Shop in Mutant Farm

Cure of Vampirism First Stage can be cured by Holy Water (Alchemy Shops)
First and Second Stage can be cured with Aspen Cross (falls from unique monsters)
Third Stage and all above stages can be cured by Holy Grail (platinum Alchemy Shops)