Worst combat change ever

This latest change has to be the worst yet. Another kick in the teeth to fighters.

We've fixed an issue that was used by some Syrnia fighters to gain more exp/h than other fighters by skipping the pause between two fights in "fight all"-mode.

For this we've also had to disable the "Fight all" link in the fighting screens.However, to ensure you gain about the same exp/h than before (or even more) the pause in between two "fight all" fights has been reduced from 10+crowding to just 10 seconds. This should remove about 8-15 seconds per fight.
Please do watch out with AFK fighting, as you might now be able to face more monsters than before in between two botchecks.

Nothing has changed regarding the "Fight one more" option.We have considered (and are still considering) other solutions to this problem. But it's quite hard as every solution has got a few downsides.

For players who choose to fight in locations with less fighters, its now pointless to do this as everyone will have the same gap between fights. We all lose the ability to click fight all monsters so fighters who used this option will get xp slower.

So after players having to get 2 million xp to wear their platina axe's again, you now have to do this much slower thanks to this update. So turn 3 weeks of work into 4!

Updated battle arena schedule

Scheduled fights:

• At 2008-09-23 20:16 Level: 10 - 19
  
• At 2008-09-25 03:46 Level: 10 - 19
  
• At 2008-09-28 03:46 Level: 20 - 29
  

Update courtesy of Eragon33 :)

Captain Keelhail's revenge

[0] 18:18 Captain Keelhail[Pirate]: Here is a little something for me pirates, to remember who still owns and runs Skull...

[0] 18:18 Captain Keelhail[Pirate]: maybe next time me pirates won't think to reveal locations of invasions again...

[0] 18:19 Captain Keelhail[Pirate]: sends out me own pirate force, teach them the proper ways of pirating

This was probably a response to the fact that a player announced ahead of time when and where the pirates were invading.

Bug fixes and changes

A few more fixes and changes have been made, the most notable being the change to weapon stats.

• Removed the instant farming fail on all crops, this was intended but caused a lot confusion because it was not properly documented. Instead of the instant fail, we've added the chance to find less crops than you tought to harvest, just like there already was the chance to find more crops. There will be no more instant fails.
• Frozen players shops will be hidden from now on.
• The silver medium shield armour has raised from 9 to 10, silver small shield has been raised from 7 to 9
• Improved inactive account deletion.
• Inactive accounts who ran a clan, will pass on clan leadership to a random clan member. If none found, the whole clan will be deleted.
  
• Fixed whisper ignore: Ignored players whispers would still be shown in whisper history.
  
• Fixed: Group fighting will not take other fighters into account that are at the same location, but fighting different monsters.
  
• The OL payer display will now display as: TAG LEVEL NAME ATTACK HP instead of TAG LEVEL NAME ATTACK LEVEL HP
  
• Weapon stats have been increased to make sure all smithable items are better than all the smithable items that require a lower smithing level (The same counts for the level to equip it, as its equal to the smtihing level). This mainly affected the daggers/short swords etc. Also especially Platina and Syriet.

WEAPON AIM-POWER AIM-POWER

Iron dagger 5 5 NOW 8 5

Steel Dagger WAS 9 9 NOW 16 14
Steel Short sword WAS 12 12 NOW 16 16
Steel scimitar WAS 15 13 NOW 17 15
Steel mace WAS 10 18 NOW 12 19
Steel long sword WAS 16 16 NOW 17 17

Silver Dagger WAS 12 12 NOW 20 18
Silver Short sword WAS 14 14 NOW 20 20
Silver scimitar WAS 15 14 NOW 22 19
Silver mace WAS 12 24 NOW 15 28
Silver long sword WAS 24 24 NOW 25 25

Gold Dagger WAS 18 18 NOW 28 26
Gold Short sword WAS 24 24 NOW 30 30
Gold scimitar WAS 26 25 NOW 35 30
Gold mace WAS 15 40 NOW 20 45
Gold long sword WAS 35 35 NOW 36 36

Platina Dagger WAS 35 35 NOW 50 42
Platina Short sword WAS 37 37 NOW 46 46
Platina scimitar WAS 45 40 NOW 52 46

Syriet Dagger WAS 50 50 NOW 65 60
Syriet Short sword WAS 55 55 NOW 64 64
Syriet scimitar WAS 58 50 NOW 68 66

Syriet long sword WAS 60 60 NOW 70 70
Syriet axe WAS 85 62 NOW 85 70

Pirate invasion yesterday

Just before 11pm Syrnia time last night (Thursday), the pirates invaded Mezno islands.

Keeheils were at Xanso, pirates at Mentan and Roughies at Franir mines.

Battle arena schedule

Scheduled fights:

• At 2008-09-19 13:16 Level: 30 - 39
  
• At 2008-09-19 16:16 Level: 10 - 19
  
• At 2008-09-20 01:16 Level: 10 - 19
  
• At 2008-09-23 20:16 Level: 10 - 19
  
• At 2008-09-25 03:46 Level: 10 - 19

Un-muted / un-jailed / still forum banned

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One day into the weeks worth of punishment and the muting and jailing have been reversed.