Dark Castle News

29/Jan/2012
- Fixed bug where damaged eq would become more damaged everytime you logged in with it.
- Fixed bug where repaired eq would lose its custom stats if vaulted

26/Jan/2012
- Suloak is taking a short vacation.

25/Jan/2012
- Be careful vaulting damaged custom items or repaired custom items. there exists a bug around this that im working on fixing right now.
- Welcome to our new immortals, Zen and Jimi!

23/Jan/2012
- Fix to auction house crash bug fixed.

11/Jan/2012
- custom stat items shouldn't lose or dupe their stats when removed from vaults
- brewed potions should be safe to vault now

07/Jan/2012
- Fixed bug that caused playerfiles to become corrupt.

06/Jan/2012
- I'm trying to track down a pfile corruption bug. Keep a lookout for anything unusual.
If something should happen please e-mail me as many details about what you had equipped or
in your inventory before and after.

02/Jan/2012
- You can select a quest by number now.
- "Urizen Swedish Meatball" now called "Elder's Old Man Cane" (yay Elder!)

31/Dec/2011
- Fixed bug with weaken that could cause STR to go negative resulting in massive damage
- Added lightning bolt,speldamage,melee/spell/song mitigations,hp/mana/move/ki regens,
save vs fire/cold/energe/acid/magic/poison to eq randomizer

30/Dec/2011
- As requested, some objects will be slightly randomized now. Equipped objects that mobs load with will
have an equally random chance at slightly better or worse stats than they currently do.

28/Dec/2011
Say hello to Swift, our newest builder!
- And say hello to Bombadil, another builder!
- And our third builder, Roy!
- changed quest reset to require 100 completed quests instead of 500 qpoints.
- reverted some of the bs code changes but left half a violence round less lag in it

27/Dec/2011
- DC has moved to a new faster multi-proc VM server with more RAM on a faster link
New IP is: 72.14.179.114

26/Dec/2011
- heal spray chance on Sacred Maul increased to 2%
- quest reset option added. Costs 2000 platinum coins, 1 brownie point. Requires at least 500 qpoints.
- cause of last crash patched.
- herb lore heal increased up to 250pts from 180 if outdoors.

24/Dec/2011
- Reduced command lag on bs from 1.5 violence pulses to 1 when bs results in kill except if
wimpy is on. when bs just starts combat, lag is lowered to 1.5 violence pulses from 2.
- Initial character roller minimum stats improved to at least 12 or 13.

19/Dec/2011
- Elder and Julian are now heading up most of the day-to-day
work on DC and calling the shots. As a result, you can expect
improvements/changes to happen much more quickly. I'm still
still lurking around, but taking more of a backseat to their
efforts for the next while at least. Everyone's patience has
been greatly appreciated. - Apoc

- And yes, professions are still happening, and many of the skills
previously discussed/outlined will still be going in more or less
as planned.

14/Dec/2011
- minimum [greater] stoneshield damage returned to 1

12/Dec/2011
- added new messages when damage is lowered by stoneshield during a fight
- some profession code added

06/Dec/2011
- Fixed bug with portal objects that caused us to crash or hang.

28/Nov/2011
- Fixed bug with clan balances that could cause them to go negative.

16/Nov/2011
-Fixed bug in stun that caused a crash. Also fixed potential crash bugs in eagle claw and quivering palm.

08/Oct/2011
- RIP Al Davis. Go Raiders

03/Oct/2011
- A couple sites were restricted from connecting today.
If your site was incorrectly locked out, please contact Apoc and he'll restore service.
- RE: DC knockoff sites -- We highly recommend you be VERY careful logging
into any other MUDs regardless of what kind of spineless thieves are operating
them. If you use a similar password or your usual IP and it is in some way
compromised on DC, there will be little we can do to prove/fix/resolve the issue.
- Please keep the above in mind before encouraging or otherwise supporting thievery.
The kind of person who'd attempt to steal DC is the same kind of person who wouldn't
think twice about stealing your characters or link information.

19/Sep/2011
- colour spray won't show a dazzle message after a mob flees. It should
shock the mob before they have a chance to flee.

18/Sep/2011
- Fixed clan members command so it shows members in 3 columns again.
- Added more functionality to vault search. You can now search by keyword and
level. Like 'vault search keyword staff level 55-60'
- Similar to other skills and spells a failed bash now gives a CANTQUIT flag.

14/Sep/2011
DC Football Pool should be publicly viewable this year at:
http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/33061
Feel free to check it out and tell someone (preferably not me) how much their team sucks. ;)

09/Sep/2011
- Long displays of text are no longer truncated
- 'vend list recent' command added to show the last 50 entries

04/Sep/2011
- New donations special posted in the forum by popular demand.
Check it out here: http://forum.dcastle.org/cgi-bin/mwf/topic_show.pl?tid=6360

03/Sep/2011
- Fixed bug where non-gl repair guys can repair gl items, for the wrong amount
- Fixed bug where stalk skill's success rate depended on wisdom instead of constitution
- Fixed all issues which produce warnings when compiling.

20/Aug/2011
- A different fix was found to keep astral chanty from crashing the mud when someone astrals into a noki room.

19/Aug/2011
- Entering a noki room while singing will stop the song being sung.

11/Aug/2011
- Quick reminder: If you're looking to reach Apoc, Facebook isn't always
the most reliable way, use dc_apoc@hotmail.com or apocalypse@dcastle.org.

21/Jul/2011
DC Fantasy Football 2011 now open for between 3 and 5 remaining spots.
More details here: http://forum.dcastle.org/cgi-bin/mwf/topic_show.pl?tid=6345