Alter Aeon Recent Changes and Additions

Recent code and server updates can be found in this changelog.  Only the
last 20 changes are listed.  For a complete list, click here.

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---- May 18, 12 [1495]
Fix crash bug in channel casting.

Change game-minutes per tick from 6 to 10.  There are now 6 ticks per
mud hour, as opposed to 10 prior to this boot.  Note that this value
will probably be raised further as the bugs in areas are worked out.
One mud day now takes approximately 70 minutes RL.

---- May 10, 12 [1492]
Minor fixes to mob color in talk command.
Minor changes to new character creation.
Add delay state to character quit.

---- May 09, 12 [1490]
Allow teleport in clan areas again.
More dclient audio hooks and files.
Give will now automatically convert money objects to gold.
Exp tweaks for steal gold, big reduction for less than 10 gold.
Newbie updates to warrior kick skill.
Disarm now falls back to secondary targets if no target specified.
Charmed minion explosions can now hurt the minion owner.
Group show <leader> no longer works on noshow group leaders.

Change game-minutes per tick from 5 to 6.  There are now 10 ticks per
mud hour, as opposed to 12 prior to this boot.  Note that this value
will probably be raised further as the bugs in areas are worked out.

---- May 04, 12 [1489]
Fix possible crash bug in system random number generator.

---- May 03, 12 [1486]
Fix string send bug when releasing ghouls.
Allow mobs to have up to a million hitpoints.
Clan rooms can no longer be random or antimagic.

---- May 02, 12 [1483]
Raise minimum auction bid increase from 5% to 10%.
Various minor improvements to shoplifting.

---- May 01, 12 [1480]
The founder of a clan now gets the clan waypoint on clan create.
Clan members added to a clan now get the clan waypoint when added.
Change roar, taunt, intimidate, and valor so they have hard fails
if you don't know the skills.
Changes to thief steal/pickpocket/shoplift experience.  Should be
lower at lower gold amounts.
Change the order that newbie tips are displayed.
More dclient audio updates.

---- Apr 29, 12 [1478]
Add 'autoturn' command.
Add more dclient sound hooks.
Make astral bridge a quest-unlocked spell.
Show quest locked spells and skills in help pages.
Fix wierdness in mob talk strings.
Fix goofy parsing bugs when adding channel owners/admins.
Shorten minimum duration of deathly sleep.
Don't have turn undead trigger on unkillable undead minions.
Minor cleanup to intro and new char create screens.
Fix crash bug in clan building code.

Raise automatic trainer limit for spells and skills from 25 to 29.
This will allow level 26-29 skills to be learned on default trainers
instead of requiring special ones.

Change game-minutes per tick from 4 to 5.  There are now 12 ticks per
mud hour, as opposed to 15 prior to this boot.  Note that this value
will probably be raised further as the bugs in areas are worked out.

---- Apr 25, 12 [1477]
More dclient audio improvements and new sounds.
The 'turn on' effect of turn undead no longer turns on automatically
when you turn a creature.  It now has to be manually enabled.
The 'turn on' effect is now stronger in groups.

---- Apr 23, 12 [1475]
Display class level limits on total level equipment.
Fix level display bug when showing item requirements while trading.
Improve the 'hp' command to show multiple targets and allow 2. parsing.

---- Apr 21, 12 [1474]
Tweaks to necro exp, in particular soulsteal.
Remove 'white' keyword from new clear soulstones.
Remove 'GAP' lines from mortal rshow (primarily for clan elders.)
Improve 'rset find' commands for clan members.
Base storage locker price has been reduced to 2000 credits per year.
Don't refresh terrain forage/firewood limits when changing terrain types.
Add 'friend remove all' to clear your entire friends list.
Update player shop decorators string when changing owners.
Character age on any restart is now random between 17 and 67 years old.
A lot of dclient audio updates.

Notank mobs no longer give rescue experience (there is no point) and
rescuing from notank mobs will occasionally yield a warning send.

Allow clans to create one way links from the clan recall to unholy in
Ralnoth using the 'rset exit <direction> 0' command.

Change game-minutes per tick from 3 to 4.  There are now 15 ticks per
mud hour, as opposed to 20 prior to this boot.  Note that this value
will probably be raised further as the bugs in areas are worked out.

---- Apr 06, 12 [1473]
Break up 'quest all' list into sections for planes, suboria, etc.
Lots and lots of dclient audio updates.
Fix various crash bugs.
Fix bogus bot detect when channel spamming.
Add parser alias for 'mail' command.
Add item names to sacrifice strings.
Improve ignore command parsing.
Fix crash bug in auction queue.

---- Mar 30, 12 [1472]
Add more audio hooks to server (audio files not yet in place.)

---- Mar 30, 12 [1470]
Attempt to fix extremely old bugs in the auction system.
Improve clan commands for attaching doors to rooms using 'rset door'.
Fix a bug preventing spammers from mudmailing admins.
Allow explicit ignore (ignore by name) in groups.
Fix area name bug in clan areas.
Add newbie checks to 'turn on' and 'turn off' commands.

The 'pray' command with no arguments will attempt to add a waypoint to
your list automatically, if it can.  If the waypoint is already in your
list, it falls back to old behaviour.

---- Mar 27, 12 [1469]
Raise hit points of flesh beast.
Remove 'system time is wrong' send from 'time' command.
Raise maximum auction bid increment from 5x to 8x current price.
Infrastructure rework to internals of dclient audio system.

---- Mar 14, 12 [1468]
Exp and exp cap changes for low levels (below total 90).
Vulnerability is now flagged as a curse.
Rework quest difficulties on 'quest all' to be spread out a bit better.
Display whether or not you've completed a quest on 'quest all'.

---- Mar 10, 12 [1466]
More bot detect updates.

---- Mar 08, 12 [1464]
Committing suicide multiple times in a pk arena will now autoboot you
from the game.
Modify dancing lights to have a slight debuff effect on mobs.

---- Mar 07, 12 [1462]
Improvements to bot detect to reduce false positives.
Change spell levels of a few mage spells at levels 1-3. Make elemental
lore learned by default for mages instead of detect magic.
Fix minor finger issue when looking up Void.

---- Mar 05, 12 [1461]
Fix wierd restring bug in soulforge.