Revenge of the Jedi MUD

A big shout out to Foosha for building our newest large zone addition, the Imperial planet of Scarif.  Scarif, you may recall, is the tropical home of the Death Star plans a daring group of rebels attempt to steal in the movie Rogue One.  Foosha’s Scarif brings you in at the climatic high point of the battle with the Rebel fleet engaging Imperial Star Destroyers and desperately trying to bring down the planet shield gate as heroes on the ground battle to get their hands on those plans.  Most of the big names from the Rogue One movie can be found scattered around Scarif, if only you can bring down that shield gate!

With both space and ground combat in the high level 80-100 range and a brand new autoquest, Scarif is an exciting addition for high level players.  Go check it out,

Hyperspace Jump 909.

Nearing the end of September I thought I would once again fill you in on some of the game updates over the last couple months.  We’ve had a slight resurgence in coder support, which is always nice and so have been seeing both code and world building efforts making their way into the game.  Some of these changes have been live for a month or two now, while others were surprisingly finished a few hours ago.  Some of us like to surprise.  Also, remember next month is Halloween and you can expect the annual festivities to commence in a few weeks and after that we’ll have our 20th Anniversary coming a week before the release of Episode VII.  Like normal I also want to point you to our facebook page should you want to keep current with game.  Now, on with the update!

Game Design Changes

• Play Now!  As noted in our previous post, the website Online Client for playing the game from our website is now live.

• Workbenches have been fixed up.  Partially a bug fix, the Evaluate command was serving double duty as both an object “look closely at” command and for studying details about a possible custom created item.  We have removed this tie and replaced the Evaluate command with Assay, which can now be used to review what item your inventory items could produce.  Reminder you can “look” at a workbench to see a list of available commands.

World Changes

• The Chancellor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center (ChanPal SuRecon) has been constructed.  This is a 50 room expansion on Coruscant and in the same level range as the general zone (20-45) and includes medical services.  Taxi’s have been given directions to the tower or you can find the landing platform yourself.  Well versed Star Wars fans will recognize this tower and it should be noted this expansion is only the safer, more public and visible portion of a far more dangerous (and awesome) zone we hope to include at a later date.

Bug Fixes

• Afterburner messages have been corrected.
• Evaluate will now appropriately disclose the size of a hull.
• Fixed the problem with Space Scan not working when the player also had the Walker Operator Scan skill.
• Corrected the Vehicle Level 70 experience cost gain amount.  It was erroneously set to high.
• Jedi Sentinel’s can no longer be the recipient of Fury (Antisanct).
• The Wampa combat message no longer copies the Gore combat message.

The Dowager Queen (Episode IV)

Once every year or so I take it upon myself to begin planned monthly or quarterly updates and then do nothing following that first update for over a year.  I might as well call it a yearly update, but here we go, once again I’ll be attempting at least a quarterly update…if there is something worth talking about!  The changes to Revenge of the Jedi MUD over the last several months are listed below.  Also, I’d like to note our facebook page should be your first stopping point for keeping up with game events.  It’s our primary home these days.

Game Design Changes

• Disintegrate will no longer have a chance of affecting Custom Items.
• Players should now be able to target alternate equipped items of the same name with standard 2.item logic.  For example, if wearing 2 shimmering cloaks on their person, they can put items into and examine the second cloak by naming it 2.cloak.  This was previously not possible with worn equipment.
• Room traps that damage NPC’s can no longer deliver a deathblow.  Instead the NPC will enter a mortally wounded status (-10 hp) and stop following their master (if they had one).  Note they will probably bleed out and die afterwards.  This change will resolve a nasty crash bug most commonly encountered when running Recon droids through damaging rooms.

World Changes

• The Dowager Queen long a landmark on the Tatooine streets has been expanded into a minor NEWBIE zone, 20-30 rooms in size.
• Blindness and Force Sleep training guides have had their skill point costs equalized with their help files.

Bug Fixes

• Advance Sense Danger now functions like it should
• Failure of Raise Funds should no longer trigger aggression from other player’s followers
• Ryloth turbolift door and other reported key issues have been corrected.
• Eye of Vex, Wickets Cowl and a few similar item mistakes making said items unusable have been corrected.
• Autoquest’s failing to update their status do to players in Darkness or otherwise invisible has been corrected.

Here’s a friendly update on the active things coming from Mt. Meru. Some of these have been in for a while, others are new this most recent uptime.

New

• New elite class of legend NPCs, [**LEGENDARY**]
• Starred legends will now receive a random item for every 100 legend NPC kills
• Some starred legends have been boosted/strengthened, be advised
• All legendary NPCs no longer display their worn equipment

Changes

• Hide skill now boosts regen of smugglers
• Leadership skill is now useable in combat
• Legendary mobs now have a chance to break through the Cordon skill
• Force lightning now has a chance to cause an electrocution effect on the victim
• Disintegration now looks for NPC/players before looking for items
• The duration of time for Barrier Field has been slightly lowered
• Force Bind can now be stopped with Peace and has a lower per-round focus cost
• Cloaking system now working, but any attempt to communicate (comlink/auction) reveal you
• Conceal now breaks when combat begins
• Protect skill can now be used in combat. There is a slight lag associated with switching protection
• Aware NPCs (unable to be surprised with backstab/snipe) will become less aware over time
• Any attacks against an NPC will make them aware and alert now
• Glance skill can show if NPCs are aware and alert or not, but may also alert the NPC if noticed
• Mercs can now use the “Calm” skill to remove their Rage or Frenzy
• Slash can now slice through some doors, similar to the Bash skill
• Bayonet secondary system can now allow players to “Slice” through being snared

SP skills

• Advance Sense Danger – Augments Sixth Sense/Sense Danger to allow Commandos and Force Users to dodge the first attack from aggressive enemies
• Force Block – Allows a Force User to try and block an attack when they are caught without their lightsaber

Enjoy!