1999

• Mprogs&OPrograms globalized, ie. once a program is written you can use same program for different mobs. Program can be local (scope is area) or global.
• Global programs are divided to several categories, currently following categories are available: global.fight, global.clan, global.obj, global.misc.
• Program editor added to OLC: enables editing area/global programs. Editing local programs requires access to area global programs are limited to IMPS.
• PK flag added to clans, leaders of clans please note me whatever your clan is PK or not. Members of clans should be same.
• Register command has optional parameter 'cancel'. With 'register cancel' you can retire from PK. NOTE: this can only be done once, YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK IF YOU RETIRE.
• !!Due to being down on February, AAW celebrates her second anniversary! LONG LIVE AAW!!
• 'slook damage' and 'slook damage lvl' for immortals & balancing spells.
• When note is sent, it tells recipients on info to whom note was sent. Like "Esa just sent an announcement note to heros" etc.
• Clan structures modified, clans can be now restarted, which means leader has one week time to activate old members, after which all the rest old members loose their membership. There are also now room for additional fields per member.
• St. Patricks Day Fun! In Celebration of St. Patty's Day the Green Beer Quest organized by Xenia O'Bitchy
• Write scroll enhanced, Predit fixed to understand active flag, NOTE LIST only lists new notes per board, use NOTE LIST ALL to list all the notes.
• WHO GROUP shows players you can group with.
• New char creation and hp/mana/move gain altered
• DELAY command for programs, delay causes mobprog/objprog to wait given number of seconds before continuing.
• Update routines (characters and objs) rewritten due delay command. Also makes routines much faster now.
• New reset type which resets guards based on ruler of area. (Clans)
• PK status implemented. Status is similar as ELO rating used in chess. After a match winner gains some points based on level difference. Base level for this rating is 1000.
• TOPTEN PK shows highest ranked pk players. WHO PK shows ratings for currently playing players.

• Old inactive clan castles made open for public rivalry, for any PK-clan to CONQUER: In order to protect conquered areas clan can hire guards. Clans gain by getting 25% of the income from shops in conquerred areas. Command AREA TOWN shows areas that are possible to conquer.
• New VENT channel implemented for cussing (either IC or OOC). Not below level 10 though.
• IGNORE command implemented, can be used against persons you don't wish to socialize with.
• Online helps updated and have crossreferences, see: http://score.ainola.jyu.fi/~aaw
• New artifact in realm.
• PK system updated: unrestricted PK, harrasment stays ILLEGAL! What happens in PK for now on: winner gains PK status os status difference to loser is small enough, and looser loses his/hers respectively, also gold and exp.
• New weapontype arrow added. Armor smiths added too.
• Player corpses are accessible to anyone (artifacts)
• Plr configs added to mstat (IMM), herbs modified. HBLIST command works for druid players (shows the ingredients for herbal potions up to player's level.
• Council channel for members of council implemented.
• New council has been appointed, members are: Aura, Bane, Cadderly, Darrow (chairman), Malagor, Rathe, Tigergutt, Walter. Clan representatives: Tyr (BDP), Lestat (SoC), Ringer (KRT), Gandalf (OSB), Wyk (SEE), Zevs (PNM), Syonax (QQQ), Blaine (TR).
• Lock structure on exits has DATE signature. Reseting it makes all old keys unusable (mainly for clans).
• New command for clan BUILD: build [dir] lock reset 'changes the locks' and costs one build point.
• New container type KEYRING. Keep it in your inventory and all the keys in it are used automatically with locks.

May 1999

• If you accidentally post a note to wrong board just remove it and note is set back to your editor. Then change the board and repost it.
• In PREDIT show lists appropriate mobprog as well as mobs/items using it.
• Only legends may exchange adv points.
• Only one level block, legend level ( 69 -> 70 ).
• Level 69 characters can do any number of missions, and they need 300 adv points to make it a legend.
• Walking missions now in.

June - July 1999

• When on a walking mission, typing 'mission' without parameters shows the time you have left
• ninja extra attribute introduced first time
• clans can be made by players
• clan builders have more commands (access to some of aedit's commands)
• each area can have a description (in aedit "desc"), can be viewed by ashow (immortals) or where (players)
• mfind fixed, didnt list all mobiles (for immortals)
• ofind understands more search options (for immortals)
• a new target type for spells "offensive to caster if failed"
• missed rune hits caster always
• own pet can be attacked as well the pet can attack master, this enables remove curse spells etc between pet and master
• next generation of immortals have been appointed from our player base and they are (in alphabetic order): Astinius, Aura, Bane, Cyrien, Darrow, Draven, Jude, Kaen, Lestat, Malagor, Walter. Congratulations!
• index defining items value (hitroll etc) is extended to take in account affect flags (flying etc)
• mppurge works with both oprogs and mprogs
• secondary target should work with on_hit programs
• ship moves twice in a mud hour instead once (ie. 2x faster)
• ship data structures imported to OLC system, so ports whereour infamous Pinta sails can be changed dynamically
• godly protectors have went through next level in heavenly academy
• aggressive mobs find riding characters too
• greet programs are run to riding characters too
• touch_programs have level limit in them
• mpgoto extended to handle both mprogs and oprogs
• declarewar command can be used by clan leaders to start a fight for a castle. Fight lasts minimum 78 RL hours and the winner side gains the castle
• old healing programs (clan healers!) will be deleted and similar healer as in GC will be put in place. So healing will cost some gold, and half of the gold is returned to clan account.
• clanstat (clan specific) shows won and lost campaigns.

August 1999

• Olist, mlist and rlist enhanced (immortals)
• predit enhanced: terminal width + program flags (active,delete)
• mprog driver rewritten, so programs can now have more complex structures like while-loops and delays inside them
• elseif works in if-checks (mprog)
• 'functions' implemented to mprogs, you can trigger programs from other items/mobiles from your programs. Beware infinite loops...
• mptransfer made compatible with oprogs
• in olc, removing on program from mob/item, "p rem" instead of "p del".
• new areas in: Klah by Kaen for levels 30-50, Pagan Place by Jude for levels 45-60, Styria by Walter for levels 1-10
• castles/towns: flag room is shown before room name with [Flag] (like [Safe] etc.)
• pets PK status (and killer/thief) is same as their masters
• if check worn($*,loc) fixed and help updated.
• conquerred castles can be changed with build command:
• New roomflag "STATIC" which denies BUILD command. Fixed parts of castles will be set with this flag
• rooms can be destroyed, in OLC: [dir] remove, eg. north remove. Build cmd: [dir] remove, only works on rooms with one exit.
• number of different keys per castle area limited to 10
• you can rename old keys with 'build [dir] rename '
• clan/castle guards should attack non owner clan members without questions.
• racial languages are in, first only for PC races (ie mobs dont understand). The following are available: dwarvishdwarf, elven elf, giantgiant, gnomicgnome, drowdrow, hobbitesehobbit, humanhuman.

September 1999

• New council elected, after many old councillors were promoted to immortals. Councillors now are: Wolfgang (chairman), QueenMorgase (MLC), Cadderly (TR), Sif (KRT), Gandalf (OSB), Gwen (SEE) and Wyk (SEE). Members of the house of deputies: Tyvin (MLC), Regnad (BDP), Eodred (OSB), Kalindra (KRT), Enygma (DUH) and Garet (TR). Congratulaions and good luck in your demanding post!
• new area Deadlands by Walter for legends ( level 70-> ) is in
• reset_prog and reset_oprog added, programs are run few seconds after reset. For objects program is run if item is reset inside an container or on the ground
• oprogs can 'drop self' which causes item fall on the ground if a character is carrying it, some additional msg is in place with 'recho' or so
• new if check for programs: if running()
  =>it checks whatever same person/item is already running another program which is delayed. For example delayed greet program to be run only once no matter how many people enter the room at same time
• Valhalla by Kaen for level 55 to 99 built, Legend Lounge by Sygma and Sender also in
• open/close/lock self works with OBJPROGS
• area reset routine partly rewritten, mud hang for a second roughly sometimes due bad coding. Now should be 1/10th or so
• area reset times can be set in AEDIT with RESETAGE command, see the helps
• finger command shows details on character's history
• average damage on STAT, its how much you hit opponents HP down on average per ROUND. It counts spells and such in it too, everything you manage to do in one attack round
• finger command enhanced, also 'MSET HIST DEL ' works [imms].

October 1999

• AC (armor class) and HR (hit roll) adjustments, they matter more now than used to
• imms can check new planned probabilities for different offensive spells vs. level difference: cmd is 'slookup damage save'. Same curves can be found from http://score.ainola.jyu.fi/-aaw (where - means tilde)
• re-development on ninja skills
• a ghost of mobile you killed might come for revenge, a rare random event though (IMMS: gstat ghosts)
• shops can be set up to be open during nights too. Ie. set opening hour to say 18 and closing hour to 4 ( 1 in Ireland ;) )
• learning for extra attribute skills (werewolf, ninja, dragon) made easier
• items repop again inside containers
• new options to owhere command (v1,...,v4) (imms)
• pour command is in, see help
• pour_oprog is in, see help
• low level mobs are even less tough (to promote new players)
• faerie fog can be casted on fight, with 8x mana cost
• newbie eq donation pit is in GC
• popularity routines for mobs re-written (affects exp-gain from them). Imms can examine how often mobs are being killed with mshow command (8 means average, 16 twice average etc)
• the popolarity index weights in chances of a ghost appearing (often killed mobs have ghost more often than less popular ones)
• adjustment in sending notes to a clan, new syntax being: note to clan:[clan name].
• flasks (containers for herbolical mixtures) can now be emptied
• enhancements in practicing skills, guildmasters now teach, along with class skills, racial skills such as languages etc. Also color code enhanced.
• vampire potence somewhat lowered, due to original idea of about 10% boost was badly exceeded.
• raging werewolves do not attack their own pets anymore (does not promote buying pet if you have to buy new one every time after full moon!)
• NOFOLLOW exit flag added, cancels following if characters move to so flagged direction
• portal spike sends new destination to random room
• new HP max values coded in. Each race/class combo is now defined independently from one another (imms: gstat stats hp command shows percentages that each combo get from total max that is bit over 5k for legend levels)
• new high level druid spell, arctic blast is in
• for imms: alist understands substrings as last argument, syntax is alist [num1]-[num2] (shows areas from [num1] to [num2]
• for imms: gstat exp shows average exp gained by players as function of level
• the adventure points needed to next level are shown on worth command, along with earlier information (gold in posession and experience points to level)
• new AREA FLAG: hard implemented. If an area is set as hard, each mission item you collect from such area gives 2 extra adventure points. This was done because not all areas are equal
• yet another new area by our grand man of areas, Kaen: Circle Of Trees, based on druidish myths and intended mainly for levels 45 upto 65.

November 1999

• AC is trimmed so that material affect is lowered (still makes difference whether you wear woolen or adamantium pants for example)
• AC can be modified as special quest prize, however maximum is 1 + lv/20. And this is max for solving a major quest like, not default! (imms)
• portals fixed so that they work to riding characters too
• greet_prog added for items on ground (imms)
• Juba reimbs old level 500 belts, say belt at his presence
• cost on item is taken into account if item is reset to a SHOP (imms)
• more game statistics available to view via gstat (imms)
• new skill for necromancer class, thousand souls
• spells vs saving_bits adjusted, see help spell_damage for details
• scheduler for mud rewritten, should make fighting smoother (less laggy)
• AC affects increased, ie more emphasis on your armor class
• area reset interval modified (can be defined in minutes), this means lowbie area stuff like in mud school repop faster than earlier
• imm version for time command enhanced a little
• new mob command, mpareaset is in, this can be used to toggle area wide flags like desert, norecall, dark (imms)
• spectral revenge for necromancers, afterdeath curse
• player history lines extended, each line has type/ subtype. The subtype, which is invisible to players will be used to indentify if character has completed the new (would be) mission type
  • also more variety to player history added with two categories (minor and major achievements)
• mpquestaward command for mob programs, shall be used to arrange quests which give adv points (solved big missions will then be shown as achievements in player history) (imms)
• new druid skill added: animal language, makes it possible to communicate with animals
• clan healers re-defined: clan members pay for healing services, (at least) 50% from cash flow will go automatically to clan account
• poses have been fixed now, both grammatically and druid poses written as whole, by Xenia
• more answers written for hangman by same lady
• area specific reset message is possible now (via aedit, imms), shown (code-wise) under epoch dependant messages
• room_progs under development, they will work as mob_progs or obj_progs. Currently greet_prog and reset_prog are in
• following mob_commands: mpechoat, mpechoaround, mpecho work with all kind of progs (including room_progs in near future)
• act_prog routines rewritten and cleaned, memory leaks fixed
• mpdamage command implemented (smaug feature)
• bankers accept contracts to pet hunts: buy pethunt at banker and your pet will be killed and returned to recall (it's a cruel world *smirk*)
• skill_lookup routine rewritten (skills ordered alphabetically for faster performance), this affects player interface via less lag after you type your command and hit the enter (well, should at least)
• sort option for following commands: skills, spells, runes, weapons and languages, makes list in alphabetic order instead of normal (grouped with classes etc)
• help pages update round
• pets can now also loose exp if they are killed, so be careful
• pets more loyal: when pet hits the killing blow in fight, master autoloots/ checks corpse
• imms: in OLC prog create [name] creates a prog and puts it in local area program list (your dont have to first use predit to do progs then medit/oedit/redit to add the corresponding progs to right mob/object/room)
• pets can be configured as guard (syntax: config pet guard, while standing in same room with its master pet will wake him/her if other player enters
• AAWs page on www.mudconnect.com updated by Xenia
• compare command can be used to check if the item is on your mission scroll, example: compare shieldbreaker scroll.

December 1999

• X-mas ribbon quest announced to be open: ribbons are being delivered around the realm until xmas, three people with most will receive presents!
• new newbie school area opened: Academy of Wisdom by Darrow and Xenia
• cost of practising lowered somewhat
• speech_trigger works with oprogs/roomprogs
• automatic bug reports made more informative (imms)
• councilchat enabled to imms as default, also status shown in council channel (Immortal/Councillor). this to give emphasis on the fact that imms aren't in council
• imms: area wide global variables work now, and they can be created in aedit with cmd var set [name] [value]. Please use variable names like a.foo to distinguish area wide variables from other variables ("a" stands for area)
• new area City of Angels for levels 15 .. 25 by Xenia is in
• alias [num] delete command can be used to delete aliases.
• imms: in redit same action can now be done to several rooms by specifying the range of rooms. Example: 100-200 +no_recall will set rooms from vnum 100 to 200 no_recall. Note also: new option prefix for roomflags: +/-
• greet_prog understands direction of arrival as argument also, example: great_prog east is run when character arrives from east. If argument is number its inderstood as probability-% as berofe
• imms: new mobprog if_checks for attributes str, wis, int, dex, com. Syntax: if str($n) > 24 ..
• imms: mpat works with oprogs now.
• new area Legacy of Xchantharus for levels 46 .. 65 by Rolindar, localised for AAW by Esa
• new act_flag for quest mobiles and such: holylight (works as for immortals)
• items can be moved from room to another room by pushing (if they can be picked and don't weight too much)
• new area Crystal Gardens for levels 15 .. 25 by Kaen is in
• imms: mpat command works with roomprogs, give_prog works with obj_progs (trigged when item is put inside container)
• winners of the X-mas Ribbon Quest:
  1st place -- Gora with 32 ribbons
  2nd place -- Vuran with 20 ribbons
  3rd place -- Queenmorgase with 18 ribbons
  
  Congratulations!! And Happy New Year!!