What's New Records of What's New from the Realm are maintained from Jan 99 to present. See the Game Info Menu. The world was shaken this morning. The Saturday Test server went very well. There will be another test run of it coming up (probably within this year).
News from the Realm
May 2002 to Present
December 17, 10:14AM
| October 24, 2002 10:56AM |
Hi all,
I put in a fix for the blank engrave of over 200 spaces that was crashing players.
I also announced that I have been re-assigned to another part of the Realm for about a month. There will be no updates during that time. I will not have time to do them. I have a tight deadline to met. I am sorry, I know that you all deserve more. I am working to make it possible to give you all what you really deserve.
This is NOT a re-assignment to Dragon Empires. I will be working on the server code of Realm, NOT to fix any of the current issues though. When I get the changes finished, I will need a test group of 2000 players to help me test it out. More on that later on in the development of this.
| October 9, 2002 2:22PM |
Hi all,
Ok, the crash of Monday has been dealt with and the game should be stable and functioning at 100% again.
| September 24, 2002 4:44AM |
Hi all,
Ok, fixed the Imp Haven Key to always drop. Changed the drop rate of some of the helms. Fixed the door in Fuloran's. Tourney Grove I am leaving the way it is, so that lower levels can practice fighting monsters safely.
| September 19, 2002 4:44PM |
Hi all,
This patch fixes the Magic Mail Complain bug, the single use keys/items, Snake Pit Chest, Holy Caves 2x Items, and MM Archive with user skins.
You will also be assigned your permenant houses if you are level 50 or over.
| September 18, 2002 12:44PM |
Hi all,
Sorry for the long update. Had an issue with a corrupt ftp of the binaries. Took me a while to figure out that it was corrupted, because it was still running without crashing.
There is a magic mail archive feature now available when you are in YOUR OWN HOME. It will archive the mail messages from the one you select to the very first message in your mailbox. Once magic mail has been archived you can not reply/forward/complain it anymore. It is read-only. There is also a complain button on magic mail verb dialog now that will forward harrassment magic mails to Customer Service.
The monster content in all the above ground areas of the game has been revised to provide a coherent progression of challenges as players progress through their levels of advancement. You should now be able to find an area above ground for hunting that is suitable to your level, whatever level you might be. Note that, in general, the farther from Leinster you are, the more dangerous the area.
The unreleased magic helms have been added to the treasure tables. There are magic helms specific to each of the 4 character classes in the game however, due to technical difficulties, the Thieves Only magic headwear is not yet ready for release. It will be added as soon as possible.
The "Training Grounds" in West Leinster are now open to Player-vs-Player combat. Same rules apply there as in Tourney Grove and combat is, of course, optional (depending on your /yescombat status). No, this is not in any way intended to address the requests to "fix PvP". It is simply one small step, and one that could be taken now, in a much greater scheme of planned changes.
Many other changes and additions have also been made. These I leave to you to discover. Enjoy.
| July 17, 2002 9:30 |
Hi all,
Just reset the server for a quick change to the server code for last weeks crashes, I also made a couple of changes for you in the world. Have fun finding them.
The crashes of last week appear to be due to an old bug in the server code, and not due to any hacker. The hackers are being caught and cut-off by the new code.
Things are really starting to look up.
| June 27, 2002 12:50pm |
Hi all,
Sorry for the delay in getting this. But I think that this solves alot of my outstanding issues with my problem children, and legal is working on solving it from their standpoint.
The critical strike stuff is back in the game please test it out.
Most fixes were transparent to all players, except for those players that are messing it up for the rest of you. By taking up my time, dealing with them.
| May 24, 2002 3:00pm |
Hi all,
Due to the holiday weekend and me being sick. I have removed the update. I will fix it later.
I will also give QA more time to test. The problem was caused BY ANYONE drinking a potion. The drinker of the potion would be ok, but EVERYONE else in the room would crash.
| May 23, 2002 5:35pm |
Hi all,
Ok, got the update put up and running. The update was failing for some players on Windows XP and (a couple) on Windows 2K. Found a slight error with them. That is what the second patch is for.
I changed Critical Strike. I added colors to it and told when CS failed. This should allow you all to judge better if it is working or not. IE: You all decide if it has a bug or if it is that you are just fighting more monsters with armor.
I also changed the treasure tables to drop more magical helms and other things.
| May 21, 2002 11:35am |
Hi all,
The update was not put up. There is a transmission problem to get you the patch. The patch was up for about 30 seconds, if you were unlucky enough to get it in that short time, you will have to re-install. ONLY if you actually downloaded the ENTIRE thing and then updated. If you only started to update then you are fine. I will have this fixed as soon as I possible can.
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