Version 1.23.40.59 – Release
2010-08-31


Notice: We can't stress this enough. When the launcher is running the patch installer, let it run its course. It will take some time to apply the patch and it might seem like the installer is doing nothing, but it is working. If you reboot or kill the patcher process you run the risk of corrupting you installation, forcing you to do a full reinstall.




------ FEATURES ------


The Taxation System:


When a guild takes control of a territory, the guild can now set the taxes for that territory. Taxes are taken from the daily upkeep costs of houses and keeps. Meaning that:


100% tax for houses are 5 silver coins / day.
100% tax for houses with player vendors are 10 silver coins / day.
100% tax for keeps are 100 silver coins / day.


80 % of the total tax will go to the guild in charge and end up in their keep chest.


Using the territory control options in the keep menu allows the territory owner to control the tax of the region and it can be set to a range from 100% to 400% tax.


Example:


Guild A owns Territory A.
Guild A sets the tax to 200%.


House A without a player vendor at 200% tax pays 10 silver coins / day.
Guild A receives 8 silver coins from House A / day.




Spawners:
Functionality has been added to Creature spawners that makes it possible to save any data between server reboots. For example, if a rare creature was spawned and had been taken down to a certain health level. It will be re-spawned in the same state when the server comes back online.




------ ADDITIONS & CHANGES ------


General:
- Prices for catalysts have been adjusted.
- Prices for Horn, Emalj, Molarium and Incisium have been adjusted.
- Gaur loot adjusted.
- Siege ammo boulders are now available as a pickable item.
- Siege ammo boulders can be picked in all corners of Myrland but is not common.


AI & Mounts:
- Belbus and Campodon, two new creatures added.
- Added a 1 hour spawn delay for Molva beasts in Myrland.
- One Molva beast has moved west from the Nereb Madgulu region.
- All mounts got a 20% speed reduction.
- All physical assets on creatures and players adjusted to fit the new combat collision system.
- Increased the amount of stamina your mount loses when you ride in full speed slightly.
- Decreased the amount of stamina your mount loses when you ride in canter speed slightly.
- Increased the amount of stamina a mount regains when standing still.
- Pets should now always become blue when tamed, no matter its tamers flag status.
- Pets in aggressive state will no longer attack any blue flagged players / pets.
- Pet murder count system has been tweaked and made simpler. Pets will no longer become murder flagged when killing other blue players / pets. Instead its tamer will be flagged for the murder if online. If the tamer is offline when this happens, the murder count will be saved on the pet until the tamer logs back in, and then transferred to the tamer.
- Pets that are left in the world while its master is logged out, will now loose 100% of max loyalty per hour which also means a total of maximum 1,5 hours with 150% max loyalty. No loyalty loss will occur while game server is down. Note that while a pet is stabled, it will not loose any loyalty.


Art & Sound:
- Tweaked ground grass textures in the jungle
- Audio overhaul on Springbok/Urial impact sounds.
- Tweaked sounds from hail caster release.
- Increased times impact sound from manganon can be played at once.
- Increased times impact sound from hail caster can be played at once.
- Updated impact sound from manganon for a more genuine impact effect.
- Added wind ambiance in Myrland steppe, amplitude alter between day and night.


Combat:
- Slightly reduced the amount of handle-hits you get.
- Added a mechanic so that your first person blade won't intersect with objects as much when you aren't swinging.
- Took down the sprint speed in combat a bit.
- Raised the out-of-combat speed a bit. It's now the same as sprinting in combat mode.
- Took down the overall movement-speed of players.
- Rebuilt large parts of the melee-trace system. It should now be a lot more precise and you can no longer hit people that are behind you.
- Rebuilt how the bone you hit with melee gets calculated, it should now work a lot better even on larger creatures such as mounts.


Magic:
- Added the Spiritism spell “Transcendental Awareness" that allows the caster to see and target characters that are in the etherworld.
- Added the Spiritism spell "Resurrect" that allows the caster to resurrect his dead target with 20% HP. The target must however accept the resurrect to come to life. This spell is counted as a good act in regards of flagging.
- The spell book now has two new buttons for scrolling back and forth between magic schools.
- Magic should no longer be able to damage world construction objects such as houses, bridges or player houses. (Note that the numbers might still print, but it will not actually remove anything.)
- Magic should no longer be able to heal world construction objects such as houses, bridges or player houses. (Note that the numbers might still print, but it will not actually add anything.)
- Changed the game mechanic where you could initiate a block while casting magic. Initiating a block while casting will now fizzle your spell.




------ BUG FIXES ------


General:
- Fixed the Vendor Crash.
- You no longer get the [Torso] message when you hit buildings and other static items.
- Fixed issue that made it possible to use banks/pet inventory while dead.
- Fixed a bug in the jump-calculation for mounts.
- Fixed an issue that gave folks stat-loss count greater than 240min (4h).
- Fixed an issue that gave some folks a murder count timer above the 8h they should have.
- People with characters that have either of the above issues will be fixed once they log in.


AI & Mounts:
- Fixed a glitch that made mount-stamina regain to fast when you weren't on the mount.
- Fixed a bug that forced mounts to do a full stop when you enter/leave combat mode.
- Bug resolved with pet grazing, and should now work properly.


Art & Sound:
- Fixed an issue with Rare mongrel horse equipment.
- Fixed a bug close to Hyllspêia not playing wind ambiance.
- Missing ambiance in Fabernum and Fabernum forest is back.


Combat:
- Fixed a bug that prevented Arrows from hitting [Head] when a player was mounted.


Guilds:
- Fixed a bug where deleted characters would remain in the guild member list.
- Fixed a bug with territory control that caused the zones to say that they were owned by no one.


Housing:
- Player Vendors should no longer place themselves inside obstacles.
- Fixed a bug where house vendors could not have more then 7 items in their shop.
- Fixed a bug where the house vendor GUI failed to open.
- Fixed a bug where the house vendor shop GUI failed to open.
- Fixed a bug where the GUI to the house chest failed to open.
- Fixed a bug where the house vendor wouldn't accept commands for the second row in the house vendor GUI.
- Houses that are transfered to another owner will now have their guild removed.
- Territory control should no longer be accessible from palisade gates.


Magic:
- Fixed a bug where blocking and then casting a spell and then getting interrupted would lock the spell that was being cast until another spell was cast.
- Fixed a but where performing an action that would get your character stunned caused you to lose your charged spell.
- Fixed a bug that made it possible to cast while resting.


Skills & Attributes:
- Fixed a minor bug in the Damage Assessment code that made it possible to see exactly how much damage you did when you were at level 14.


UI:
- Fixed a bug where you could target characters through walls.


------ KNOWN ISSUES ------
We are working on the Skill gain issues / Skill rollback issues. It will get patched asap.

Dear Community

Today we finally got the update from Epic Games we have been waiting on for some time now.
This will change our current schedule “under development section” because of the high priority of this update. After a long day of meetings, we will postpone our current patch till tomorrow instead of today. After this patch we will start working day and night with the new update from Epic Games.

As mentioned before this vital update gives us the following areas:
· Flash support
· SpeedTree 5 evaluation opportunity
· Proper AI and Navmesh
· Better performance both client side and server side
· Lightning and shadow performance improvement
· Overall server stability


Tomorrow we patch the following:
· Critical bug fixes
· Magic update
· New improved realistic collision system on weapons
· New creatures
· Basic tax system for land controllers
· Greater Kimuru existance will be saved even when the server is rebooted so players can progress it untill it dies.

We will update under development section with our new schedule as soon as possible.

Finally we here at Star vault would like to apologize for the unforseen problems and delays in development that has occurred, and hope that it has not caused to much of an inconvenience.

MortalUpdate: Development roadmap updated! http://www.mortalonline.com/content/under-development

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MortalUpdate: Short Race Descriptions updated! http://www.mortalonline.com/races

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