PK Ranges, OPK, Other Changes

PK and Other Changes this Reboot:

• The level range at which you can attack other players has been modified
  to include tier in the calculation. For every tier difference between the
  attacker and there target, the allowed PK range decreased by 2 levels.
  That means if the target is 4 tiers lower than you, the lowest level you
  can attack is your level - 2. At 7 tier difference, the lowest level is
  your level + 4 which is the standard 10 level difference adjusted by
  2 levels per tier. This change does not apply in a clan maze.

  If you find ways to attack someone out of this range that is a bug and
  should be reported. The next reboot will include the code to prevent
  interference in a fight outside of your range based on these new
  limits.

• The above change makes it more difficult to figure out who you can
  attack at any point in time. There is a new ‘who pkrange’ option that
  will show people in your PKable level range. That doesn’t necessarily
  mean you can kill them, it just means based on level and tiers they are
  in your range.
• The grace period after being PKed has been increased to 15 minutes
  for regular PK and 30 minutes for OPK. There is also no longer an exp
  penalty during the grace period but you will not receive OPK bonuses
  while you are immune to PK. Along with this reduced risk of having
  your game interrupted by OPK, the bonus rewards for being OPK have
  been reduced. Don’t want to blame the reduced rewards entirely on the
  grace period change. It seems like too many people who don’t much like
  PK are OPK only for the rewards which is not good for the game.
• The cause of the crash on Thursday has been identified and solved.
  Not sure how much I want to get into trying to explain it but it was
  an obscure combination of commands too long and in-game aliases. (Nasus)
• When you use ‘enter [item]‘ targeting an object in the room, if
  there are other items in the room with the same keyword as the portal,
  portal items will still take precedence. (Fiendish)
• There are some socials that are quite dark or could be considered
  harassing and should probably only be used if you really mean to use
  them (if at all). For example, ssuicide and french. I have added a
  ‘norandom’ flag to prevent these socials coming up when using random
  socials. I’m sure there are many more that should be on this list,
  please post suggestions to typos. (Kharpern)
• Paladin ‘Test of Faith’ ability no longer has a recovery. Your
  ‘affects’ might still show one until it wears off but casting it
  next time won’t add a recovery.
• The duration of the sleep effect part of strangle, and the duration
  of the Sleep spell have both been reduced when used against players.
• The ‘Hand of Justice’ spell no longer requires you to be outside to
  use it, but will do less damage indoors.
• The ‘mobdeaths’ and ‘areadeaths’ commands now update every 15 minutes
  rather than real-time. Top marks for creativity but these commands were
  meant to give people an idea of most popular areas / where to find a good
  area for their level range and align. They were never meant to be able
  to be spammed to see what is being killed in an area that you know your PK
  target is in.
• There is a new option to whois. ‘Whois [target] pk’ will show their
  PK stats (Wars). Allowing this defaults to ON but if you want to turn
  it off you can use the ‘SHOWPKSTATS’ command. The current setting of that
  also shows in ‘config all’.
• Other player’s QP on hand will no longer show in whois.
• The bug with hunting through a portal for navigators not working when
  the portal is in the same room should now be resolved. (Redryn)
• Removed the ‘Objects left’ section from ‘gquest progress’. Object
  gquests won’t be coming back so, like the idea note said, this was just
  confusing for people. (Wars)
• The ‘Conceal’ spell is now level 26 and can also be used on keys.
• GMCP ‘worth’ data now includes QP Earned. (Mendaloth). GMCP ‘base’
  now includes level (Eroe), and this mort / total powerups (Mendaloth)
• There is a now very small lag on ‘consider’. It is not enough to have
  any impact on playing the game. Generally speaking, any plugin that spams
  a command in every single room is going to get lag added to that command.
• Using ‘quest appraise bag’ will now correctly show a level 201 bag
  once you have remorted and all your bags are 201 by default. (Tial/Rezit)
• The ‘title’ command will now show number of characters when you go
  over the max limit of 40 excluding color codes. (Tymme)

New Goals in 4 areas:

   Into the Long Night        - Teleron
   War of the Wizards         - Iker
   Kul Tiras                  - Tymme
   The Archipelago of Entropy - Teleron