version 1.2.1 update

Chatventures

chatventures is a text-adventure MMORPG. you travel through a fantasy world where you interact with every thing through text commands such as "punch" and "check". each area is a different chatroom!

mostly balancing, fixes, a little bit of new content. most notably a new dungeon. changelog: update v1.2.1 new - new command 'precision strike' 20 piercing damage, 25% chance it's 80 damage, damage and chance scales with dex, costs 10 mana, learned with 30 dex - new command 'rush' all commands are executed twice the next 3 seconds, time scales with agi, learned with 35 agi - new command 'hide' dodge all direct attacks for 10 seconds, attacking or getting hit breaks your cover, costs 10 mana, learned with 50 agi - new command 'concentrate' reduces all mana cost by 20% for 3 seconds, time and amount scale with dex, learned with 45 dex - new command 'motivate' increases damage, accuracy and resistance a little bit for 10 minutes, costs 200 mana, enabled by tome of the cleric (basically it does grace+protect, but longer and less effective) - new command 'lights out' 1 dark magic damage, scales with int, costs 25 mana, blinds and confuses, enabled by tome of the witch - new command 'miasma' 30 dark magic damage, scales with int, costs 150 mana, small chance to poison, enabled by tome of the witch - new command 'fester' does 80 dark magic damage if target is poisoned, scales with int, costs 25 mana, enabled by tome of the witch - new command 'party chat' talk to your party regardless of where they are - new command 'earth smash' 30 blunt damage, costs 100 mana, hits all, chance to stun, learned with 199 str - new enemy 'undead skeleton' - new enemy 'skeletal warrior' - new enemy 'skeletal mage' - new enemy 'spooky ghost' - new enemy 'bloated corpse' - new boss 'necromancer' - new material 'old bone' - new material 'ectoplasm' - new material 'darkwood' - new necklace 'chain' makes it possible to chain up to 3 chainable commands in one message - new magic weapon 'bone wand' 30 dark magic damage - new shield 'skullshield' - new offhand 'tome of the witch' - new armor 'spectral cloak' - new armor 'ranger cape' - new armor 'rib cage' - new hat 'spectral hood' - new hat 'cranium' - new shoes 'bone slippers' - new area 'forest hut' - new area 'haunted forest' - new area 'haunted graveyard' - new dungeon 'desecrated tomb' - new NPC 'daphne the ranger' - new quests fixes - tome of the cleric now also gives the command 'mend' - fixed power stone drop rates - fixed winter boots needing item18 (which didnt exist anywhere) - fixed the poison effect appearing at random - fixed gobtown not setting new respawn point - fixed not seeing the necklace when checking a player changes & balancing - chaining commands in a single message is now disabled unless you have the chain necklace - dodge, hide and summon can't be chained - buffed all the bosses - power stone drop rate now increases with party level - checking a player now also tells their lvl - buffed the dragon a bit (more dex and base damage) - increased spawn rates in Rime Halls - reduced 'smite' base damage from 25 -> 20 - reduced 'poisonslash' mana cost from 25 -> 10 - nerfed dodge - set maximum achievable mana to 1000, maximum achievable hp to 2000 - added 30 skill requirement for skilldance - gleamblade can't do light magic anymore - buffed guards - you no longer gain exp from killing other players - buffed ice golems - set a max to the effect of shadow mask (-100 karma) - made party leveling significantly easier, especially for later party levels misc - you now get skills from adding to a stat instead of upon going lvl up - updated bernine's quest so it says "crystal shard" instead of just "crystal" - the server now saves your savefile when you log out - added notification messages when buffs run out - updated the anti macro code. an average typing speed of ~70ms per keystroke is allowed. anything faster than that will likely start to miss keys. - smalltown, the thicket, back alley, the shop and west plains are now considered safe zones and don't allow pvp - added to int tooltip description that it also raises max mana