May 24th, 2012· Books now read a little easier.
· Happy 10th Anniversary to ThoomCare!
· No crashes in 534 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You’ll have to explore to find the rest of this storm’s changes.
May 3rd, 2012· Rain and snow should no longer leak into interior locations. Please /BUG any noticeable problems with the repairs.
· New fashionable ways to stay warm and dry.
· I know; promises, promises... But we’re told that “It should now be easier to access certain easy paths.” Please /BUG any difficulties.
· No crashes (of our own making) in 513 days and counting. The record is 723 days. However...
· For reasons of hygiene, our hosting provider needed to move all the gerbils into nice new clean cages — not just ours. Some of the less-well-behaved gerbils (again, not ours) found the dislocation upsetting, and made their displeasure known, as gerbils will.
· Our gerbils, politely covering their ears and noses, were thereby prevented from pedalling as vigorously as they normally do, which is why there’s been unusually bad lag for the past couple of weeks.
· On the 21th, conditions got so dire in one particular rack of cages that all its occupants, guilty and innocent alike, had urgently to be hosed off and (re-) rehoused afresh. To the hapless victims (like us) this had the appearance of a crash, even though it wasn’t one really.
· Fortunately that marked the episode’s nadir; we were back online within minutes after the last gerbil finished towelling off. And since then, the rabble-rousers seem to be growing accustomed to their new burrows, so harmony is gradually returning to the power plant.
· During these excitements, we happened to notice, quite incidentally, that a few of our gerbils had become slightly too fat and complacent in their comfortable previous housing. So we’ve put them onto a healthful slimming diet.
· You’ll have to explore to find the rest of this storm’s changes.
April 12th, 2012· Informed sources tell us that development and testing continue on new projects.
· No crashes in 492 days and counting. The record is 723 days. (There was a planned shutdown for maintenance very early on Monday 9 April which closed the game for about an hour.)
· You’ll have to explore to find the rest of this storm’s changes.
March 23rd, 2012· Development and testing continues on new projects.
· No crashes in 471 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You’ll have to explore to find the rest of this storm’s changes.
March 1st, 2012· Work reportedly continues on a new project.
· No crashes in 450 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You’ll have to explore to find the rest of this storm’s changes.
February 9th, 2012· Work continues on a new project.
· No crashes in 429 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You’ll have to explore to find the rest of this storm’s changes.
January 19th, 2012· Work continues on new projects.
· No crashes in 408 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You’ll have to explore to find the rest of this storm’s changes.
December 29th, 2011· No crashes in 387 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You’ll have to explore to find the rest of this storm’s changes.
December 9th, 2011· You better watch out!
· You better not cry!
· No crashes in 366 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· The operator of Bawkmas gifts assumes sole responsibility and liability for all deaths, injuries and/or damages to body and property directly or indirectly caused by or resulting from usage of Bawkmas gifts. No warranty is expressed or implied. Individual results may vary. Void where taxed or prohibited. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
November 18th, 2011· Tempests washed up driftwood, shells, and wave-worn baubles.
· You’ll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm’s changes.
· No crashes in 345 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
October 28th, 2011· Development continues on two, maybe three new projects.
· You’ll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm’s changes.
· No crashes in 323 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
October 6th, 2011· Development continues on a new project.
· You’ll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm’s changes.
· No crashes in 302 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
September 15th, 2011· A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. — Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)
· A navigation problem with the flying island has been repaired: certain valid destinations that had inadvertently become unreachable (notably over the South Forest mirror) should now be accessible again. Happy Landings!
· No crashes in 281 days and counting.
August 25th, 2011· Text log files created by the v717 Mac client now once again have the 'TEXT' file-type attribute, for compatibility with older log-processing utilities.
· Minor world corrections; nothing earthshaking. (Art fails to imitate life.)
· No crashes in 262 days and counting.
August 10th, 2011· The v714 Mac client had a bug which prevented it from saving text logs. Here is a replacement Mac client (v714.1). The only change is the text log repair; as a side-effect those log files are now given names ending with “.txt”.
August 4th, 2011· To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. — Benjamin Franklin (1706–1794)
· No crashes in 241 days and counting.
July 14th, 2011· Some sticky links got the grease.
· No crashes in 220 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Wear waterproof boots.
June 23rd, 2011· Huan Husbard and his colleagues, who had had a totally fantastical and fictive grasp of their respective inventories, have been brought back to reality... insofar as that’s even possible.
· No crashes in 199 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
June 16th, 2011· Mostly just internal enhancements this time. (Again).
· No crashes in 178 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
May 12th, 2011· Mostly just internal enhancements this time.
· No crashes in 157 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
April 21st, 2011· The Bloodpool’s cravings have been somewhat... adjusted.
· The Belt of the Wild should no longer track monsters into the wild gray yonder.
· Homes containing absurdly excessive amounts of furniture should no longer crash or lock up the client.
· No crashes in 136 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
March 10th, 2011· Minor acoustic retouchings in the Bard Hall.
· No crashes in 94 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
February 17th, 2011· Certain magic potions have been fitted with magic corks.
· No crashes in 73 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
January 27th, 2011· Amazing breakthrough: dry rot conquered! Wood should now be more robust.
· Messages are no longer allowed to accompany anonymous karma bequests. That is, /THANKs and /CURSEs may be either signed or anonymous, and they may or may not include a reason message. But you may no longer send karma anonymously if there’s a reason attached.
· No crashes in 52 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
January 6th, 2011· No crashes in 31 days and counting.
· No noteworthy changes this Chaos Storm. (We remembered to eat and sleep instead.)
December 17th, 2010· No crashes in 10 days and counting. There was a single (as yet unexplained) server crash on 25 November, which had the side effect of revealing a hitherto-unknown flaw in our server monitor tools. That flaw, in turn, triggered a number of unnecessary and annoying server restarts, every ten minutes or so, during the evening of the 25th — until a smart GM deduced what was happening and assassinated the misbehaving monitor. The monitor tool has been repaired, and diagnostics have been installed to try to discover what caused the original crash.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
December 1st, 2010· Mazika has shooed the more dangerous fungi from his hut.
· No crashes in 656 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. (But don’t bother looking too hard; there weren’t very many, due to impending holiday pressures.)
November 4th, 2010· Certain minor mystical annoyances have been alleviated.
· Pirate Henrik relearned an old trick.
· No crashes in 635 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
October 14th, 2010· No crashes in 614 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
September 23rd, 2010· Ranger morphs and Champion petrification should now be back to normal.
· The gerbil responsible for distributing Arindal ranks was discovered to be facing the wrong way round in its cage, which had so upset it that it had silently failed to distribute any ranks at all during v666. The gerbil has been chastised and reorientated.
· Master Hekus cleaned his ears.
· No crashes in 593 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
September 2nd, 2010· Some types of inadvertent “health poisoning” should now be fixed. “Advertent” health poisoning is a whole ’nother matter, of course.
· For those transitioning Arindal players who had registered with GygesGM, your characters should start receiving accelerated ranks this update.
· Development continues on new projects.
· No crashes in 572 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes... if you dare!
August 12th, 2010· Pebbles, in the temple, has been dismissed for gross incompetence. Luckily we were able to hire a replacement, her identical twin sister, also (confusingly) named Pebbles. Despite the apparent similarities, the new Pebbles is expected to be much more helpful than the old.
· Many minor bug fixes.
· No crashes in 551 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
July 22nd, 2010· Welcome Arindal players!
· Splash screen now 134% splashier.
· Mannequins should now remember the /name of stored clothing, and also display belts properly.
· Whiteout snow conditions no longer cause whiteout visibility.
· No crashes in 530 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
July 1st, 2010· If you don’t like the weather... wait a minute.
· No crashes in 509 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
June 10th, 2010· Lava hurts... but only when it’s supposed to. (All you need is lava?)
· No crashes in 488 days and counting.
Mac client:
· Character Manager dialog now more reliable
· Movies should now record and play back correctly.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
April 29th, 2010· Several construction projects around town have been completed.
· A metaphysical gerbil has been retrained.
· Great swords are once again merely ‘great’.
· Bank tellers now understand “withdraw all” and “deposit all” for personal accounts. (Fiduciary regulations require that banking commands for clan accounts continue to use explicit, numeric amounts.)
· Fixed a silly bug that caused the Mac client (under OS 8/9) to quit immediately upon launch.
· Numerous other bug fixes. Please continue to /BUG any problems, comments and suggestions.
· No crashes in 446 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
April 8th, 2010· Now that we’ve moved to our fancy new fast server, the “prime-time slowdown” from 6-9PM is no longer needed, and is hereby abolished.
· No crashes in 425 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
March 18th, 2010· Mushrooms?
· The widely reviled “balance tax” has been waived in certain cases.
· The Hunting Preserve is, uh, reserved for hunting. In particular, management reserves the right to refuse to serve the vitally-challenged. It’s all part of the conservation service! Please observe all posted regulations.
· No crashes in 404 days and counting.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
February 25th, 2010· The Puddleby Zoning Board has reviewed and approved permits for several shovel-ready construction projects.
· No crashes in 383 days and counting. (Does it still count, now that the server has moved to an entirely new machine, operating system, CPU, etc., etc.?)
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
February 4th, 2010· New quests, new monsters, new areas. Have fun exploring.
· No crashes in 362 days and counting. The record is 723 days. Halfway there!
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
January 14th, 2010· Wuchagott has trained with Mentus, and should now properly identify items in storage.
· A (harmless) crashing bug in the Mac client, at the very end of the autoupdate process, has been fixed. If you were affected by this crash, then you may expect it to recur, one last & final time, as you update to v633.
· No crashes in 341 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
November 12th, 2009· No crashes in 278 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· Metala has retired. Forgus has agreed to take over her work. Any lessons with her are now considered valid by Forgus.
· Unfortunately, this opportunity has not been wasted by Forgus: he now charges a minimum for repairs for associated “smithing and disposal fees.”
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
October 1st, 2009· No crashes in 236 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· Playgrounds now have 40% more play!
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
September 10th, 2009· No crashes in 215 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
August 20th, 2009· No crashes in 194 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· Mystics suck less.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
July 30th, 2009· No crashes in 173 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
July 9th, 2009· No crashes in 152 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· A rolling stone gathers no moss.
June 19th, 2009· No crashes in 132 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.
June 2nd, 2009· No crashes in 111 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes. Enjoy!
March 26th, 2009· No crashes in 48 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· “Fighter Sub-subclasses!”
March 5th, 2009· No crashes in 17 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· There was a terrible rock slide South of town, which resulted in a great deal of destruction. Oh, the humanity...
February 12th, 2009· No crashes in 314 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
January 22nd, 2009· No crashes in 293 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· Clan Lord is now free to play for anyone with an account, even an expired one! Starting now, monthly fees are optional, and expired accounts have been reinstated. See the Free Play FAQ for info, or just log on and play.
· You'll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!
January 1st, 2009· No crashes in 272 days and counting.
November 13th, 2008· No crashes in 231 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You'll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm's changes.
October 23rd, 2008· Some unscrupulous players abused a bug that resulted in infinite coin gain. Unfortunately, we had no choice but to reset from October 17 back to October 15. We gave everyone some experience on the 17th to compensate for the lost time. See the Sentinel for more details.
· A few folks were inadvertently left out when experience was handed out after the roll-back. If you didn't see the experience on the 17th, you should see it now.
October 2nd, 2008· No crashes in 189 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You'll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!
September 15th, 2008· No crashes in 170 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You'll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!
August 21st, 2008· No crashes in 146 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You'll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!
July 31st, 2008· No crashes in 126 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· A sanguine approach to life is considered by many to be the best course.
· The Chaos Storm leading into v557 will last a bit longer than usual so we can perform some server maintenance. Expect 30-60 minutes of downtime. Thanks for your understanding.
May 9th, 2008· No crashes in 43 days and counting. The record is 723 days.
· You'll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm's other changes. Enjoy!
March 28th, 2008· No crashes in 723 days and counting.
· Sometimes it's worth pausing to remember our origins.
· You'll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm's other changes. Enjoy!
March 6th, 2008· No crashes in 701 days and counting.
· The giant Windows client-and-data package has been fixed.
· The experimental @my.shares_out and @my.shares_in macro feature mentioned last time is now available in the Windows client too. But it's still experimental.
· You'll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm's other changes. Enjoy!
January 3rd, 2008· No crashes in 638 days and counting.
· Happy New Year!
· You'll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!
December 6th, 2007· No crashes in 610 days and counting.
· Nate Autical has finished his research.
· What's next, the Harbinger of Festivity? Oops, I probably wasn't supposed to mention that.
· Happy Skristmas!
· Happy Thoomas!
· Happy Bawkmas!
· You'll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!
October 25th, 2007· No crashes in 568 days and counting.
· What's that lurking on the horizon?
· You'll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!
October 4th, 2007· No crashes in 547 days and counting.
· Shieldstones have settled into their final form, unless they haven't. Please /bug any issues.
· You'll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!
September 13th, 2007· No crashes in 526 days and counting.
· We apologize for the series of errors that led to some people receiving double experience compensation in recent updates, some one dose, and many none at all. We have fixed the problem and done our best to even out the bonus experience, bringing everyone up to the "double dose" level. Thanks for your understanding.
· You'll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!
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