Meridian 59 TO DO list

Possible Bugs

• Casting helpful spells on outlaw/murderer in Arena?
• Can you buy multiple spells simultaneously to learn over your maximum?
• Players incorrectly tripping off the "cheating" detection for breaking into guildhalls.
• Eliminate distant posting and reading of newsglobes. Put in "expected" room values in specific news content?
• Fix Goad's Grinder! See if it gives you a status or faction loss change.
• If you leave a faction while needing to do the loyalty quest and join another, you lose new faction when timer expires.
• Loyalty quest for the last leg of the Duke's quest has gmail coming from the wrong NPC (comes from the NPC you collected taxes from)?
• Apparitions that are abandoned don't properly remove themselves from the monster count in a room?
• Creating then killing (with acid touch) a reflection causes error spam.

To Do

• Change DM spells to no have sounds if admin is stealthed.
• Change NPCs to not react to immortal admin says.
• Add in variable to stop random chat of an NPC.
• Fix Justicar book, find out why it stops working.
• Teleport people who shouldn't be inside a guild hall (cheaters) to the foyer if they try to open the door. Alter SomethingTryGo in ghall.kod.
• Add in way to set it so that people join a random side in a War Event.
• Fix free arena heals, allowing people to get fully healed after a battle.
• Add in logged global message (like death messages)?
• Change spells to work on monsters. List of suggestions below.
• Make monster selection for apparition not suck so bad.
• Change monster AI to get bored if they can't attack a target after a while. They'll stop chasing the target after a certain amount of time. Makes getting a monster "stuck" less effective of a tactic.
• Change Holy/Unholy weapon enchantments to do bonus damage vs. low/high karma targets.
• Using blast/touch spells while morphed gives wrong damage message (EG, damage instead of char).
• Vote tally command in Caramo.
• Add new rooms for tokens to head to.
• Fix faction flags to not reset during a RecreateAll.
• Make boss rooms spawn items when boss dies so they don't get cleared or swept beforehand.
• Make monsters move out of wall spells on their own. (Make wall elements "frighteners" to monsters?)
• Only 1 fog element remains after casting sporeburst in the arena.
• Killing Orc Pit Boss in room without actually being in room screws up the boss timer somehow.
• Message to guildmates when player leaves guild due to suicide?
• Remove Denial enchantments from arena losers so they don't die.
• Fix Shrines: They should be active objects which catch SomethingEntered. ShrineCheckItem should also be an internal message of the Shrine class.
• Mollusk monsters need sounds.
• Have a bonus to imp for a while shortly after death. Penalty/100% of base duration, gives a chance to improve.
• Clean up RoomEnchantment to provide infrastructure for room enchantments like personal enchantments do.
• Add in Moxal quest for Nerudite Bow.
• Decouple the "dm night" etc commands from the hours system to not screw up things that count days.
• Add in logged global message (like death messages)?
• Add event-magic weapons.
• Clean up arena code. Move out of room.kod into specific arena room files.
• Move the posting restrictions from constants in user.kod to variables in system.kod.
• Change room enchantments to only affect "legal" targets?
• Make Avars slowly move through the orc caves as people get the negative Avar node.
• Change it so that you can set a room's regeneration level to a specific level in the code (instead of relying on the flags).
• Stop mummies from spawning in the pit in Raza.
• Clean up Hold to use DoHold for spell casting.
• Notify players of inability to buy spells due to angel status.
• Some way to prevent cheesing of the Vale node.
• Clean up Purify potion code.
• Have proper animations for different defenses. (EG, shield movement when player "blocks", etc.)
• Look into fixing the fact that spell fizzles still penalize you if you cast upon another player.
• Fix issue of trading at full weight.
• Change the arena to not use ammo or reagents or wear down equipment. IDEA: Have arena duplicate your inventory before going in, and restore it upon exit.
• Change short sword fighting's damage bonus to be more like a "critical strike" than normal bonus damage. Gotta rip out the damage bonus code kludge in stroke and move it to proficiency.
• Make the lich able to appear outside the necro room.
• Sound when fireball (or other ranged spell) for player target when spell is cast at him?
• Clean up how deflect works when casting a spell.
• Trading an item that gives a might bonus will cause dropped items if carrying capacity is exceeded.
• Check for an inactive guild during guild wars?
• Create separate "spellcasting" timer that's separate from the attack timer? Put a pause after a successful harmful non-damaging spellcasting which doesn't interfere with attacks?
• Add in a system like AttackModifiers for spellpower modifiers.
• Fix IA_MADE attribute to work with number items.
• The white knights need to be finished up.
• Add in real death arena duals (or find out why they're broken).
• Some way around 'blocking' that's been going on in the crypt.
• Fix apparition to not attack mules, or call a safety check like reflections.
• Possibly tone down the thrasher treasure, or diversify it.
• Fix the thrasher zone to stop being abused by mules, holding doors open and the such.
• Add a timer on ally/un-ally guild messages to prevent spam.
• Add in offensive checks for white unguilded Jala's in towns.
• Raise the HP limit on the justicar(just my opinion -MRE)?
• Notfication for second wind wearing off.
• Disallow food during second wind.
• Balance truce vs. discord when Jala has anti- spells playing.

Spell Changes for PvM

• Seance: Give location where last person died.
• Heat: fire damage over time to all organic and undead creatures, undead espec. vuln
• Winds: stop ranged attacks (avar chieftain, mollusk, fungus beast) and lower monster accuracy
• Brittle: direct damage to Stone creatures, and/or increase the damage the monster takes
• Sandstorm: physical damage to all creatures in room
• Shatter: shatter individual items (in inventory only for 200?)
• Civility: only allow one monster will aggro one target at a time while the song is up
• Conciliation: all monsters forget aggro and return to combat once the song ends
• Warp Time: all monster movement slows while the song is up
• Profane Resonance: unholy damage over time to all good creatures
• Sacred Resonance: holy damage over time to all evil and undead
• Disharmony: ?
• Shal'illebane: lower offense of evil creatures
• Qorbane: lower offense of good creatures
• Martyr's Battleground: reduce penalties if killed (by monster?)
• Shatterlock: ?
• Cloak: creatures have reduced chance to aggro player
• Defile: castable on monster corpses, but smaller amount of mana than from a player
• Silence: no casting by monsters
• Animate: castable on monster corpses
• Anonymity: monsters don't aggro you
• Dement: monster can't cast spells
• Evil Twin: like Apparition?
• Mark of Dishonor: NO_MOVE effect on evil creatures
• Purge: lowers defense abilities of creature
• Forget: Lower spellcasting chance on monster.

Errors

• Territory object has problems saving and reloading. Line 402 in territory.bof (infinite loop).
• Some player-caused weapon enchantment isn't removing itself properly when the weapon goes away.
• Error spam for faction flags at launch. A quick hack was done to prevent the worst of it.