EC Traders Release

These are NPCs that can be found in EC Tunnels that emulate player sales whilst the server is starting out. For them to be sold in the first place they must first be a discovered item (meaning they won't sell items that players have not yet found). ***

The prices are random between a minimum price and maximum price (input by myself using Project 1999 trader log prices as a rough estimate, some prices will be inflated due to rarity and era we are in ie. SSoY, FBSS, GEBs).

They will also offer to buy back items - this is usually a lower price than you would typically get selling to players but it's a way to make money at lower levels selling spider silks etc.

The EC Traders have now been released for the last 3 days and zero bug reports so which is great

*** Removed 40+ research components from selling lists. This will make it so you can buy lower level components to help skill up but still need to grind the higher level components for the rare spells.
*** Removed higher level jewelcrafting items from the selling lists (Platinum, Diamond etc). This will remain player sold.

Global Loot Changes

Moved some research components to a higher level tier (49-55) as opposed to dropping from 41-51
- Words of Bondage
- Words of Requisition
- Words of Acquisition (Beza)
- Words of Crippling Force
- Words of the Ethereal
- Words of Odus
- Words of Grappling
- Words of Eventide (this is a low level word, so moved to 21-30 level range)
- Wing of Xegony
- Breath of Ro
- Rune of Crippling
- Rune of Impetus
- Rune of the Astral
- Rune of Frost
- Rune of Ap`Sagor
- Rune of Concussion
- Rune of Rathe
- Nilitim's Grimoire Pg. 450
- Nilitim's Grimoire Pg. 449
- Nilitim's Grimoire Pg. 416
- Nilitim's Grimoire Pg. 415
- Nilitim's Grimoire Pg. 401
- Nilitim's Grimoire Pg. 400
- Nilitim's Grimoire Pg. 378
- Nilitim's Grimoire Pg. 379

Patcher Update

We have added some problem files to the patcher that were a common request by players starting out, this includes Misty, Tox, Commons, Lavastorm & OOT zone files. Re-run the patcher to make sure you have those latest files.

Server Fixes

Last week we ran into some lag issues, these were identified and resolved. This would resolve the high latency people were experiencing - it would happen more towards guildmasters due to their quest scripts doing an expensive item lookup when you got close to them (looking for your newbie note to send you a message). This has been optimised to only happen if you are the right class now and level 1 - additionally the CPU has also been improved to cope better with this.

This should also fix a number of warp message shown to the client in error due to high latency/lag.

I would love to throw a bit more server resource at the server in the future though, so if you haven't already, please consider donating towards the project if you are having fun as the donations will go purely for the server costs and prolonging the server life! We offer patreon donations as well as one off PayPal donations - you get donation coins which can be exchanged for various goodies - check it out!

Misc Updates

- King Tranix is now a Shadow Knight.

- Ghoul Arch Magus is now a 25% spawn instead of 50%.