23 Jun 2025 - As of June 30th the following changes to the Rule 5 will come into force: the duration of the automatic ban for exceeding the unjustified kills limit will be derived directly from the number of prior bans imposed for the same reason on the given account. The first ban will be applied for 7 days (as was until now), but the second for 30 days, and each subsequent one for 30 days longer than the pervious one. The limit for unjustified kills remains as is.
Check full changelog...
Player Level: 48 Profession: Knight Residence: Venore
Posts: 12
Re: Weather
Proposal: During seasons, there could be an option to turn on/off a graphics overhaul which doesn't affect gameplay.
How it works:Simple, snow when it's cold, sandstorms in ankrahmun, rainfall on occasions. This could even be coded to read users system weather, if it's not too complicated.
Perhaps we could even get full seasonal maps if admins don't mind.
God Level: 26 Profession: Elder Druid Residence: Darashia
Posts: 278
Re: Weather
We once had an idea to create a kind of smoke/mist with fixed light effects in one place, but it was eventually not included for the upcoming update (maybe another time).
As for seasons, there was also an idea to add snow in the towns for the Christmas time, but unfortunately this version lacks sprites/borders that would be necessary to do it properly.
The actual weather effect, as you proposed, isn't an easy thing to do. It's a big task both in terms of designing and implementing in the original client.
Player Level: 48 Profession: Knight Residence: Venore
Posts: 12
Re: Weather
While a definitely long term investment, those are great news it's possible to code. This may fill in quality of life gaps after bigger world changes, though bittersweet proposal nonetheless.
