Hello and happy New Year! Our Winter Solstice event is now concluded, but we have another game event coming up soon! Our next event will our 29th anniversary event! This is a celebration of when Alter Aeon first went public on January 15th, 1995. Dates are still tentative, but right now we are scheduled to commence on January 13th and conclude on the 27th. There will be at least one museum area that will be opened, and we will likely have the 1995 version port available for those who want to see what life was like on Alter Aeon when it began. In December:
* Debut of the Frost Knight bonus class. This unique bonus class is focused around defense, with the ability to create powerful protective armor, heal injuries and gain resistance to cold and chilling effects, using gathered snowballs as a medium. * More objects to spawn with increased quality but unaltered stats. * A slew of composition updates, with refinements to brewing acid and cartridge recipes. * Brewed acids can now be used to break down certain materials into new spell components and to concentrate ores, increasing their yield while reducing their mass. * A new geology: glacial. This geology will favored ice-based and cold affinity materials, but lacks fire or lightning based ones. * Expanded interactions when insulting or using negative socials on mobs, including priests of your god disfavoring you, guards fining you and children crying from your merciless verbal take-downs. Insults can be refined into several categories: choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic and sanguine. * “Choleric” insults call out a character's integrity and temperament. * “Melancholic” insults belittle a character's intelligence and mettle. * “Phlegmatic” insults degrade a character's hygiene and fitness. * “Sanguine” insults question a character's sobriety and virtue. Here are our coding goals for 2024: * Raising the maximum player level to 40! This expansion will usher in a handful of new abilities, with some available right away and more developed over the course of the year. * Implementation of the hunting skill. Players will be able to track, ambush, pursue, bait and trap prey. * A compliment generator in time for Valentine's Day. The hope is to make this work with our player feature system, so players can compliment another player's emerald eyes or raven locks. * Warpaint brewing skill for warriors, in the barbarian blood skillgroup. * An etching skill that will use brewed acids to add a random effect to objects with open inlay slots. * Altered strings to druidic called animals on other planes, to emphasize their altered stats. * Baking as an off-shoot of cooking. Make tarts, quiches, cobblers and more! Here are some areas we expect to open in 2024: * Castle Ket, a level 13 area located on the island of Kordan. The project includes additional two more former event areas: the Hinterlands, a level 32 area on Atmir, and Winnowing Hall. The latter will be an experimental area designed to handle both low-level and mid-level players, presenting different challenges and quests depending on your character’s level. * Port Crimsonia, a level 43 area located on the continent of Ramanek. This large and sophisticated city area has been in development for a couple years. * The final installment of the Realm of Hades, called the Pits of Tartarus, will be finished soon. This will be a level 45 extraplanar area. For more information, please refer to our latest Youtube presentation here: https://youtu.be/QD41T7M72Pc -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#127035): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/127035 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/103542341/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/21656/1071380848/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
