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Fiddly Franchises, posted on Tue Jan 31 15:00:16 2017
Posted by: Borealis
Category: Mudlib
Bing Bong!

Some issues in the Bank Franchise Fee code have been addressed. In order to simplify book-keeping, in future all monthly franchise payments will be due at 12:00 on the first of the month.

This will come into effect after the next due franchise payment is made.

Bank franchise owners seeking more information on this fix, or wishing to discuss the implications of it, should contact Borealis.


In Flight Security, posted on Sat Jan 28 10:13:58 2017
Posted by: Borealis
Category: Underworld
A fault in the cockpit security systems of Travelling Shops has recently been identified and resolved. Do not aggressively molest the pilot on pain of pain! You have been warned!

Banking Bonus, posted on Tue Jan 17 01:32:19 2017
Posted by: Borealis
Category: Special
Bank owners and bank franchise owners may now set expressions to control the deposit rate and the cost of opening an account. This will allow preferential (or punitive) rates to be given to players based on things such as club membership, level, guild etc.

Where a bank has an expression set, the expression will over-ride the fixed amount.

Bank deposit rate signs may temporarily be innacurate, a solution to this is on tomorrow's to do list. The functionality will become available as rooms are ...

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Rings And Bells, posted on Tue Dec 20 06:52:22 2016
Posted by: Borealis
Category: Special
Players may now use their own rings in player officiated marriages. See 'help marry' for more information.

The player officiated marriage commands are also now fully polygamy aware. As a result of this, they will also remove any no longer existent players from each particpant's spouse list.

Corrected Consecrations, posted on Sat Sep 24 09:20:18 2016
Posted by: Borealis
Category: Guilds
A long standing bug in consecration has been fixed. Previously, some consecrated items may have lost their consecration related adjectives shortly after being consecrated. Now these adjectives should be preserved, provided that the observer has recently performed see consecration.

Consecration related adjectives are things like "gappic", "consecrated", "pishite" etc that can be used as selectors in the parser.

eg: locate consecrated papers

This fix may not be fully implemented until afte...

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Wizardly Woes, posted on Sun Jul 3 03:55:21 2016
Posted by: Borealis
Category: Guilds
Senior Wizard elections will now be called only when the incumbent idles out of position, resigns, or is removed by a vote of no-confidence.

Container And Furniture Fullness, posted on Thu Jun 30 09:06:33 2016
Posted by: Borealis
Category: Special
We discovered last night that some containers were incorrectly reporting how full they were, specfically containers over 100% full were reporting as if they were practically empty.

Containers that are over 100% full will start showing as over-full as the update propogates through the system, and particularly after the next reboot.

If a container is shown as being in excess of 100% full, you should be aware that you may not be able to return to the container any items that you remove from it. T...

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CTF Improvements, posted on Wed Apr 20 12:40:42 2016
Posted by: Borealis
Category: Special
CTF should now be safe with the stored staff effect provided that the mud does not reboot during your game. Work continues to make it reboot safe for all effects, including floating shields, faith shields, bug shield and armoured skin.

Shattering relics in CTF will now adjust your alignment whilst in the arena. At the end of the game, your alignment will be reset to the value it had when entering the arena.

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Club Houses Revealed, posted on Thu Apr 14 05:41:35 2016
Posted by: Borealis
Category: Special
Club members will now see the addresses of any club houses the club controls when using the '<clubname> info' command of the club badge.

Housing Clocks Reset, posted on Sun Mar 27 16:13:21 2016
Posted by: Borealis
Category: Am (domain pages)
As previously announced, the periods used to determine absentee property owners and shop lease durations used by the housing agency has been realigned with the discworld calendar.

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