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Two updates have taken place today and yesterday.
Here is a brief summary of what has been done:
* Faction bug fix in Rivendell Mill.
* Map Pins added to/corrected in The Ford of Bruinen/The Foothills of the Misty Mountains.
* Removed AT from Misty Mountains - Moria Range to Eregion.
*Fixed second Lothlorien quest - including adjustments to the enemy involved.
* Placed Elrond's sons back in the Hall of Fire.
* Added AT from Valley of Imladris to Norther Foothills.
*Added a short conversation to Haldir - this will change when the third Lothlorien quest is added shortly.
* One or two other minor fixes.
Going online shortly another round of updates - mainly linked to Lothlorien.
- Lothlorien tokens fixed to be undroppable - ask DM's if you want yours replaced.
- Fixed end dialogue of 2nd Lothlorien quest to remove the second Lothlorien token and replace it with the third.
- Fixed a typo in start dialogue for 2nd Lothlorien quest.
- Added to Elrond's 2nd Lothlorien quest dialogue to make it clear that you must return to the ranger captain in Lothlorien.
- Adjusted the elite footpads from 2nd Lothlorien quest (again :) )
- Adjusted a map pin in Dimrill Dale
And here we go once again, another round of fixes once more.
* Updated some creatures weapons and inventories to bring them inline with the new itemset.
* Added a level limit to first Forochel Quest (Not available after level 9).
* Updated Forochel merchants stock to bring inline with new itemset.
* Added Warhammers to Bree smithies inventory.
* Some (not all) Dol Guldur merchantsnow buy stolen goods (but not Traps)
As Emryn already has infintie healing kits in his store no healing kits added into Edoras.
A few small merchants fixes.
A few monster loot fixes.
A number of Rivendell updates from Ptolomy - hopefully he'll post details here soon.
Thanks for making those changes DM_Lorien.
Please see here (http://forums.wireplay.com/showpost.php?p=3252478&postcount=62) for the details.
Hi all, a very brief update here:
As I don't have time at the moment, I'm halting any further high level quests. This means that the one I was working on has been stopped at half completion for now. I will try and complete it in a few weeks time.
Instead, I will be working on some other updates which can be read about in the newsletter I've attached to this post.
Some other updates are in though:
- New look Ithilien Rangers
- Some rebalancing of NPCs
- Some small fixes and changes
Community Newsletter March - April
Hi everyone,
It's been another busy month or so. Much more has been added to the module, particularly in the fixing and enhancements department. More of this is to come over the coming weeks. Tasks within the development team have been swapped around a bit and re-prioritised due to some personal changes, particularly for me.
On Sunday 26th February at 11:02 am, my daughter Jasmine was born. The bulk of my time is now currently consumed attending to her and working - this means I won't be involved in any large projects for the time being. Naturally though, I will still be contributing here and there with some exciting content.
So what's happening over the coming weeks and months?
- I will be tinkering with low level areas; Adding more activities (including quests), personalising them more, developing NPCs and areas. The main goal of my project is to add more to the module without making a large amount of new areas. I'll be using existing areas on thewhole, and spicing them up even more. This project has no completion date - it's something i'll be chipping away at whenever I have time. Updates will be made whenever I have a 'complete' set of changes.
- DM Olorin is headlining the major updates with a regenerated and expanded Tharbad. The new Tharbad will use existing NPCs and activities along with a whole host of new exciting content. For those of you who know of Olorin's other works, you won't be dissapointed.
- DM Lorien is continuing with his work on Lothlorien and small updates to the module.
- Avalyn/Ulmo and Barking Mad are working on the final stages of the PRC due for release soon.
- DM Tulkas is working on improvements and developments to Minas Tirith and Gondor.
- Ptolomy is working on improvements and developments to Rivendel.
As always, discussions and detailed news are available on our forum. In the meantime, i'd like to wish you all the best and continued enjoymment of Untold Tales of Tolkien.
DM Kev
NWN Head Admin / UTT Series Founder
Wireplay Community Manager
DM_Gwaihir
26-08-2006, 13:07
The latest update is now live! Changes include:
- An all new Tharbad and Greater Minhiriath region by Olorin. This project is the result of months and months of dedicated work by our most prolific and skilled builder. It is, in my view, his most impressive contribution to date and lets hope it wont be the last! I will leave it to Olorin to post a description of any details he sees fit to and otherwise up to you to discover, enjoy.
- A much smaller and less polished or detailed wilderness project by myself. This includes a reworking of three neighbouring central regions: Rhudaur, the Misty Mountains and the Vales of the Anduin. This is an ongoing project with caves and further details (such as a travelling conditions script) to be added soon. Please do take care when travelling in the high mountains, the locals aren't very friendly!
- A revised and improved crafting machine system by Aiwendil. This includes a machine to strip the properties from items you want to use as a base for transferring new properties onto which will save us all much time and annoyance recrafting items when we've bought a new and improved versioon, very handy.
- Curumo has produced a fantastic range of items in the field of herbs, potions and healing kits. These will eventually form the basis of a regionalised herbalism crafting system but for now are available from a few likely local suppliers. More of these merchants will be rolled out very soon. One of the more 'hard to find' areas in Tharbad, I won't say which, was built by Curumo which is his first area area for the module. It is a great first contribution in this department and I know there are more in progress now he's wetted his appetite with this!
- Avalyn has produced a magnificent guildhall in Tharbad for his ongoing Silversword's saga, visit the main entrance hall to read details of this enthralling dynastic tale. Those mercenaries interested in joining should look out for old Bereval in-game or otherwise contact Avalyn.
- Various contributors, but overwhelmingly Olorin, have added significantly to the pallette of items available (armours particularly). Some of these new items are already available from NPC merchants but we also hope to put more of them 'on the market' very soon with further revisions to merchants across the module.
That is a brief summary of more or less all the major changes, I think. If I've left anything out or got anything wrong, apologies to those concerned!
I'd like to stress that we see this update as work in progress. There are areas which we'd like to add more detail to, particularly in terms of new quests and non-quest activities, and we will be doing so on an on-going basis. However, after much debate within the team, we agreed that it would be better to put out the content we have rather than hold so much that is ready back in an attempt to get things just perfect.
So there are areas that may seem a little underdeveloped (eg NPCs with limited dialogues and cave entrances going nowhere) and there will no doubt be bugs and errors aplenty. We will address these issues going forward as and when time permits but, in the mean time, I really do hope that you enjoy all that the content which is now on-line has to offer.
I'd like to end by voicing my personal thanks to and admiration for Olorin. His dedication to this community and the outstanding level of his contributions are, quite simply, second to none! He has taught me everything I know about modding (well almost ;) ) and served as a great inspiration to myself, the rest of the Dev team and many players (in many ways but perhaps most relevantly here) to always strive towards achieving our very best.
Congratulations on another fantastic contribution, I salute you sir! :)
*refills the old greybeard's pipe*
DM_Gwaihir
10-12-2006, 21:15
An update with some minor tweaks will go live at the next reset.
One thing which will effect everyone is the changes to the conversations on the portals in the Halls of Waiting. These will now offer slightly different options at different levels depending on the character's race and guild membership.
Basically, areas associated with particular races will become available earlier to characters of those races than to others: Erebor for dwarves, Minas Tirith for men, Mordor for orcs etc. Also, members of all the current guilds will now be able to start in the relevant areas.
We are also planning to release an update with quite a lot of new content in about a week's time. Watch this space for more details.
I am sorry not to have been in game that much of late, most of my UTT-time has been taken up in the toolset. Once the next update is out, I plan to get back to running events and generally loafing around in-game as a DM.
DM_Gwaihir
22-12-2006, 07:52
We have waited a long time for a riding system to be developed that looked good enough and functioned well enough to include in UTT. I am therefore very pleased to annouce that, with the last update, we have introduced the system for riding horses included in the CEP2.
We have changed a few features and left out some of the available options, for now at least. We also plan to customise it further in the future to deal with various problems but, as it is implemented, it should still add a great deal to the game.
Enjoy! (http://forums.wireplay.co.uk/showthread.php?p=3287473#post3287473) :)
DM_Olórin
15-01-2007, 23:22
Olórin Scrawls a Message...
Welcome to the latest update for UTT2. The following new/improved features go live here and now...
- The Lake Long area, Esgaroth and its interiors have had a substantial revamp and now include a new look Laketown and lakeshore areas from the banks of the Celduin to the Lonely Mountain.
- Umbar has had a bit of a facelift and a few new minor merchants added. This work stemmed from the addition of guild areas and things... ahem... rather snowballed. The city now has a more southerly look and feel and introduces placables and features that we didnt have access to a year ago. Hopefully you should be able to step out of the Iron Anchor and know that you are in tropical latitudes.
- The route north of Umbar now features a more accurate geography and the transitions have been re threaded to accomodate this. We have plans to continue this sort of work into the eastern borders of Gondor and maybe beyond.
- On that note, more changes to come in the Ithilien, Pelennor Fields, Rammas Echor, and Ephel Duath areas soon...
- Thranduil's Halls in Northern Mirkwood, coming soon courtesy of DM Unien! Looking forward to that!
- Fixes to Tharbad quests: The Spiders in the Walls, a dangerous crawl into Old Tharbad's underbelly. Helping Hector and Helping Penbroome a couple of simple non-combat tasks with some entertaining characters.
- Horse merchants added in Bree, Waymeet and Umbar. More to come soon in Minas Tirith, Edoras (obviously) and elsehwhere...
- Work continues apace on our NWN2 - UTT3 project. The itemset is in place along with several multi-threaded quests. Work on the detailed crafting system and customised feats, classes, races and sub-races is well under way. Keep an eye on the NWN2 threads on our forums and DM Kev will do his level best to keep you up to speed.
Kindest regards,
Olórin
*the old man bows*
Lady Igraine
20-01-2007, 01:35
I have just one word for you Mister Olorin.....Wow. I am soo impressed and thrilled with the changes, thanks soooo much.
To those that are still awaiting Thranduil's kingdom. I am currently undergoing the painful process of learning how much I have to learn but if all goes well it should be in by next weekend. I shall post this as a bit of a tease for the time being.
The Elvenking's Gate (http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/9199/theelvenkingsgate8jv.jpg)
I just need to say that i was surprised when i entered the lake town, a very nice job
The Frenchman
22-01-2007, 18:41
I second that motion, it looks real lovely :)
Looking forwards to Thranduil's kingdom!
DM_Gwaihir
27-01-2007, 22:15
Thranduil's Halls are now online, thanks to Uinen for all the hard work. These will no doubt be developed further with new quests and other activities but for now fill an important hole in our map and provide a home for our woodelf characters and beautiful setting for everyone to RP with.
Also included in this update is an area for Dagorlad by Olorin and the Brownlands by yours truly. For a discussion of how these fit in, please see here (http://forums.wireplay.co.uk/showpost.php?p=3289465&postcount=1).
A few updates were made today and are now live. These are part of an almost daily blitz of small issues im planning for the weeks ahead.
Start area updated and current.
Fixed Steaks - should now work with the resting system
Updated Forochel Merchant with "Forochelesque" goods and added ammunition store.
Removed Ice and Water elementals from the Himling encounters
Increased low level good quest reward xp
Enjoy the game.
The following are now live with the server reset:
Barrow Downs: Unarmed Barrow Wights will no longer level drain onhit.
Fangorn: Ent encounters have been redone to ensure spawning of quest item carriers and a scaled number of hostiles to spawn in.
Dunharrow Exterior: Some of the Rohirrim spawn groups have been changed so that hostiles can spawn in with an advance view of attackers.
Forochel: Encounters adjusted, traps and locks added.
Made more increases to low level quest xp rewards
Some improvements to the Minhiriath region, mostly cosmetic.
Changed Strider's portrait
Mathas now hires out 2 of his function rooms for a fair price.
Trollshaws: Encounters tweaked, new Warlord model, traps and locks added.
Enjoy the game.
The following are now live with the latest reset:
Emyryn in Edoras now sells her full range of healing kits.
Vithos Henchman spawn-in has been fixed.
Shimmering Stave store in Tharbad now sells a more personalised selection of potions and misc items
The greyflood in now sells a larger range of food
Various updates to Himling
Repositioned a waypoint in Mithlond which caused pc's to face away from the road.
A number of corrections to spelling and grammar.
Thanks for your reports and suggestions - keep them coming on irc or via email.
Enjoy the game.
The following will be live as of the next reset, about an hour from now:
Tweaks to some northern areas
Adjustments to some conversations
Some quest scripts have been upgraded/changed
Dying system change: Death now occurs at -30hp. Investigating the possibility of incrementing the point of death by character level.
Enjoy the game :)
The following will be live as of the next reset:
Goody Appleseed in Woodhall now has a store of her personalised range of goods.
Lomel, also in Woodhall now sells his personalised range of elf-make goods.
Addition of locks and traps to a few quest areas.
Enjoy the game.
The following will be live as of the next reset:
Problem with the merchant Sergul in Isengard not opening his store is fixed.
Kill XP reward ratios have been adjusted and expanded. Soloing now gives 75% of the xp a party member would recieve as opposed to the previous 50%. XP rewards for higher CR kills have been increased a little.
Quest XP rewards for some evil quests have been adjusted.
Introduced a script which awards xp for the successful disarming of traps. The award amount is determined by the DC of the trap comared against the lwevel of the character. New system and do not epxect to see much of it right now - it wlil gradually phase in over future updates.
Addition of various traps and locks to quest areas
Some small adjustments to a few area layouts.
Enjoy the game.
The following will be live as of the next reset:
You will no longer recieve ages old server info via the journal when you login
Some changes to the Longbottom lorestore
The trap disarm reward system has been implemented in two regions
Further addition of traps and locks
Some changes to encounter respawn times which were causing undue grief to low-levels.
Some minor area layout changes.
Thanks for your reports. Enjoy the game.
This will be the last regular minor update for a while as something very big is about to happen which will be consuming the bulk of development time. Naturally, any emergency fixes will be made live as required.
The following will be live as of next reset:
Tigers and Wild Cats no longer use the Hide In Plain Sight feat. They will instead attempt to use their hide and move silently skills.
Dying cap back to -10
Some minor changes to the disarm trap reward forumla
Some minor changes to some areas
Some fine wines added to the Greyflood Inn
Some property changes to creatures
More traps and locks added to areas
Enjoy the game and lookout for some exciting news coming soon :)
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