Lots of little green plants are now occupying Legacy as account shrubbing has come in to practice. Basically instead of banning accounts pending deletion accounts can now be shrubbed, which will allow them to login, make a ticket, send messages to staff, but nothing else for 30 days after which they'll be deleted. We cleared out all the old jailed players so that list should be short and useful again now.

Although I'm pressing on with the new combat system, it looks like it may be further away than I'm willing to wait so advertisements have started again in full force on our top 100 sites, facebook and other places.

I'm also re-evaluating some of the changes listed before in the rebuild to try and limit the impact on current players. Things like assigning stat points as you level are going to be simplified but will remain.

The smilies system has been reworked, smilies sorrounded by silly { and } brackets have been removed. All smilies that include words are now sorrounded by a single colon either side. I had to remove a couple of smilies like the 83 smiley, as that clearly wouldn't work in this new system.

Also the regex that replaces smilies in text has been improved and will now only inject smilies if the smiley in question does not have an alphanumeric character on either side of it. So you will not get a smiley in the middle of silly words like ExDeath anymore!

A full list of the new smiley codes can be found by clicking here.

Few updates, basically things from the first LegCon we did that I added to my list of things to include in the system rebuild. Thought it would be better to include them ahead of time so I'm working on that now. Mind's Eye can finally filter individual gangs and Shadowing is now much cooler.

Shadowing now not only tells you where the last person to phase from your square went, it phases you straight to them (regardless of gang control of the target square). On top of that if you have Temporal Phasing you can shadow while cloaked with complete immunity to Ether Attunement and Astral Vision (i.e You will not be spotted entering nor will your target be aware of your attempts to shadow them). Also if you train Temporal Phasing you can phase while cloaked as before but this now also has immunity to Astral Vision.

Any problems with these abilities please report them to me, the new /who command responds to gang numbers, colors or acconyms.

Ok, so warfare point donation is now fixed. The original bug and following bug both only affected the entry of donations in to gang logs and the marking of donations in other players achievements. There was a brief 3 hour period where donations would of actually been lost, we refunded everything we could from that period.

Basically during the massive script re-write I did a while ago I forgot to include a function file in to that script that is used for adding of achievements. As such any player that was referred by another who tried to donate would of been left with a blank white page and no log entry after donating. Their points however were converted to GP and added correctly even though this happened.

On a side note it's my birthday today, saw Derren Brown live last night in his Enigma show tour... was really good. Oh, and the staff vandalized my character image!