Patch 18.6

18.6.0 Patch Notes

Various Game Updates

• There will now just be one dimension for Anarchy Online called Rubi-Ka.
• Mouse cursors have been updated.
• The prefs have been moved out of the install directory. And in to the app data folder of your operating system.
• Buttons have been added to the launcher to open the gui, screenshot and scripts folders.
• Froobs will no longer be allowed to become president of an organization.
• Inventories will no longer be part of the BLOB.
• The vehicle nano line should now display properly.
• Kill monster group missions will now have a more accurate system message.
• The following Rubi-Ka zones have now been closed: Coast of Tranquility, Coast of Peace, 3 Craters West, 3 Craters East
• A white Fancy outfit has been added to the Veteran Vendor.
• The Flea monster has gotten a texture polish.
• Shade's caress now deals the same damage on both melee and ranged targets.
• Building size and upkeep should now be displayed in the item description.
• More characters can be created when less than max are active.
• Personal research gain output has been updated to reflect it's not affected by faction standing.

City Updates

• The tax office will now be available to place in your organization city.
• Outdoor cities have been disabled.
• The city plot is no longer the main defining factor in the city upkeep. The upkeep price of a city can be controlled by how many beneficial buildings you have placed.
• 5x5 Buildings will add 5 000 000 to the city upkeep.
• 10x10 Buildings will add 10 000 000 to the city upkeep.
• And so on..
• Some city buildings have been resized to match this new design.
• A small instanced city has been added. Entrance can be found in ICC. The base upkeep of this city is 5 000 000 credits. The price will be 300 000 000 credits.
• A Large instanced city has been added. Entrance can be found in ICC. The base upkeep of this city is 15 000 000 credits. The price will be 500 000 000 credits.
• Serenity Island is now a large city plot. The base upkeep of this city is 15 000 000 credits. The price will be 500 000 000 credits.
• Market, ECM Tower (the large one) and Medium organization HQ buildings have been disabled.
• City buildings can be bought in the Tower Shop.
• All city Buildings are now nodrop. (Buildings can be sold before the final tradeskill step as the final tradeskill step is based on comp. lit.)
• City advantages have been updated: Guard house will provide heal delta. Landing pad will now provide run speed. Swimming pool now only provides Body Development. HQs no longer provide run speed.
• A City Resettlement Beacon has been created and will be given to all presidents of an organization with a city. This package contains the following buildings and items: A small and a large HQ, an ECM tower, a Grid House, a Notum Silo, a Satellite Uplink, Mining Operations, a Sauna, a Tax Office and a City voucher which will allow you to buy an instanced city plot of your choice.
• The Grid house now grants access to the grid by walking on the platform.
• A punching bag npc is now added in the notum silo.
• You should no longer be able to place multiple beneficial buildings of the same type.

18.6.1 Patch Notes

Various Game Updates

• Fixed some server crashes.
• Pets should now be possible to rename properly again.
• Fixed that the global research is not progressing.
• We have made optimizations for server performance.
• We have temporarily disabled the mail notification.
• Fixed various exploits.

18.6.2. Patch Notes

18.6.2 Update Release Notes

Patch date: May 6th 2013

Various Game Updates

• 12 Character slots should now be available to all active subscribers. Any new or reactivated subscriber account will gain 10 slots. Froobs will have 8 character slots.
• Mouse cursor attachment will no longer obstruct the readability of the tooltip.

Dungeon and Instance Updates

• Monsters in Temple of the Three winds, Inner Sanctum, Foremans, Pandemonium, Crypt of Home, Cyborg Barracks, Albtraum, Alappaa, Dark Ruins (Team), Smugglers/Mantis Den, Steps of Madness, Subway will now return to their spawnpoint when trained and will also provide a higher amount of XP.
• Albtraum missions now require less monster kills.
• Albtraum should now have less monsters.
• Sector 10 bosses will now drop ICE and and has a chance to drop an Untuned Relay.
• Sector 10 Signal relays are now yesdrop.
• A spirit in the outzones will now be able to tell you if your character is immune to Vortexx's attacks.

Playfield Updates

• Tir City has now gotten a cleanup.
• The bank terminal should be inside the tax office building this time. It was full of ninja the last time and escaped...

Quest Updates

• The monsters spawned by the Arid Rift Quest named "Genomes and Evidence" should now despawn after a while.

Item and Nano Updates

• Mudurlugu should now check for the Shadowlands expansion.
• An ARK event reward item has been made.
• The Equip Timer on Yalmaha vehicles have been set to the same value as the jet pack.
• The Ranged Weapon Tracers have been removed from Excalibur and Snake Tamer Shield.
• Some more items have gotten their NODROP tag removed.
• Heckler Juice now requires the user to be in ICC.
• The CRU items have been removed from the fixer shop.
• Iron Circle is now a target buff instead of a team buff, like other ability buffing nanos.
• Dropping the City Resettlement Beacon on to a City Controller should no longer consume it.
• Various typos have been fixed in nanos and items.
• Breed change items are no longer possible to use on the same breed/different gender to encourage the use of a gender change item which is less costly.
• The amount of Controller Recompiler Units have been drastically reduced. Quality levels which are not 25%, 50% 75% or 100% have now been broken and turned Nodrop to increase the readability of the Market search results. Broken CRU can be repaired by using a Nano Programming Interface. It is also possible to combine CRU to create larger % valued CRU.
• Traders can now buy 25%, 50%,75% and 100% CRU from the Specialist Commerce.

Various Game Updates

• Fixed various exploits.