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Announce News Post #4264

Quivers and ranged combat changes

Written by: Tecton, the Terraformer
Date: Sunday, January 18th, 2015
Addressed to: Everyone


We've just put a new system for how quivers and arrows are handled, making things a little more user friendly and functional. Here's the details:

* Quivers now act similarly to card decks and rifts, this also has the added advantage of making all arrows stored in them non-decay.
* New commands for interacting with your quiver have been added:
- INQ/INQUIVER - Put an arrow in your quiver.
- OUTQ/OUTQUIVER - Take an arrow from your quiver.
- IQ/INSPECT QUIVER [<colour>|<venom] - Take a look at the contents of your quiver.
* Regular quivers can now hold 500 arrows.
* Dragonskin quivers can now hold 1000 arrows, and 10 meteor arrows
* Celestial quivers still retain the ability to hold 50 meteor arrows.
* Like card decks, quivers provide access to your arrow storage - should your quiver decay, you will not lose the contents. Just pick up a new quiver, and the arrows will still be there.
* Artefact bow owners now have the ability to DYE/ENVENOM arrows.

Alongside these changes, we've added some tweaks to ranged combat:
* AIMing has been rewritten, proving a more consistent experience, and has moved to a time-based bonus, rather than just the next command.
* SNIPE, SHOOT, BREATHSTREAM, and GROVE LIGHTNING no longer require a direction to be specified when attacking a player.
* A direction may be specified, which will reduce the balance/equilibrium cost of the ability slightly.
* A failed directional attack will now incur a small balance or equilibrium cost.
* The following abilities will now also incur a small balance cost if there isn't a target in range or line-of-sight (depending on the ability):
- DOPPLEGANGER (Domination) attacks
- CATACLYSM (Crystalism)
- CHOKE (Kaido)
- SOULSPEAR (Necromancy)
- THURISAZ (Runelore)
- JUDGEMENT (Spiritlore)
- STAR (Tarot)
- Meteor arrows
- SHOOT/SNIPE (Subterfuge/Chivalry/Artefacts)
- BREATHSTREAM (Dragoncraft)
- LIGHTNING (Groves)

Penned by My hand on the 12th of Lupar, in the year 674 AF.


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