We've been developing, and here's what's new.
New Implementations
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- Reworked the handling of membership in political entities, primarily affecting villages.
- It is now possible to be a member of multiple villages.
- All political actions specific to a particular village (or Realm, technically) have been moved away from the action menu to buttons, instead, in the "Kith & Kin" window, where you can now select the entity which you wish to manage in a dropdown menu.
- Characters can now be described to Villages just as you would describe them to another character. (Simply select the person in your buddy list -> Describe -> Click the Village Idol) This allows villages to set and manage permissions and groupings for non-member characters. "Invite" permissions in the village are required to describe a character to it.
- Realms have technically been reworked in that their actions have also moved from the action menu, but it is not possible to be a member of multiple Realms, nor is it possible to describe characters to Realms.
- Learning Points earned by a character who is a member of multiple villages will be split evenly between them.
Key Fixes
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- Reworked "Field Cairn"s a bit
- Can now be administered while you are on its plot, sparing you the trouble of walking up to it.
- Can now be initiated for plot placement purposes without walking up to it.
- Made them slightly easier to destroy.
As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch.
Today's Patch Item, for the fair price of $7, is the "Bomb Cap".
$7 Whatever else can be said about this cap, it is pretty clear that it is, indisputably, the bomb.
All Gold & Silver subscribers have been awarded the "Bomb Cap", free of charge.
In the Pipe
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- This is the last patch we'll make before the World 16.2 Launch.
- If "Mound Bed"s still have problems, I'd love to know more.
- Our primary development direction is toward object-controlled-objects.
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