Changelogs - Winter 2021

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Changelogs - Winter 2021

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Previous post: Changelogs Summer&Winter 2020

January 15th, 2021
FIX House sinking - was not possible to sink houses in certain circumstances.
FIX Typos in Brown belt karate quest.
FIX When dropping a taming bod on a regular BOD book, it now shows message that you need a taming BOD book for that kind of BOD (instead of just the generic "That's not a bulk order deed", which is confusing since that is a bulk order deed)
FIX Necrochiroptera bug - when unshrunken after a long time, the pet was invisible.
UPGRADE Auction history viewer - can display the items sold at an auction in the past, as well as viewing history for a paticular type of auctioned item. Also, various internal improvements in the Auction system.
FIX MyStuff issues with items that were deleted. If an item is deleted while the results gump is displayed, the item is removed from the list of found items.
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Re: Changelogs - Winter 2021

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We now have the ability for players to vote on chatbanning a player.

This feature is available through the Chat System. Type [c to view the list of players, here you can click on the blue circle button next to a player's name, and in their profile menu, click "Vote chatban". This button is located just next to the Ignore button, where players often go to when there's a spammer/troll in public chat. This will open a new gump that gives more info about how it all works, and to actually submit your vote, you have to type a 3-letter confirmation to avoid accidential clicks (or clicks done by a macro).

A vote is successful if 7 players submit their vote within 1 hour, and the player is chat banned for 3 days. All voted chatbans will be reviewed by staff, probably resulting in the permanent ban of the account that was created just for trolling/harrasing or advertising. However, if this system is abused, those who submitted the vote will no longer be elegible to vote in the future, and may even get a serious penalty.

Only well established players can submit votes, this means: 150 total stats, 1500 total skill points, 15 hours of gametime, and 15 days of account age. So I'd say it's relatively safe, but the settings might be tweaked further, or to add some extra conditions or safeguards to avoid abuse.

(posting this announcement here in the changelog, instead of the Excelsior Daily, if anyone would like to ask anything or comment on this).
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