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Message ID: 8935
Date: Wed Oct 20 19:08:32 BST 1999
Author: kim@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Subject: Looks like they caught on to bard suicide


A week or two ago, someone posted an "exploit" where you could
use the level 42 song to kill yourself without losing
experience. Looks like they fixed it without fixing the bug in
the song:

October 20th, 8:00am<BR>
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The Following enhancements have been made with the update:

*General Enhancements*

- If a user is killed due to self-inflicted spell or melee
damage, experience will be lost.
- When using a levitation spell, players are now vulnerable to
attack from both waterbound and landbound creatures.
- A number of enhancements have been made to balance the class
specific armor quests implemented last week.
- A bug was resolved which resulted in a quest reward not being
given approximately 1 percent of the time. - This has been
fixed.

*Spell Enhancements*

Spirit Cap has been made slightly more mana-efficent.

*Announcements*

Transfer of Accounts and in-game Properties (Ebay, etc.)
This is a reminder that, as per the EverQuest License Agreement,
ownership transfer of accounts, characters, items (except for
in-game trading/selling/buying), and any other game related
properties are expressly forbidden. Doing so is in violation
of the License, done at your own risk, and we (989 Studios/Sony
Online Entertainment/Verant) are not responsible for any issues
resulting from such a transaction, including but not limited to
fraud, sales of banned or suspended characters, purchased
character's bad reputations, etc.

High Risk Areas and Corpse Retrievals
This is a reminder that the following zones/encounter types are
high risk and may result in irretrievable corpses: The Plane of
Fear, Dragon Encounters (Vox/Nagafen), and the forthcoming
zones, the Plane of Hate and the Plane of Sky. Should members
of your party fall in battle it may be extremely difficult, if
not impossible, to recover their corpses (for example, they
might be at the feet of a big red dragon). GMs and Guides can
only help with Corpse Retrievals if there is a bug involved, and
while this is true for all areas in the game, because of the
extreme danger of the Planes and Dragon Encounters, we felt it
important to remind our players of these issues.

NPC Spawning Issues
This is a reminder that some NPCs are part of what we call
'encounter tables', in which only one encounter (NPC(s)) are
present at any given time. Thus, while searching for rare and
hidden NPCs throughout the world, it may be necessarily to slay
common NPCs in the area you are searching in order to get the
rare NPC to appear.

- The EverQuest Team

--
John H. Kim
kim@...