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Year end events at Alter Aeon - Update (Dec 21)

dentin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:08:10 GMT

The year-end celebration has started at Alter Aeon!

We're starting things off with a bang today by re-opening the troll caverns in the dark forest on Archais. This update to the original area adds two more levels of caves, a number of new monsters, fame, equipment, and a quest. The caves are suitable for players in the level 25-30 range.

Other events that are planned:

- On the 25th, chrismas day, we will be opening Scribe's new stone giant area west of Finspang on the mainland. This is a high level area and it puts a very different spin on stone giants than you might be expecting.

- On the 28th, we'll be opening a brand new area north of the Old Indira Forest on the island of Kordan. This level 10-14 area is intended to give low level players on Kordan a safe place to explore, and possibly defeat the mole king while they're at it.

- Up to the 23rd, Shadowfax is running an object creation contest that is open to everyone. Check board 8 for details.

- Several different minor contests and activities similar to the famous Halloween Pumpkin Cannon, schedule TBA.

We're also be running sales on various credit purchases in game if you're into that sort of thing.

Finally, all players who log in from now until the end of the year will get a daily thank you gift from the admin, including experience, practices, and sometimes credits. Thanks to everyone for playing!

-dentin

Alter Aeon MUD
http://www.alteraeon.com

Alter Aeon year end events

dentin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:06:21 GMT

I'd like to let everyone know about the year-end celebration we have planned on Alter Aeon. Starting on the 21st of December and going through new years eve, you can look forward to the following:

- The release of a new low level area near Indira As part of our ongoing efforts to give level 8-12 players more quests and areas to explore, we'll be opening a brand new area north of the Old Indira Forest on the island of Kordan.

- A major update to the troll caves on Archais Originally created over 15 years ago, the troll caves were recently taken offline and given a major makeover. We'll be officially opening the updated area, which should now be suitable for levels 24-30.

- The release of a new high level stone giant area west of Finspang This area, created by the original builder of the Undead City of Jo'Kerin, shows a different side of stone giants. If you're only familiar with the giants that reside in the Ash Mountains, you'll be surprised.

- An object creation contest, open to everyone (this is currently running and submissions will close on Dec 23rd, see SF's post)

- Daily gifts will be given out to everyone who logs in!

- Several different minor contests and activities similar to the famous Halloween Pumpkin Cannon

We'll also be running sales on various credit purchases in game if you're into that sort of thing.

I'll post a more detailed schedule closer to the 21st. We hope to see you there!

-dentin

Alter Aeon MUD
http://www.alteraeon.com

Alter Aeon Halloween Event

dentin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:41:06 GMT

If you like vampires, mummies, demons and other things that go bump in the night...

Stock up on supplies and get ready for a fight.

Come see us on October twenty-ninth, it all starts at midnight.

This friday night/saturday morning at midnight, a new area will be opening in the land of Alter Aeon. This place is known as the nightmare plane - little is known of it as yet, but if the name is any hint it sounds terrifying.

This new high level area, months in the making, consists of nearly 350 rooms, over 150 beasties and a host of new fame and fortunes waiting to be found. Over a half a dozen new quests lines are available to explore.

All day sunday, we will be running arena and other events every few hours to give everyone a chance to participate and say hello. We'll have novelty items and prizes for everyone.

On sunday night/monday morning at midnight, an invasion will begin, with incursions all day on Halloween. There will be prizes for all levels outside of the new player zones.

New this year is a special quest zone to help stop the invasion and get a permanent deed added to your character. This zone is set up to allow groups to progress at their own pace without interference from other players or groups that may also be trying to stop the invasion.

We hope to see you there!

-dentin

Alter Aeon MUD
http://www.alteraeon.com

Alter Aeon Cleric Update

dentin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:11:32 GMT

The 2011 Alter Aeon "Cleric Update" is now live! This update contains a lot of changes to improve traditional cleric spells, add a new mode of casting for mages, and clean up other spells and skills that have traditionally not been as awesome as they could be. Here's a list of the most major changes:

- Mages now have the ability to 'channelcast' (ccast) certain elemental spells in combat. Channelcasting takes longer than regular casting, but is interruptible and costs substantially less mana. This feature allows mages to become a true 'blaster' class without compromising healing mana.

The channel casting skills are 'fire focusing', 'ice focusing', 'lightning focusing' and 'crystal focusing'. The fire plane is easiest to reach, and hence it's the lowest level and easiest to channel. The crystal plane is much harder to reach and only high level mages will be able to channel from it.

- Added a necromancer spell 'bone dragon', which allows you to fly around over the landscape.

- Ice imprison and crystal prison have been updated.

- Ward good and ward evil are now more powerful.

- The charm spell has been updated to make it easier to land and to use control points similar to controlled necromancer minions.

- The peace spell has been improved.

- A level 19 curse, 'overconfidence', has been added.
- A level 19 spell, 'hold undead', has been added.
- A level 28 spell, 'sacred touch', has been added.
- A level 29 spell, 'solace', has been added.

As always, you can use the 'spell find' commands to find the teachers or trainers for new spells and skills.

Everyone is welcome to play, so if you're new to the game feel free to stop by and check us out. For more information, see our web site at:

http://www.alteraeon.com

Happy hunting!

-dentin

Alter Aeon MUD

AA Game Review

dentin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:25:37 GMT

We got a rather lengthy and very positive review on the GamingHud web site! It's really hard for small, indy games like AA to get noticed, so this is a pretty big deal for us.

Please drop by and check it out, maybe post a comment or two. I'm sure they would appreciate the traffic and might be more inclined to write about us in the future. The link is at:

http://gaminghud.com/articles/alter-aeon-mud-a-world-of-infinite-possibilities

-dentin

Level 35 expansion

dentin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:54:53 GMT

Level 35 is now open and available for players to train! The new skills included with this expansion are:

Mage - the 'store' and 'tap' skills, allowing spells to be stored into equipment for later use.

Cleric - 'hallowed ground', used to create temporary recall sites.

Thief - 'scout', used by thieves to safely look ahead, even into dark or otherwise obscured exits.

Warrior - 'blood rage', an extension of the berserker skills used to temporarily raise hitpoints in battle.

Necromancer - 'soulbind', allowing soulstones to be bound to teeth forged bone armor, shields, and blades.

In addition, two new item effects have been added - THIEF_SKILL_LEVEL, and WARRIOR_SKILL_LEVEL, which complement the cast level effects of the spellcasting classes.

See the help pages for these for further information.

-dentin

Alter Aeon 16th Anniversary

dentin — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:54:04 GMT

Hey all,

Alter Aeon's 16th anniversary is this weekend! We have a handful of events planned for both saturday and sunday to celebrate:

- Clan and pk battles throughout the weekend for trophies and prizes

- A leveling contest on a version of the game from 1995

- Several exploration contests for all level ranges

We're also 'officially' turning on area instancing, which means you should start to see it on other areas as we get them ready for it.

Lastly, rather than post updates on boards, I'm going to be adding a 'show events' command that should list event information and schedules. This should help keep everyone up to date on what's going on.

Festivities are already in progress, and should continue through Sunday afternoon.

Christmas Expansion and Update!

dentin — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:53:13 GMT

If you haven't checked the changelog, here's a rough list of the new spells and skills we added for the holidays:

Added level 25 mage skill 'melt'
Added level 27 mage skill 'spell lore'

Added level 6 cleric spell 'faith shield'
Added level 31 cleric spell 'breath of life'
Added level 32 cleric spell 'group waypoint'
Added level 33 cleric spell 'area heal'
Added level 34 cleric spell 'astral bridge'

Added level 8 thief skill 'listen'
Added level 29 thief skill 'fast talking'

Added level 26 warrior skill 'cleave'
Added level 32 warrior skill 'whirlwind'

Added level 8 necromancer spell 'bone blade'
Reworks to a few necromancer spells and skills to make them more useful.

There's also a bunch of other miscellaneous updates and additions, including new achievements and explorer points. Players that log in and hang out for a while also get a 'thank you' gift for each day until December 29th.

We plan to have several minor events over the next few days, but I'm not sure what the various gods have planned, so I can't give more detail yet. I'll be putting together a few things as well once I get my RL stuff taken care of.

Have fun!

Alter Aeon Christmas Event

dentin — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:23:20 GMT

We'll be doing something special for Christmas this year - on Christmas
morning, each of the five classes will be getting a present in the form of
new spells and skills! We've been working on and testing these for the
last couple of weeks, and we think we've got some good stuff for all of the
classes. There's also a few other updates which we think you'll find fun.
All of this will go live early Christmas morning, Saturday December 25th.

There will also be a few events run on Christmas day, so you may want to
set aside some time to log in and check things out.

Happy Holidays!

New (old?) Alter Aeon Article

dentin — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:23:14 GMT

I thought I would mention this, even though it's been a couple of weeks. Someone posted an article about us on BrightHub, in the gaming section:

Mudding Communities Are Alive and Well in Alter Aeon

If you haven't seen it before, you might want to take a look at it. It focuses more on the human aspect of things, and gives you some RL background history on Storm, Lokar, and Morpheus/Sandman. Morpheus' story in particular is pretty cool.

Alter Aeon Necromancer Class Expansion

dentin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:29:42 GMT

The staff of Alter Aeon are pleased to announce the addition of a new Necromancer class to the game. This is the first class expansion ever to be added to the game, and hopefully won't be the last.

A long time in coming, this new class adds a lot of flavor and new options to the game. Some of the available spell and skill groups for necromancers involve:

- creating animated entities of various sorts
- raising your own undead
- summoning demons for fun and profit
- using dragon teeth as powerful spell components
- blood skills involving your own blood
- controlling undead and demons
- soulsteal and other spirit-based spells

A full spell at skill list can be found at:

http://alteraeon.com:8080/spells/necr

A lot of work went into the minion system for this, to allow high level necromancers to create and manage several minions at once. The class plays very differently from any of the others, and is looking like a great addition to the game.

Feel free to stop by and check it out if you haven't already!

The Alter Aeon Community

dentin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:19:19 GMT

I suppose with as many community options are there are available these days, not all of them can be active. So, for whoever stumbles across this, Alter Aeon is in fact still up and running! Feel free to come check us out at:

http://www.alteraeon.com

In the year since I've posted last, we've undergone a tremendous number of changes and game improvements. You can get a pretty complete list of what happened from our 2009 Year In Review article, but for those of you who just want a summary:

- New in-game email system
- Levels 33 and 34 opened
- Microleveling
- Lots of builder improvements
- Potion bottling and throwing
- Healing/regeneration updates

And a lot more.

We've also been busy this year with improvements to the game client, which now has popup status windows, automapping, and group hitpoint bars.

Again, you're welcome to stop by and take a look any time!

May update

dentin — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:12:29 GMT

There's been a lot of interesting stuff going on this last month, including a bunch of brew potion changes, skill additions, and even a new client release! We've also been seeing a higher userload and a lot of newbies so at least some of the hard work is paying off.

To get the new client release (version 0.980), download it from:

http://www.dentinmud.org/AlterAeon.exe

For recent changes over the past month, take a look at this link:

http://dentinmud.org:8080/changelog/759-782

The addition of the warrior skills has been highly looked forward to, though these were primarily utility skills. Potion throwing and bottling are also great additions, with players figuring out new ways to do things and make use of it.

Stop by if you haven't checked things out recently!

dentin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:22:15 GMT

Just a quick note that we finally breached PR:4 on the web site, and there were over 70 players on tonight! It looks like things are finally starting to pick up, and hopefully we'll hit over a hundred in the next month or two.

Updates since the last post are many and varied, but probably the biggest ones that affect mortals are:

- addition of level 33 (and higher)

- a big advertising campaign bringing in new people

- a brand new client release 0.978a, which has a graphical automapper and a whole bunch of neat improvements

There's also been a raft of bug fixes (including a couple of bugs from the late 1990's) and massive updates to the web pages. Check the articles section while regenning; you may be pleasantly surprised at what you find there.

Happy hunting!

The wheel of MUD keeps turning...

dentin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:26:39 GMT

Boy, a huge amount of stuff has happened since I last posted here. As always, the best places to look for details are the Alter Aeon Change Log, and the Alter Aeon Development Blog over at blogspot.

The short stories are:

1) The web pages have continued their steady improvement, and we are now a PR:3 site!

2) A new leveling system for high level players has been installed, and level 33 and higher should be opened within a couple of weeks.

3) A forum/board system has been set up and is in testing.

4) XML/Web 2.0 style data exports for players, event log, and other information has been implemented.

5) DClient updates are in progress, including a new graphical automapper and an initial port to MacOS X.

6) Int/Wis spell requirement changes, which actually caused a huge amount of controversy.

7) Drunkenness has been added and was recently used at a rather large and rancorous mudding party in the Temple of Dentin.

Anyway, if you're bored and haven't stopped by in a while, come on over. The number of changes on the admin side is at least as large as those for players, and we're even planning on opening up positions for main port builders.

dentin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:01:02 GMT

Boy, not much traffic here.

I've actually been doing a lot of posting over at http://mobfactory.blogspot.com. There's updates there for most of the code things I do, as well as some of the newer articles (I just wrote one on bots tonight, its over at http://dentinmud.org/articles/bots_and_botting.html). Anyway, I'll try to add this group to my regular rotation and post at least something from time to time.

A couple changes to the community

callmegeo — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:01:39 GMT

Just a quick update: I've made Dentin a maintainer (you should be able to add information to the community's info page) and I've gotten rid of the advertisements on both the journal and info page. I honestly don't know why we had ads in the first place, but they're gone now.

-Caine

dentin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:37:55 GMT

I'd be happy to put up for an account for this community to kill the ads, is that something that can be done?

Community Interests = More Visitors

callmegeo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:06:09 GMT

Slowly but surely I've been adding more and more topics to the community's interests. We have just over 100, and I could use help thinking up some more to add. The more we have, the more likely someone is going to stumble upon this community and follow the link back to http://www.dentinmud.org/ (which means more newbies, woot!).

Basically I just think of things in or related to the world of Alter Aeon and add them into our interests (i.e., mobs, areas, weapons, etc.). Take a look at what I have so far, and if you can think of any that aren't there yet please reply to this entry with them and I will add them to the list.

And a note for Dentin: I'm thinking about making you a community maintainer, if this is something you'd like to do let me know. I'm not sure, but I think you'd be able to edit our community info, as well as change layouts or whatever.

-Caine

Web page update

dentin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:34:10 GMT

I just figured I'd post updates on the web pages as I get new things up and running. Today, I reworked the newbie guide and intro page, and also added a maps page with the ASCII art and autogen maps. The links are:

http://dentinmud.org/alter-2.1/starting.html

http://dentinmud.org/maps

BTW, what's up with the new layout? It's kinda hard on my eyes.

-dentin

Greetings, potential new members

callmegeo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:18:34 GMT

I started this community about two years ago, give or take a couple months, but no one seemed to join. As with all my failed projects, I forgot about it and locked it away in the back of my brain. However, during my surfing of the LiveJournal website and it's users, I stumbled across Dentin's, the head honcho of Alter Aeon, journal. After taking a look at his profile, I noticed he was the only member of this community. Armed with this information, I decided to attempt to get this community more lively.

I've sent out invitations to everyone who has 'alter aeon' listed in their interests, with hopes that at least some of them accept and we start pumping some life into this community. So, if you're reading this and you play Alter Aeon, please feel free to join; my hopes are that this will be a good way to bring awareness to the MUD so that we might get a flow of new players into the game itself.

If you're reading this and you've never even heard of Alter Aeon, please join us anyways. We'll be more than glad to answer any questions you may have about the game, and some of us may even be willing to help you get started if and when you try your luck in the world of Alter Aeon.

-Caine

dentin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:30:47 GMT

Hey all, I've been updating the various web pages and added a newbie guide that sucks less than the previous. If you haven't already, check out and possibly link to:

http://dentinmud.org/alter-2.1/starting.html

Uicli has also been working on some weird board interfaces for reading boards off-line. This can be found at:

http://shawnbiddle.com/alter/boards

As always, feel free to link to these or other AA resources that might be useful to you.