Hey all,

Today I have a rather large change to how the Gem of Cloaking or "cloaking" artifact power works. This also includes removal of the 'HiddenRoom' building/haven property. This has arisen from a discussion we created on our forums recently regarding the impact it has on game health, and the overwhelming response there was that a change was needed.

If you haven't been following our forums, you can read this thread for a little more information and to review the discussion leading to the change.
https://forums.aetolia.com/discussion/3161/should-the-gem-of-cloaking-artifact-be-changed-or-removed



Changes
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For Gem of Cloaking/cloaking power owners:
- The Gem of Cloaking/cloaking artifact power will no longer remove your name from the various WHO lists and other places it removed your name.
- It will instead conceal your room on the WHO list against those who are using the thirdeye defence.
- The 'Tulahuar' passphrase will work to turn off or back on the room-concealing effect.

For HiddenRoom:
A bit of preamble for this, but while investigating these issues we discovered that the ObscuringFog and HiddenRoom building effects were bugged, and both did the same thing as the other. The only exception to this was HiddenRoom additionally removed your name from the who list. In light of this, we are deleting the HiddenRoom effect and applying the following changes to rooms that had it:
- If the room didn't already have ObscuringFog on it, the room will be set to ObscuringFog to replace the HiddenRoom effect.
- If the room already had ObscuringFog, we'll be refunding you the cost in gold or credits.
- If the room is in a Haven, we'll just unset the HiddenRoom for you so you can reinvest the haven points as you please.


Tradeins
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If you own either the cloaking artifact, or HiddenRoom, and decide you don't like these changes here's your options.

For Gem of Cloaking/cloaking power owners:
- You can use this GEMTRADE command to get the full 400 credits back on your gem, instead of the normal 2/3rd tradein price.
- Only works if you had this artifact BEFORE the date/time of this post.
- This full refund offer is only available until the end of June. The command won't work after then.

For HiddenRoom owners:
- Send a message to Tiur or myself to arrange a tradein for this.


And that's more or less it. As always, please file a bug or contact me if there's any bugs or problems that arise from this transition.

Penned by my hand on Closday, the 12th of Lanosian, in the year 480 MA.
Discuss this post on our forums:
http://forums.aetolia.com/discussion/3169/announce-post-2963-gem-of-cloaking-hiddenroom-changes