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Changelog News Post #1704

Misc changes and Instances

Written by: Razmael, the Synthesist
Date: Sunday, January 5th, 2020
Addressed to: Everyone


First, some small changes:
- SPEEDRUNS <entry> will now show the time difference between each split.
- The game's weekday got out of sync somehow, which I've now fixed. This was responsible for things such as the CALENDAR display not lining up.
- Speaking of Calendar, I added a HELP CALENDAR NOTES file to show details on the calendar notes system that was made a few years ago and never got added to any help file. (oops)
- You can now search the in-game dictionary using LOOKUP SEARCH <term>. This is case-insensitive and will find the word anywhere, e.g. 'the' will match on 'synthesist'.
- You can now search the premote listing using EMSEARCH <term>. Works like the above!

Now, the change you've been waiting for. As we've added more instances to Aetolia over the years, we're starting to run into troubles where people can get locked out of an instance due to having been in an entirely different instance. This is intentional, but now you have some tools to manage it.

Commands:
INSTANCES
Shows you all the instance cooldowns you currently have.

INSTANCES CLOSE <id>
You can only have one instance open at a time, this will close it and let you enter a new (different) instance. The closed instance remains on cooldown and you can cannot enter it again until it expires.

INSTANCES RESET <id>
Sometimes you muck up and enter your own instance instead of a friend's. It happens, but don't worry! This command will completely wipe the instance so you can join the right one. Some caveats:
- It can only be reset within the first 90 seconds, this is the 'Grace Duration' on the INSTANCES output.
- If you kill any NPC while inside the instance, the grace duration instantly expires.
- If you move further inside the instance (i.e. away from the starting room), the grace duration instantly expires.
- You will have a short 2 minute cooldown before you can enter any instance at all after using this command.

I've also overhauled the HELP INSTANCES file because it was massively outdated.

Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 16th of Chakros, in the year 485 MA.


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