byCarmine

Probably the most noticable change you’ll notice is that the skill lists have been reorganised a bit. Languages are now under the general tab, and magic and special race skills are now under the specia tab. The magic has been divided up into the four main sections: prospecting, harvesting, merging and casting.

Next thing I worked on was the harvesting skill set. To it, I added a use less focus skill, which does as you’d think it would. More affects means you can get more than one affect on an orb you are harvesting and preserve source reduces the likely hood of a source exploding. What’s that you say? Exploding? That’s right, without this skill, a source has a one in five chance of exploding.. and with the explosion, not only does it cause you damage, but it also disappears. Not good. So this is a very, valuable skill for any budding kha wielder.

So, I’ve got a couple of weeks ‘off’ and am deciding to be a little productive. I have sketched out a plan (on paper) for the next stage of upgrades to the magic system. What we have now is currently just the first in a series of steps towards the final product. It is not the final product, and it is far from being so.

So, what’s gone in? A bunch of prospecting skills:

prospect 20m, 40m and 60m

Basically these are skills for one, two and three ‘room’ range. Without these skills you will only be able to have a chance of detecting sources in the room you are in. How prospecting works has been completely rewritten. This means it is going to screw up (hopefully) a lot less. You will be able to pick up several sources at once, be told direction, and be given an indication of how close they are. How easily you can pick up a source is going to be dependant on your skill at what ever range the source is at.

increase max focus

Does what it says on the box. Increases your maximum focus beyond the effect that intelligence and pysche already has on it.

use less focus

Means that your prospecting will use less focus.

focus regen

Another ‘does what it says on the box’ kind of thing. You regen focus faster.

More coming. Won’t give anything away here, but will post once I do. Due to some problems with our php scripts and the new server, I currently cannot update help files. So until I get on to that, use this as your resource for information on updates and changes.