HISTORY 25

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28th Mar 2020: Potential now carries out each mort as one train per 
               point in potential. Free mastery rebuild and costs  
               decreasing by 1% per day. Spamreduce dispel added. (A) 
               flag for aimed mob added. Setwanted cost increased to 4tp.

15th Aug 2020: New Goals in:

                    Into the Long Night        - Teleron
                    War of the Wizards         - Iker
                    Kul Tiras                  - Tymme
                    The Archipelago of Entropy - Teleron 

15th Aug 2020: Gaias Totem spell added. Recoveries removed on Gaias 
               Revenge and Test of Faith. PK range now takes player tier 
               difference into account. Crafters can now skin bonusloot
               items. Gaias Revenge can now include 'lightning' damage.
               Grace period extended and no longer halves exp but does
               block OPK bonuses. OPK bonuses reduced overall. Showpkstats
               added along with 'whois [target] pk'. Other players QP 
               on hand no longer shown in whois.

19th Aug 2020: Dreamfyre returns to the imm team.

23rd Aug 2020: "Lastkills exp" command released.

13th Sep 2020: Emerald and Dragon clan merge. No longer have to remove
               eq/spells for T9 Superhero. New (C)ursed flag added on objects
               and (P) for players. Checklength added. Started to convert 
               config commands to allow explicit on/off syntax. 
               Ignoreauction command added.

30th Jan 2021: Sports & Debate channels back. Multiple config commands
               changed to use on/off syntax. Mobquests and similar commands
               now on a timer rather than real-time. Some changes to 
               weapon damage calculations to improve higher level high
               damage weapon consistency. 

15th Aug 2021: Major new epic area Transcendence added. Release notes
               Transcendence below:

                - Designed for groups of at least 15 players, the
                  difficulty will scale automatically as the group size 
                  increases. 
                - No long repop times - the epic can be run every 3 hours, 
                  so there is no need to schedule around repop times. 
                  However, players will have personalised weekly timers - 
                  While there is no hard limit on the number of runs a p
                  layer chooses to participate in, rewards will have 
                  diminishing returns. 
                - Over 10,000 lines of code have gone into the area, with 
                  numerous unique functions, as well as some familiar ones 
                  that players might have encountered in Titan or Terra. 
                - The epic is designed to be highly engaging, placing a 
                  high emphasis on group members to understand and play 
                  actively to bring the group to success, rather than rely 
                  on following directions. 
                - Many secrets and rewards have yet to be discovered even 
                  in testing. 

24th Oct 2021: Several area changes in this update:

                - New Superhero area and goal Bloodlust Dungeon. Huge new
                  area over 400 rooms.
                - New level 80 to 90 area and goal called Asherodan.
                - New Goal in Storm Mountain.
                - Rewrite of Gypsy Caravan to Wayfarer's Caravan.
                - Several large patches and fixes for Transcendence.

24th Nov 2021: Ocho and Sammael become Aardwolf's newest immortals.

12th Dec 2021: Rumour and Fenix are no longer immortals. Both are for
               real-life reasons and nothing to do with the game.

19th Dec 2021: PK "interference" code added to prevent healing and
               spellups by SH characters when others are engaged in PK.
               VI prompt added to character creation and 'vimode' command
               added. 

1st Feb 2022:  Anaristos is no longer an immortal.

20th Feb 2022: Max bid on market extended from 2 billion to 20 billion. 
               From now on, max bid will also immediately end auction as if 
               it were a buyout. 

 1st Apr 2022: Fiendish joins the Immortal Team.
10th Apr 2022: Rhuli steps down from the Imm team to focus on work.

Continued in 'HISTORY26'...

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