Player Versus Player, Arenas And Guild War, Job Awakening, Server Control Panel

Features

• GTHC-075: Player versus player combat. Players can damage each other in open-world PK, duels, the arenas and guild battles, and chaos points now carry consequences.
• GTHC-003, GTHC-041, GTHC-081: Tournament arena. Brackets, betting, the match clock and prizes, with the arena windows shown in the Classic interface.
• GTHC-060: Practice arena. One-on-one duels with a level band, win/draw/loss records and an item and coin wager paid to the winner.
• GTHC-085: Guild war. Challenge another guild, fight on the scoreboard, plunder and collect the rewards.
• Dan battle. The guild-versus-guild arena on its own map, ending on the clock or on a wipe, with draws.
• GTHC-074: Job awakening. All fourteen jobs can be reached through their quests, and an awakened job stays after you log out.
• GTHC-036: World chat. Messages sent to world chat reach every player.
• Helper system. Pair a new player with a mentor, and the pairing and points survive a restart.
• Lucky stones and the gamble store. Monsters drop lucky stones that buy items from the gamble store.
• GTHC-073, GTHC-090: Quest scroll shop and auto-quest scrolls. The shop sells, and a scroll starts the quest it names.
• World change item and experience events. The world change item works, and game masters can run experience-rate events.
• Item expiry. Timed items run out when their time is up.
• Control panel moderation, news and support. Staff can ban, unban, disconnect and force a password reset from the browser, and publish news.
• Server settings from the panel. Rates, the practice arena, guild battles and the world map can be changed without editing data files or restarting.
• oldschoolops.com sign-in. An operator can let players log in with their oldschoolops.com account.
• First administrator. A new server prints a one-time password that creates the first Super Administrator.

Improvements

• GTHC-006: Mouse-only controls. Movement is click to move, as in the original; keyboard movement and tab targeting are gone.
• One server process. Login and the game run in one program, and the client connects to one address without a server-select screen.
• Loading screen. The client shows a window with its progress straight away instead of nothing for half a minute.
• GTHC-012: NPC conversations. All twelve script actions that used to close the dialog and do nothing now work.
• GTHC-086, GTHC-087: Skill learning. The skill window's requirements are enforced, and gen capability is awarded on the authored curve.
• GTHC-084: Bow emote. Other players see you bow.
• Bans. A banned account is refused at every login, and a ban ends the session already in progress.
• Development server notice. Entering the world says that GM commands are open to everyone on this server.

Fixes

• GTHC-016: Post office postage. Mailing coins created them out of nothing instead of charging the sender.
• GTHC-020: Item option bonuses. Most options did nothing and some granted the wrong stat; they now match the tooltip.
• GTHC-022: Craft and upgrade. Both stalled after the materials were placed and now complete.
• GTHC-076: Party chat and the party window. Party chat was dropped and the party window did not come back after a relog.
• GTHC-080: Guild names and emblems. They never showed over players and now do.
• GTHC-078, GTHC-079: Quest rewards. Coin rewards were paid as experience, and a full inventory did not stop a quest from completing.
• GTHC-029, GTHC-030, GTHC-031, GTHC-033: Chat bans. A mute silenced only world chat, never ran out, told the player nothing and ended at relog.
• GTHC-026, GTHC-027: Silent refusals. Whispering an unknown name and casting a refused skill now say why.
• GTHC-045: Appearance changes. A skin change is kept after logout.
• GTHC-034: Stack use. Using a stackable item takes one from the stack the same way the client shows it.
• GTHC-104, GTHC-105: Magic book and e-pack recharge. The magic book reported success as failure, and recharge failures all showed one generic message.
• GTHC-106: Seasonal snow. Turning the season off made it snow.
• GTHC-054: Alt-tab. The client survives losing its display device.
• GTHC-058: Unreachable server. The client exits with a logged reason instead of waiting on a dialog nobody can see.
• GTHC-002: Launcher updates. A Classic install no longer turns itself into a Gate to Heavens install after a launcher update.
• Loading hang. A launcher login could hang on the loading screen and then disconnect.
• Dead characters. A dead character could still be walked around the world.