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Wonderful Patch Notes

Before I disappear again, I just wanted to share these interesting tidbits in the patch notes with you!

Sound Improvements

  • It is now possible to enable warning sounds for when your shield/armor/hull drop below a certain threshold.
  • Damage notification plays a warning sound whenever your shield / hull / armor drops below a certain threshold.
  • Threshold for damage notification is customizable from the HUD settings.
  • The jukebox now uses MP3 format for its music. Additionally, custom playlists may be specified.
  • MP3 based Jukebox now supports custom play-lists in .m3u / .pls / .ram / .pink format.
  • Jukebox supports folder loading.

User Interface

  • Players can now get the repair quote on items through the right click menu, if the station they are in has a repair service.
  • There are now wallet entries for corporation taxes perceived on mission rewards, mission bonus rewards and NPC bounties with a value of over 100.000 ISK.
  • If you use a non-recurring payment method such as PLEX or ETC and have 10 days or less left on your account you will be shown an info message in the character selection screen.
  • It is now possible to view the content of containers and ships remotely. Note that you can not view the contents of password locked containers.
  • You will now autojoin your fleet again if you connect within 2 minutes of being disconnected. You will not enter your old position within the fleet however.
  • You can now report players as ‘ISK Spammer’ from the right click menu of a character in chat. This will remove all their messages from that channel and report it to the GM’s

Modules

  • Tracking computers have had their accuracy falloff bonus doubled, and the stacking penalty has been scaled up to account for this change.

Exploration & Deadspace

  • The loot of several DED complexes has been rebalanced.

UI

  • There are again zoom buttons available. They can be shown/hidden from the HUD menu.
  • If you drop a character/corporation/item etc. into the chat it will now be linked to show info by default. The options text only, eve mail, and show note have been removed.
  • People who really fail at PvP can now navigate through their loss mails beyond the first page.

Some are totally unexpected and unannounced (or at least from what I heard), while some others (loot rebalancing) were expected. Ha, I am excited!



1 comment

1 Dante Edmundo { 11.28.09 at 5:27 PM }

I’m pretty impressed with the patch notes. For all the outcry about the new sov mechanics and holding back on the MoM upgrades – CCP clearly has been busy with a ton of other features or fixes. Good to see.

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