Patch Notes, Wednesday May 5th, 2010

[Kerrik]

Originally Posted by Zordana [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

we have the spammer now annoying us with only 1 message a minute..
how about dont allow certain badwords in OOC/auction?
if the sentence contains one of the badwords, it will get rejected.

Unfortunately trolls and spammers will always find some way around filters, even if they have to split the "bad" words up or misspell them. The only way to completely prevent spamming is to remove chat entirely, since even restricting it to single zone allows a spammer to spam that zone. I'd say 1 message per minute is a low enough threshold to be able to ignore idiots, without resorting to constantly nerfing legitimate uses for chat as well as the spammers.

[3shirtlessmen]

We could always have GLOBAL /ooc accept messages from characters above level 4 or 5.

[moebius8]

reported dot damage was added into the patch of june 11 2003.

dot duration ending messages have been in the game since launch. they did make sure ALL dots reported correctly in 2005 which wasnt the case previously.

the patch of sept 26th 2002 included this line

The "Your XXX Spell Has Worn Off" messages for DoT spells will now go
to the right character.


that certainly implies they were in previously however buggy

after spending most of a shift reading patch messages between actual work i can say there are no other patch messages between launch and dec 2007 that mention dot duration reporting other than the few already referenced.

[Omnimorph]

I sort of agree with that.