Welcome to the TownCrier’s Daily Discord Digest.

In this space, we at the TownCrier will attempt to provide a daily digest of select conversations at the Official GemStone IV Discord server covering a 24-hour period from 10 pm EST the night previous to 10 pm EST of the night listed in the title. Not all conversations will be (nor can be) reported and we will endeavor to utilize a neutral tone (although our unique senses of humor may show through).

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The digest was created by and is edited by the player of Qafziel Nalfein/Darcena Wolf-Valslayer – Jen. Have an error to report on this digest or some information to pass along? Contact Jen on Discord at ArmyJen#0001 or e-mail her. Please reference which digest day to which you are referring.

What You Missed

The majority of this digest record was compiled by Jen; #scripting was compiled by Luxelle.

General Gemstone IV

#general

Milax announced a new Town Square Central episode featuring GM Quilic and information on Windfellow’s Retreat. ” It should be available on your podcast feed and on YouTube.”

MightyUnclean asked for information on what strategies monks use at cap and information was provided.

#prime

GM Valyrka cross-posted a link to a post on the forums about how the Green has had a supernode moved to it.

#premium

Hoy asked, “any teasers for premium festival yet?” GM Quilic responded, “Services all this weekend (primarily). Beyond that, nope!” Hoy asked, “will there be a schedule?” GM Quilic responded, “Grounds open at 9PM. A number of raffles are already set up, and more will be there before things open (or shortly afterwards). I’ll do my best to echo things here for people, and there will be in-game announcements.”

GM Tivvy announced, “My first raffle draws an hour after opening.” Avawren asked why. GM Tivvy responded, “A lot to cram in in not much time, plus I kinda like those quickie start things off with a bang raffles.”

GM Quilic announced, There won’t be any spoilers/teasers ahead of time. You’ll just have to come and see!”

Yaasmin asked, “If you have the desc worked on can you also get it lightened or deepened or is that for another time?” GM TIvvy responded, “Generally that will be two separate services. On rare occasions we might do multiple things to one item but it’s pretty uncommon. And it will be announced by the merchant if they are.”

Nimaera asked, “Are there any quality differences in instruments here? Are ones from Fest going to be in some way better than store bought?” GM Tivvy responded, “Some instruments are scripted. There are also Master Quality instruments but those are rare indeed.”

Ansren asked, “did they make raffles accept notes? I’m assuming not but it doesn’t hurt to ask” GM Quilic replied that raffles do not accept notes.

Flockmaster Nehor posted the following snippet:

ask gargoyle about Dread Lord
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The reedy-looking gargoyle stares at you for a long moment before replying. When it does, its tones are low. “The Dread Lord earned his name through his fearful and terrible magics. This is his lair, his home, and we are all his subjects. Anger him not if you value your life.”

GM Valyrka cross-posted a link to a forum post about raffles she’d set up.

#mechanics

Midgar stated, “So I have been doing a bit of SMR2 testing, as a capped rogue, and I must say I am hugely disappointed with my findings. The diminishing returns are absolutely brutal, and too severe, IMO. For example, going from max skills, no enhancives, to 203 dodge (100 ranks less than max possible), dropped my SMR2 defense by only 4. I knew there were diminishing returns, but that is pitiful” Crime replied, “However, the DS gain by 3x dodge is the more important number?” Midgar gave some more data and information on the subject. He spoke quite a bit about armor penalties. GM Konacon replied, “I can bring your concerns up with the team and see what they think.” GM Konacon added, “Nerfing squares SMRv2 resistance seems like an unlikely outcome, and making the AP more impactful in the SMRv2 would have that effect.” and “Answering your question would probably require a GM more knowledgeable about AP than I am. I really only know its effect as far as SMRv2 is concerned, and I’m not ENTIRELY unhappy with how it is right now. I can tell you I often get concerns opposite of what you’re raising.”

Arianiss asked, “What’s the shimmer trinket appearance set restrictions? 1 side = 100 items, 2 sides =50, 3 = 33?” Naamit responded:

there’s two factors

Estild kindly explained it to me yesterday. The more sides you have, the fewer items on each side you can have.

For example: I have a 3-sided shimmer trinket. I can have up to 33 items on a side (3×3=99). But if I have a 10-sided trinket, I can have a max of 10 items per side.

Here’s (almost) his exact wrods on the matter, after I blew up the game in screamers because I had upgraded shimmer trinket to 10 sides but one side had +10 items already:

There’s 2 restrictions. The first is 100 items across all sets. The second is the number of items in your largest set * the number of sets you have also can’t exceed 100. One of your sets has 12 items, so you take that times the number of total sets available (even if all others are blank). It was at 8, which put you at (12 x 8) 96. Then if you added 2 more sets, it’s (12 x 10) 120. The first restriction is just a simplified version of the second, since if you only have 1 set, the max size can go up to 100.

#help

Conrash/Zannath/Drakkler asked, “is there a way on stormfront to set log on/log off notifications to only show names i have highlighted?” Alisaire responded, “Right click on Arrivals window, Settings. Click Show only from names highlight.”

#scripting

Athias had trouble with a 1602 error from Lich, possibly related to the infamous StormFront memory leak.

Ashraam shared how he added an echo before a conditional.

World of Elanthia

#festivals-and-events

GK! said, “Thanks go to @Luxie ? , who added all the Bardfest 5119 performances to the wiki”

Tovklar asked, “are the types of services at premium festival usually things like GALD? I totally forget from last year but want all the alterations”

Elysia reminded everyone, “I have set aside all the entire world just to play this weekend. After the summer I’ve had, I so desperately need it. Be nice people, to everyone, and the merchants, and have fun. :slight_smile:

SimuCoin Events and Quests

#duskruin

LostRanger stated, “Final champion stunlocked me right out of the gate, that was painful. Goodbye Dreavening, can’t do any more runs until properly spelled again :confused:Arianiss replied, “Get deeds. You don’t lose spells if you have deeds. You’ll lose a deed instead.”

Arianiss stated, “Not sure if it’s been mentioned but the Divine Monocles are back”

PM Wyrom mentioned, “Briar auction price was a mistake. Surprised no one noticed and no one leapt on the price point.” And added, “Today will be much quicker. I only have a little bit. It will be under an hour long. So I have all my stuff ready.”

Regarding stopping collusion, GM Estild replied, “Completely? Of course not. We can certainly do things (like not releasing a list ahead of time) to minimize it though.”

HebrewToYou asked, “any chance someone can take a look at my voln armor? It’s been broken since the lesser moods were added Wednesday. DRAW and BESEECH no longer function. or is ASSIST the route to take here?” PM Wyrom said they would probably have to remove the moods but he would check, then said, “Okay, Retser and I consulted, looks like it won’t work with VolnArmor or FleeArmor.” FleeArmor is Ithzir Armor. He then said, “Returners are also called Ye Olde Dwarven Longbow. Those are the REAL names.”

GM Retsercreated some waivers for 1000 bloodscrip in the tentacle shop” for the parasite host worn locations. They are unlimited.

PM Wyrom announced, “Okay, just so people are aware. The event at roughly 6pm ET tonight (maybe slightly later, but only slightly), will gather at the same location to help speed things up for the spell stripping. Tonight is mostly going to be auctions (as I mentioned on Wednesday) with a focus on HESS.” He later added, “There won’t be enchanting potions or spell knowledge. Or splitters or blink.” He also said no to enchants, coraesine relic, censor, tonis.

PM Wyrom stated, “At least 51 cosmo stones went out. But it’s not something I can easily see who found them or if they were sold.”

Regarding lack of information on auction items given during the auction, PM Wyrom said, “There aren’t a lot of details for things. But the reason for the lack of details is I want to give people a fair chance (obviously with bloodscrip being a factor).”

At 7:25 PM PM Wyrom said, “Booklets should be ending soon. Enjoy Premium festival though, for real.” and “I’ll get the HESS restocked later tonight or tomorrow afternoon”

 

 

Warm Fuzzies

The good stuff, compiled by Jen.

 

Qafziel Nalfein

Qafziel Nalfein, scholar and political devotee, travels Elanith learning more about the relationships between notable parties. His focus is on the Cooperative Houses of Elanthia and Meeting Hall Organizations and their liaisons, but he’s also known to pop into a town meeting on a whim or congratulate someone on reaching the pinnacle of their studies whether it be in warfare or sorcery or something else entirely. Qaf is always on the lookout for ways to connect individuals and organizations both with each other, with adventurers, and with the TownCrier for the betterment of our society. He maintains a network of informants who assist him in his tasks.