TIP Verb Removed

The TIP verb, which was undergoing the final stages of preview and testing, has been removed indefinitely due to a variety of problems encountered with it. Our thanks to everyone who participated in checking out the verb and helping us ensure that it would work as we envisioned!

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Magic News
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December 3:

• Spells which are successfully cast, but have no effect (for example, casting attack spells at dead creatures) are not supposed to award experience. We have been fixing these as they are found or reported. If you know of any examples, please let us know.
• Healing spells cast on a body part that is already healthy, repeat castings of Bless on a blessed weapon, casting certain Paladin spells with a corrupt soul, and a couple of others have been fixed.

December 12:An error in the formula which calculated the distance between Elanthia and other planets has been corrected. The error had caused the distance to seem to fluctuate as power perception skill increases. The difference in mana was slight enough to be unnoticeable.
However, you may have noticed Ismenia entering and leaving your perceptual range as your skill increased. It has a long comet-like orbit, but its mass is small enough that it contributes very little mana anyway.

December 14:Bond Weapon no longer interferes with weapon lodging.
I would like to remind everyone who exploited this bug for their own profit to read POLICY 7. A big thank you to the player who brought this one to our attention, and raspberries to those who knew about it but didn't report it.