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Good news fellow players, the Icesus Assocation memberships just got a little boost. Membership bonuses at the moment are: Finger info in the game Forum ranks Exclusive passage to the Tavern of Thousand Tales (east side of Snowfall, go down past the bulky guard) Max 200 line channel last -command, i...

Made two bug fixes / improvements that you might find useful. First of all, Cutter and I optimized the outworld code to reduce lag bursts in game. So far it looks promising, major lagbursts are gone and even the small ones are a lot less frequent. Another improvement is about Forum accounts. Changin...

A massive power failure that hit our ISP caused the game server to crash & reboot itself today around 11:30 local time.

Crash recoveries are done by the automated crash recovery system.

Some players experienced lost explore count after the maintenance reboot. It seems I got the problem under control, if nothing more severe comes up the players affected can visit the rooms again to gain the explore back (and get exp while doing it).

Today we had 2 hours of server maintenance downtime. Latest security patches were installed and several other software components were updated.

PS. 'countries' seems to work again.

Greetings, dear mortals. I'm pleased to announce a contest open for all Icesus players. The idea is simple: add a WWW-link to www.icesus.org -homepage . The idea is to get more visibility for our pages and to attract new players. You can be creative with your linking but no nonsense links, please. W...

The server was shut down because of a power failure. Automatic crash recovery will give back your items. Contact Belannaer for mount reimburses.

Update: Our ISP regrets the problems in their data center. The services were unavailable from 17:30 to 18:50 local time.

The shutdown process got screwed earlier today, resulting the game not booting at all. I managed to track down the problem to recent Gaesati additions, and they have been fixed. If the problem persists, please let me know. Reimburses can be obtained by sending mudmail to Idles. PS. I'm monitoring it...

The annual meeting of the Icesus Association, Jää ry, will be held on Saturday 23.4.2005. The meeting will be held at Ramada Hotel in Oulu, Finland starting at 16:30. Written invitations to the annual meeting will be sent to all supporting members of Jää ry. We kindly request participants to reg...

The development server of Icesus, Ice-dev, was moved to a faster server.

Those who are concerned can obtain the new address from the Icesus Developer Wiki.

The cost of reincarnation was lowered in four ways: * There is a maximum cost of reincarnation, around 30M exp * If you reinc again within an hour (used to be 30mins), the cost is very low * The penalty for reincing within a few days of the first reinc is now lower * The benefit for waiting over a m...

Yoz was caught bragging about his botting activities with fletchery. Gods frown upon botters, especially those who seem to be proud for what they have done.

A divine curse has been cast upon Yoz. As a result he will never succeed in his fletchery attempts from now on.

It is a new year and time to renew your Icesus Assocation memberships! The membership fee for Icesus Assocation, Jää Ry, is 50 euros in 2005. To join visit the http://www.icesus.org/Association/join.php page. Please send me mudmail confirming that you have paid, including with your snail mail addr...

The staff of Icesus wishes Merry Christmas to all players of Icesus. We hope you participate in our holiday events. A fishing marathon will be held on 27th December starting 12:00 EET.

misrobo wrote:It is my impression that armour is only useful against physical damage.

The usefulness of armour depends heavily on what damage is being dealt. For example, armour does offer protection against fire and cold damage, but has no effect on mental (psionic) and asphyxiation damage.