We’re happy to announce the release of the Ether and Ichor Altars! They work just like our other altars, but are tailored for the angel and demon races and their metrics.
You can buy the Ether Altars at Bloodlines North, and you can buy the Ichor Altars at Bloodlines South. They should also appear immediately in affiliate vendors (with a refresh) under Tools.
Happy sacrificing!
We’re happy to announce the release of the Ichor and Ether Scanners! They work just like the scanners from other races, but tailored to Angels and Demons.
You can buy them at their respective sims Bloodlines North, and Bloodlines South.They will also appear immediately in affiliate vendors (with a refresh) under Tools.
Happy Scanning!
We’ve been releasing periodic notecards in the Legends group with updates, but just in case we thought we’d also do an info post here!
JOURNAL ORGANIZATION
Some of you no doubt already noticed, but mid-week last week we made an update to how the journal displays quest chains. On a main quest with child or side quests contained within the chain, they will now nest within the main quest. These are indicated by a small white arrow icon, which will turn down or sideways depending on whether the nest is expanded or not. We hope this will make it easier to consult the journal!
ACCEPTING QUESTS
For those that submitted suggestions asking to be able to not as easily (or accidentally) restart quests all the time, we slightly changed the accepting of quests.
Old Way – If a quest is ready to repeat, as soon as you touch the NPC it will accept the quest again immediately.
New Way – If a quest is ready to repeat for you, you can chat with the NPC a little first, and then eventually you’ll get a step in the conversation where you accept the quest, and that’s what will start it over for you again in the journal. Usually this accept step is pretty clear, but a few times it’s triggered by just discussing Quests or Magic Items. Either way, you do have to actually go down the conversation a little before it will accept the quest.
This also means that if you want to talk to the NPC about a different quest you’re on, you don’t have to worry about accidentally accepting another quest repeat in the process. We thought this change made sense and we hope it’s helpful!
REPEATABILITY & ALTS / BOTS CLOGGING UP THE SIM
We’ve had a lot of requests to somehow prevent people from clogging up Midland either on accident (going afk) or on purpose (holding a spot for themselves later or for an alt) so that new players can get more access to the Quests. Obviously we’re working on getting another sim open, but we also want to try to address this issue in other ways.
1) Idle Ejector – we’re working on implementing an idle ejector which will warn you if you are afk / idle for a period of time, and then eventually eject you if you do not get active again.
2) Altering Repeatability – we’re adjusting the repeatability clocks on some of the quests. Some will stay at 24 hours because we think it’s fun to have things to grind on a daily basis, but some of the longer quests are going to 36 hours to see if this will let more new players get a crack at them.
We will see how this goes and consider other options if it seems necessary. And we are always open to suggestions of course as well!
BALANCING
People grinding quests on alts (some more than others) also made us look more carefully at some of the metric balancing. We saw some areas where things could be balanced a little better:
– Copper: we added more copper coins to several of the quests. Some of the quests got significantly more (Wards of Weston is now 50 Copper instead of 25, etc.)
– XP: We added more XP to almost all of the quests.
– Elementum: We adjusted the Elementum on 3 of the magic items; these were quests where there was a pretty significant imbalance between ease/length and the reward at the end. Most notably The Webs We Weave is a pretty short quest and was getting a disproportionately large Elementum pot at the end, and people were grinding that one more than the others, etc.
CHESTS
We did an update to the chests that are sold from this point forward. They turn off the auto-close function, the icons are full bright, and also now you can tag your chest with a name so that it’s easier to keep track of them in inventory. Unfortunately we can’t update chests that are already out there; due to the complexity of all the various resources being stored, it may take some time before we are able to create a machine (as with the blood containers etc.) that can update chests automatically. The old chests will continue to work perfectly however, and any new chests will be the updated v2 version.
CATALOGUE VENDORS
We had a lot of requests for the Legends catalogue vendors and “Friendly” signs, so we got those out! They are in all our main stores now, and will be on MP shortly.
*** UPDATE 6.17.19 ~ STAMINA LOSSES VIA MONSTERS
Whether you had heard or not, up until now it has been possible in the RP areas to avoid some stamina losses via creatures by just allowing yourself to go to 0 Stamina before encountering them. The system would tell you didn’t have enough stamina to continue, but you could keep questing / performing necessary actions with the monsters regardless.
Today we updated the monsters so they have the ability to eject you from the sim. If you take damage from a ghoul, or minotaur, or blister bramble etc. and you don’t have enough stamina in your bar to absorb the hit, you will ‘lose consciousness’ and find yourself waking up elsewhere (usually on Bloodlines East it seems, although it could be any of the other sims).
We’re excited to release a new gacha set of rare textures, this time for all container types! This gacha set is different from the past ones we’ve done however, in that the machines do not take Linden dollars, they take Bloodlines Legends Coins. Each spin is 2 Gold Coins, and while there are not quests providing these coins (yet…) we have added two support NPC stations near each gacha location to assist. Tabitha Manx has a stand set up where she is currently buying Pigeon Feathers for coins, and next door the banker of Weston, Trillian Bardi, has opened a small money exchange where he will trade currency.
A few details to note:
We will also be releasing some new quests next week, as well as doing a little balancing which should make more coins available on the quests, so stay tuned!
We’re excited to announce that the first release of Bloodlines Legends will be happening on our 11th anniversary, May 6th 2019!
This release will be Module One, which will include:
We’ll be having a party on the 6th to celebrate this release and our anniversary, with more details to come so keep watching this blog and the in-world group notices!
We’re elated to announce the release of the Ichor and Ether Bonds! Now angels and demons can propose to those they care about with their very own specialized bond ring boxes and rings.
The Bonds function much the same as our other bonds, with the addition of a HUD that allows you to send Charisma and metrics and interact with other settings, without having to touch the ring itself. The rings are mesh, but not bento rigged; they are however attached to the ring finger attach point, which (with a little adjustment) should work / animate with almost all mesh bodies and hands. We did this to keep the ring editable, and also so that those with certain kinds of mesh bodies would not be excluded from using it!
As with the other Bonds, we have Ring redelivery terminals set up at our main stores. You can find them to the left of the main Torment and Ascent HUD vendors, at Bloodlines South and Bloodlines North, respectively.
We’re happy to announce the release of the Ichor and Ether vials! They work just like our other range of vial products, except of course with these you can use precious ether and ichor metrics to fill them.
***Note: these vials will need to be rezzed on the ground at least once, in order to make them transfer.
You can read more on the Ether Vial and Ichor Vial gear pages. You can buy the Ether Vial at Bloodlines North, and you can buy the Ichor Vial at Bloodlines South.
Happy vial trading!
We’re excited to announce the first release in the Bloodlines Legends RPG Expansion: The Claim Flag!
This item allows you to discover Second Life regions, getting your name permanently listed in the Bloodlines Legends records. You can also use flags to try and take over land claimed by another avatar, do battle with other races for control of land areas, and raise the level of regions which affects treasure and resource discovery levels.
The Flags come in 3 types: a 1-point flag, a 10-point flag, and a 25-point flag. They are all single-use, but will contribute that many points to the ownership of the land.
More info on the product page:
The item is available to start just in our 5 main stores, and will be in catalogue vendors soon:
Stay tuned for more upcoming release in the Bloodlines Legends expansion!
We’ve updated the Bloodlines affiliate vendors, and are releasing the Ascent and Torment affiliate vendor sets! The new vendors are mesh, have streamlined resizing / retexturing, and there is now a Single Item Vendor included for those who wish to display more items on their land. We’ve also updated the TP Board, Updater Terminal, and Key Grabber gem items. They are mesh, have texture change and resizing built in.
These vendors are available at all of our main store sims, just to the left of the main HUD vendor.
The vendors also will be going out as auto-updates to anyone who currently owns them. Thanks as always to everyone for their patience as we got these out! More updates to come soon…
Three new sets of Gacha textures are in the machines as of today!
The machines are still rezzed on each of our sims, so if one set is busy you can try another location:
Bloodlines Midland Gacha Machines
Bloodlines North Gacha Machines
Bloodlines South Gacha Machines
Bloodlines East Gacha Machines
Bloodlines West Gacha Machines
These three sets will be out for about a month and then we’ll pull them back.
If you’d like to read our original Rare / Gacha release post with further details, it’s here.
