With LifeTankXI 11.7.0.1, admin detection will no longer be available. This means that no text output or sounds will trigger when an admin sends you a tell or appears on radar. In other words, there will be no output from the plugin what so ever when you are UCM tested by an admin.


In addition, we will be requiring all users to upgrade to the latest version of LifeTank. The Decal developers will disable all versions prior to 11.7.0.1, effective as of the September 2006 patch.


We realize that many of you may have liked this feature. However, after discussing this with Turbine, we feel that moving forward, the best option is to remove admin detection from the plugin. This lessens the plugins appeal for UCM combat, which is against the game's Code of Conduct. We realize that this will not stop players from using the plugin to UCM. However, this is not intended to be a UCM solution and both Turbine and the LifeTankXI Development Team were not happy with the previous state of the plugin. This change brings LifeTank more in line with the stated goal of being a combat aid and is our only planned change in this regard.


You can download the new release from http://lifetank.fissionweb.net//index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=14&Itemid=23


C'relic has posted the release announcement.


Moving forward, many new features are in development! Here's a glimpse:


Auto Mana Stone Looting and Recharge


Users will be able to specify a mana stone type, and minimum mana on "charge" items. LifeTank will look for these items and pick them up, to a user-defined limit. When your items run low on mana, LifeTank will use a charged mana stone. If the stone breaks, it will look for more.


This was originally slated for this release, but last minute problems forced us to delay it for a future release. Expect it in the next version.


Dungeon Spot Setup


Players will be able to specify "dungeon spots" (i.e., Egg Room) which will help players find these locations. An arrow with the spot name will appear at the specified location, so players can set up properly. Movement will not be automated.


This is progressing nicely, and should be in the next version.


Buffing Improvements


Many people have asked for a "smater" buffing system, with buff time detection and multiple weapon buffs. This is something we plan on doing, and expect to have completed in a future release.


Thank you,


Paraduck, C'relic, and Replex of MT

 

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This is why Turbines motto is exploit early, exploit often. If you didn't cheat in the past, its impossible to catch up now. Even the player base is going by the same motto now.


I really don't care about this for myself, as everyone knows I have played only El-Diablo for many years.


But it sucks that the ability to UCM is being taken away from future users. That means there will be no more high levels being created as rapidly. This means less competition for myself.


This is helping ruin the game because new characters will not be created and leveled. Sure, more valid characters will be created, but who will care when the game is dead due to nobody playing?


Let me explain further...


I know you people who hug the CoC daily won't understand what I am saying. You'll curse me out and call me a cheater despite the fact I mentioned I no longer have use for UCM. But, try to understand this: if new characters are not entering the game, and old characters are quitting, EVENTUALLY THERE WILL BE NO ONE LEFT. It's like a leak in a tub. What will happen eventually?


Now if you can understand that point... understand that Lifetank and UCMing creates new character flow. It is what helps maintain this game.


This game is going to slowly die off completely when people stop creating characters.

 

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The real solution to "catching up" should be vastly increasing quest XP rewards, as Gouru has suggested. Allowing people to break the CoC very easily isn't a good solution. No matter how much it's posted about, allowing UCM isn't going to magically increase the number of players in the game, or keep people playing it.

 

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baiting

 

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"Auto Mana Stone Looting and Recharge


Users will be able to specify a mana stone type, and minimum mana on "charge" items. LifeTank will look for these items and pick them up, to a user-defined limit. When your items run low on mana, LifeTank will use a charged mana stone. If the stone breaks, it will look for more.


This was originally slated for this release, but last minute problems forced us to delay it for a future release. Expect it in the next version."


i love you guys...

Until Turbine says that LifeTank is not allowed, it still is a legal plugin. If you want to call what we did tampering, that's certainly your choice. We (the plugin devs) nor Turbine see it as such. Rather, we see it brought more in line with the game's CoC. Naturally, there are limits as to what we can do, which is why you will never see an "idle timer" or the like. As I said, this is our only change in this manner that we will be making. I'm not saying that it's perfectly in line with the CoC, but it's much more reasonable and acceptable than it was previously.

 

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So now that you've UCMed your way to 275 you don't want anyone else UCMing and having the same benefits as you?


Very thoughtful.

 

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Do not make this discussion personal.

 

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They want Dters to quit,their trying to make it so they can tend to the cearbear worlds.

Read his sig

 

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If they expect people to sit there behind their computer and level characters from 1-275 manually hunting, they're effing tards.


They OBVIOUSLY want this game to die and don't want anyone new to start playing.

 

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