Game updates/2025-11-13
Update Notes: November 13, 2025
This is a minor update to end the Zhia Lian event and start the Harvest Season event. There were also a few fixes ready to go, plus a new skill and big changes to Cartography.
Fixes
- - Fix for "World Interactions" not providing Lore XP
- - Fix for dying XP: now when you die from a specific cause, you cannot get XP from that cause again for 1 day (and in some cases, 10 days). Previously, you could only get XP from it again within 1 day, and then you were locked out of gaining any more XP for that cause.
- - Fix bug causing party frames to duplicate sometimes
- - Additional adjustments to character-creator preview (with more to come; this is a WIP snapshot)
Assessment
when a player examines another player, they previously saw all of that player's badges in alphabetical order. Now, the number of visible badges is determined by the player's Assessment skill level. To raise the Assessment skill you need only examine other players. Results are no longer listed in alphabetical order, instead listed in order of subjective impressiveness-level, so that if you have a low Assessment skill you see only the most impressive badges.
Cartography
Previously, the Cartography skill was using placeholders for the total number of map squares that can be cleared on each map. We've analyzed player data to see how many map squares are really accessible on each map during regular play. We've discarded the outliers, which are usually players who were able to get out-of-bounds in one way or another.
This means that in some cases, the game may show that you've cleared more than 100% of a map's fog. Congratulations, you are truly an intrepid explorer! But you get nothing beyond bragging rights: you can't earn additional Cartography XP for a map once you've reached 100% for it.
Each square of fog is now worth more XP than before, allowing players to actually reach Cartography level 100. (In fact, players can go beyond level 100, up to level 105, if they get 100% in every single mappable area. This was done so that players who aren't extremely anal-retentive can still reach level 100. The levels beyond 100 currently grant no additional rewards.)
We've recalculated everyone's Cartography skill level with these new XP values. Your map fog is NOT cleared or altered in any way -- we just re-evaluated how much XP you should have for clearing the amount of fog you've cleared.
Finally, and most importantly, leveling the Cartography skill actually does something now! As you level up you will receive up to +25 inventory slots, +4 stable slots, and various other nice things.
