====== Updates & Upgrades Pipeline ======

===== AOI Gameplay update Pipeline =====

**Completed Updates**
===5-20-2025 (Maverick) AOI Update – Dragon Sea Expansion===

We are launching a new update packed with content, balance tweaks, and quality-of-life fixes. Dive in!

NEW ZONE: DRAGON SEA
-Above & Below Water – Explore sunlit shoals and shadowy depths
-400+ Rooms, 150+ Unique Mobs
-Plenty of leveling encounters for levels 1–50, plus a daring deep-sea sector for the truly brave

NEW CLERIC SPELL
-Wave of Rejuvenation – Cleric AOE heal 

CLASS & COMBAT ADJUSTMENTS
-Clerics: Heal speed & power getting a MAJOR boost with remorts
-Thieves: Backstab multiplier increases per remort; failure/success lags reduced with remorts
-Evade: Fixed; success chance ramps up with remorts
-Backstab XP Cap: Removed.

DAMAGE VERBS:
-New damage messages for truly brutal mobs.  Atomize bumped and will remain at the top.

FEATURES & FIXES
-Nexus Recall: Fixed
-Dice Roll Feature (e.g. dice 10d10): New fun command. Let RNG decide who gets that rare gear
-Remort Zone Corpses: When your corpse decays in a remort room, it’s sent above the remort lounge.  Retrieve it with a quest-shop item
-Poison Removal: Fixed display message 

===== Server/Infra Pipeline =====

===Complete===
  * **3/29/2025:** Migrated to new server
  * **5/16/2025:** Clustered nodes for manual failover to reduce downtime from server hardware changes

===Pipeline===
  * **Fall 2025:** Redundant firewall & internet connection to reduce downtime from network infrastructure changes
  * **Fall 2025:** Re-enable auto-run script so game starts automatically after reboot
  * **Fall 2025:** Fix logging