Tarken received a nifty tweak to his bardic prowess and got banned for robotting. He also hit the jackpot-bonus of ten levelzaps by lying to an Arch. Congratulations!
Batclient v1.61 has been made available. Your client will download patch upon restart. It has been published on the main server and EU-mirror (with U.S. mirror following suit shortly).
Balanced Alternative Techniques ry is 'Proud to present' the Release of Batclient version 1.60!! The new client version will auto-update on restart; alternatively, you can download it from http://www.bat.org/. See the Batclient-forum on Bat's webpages for the Changelog/What's new information!
Just to clarify on the new bug-tracker. Old bugs, that are currently in old bugtracker will be transferred to the new system. It will be connected with clearing obsolete things and verifying the existing database. So, don't worry, old reports aren't lost or discarded.
Heidel was awarded 15 levels today, 5 for new, innovative, and creative developments to the world of BatMUD, and 10 for having a name that rhymes with "idle".
One of Bat's servers is currently having problems with its storage system. This causes problems with www.bat.org and some other services, but the MUD and HCBat are unaffected. We are working on the problem.
A group of very anxious active wizards whose names were undisclosed but included Ne..th, Ena...ndor and Man...drake have received minor (or major) uptunes in their levels. We would like to thank them for their contributions and hope they will continue for centuries to come.