Breakfast Topic: If real life were a patch
by Dan O'Halloran 
Sep 25th 2007 at 8:00AM
In honor of today's long awaited update, this morning's Breakfast Topic poses a patch-related proposition. Player Beardsley of the Tichondrius server posed a very interesting question: If real life were an upcoming patch, what would you put in it?Answers from the thread is very inventive. Here are my favorites so far:
- Fixed a problem with gas prices not resetting.
- A new zone has been added, "Mars"
- We have found nuclear bombs to have had an unfair advantage in the Battlegrounds and will be receiving a significant nerf.
NOTE: Keep it clean and unoffensive, please.
Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast Topics
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
raverach Sep 25th 2007 8:06AM
· loot will now drop from bosses.
Mystrana Sep 25th 2007 8:10AM
-Fixed a bug that should help keep life from crashing to desktop
Nati Sep 25th 2007 8:14AM
- All zones have been made into Sanctuaries - PvP is now disabled in the entire world.
- All oil resource nodes have been replaced with replenishable energy source resource nodes.
- The hoverbike engineering pattern has been added to the appropriate vendors.
bnorman Sep 25th 2007 8:14AM
The maximum amount of time spent on WoW has increased to *infinity* hours before you gain girlfriend aggro.
nea Sep 25th 2007 8:14AM
Player character would no longer die due to not resting or eating for long periods of time.
khthon Sep 25th 2007 8:35AM
- Fixed a persistent bug that prevented any magic from working.
- Added new content to following instances: Movie plots
- Removed language barrier between player characters of different faction.
- Reputation gain rate with friends and love interests increased greatly.
-Added new mount: Flying Car.
Tolento Sep 25th 2007 8:42AM
Any player can now conjure food and water regardless of class, race or level.
Sky_Paladin Sep 25th 2007 8:45AM
Fixed a bug where characters power and abilities significantly decreased and continued to decline when they reached level 70.
Erika Sep 25th 2007 9:25AM
Training is now dependant on actual skill and not level.
shoots18 Sep 25th 2007 9:02AM
increased set gold amounts for rendered profession services.
no maximum /played
Ryan Sep 25th 2007 9:03AM
@3 Players may find that PVP combat still works in a technical sense, however using these features is against the ToS and players not respecting these rule changes will be removed.
Vestras Sep 25th 2007 9:07AM
New Content/Zone: Magical Academy has been implemented. For a cost, any player may train in one of the schools of magic, although PVP will be limited until a future patch.
Bug Fix: The Celebrity charm debuff will no longer apply to female players.
Bug Fix: Roadkill now drop loot, but with an XP pentalty for each kill.
Bug Fix: Town guards will no longer attack players who have a diffrent starting race than the locals.
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug which caused First Aid providers and Physicians to over charge. A similar bug for armor and mount repairs have all been fixed. These providers will not charge the appropriate low rate costs.
Bug Fix: the unintentional release of the AIDS debuff outside it's intended zone has been corrected. This debuff will no longer effect humans.
*Note: NPC Freddy Mercury has been fixed, and will once again be active in the "Queen Concert" event.
Bug Fix: Fixed a sound error which caused Canine pets to bark. This was unintended, and has been removed.
Mages may now train Owl familiars at level 25.
Players may now report country raid leaders for incompetence at any time rather than once every 4 years.
Bug Fix: The epic mount, Space Shuttle, has been patched to avoid a critical error. In addition, the cost of this mount will be significantly reduced to allow more players access to them.
The Walmart 5-Man instance will no longer randomly spawn in other zones. In addition, Epic loot will be added to the "Midnight toy run" quest chain.
raverach Sep 25th 2007 9:39AM
· Fixed a bug that prevented players from retrieving their corpses after death.
Carl Q. Sep 25th 2007 10:24AM
@11: Good job. Sad bugs that should be fixed, indeed. You = win.
Cougar Sep 25th 2007 9:51AM
Fixed a bug in voice chat that made female characters say something different than what was actually meant.
Zone "Work" was removed as it was found to much longer than what was intended.
All players have been given the portal spells to all major cities to greatly decrease travel times.
Candina@WH Sep 25th 2007 10:01AM
Added new merchants to change body shape to go with the new hair styles.
Killing bosses will no longer apply the prison time debuff.
Remove disease now works on all forms of cancer, as intended.
The Politician AI has been updated, Politicans will now actually do work, instead of just farming gold.
Fossil Fuel resources will no longer apply a stackable C02 DOT.
A bug has been fixed so that playing WoW now generates positive gold over time, instead of the opposite.
A bug has been fixed so that longer play times on WoW results in a faction reputation gain. Players had reported that play time was resulting in rep loss with factions: Family, Girlfriend, Friends, Boss, etc.
zarende Sep 25th 2007 10:01AM
* Content has been added to Australia.
The desert has been replaced by: rivers of chocolate and wild flower fields.
* Polymorph in 5 man instances has been defaulted to a moose. Players complained of mixing enemies with the domesticated fauna.
*Kangaroos have had their unarmed skill decreased. The skill level did not cater for inexperienced players who wanted to pet them.
* The media may no longer use mind control. In the event of subjective news reporting a debuff with appear "You are where you do not belong" the player will then be teleported to host a reality television show.
Avonturier Sep 25th 2007 10:20AM
The following items can now be purchased at the appropiate vendors:
- jetpacks
- pills that contain a whole diner
- robot maids
- hoverboards
Hazimus Maximus Sep 25th 2007 10:36AM
Hahaha... @ 1 and 14. Excellent
*Fixed the issue with Herbalism and Alchemy causing the Local Law Enforcement faction to aggro.
*Mounts no longer take damage, also, the Insurance skill requirement has been removed from the game.
*You no longer must pay taxes to your faction. NPC's were reported to be exploiting the use of these funds to pay for issues outside of their zone.
Hammer Sep 25th 2007 10:42AM
Beer will no longer cause the 'Act Stupidly' or 'Slurring' debuffs, however the 'Hangover' debuff is working as intended to prevent abuse of the system.
@ 11 Best so far.