EmpireMUD 2.0 beta 5

• New adventures: Guild of Adventurers, Permafrost, Monsoon Rift, Colossal Red Dragon (full update), Hidden Chamber of Neferkare, Volcano, That Damned River, Unstable Portal, and Lost Temple.
• Overhauled parts of the skill system including the option of adding minor skill trees, trees that can't be dropped, and a change to the low end of the Vampire skill to make it work more like other skills.
• Many new abilities including class abilities and skill abilities. Players now get an additional ability point.
• Skill swap allows two full sets of ability choices on each character.
• Zero-level abilities replace systems that formerly gave direct skill gain without using an ability, simplifying the skill system.
• New optional approval system for players.
• Multiple archetype categories to support features like Race or Culture.
• The fight code was updated with combat meters, togglable messages, and improvements to timing.
• Major improvements to the scripting system.
• Reduced game lag with overhauls to territory management and map evolution.
• New data system stores important generic data between uptimes.
• OLC editor for socials.
• Major improvements to the quest engine.
• Better logging for immortal commands.
• More complex resources and building maintenance.
• Newbie islands can now be "naturalized" automatically each year (this defaults to off).
• Eliminated virtually all of the known bugs, including major crash bugs.
• Added repeatable daily quests (including ones that appear around a player's city).
• Improved how the scripting system assigns unique IDs to things, to increase the time until the mud runs out of ID-space each uptime.