Nov 28 2011 - Christmas items update take 2

[Red Squirrel]

In order to better manage the Christmas related decoration items, they have been recoded to fall under one class and can easily be managed. A lot of them were already part of RunUO and had a year hard coded and we just never bothered to change it. Some had the right year, others did not...it was just a mess. Now all items will spawn with the year of that Christmas, so year after year the same items can be spawned in events and will show that year.

As a result of this conversion, lot of existing items had to be converted to the new ones, this was a multi step process (wont get into details as to why) and there is one more step left to finalize this conversion. Next time we need to restart it will take place.

Unfortunately as part of this conversion, any year tag on the items have been removed as the conversions caused them to get this year. It was suppose to update properly but for some reason the second round did not update properly so I will just be setting them to 0 to not cause confusion.

From 2011 and on, Christmas items will have the right year on them. This is just an aesthetic thing so rather minor.

If you see any 2011 items, they will be fixed next update to not show a year.

Speaking of Christmas, the event is coming in the next week or so and will be announced then. It is more or less ready other than some world building.

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