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When a window is on top of another one, clicking on a button actually activates the button of the window underneath.

This effect is obtained when clicking on ‘save’ in the Quests window, when ‘save’ is on top of one of the general icons (show buddies, inventory, options, etc.)

(Client is 0.5.1.1 running on Fedora 8 with ATI open source drivers.)

The street running left of the Iron Temple goes straight through the last house, which looks a bit odd. It continues behind the house, up to the wall.

I tried /unstick, in a place where I wasn’t actually stuck (but that I couldn’t escape without suicide). Anyway, the screen got shaky and blurry for about 30 seconds (earthquake-like), then I was teleported (safely, eh eh) on the plaza.

I could provide a picture if I’m not being very clear. But mostly, the system says
- you cannot /unstick at this time
- Received at of bound positional data, resetting your position

Latter line 4 times before the teleport occurred.
Meanwhile the screen is shaking and the mouse cursors accumulate (as well as the big blue screen shot system message, a bit as if no glSwapBuffer() is done).

System: Fedora 8 and ATI graphic card (with loads of client crashes, but not this time, ah ah)

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To enrich further the game, mining should be more varied. One way to do it is to make coal more useful (ideally, it should be the most useful ore). Why not require it for the use of furnaces (and ovens)?

Add a slot to furnaces, where coal is added as fuel. After a while, the furnace stops burning, and someone has to put some coal again in it.

To keep it simple, anyone can fuel it, allowing others to use the furnace. When the fuel is gone, no need to change the graphic effects (heat and light): just show a message “The furnace is not hot enough to melt anything”.

If adding a fueling slot is too complicate, changing the proportions would do: add coal to any metal you melt, not to represent a combination process, but to represent fueling (and metals could require different quantities of coal to reach different temperatures).

From there, you could adjust your figures so as to make the coal mines very active, you could require coal quality as a requirement for reaching certain temperatures, and so on.

These may just be futile thoughts about signposts, but could be considered when making other settings updates:

- The countryside signposts are for tourism, but look like directions. I mean, they look like arrows pointing to the next town, but describe a feature next to them. I would see a different shape for them.
- These signs display a fair amount of text. I would see a larger rectangular piece of wood, placed not so high, instead of a small arrow just large enough for a town name. A big milestone would do even better.
- The examine window shows such things as the item category, weight, etc., about which nobody should care. Maybe this type of info could be filtered so as not to appear for this kind of object? Obviously not for signposts only.
- Some signposts describing a monument are planted in the middle of the road. Again, no big deal but odd looking. For example, a stone bridge description would fit better under the bridge, on the roadside (I suspect this is done because the signs do look like arrows, actually).
- Like for many other things, we need 3 clicks to read a signpost, when 1 would be enough. I count the closing click, which is not only unnecessary, but highly difficult for the visually impaired.
- How about a little glowing effect to make the signposts perceptible by night, from a reasonable distance? How about swarms of moths flying around the glowing effect? Bats coming to feed on the moths… :)
- Sign the posts; write a date and some official stuff at the end of the text. Let people know that the government has a hand on the countryside. You could even put a punishment warning about damaging, moving, stealing an official sign.
- Paint some signs in bright colors: they are there to be seen. Maybe you can even send players to repaint them once in a while, as a cheap quest.

To make it short, I like these new signs (thanks to whoever spent his time setting them); it's just that it took me a while to understand what they are about.

Cheers to all

Out of town effects raise suspicion: far scenes are colorful while the area surrounding the character is black (to the point where you don’t even know if you face a flatland or a cliff). More precisely, the floor darkens progressively when approached; I would have a hard time estimating the radius of the black zone, though.

The black zone is different than the black floors I knew (as in the BG valley), where textures would simply not display. Here, I can see some pixel movement, and degrees of darkness; so I set the category as Effects instead of Rendering.

It concerns lighting that affects the maps but not objects. I can spot a small thing, like a flower or book, at a great distance in the sea of ink.

This doesn’t happen in towns (Hydlaa and Oja tested), neither by day nor by night. All seems to be correct there. For example, Ojaveda is in bright daylight, while the path to it stays dark.

It is so dark it is actually unplayable by night (Going to Oja was a real pain). Even by day, I’m often not sure if I’m actually moving when I run.

As a side note, in case it is somehow related, I’ve also experienced some light flickering, notably inside the smith’s house in Oja (Trasok, isn’t he?).

I’ll stay in Hydlaa from now on, to avoid being stuck in a black screen. If you want me to try a specific place, just ask. I’m more an unofficial tester than a player these days.

The system is Fedora 8, running the latest update of psclient. The character is a Stonebreaker.

Cheers to all.

The Mercenary Helm, set in the Medium Armor category, is clearly a Quest Item:
- it cannot be bought anywhere, available only as a quest reward
- it is required to complete another quest
(no names given to avoid spoilers)

However, it can be put on the head, used, and sold.
(yes, I did sell it: it was heavy, redundant, I needed to alight myself to be able to complete another quest, and I had no place to store it although I wanted to keep it as a souvenir).

Now, I also worry about the 4 horns helm (8 kg!), the Enforcer Shield (28 kg!!), and even the shovel, the flute, the spoon and the charm flower; all gone.

When right clicking on the house next to the tax collector (Darphen, Hydlaa plaza), and this on each of the 3 sides of the house, I can get an info window telling me that I see stairs. There’s even an Enter button; clicking on it leads to a (red) message (approximately) like “you are out of reach of the stairs”.