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There is a request in the forum regarding enhancements of speech bubbles:

1. Text should appear progressively with customizable speed
2. There should be a way to signal that the text has been read and the talker may continue, possibly together with an emote like "/me nods impatiently"; if the talker is an NPC, it may be used to speed up timed monologues.

Trying to unpack and repack some archive files of the game distribution, I found irregular content which may be either intentional (optimistically) or the reason of problems, up to crashes (pessimistically)…

a) unprintable character in file name, not supported by Windows in a file system (and in general certainly not recommendable):

world.zip:bindata/_g_bottle01a_01<tabulator>_lm

b) files with different content, but almost identical file names (except for upper/lower case), not supported by Windows in a file system (being case insensitive; but probably supported in the case sensitive CS VFS):

meshes.zip:bindata/_auto_koreGate02_n
meshes.zip:bindata/_auto_koregate02_n

meshes.zip:bindata/Gate01_n
meshes.zip:bindata/gate01_n

etc.

Since Stonebreakers and Hammerwielders were merged to the Stonehammer race, they have no more race icons in the Group window.

In the quest "Right on the Mine", Narvin gives you a "Narving Barrel". I believe the "g" is wrong here.

Allelia says: Oh..maybe go and try Aleena on the roof, she has never really liked Throain|Thorian and avoids him where ever possible.

Kaiman says: Of course if you exclude him buying many many of my wonderful sacks, each and everyone of then|m exquisitely priced.

Jefecra says: Ah, so this is the potion the which Thorian has been selling?

"Gulm Ossoe and the Broken Legs": Edrich offers the clay for six circles; but the automatic quest notes report 1250 tria.

"An Expected Delivery": Automatic quest notes report Ukabnu giving the crate "to take back to Jirosh"; but Jirosh doesn't need it. Unnecessary trip to Ojaveda, instead of Gugrontid. I want my money back.

The Stonehead tavern still has its huge gem above the entrance. But other houses show a wrong texture there.

Sorry for the huge pictures, but better you see where the positions are. Green frame = OK; red frame = missing gem.

1. house of Tyrus Beaut
2. house of Kerryk Cor

I wonder about this reply:

Aliress Doomforge says: This is for Gulm, it contains some drawings, a few stories I have heard over the years, and some notes I took when interviewing her father.

Whose father? No person was mentioned in the sentences before who may have a father; Gulm is a Kran and certainly not female, and if it was Aliress' father, she would say "my father".

Gulm Ossoe asks for the delivery of:

• Crate for Gurgus Dahnik
• Crate for Jayose

Both have no icon.

Pos: (-126 27 53) in hydlaa_plaza

This bassin in the Memorial of Ylian and Enkidukai used to contain water.

There are many dirt heaps which appear almost black, with slight rings in the texture if you turn up the brightness a lot.

While moving through Hydlaa, light maps on the walls keep flickering and changing, as if the wrong map is projected depending on the distance to the flats.

It may depend on a possibly assigned other or no background music for the map; if I log in in Guildhouse25 (Ojaveda, “cave in renovation”), the music which plays during the logging-in (art/music/main/maintheme.ogg) keeps playing.

When I leave the house, the Ojaveda music (art/music/areas/ojaveda/main.ogg) plays; entering the house, the Ojaveda music keeps playing. So I believe there is an entry like “no background music” missing somehow, if not even a specific music.

Suddenly I have the option to give Oriven a Way Amulet. But I never started the quest "The Dark Way Beckons" before.

Levrus tells you:

I usually have tattoo ink available but I dropped my last batch yesterday a ruined a perfectly good robe.

That should possibly be:

I usually have tattoo ink available but I dropped my last batch yesterday and it ruined a perfectly good robe.

Getting Tarela's lockbox from Taemian:

Here is your red liquor, now give me my box.

When the quest finishes, I have two of the Ancient Swords. I believe that either Trasok did not take it before giving it back, or I could skip giving it back by selecting second and third options without the first.

There are several places with small typos, e.g. "Ha>r<nquist" at least twice:

<del>* -Ha>r<nquist pop>s< one of his hands into a pocket and pull>s< out two circles.-</del>
<del>* //Char// says: Ha>r<nquist sent me to collect an old sword hilt from you.</del>
<del>* Amidison Stronghand lower>s< herself to pick a small sack at her feet.</del>

A whole noun seems to be missing in Amidison's activity (BTW, why does the display change between "NPC talk" and possibly "Shout" or some other different coloring sometimes?):

<del>* -She lifts her >???< and smiles to you as you got closer and began to speak.-</del>

Furthermore, punctuations appear to be sparsely used:

<del>* Harnquist says: I'm really busy right now so I want you to go to Amidison and collect her sword hilt and then go to Veja in the arena and collect one of her high quality broad sword blades and bring them both back here. //Several to add, or even better, to break up the sentence?)//</del>
<del>* Amidison Stronghand says: Please take care when delivering this to Harnquist>;< it is quite precious to me.</del>

And finally, the "Old Sword Hilt" has no description. But I assume it will have a distinct look.

The default system message for no available quest is incomplete:

>This NPC no quest for you, but might have other things to say.

This NPC has no quest for you, but might have other things to say.

The attribute 'ip' was updated, but the attribute 'description' still contains the old registration URL.

If I start quest dialogs to travel by pterosaur, the trainer accepts a matching payment as well as a travel token given in another quest.

If I simply tell the trainer where I want to fly to, only the payment is accepted. If I try to give the travel token, he "does not need that".

Typo:

Trasok Starhammer says: I only just finished sharpening them all not to long ago.

should be: not too long (double 'o')

Icon:

"Crate of Sharpened Knives" has none, should have "crate_01a_icon".

According to coordinates a developer got via web console, the center of the Ide fishing ground is in the center of a lake which is 20 m deep at this place. As long as we cannot swim along the surface of a lake, we can never reach that area.

Sometimes I see NPCs which seem to have returned to their home area after a character they attacked managed to escape them. But they keep running like crazy around a position, only a step forth and back. I believe they should return to a "standing" stance after a while without having a target to attack.
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P.S.: Some seem to chill down, maybe it takes more or less time to exactly hit a position. Still, for a while, running around a little spot looks concerning… I guess it may help to give them a lager radius of acceptable home position.
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P.P.S.: It is not the NPC which attacked my char, which I escaped, but another from its tribe, which starts "freaking out".

According to their description, the Ylian Gladiators in the arena are young and unskilled (up to the point that they wield their Broadsword in the left hand); they also flee crisscross in panic when they are close to death.

But their appearance is that of an old person with grey beard.

It doesn’t happen often, but at least in a percent, that I stand close to an opponent, it is certainly inside the first-person view frustum, but still I can’t attack, and a system HUD message in red tells me I need to face it. This is not only annoying, but quite dangerous while fighting rather equal opponents. A small turn is usually enough to solve the situation, but must be done in the correct direction, preferably so that the straight-ahead view line is crossed.

The "Golden Battle Axe" should have a mesh and icon with a similar appearance (double-bladed) to the normal "Battle Axe", yet with a unique texture — consistently with all other "Golden" weapons.

Currently assigned is "normalaxe01c", but it should be "doubleaxe02b" instead (the "Battle Axe" has "doubleaxe02a", the "Platinum Battle Axe" has "doubleaxe02c").

Roughly guessed, only in about 1/20 runs, but it seems that the launcher cannot reliably tell apart incoming packets from different requests.

Watching fights around “Cutthroats’ Bane” on BDRoad1, I often saw a black ring when someone casted “Energy Arrow“, or a huge trail of objects when someone casted “Icy Blast“; the latter is notorious already for crashing clients of beholders, see also PS#5336 / PS#5504

In the “Icy Blast” image, please note how the right object intersects the landscape, to have a correct impression of its dimensions. Use the bottom link to the Original image.

If a character wields items with attached and visible own mesh — like shield, bracers, plate armor — they don’t accept a mouse click to target the character.

Certainly related: When a character rides a mount, you have to target the mounted animal; clicking the character’s mesh doesn’t target. The reason may be that “the character becomes the mount while riding” and gets attached to it like a dummy.

I don’t know how selection by mouse works in Cal3D, but I guess that attached items may be able to reveal their parent in a branch hierarchy.

Corrode0 Mix of salt and vitriol into 2 Salt spirits – exists.

Corrode0 Mix of niter and vitriol into 2 Niter spirits – missing in Alchemy level 16.

• Start an elaborate crafting step which displays the small progress window (e.g. pulverizing a crystal in the mortar, that can take about half a minute in low levels).
• Cancel the progress.
• Try to interact with an NPC (e.g. buy training): This function stays unavailable until the planned crafting duration finished (and the animation stopped).

Means: If you cancel the progress after a few seconds, you still have to wait the rest of the time until you can contact an NPC again.
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P.S.:

More exactly, “Cancel” only closes the progress window, but doesn’t cancel the crafting process. If you keep the ingredient in the container, the crafting step will be finished even after “Cancel” closed the progress window.

Doing several quests, I have now more than 40,000 trias (and I mean, 40,000 tria coins). How do I change them into fewer bigger coins, like, circles?

Worrem Dhoshi used to be a money changer. You could give him coins and he asks you how to change them. But I can't give him 40,000 trias, he doesn't need them. And he doesn't have any quest information for me either.

Just some little typos in the first line:

Hi ,I a looking for a job...

Winch quests seem to be rarely known yet…

Trying to use Mortar and Pestle to pulverize a diamond, having "Basic Potions Tome" in my mind, I get a red-colored progress bar which takes about a minute (already quite suspicious, as if I have the wrong knowledge), and the error message in result is:

>Your crystal was overhelmed by magical power and shattered.

But using Mortar and Pestle should not be related to magic. Not like e.g. Crystals Enchanting.

The automatic scaling of labels is unbalanced now. I can hardly read the labels of people with long names or with long guild names. But a short single name label appears huge.

I just took a flight from Gugrontid to Hydlaa via Pterosaur. But the intermission screen shows dots as if I fly from Ojaveda.

For at least two weeks now there are complaints that Axomir is unavailable, he is probably one of the NPCs which walk through the town model and fall down?

Already correctly walking NPCs are a pain. But NPCs getting lost are even worse! Stop this nonsense with walking quest-relevant NPCs!

The freetext topic "about tower" returns several different replies. One of them still mentions "a Xacha sect who don't follow Laanx" (who doesn't?).

The quest "Introduction to Laanx" contains Xacha too, Sharven mentions them while telling about the history of the temple.