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“You see a female Diaboli in front of you named Hurenes Shekalel”, this fits with her appearance.

“A tell Diaboli male, wiht a baby face. He enjoys being around other people, and smiles constantly. He seems to be busy in Seduna’s restaurant.” , this clearly belongs to someone else.

At the end of his quest, Xargon suggests, that there is more to learn in the tutorial,
especially a bulletin board.

I’ve met several new players, deperately looking for said bulletin board or other things
to do.

I suggest to leave out that part, until the bulletin board or other things to explore
are actually added to the tutorial.

Yay, tribes! I spend an hour playing catch with the eagle gobbles at the carp pond near Gugrontid. <3

However, their less friendly serpent gobble cousins at the other side of the pond are slightly hindered by the new behaviour.
When I approach them, the following happens more often than not:
1. Serpent Gobbles says: Bad, bad. You bad.
2. Serpent Gobble attack (where’s the “s” btw?) Kryolus with normal stance.
3. Serpent Gobble resumes frolicking around without trying to hit me even once.

If I stand around long enough to be eventually attacked and defend myself, he cries “Enemy! Enemy! Alert!” But this also does not change the behaviour of his two friends.

I transformed 16 single "spreading apple jam" to "bread with apple jam" and got ~7.5 progression points.
Transforming a stack of 16 at once gave less then 0.5 points.

7.5/0.5 = 15 ~ 16 (I can't count fractions of PP exactly).

Looks like a stack gives the same experience like a single item.

(I have cooking level 33.)

When you place a book on the ground or in a shelf,
it is placed to low: One half is stuck under the "plane"
you put it on.

(Sorry, it won't let me lower the priority .)

Tested this with bread slice and apple:

On the right table in Refitia’s kitchen are three wooden bowls.
Only this one accepts the food, the others say “This item cannot be added to this container” http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/Minks_bucket/shot46.jpg

Same at Orchibaly’s. the picture again has the working bowl highlighted.
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/Minks_bucket/shot47.jpg

Both icon and model are blue, despite the name.

At the moment, the tutorial rats are very strong in comparison with most newly created characters, leading to a lot of frustration for new players.

As a tutorial helper I have witnessed several characters needing 5 minutes and more for a single rat with melee. With other players, I grouped, because they were not able to defeat the rat at all and got killed when they tried alone. My char is an untrained Kran (= one of the strongest newborn chars you can get) and can defeat the rats with melee, barely. And to get the hide neccessary for the quest, you normally need to kill several of them.

You can buy a dagger from Ibhaar before the fight, but at that point, you have not been taught yet how to do that. Neither have you been told about grouping. So most newbies face the rats alone and bare-handed or even wield their pickaxe which weakens their melee damage even further.

So in my opinion, it would be nice to have a weaker copy of the one-eyed rats for the tutorial. Maybe add a warning, that the rats “outside” will be stronger?

The screen with the motd has an additional text message in the lower right corner.
When the text in that box is too long, it becomes cut off and a scrollbar appears.

But you can’t scroll down, because you can’t use your mouse in that screen.

You smell an overhelming stanch and you are nauseated.
Should be:
You smell an overWhelming stEnch and you are nauseated.

You smell a powerful stanch but you resist its effects.
The nauseating stanch fades away and you feel better.
should be: stEnch

Player says: Hereâare the crystals.
… Jardet Forsill says: Once he shows you what the ritual should look like, come back and tell me that Azarnith showed you ritual.
(missing “the” at the end) (fixed on test server)

“used in smiting”

That might hurt, it should probably say “smithing”.

Here’s what I found in Xargon’s dialogue:

• Xargon Guurn says: As a very simple example, the game displays the names of other players you encounter above their heads, so, you, the player, knows (should be “know”) it.

• Xargon Guurn says: On the top of your chat window, you should see a ‘Help’ button. Buttons are on the left in current default gui.

• Xargon lets you choose between a sabre, leather pants and an Air Glyph. Since you get an Air Glyph already from Orphia, this would be the second one. Maybe offer another Glyph instead?

• Xargon Guurn says: Now, there is more to be learned here in the tutorial area./Xargon Guurn says: If you wish to continue learning, just explore./Xargon Guurn says: I suggest you check out the bulletin board. If you have finished all quests up to here, there’s not much elso to do or see in the tutorial area at present. I looked long for the bulletin board and even wondered if maybe he means the forum at hydlaaplaza.com here, until Pizik informed me that it was planned but doesn’t exist (yet?).

Again, just a few small nitpickings.

1st stage: Buy a glyph.

• “To buy something from me, right-click on me and choose the Buy/Sell icon with the yellow and blue coins.” The icon in the present default gui has only yellow coins.

• “Make sure the Buy box in the upper left has a green checkmark beside it,…” The green mark is inside the check button.

Since we will in the future have more skins again, even maybe a changed default skin, I suggest being a little less “skin-specific” in the gui descriptions. Maybe use the tooltip text for identification instead?

2nd stage: Purify the glyph.

• “Click on the Combine Glyphs button at the top of the Spell Book window.” It’s now the purple research magic button in the lower right corner.

• It would be nice if Orphia told you how to notice that the purification is finished, as there’s no big red pop-up for it. Newbies probably won’t look in the system tab. And I just noticed in my fith(?) run through the tutorial that purification changes the glyph icon a tiny bit.

3rd and last stage:

* “Ok, the glyph is now purified, …” Should read “okay” → bug #3685

• “You can try to access the spellbook…” Before, she uses “Spell Book”, and this is also the spelling used by the gui.

• Orphia gives you another 10 circles without ever mentioning it.

Did not find much here, but anyway.

• Player says: Are you the one who can teach me how to fight?. ← an additional full stop

• Excelent! should be “Excellent”

• After you kill (or not) the rat: “That wasnt to painful, was it.” → wasn’t, and there is a “?” after “was it” missing, I believe.

• “Ibhaar Senad hands you a new short sword.” Actually, he lets you choose between a short sword, a dagger and an axe. He also gives you 20 Hexas without mentioning it.

A collection of bugs and nitpicks I found in Naeve’s tutorial quest.
(I hope there are no doubles, the search function doesn’t like me, I can’t find some bugs which I know are there. :S)

1st quest stage:

• a typo: “Your <playername> right?” should read You’re / You are instead.

2nd stage: “How to use furnace”

• “Go to Options, Controls, Keys. /For mouse Ctrl-Click set the button next to context menu then save.” The context menu entry is under Options→Controls→Mouse, not keys.

• “Now you need to open your inventory with the icon found in the middle of the furnace window…” The icon is on the left-hand side in the present default gui.

• “Now, feel free to have a play, but don’t actually melt anything will you.” Why not? (If I remember right, in the old version, you even had to melt the ore and give it back to her.)

3rd stage: Mining. No niggles.

4th and last:

• typo: “Anyway, good luck with the crafting and dont forget to have fun!” should read “don’t”.

• On top of the rockpick (wich she mentions), Naeve also gives you 20 Octas without saying it.

Update: see drjacks comment, several issues are fixed, voice recordings need some changes.

Original report:
A collection of bugs in the first tutorial quest.

1st quest stage: * “Hello, and welcome to Planeshift! You can just ask me to give you the tutorial, or, the more traditional phrase around here, ‘give me a quest.’“
This definitely has to be changed since the quest doesn’t work like that anymore. ( → #3757)

2nd stage: * When you select “no” (I do not wish do to the tutorial), Abelia’s answer (”I see…“) has no voice.
* If you change your mind, you have to start with “Hello, I would like to start the tutorial.” again, causing Ablia to deliver her whole long speech a second time (”Hello to you as well…“).
Wouldn’t it be nicer to just go back to the yes/no choice, especially since she just asked “That sounds good, doesn’t it?” ?
* In her response to “yes” (”Very good! / Now, in a few moments you will see an announcement..”) there’s a grammar error. It should read “Quests come from Non-Player Characters - commonly called a NPCs - in the game.” Her voice also uses plural, so this would be consistent.

3rd stage: * speech starting with “Very good, you have the hang …“. no niggles.
* next speech, last sentence: “When you are done giving things a try, select me and tell me that you are ready for more.” Should ideally be adapted to the new menu-driven system, but that would require a new recording. (typing “I am ready for more also works, though.”

4th stage: Abelia sends you to Naeve. No niggles.

5th stage: Naeve “Ah, excellent…” No niggles.

6th stage: Abelia tells you how to give the book to Naeve.
* Big niggle: “In order to give it to her, right-click on her and choose the ‘Give’ icon.” Mac users will be lost here. Naeve later tells them how to change to key bindings, but way too late.
* Small niggle: The description of the trade window is incorrect for the present default gui. The accept trade button is in the lower left portion of the trade window, not upper left.

7th and last stage:
* On top of the 20 Hexas she mentions, Naeve gives you an iron ore which is not in her text. On purpose? She later gives you a second on in her own quest.

A small niggle about the very first text box in the tutorial:
“If you need help from our staff, use the Help tab.”

This might give the wrong impression that all advisors are GMs, leading to
possible disappointment when we can’t help right away because no “real” GM
is there but just mortal advisors.
I suggest simply leaving out the words “from our staff”

(I can’t set the priority, but it looooooooow ;) )

In the tutorial (female Nolthrir, quick creation),
Abelia Aruine repeats her greeting “Welcome to Planeshift….
say ‘Hi’ when you approach her to get the book for Neave.

This might be confusing for new players, because at this
point, the correct answer to her is not ‘Hi’ but asking
for the book.

During the quest “Making Leather Armor”, the quest giver tells you where you can get training for armor making. That’s nice of him. However, when you start at level 0, it comes too late, because you cannot arrive at that quest stage without training first.
Better have him say it when he tells you how to sew leather armor patches.

There are roads painted on the map, but they are not in the usual places. Instead,
they run senselessly up and down the hills. And where does the bright yellow rectangle belong?
(In black: Where approximately the roads belong, very inaccurate.)
screenshot

I think I found another typo in the food database:

One jar of Terevan berry jam weighs 1 pound.
Yet, one of these jars is just enought for one slice of bread.
The finished sandwich weighs 0.1.

(There seem to be a lot of these errors, should we maybe make an “envelope” bug report to collect all in one place?)

Only a small detail (0.6.3):

I just "ate" juiceberry juice and felt more robust. Changing the system message to "You drink …" as it already seems to be for the teas would be more appropriate.

Found another database error:
carrot weighs 0.2
sliced carrot weights 2.0

(This is most likely another missing comma, just as in #1537)

I tried only with cleaning carp so far, but maybe other garbage items have the same problem:

All this was done on the preparation table with knife in hand and “Working in a kitchen in mind” (the only book that contains this transformation),
Cooking 73, Baking 11, both trained.

• Putting the filleted carp back on the table: “You are not sure what will happen…“. Result = Sticky Goo and Practice points + Experience points + practice in Cooking + experience points + practice in Baking a 3rd round of experience points

• Putting two stacked carps on the table (stacked cutting does not work here):”You are not sure…” Result: 2 Sticky Goo + the same sequence of experience and practice as above,

• Putting a single carp on the table (the way it is supposed to be done):”You start work on…“. Result: 1 cleaned carp + nothing

I think this is wrong because it awards the player with practice points for doing garbage transformations.

Not really a bug but extremely annoying:
The rogue in the house next to the bakery in Ojaveda (Akk-Central at ~ -73.5, 5, 33.25) makes the baking equipment there nearly impossible to use. He spawns so fast that practically each transformation step gets interrupted ba the fight.

Either, the “Roasted Porg” in the thieve’s camp is a specialty only known in Yliakum that awfully looks like a “Freshly (not “fresh”) roasted pig/pork”, or we have another typo here.

In the recipe for Clamod Perch and Rat Stew is a combination step that does not work:

Combine Fried Stew Mix, 2 Water Pouchs, Diced Threestem Fruit, Pinch of Salt, between 4 and 1 Pile of Diced Rat Meat, between 4 and 1 Diced Perchss into 1 Uncooked Perch and Rat Stew.

(Apparently the same issue as with Kikiri soup in #5891)

It seems that the cutting of apples was changed lately:
Before, you got one “Sliced Apple” from cutting an “Apple”, now you get 4 (presumably apple quarters).

The number was changes, but the item weights and following recipes were not.
Issues I found so far:

1.)
‘Apple’ weight 0.250
‘Sliced Apple’ weighs 0.200 , making 0.800 in total
I suggest to keep the Apple weight and make the slices lighter, maybe 0.060 ~ 0.250/4

2.) The recipe for Sweet cinammon apple slices:
Combine 1 sliced apple with 2 dash of cinnamon and 1 Scoop of strimptor - this now equals 1/4 of an apple, not a whole one anmore
Mix cinnammon apple mix into 4 sweet cinnamon apple slices - those slices must be tiny now!
Suggestion: Combine 4 sliced apples with the rest.

I just accidentally drank my whole stack of mana potions. Only the first one affected me, the rest merely vanished ("nothing happens"), so that part is as it should be. The accidental disappearance of the rest of the stack is rather inconvenient, though.
It would make more sense if you could consume only one item at a time.
(Game version 0.6.3)

When during /dig or /fish the physical stamina bar reaches 0 (”you are too
exhausted to move”), you stay frozen to the spot forever. Stamina grows back
normally.

Turning, walking, /sit is not possible as if you are still exhausted.

/dig or /fish get the message “You cannot xx because you are already busy”.

Client version 0.5.1.1, tested on Vista 32 bit and Linux 32 bit

Observed in 0.6.3 (which can’t be selected here, btw.):

Jomed’s oven looks like it is standing in the sink.

//www.frupic.frubar.net/32513

I just logged onto Laanx and was greeted with “This is the roleplay server. If you don’t intend to blablabla, please use ezpcusa instead.” in the System tab.

It still says:
“Your client has disconnected … check laanx.fragnetics.com”

A wrong weigth it seems … again >.<
5 pounds of Runny Trepor Omelette turn into 8x2.5 = 20 pounds of Meat and Egg Omelette.

My “dishes with fishes” says:

“Mix Cleaned Bream into 2 Filleted Bream using Wooden Bowl with a Wooden Spoon.”

That’s a rather interesting way to do it.

I noticed several oddities in the preparation of Tinga tea:

1. For one mug of tea, I need 2×1 = 2 pounds/kilos of Tinga Leaves. That must be some strong brew!

2. Those two pounds costs 2×27 = 54 trias when I buy them. And Reffitia pays 4 trias for a mug of tea.

3. Unlike most food ingredients, the item “Tinga Leaves” does not have to be cut, cleaned, scooped or otherwise portioned before further use.

Taken separately, 1. would likely be just a typo, 2. imbalance and 3. an intended feature.
But taken together, it looks to me as if a portioning step for Tinga Leaves was planned
first and then forgotten. At least this would explain all three issues at once.

1.) Stonehammers in the char creation screen have the old Stonebreaker description.
2.) The selection of your childhood home offers: Stonebreaker village, Hammerwielder tower, Xacha village, Diaboli village

A 500g loaf of bread gives 5 50g bread slices = 250g.
I remember that it was 10 slices before, which would fit
with the weight and is also more a more realistic number for a
whole loaf.

In the custom path, when I select a birth month, the description
below doesn’t match the selection in the list.

For example:
When I select Azhord, I get the description for Unodin.
Byari actually gives the description for Byari, though, I can’t see a pattern here.

Crafting messages and messages from the Server Admin, use the same “channels”, i.e. they appear in the system tab and in bold green or red in the middle of the screen.

While I understand that admin or GM messages need to be as “loud” as possible, I do not need the game shouting at me that the eggs are done with the same intensity. Especially when you craft multiple copies of the same item at once, those message almost fill the whole screen. I have to wait until they are gone before I can continue.

It would be nice if we had an option to ban the crafting messages just to the system tab.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Log in.
2. Select an account.
3. Logout again without entering the game first.
4. Login screen still shows ping, but when you try to log in, you get “Your client has disconnected…“.

Win32 client on Vista32

After talking to Jefecra for the first time, you can go immediately to the suspect and ask him about p, skipping at least one stage of dialogue. Also, Both J. and the suspect refer to that missed dialogue.

Some of the missed dialogue can be heard later out of order e.g. from Miss A. A.

During the quest “Flowers for Mirra”, Jardet claims that he has no charmflowers.
However, there are plenty of them growing in his garden.

Edit:
It is also kind of odd, that I have to buy the flowers from *beep* for *beep*.
Those I picked myself don’t work.

quality 1/50

In one version of the updated quest “Harnquist is hungry”, he wants honey and bread. The quest text hints that both can be found either in the tavern or at the bakery in the arena. There is indeed plenty of bread in both places. But unless I’m missing something, there is no vendor for honey in Hydlaa.

Since this quest is supposed to be suitable for very beginners, please add honey to Hydlaa or adapt the quest to something that can be found in the city.

Right now, it it possible to keep multiple accounts in the login screen by editing some .cfg file.
It would be nice to allow to do this via the GUI.

Well, what the title says.

All kinds of fish have the same price. (NPCs give 4 trias.)
Yet, the description of crayfish reads “…extremely valuable…very rare and difficult to catch…“.
Also, the description of trouts (”moderately rare”) suggests that they should be at least a little more pricey
than ordinary fish and carp.