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OSX 10.7.4 – Purchase a musical score. Right-click to open. Hit the save button. Switch to edit mode. Click the Load button. Load Generic Music Score of Whoever.xml. Click the Edit button. Crash. Its done it five times in a row for me now.

OS X 10.7.4 – A friend asked me tonight if I had ever seen the House of the Spirit? So I went to them, and indeed, it was a spirit house! I couldn't see a thing, nor would I expect to. But he said he filed a petition and GM responded. I am confirming that I also cannot see this at its location in game. My updater appears to be functioning as expected, everything is up to date. Thanks!

Clicking the Play button makes pslaunch crashy…

MacOS X 10.5.8; Intel Core 2 Duo
http://pastebin.com/wEA8vMxA

I had to finish the update manually as old pslaunch did not take care of new pslaunchmacosx.zip download. No problem for me, but It appears that it was supposed to unzip and finish the process, based on the errors in the system logfile.

There were also a number of warnings and errors that may be related to my OS configuration. Let me know if you need anything further. Relevant lines from system log are posted below. Thank you!

10.5.8 Intel Core 2 Duo
http://pastebin.com/YVcNKcYA

Mac OS X 10.5.8 - As of yesterday, I was unable to see robes and the Plate Mail Pants my character is wearing. I updated again this morning, and I can see the robe on Leverus (nice job) but my character has no pants.

OS X 10.5.8 - About 7/10 times that I quit the client on the Macintosh, the client hangs and never actually closes. The client must be force-quit to close it. It *seems* to happen less if there is a low number of players online. I am not really sure how to give you any more information regarding this condition. I do have the Macintosh developer applications installed, if Shark or one of those programs might provide more information?

OS X 10.5.8 - Mounted character moves at normal walking speed. This has happened a few times in the last couple of days for me. I was able to “reset” it a couple of times by re-summoning the mount. It just happened again, and resummoning the mount did not change the speed of the character when mounted.

Polyuntri Serves Laanx - The Laanx Holy Symbol is referred to as a necklace in the npc texts of the quest, but the icon is of a figurine or statue.

Macintosh OS X 10.5.8 - I drop an item from inventory, click, rotate it, click. Big inventory window pops open each time.

Mac OS X 10.5.8 – Mouselook only allows vertical movement of camera while sitting. It would be nice if mouselook could be activated while sitting and one could look around.

I observed a player on a mount running around and around in the arena killing NPCs. They appeared to pause after each kill as though they were looting. So I am basically just asking if looting is allowed while mounted? As I cannot check it myself at this time. If looting is allowed while mounted, it seems like an exploit due to the speed involved. You definitely wouldn’t be able to bend over on a horse and loot a fallen opponent. You would have to get down.

To see what I saw, you would need to have a character that has the Polyuntri Serves Laanx and Seirann is Waiting quests, and take them to visit Gregori Stevald and Aldaaren Phostle.

I visited Gregori first, used the quest menu to initiate the Weapon Identification quest. Gregori went through all the lines of the dialogue up to the point that I got to choose to accept it. Once I accepted it, he did not acknowledge, and started in with Polyuntri Serves Laanx. I continued and finished that stage of that quest. At that point I could choose Weapon Identification again, and then I was able to successfully accept it.

I then visited Aldaaren. This time I chose Derghir Menace. Aldaaren went through all the lines of the dialogue up to the point that I got to choose to accept it. Once I accepted it, he did not acknowledge, and started in with Sierann is Waiting. I continued with that, and finished that stage of that quest with him. At that point Derghir Menace was still available as a choice, and I was able to successfully accept it.

Exactly the same thing – apparently – in both cases. It probably happens elsewhere with successive quests on NPCs. My gut says this will be easily replicated in testing, its probably some basic error.

An End User License Agreement needs to be presented to the user the first time an account is logged on. It should present an Agree and Disagree button to the user.

The Agree and Disagree buttons should be deactivated until the window containing the terms of the EULA has been scrolled to the bottom of the presented text.

Clicking Agree then continues to, or displays the list of active characters on the account. Clicking Disagree quits the client software.

The EULA should contain statements concerning the use of the client software, as per a standard license agreement on commercial software. There should be sections detailing prohibited behavior, such as attempting to use the client software in an unauthorized fashion when connecting to a PlaneShift server. And a clearly stated policy on resets on database information. Et cetera.

There is a reason that these are always presented on commercial software. Whether the user reads it or not, it is the user’s responsibility to understand the terms of the license agreement. Violations of the license agreement result in banning the account, or other moderated actions.

The ability to migrate characters automatically between different servers would be a useful GM function. Specifically for instances where behavior not appropriate for one server, so the character could be transferred to the other server. People will not do it on their own.

(I know its serious developmental work involving lots of SQL at least one interface that does not exist yet, and a huge possibility of serious bugs during implementation, but I think it would be worthwhile in the long run for all players.)

Mac Intel G5 - 10.5.6 Surface at portal point is offset vertically, resulting in floating surface with gap beneath. Behavior is different depending on which way you are going.

ojaroad1 -633.11 30.24 421.34
run towards portal, fall off map, load to
hyoja2a 445.56 2.23 -149.31, spawns in air
go back to
hyoja2b 480.07 0.39 -145.64
run towards portal, fall off map, load to
ojaroad1 567.23 30.11 321.91 (!)

In Xargon’s final piece of advice at the end of the tutorial, he directs the player to Harnquist, Trasok and Malco in Gugrontid. He actually wants to mention Gardr Keck, unless I missed something.

Mac Intel G5 - 10.5.6 Stonebreaker character cannot jump over axel swr-pink -170.71 0.61 18.74. Other instances of this model also are inaccessible to this character.

Mac Intel G5 - 10.5.6 swr-blue -180.38 -5.50 -148.48 Obviously, I am not posting this because there is anything exploitable in *that* location, AFAIK. Face over rock looking down hallway, run at rock, get stuck, then jump. There are other instances of this type of model in the sewers that display this behavior.

Mac Intel G5 - 10.5.6 - "Hall of Mirrors" effect when leaving sewers behind Kada-El's making exit impossible. Could not walk or jump to any other surface from top of stairs, character always falling out of bounds.Later char returned to location and the surfaces to the left and the right of the stairs were accessible by a jump, but HoM directly in front of top of stairs. This location has been like this for as long as I can remember, but sometimes it works just fine.

Mac Intel G5 - 10.5.6 Paths window shows STR 0% END 0% on Enchanter for any Race/Sex

I tried making two chars to check outcome:
Ylian Male - STR 45 END 45
Dermorian Female - STR 41 END 45

Running the male for 10 seconds dropped to 90.1%. So these chars wouldn’t run for one full minute even, I think.

No up/down arrow key control on Day/Month in Birth window means user cannot scroll to easily review descriptions if curious.

A life event that is deselected/removed, resets to the bottom of the life events list. If reset to original position, then will less inconvenient to user. But, takes time I am sure.

On purpose?

Tutorial information window continues to display for successive characters after tutorial has been completed by one character.

When in tutorial, the furnace displays items from other tutorial instances.

Betting this is already known, and I didn’t know the language for searching this one.

Ynnwn male hair color in podium view is not working correctly. Hair is always shown as flat black. Works fine for female Ynnwn.

Racial spawn point for Kran in Gugrontid is very close to a ledge with no barrier. New character can die in just a couple of seconds if they walk in the wrong direction.

Mac-Mini Intel G5 10.5.6 - When a character leaves the Hydlaa dungeon and goes out of bounds before re-appearing on the Plaza, the character takes damage. If the player is weak, they will often die as a result of this. This does not happen with other zoning points when going out of bounds, so something is different here IMHO. (This might be a dupe report, but searching didn't yield another entry to me, thanks)

Mac Mini G5 Intel, 10.5.6 - If I start the PS client and click Quit at the character list, *without* logging in any characters, the client will crash every time.

After resurrecting/respawning from the Death Realm, randomize the position & orientation of the player characters in the spawn area. Just a little nothing to avoid all characters standing on top of each other in the same place. Might promote some interaction between players while waiting.

I am able tonight to mine gold at the platinum mine in Gugrontid.

Would it make sense that glyphs should only be able to be purified if the player has the appropriate way?

Bell distribution for random number results for roleplay commands

Using a random function is like rolling a single die. The results tend to be hard and don’t necessarily follow a natural progression.

Rolling a set of die and subtracting the lowest numbers gives softer results with a bell distribtion to the numbers.

Lets say two players roll two d100. Highest number wins. Instead of rolling one d100 for each player, 6 d10 die are rolled and the lowest number is tossed. Then the five remain values are added togther for the score.

What I suggest is a function that automatically does this. I am suggesting this as a client function to be used with any roleplay commands that might be implemented, I doubt if you want to add it to the server, but it would change the results of things like mining for gold as well.

Contest command for Roleplay

/contest [target] [type] [rounds] [range] [focus] | [pro] | [con] | [prize] [delay]

[target] is targeted player (required)
[rounds] is number of rounds (required)
[range] is range of numbers for rolls (required)
[focus] [prize] [pro] [con] are text strings (required)
[delay] is number of seconds between rounds (optional)

Round begins with one roll each, highest number has initiative.
Player with initiative leads the rolls.
Rolls are repeated for the number of rounds.
Highest roll wins, winner gets +1 to their score.
Player with greater score at end of rounds wins.
Prize, focus, pro and con are used to describe the rounds.

/contest Venae 3 100 beers|chugging beers|resting|Master Crafted Mug

Venae gets the initiative roll and we see…

Venae is chugging beers.
Verden is resting.
Venae is chugging beers.
Verden is chugging beers.
Venae is resting.
Verden is resting.
Venae has won the Master Crafted Mug!

/contest Illysa 10 100 attacks|attacking!|defending|duel

Illysa gets the initiative roll and we see…

Illysa is attacking!
Verden is attacking!
Illysa is defending!
Verden is defending!
Illysa is attacking!
Verden is defending!
Illysa is attacking!
Verden is defending!
Illysa is defending!
Verden is attacking!
Illysa has won the duel!

It starts with Neave, in the tutorial, and happens in many places.

The NPC asks you a question in the course of a conversation for a quest.

You respond to the question, and get a general I-don’t-understand type of response.

Then the quest conversation continues.

While I can appreciate the character nuance provided…

Questions should always be followed by a wait for user response.

Especially in the tutorial, as this could be highly confusing to a newcomer.

Hitting the ESC key collapses the menu bar/control button palette, and restores it.

It does not affect any other controls, which seems confusing IMHO.

Open Quests, Inventory, et cetera, any secondary window in the interface.

Hit ESC. The control bar collapses. Secondary window stays open.

Recommending that ESC key should close secondary interface palettes/windows, never primary controls.

It should also cancel trades, close loot window, cancel confirmations.

I think this would make the interface friendlier. Just my two cents.

Toggle-chat key become unresponsive. This is a very old, frustrating and sometimes dangerous bug.
1. Use toggle-chat a couple of times, theen trade with the NPC. Toggle-chat is unresponsive after completing trade.
2. Use toggle-chat a couple of times, attack and kill a mob. Loot the mob. Toggle-chat is unresponsive after closing loot window.
I can duplicate these every time. It seems to happen when I click the buttons that close those windows.
Other key shortcuts still work as expected. It seems to just affect the toggle-chat. Fixing this one would make the interface friendlier.

Open big inventory window. Pick up a tria, drop it back on its slot.

“You cannot place money there”

It works fine, but the error is incongruous.

While training crafting recently (Mac client) I noticed that there is an odd flicker to the world light in Oja. Every few minutes it jumps up in intensity, brighter, and then drops back down to normal. I have not confirmed if it is regular in timing, but it is like a giant neon sign slowly flickering above the Crystal high above.

When training with both Jirosh and Nyshyn, the stats area when training displays an entry “glyph_crystal_icon.dds” as though it were an option for training. The entry is followed by a high level number and a scrambled training bar. The level for this entry looks something like 39992(55 and the training bar will show all colors at the same time, oddly scrambled. This happened recently, twice over the course of a week. I am using the Mac client.

My client displayed a message in green text, “You probably should not leave Catalog of Shields here”, while I was mining recently. My character had done the quest, but the book was in an alt. Character was at the platinum mine at the time.

I cannot change the color for the object labels in the client options. The default red is alarming. If it was an issue of visibility in the past, then I would recommend yellow. If it was my personal choice, I would use grey to denote any inanimate dead object. Red should be used sparingly in a user-interface situation, IMHO, save it for GM and server messages and such.

The /who command can use only a single term. So it is impossible to do /who game master or /who “game master” and get a list of only GMs that are online. There is at least one player guild that uses ‘game’ in its name.

Using the next/prev commands, entities in the world are targeted almost randomly. It would make sense to restrict the targeting commands only to entities that are in the field of view of the character. This would seem to be implied by the attack command only working when one is facing an opponent.