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Bug Report | 5932 | No | Magic System | Medium | New | Venalan | | GM detection using 'friendly AOE' spells | 09.03.2013 | | |
Task Description
It has been brought to my attention that friendly AoE spells can be used to detect invisible GMs who are within the range of the spell. A check on spells cast from accounts with 0 security could be added that only allows friendly spells to be cast on targets which are ‘visible’ hereby preventing GMs from being targeted when invisible.
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Feature Request | 726 | No | Crafting | Medium | New | Drunk Hammerwielder | | Redesign/Add to the Crafting GUI. | 25.02.2013 | | 5 |
Task Description
Related to: http://hydlaa.com/flyspray_upgrade/index.php?do=details&task_id=611&histring=crafting
Goal of this feature request: To provide an alternative to the numerously unneeded clicking and dragging through the addition of additional options.
Possibilities:
1. Allow all targeting equipment to be targeted and add short cut commands as discussed in http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=30727.0;topicseen and http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=28284.0 .
1B. Add a /place command that would place a specified number of a specified item into a targeted container.
1C. Add a /remove command that would remove a specified number of a specified item from a targeted container.
1D. Add a /combine command that has the same functionality as the combine button that is on the right click menu.
2. Have the stock casting containers automatically convert large stacks of molten ore to the largest possible unit. (IE: A stack of 63 Molten Iron would yield a stack of 6 Iron Stocks and 3 Iron Ingots.)
2B. Add a button and command to Stock Casting that will toggle that will allow the user to cast only ingots.
2C. Allow the user to combine large amounts of objects at a time so long as the proper amounts of objects are present. (IE: 81 Iron ore and 9 Coal ore would yield 90 Molten Steel. Also, you could combine 10 sword handles with 10 sword blades to quickly put together 10 swords.)
3. Add a key to be pressed and held that would allow the user to pick up an entire stack.
I believe that there has been discussion of several other alterative on the forums.
Thank you for your time: - Tontow
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Bug Report | 4693 | No | Pets | Medium | New | Aljuvialle | Anders Reggestad | You can rest fast after remounting your pet | 09.02.2013 | | 1 |
Task Description
How to reproduce: do something which require much physical stamina: move many stuff in your bag, do something at anvil or something another. and then run following commands: /sit /unmount /target <PET NAME> /mount ←– here your physical stamina will be full!!! /stand
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Bug Report | 4603 | No | Characters Animation | Low | New | Sen | | Odd enkif sneak animation | 09.02.2013 | | |
Task Description
The sneak animation of Fenkis is broken since.. I think years now. After trying out the new cool transparent-feature while sneaking looked it to me like the Menki one is broken, too? (fixed) Anyway, already the broken Fenki animation looks a bit annoying :P (It looks like side-stepping while walking)
Sen
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Bug Report | 5813 | No | Models and Maps | Medium | New | Roman Yagodin | | Abacus icon in "Kilas wants his Abacus Back" | 09.02.2013 | | 1 |
Task Description
1) Abacus quest item in “Kilas wants his Abacus Back” looks like some sort of globus…
2) It is not clear from Crosh’s explanations, that numeric base he uses with 7-th beads abacus. It can be both 7 or 8, so right answer may be 64 (base 8) or 49 (if base 7 is used). If base 7 is used, the whole beads line is moved back (left) in same operation with moving its last 7-th bead to the right. Same alhorithm is used in real Russian abacus, which have 10 beads in a line for 10-th base calculations.
Maybe, 2) is not a bug, but it requires some more “out of game” explorations, than player may expect, or just “brute force” enumeration of possible aanswers. So, Crosh’s explanations about his calculations must be more clear:
Now: “When they’re all to the right, I move them all back and move bead in a second line…“ Must be like: “When they’re all to the right, and I need to count one more day, I move them all back and move bead in a second line…“
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Feature Request | 4799 | No | Inventory/Items | Medium | New | mike loeven | | add storage access inside guild halls | 01.01.2013 | | 1 |
Task Description
seeing that furnature is one of the heavest item types in the game, redecorating guild halls can become tedious and god forbid things get cluttered it is not possible to eaisly move them to storage. my request is that typing /storage will work inside a guild hall as if you were targeting a storage npc. just for convienance sake.
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Feature Request | 5701 | No | Crafting | Medium | New | rodrigo moraes | | Bad user experience: automatic stacking and merging hig... | 18.12.2012 | | 1 |
Task Description
I’m a new user and I just had a very frustrating experience, so I want to propose an improvement.
I requested a guild mate to craft me some chain armor, and when I got it done I picked the Arm piece i was wearing and tried to exchange by the new one. By the gods, the quality-50 armor merged with the quality-300 one and I got two quality-175 armors. Without any confirmation.
I think the merge-on-stack system is fine for many crafting situations, but merging armor stats is a unexpected one. I fail to see why one would want to merge a higher armor with a much lower one. This doesn’t even make sense: if you mix water and herbs it’s ok that you get an infusion, but you can’t mix a chain mail with another one to instantly get two different ones.
I requested a GM to revert the stats and he said that this is the same situation as when one sells or gives away an item by mistake. I think it is not the same thing. This is not a mistake; it is common to exchange items in the inventory to organize or save space, and having these “side-effects” in place can make a simple inventory management a surprisingly bad experience for new users like me. :(
TL;DR:
1. Please review if it really makes sense to merge armors or weapons. I don’t see the use for it, and it sounds illogical, but probably I’m missing something.
2. Please consider adding a confirmation to actions with clearly bad side effects during inventory management, to avoid the frustration, specially for new users.
3. Please consider adding a toggle/checkbox to the inventory to turn on/off automatic item merging (disabled by default to avoid sad surprises like mine).
Thanks for all the hard work, guys. :)
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Feature Request | 5693 | No | Client start-up | Low | New | Ralph Campbell | | Add 2560x1440 to launcher | 11.11.2012 | | |
Task Description
I would like to see 2560×1440 added to the list of monitor resolutions in the launcher. For example:
Index: src/pslaunch/pawslauncherwindow.cpp
— src/pslaunch/pawslauncherwindow.cpp (revision 8373) +++ src/pslaunch/pawslauncherwindow.cpp (working copy) @@ -342,6 +342,7 @@
}
else if(ratio == "16:9")
{
+ resolution→NewOption(”2560×1440“);
resolution->NewOption("1920x1080");
resolution->NewOption("1366x768");
resolution->NewOption("1280x720");
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Bug Report | 4931 | No | Inventory/Items | Medium | New | Jorick | | Clicking 'use' on brado's grills interrupts grilling m... | 23.07.2012 | | 1 |
Task Description
When I try to select a grill in Brado’s tavern the pink rotating cross does not appear. Right click works and brings up the action icons. However, putting meat in one of the slots and “use” the grill to grill the meat results in “You interrupted your work when you moved away” every time. Other items like preparation tables, pots, etc. work fine.
I’m running PS on: Arch linux ( up to date system ) 86×64 intel core i5 mobility radeon HD5xxx series with up to date catalyst drivers.
I logged my console output but I can’t see anything relevant to the problem, could be me so here’s the link: pastie
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Bug Report | 5570 | No | Sound | Medium | New | Mario Rohkrämer | | Music scores play at 1/4 of the previous speed now | 13.06.2012 | | 1 |
Task Description
The measurement of note durations is completely wrong. “Beats Per Minute” are no more what they used to be.
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Bug Report | 5524 | No | Engine | Medium | New | Greg | | Couple Of Small problems to be corrected? Knollege Req... | 12.06.2012 | | |
Task Description
I have noticed a few things that are Incorrect, not sure If anyone commented on them, Or If they are In Progress. I will jot them down all in one Report so not to make several reports…
1. The “Cone” On the Energy Arrow Is faced in one direction As in the visual effect right after the energy arrow hits the target (Im sure im not the only one who see’s this wrong?) 2. When Dropping Stacks Of Items Like Pants There is an extra “ES” at the end. Alot Of Items Have The Extra “ES” at the end, that should not be there.
I Had A couple Questions and Requests :) 1. Someway to Turn off the red dropping notifications like.>”You are to far away to attack” and ““**” Has nothing to be looted”. maybe a way to just have it in the system tab.(Asked in help tab, unknown, If someone knows how please tell me lol, thanks!) 2. An NPC Or something In Game That could tell you detailed Information about weapons/quest items and things of that nature, (I have seen the Book in the musium, but I haven’t really studied it yet, and maybe incomplete?)
It would be really cool if you could go to an npc and hand them what you found, have them give you 2 lines about the sword and what it does. Or even a book from a quest where you can i.d it, have it unidentified untill you take it to an npc and pay them a really small fee to i.d it. (Not complaining at all but I have kept all of my named items I have looted since I have started playing. they are awsome! :D But I want to organize :) please? :D I want to sell them but I dont want to sell something for 10,000 and find out that it was really special. haha with my Inventory im sure I could write the book!
If you want to comment on this aswell, up to you. I will be blunt to the point: I have seen leather working Implimented But Famiel Is the one and only charature I will have. But He is Forbidden to work with Furs/Hides other then looting for sale. he wants to start making his own armor, so I ask/Hope there is a way to bypass leather armor and make Medium/Heavy Arms/Boots/Gloves when it gets implimented Thank You For Your Time :)
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Bug Report | 5626 | No | Sound | High | New | Talad | weltallAndrea Rizzi | Creature sounds implementation | 06.05.2012 | | |
Task Description
As per this document:
http://planeshift.ezpcusa.com/pswiki/index.php?title=Sound_System#Sounds_in_factories
the creature sounds are not working properly in game today.
The common.xml file is properly read, and the resources are properly loaded, but the only state ID which works consistently is state ID 2: charge.
Idle seems to kick in only after attacks, and anyway not consistently. The others are never launched. The problem is that those events are not properly sent to the client a sound events.
In particular we need the following events: IDLE, CHARGE (when first engages in combat), COMBAT IDLE, ATTACK, (being) HIT, DIE, WALK, RUN.
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Bug Report | 5398 | No | Characters | Low | New | Mario Rohkrämer | | Klyros model: Right hand looks strange | 15.04.2012 | | |
Task Description
The right hand of the Klyros looks like their claws poke through their fist.
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Bug Report | 5421 | No | NPC Dialog | Low | New | Mario Rohkrämer | | Kilas Tungse - schizo reply about dungeon | 22.12.2011 | | 1 |
Task Description
Quest: Kilas wants his abacus back
[NPC] Kilas Tungse says: Do you think you can help me with a quick errand? [NPC] $player says: I love to learn! [NPC] Kilas Tungse says: Thanks. [NPC] Kilas Tungse says: I lent my abacus to Crosh Dunehammer, the guardian of the dungeons.
vs.
[NPC] $player says: about dungeon [NPC] Kilas Tungse says: What dungeon? Are you sure you heard right? If there was a dungeon anywhere nearby, I'm sure the city would've had it sealed off by now.
This "There is no dungeon" conspiracy makes consistent quests hard where inhabitants of the dungeon are involved.
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Feature Request | 5474 | No | User Interface | Medium | New | Eliyahna | Andrea Rizzi | Undo Button for Music Writer | 20.12.2011 | | 2 |
Task Description
An "Undo" button on the new music writer that could go back at least one step would be very helpful. Thanks!!
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Bug Report | 5359 | No | Rendering Issues | Medium | New | Phenha Phayethor | | Klyros colour change | 13.11.2011 | | |
Task Description
I play a Grey Klyros male and after I got my robes I noticed that if I put them on and took them back off, my arms became blue. This is an easy bug to recreate, all it requires is a grey klyros and a robe.
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Feature Request | 2647 | No | | Low | New | Mario Rohkrämer | | PvP areas need an unmistakable warning | 08.10.2011 | | 5 |
Task Description
Until today I did not know that “Camp Banished” is a PvP area at all. Until I got killed.
I was asked by a GM “if I did not expect that”?! - No, I did not! I see everything as a roleplaying incentive, unless I get a system message warning me about changed world attributes.
This issue is “critical”, because inside this PvP area are quest relevant NPCs. Now, what would happen if you are in a quest dialog with an NPC, and get killed? - You would lose that quest. And if it was a one-time quest, you’ll lose it forever, for your char.
This almost happened to Cadwen today, whom I helped to deliver a “Keg of beer for Filch”. Fortunately the keg was not stolen while we returned from the Death Realm.
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Bug Report | 5242 | No | Crafting | Medium | New | nobody special | | blade can be removed from hand without disturbing work | 24.05.2011 | | |
Task Description
If you take a heated blade out of your hand while hammering it the work will not be interrupted until the work duration if finished. If you return it to your hand before the work is finished the transformation completes successfully. THis appears to only work if you replace the item with itself, substituting a different identical item or a completely different item causes an interruption.
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Feature Request | 4797 | No | Engine | Medium | New | mike loeven | | a play dead command or /playdead | 21.05.2011 | | 4 |
Task Description
just a idea for a simple rp command. entering /playdead will play the death animation and leave your character imobile similar to the sit command but you will be lying down instead. this can be usefull in roleplay where you are injured but not actually dead or if you want to role play your character going to sleep. entering /stand will cancel both /sit and /playdead. in later versions of the game perhaps this can be also be used to fool the less intelligant monsters like ulbernauts rats and some of the bugs into giving up the chase and loosing interest. i think it would be benificial to have a way to roleplay being wounded or dead without having to actually go to the death realm. say for example your character was killed in a roleplay setting you could use playdead to have a open casket funeral complete with a body that will not dissapear after a minute or two.
i am not sure how easy this would be to acomplish but i suspect you could duplicate the existing sit command and just change the animation called
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Feature Request | 5191 | No | Models and Maps | Medium | New | Viken | | More sewers would be nice... | 21.05.2011 | | |
Task Description
I really like the sewers in Hydlaa, and I think it’d be cool if the other cities (Ojaveda and Amdeneir, mainly) had something like that. I also think it’d be cool if the Hydlaa sewers had a couple more openings, and maybe some intentional service entrances instead of just cave-ins with ladders… And maybe an entrance/exit in the East? Then my Rogue-like character could travel by sewers more, which would be totally awesome.
Are you guys planning to add some more sewers eventually?
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Bug Report | 5213 | No | Character Creation | Medium | New | Ralph Campbell | | don't hardcode race to set gender in pawscharcreatemain... | 16.05.2011 | | |
Task Description
Index: src/client/gui/pawscharcreatemain.cpp
— src/client/gui/pawscharcreatemain.cpp (revision 7252) +++ src/client/gui/pawscharcreatemain.cpp (working copy) @@ -1012,10 +1012,9 @@
view->Show();
view->EnableMouseControl(true);
- //temporary hardcoding needs removal - maleButton→SetEnabled(id != 9); - femaleButton→SetEnabled(id != 9); - if(id==9) + maleButton→SetEnabled(currentGender != PSCHARACTER_GENDER_NONE); + femaleButton→SetEnabled(currentGender != PSCHARACTER_GENDER_NONE); + if (currentGender == PSCHARACTER_GENDER_NONE)
{
maleButton->SetState(false);
femaleButton->SetState(false);
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Feature Request | 5168 | No | User Interface | Low | New | Mrokii | | Option for different label-colour for buddies | 20.04.2011 | | 1 |
Task Description
It would be useful if the Option-Window also had an option to change the label-colour for people on ones' buddylist. This would especially be useful when there are a lot of players around, but it would make it easier to spot buddies in general as well.
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Feature Request | 1022 | No | | Low | New | durwyn | | Ability to lock the guildhouse from the inside. | 04.04.2011 | | 3 |
Task Description
When i first enter in the guild house, i inspected the arounds to remember what i had already seen in the pasts months , the pics and so :}
But i was disappointed by the fact that i cant close the door :( i mean by the inside.. i take the example that one of my guildmate invited her husband in it but then she had to go out to lock the door and enter it again. (OMG she can enter even if its locked! wOw hehe ^^)
Maybe its planed but then i have no possibility to check if its or not :}
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Bug Report | 5099 | No | Models and Maps | Very Low | New | Mario Rohkrämer | Talad | guildlaw: Paragraph symbols are mirrored | 19.03.2011 | | |
Task Description
The paragraphs ‘§’ on the walls of the guild house map “guildlaw” are mirrored. For years already (just always forgot to report it).
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Feature Request | 4463 | No | Magic System | Low | New | Mario Rohkrämer | | Adding a "natural resource detection" spell | 27.02.2011 | | 2 |
Task Description
You already mentioned that the former “Dweomer detection”, which only vaguely returns a possible enchantment of a weapon, is rather useless as there are also buffs which are not at all obvious regarding stats and skills.
Not to waste the spell in general, I wonder if it was possible to implement instead that a similar one could be used to detect the presence of natural resources. Depending on some experience level, possibly in combination with another glyph (e.g. Earth, Animal, Tree), it could enable the caster to only vaguely detect presence of areas in a more or less close range where mining, fishing, harvesting, etc. (generic type) might be possible (”You feel that harvesting could be possible here.”), up to a more detailed feeling that specific resources are probably in some vague but graduated distance (”You feel that fishing for carp could be possible just next to you.”).
Of course, any new spell could be created as well.
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Bug Report | 4854 | No | Map Textures | Low | New | aurelynt | | Sky texture not correctly mapped to skydomes | 18.12.2010 | | |
Task Description
The skybox texture doesn’t seem to be correctly scaled to the skyboxes. Its borders are cropped and this results in very sharp and somewhat odd skylines:
PS 0.5.5
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Feature Request | 4800 | No | Items Characteristics | Low | New | mike loeven | | have jayose and londris sell copies of library books an... | 24.10.2010 | | 3 |
Task Description
there are two libraries in the game one run by jayose in hydlaa and the other a smaller collection of books run by londris in the death realm.
one of the main complaints about planeshift is the lack of information about the game. both of these libraries contain information for ic use but at the same time the books are locked into their shelves and cannot even be coppied unless a player spends the time to manually enter everything into a text file and upload it to a blank book.
my idea is to share the information by adding buy and sell catagories to jayose and londris that match the bookshelves in the library and contain copies of the books stored in each. basically have them sell copies of the library books that you can take with you and share with your friends or even put in a guild hall for easier access.
in all it makes perfect sense that a man who sells blank books would have the resources to copy and sell the important guides and informational books stored in the library
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Feature Request | 4789 | No | User Interface | Medium | New | Frederik Elwert | | action locations have no labels and are not selectable | 16.10.2010 | | |
Task Description
The grill in Reffitia's kitchen in Brado's tavern doesn't behave like other items in the kitchen: The preparation table, for example, is selectable and has a label. The grill is not selectable, and it has no label. One can interact with the grill (e.g., store something in it) just as with the preparation table by right-clicking it. But the grill is much harder to identify, since it has no label.
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Bug Report | 4735 | No | Setting | Medium | New | weltall | | npc with - | 01.10.2010 | | |
Task Description
The engine code was clearly coded to not allow - so till a different decision is taken these npc are all bugged and should have the - stripped
Brintec Dev-Onni Vladovic Chel-Astra Sharven Xant-Areth Uri Djho-Maat
thanks to Vakachehk for the list
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Feature Request | 4727 | No | NPC | Medium | New | RlyDontKnow | | Rentable mounts | 12.09.2010 | | |
Task Description
FR by Vakachehk:
I have an idea for mounts which will need some changes to some maps. For Rivnaks (maybe Drifters too) having stables in which without a ring you may summon them, and dismiss them, without any skill of any ring needed, maybe a tria fee of like 50trias every summon/dismiss (of course there's the obvious issue you un-mount and leave your Rivnak somewhere, either the game automatically dismisses it or it is able to be stolen via a player, or a mechanical guard comes and takes it back to the stable or whatever). Using your Ring of Summon Familiar you can use the skill Empathy to dismiss/summon/etc, anywhere at any time. Also I was thinking about the skill 'Riding' maybe this could be trainable and used in combat while on your rivnak?
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Feature Request | 1558 | No | User Interface | Low | New | Arerano Areramau | | chat tabs: "Emotions" or "fighting Messages" should be ... | 12.09.2010 | | 1 |
Task Description
split "emotions" or "fighting messages" from "system base" so that one can have "fighting" in "System-Tab" but "emotes" in "Main-Tab".
Right now you can chose which "Messages" go to "Main Tab" and which not (System Tab). But both "Emotes" and "Fighting Messages" are part of "System Base", thus you can either have both, or none of them in Main. And being spammed with "Fighting Messages" during RP is quite annoying. Indeed, you could filter them out - but that's not the same since you won't get those messages at all then.
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Feature Request | 4712 | No | Items Characteristics | Medium | New | lilura | Talad | Bookshelves like in the Library for Guild houses | 05.09.2010 | | 5 |
Task Description
It would be cool if players could buy bookshelves like the ones in the library. Rather than the player trying to set all the book items on the bookshelf that can be bought in Winch right now and making it look as if the books are on the shelf in the proper way the same dwarf could sell the shelves that look like the ones in the library. It would hold books like a container.
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Feature Request | 4465 | No | Character Creation | Medium | New | Minks | | Show naming policy in char creation. | 20.08.2010 | | 3 |
Task Description
An newbie in the tutorial brought up this idea, and I like it a lot: It would be nice if the char creation provided a clickable link or a pop-up window to the naming policy.
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Bug Report | 4191 | No | Quests Dynamics | High | New | RlyDontKnow | | npc synonym musn't occur in a trigger | 12.08.2010 | | |
Task Description
if an npc synonym occurs in a quest trigger, it'll break that trigger because incoming messages will be replaced by the more_general value while the trigger still expects synonym. therefore the quest parser should refuse such quests as they're obviously broken or at least throw a warning about such occurrences.
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Bug Report | 4588 | No | User Interface | Low | New | Tereay | | Misrepresentation of the character in the Inventory | 27.07.2010 | | 2 |
Task Description
Misrepresentation of the character in the Inventory All my dwarves (dark haired) are affected I use a self-compiled client (0.5.4/0.5.5) The same on Windows (0.5.4)
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Feature Request | 4511 | No | Inventory/Items | Low | New | Nivm | | Create option to relinquish loot rights. | 23.06.2010 | | 1 |
Task Description
Make an option that allows a player to make the loot of a corpse public if they do not want it. May not apply to some corpses, and could be used to make other corpses auto-public.
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Bug Report | 4505 | No | Engine | Medium | New | CXDamian | | buddy command - toggle behavior | 12.06.2010 | | |
Task Description
friends list does not display all friends after using command line without add/remove(onoff), may remove other entries.
starting with no friends:
‘/buddy abcdef’ = ‘abcdef is already on your buddy list’ (refresh friends window, abcdef was added)
‘/buddy abcdefgh’ = ‘abcdefgh is not on your buddy list’ (refresh friends window, abcdef is no longer listed, abcdefgh is not listed)
‘/buddy abcdef add’ = sometimes added, sometimes not
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Feature Request | 4513 | No | User Interface | Medium | New | Mario Rohkrämer | | Combat ratings in /targetinfo should mention a defense ... | 07.06.2010 | | |
Task Description
It is only partially helpful to estimate if an opponent is more or less stronger than my own char, as long as I don't estimate its defensive qualities too. I would like to see a pair of chances to get hurt by it, and chances to be able to hurt it. Especially since some oppoments are so well armored that even "Extraordinary" quality crafted weapons won't do any damage as long as the character has only average weapon skills. And it is quite vital to estimate the chance of breaking the armor before starting a fight. Even if the opponent is "about as strong as" the character, it is not just risky but suicidal if the opponent is the only one which has any chance to hurt.
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Feature Request | 2349 | No | Engine | Low | New | | | Installation Shortcuts | 19.04.2010 | | |
Task Description
Since players rely heavily on log files, and since some files like saved books and screenshots are created by the client in various folders, could the installation package please create shortcuts to these folders in the start menu on windows, and whatever the equivelant is on other platforms? Would certainly make it easier for players to find them when they need them.
Also either set the psupdater shortcut to include the CheckIntegrity flag as default or create a second one with that flag.
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Feature Request | 2956 | No | Combat | Medium | New | Orgonwukh | Davide Vescovini | Combat system calibration | 19.04.2010 | | |
Task Description
Combat system calibration
Short version:
I propose that in general the amount of damage dealt by any weapon or magic spell should decrease with the distance from the attacker to the target. Also, fast weapons should generally deal less damage than slow weapons. The combat system including both weapons and magic has to be more balanced.
Elaborated version:
Damage (D):
This is the amount of health points subtracted when an single attack is successful. Examples for magic are:
For weapons one has to include the levels and stats of attacker and target. As a reference I determine both attacker and target to have maxed stats and levels, full heavy armour equipped and to use two weapons at a time in bloody stance. The weapon damage is the average damage including the failed attacks. One could either ask a dev to look this up in the database or do a numberof attacks and measure the arithmetic mean. For convenience I determine the damage of short swords to be 500 HP. This value is not the value specified in the weapons properties, but the “real” damage dealt.
Maximum attack distance (MAD):
This is the maximum distance from which an attack can be made. MAD can be measured in game units (the values you get if you type /pos). One unit should be about 0.5 metres. Examples for magic and weapons are:
Attack speed (AS):
This is the time in seconds (s) between the starting of the attack and the moment when the damage is dealt. Examples:
Damage per second (DPS):
This is simply D divided by AS.
Effective Damage (ED):
I propose to let the DPS decrease linearly with the MAD. I introduce a factor (F) with which you can put more or less emphasis on the distance weighting. Based on the above assumed value of damage for short swords, I propose that the ED with a value of 500 should be used to weight all weapons and magic attack spells:
ED=F*(D/AS)*MAD=500 or ED=F*DPS*MAD=500
For F=1 this simply is
ED=(D/AS)*MAD=500 or ED=DPS*MAD=500.
Let us fix F=1 here for now for convenience. If my proposal for weighting is too daring or too conservative, we still can talk about setting a different value for F.
What does this mean?
Let us look at the weapons first and assume that the values for short sword are as I wrote above: AS=2, MAD=2 and D=500. Then DPS=250. This short sword deals an average damage of 250 HP per second. Since MAD=2, ED=500 HP. I have nothing to object concerning these values. This is my reference for the calibration of other weapons or magic spells from now on (see below).
Let us look at the spells: With a short sword you deal an average damage of 250 HP per seconds from a max. distance of 2 units. With Summon Missile you deal a damage of 100 HP per second from a max. distance of 57 units. With Flying Rocks you deal a damage of 225 HP per second from a max. distance of 74 units. Is that fair? Does it make sense that more damage can be dealt from a safe distance? This “unfairness” is reflected in the ED values of the spells:
We notice that the value of ED is way higher for spells than for the short sword. Flying Stones also have a very high MAD and hence a high ED value. If we assume that my proposal is appropriate for evaluation of the power of weapons and magic, this means that Summon missile is 7.4 times more powerful than using short swords and Flying Stones is 33.3 times more powerful than short swords. I think that is quite a realistic reflection of the current state
Calibration
I propose to calibrate weapons and spells by setting the values of D, AS and MAD in a way that the ED is about the same for all of them. In case we use the short sword for a reference, we could adjust the values for Summon Missile and Flying Stones by reducing the MAD, for example To do this we solve the equation for ED in regards to MAD:
MAD=500*AS/D
Then the values for the calibrated spells would be:
If you think this attack range is too low, there is the possibility to calibrate the spells by setting the damage after solving the equation for ED in regards to D:
D=AS*500/MAD
Then the values would be:
It is also possible to calibrate the AS with AS=D*MAD/500. You can also try out different trade offs between D, AS and MAD as long as ED=500. As long as the ED is the same for all weapons and spells, the relation between damage dealt per second and the attack range is maintained.
Calibration will also be helpful once the attack range for weapons is implemented. Let us examine the calibration of the broad sword and let us assume that this sword has a damage value of D=750:
So the attack range is the same while the attack speed and damage differ. One might think that it is more important to increase the attack range instead of the damage because of the bigger size of the broad sword. So let us assume that the damage value for the broad sword is D=600:
This seems to me an appropriate representation of the differences between the weapons: A broad sword has a longer range and deals more damage, but is slower than a short sword.
Final notes
This is a proposal for balancing the combat system. All values of weapons and magic are either estimations or assumptions. Feel free to provide the true values, if possible. Since the ezpcusa server exists, this might be a good opportunity to try such a system out. My assumptions about the levels, stats, armour and weapon properties of attacker and target are subjective and should be discussed.
Limitations:
Maxed levels were assumed, the properties of lower lever levels are unknown to me. But when known, those levels can be calibrated as well. I did not include the amount of mana needed for the spells yet. A simple rule could be to have a linear relationship between damage dealt and mana used (maybe 1 to 10, so you can still kill a 800 HP opponent with 222 mana, which is the maximum at the moment as far as i know). While the attack area of spells is a circle with a radius of AD (you just have to be closer than AD, facing direction is disregarded) while the target is in the centre of the circle, the area for weapons is much smaller because the attacker has to face the target. It should be something similar to a triangle. This disadvantage of weapons is not accounted for here. On the other hand, it is assumed that a spell caster casts spells as fast as possible. This disadvantage is not accounted for here, either. If those differences between weapons and spells is considered too big, you can think about setting F to another value than 1 for an appropriate weighting. Once spells and weapons are calibrated, prices should as well be calibrated. You could either raise the weapon training costs or lower the magic training costs. Maybe doing both is a good idea.
Advantages:
Using this calibration, it is possible to design various weapons and spells which are different concerning D, AS and MAD, but they are weighted in a more appropriate way than it is the case now. Your choice of weapons is based on what you prefer: range, damage, speed or a weighting/combination of them. Combat can be balanced and become more interesting once players fight each other with different properties of their weapons and attack style. The work for the devs is small. You need to change a single value for each weapon and spell.
Link to corresponding forum thread: http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=35352.0
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Feature Request | 4398 | No | Sound | High | New | | Mathias | Set all volume but npc speech to 20% when npc is talkin... | 19.04.2010 | | 1 |
Task Description
When an npc talks the volume of the music ect makes it hard to hear them. Lets try setting all volume to 20% or so and see how that effects it.
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Feature Request | 2778 | No | Quests Dynamics | Low | New | weltall | | Group Quests | 01.04.2010 | | |
Task Description
This is an entirely new class of quests where the person or persons who originally get the quest are asked to form a group to solve some more complicated task or martial challenge. Once the quest is completed each member can then “turn it in” or go to the originating NPC for a reward. Unlike shared quests, it will be impossible to finish grouped quests without the aid of other players. This is intended to promote teamwork and to give a more deep and realistic experience to players.
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Feature Request | 4237 | No | GUI | Medium | New | Seytra | | Ability to add custom tabs to chat window | 23.03.2010 | | 1 |
Task Description
In order for the custom channels to be useful, they need a convenient interface. The need for typing /x before stuff isn’t terribly annoying, but also not terribly convenient. However, the biggest issue is that with multiple such channels, all talk gets mangled into one. The designation for the originating channel doesn’t help much in that case.
Therefore it would be nice to be able to create and assign custom tabs to channels, which would then function just like any of the built-in tabs. It would be even nicer if that arrangement could be stored, which would go very well with the auto-joining of custom channels proposed elsewhere.
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Feature Request | 1760 | No | NPC | Low | New | Eric | Jay | NPC Consignment merchant | 16.03.2010 | | 1 |
Task Description
The way it works now:
If I want to purchase a weapon that is better than those offered by NPCs (Trasok, Harnquist, etc) I must find someone who is capable of crafting the item I am looking for, which can be IC, but also find out when they are going to be online, which is OOC. I have spent more hours than I can count trying to find crafted items for sale in Hydlaa and Akkaio. It can be great for RP to have players sitting around doing nothing but selling their wares, but players are going to want to do something other than sit the entire time they are in-game, and there are not enough players to be available 24/7 or even a regular in-game 8-5.
The way it should work:
A specialized NPC character (class of characters) should be introduced that can do two things:
1. Hold items for sale. 2. Sell items that are held at a price specified by the original seller.
Desired Implementation example:
1. Crafter makes item and goes to merchant. 2. Crafter sets a price for item to be sold and removes it from his inventory.
a. this could be done via a specialized trade window/action button.
b. a seller should be able to remove an item that has not been sold (for a fee).
c. the seller should be able to change the asking price (for a fee).
3. The item then becomes available for sale to other players to purchase.
a. a action button and dialog would need to be created to search the merchants inventory.
b. the items listed should allow a description to be viewed (similar to current buy/sell dialog.
c. when an item is purchased it is removed from the merchants inventory.
4. The money would be taken from the buyer and either
1. placed on the merchant to be claimed by the seller any time after the item was sold (minus commission)
or
2. placed in a bank account (minus commission)
* Design consideration should be made for if each NPC merchant is self-contained, or if the NPC merchants know about the inventory of other merchants and can offer those items for sale (for a additional delivery fee) *
Justifications:
1. Players are not available 24/7. 2. All characters should not be crafters (not realistic for RP) 3. Economy would be much more realistic and less OOC as items would not be as difficult to buy/sell. 4. RP is not lost as a crafter can still sell their wares (with no fees) if they sell direct.
Steps to reproduce:
N/A
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Bug Report | 2132 | No | Inventory/Items | Low | New | Thom | | /giveitem and /takeitem "all" parameter only works on s... | 13.03.2010 | | |
Task Description
If you have 20 eggs in your inventory, split up in a stack of 19 and 1 separate, /giveitem Test all egg will only give the target 1 egg. You have to stack all eggs together for the command to work.
This also means that if a character has 3 swords stolen via an exploit, and a GM would use /takeitem Cheater all sword, only the stacks would be taken. So if the cheater had 2 swords in a stack and 1 separate, he would keep the separate sword.
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Feature Request | 3553 | No | Engine | Medium | New | Pascal Detrait | | Idea proposition for Drawing skill | 16.02.2010 | | |
Task Description
Hi,
the Drawing skill is not yet available. I propose the following idea for developpers :
Each save could rise the skill experience
Each new created sketch could rise the skill experience, significatively more than the save function
Each rank could rise the number of allowed element in the sketch
Each "special" rank (defined by developpers) reached could allow new elements (ie. curves defined by 3 points, new icons, symbols, legend, several pages in the same map ...)
Best regards
Pascal Detrait
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Feature Request | 3511 | No | Engine | Medium | New | Seytra | | Ideas for inventory accessibility | 15.02.2010 | | 1 |
Task Description
While sacks and other containers are good for bulk storage, they have the significant drawback of making the inventory harder to navigate, and sorting as well, especially since one can always only have exactly one container window open.
To fix this, one might consider the following ideas:
1) allow any number of container windows to be open, so one can simply put stuff from one container into another, instead of having to put it into the main inventory first.
2) instead, make the container window, once opened, refresh by what container you click on, instead of having to go the rightclick-select-open route
3) instead, make any containers append to the main inventory slot space, but replace the first slot with an image of the container, and clearly separate the appended areas from each other and from the main inventory space by a diferent frame style (could be different for each container type), or at least some additional space. Also, slot spaces that are not provided by a container should remain blank so that a container always starts at the first (second) slot of a fresh line.
When selecting a container, the appropriate window / slot area frame should flash or something so that one sees which container has which window.
4) Let container windows be resizable, and possibly more compact by default.
Mounts
Having each mount have an own (player-accessible) inventory would allow:
1) armor / other enhancement slots for the mount 2) mules that actually are mules, not PCs 3) easier inventory handling
Maybe most of the extra inventory (handling like above) should not come from the mount itself, but from the saddle or whatever one uses on it. Without saddle, there would maybe only be two inventory slots or something.
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Feature Request | 3981 | No | Inventory/Items | Low | New | Elvors Amenoras | | Disallow adding to forge/furnace if impossible | 14.02.2010 | | 1 |
Task Description
Dropping an item in the forge or furnace while hammering something results in a message similar to “You can’t train your skill while working”, with the item sitting in the container but never heating up.
Instead, the item should refuse to drop in the forge/furnace (similar to the situation when capacity, weight, or slots are exhausted). Alternatively, the item could drop normally and start heating up.
I have two reasons for requesting this:
It runs counter to immersion. Stuff sitting in a hot place heats up in real life, it should do so in Ylliakum as well.
It is a griefing opportunity. Start hammering something, fill up the forge with stuff, and watch crafters despair. Since the stuff does not heat up, you can even continue crafting - you can take stuff from a slot normally and immediately replace it, the 300 ms lag will make sure that you can fill the slot before the other crafters even see that you freed the slot.
Feel free to change to Feature Request, I cannot know whether the current behaviour conforms to developer expectations or not.
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Feature Request | 1590 | No | Inventory/Items | Low | New | Electricsheep | | Trade between players should be visible to all in sight... | 24.01.2010 | | 1 |
Task Description
How about making it visible in Main if Players exchange items? A system message appears to the ones trading anyways at this moment. the message to others should however have some less precision, like:
"<PlayerA> gave <PlayerB> Weapons and some coinage in exchange for raw materials"
for someone trading a crafted longsword, a dagger, 2 hexa and a tria against 45 platinum ore and a silver ingot.
this in order to keep realism (can all see how many circles and tria he pushed into the other persons hand?) the message could use the item_category, and eliminate doubles, so it could be done without giant changes to the database.
the advantages I would see in this:
1.) there will be visible interaction between players. no more pure tell-based sales that (imho) are pretty ooc.
Noone IRL (and especially not in the middle ages) would go into a shop and whisper in the cashiers ear what he whishes to sell or buy.
Instead people going into a shop (not a supermarket) usually say good day followed by a statement on what they seek to buy (maybe even some smalltalk).
Neither would such item exchange go unnoticed by other people in the shop or near the exchange.
So I think it would add to realism. Unless the character you play would be blind.
2.) Stealthy and sneaky exchanges of goods would have to take place in dark alleys, like sneaky things should be done.
3.) Hopefully the messages in main would encurage Players to take the general and casual trade-talk into main as well,
instead of hiding it in tells in order to not 'disturb' other players.
If IRL there are others talking near you, you step away a little to give and have more privacy as well.
4.) It also would surely add some spying capabilities into the game, as it then could indeed be seen to all around who trades with who.
This will make it possible to IC-ly spy on others trade behaviours. This without the need of having to be telling or grouping with the ones spied on.
disadvantages:
1.) Anyone could see who would trade with who, people who use quest runners would have to find a reason why they would get items for free..
(or take the trade to a dark alley).
2.) Someone could 'spam' the main-channel with trade messages. (but that's easier by sitting and standing up, or by dropping items and pick them up)
3.) some things I probably didn't thik about yet. feel free to add..
Overall I think it would rather add to RP then desturb it. For slipping items to others unnoticed, there could/should be a ‘/givesecret’ option that would use the numbers behind the pickpocket/sneaking skills.
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Feature Request | 1506 | No | Combat | Low | New | Thom | | Non-lethal guild wars. | 24.01.2010 | | 10 |
Task Description
From forum thread http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=32393.0
In normal duels you can decide whether to kill your opponent or not, leaving him with 1 HP. However, in a guild war this is not the case, in a guild war you can only fight to the death. Make it so that fighters in a guild war have the possibility to spare an opponent. This could be done by creating an option when starting a guild war: lethal war or non-lethal where the fighters can decide to spare an opponent or not.
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