PlaneShift

every other game I’ve played helped its players out with a world map and mini map. in some of them, some areas in those games might not have allowed maps. but they all had maps. why doesn’t PlaneShift have a map system to help us navigate? or at the very least give us a compass!

Pretty much says is all. Possibly depends on  FS#5366 

Venalan will understand :)

Drifters Section

“This gas is highly acidic and damages a persons equipped items if they stand in the mist.”

This should be changed to:

This gas is highly acidic and damages a person’s equipped items if they stand in the mist.

Note the apostrophe to indicate a singular possessive noun (person’s).

1) For damage capped spells, sliding the power bar above the point where max damage is produced, mana cost is over-charged against the character, in addition to lowering success chance and increasing casting time more than appropriate.

2) If the kill shot (magic) produces more damage than needed to finish off the target, full mana cost is charged even if not needed.

I think it would be more appropriate if the mana cost was down-scaled to the net effect:
- if target only has 30 hit points left, a 60-point damage spell should only charge half the mana
- if target only needs 5 hit points to be fully healed, a 60-point healing spell should only charge 1/12th of the mana cost
- for area spells, calculate against sum effect on all impacted targets.
- if you’re going to cap damage, should also cap mana cost and not over-penalize in success chance and cast time when the slider is set too high

Where I’ve referenced the magic power slider above, same should be true for spell commands that explicitly have a power value
- i.e. “/cast 90 Taste of Death”

Justification: The mage should be able to determine if a “light touch” will suffice, but players have no way to turn down magic power to improve success chance and/or reduce mana cost and casting time.

Taking this a step further, practice and experience perhaps should be similarly down-scaled, with the possibility of giving none if no actual effect is the result (this would impact spam casting for power-leveling).

Objective: Let mages dial down the power to suit their needs of the moment, and accordingly the mana cost, time to cast, improved success chance.

The /cast command should accept power values from -99 to +99

The power slider should center at zero and sliding left should dial down to -99 and sliding right should dial up to +99

Perhaps -50 to +50 would work better?

Perhaps practice and experience should be dialed down accordingly as well?

Perhaps it's just me, but while Electrotouch is in effect there's a constant grating buzzing sound that just hurts like nails on a chalkboard.

For crafting book /use command equips book in mind slot - and it’s OK, I think.
But how to open crafting book for reading, as of RMB click in inventory?

Then dragging a book from inventory to shortcut window, /use command is created.
But /use command for common book just results in a book, equiped in righthand slot (in case it’s empty).
Book isn’t opened for reading nor writing, so where is no result of using it. So no /use…

After equipping a common book in a hand slot, /use [slot-name] command just kills the psclient… This one really unexpected :(

/write [item-name] command syntax not working on a writable book, resulting message is: “You cannot write on this item” -
but this syntax described in a Help window! And /write [slot-name] syntax works as expected.

I think it’s clear that /read command for a books must exist to make complete set. Some use cases:

* want to read any book - use /read [item-name] or /read [slot-name]
* want to write to a writable book - use /write [item-name] or /write [slot-name]
* want to equip / dequip any book - use /equip and /dequip commands

Sane default results for /use command:

* Crafting book - equip in a mind slot.

It's a reference book, to take a look from time to time in a crafting process, after all.

* Common book and writable book - open book reading window. Using a book in a real world means “read it”.

Other "uses" (as a blunt weapon, fuel, press-papier, etc.) are less common.

I've noticed that the sound effects for things like fountains and fires seem to be based on where the camera is located, not where the player is.

To demonstrate, go to 3rd person follow mode and move the camera well back from the character. Position the character near a sound generating item (fireplace in front of temple works). You won't hear it. Move away from the object so that the camera is next to it and you will hear it.

In the current state, if you have focus in the text box of the chat, none of your shortcut hotkeys work, even if they’re mapped to keys that do nothing in the chatbox, such as F1-12, Ctrl, Alt, Tab, Pause, etc.

I’m filing this as a bug report, because either this should be “fixed” so we can map shortcuts to such keys so they will still work while chatting, or the team can decide this is “not a bug” and close it.

The “fix” therefore, is to trap only those keys that chatbox can deal with, and forward anything else to the shortcut processor, so while typing in chat W A S D would be trapped in chat, and F3 would fire the shortcut it’s mapped to.

Crashes sometimes occur while unequipping a Master’s Dark Way Wand or mounting while it is equipped.

A UI improvement: This would make things much more convenient for spells like Dweomer Detection, but generally in cases where an action is performed on an object such as repairing weapons and armor. It would be great if the object of the action was (first choice) an external object that you have in focus. If there is no such object, use the one in the sword hand.

Right now, there is a mix of both of these things implemented. This would make it consistent and convenient. Right now it's quite awkward to have to drop an item, and then focus on it before casting a spell on it.

The screenshots pretty much tell the whole story.

1) Have char A (Primatus for me) enter the GH and sit on some furniture.
2) Have char B (Sabor) log into the GH.

A on A’s client is atop the furniture, while on B’s client A is in the furniture. Probably a symptom of the known issues with object spawning in PS, but still….really guys?

When you use a shape-shifting spell like Gorwealform (assuming the same holds for Polymorph) while mounted, the speed is not set correctly and you can reach no more than walking speed afterwards.

This is kind of stupid, but I noticed that if you run pslaunch, then click on “Play” before the client version and launcher version is displayed, the client will crash. It might not hurt to lock the play button until the launcher is fully initialized. Its a small bug, but probably quite easy to fix.

(Merrinez’ Bad Mood)

When I carelessly executed the reply “Thses might help your hands.” (typo fix is probably already pending server update), the gloves my character wears disappeared from his hands, and Merrinez received them. I thought worn armor is not considered to be taken in quests?

When one kills a Dark Rogue in the BD Mine after having it chase one down towards the main corridor they fall to the ground and then float away. Even after catching up with them one is informed that they are too far away to be looted.

The range seems to be when they are out of range to call for help.

Today morning I accidentally destroyed (”sold”) my main weapon (a Frosty Crystal-Steel Battle Axe of Stone). This has happened earlier and to several other players, and it will happen again for sure. It would be very useful to have either
* an option for locking down some items in your inventory to prevent selling them
* a confirmation popup when selling items with a rarity of one in a million or more
* a way to retrieve items, e.g. as suggested in PS#5325
I know it is the players fault, but it can happen easily if there is a lot of lag or if the storage and trade windows happen to be placed on top of each other.

It would be useful to have some knowledge areas accessible through the drop down dialog system, perhaps behind a chooser toggle "quest/knowledge area"
The dialog could default to quest dialog always opening the list window with the no-quest error in place of the list if there is no relevant quest dialog and a button for showing the KAs. This way the useful information the npcs have is not lost unless you know exactly what to ask them.

Scores whose given tempo (beats per minute) is greater than the performers skill level would allow should play at the maximum tempo available to him unless it is specifically set lower than the max.
resetting the tempo with every repetition of the piece is counter-productive.

If you drop an item from your inventory while you are casting analyze dweomer on an another item you receive the message that the item you are identifying is already dead.
For example here I was analyzing Fire Bones Mercenary helm. When I dropped from the inventory another helm I got this message.

(11:09:55) >You start casting the spell Analyze Dweomer
(11:09:59) >Fire Bones Mercenary Helm is already dead.

I created a guild with 1 member and it did not disband after 5 minutes as it should have as it had less than the minimum number of required members.

I am running ps on a OSX system running 10.9.2. The game crashes regularly however when I am playing it. It doesn’t always happen at the same time or in the same place. It seems that it always gives this error though.

Mar 20 09:40:49 macbook kernel[0]: process psclient_static[2932] thread 384705 caught burning CPU!; EXC_RESOURCE supressed due to audio playback
Mar 20 15:15:25 macbook kernel[0]: process psclient_static[3419] thread 457035 caught burning CPU!; EXC_RESOURCE supressed due to audio playback
Mar 20 16:25:02 macbook kernel[0]: process psclient_static[3538] thread 477372 caught burning CPU!; EXC_RESOURCE supressed due to audio playback
Mar 20 16:27:10 macbook com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[286] ([0×0-0x38f38f].psclient[3538]): Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11

Any ideas on what is causing this? Thanks in advance.

If you fall off the dais where the fire carkerass is and you have max stats you do not die and you cannot return to the temple. To get back you have to commit suicide.

When I am moving items out of my inventory and get the window to confirm the number of items to move, if the confirmation window is over another window, clicking the OK button closes the amount window (correctly) but pulls the lower window to the top.

Steps to reproduce: Position the Inventory window such that the left overlaps the middle of another window (e.g. a container). Pick a stack of items from the left inventory window with a left-button click. The Amount window should appear with the "OK" button over the lower window. Click "OK." The items will be picked up but the other window will now be on top of the inventory window.

The click action does not trigger an action in the lower window. If the shortcut window is the lower window, the shortcut under the OK will not be triggered, but the shortcut window will be pulled to the top. This may be related to PS#6251.

the inscription reads that “Talad may bless the souls” this implies that he also may not. “May Talad bless” or simply “Talad bless” would be a plea for his intercession. “Talad blesses” would be an affirmation to the reader that they are indeed blessed by Talad whether or not it is actually true.

Curious when the Yilan attractive, skinny feminine model of the Yilan class will be coming out?

I have decided that I will start a NEW character permanently when it comes put.
I would like to take the 4 years of learned game time and efficiently develop this new character.

If you can base the model to look something like the combo:
1.) Feminine female Northrir
2.) Feminine looking male Lemur

…………. I would be greatly pleased. Perhaps a little bit more swagger in the hips or a little bit more bounce (if you know what I mean).

Question: Who actually is working on these models?

The map that shows up when you take a pterosaur flight shows a river identified as the Irifon River between Gugrontid and the Bronze Doors. However, there’s no river there and the Irifon is actually located between Hydlaa and Ojaveda.

As the title suggests you continue to get the system message you have gained practice when using a skill despite your practice level not actually increasing.

i have seen people who log and quit(crashing) in second due using incompatibile skin
update and repair should set skin to default elves .reinstaling ps propably will not help because these configuations are in diferent folder

After updating itself, and then updating the PS client and data (Win64) to version 0.6.1, the launcher tried a third time, displayed “Using mirror … for updaterinfo.xml | updateservers.xml” — and then, nothing. The button “OK” never appeared.

The button “Cancel” was available. But how shall I know if I interrupt something important if I click it?

Currently when leaving PlaneShift, the only option is to completely exit the client. It would be convenient to be able to go back to the character selection screen and/or the login screen rather than having to restart the client.

I need potions : curse ,diseases,paralyzation, and poison for completion as well stupidity potions that lower magic way skill for shoort duration

With a weight of 9 and a size of 9, the model of “White Oak Wood” appears to be way too large. Such a big heap of wood would weight more than 50 kg. In contrast, the icon is such a tiny poking stick…

Hello everyone!
I have updated my client on 2014-05-01 via launcher. Now game crashes in a few seconds right after loading the world. I can see environment, but my character is not able to move, chat interface is not accessible. After about 20 seconds game crashes and returns to a launcher window. I have tried to clear cache before starting, but it doesn’t help. Using “elves” interface skin by default, but changing to another (scholar) leads to the same behaviour. There was no such issue before an update, but it was some weeks ago, maybe system updates can cause a problem as well. Creating a new character does not help much: I can walk a few steps and then game crashes. After that there is no chance to proceed playing using a brand new char because it starts up already “broken”.
My system is: OS: Russian Fedora Remix 20, 3.8 GB RAM, Intel Core i5 CPU 661@3.33 GHz x 4, OS type 64-bit, Graphics Gallium 0.4 on NVC1, GNOME 3.10.2. Operating system is up to date (all latest updates installed successfully)
Update: I have tried to download a new *.run installer, renamed /home/PlaneShift and /home/.PlaneShift and reinstalled client. Same result: the world is loading, I can see my char standing near Harnquist’s blacksmith area, but GUI is frozen and no movement or animation. after a few seconds game crashes back to launcher window.

There is no part and icon for the current release in the “PlaneShift Loyal Fan” section of the MyPlane achievements yet.

In order to speed things up and reduce the overall impact I prepared three proposals:

_{For aesthetic reasons I favour the first, as it has the best balance in colour and motif, although the two others are a bit more expressive, when it comes to representing the new features.}

when the focus is on the inventory (inventory is the active window) i can not make my character go forwards or backwards using the arrow keys. once focus is off of the inventory i can control movement. however left and right still work.

As the title suggests if you add a name like;

Venalan

And you then edit this to say

Venalan “dev”

When you load the client next time around the " will have broken the aliases_name.xml file so none of the added name notes will show. It is because you end up with the following in the xml file

<alias name=”Venalan” alias=”Venalan “Dev”” />

the extra [dev”“] is an unknown component of the <alias /> so breaks the whole formatting of the file.

It would be extremely useful to have a dedicated file for all quest chat that you could enable.

guard throw out of city polymorphed players, why not add the same when player wield weapon in city and guard see that?

while hammering a heated alpha ps sba blade I was able to start spell research without int erupting the hammering.

Often then I'm trying to speak with NPC using "new" NPC dialog, on activate it shows NPC's reply bubble with a common public phrase (instead of [private] quest choices).

Think that NPC speech bubble should be displayed only for NPC's replies on quest choices / answers. Rule is simple: no quest choices made in dialog session = no need to show NPC reply bubble. All other NPC talk should be directed to the chat.

During the last Dev Meeting, there was a good discussion about looting problems, especially after killing multiple opponents.
Aliasing with “/target next” does not solve the problem, because several players confirmed that this command tends to skip corpses.

Therefore Eredin asked for this ticket as a reminder to check the command.

6 times in 2 hours since the update the game crashed. Returned to version 0.6.1 and it stopped. Tried lowering graphical settings to no affect.

when i edit book and load it from file i would like see list of files i can load,
in additonal user books not stack that make it hard to carry for sale :( so another proposition if i put empty book into writted one it stack and and i have 2 identical -easy way to copy books

btw book name is not changed when i load it from file and i have to edit it every time

On install, the launcher defaults to a software sound source which seems to do nothing. I get no sound from it in either windows or linux. Perhaps it should default to openal if that is the only sound system that actually works. Possibly the software selector in pslaunch should be removed or renamed “no sound”

when flame spire or animate vegetion kill enemy it swich from agresive to fuldefensive mode , enemy is already dead ant it shall stop atack

when hunting in group popup window asking winer to allow loot is annoying, i wish leader of group have options that
1 allow to share loots
2 disable shares and the one who take loots keep it
without the annoying window that popup every time

The reason for this request is to prevent guests from stealing.

If one tries to login into a locked guildhouse one has no key for one’s position should be reset.

Guildhouses usually have only one exit so the position outside of the house should be clear.

At the moment two handed items appear in a single hand and use the animations for single hand weapons. There needs to be a new set of equip and attack animations for each race for two hand weapons.

spells are laggy one less others more , players cry for the lag during events, cant imagine how it would laggy with 300 players online
so ingame ability to disble the effect would litle solve it
we could have slider simiar to grafics detail distance and when its set to 0 all efects would disabled , small distance would allow to see own spells and not get lagged by others

would be great if somone review the effects if there is way to optimalize it and make less laggy