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Wish list / hall of fame
« on: January 06, 2002, 03:50:02 pm »
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corgan
    Guest
                            posted 01-09-2001 05:27 GMT        

                         i would be good to have a hall of fame were you can walk in and see or read about great achivement people have done it the
                         world. (have quests that can only be completed by a single person)
    Abemore
    Guest
                            posted 27-10-2001 06:57 GMT            

                         thats a great idea!

                         ....a quest that is so difficult, everyone who has attempted it has died.

                         something like that... maybe it wont pan out but i think its a great idea to give players in-game recognition for their
                         accomplishments. Then people could say, \"that guy\'s famous!\"
    Thekkur
    Guest
                            posted 28-10-2001 23:20 GMT            

                         That would only be possible when there are one-time quests... It would be neat. There was already a thought about a library in
                         which you could read player-written stories and in which the hall of fame might be implemented.

                         Thekkur
    ParaSite
    Guest
                            posted 04-11-2001 23:13 GMT            

                         Also, u could get bards to write songs about famous players. I think it would be very cool to sit and relax in a pub, and suddenly
                         hear a song about a brave and noble knight that appears to be you. People would gaze to you, you can SEE them think:\"Thats
                         the guy who defeated the six-butted dragon!\"
    whitti
    Guest
                            posted 05-11-2001 00:56 GMT            

                         i think this is a BIT 2 hard 2 implement guys
    Thekkur
    Guest
                            posted 05-11-2001 01:15 GMT            

                         jeah... but there could have been heroic deeds in the past, of which the hero\'s still wander around the world (player by specially
                         selected players/maybe GM\'s). BArds could sing songs about those deeds.

                         Thekkur

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Wish list / goverment?
« on: January 06, 2002, 03:49:20 pm »
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corgan
    Guest
                            posted 01-09-2001 05:20 GMT        

                         you say that this game will have a government type playablity. What do you mean by that, like do you mean someone like me
                         could become king or just that there is a AI based government.
    icebolt
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 01-09-2001 09:58 GMT            

                         We will have a counsel of eight Octarchs running the show, each with 20 Vigessimi placed under them. I am not sure yet wether
                         these are AI based or not.
    Catalyst88
    Guest
                            posted 02-09-2001 17:27 GMT            

                         Maybe you could have elections - start off with AI rulers, but gradually replace them with humans, if they want to become rulers
                         (it\'d be a pretty hectic job) and if they can\'t do it properly, hold another election? Just an idea.
    corgan
    Guest
                            posted 04-09-2001 09:23 GMT            

                         what about guilds , will people be able to join guilds and fight each other for stuff like relics or land?
    lpancallo
    PS Director
                            posted 14-09-2001 16:48 GMT            

                         Two important topics here:
                         1) government
                         2) guilds

                         Government:
                         Some octarchs and vigesimi will be AI controlled, but many others will be players. Members of the PS Team will have this
                         positions and high level players (if they want).
                         The election can be based on votes of other players and can bring to the formation of guilds.

                         Guilds:
                         Surely we will have guilds! Starting from the first demo that will allow players only to roam in a demonstration area, we will
                         introduce guilds.
                         There will be leaders of guilds and each guild will have a special \"power\" or magical item available only to members.
                         As far as guild \"fights\" I will prefer to have guild \"competitions\" on resolution of important quests or in getting important magical
                         items.

                         Bye, Luca.
    Kendaro
    Guest
                            posted 13-11-2001 05:52 GMT            

                         wow how did i miss this thread??? those are some great features. something i am wondering though, are these special guild
                         items like, say, a cloak or something to show the guild colors or insignia? one other thing. i love the idea talked about in the
                         description of Enkidukai, about them living in packs. the packs shown by the cutting or painting of the fur. this marking of the fur,
                         is that something that is chosen in char creation or is it possibly something we as players can choose to do when and if we
                         creat a player type \"pack\" or as i like to call it, a pride.

                         i ask that last part cause i am very, very interested in making such a \"pride\" with a few of my Enkidukai friends.
    AVATAR
    PS Official Member
                            posted 13-11-2001 06:17 GMT            

                         If this happens, by my guess (a guess mind you), I would most likely say the carving would be selected from default for normals,
                         and possibly user-made on donator. I do not really have any clue.

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General Discussion / Events
« on: January 06, 2002, 02:21:19 pm »
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Kendrick
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                            posted 02-01-2002 03:21 GMT        

                         Will there be events in PS? such as invasions? maybe an evil, and very powerful NPC will try and to destroy the giant crystal.

                         or maybe the said evil NPC, and his army, might try to conquer PS, making the players work together to stop him?

                         perhaps one race will decide another race is not fit to live anymore? maybe have race wars?
    whitti
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 02-01-2002 04:02 GMT            

                         I REALLY hope so :)
    Veksen
    Guest
                            posted 02-01-2002 04:56 GMT            

                         I think it would be cool for hordes of evil.. (skeletons for example) to attempt to take over a small village near there citadel once in
                         a while.

                         ~Veksen
    Veksen
    Guest
                            posted 02-01-2002 04:59 GMT            

                         their** ..getting late.. typo demons wreaking havok on.. typing skillz...
    ratdudett
    Guest
                            posted 02-01-2002 05:07 GMT            

                         that\'d be cool :) i think there will be because in features it says something like \"a world that evolves by itself\" so...
    Kendrick
    Guest
                            posted 02-01-2002 05:21 GMT            

                         Or maybe A new god finds the way into Yliakum and tries to conquer it :) maybe Lannx & Talad try and defeat the other god...
                         maybe players can choose which side they want to join. Talads\', Lannxs\', or the new gods\'

                         have a little holy war :)
    Buechler
    Guest
                            posted 02-01-2002 07:22 GMT          

                         Great idea, Kendrick!! And hopefully someone will host a site that lists regular Planeshift events too. I especially like the race war
                         idea, maybe PS could have events also where the Enkidukai are at war with the Xacha.(humans)
    whitti
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 02-01-2002 20:08 GMT            

                         Kendrick: This IS in the game (I\'ll tell you no more)
    whitti
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 02-01-2002 20:09 GMT            

                         Oops I didnt meen to say that I may be wrong :(
    whitti
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 02-01-2002 20:14 GMT            

                         And have tunics over their armor saying \'T\', \'L\' or the new god/ cult\'s name. Maybe it could end up in successfully driving the
                         invadors off and eventually Laanx and Talad could realise how they could work together to form one Religion.

                         Then a Self Proclaimed \'Dictator\' tries to sieze power and the combined might of the armies drives him out of power :P

                         just an idea :P

                         my 1 euro worth lol

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General Discussion / RolePlaying
« on: January 06, 2002, 02:20:10 pm »
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Zidane
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                            posted 30-12-2001 03:13 GMT        

                         Go to http://www.dark-legacy.com , then click on manual and scroll down till you reach \"Roleplaying\". Do you think we can implement
                         some of the things like char bio and description? They\'re from another game, I know, but are gd ideas nonetheless.
    whitti
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 30-12-2001 03:22 GMT            

                         yeah we strongly implement RPing so this would be a neat idea. That has a HUGE amount of RPing and as this is a 3D and
                         Free game it would be hard to do it :(

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General Discussion / Will thieves be able to pickpocket from other players or only npcs??
« on: January 06, 2002, 02:19:25 pm »
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Buechler
    Guest
                            posted 28-12-2001 20:55 GMT      

                         I think it would be cool to be able to steal from players. It would be a way to combat pkers as well.
    Anubis
    Guest
                            posted 29-12-2001 19:06 GMT            

                         How would that be a good way?
    Dwinney
    Guest
                            posted 30-12-2001 02:40 GMT            

                         I think it would be right if thieves could pickpocket from other players, it adds to the realism. After all, pickpocketing DOES
                         happen in rl.
    whitti
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 30-12-2001 03:11 GMT            

                         well yeah it happens in real but who wants this to be really REAL. if this was REAL then you could kill anything hack down the
                         trees burn the building etcetera etcetera etcetera lol.

                         Yeah it may be cool but it must have Realism lol. As in, if the character sees then he could hack the oponents head off ;)
    iversonroxs
    Guest
                            posted 30-12-2001 04:41 GMT            

                         head emm all!!!!!!!!!!! lol
    Buechler
    Guest
                            posted 02-01-2001 17:18 GMT          

                         Luca or Isupi can you answer this question please?

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General Discussion / Specifics of engine capabilities
« on: January 06, 2002, 02:09:27 pm »
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KILER
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                            posted 24-12-2001 04:59 GMT        

                         Will it support:
                         Hardware T&L, trilinear filtering, shadow buffers, pixel and vertex shaders, stencil buffer, higher colour modes like 64-128bpp, 3d
                         textures, DOT product 3 bump mapping, NURBS (NON Uniform rational b splines), True form.
    Bigfoot
    Guest
                            posted 24-12-2001 06:43 GMT            

                         haha... i dont think so. This is only a opensource engine where useing here those are some heavy features youve listed...

                         it\'d Be good if it could have those however.
    KILER
    Guest
                            posted 24-12-2001 00:19 GMT            

                         Since the project is opensource hmmmmm.
                         Leaves possibilities doesn\'t it?
    Bigfoot
    Guest
                            posted 27-12-2001 06:44 GMT            

                         Im just an Art guy... I dont know an array from a struct. (Well i do ^_^) Would be neat to have T&L though.
    KILER
    Guest
                            posted 28-12-2001 16:29 GMT            

                         If not would some one like to implement it?
                         I can try but my skills in C++ are simple only and I\'m gonna have to learn how to do it thru opengl.
    Firestorm
    PS Official Member
                            posted 28-12-2001 18:59 GMT            

                         These are the Crystal Space Features:
                         Crystal Space is a free 6DOF portal based engine (based on the LGPL license). Current features are:

                         * General Architecture:
                         * True 6DOF engine with arbitrary sloped convex polygons.
                         * Flexible plugin system which allows for plugging in other modules including scripting languages. Python and LUA scripting
                         plugins are already included. There are also various other plugins (fonts, sound, ...).
                         * Crystal Space uses SCF for communication between several layers (like between the 3D Engine and the 3D Rasterizer). This
                         allows plug-and-play capabilities and other nice stuff.
                         * Support for 8-bit (palette), 15/16-bit (truecolor), and 32-bit (truecolor) displays.
                         * Crystal Space has commandline arguments and can run at many resolutions (320x200, 640x480, 800x600, ...).
                         * Very configurable via commandline or configuration file.
                         * C++ source (and optional assembler) is available. Crystal Space falls under the LGPL GNU copyleft license for libraries which
                         means that the engine can be used in commercial products provided you can conform to the LGPL license (no, you DON\'T have
                         to release the source of your game if you use CS).
                         * cs-config script to make it easier for external applications to use CS.
                         * Textures and Texture Mapping:
                         * Textures can have any size which is a power of two and they need not be square.
                         * Crystal Space supports textures with various formats including GIF, TGA, PNG, BMP, JPG, and others.
                         * It is possible to map a texture on a polygon in various ways (rotated, scaled, mirrored, ...).
                         * Perspective correct texture mapping with interpolation every 16 pixels.
                         * Transparent and semi-transparent textures allowing for see-through water surfaces and windows.
                         * In addition to the usual lightmapped textures you can also use triangles which are gouroud shaded.
                         * Mipmapping to minimize memory strain on the texture cache and to have nicer looking textures when a polygon is far away.
                         * Support for dynamic textures (i.e. texture that you can render on and put on a polygon as well as normal textures).
                         * Support for internal 24-bit textures with a private colormap for every texture or true 24-bit.
                         * Multi-texturing with OpenGL.
                         * Engine Features:
                         * Dynamic gouroud shaded sky dome (half-sphere) for a very realistic and nice looking sky. With very little programming it is
                         possible to have a moving sun which actually modifies the color of the sky in real-time.
                         * Support for multi-layered and animated skyboxes and skydomes.
                         * Landscape engine.
                         * Crystal Space supports mirrors!
                         * With mirrors and alpha mapping you can create really nice shiny or reflecting surfaces.
                         * Static colored lights with real shadows. Lighting and shadows are precalculated before the world is displayed.
                         * Dynamic colored lights with soft shadows!
                         * Precalculated Radiosity on the Lightmaps!
                         * 3D triangle mesh sprites with frame animation. Convertors for Quake MDL and Quake II MD2 formats to Crystal Space are
                         included. Importers for 3DS, MDL, MD2, OBJ, POV, and ASE are also included. The meshes are actually progressive meshes
                         allowing for dynamic LOD (level of detail) changes. There is also support for skeletal sprites.
                         * 2D sprites and a particle system using those 2D sprites.
                         * Depth-correct colored volumetric fog in sectors (both software and hardware renderers).
                         * Optional halo\'s around lights for nice atmospheric effects. Also support for lens-flares.
                         * Support for curved surfaces (Beziers, ...).
                         * Visibility system based on a combination of portals, octrees, BSP trees and c-buffer (coverage buffer).
                         * Hardware accelerated transforms (if available and with OpenGL) for 3D triangle mesh sprites, curved surfaces, and terrain
                         engine.
                         * Portability:
                         * Currently Crystal Space has been ported to DOS (DJGPP), Unix (X Windows, OpenGL), GNU/Linux (X Windows, SVGALIB,
                         SDL, and OpenGL) Macintosh (also with OpenGL), Windows 32-bit (DirectDraw, Direct3D (in progress), and OpenGL), BeOS
                         (also with OpenGL), NextStep, OpenStep, Rhapsody, and OS/2 (also with OpenGL).
                         * Optional Direct3D hardware accelaration on Windows for DX8 is in progress.
                         * Optional OpenGL hardware acceleration on Windows, GNU/Linux, BeOS, Macintosh, and OS/2. The OpenGL port has been
                         tested with Mesa on GNU/Linux and works very well. The other OpenGL ports will also work well.
                         * Optional MMX support for processors that support it.
                         * File Format Support:
                         * Crystal Space can directly load 3DS, MDL, MD2, ASE, OBJ, or POV objects.
                         * Powerful ASCII world file format allowing you to easily redefine the world (a real editor is in development (MazeD)).
                         * Levels can be stored in standard compressed ZIP archives so that you can easily make a bundle of one level.
                         * It\'s possible to make libraries of objects, textures and other game related stuff and put it all in a seperate ZIP file.
                         * A convertor to convert MAP files (from Quake/HalfLife) to CS is also included. You can use this to edit levels with
                         QuarK/WorldCraft or other editors.
                         * A convertor to convert 3DS to models or levels is included.
                         * Several Blender scripts (Python) are included to export models and levels from within Blender.
                         * Various Other Features:
                         * Font system plugin to support other font types. Currently CS fonts and truetype fonts are supported.
                         * Moving objects and a (currently limited) script language controlling the movement.
                         * Hierarchical bounding box collision detection system.
                         * Powerful physics library is included too. It is a dynamics modeling and simulation engine.
                         * Sound support (for Windows, GNU/Linux and Macintosh only currently).
                         * Support for 3D sound (DS3D, EAX, A3D, ...).
                         * Support for various sound formats: WAV, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, AU, AIFF, IFF, and MOD (using MikMod).
                         * Simple networking support for Windows, GNU/Linux and Unix (sockets based).
                         * There is also an input/output console (like in Quake) that can be activated with the \'tab\' key.

                         Here are things which are currently in progress:

                         * Work on all 3D rasterizers (Direct3D, and OpenGL). Trying to improve them every day. Better support for hardware accelerated
                         transform and lighting is one of the things we\'re working on all the time.
                         * Continue work on curved surfaces (add Nurbs and other types of curves, improve lightmapping, ...).
                         * More work on the sound system (like sounds which are influenced by the 3D position of an object and so on ...).
                         * Start work on PVS (Potentially Visible Set).

                         Here are several things that we plan to do for Crystal Space in the near future:

                         * We will start working on a general LOD (Level Of Detail) manager in CS.


                         As you can see this isnt just any opensource engine :)
    KILER
    Guest
                            posted 30-12-2001 05:36 GMT            

                         So it supports hardware transormations.
                         Great if you have a T&L video card.

                         That is what I call an engine it looks extremely awesome.
                         It says that it has mmx support. It doesn\'t look like it will have direct support for SSE,2 instruction sets.
    Corsairk8
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 01-01-2001 03:38 GMT            

                         I think Direct3D support for T&L is still being worked on, you should register to the CS mailing lists to get the latest
                         announcements.

                         CS is very awesome indeed, and I find it to be one of the best, if not, the best freely available 3d engine.

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Newbie Help (Start Here) / ST, EN, AG, IN, WI, CH What do those mean?
« on: January 06, 2002, 02:06:52 pm »
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Snooky
    Guest
                            posted 23-12-2001 13:39 GMT        

                         I was wondering what those mean.. Can you put um in order like the following:

                         ST-?
                         EN-?
                         AG-?
                         IN-?
                         WI-?
                         CH-?
                         THANKS:D

    Talad
    PS Director
                            posted 23-12-2001 17:32 GMT            

                         ST-Strenght
                         EN-Endurance
                         AG-Agility
                         IN-Intelligence
                         WI-Will
                         CH-Charisma

    Snooky
    Guest
                            posted 23-12-2001 18:04 GMT            

                         Thanks a lot! Keep up your help!! I see a lot of your help:) Thanks again:D

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General Discussion / DISCUSSION: graphics or gameplay?
« on: January 06, 2002, 02:05:38 pm »
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Thekkur
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 20-12-2001 21:35 GMT        

                         What do you think that\'s more important in a mass multiplayer online role playing game, the graphics, or the gameplay? Don\'t
                         say lame things like; it\'s something of both, because I know many of you enjoy playing RS very much, and if there\'s one thing
                         that RS has not, it\'s beautiful graphics. If you had to choose one of the two, what would you like planeshift to be, fantastic visuals
                         and less gameplay, or the other way around?

                         Thekkur
    Buechler
    Guest
                            posted 20-12-2001 22:38 GMT          

                         I like the graphics PLaneshift has right now. There not super awesome, but they\'re nice. Overall I think gameplay is more
                         important.

                         If Planeshift has awesome gameplay with its current graphics, the game will rule!!!


    sanejm
    Guest
                            posted 20-12-2001 23:30 GMT            

                         i think graphics only need to be good enough to not get in the way of game play(if you have a hard time seeing characters,or the
                         animation is bad .. then the graphics have not served their purpose).. good graphics are a bonus, and nice to look at..
                         gameplay is , lol, the life essences of gaming.graphics should never interfer with the gameplay, only enhance it..
                         but! if you have good artistic quality in a game that game will age well..
                         (omg.. i sound like a wine taster)
    Kendaro
    Guest
                            posted 21-12-2001 00:03 GMT            

                         for me it is gameplay all the way.... i am so used to these mind blowing graphics of today but i turn them away and play stupid
                         looking game like Dragon Warrior III an my son\'s game boy color. game play and story is all i need. graphics are nothing but eye
                         candy. take EQ for example. there are no true RPers on EQ cause the story and game play are lacking, but it looks so perty(:-p)
                         people come to play it in groves.
    Kendrick
    Guest
                            posted 21-12-2001 03:48 GMT            

                         Yes, Definatly gameplay
    Kendrick
    Guest
                            posted 21-12-2001 03:53 GMT            

                         I like music too, I think it adds more to the gameplay
    Bigfoot
    Guest
                            posted 21-12-2001 05:46 GMT            

                         Graphics and gameplay are 2 seperat things, and usualy dont interfer with one another... the reason so many games that are
                         produced with flashy graphics are crap when played are because teh graphics are used to conpensate for an originaly bad
                         gameplay design.

                         Good graphics doesnt mean theres somethig wrong with gameplay at all...

                         Kendrics comment on music is well said... most mmorpgs at teh moment have realy crap music nad its never used enough
                         (although that can be understandable since it can get repedative in such a game type), and with out good music atmosphere
                         cant be made... art can go only so far but with the right accompanyment of music the art in a game can be blasted even further.
                         the two play well off one another.

                         as for EQ being pretty... id hate to see what you term ugly ^_^. EQ is hideousely bad in the graphics department (with the
                         exseption of maybe Kunark, its only saveing grace)

                         I hope to help make planeshift look very professional ^_^ and very \"WOWish\". You have my vow...

                         We should strive to make both great graphics and gameplay, if one side eventualy fails at least we got teh other.
    BinaryReject
    Guest
                            posted 21-12-2001 07:39 GMT            

                         Gameplay all the way.
    princessfun
    Guest
                            posted 21-12-2001 08:46 GMT            

                         Absolutely gameplay, no question. Without the core gameplay being right no amount of flashy visuals can make a great game.

                         What would be nice though, whatever the graphics are like, is a high degree of customisation at character generation and in
                         game, I think it adds a lot to the role play element and allows you to make your character into more of an idividual. Wouldn\'t it be
                         nice to eventually be able to recognise other people in game just by seeing them on screen?
    Gion
    Guest
                            posted 21-12-2001 13:57 GMT            

                         For me , its also gameplay.

                         A game with good graphics is fun to play for 1 month , but if the gameplay sucks it will get bored fast.

                         Greetzz
                         Gion.
                                                                           
                         Member of the Zeal Clan
                         http://www.zealclan.cjb.net
    Trynnon
    Guest
                            posted 21-12-2001 16:18 GMT            

                         Gameplay is king. Without stimulating role-play, well-designed quests, and balanced character classes and abilities a game just
                         won\'t make the cut.
    Fuzzy Donkey
    Guest
                            posted 21-12-2001 16:18 GMT            

                         Gameplay.
    Bigfoot
    Guest
                            posted 21-12-2001 22:07 GMT            

                         Looks like im the manority :(... (then again im in the BOTH camp ^_^) if ya can do both, DO both.
    whitti
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 22-12-2001 00:48 GMT            

                         the Graphics will attract new players the gameplay will keep them!

                         I came to this game as a result of the Screenie (most everyone did) and I\'m hooked as I hope it will have AWESOME gameplay.
                         So far a lot of our Rsers lack in roleplaying abiltity :( but a lot do. I hope for good RPing and great gameplay and limited pking (I
                         said LIMITED)
    Mark von Wagner
    Guest
                            posted 23-12-2001 09:22 GMT            

                         Gameplay is essential. Without in-depth gameplay, a game has essentially no future. High-quality graphics, on the other hand,
                         are good only for attracting new players.


                         (For the record, one of my favorite games is Nethack.)
    Thekkur
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 27-12-2001 01:27 GMT            

                         it seems like gameplay is most popular by far! That means we need more setting members in first place... :)
                         once again: Anyone who\'s interested, feel free to contact us.

                         Thekkur
    Archbishop Xaiver
    Guest
                            posted 27-12-2001 04:47 GMT            

                         what do you mean setting, as in like quests? I have some good quest ideas.
    Dwinney
    Guest
                            posted 27-12-2001 15:05 GMT            

                         I think he means \"setting\" as in History, Government, Economy, Races, that kind of thing...
    Thekkur
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 27-12-2001 15:19 GMT            

                         the settings/background department is responsible for the underlying stories, the History, Government, Economy, Races, and
                         many other things. if you\'re interested in an appointment as setting member send an email to info@planeshift.it.

                         more info is on the help-us section of this site.

                         Thekkur
    iversonroxs
    Guest
                            posted 27-12-2001 23:03 GMT            

                         GAMEPLAY ALL THE WAY
    Shadow
    Guest
                            posted 29-12-2001 20:54 GMT            

                         Gameplay, graphics can\'t just make a good game.

                         Join the Planescape clane \"Order of the helping hand\" if you want to help those around you.
                         When the clan has become a guild every new joiner will get a free weapon and an armor set.
    Corsairk8
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 01-01-2001 03:41 GMT            

                         I think the gameplay is most important, as long as the graphics arent too bad, too flashy or too good as to obscure the
                         gameplay. So definately, great gameplay is a must, graphics I dont much care about.

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General Discussion / Inserts of today's IRC chat with Luca.
« on: January 06, 2002, 02:04:23 pm »
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Kendaro
    Guest
                            posted 16-12-2001 20:16 GMT        

                              quote:

                              I\'m lpancallo on the board.
                              PS Director.
                              AHHHHH...... LOL wouldn\'t have guessed it.....
                              Kendaro: new information will be released as soon as we have the time to create the webpages and add
                              content .... I would like to start building the player\'s guide soon.
                              I hope the moderators don\'t have to do too much work (spam deleting etc)
                              Kendaro: In the player\'s guide you will find many information on the games rules.
                              at least you will be able to delete repeat offenders I guess
                              princessfun: the new board will have a more restricted way of accepting members.
                              Talad: have you set a web master for the site or are you still the one able to work on it
                              we have criteria to fullfill?
                              princessfun: I hope for a \"confirm-by-email\" at minimum.
                              sounds good (as long as you let me in ;) )
                              Kendaro: well, we have 2 *potential* webmasters right now, but they have not yet worked on it. Actually
                              I\'m the one who updates it.
                              which board host will you use?
                              (if any)
                              princessfun: will be a server provided my a PS member.
                              princessfun: so you will have no banners/advertizing/etcc...
                              Talad: not yet worked on it, what do you mean by that? have they been given the chance to but have
                              been unable to, or are they still in the prooving stage?
                              great!
                              Kendaro: they are still in prooving stage and they have not yet submitted to me the completed work.
                              *** Thekkur-PR_3D is now known as Thekkur|dinner
                              Talad: back to the boards again... do you think it is a good idea to not have the adds? after all they are
                              a way of gaining a small amount of money to the cause
                              great if you can get away without them, they can be so intrusive and annoying at times
                              pop up adds are annoying but normaly banner adds don\'t get into the way
                              Kendaro: normally ads are placed by servers and the people get no money for that... we can place our
                              own ads (if you mean this), but will not be done right now.
                              some banner adds can though, ever seen the flashing online casino banners - they are awful
                              Kendaro: we decided to start thinking to money only when we will need it.
                              Kendaro: so on action will be taken to get money from PS until we really need it for the maintenance of
                              the game.
                              Kendaro: so NO action will be taken to get money from PS until we really need it for the maintenance of
                              the game.
                              Talad: ok that just answered my next question
                              Talad: ok now to the matter of the game... With the set back to the demo does this change what will be
                              in it or will it still be as stated on the news section of the main site?
                              Kendaro: the demo will be delayed, yes. And the content will be the same as stated on the site.
                              so at some point in the distant future I suppose Planeshift could well become pay to play - if all
                              goes well
                              Kendaro: the reason of the delay is mainly that we are a free project and so it\'s really difficult to respect
                              deadlines.
                              no they have stated that PlaneShift will remain free
                              (if money becomes an issue - which it usually does)
                              I hope they can live up to that bold statement kendato
                              princessfun: if money will be a issue we will use others way of getting money, but not pay to play.
                              princessfun: other way can be sponsors/ads/donations/etcc...
                              sorry just had to answer that cause of a thread or two that wouldn\'t go away on the MSG boards :p
                              thanks Talad
                              principles before money making - strange ideas indeed ;)
                              princessfun: if we will have problems on bandwidth/server costs we can always restrict number of players,
                              keeping only good ones :)
                              refreshing
                              princessfun: no one on the Team is doing PS for money. We are all doing it for fun (even with
                              professionalism).
                              Talad: you spoke of donations at one time, if a player were to donate money for playing, will there be
                              any added consideration given to that player in game powers?
                              Kendaro: no.
                              Kendaro: there are 2 aspects here.
                              Kendaro: first the player can donate for server hardware/bandwidth. In this case nothing changes on his
                              player.
                              that\'s all really encouraging to hear, but surely if PS starts to take up most of developers time then
                              they will have to earn somehow - I hope you can do this by the methods you suggest
                              Kendaro: second (only if we will need money) we can think to sell things in the game. But it\'s important to
                              understand that those thing will give NO advantages in games terms.
                              Kendaro: this means that you can have a gold sword with gems in it (but will do same damage.)
                              Kendaro: or you can buy a larger house, etcc.... but nothing that can give advantages in combat/rules/etc.
                              I don\'t think dedidacted player will have any problems with making \'real\' money donations if things
                              turn out as good as they sound
                              Talad: a thing was brought up about special/powerfull items in game. that they would come at a cost to
                              xp... this consept is a bit new to me and i wondered what exactly is ment by that
                              Kendaro: the PS team never discussed such a thing. It\'s a rumor and not true.
                              \'real money\' donations for special items is a very interesting idea
                              princessfun: or special look (ornaments, dresses, etcc....)
                              maybe you could have game locations or byuildings dedicated to paying players
                              Talad: ok good to hear that squished... from playing EQ for three years, i have learned that xp penalties
                              are not a way to go about ballancing items or classe
                              classes
                              perhaps building plaques etc could be an idea for you?
                              princessfun: yes, we have many ideas on that... but will be applied later on.
                              getting ahead of myself a bit ;)
                              Talad: where did the first idea of PlaneShift come from? I know there was mention of a 2D work but the
                              idea of an underground world for a MMORPG is quite unique
                              Kendaro: the idea started from MUDs, around 1990.
                              Kendaro: I was not satisfied by text MUDs and so the idea was to create a graphical MUD. This was the
                              first project: PlaneShift 2D.
                              can I ask the obvious question of any proposed timelines? - everyone will be asking you when the
                              demo is likely to be out
                              Kendaro: this had only static rendered images of the world that change everytime you move from one
                              place to another... similar to old adventure games.
                              Talad: has there been any special game that has caused any influence on the creation of this game?
                              Kendaro: then that project was stopped due to commercial problems (it was intended to be a commercial
                              game)
                              Kendaro: the basic answer is to that is: all good things in games we played PLUS all wanted but missing
                              features in same games.
                              Kendaro: anyway I should say that Planescape had a little influence on us. But not Planescape the PC
                              game, the table one (AD&D expansion).
                              *** Kendaro has quit IRC (Ping timeout for Kendaro[nr6-66-161-184-137.fuse.net])
                              Kendaro: About rules there\'s surely some influence from Rolemaster and AD&D.
                              *** Kendaro has joined #planeshift
                              princessfun: the new schedule for the demo is february.
                              sorry was disconnected...
                              princessfun: surely holidays can help us to work more on PS.
                              Kendaro my last msg was: About rules there\'s surely some influence from Rolemaster and AD&D.
                              Just in time for my birthday, thanks :) I understand you will be keeping PS as close to role playing
                              as possible - will you be vetting every applicant to ensure the role play nature is reflected in names that people
                              choose?
                              Talad: there seems to be alot of talk of a 13th race.... is there truly a new race that has been added to
                              the previous 12?
                              princessfun: well a distinction on players can only be done on-line by moderators... they can judge
                              roleplay and ban unwanted players. About names we will do our best to filter all bad words.

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General Discussion / Will there be different languages?
« on: January 06, 2002, 02:01:31 pm »
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Archbishop Xaiver
    Guest
                            posted 06-12-2001 03:00 GMT        

                         Will there be different languages for different races, i dont mean typing a weird language, but type regular words and other races
                         that arent your race would see the words as jibberish:
                         Example:
                         A Human says: Hello how are you?
                         A Troll reads the message and sees: Hajghu timur gastronta or something like that.

                         The only way to understand a certain language is to have a high skill in \"tongue\" This could also be used in book writing, check
                         my book writing post on the wish list board.

                         Tell me what you guys think.
    Kendaro
    Guest
                            posted 06-12-2001 05:45 GMT            

                         i also brought this up in the wish list forum under the skills thread. i like the idea of being able to speak different languages and in
                         another game ive played, they were used in spell reserch.
    Gion
    Guest
                            posted 06-12-2001 15:26 GMT            

                         its a nice idea yes , but the PS team havent confirmed that it will be in the games as far as i know.
    MatzeB
    PS Official Member
                            posted 06-12-2001 16:34 GMT            

                         well this won\'t be supported in the first demo. Later it depends on if we\'ll find volunteers, who want to translate the game into their
                         language.
                         You should also keep in mind that in the game people will speak englisch, because it\'ll be worldwide.
    Zink
    Guest
                            posted 06-12-2001 18:49 GMT            

                         i wouldn\'t mind making up three or four sets of jibberish words for the game. but you guys would have to incorperate in as far as
                         the programing goes... i cant do that
    Corsairk8
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 06-12-2001 21:04 GMT            

                         I beleive you misunderstood the question MatzeB, this post was asking if the individual races spoke english. I will comment on
                         the post...

                         I personally think because traditional chat systems just send text without much regard for the wording or syntax, having this
                         feature would cause words that are invalid would not be translatable unless it used an encoding system that just replaced letters
                         with random letters or groups of letters. Either way, it would take alot of effort just to obscure what one species say to another. It
                         may add another realm of realism to the game but it may also cause alot of annoyance for some individuals.

                         It sounds like an interesting idea but I think it wouldnt work very well for this game. Of course we may decide to use this idea
                         later on if we feel it is suitable.

                         Also, on the note of translating the actual game it is possible the game will be released in English and German (if MatzeB would
                         translate) or any other languages members of the team can speak. At the moment translaters are not needed but if you contact
                         luca you can help translate the game to a language you can speak. We will also need to sort out a quality assurance procedure
                         to ensure the translations are of an acceptable quality.
    Archbishop Xaiver
    Guest
                            posted 06-12-2001 22:23 GMT            

                         You could understand the other races languages better by a better tongue skill.

                              Meanie

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General Discussion / Fan Fiction
« on: January 06, 2002, 02:00:12 pm »
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Kendaro
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                            posted 03-12-2001 23:10 GMT        

                         Well I know I like to write stories. I don\'t know how many of you do though. So what I have thought of was to start this thread and
                         post a piece I have just finished. In this thread please feel free to post your own works. It would be nice if they had at least some
                         type of PlaneShift background to them so to not seem too off topic for these boards. Well enjoy, and I hope to see and read
                         some of your works as well. Who knows, if the team happens to like anything we have written there might be an opportunity for
                         background or setting positions. Not saying there will be but who knows.

                         Enjoy,

                         It was mid day. The crystal was shining brightly off the the water of a small river. A band of adventurers has arrived at this river
                         and stoped for a minute to inspect a strange sight. For there in the midst of the river, where the water rolled over a small ledge,
                         sat an Enkidukai. This seemed strange to the adventurers cause with the Enkidukai being partly cat like, they are not knows to
                         like the water. Matter of fact, they normally avoid water at any cost. Now here sat an Enkidukai inside a small waterfall with the
                         water pouring all around him.

                         The adventurers moved in closer to inspect this irregularity further. The Enkidukai was not moving at all. He just sat there, legs
                         crosses, arms draped to his sides, and his eyes closed tightly. He almost seemed like he was asleep. This intrigued the
                         adventurers more and more and they moved ever closer.

                         \"Come no closer.\", said the Enkidukai without opening his eyes. \"You are many. What is it you wish of here?\"

                         \"What are you are doing in the waterfall?\", the adventurers asked.

                         The Enkidukai responded still with his eyes closed tightly, \"Searching for peace of mind.\"

                         The adventurers then asked, \"Who, if we may ask, are you?\"

                         The Enkidukai rose to his feet then sprung from where he was sitting. With a large leaping flip, the Enkidukai now stood face to
                         face with the adventures. With his eyes now wide open he raises his left fist and thumps it to his chest. He then bows before
                         them and says, \"The Kendaro here, at your service.\"

                         The Enkidukai, named Kendaro, was tall and his fur was brownish in color. He was slender but one could feel the strength he
                         possessed. His eyes were brown and he glowered over each of the adventurers as though to size them up. His piercing eyes
                         made the adventurers feel slightly uneasy. Kendaro, feeling this uneasiness, then snickered softly and with a crooked sneer
                         spoke again, \"The Kendaro will show you to a place where you can rest, get food, and get drink. You look like very tired
                         adventurers to the Kendaro. The Kendaro shall help you gain your strength back.\"

                         With that he turned sideways to bid the adventurers to follow. The adventurers looked puzzled but decided to follow Kendaro.
                         After all if this were a trap, they were many and he was just but one Enkidukai.

                         Kendaro lead them to a small hut like structure. Inside the adventurers found the hut to be quite comfortable though it lacked any
                         of the finer things they were used to. In the left corner was a rolled up straw mat. It must have been Kendaro\'s bed. To the center
                         of the hut was a small wooden table where a picture of water sat next to several wooden goblets. Around the table were several
                         wooden chairs and to the surprise of the adventurers, there was exactly the same amount of chairs as them. Over in the right
                         corner was a fire pit. The pit had a large pipe about two foot above it that then lead up and out of the roof. On this fire were several
                         fish being smoked. Again there was the exact same number of smoking fish as there were adventurers.

                         The adventures, feeling real uneasy about this situation, start mumbling between each other. Kendaro then spoke to ease the
                         adventurers, \"Fear not friends. The Kendaro has sensed you coming and prepared for you well. Eat, drink, and be the Kendaro\'s
                         guests while you regain your strength. When done, the Kendaro shall be outside to guide you back to your adventure.\"

                         Now the adventurers were feeling slightly better but all types of exadjurations began to fly as they ate the fish cautiously. \"He
                         must be some type of wizard.\" one of them said. \"Maybe a great shaman.\" another mentioned. \"I bet he has some type of mind
                         reading ability.\" was said by yet another. \"He is outside, lets see what he is up to.\" said the leader of the group.

                         A few of the adventurers went over to one of the small circular windows and spied out to see what Kendaro was doing. What they
                         saw was unusual and quite strange to them. He was out there by himself and doing what they thought to be a dance. The
                         movements were as if he was fighting someone in slow motion. The transition from one move to another was done slow but the
                         initial move itself was fast and showed great power. The onlookers were both amazed and confused at what they were seeing.

                         After watching him for a while, the adventurers all came out and watched Kendaro. Soon Kendaro stopped moving and stood
                         silently in the field. The adventurers advanced, with puzzled looks, and asked, \"What is it that you were just doing? We thought it
                         was some type of dance but it wasn\'t like anything we have ever seen.\"

                         \"The Kendaro was performing his kata.\", he responded. \"It is how the Kendaro keeps his fighting skills and body sharp.\"

                         \"KATA? What is this kata you speak of?\", they asked.

                         Kendaro responded, \"Kata is form made up of many fighting moves all put together to make it easy for the Kendaro to remember
                         them.\" He then continued, \"Was the Kendaro\'s cooking to your liking? If so and you are all well rested now, the Kendaro will lead
                         you back to your adventure.\"

                         The adventurers all nodded their heads in satisfaction and gathered their things to return to their journey. Kendaro then lead them
                         back to the river where they first found him. He pointed in the direction that would be the safest for them to travel. As they walked
                         off, Kendaro shouted to them, \"If ever you find yourselves in need of a friend. Don\'t hesitate to call on the Kendaro. The Kendaro
                         will always be willing to help.\"
    Gion
    Guest
                            posted 03-12-2001 23:34 GMT            

                         verry nice written,
                         i thougth i was reading a book.
                         greetzz
                         Gion.


                                                                           
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    NecromancerZeal
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                            posted 04-12-2001 01:24 GMT            

                         Wow thats really good, What do you sell books or something? Will there be a part 2? The world may never know. All in All Great
                         Story!


                                                                           
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Wish list / Marriage System?
« on: January 06, 2002, 01:59:09 pm »
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Zidane
    Guest
                            posted 03-12-2001 06:59 GMT        

                         It\'ll b great if some sort of marriage system is implemented in this game, like when 2 friends meet and decide to marry
                         in-game,(just for fun)then they could invite ppl to the wedding, exchange rings and promises, etc... and if they have another friend
                         who\'s just started playing, he/she could start out as their child and live with them. I remember a game in which 2 gamemasters
                         married, it was THE grandest event in the game, lots of ppl attended the wedding and took screenies.(Not to mention the floor
                         was decorated with money) Think of the possibilties!
    Kendaro
    Guest
                            posted 03-12-2001 07:39 GMT            

                         in other games i have played, they had such a system. well it realy wasnt a system more than just that you had to petition a GM
                         to get married and to set a date where he/she could do the service and the area used. this would allow the GMs to set up the
                         KOS rules so all people could attend.

                         (KOS for those that might not know is kill on sight. most guards and NPCs didnt like those of different races and didnt like them
                         in thier area so they would kill them the GMs would wave this rule for weddings and other events.)

                         the weddings were mainly just the bride, groom, the GM, and all their friends. the casters would put on light shows with their
                         spell effects and the fighters just handed out the boos :). they wer fun to attend and realy added to the RP experience. pluss after
                         the service the GM would grant the couple a matching surname.
    NecromancerZeal
    Guest
                            posted 03-12-2001 08:03 GMT            

                         Marriage system would be nice. Some one to keep you company. A very good example comes from a poor designed game
                         called \'RuneScape\' you might have heard about it. Well they didnt have a marriage system, but the people of RuneScape
                         pretended. Well the first couple got along fine until more and more of these marriages came along. Well it wasnt to far until this
                         thing got out of hand. Instead of pretending they would take it a step farther, They Could have Cyber Sex (NASTY STUFF :( )
                         they would marry the person and just steal his stuff. And they would that advantage of the person.

                         But the point is not to let this or anything bad from RuneScape happen to this game. A system would be great. I say \"Lets give it
                         a try.\"

                         And another thing, Will each race have 2 diffrent sexes? Like Male, Female, Or will we have to choose a race that looks like a
                         Female?

                                                                           
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    Dwinney
    Guest
                            posted 03-12-2001 08:21 GMT            

                         Each race will definitely have different sexes, even the elves :)
    Dwinney
    Guest
                            posted 04-12-2001 04:32 GMT            

                         Let\'s not let crappy players from Runescape ruin this game for us.
                         Maybe we could have a movement like kneeling down on one knee, so a guy can actually propose to a gal.
    Kendaro
    Guest
                            posted 04-12-2001 20:07 GMT            

                         talking about kneeling.... a game i used to play took many resorces and put them into animated emotes. say for example you
                         wanted to bow, you would type \"/bow\" and your character would drop to one knee and bow. text would then say, \"Kendaro bows
                         in humility and respect.\" and if you happened to have to have someone targeted it would mention so. as in \"Kendaro bows before
                         Kada-El in humility and respect.\" there were many many more animated emotes like dance, hug, eye, whistle, laugh, clap,
                         agree, and so on. gave a nice new interaction from player to player.
    Gion
    Guest
                            posted 04-12-2001 23:56 GMT            

                         i hope they put some of that in this game.
                         Would really give something xtra to the game.

                         Btw , with all the ideas i have seen ,
                         i think the game will never be finished.

                                                                           
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    Mark von Wagner
    Guest
                            posted 05-12-2001 11:04 GMT            

                         That\'s the nature of open-source projects: they are never finished: they merely become complete enough for use by
                         non-programmers.
    BinaryReject
    Guest
                            posted 05-12-2001 13:36 GMT            

                         yea, im a big open source enthuasist(sp?), but i think that a marriage system would be pretty awesome, and i think those
                         interactions like kendaro was talking about are a good idea to put in.

                               
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    Zink
    Guest
                            posted 05-12-2001 17:29 GMT            

                         A marriage system would be a great idea. a way to do it would be maybe easy... first just as an in game type thing make a
                         chapple type building in the main city (there can be more than one) with a priest NPC. to personalize the chapple you would have
                         to write all guest names on a list and anyone not on the list would not be aloud in , or you could make it an open weding. then
                         both you and your partner could do somthing like stand on a certain space or both give a command. then the priest could go
                         through all his babbl...i do..i do ... done. (maybe even an option to give your own vows.)
    whitti
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 05-12-2001 22:23 GMT            

                         Temple of Laanx anyone?
    Eden
    Guest
                            posted 05-12-2001 23:50 GMT            

                         Marriage, Runescape, saw the first 2 couples married, when Everdred was able to create Diamond Rings, on that day, I got
                         married to Villagesmith, and went down in rs history as being the first 2 people married in the game, then followed by Lightning
                         and Stud.

                         Marriage would have been better in rs if you could recognize you was married like PS will.
    whitti
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 06-12-2001 00:35 GMT            

                         :)
    ratdudett
    Guest
                            posted 07-12-2001 03:30 GMT            

                         in rs there was a little problem with sick minded perverts like guys would come up to u and say \"wanna get married baby we can
                         have cXyber-sex and all\" it was sick also there were a problem with whores people with girl charectors would come up to u and
                         say \"want to do it, only 25gp ur so sexy\" and stuff like that it was gross, also most of the people that charged money were
                         probably girls in rl
    ratdudett
    Guest
                            posted 07-12-2001 03:31 GMT            

                         -correction-
                         not girls in rl
    dionesios
    Guest
                            posted 07-12-2001 20:08 GMT            

                         Good to see another eq player kendaro. After playing eq, the question of surnames came up with me for this game. Are we going
                         to have last names? That is what really made it work in everquest (eq) is that you both had your last name changed to the same
                         thing. Only problem with marriage system is every online girl I talk to turns out to be a man! and half the time it\'s the same man
                         playing different chars! boy was I sick when I found that out, all 3 times
    ratdudett
    Guest
                            posted 05-01-2001 02:20 GMT            

                         lol that\'s sick, i\'m a girl in rl :D
    Dwinney
    Guest
                            posted 05-01-2001 02:57 GMT            

                         lol! do u think we can persuade people to play chars of their own sex? Coz there\'s no bonuses or limitations for either gender...

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General Discussion / FAQ for you newbie people
« on: January 06, 2002, 01:58:14 pm »
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    Oldman Kay
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                            posted 25-11-2001 18:37 GMT            

                         Can you give us a release date?
                         Don\'t hold your breath, The P.S. Team is short on developers, which obviously slows the process.

                         When will the demo be released?
                         The Demo is expected to be out by the end of this year (2001)

                         How many races will there be in Planeshift?
                         Twelve altogether.
                         Humans: Xacha & Ylians
                         Dwarves: Clan Stanebreaker & Clan Hammerwielder
                         Elves: Nolthril & Dermorians
                         Other: Kran, Klyros, Enkidukai, Lemurs, Diaboli, & Ynnwns

                         Will there be guilds in Planeshift?
                         Most Definitely, there will also be special powers for associated with each guild.

                         Will there be Player vs. Player combat in Planeshift?
                         Yes. There will be PvP in stadiums and/or arenas.

                         What will you do to prevent unwanted PvP?
                         There will guards inside the city to prevent player killing and punish assassins.

                         How large will the Planeshift world be?
                         There are eight underground levels to explore.

                         On a scale of 1-10, 10 being Runescape, what is Planeshift?
                         12,715.

                         What skills will there be in Planeshift?
                         Skills will include; One or Two Handed weapons, Magic, Stealth, Locksmithing, Martial Arts, and more...

                         What will be modifiable at Character creation?
                         Different races will have different changeables.
                         Most will probably be Hair style, hair color, skin color, Body type (thin, built, heavy), etc...

                         Where can I download the game?
                         You can\'t download it yet. The demo must be made(released at end of \'01, early \'02).

                         So we cannot play this game yet?
                         Yeah.

                         What are guilds?
                         Guilds are pretty much another name for clans.

                         What will be the benefit of owning/being in a guild?
                         The guild will be able to by a large building as a heaquarters. You can have alliances with other guilds and become a \"Alliance of
                         the Rights\" or form together to attempt and overthrow all dinasties and take evil rule for yourself. You can also band together
                         against others.

                         How can I become a member of the team?
                         First go to the HELP US! section. Find a certain \"profession\" that you would most like to and be able to help out in. E-mail the
                         director of your \"profession\" to see if you can join. You will get more information from the person you e-mail after that.

                         Who is the overall \"master\" of PlaneShift?
                         Luca Pancallo.

                         What does a W.T.B. Member mean?
                         It means Want To Be Member. They are wanted by the PS team and are thinking about them to be in. They are not OFFICIAL
                         members but are members at that.

                         If you are a PR Member, what are you?
                         A Public Relations Member means that you advertise the site and other things about PlaneShift and you get information out and
                         get everyone excitied about PlaneShift.

                         The Dwarf picture on the \"Pics\" page looks really dinky. Is that what the game will look like?
                         Yes and no. Yes because it is the basic concept of the views, menus and so on. No because let me remind you that picture has
                         been there a long time. So long that they could have developed the \"skeleton\" of the dwarf and other characters even more. This
                         company has been at work for 10 years so you never know how old some of these things might be.

                         Must our name be \"role-playing style\"?
                         No it can be whatever you would like. But don\'t be an idiot and do \"1m C001\" or \"Sw33t Ch33ks\".

                         Will there be more races, or are there only 12?
                         The 12 specified are all of the races.

                         On the DownLoad page it has pictures of banners for PlaneShift, what is their purpose?
                         For anyone making a PlaneShift fan-site, or any plain old site, they can just put it on their page to advertise PlaneShift.


                         By: Oldman Kay, and Fuzzy Donkey
    icebolt
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 25-11-2001 19:04 GMT            

                         Just one thing:

                         Must our name be \"role-playing style\"?
                         No it can be whatever you would like. But don\'t be an idiot and do \"1m C001\" or \"Sw33t Ch33ks\".

                         We do encourage the Role-Playing aspect though. I think it would be prefered if the names were for the purpose of roleplaying.


    Oldman Kay
    Guest
                            posted 25-11-2001 19:07 GMT            

                         Well could say a fighter be named Merilin?

                         I think if there are no names like \"Hugh Jass\" or \"1m /-\\ []D [] []\\/[] []D\" then it basically has to be role-playing.

                         Even a simple name like Jason or Brian would be fine I think.
    Oldman Kay
    Guest
                            posted 25-11-2001 19:09 GMT            

                         Sorry about this, just testing something...

                         [][]
                         ./
    Fuzzy Donkey
    Guest
                            posted 27-11-2001 22:29 GMT            

                         haha oldman kay, you screwed up on one, the answer is bold on the skills question, haha, go shine your goody two shoes before
                         me and marn kick your butt
    lpancallo
    PS Director
                            posted 28-11-2001 09:16 GMT            

                         Nice.
                         This should be added to the main PS web site.
                         Can you please contibue to collect FAQs on this thread?

                         I will get all that is here, make necessary mods, and then add it to the main page.
    Fuzzy Donkey
    Guest
                            posted 02-12-2001 18:20 GMT            

                         Cool, will you put me and old man kay\'s name up?
    Oldman Kay
    Guest
                            posted 02-12-2001 19:58 GMT            

                         Yeah, pwease?

                         Anyways, I was thinking of some more...

                         Are their boundries of name calling, rascist, and/or sexist etc. remarks?
                         There are no boundries, or consequences officially released yet but I highly doubt that there won\'t be at least one thing to stop
                         the name calling etc.

                         I died and lost all my stuff, can I have it back?
                         Sorry but all there is to say is tought luck. The point of this game is not dying, but it can happen. Just remember, in the long run
                         experiance is much more valuable than items because with more experiance, the easier the items will be to regain.
    Oldman Kay
    Guest
                            posted 02-12-2001 20:02 GMT            

                         BTW, me and Donkey don\'t mean HUGE letters saying made by us, just a little thing at the bottom saying By: Oldman Kay and
                         Fuzzy Donkey

                         I have seen a few \"bugs\" in the game, what do I do about it?
                         I suggest you e-mail one of the people specified in the Help Us! section of this site that have to do with graphics. Or make a
                         small post describing the \"bug\" in a formal manner.

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General Discussion / hey mods do i need a good comp to load this game up
« on: January 06, 2002, 01:55:48 pm »
corsairk8
    PS W.T.B. Member
                            posted 25-11-2001 11:55 GMT            

                         It seems that you do not want to look at other posts for your answer so I thought I would say anyway.

                         The game is very early in development and you can only play it or try it out if you are a member of the team.

                         A minimum requirement hasnt been established as of yet, but the demo would probably run on most modern computers with a
                         good 3D accelerator card. The team are working hard to keep the game playable on low-end machines.

                         If your computer isnt fast enough it would simply run very slowly, or complain with error messages. The demo should work on
                         Windows 95/98/ME/2K/XP and Linux and should support Direct3D and OpenGL as well as its own assembly and mmx optimised
                         software renderer for old machines that dont have 3d acceleration.

                         If you would tell us the specifications for your hardware, ie, processor speed, memory and video card then I would be happy to
                         give you an estimation of how well the game should run on it.

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General Discussion / Will there be thieving?
« on: January 06, 2002, 01:54:27 pm »
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Oldman Kay
    Guest
                            posted 24-11-2001 17:20 GMT        

                         If so, that would make scamming legal!

                         If so, also, what will it be like?
    runesaper
    Guest
                            posted 24-11-2001 17:26 GMT          

                         i doubt it. Stealing and scammin are dif.
    Oldman Kay
    Guest
                            posted 24-11-2001 17:27 GMT            

                         Ok then. Will there be thieving though?
    Kendaro
    Guest
                            posted 24-11-2001 17:57 GMT            

                         thieving is something that doesnt work player on player. thieving does work on mobs and NPCs. what i mean by doesnt work on
                         PvP is that if one player steals from another player, that sets up a whole new set of PvP rules that effect combat. this includes
                         things like PvP loot rules and would also effect rules of if you steal would it be looked at as an attack by city guards. it would be
                         more trouble than anything to try and work it into a system for PvP.

                         if they found some way around the problems then i would love to hear them. i have yet to see thieving PvP work without a mess
                         of trouble.

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