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http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm

It's written in context of MUDs, but very much applies to MMORPGs as well.

http://browserquest.mozilla.org

It would be very useful to be able to place container in storage preserving the content (and to be able to retrieve it back in the same shape). Right now it's impossible.

Another idea is to protect your inventory from accidental mistaken transaction with NPCs. For example if you have a bunch of items in your inventory, and some of them are in a sack, when you trade, all items are shown, and you can by mistake sell a rare or unique item (like clicking extra time and etc.). The bad part is - transaction isn't even reversible, because after you sell the item it's gone from the NPCs items list, and you can't buy it back (may be NPCs should retain these items for some time by the way?). In order to prevent it, you can make that items which are inside containers in your inventory can't be easily sold, unless you take them out, or for example at least open that container first. This way you can place valuable items in separate containers and protect them from accidental erroneous sale transaction.

Just found these notes for "Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold" from Jackson's Hobbit trailer (the author of the music is Howard Shore).

For those who aren't familiar, it's a great song which dwarves sing in the Hobbit (one of my favorites):

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.

For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gleaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.

On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To claim our long-forgotten gold.

Goblets they carved there for themselves
And harps of gold; where no man delves
There lay they long, and many a song
Was sung unheard by men or elves.

The pines were roaring on the height,
The winds were moaning in the night.
The fire was red, it flaming spread;
The trees like torches blased with light,

The bells were ringing in the dale
And men looked up with faces pale;
The dragon's ire more fierce than fire
Laid low their towers and houses frail.

The mountain smoked beneath the moon;
The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.
They fled their hall to dying fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.

Far over the misty mountains grim
To dungeons deep and caverns dim
We must away, ere break of day,
To win our harps and gold from him!

Here is another rendition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiuKbcol8Hw

In response to the quote below, I thought it's good to start a new topic:

weapon/shield/armor making takes ridiculous amounts of time. It took me 7 hours one time to get one low level of shield making (8-9) compare that to 10 minutes to get one level in the 60-70 range in two armor types at the same time.  Crafting is a waste of time.

Yes, I agree, current crafting progression (except may be for metallurgy where parallelism helps) is very unbalanced and is simply horrible. Please correct me if my calculations below are wrong. For example, let's say it takes 14 practice points multiplied by skill level to level up the blacksmith skill to that level (from the previous one). Since now there is still no graded practice gain (see proposal to implement it on the bug tracker), character can only get 1 practice point for some action (not even for every action). Therefore blacksmith training can be reduced for example to rehammering heated sword handles (since there is no benefit in points in any of the other actions now). Hammering one heated sword handle takes 1 minute.

Therefore to level up from (N-1) to level N, it takes 14 * N minutes (and I'm not even counting heating time for simplicity). So, for example getting from lvl 29 to lvl 30 will take you 30 * 14 = 420 minutes (7 hours). Sounds hard enough? Let's take a more distant look. Since some managed to max other skills, why not to max blacksmith with some effort? How long do you think it'll take? Let's see. You have the following sum:

14 + 28 + … + 14 *200 = 14 * (1 + 2 + 3 + … + 200) = 14 * (200 * (200 + 1) / 2) = 14 *20100 = 281400 minutes = 4690 hours = 195.41(6) days...
Hm, more than half a year of real time hammering? No wonder you don't see many maxed blacksmiths around. So what about adding graded practice to reduce the crazy grinding?

This thread is for commenting and discussing spells proposals.

Adept's and master's Brown Way bracers affect the Blue Way, and not the Brown. It has been buggy for a while already. Is anyone fixing this issue?