Likely only parts of the idea are plausible. Take the good, toss the bad. It isn't an ego thing for me.

I'd like to see the option to complete a series of quests to obtain a ring of summon elemental. These would be high level quests - it's a powerful prize only usable by a high level player. Perhaps only master mages could get the first quest in the chain. The ring would allow an /elemental [way,] summon command identical to a pet summon. There would be one elemental for each way, and summoning it would require the ring to be encoded like for a mount. The elemental would follow the summoner for as long as it was present and provide buffs in the associated way and perhaps in one other ability. I was thinking that it's loyalty could be determined by a faction value associated with that way instead of empathy.

I was also thinking that elementals would look like a nondescript blob, differing only in color by way to make them easier to implement.

Please let me know if this idea is insane or merely stupid.

This one is a long shot I suspect. I would love to have a 4th tab in the desc, cloaked. When a checkbox on the desc pane is checked that is the visible desc. It would also either blank the identifying banner over the char's head or replace it with alternate text. So cloaked and masked figures could be truly unrecognizable, or create a secret identity (the harlequin assassin!). Probably as practical as a pet Ulber, but I'm tossing it out there.

I know this is silly. But I would love to see another semihumanoid species. We have enki, klyros and kran now How about Pandukai? Big fluffy soft friendly black and white vegetarian folks. Excellent merchants, cooks, and innkeepers. Maybe as NPC first, later as players if resources allow. Think of the increased market for bamboo rice...

Not aggressive, but capable of defending themselves quite well since they are big, strong, and have large claws.

Who wouldn't want to have a beer with a pandukai?

Naturally I'm posting this because I'm deluded into thinking the devs have spare cycles for this kind of fun.

Dakkru's curse is necessary and valuable. But would it make sense for it to slowly fade? If it lasted 50 minutes (real time) but faded at 2% / min one would be able to walk around and act after a few minutes, but with some loss of ability. It just seems more "natural" that way. THe numbers and percentages are just there to express the concept, they have no inherent value to me (or presumably anyone else). Just tossing it out there...

Also, are there other curses in the works? I think a curse lasting a week or three might be a useful intermediate step to banning in some cases. Perhaps there is a monster or NPC that drops good loot, but occasionally curses you with it's dying breath? Just idea spamming. Feel free to ignore.

Cirerey

The One Guild and Jezzi Bezezel
present the Dome Festival of Performing Arts.

In order to provide for the public culture and to provide opportunity for the artistic community a festival will be held on Thursday June 2 at 1400 GMT at the amphitheater in Amdenheir.

Performers of any of the public arts are encouraged to participate. No preregistration is required, but it would be helpful if you let us know, so we can try and schedule. We are hoping to have performances by singers, dancers, musicians, poets, and others.

Painters, sculptors and other nonperformance artists are welcome to use this event as a market. We hope this will lead to an economy where artists can more easily support themselves in the dome. To further this end, please feel free to tip performers whose work inspires you.

Other vendors, especially those selling food and drink are also welcome.

Please join us in making this event a great success.

I've updated to the new client 5.5. Everything is fine except that the toolbar is displaying very strangely. The toolbar icons are just a few millimeters in width and extend most of the height of the screen. The labels are normal and they function properly when clicked on. What can I do to fix this? They are distracting and obscure a fair bit of the nice pretty screens. The rest of the display is fine.

My system is an iMac running OSX 10.6.5. 3.06 Intel Core2 duo, 4 GB RAM.
NVidia GeForce9400 chipset for video

I've rerun the updater and run the pslaunch repair utility until it came up clean twice in a row. I've also checked all the FAQs and forum posts I could find, nothing seems to help, or be applicable. I've turned all of the graphics options off in PSlaunch in hopes that would fix it.

THX

Cirerey