I'm running into a bit of a problem here.  I have some 30+ songs that I usually carry about as a bard.  Each time I "Shift modes" ie going to "Mining mode" or "Fighting mode" I end up having to store all that music into storage.
Normally to fit everything I tend to carry two sacks, one for "Simple" and another for "Chorded" when i shift out of the mode, load everything into storage, and well specifically when I come back i have to re-sort everything back again.

Is there a way or, well planned on to attach the song say into a book so they could be kept together when they go into storage and brought out already sorted?

Like if i put my music bag in to storage, when i pull it out, all the things that where in there come out with it?  As this bard thing progresses, the storage thing becomes more and more of an Issue, how to store all that "Sheet Music" keep it sorted and strait.

Thats why I was thinking something like wish for a Song book that we could store the 'music sheets" in and play directly from? it might be easier than a .5 weight sheet of paper X30 or 40 and the 30 or 40 innovatory slots used up.

two years, you think some kind of progress would have been made there before roll out of a new city, especaly having to place buildings and chairs etc.  Seems to me if they dont find a solution to it, when they do turn around to Fix that, what was a minor problem turns into a big one.

First of all I saw the 'new city' today, most of my reaction was good with it.  Then i realized what was waiting next was probably 'Roads to get there', which meant me running across two or more maps to reach there (when its fully running) this also meant, anyone new to the game will spend even MORE time running from city to city with the quests, that I have no doubt will be implanted regarding the new city.

So with that, I thought I might bring up a thought.  To have in one of the 5 cities, a place where we could Buy a mount instead of needing Winch Access to get there, just to buy a mount.

For the most part the only thing in the Winch area that my character wants, would be Helms (the book to make helms with), and Mount.  A lot of those New ish to the game want a mount, and thus well I think it might be a good idea, save some of the newbie-ish ones of us from traipsing over hill and dale now for the other cities.  The price etc is fine, as it might encourage more to join a guild for its resources to boot.  But to have a way to gain a mount with out winch access earlier on to make city travel easier, with out the 'merchants' charging us for travel.

[Looks at Zai's picture and his hat falls off] omph
[Shows the picture to Koru and watch's his tail stand up and friz] Rowl (big grin on his face)
I think that about sums up the reactions.
Now thanks to LigH the song "RE: your brains" has returned to bouncing in my head again.

Thats the thing about a manual.... you can dig into it as much as you want.

In the ham radio field, some "Hams" like to judge a radio about how much they can work out by not picking up the manual and just play with it.  Planeshift cant really be played like that, well yet.  Then it boils down to a "Guessing game." In theory a tutorial is only supposed to teach / show the minim to get one started.  There still working on that point.

At this point in time there shoving the "Missing holes" of information on to us the player with an "Excuse" of 'Ask another player' in a forced RP concept.  Or "Go check the forums".  I've personaly bumped into quite a few players that don't want to use the forums, or the wiki and not join a guild.  I met someone just a few days ago, been playing PS for a month, and had no clue there was even a buddy list, or a quick spell bar.  Let alone how to bring it up.  Asking a tutorial to do all that... well a bit much.

I'm hoping for the next version they will disable "Basic Chat" and selct the others and show the full menu, as well as add a "Show quick spell bar button to it" this should save a lot of "Basic questions, basic set up stuff" that it looks like you where asking for.

I have to agree with LigH there, mainly second half of what he said (as I wasn't around for the first so I'll take his word on it), and believe me I want the game mechanics to support the RP. And in a fight where its do or Die... I go Game mechanics, unless theres something specific we are looking for in the RP fight.


I'll take the second every time.  And I have seen folks wondering around literally with "PVP" stats that they play for dueling and role play fighting in OOC. The few I checked on their character's actual stats where no where near it.  That just pretty much well one insults the folks who are trying to get their characters to 'that level' where it fits and have been putting time and effort to make it there.  It also turns PS into a 3D role playing chat. (which might just be an interesting Dev project)
Granted I would love to have a character come in as a "Seasoned Character" already ripe for role play and i didn't have to dig mine, go through 100+ quests to role play it out.  Think of all the villains we could go through! 

I think the "Optimal solution" But one that well probably can't ever really be put in place on a sliding scale, is something similar to "Least amount of time in that character" = Less difficulty leveling /practicing / Stat progression.  Longer a character is online, the more difficult it is, to a certain point.  This would give those folks with, say 1-3 hours a day or less, be a bit easier for them to catch up.  Even then I can see issues with that kind of a system, and how it could be abused. [Like max pointers who had all day make up 6 different accounts and quickly power up 24 characters, multi-client and you got a small army for instance]

And yeah I'm one of the Job seekers that has spare time waiting on the phone to ring after pounding the pavement.  I personally RP first, help out new folks if needed, and Grind third.  We all know there are slow spots during the day when nothings going on, and wanting the characters we play with to do something like go flame some rats, which is quite amusing. (Note: need a way to power down Flame burst to catch rats on fire so they can run around some more after a certain point.)

All I want to my self is catch up and get to the point where my character who I want him to be, meets stats, then I'll just hunt Ulbers for hearts / props, and make helms just to help out the newbies.  But then all of us comes from a different background and have different times to spend on an MMORPG.  Do I like slowly gaining on the veterans because I seem to have more time then they do... some times, I haven't passed anyone for all I know.  And in a way their my beta testers cause my guild mates help point me in the right direction.   Then again not every player has that, or wants to join a guild.

So back to the topic at hand magic resistance.  I know its still in testing phases, and unfortunately I don't have access to what got resistance to what, and by how much. (would be nice) I just hope eventually for the players sake each monster get limited to resistance in just one way.   In the story you got the conflicted story of, "in the end you will choose one way" "I am a <name of the way> Way Mage", but with the critters being immune to like two ways... let alone in the survivability category, narrows down the choosing with tons of trial an error on the players parts.  Plus there are quests that involve items of different ways, in order to get something needed for quests down the line.  So its like getting two conflicting sets of instructions from the game as to how I level and choose which way to go.  And if I don't know about the flip side, I as a CW mage hit a category of critters that, Monster 1, Resistant to RW and CW Monster two is CW and DW... and there the only ones i have found that don't kill me after a few points... as a player, I would get frustrated fast.  Just a thought. (and a short-er post from me]

a Sue is a good way to kill a story,

It also keeps lawyers in business 

I kind of find it hard to believe that a sentient race with the ability to read, write, (presumably sing) and tell tales, would loose a major core part of their primitive culture to the point where, not even a expression, is left after a "Few" generations.  I can understand if maybe Great gradpaw worshiped the great feline gods when he came across now the current generation favors Talad etc, but theres going to be expressions, some stories, some legands, and the odd yongins who get there hands on some of the old stuff, and basically change its meaning. Historians who have the Tribes history from before the portal to where ever the original Enki came from.

Why? well think about it.  "And Laanx created... and Talad created..." and the Enki raises his hand, "Where did the Enkiduki come from" "They came through a portal," "From Where..."  Every Enkidukai child will ask that question will want to know where they came from, where their race comes from, will want to know why their people came here, what was it like before, why did they leave.  So a history that stops at 2-4 generations ago.... I kind of find it hard to swallow.  So I thought someone had at least some kind of flavor text with it.  After all with the level of culture we are dealing with Religion is a major factor of their culture and civilization not to mention they came here with language (spoken and written) and history intact.

  <<< getting way to addicted to emoticons   

Building a history around a persistent or recent "teleport" from a different world to Yliakum is probably not accepted as settings conformant.

[Yeah I know not a personal attack, just wanted to clarify]
Like I mentioned, and I wont quote my self, it is neither here nor there.  Its one of those "Going to turn into a flame war so lets avoid it" issues and yeah their are some... individuals who have different opinions on how people should do just about everything.  But for a first character, IMHO its fine, and it's my character, and cause I was asked for my back ground long before I ever made it into east Hydlaa to where the 'books that tell the worlds history so you can make a character background', to be honest I don't think i even made it into the plaza, so i went with what works in free form, set a plot hook run with it, thus as my character learns, so do I and its turned out some great plot lines, one with Ven where where they debate Talad's teaching of patience and forgiveness, and no hes not trying to convert them he's learning from them as I learn, and my yes other characters are local now that I the player know a bit more about the world and it's ways.  So let's end that one in the bud and go back to the topic at hand, and yes, I can see your point I just don't want this derailed to a side flame war and besides everyones a critic