Uadjet says: Hello and welcome to the Developer's Q&A! This is an out-of-character meeting where you can hear about the development of the game and ask the Dev and GM teams any questions you might have. If you do have any questions, please line up at the lecterns in front of the stage.
Thosor says: Here are the writeups of the gathering yesterday, It was very interesting, and somewhat sad.
Thosor pipes down as meeting begins.
Uadjet says: So line up at the lecterns if you have a question. If not, I'll give you a brief update on things.
Uadjet says: Ah, Damola?
Damola says: Just a little update on performance aspects. I was a bit unhappy with new ThinkPad T14 AMD Gen 1 performance, but it was a mistake on my side. I misconfigured Linux to use only the lowest CPU frequency of 1,4 GHz. I wondered about it for a while but only this week I found the mistake. Well now PS Crystal Space is between 20 and 144 fps (I set a cap there as the gaming monitor cannot handle more)…
Damola says: … and PSUnreal is at a comfortable 40-50fps still with all on epic except effects on medium and another setting on high. It is as if I just bought a new laptop again. So AMD Ryzen Gen 1 should be good to go with PSUnreal.
Damola says: Even in low voltage laptop version with integrated GPU
Uadjet says: 144 fps? Don't human eyes have a max of 60 or something?
Damola grins "Well gaming people claim they can notice the difference and this 27 inch display I am using does 144 fps."
Uadjet says: Oh, I'm sure it's better. After all, the monitor doesnt' synch to our eyes. It's just another example of humans being surpassed by tech, it seems.
Damola says: However… I did not buy it for that reason but case if has a much better color spectrum and brightness than most if not all of the displays you can buy at this (quite low) sprice.
Damola says: price
Uadjet says: Thosor?
Thosor says: [hard to speak ooc hehe] My new framework laptop works well on W10 for unreal, I was ready to buy an external graphics card just for unreal, but using W10 works. It is too new for some linux drivers and unreal, but should work soon. Not cheap, though/.
Damola claims "We are… in no really important way… surpassed by tech. Did you ever consider the image pattern recognition capability of your brain. It is still… by margins unparalleled by even the most advanced AI algorithms I read about."
Damola says: Tech can do number crunching, but at real intelligence it is not even close.
Damola says: Anyone a Q?
Damola says: Me and Thosor did not really have a Q.
Uadjet says: It's an update on what tech works with PSU, which is nice to know.
Thosor says: No further questions, your Honor.
>Anysu Atani salutes Uadjet with respect.
Damola says: Its Effects on Medium and Shadows on High, everything else Epic
Uadjet says: Okay, so I'lll give you a bit of an update.
Uadjet says: Talad's been working on dungeons mainly in the last couple weeks.
Damola says: Shadow on Medium makes shadows that should be there disappear…
Uadjet says: Oh, I'm sure I mentioned it but I think in the Run Run Run vid you can watch him run around as a 5x speed Klyros for a bit. I don't know why, but it amused me greatly. Just mentioning it.
Uadjet says: But as for dungeons, he's using some packs from the Unreal Marketplace to assemble dungeons.
Uadjet says: The packs needed modification, but now that he's done that they can mostly be built without hiccup.
Uadjet says: He's moved past basic structures and is now having fun with things like traps and secret passageways.
Anysu says: oohh traps.
Damola says: Run Run Run video? Nice, need to look that up
Anysu says: Hope find traps will work in PSU
Uadjet says: I'm not sure if skills will come into play with those, but thief-types will have some fun with them I'm sure.
Gonger says: Run run run? Sounds like Eurythmic
Gonger says: Run run run? Sounds like Eurythmics
Anysu says: I do recall the Eurythmics
Thosor says: thifs on which side, the thieves using them, or trapping theives?
Uadjet says: See, now I have to listen to Annie Lennox.
Thosor says: *thieves
Anysu says: Do do that Uadjet
Gonger says: There are worse fates than this, Uadjet!
Anysu says: As for traps.. anyone with the skill I think
Uadjet says: I went with "No More I Love You's".
Thosor ponders Enki running around with a trap attached to tail.
Uadjet says: Oh, now I definitely want to see that!
Uadjet says: But it would be nice to finally have a use for the Find Traps skill.
>Anysu Atani nods at Uadjet.
Anysu says: Have 5 points already in it
Thosor says: how did you manage that, Anysu ?
Harither says: if you play unreal version and put a bug in in the tracker... it would be nice to recheck ya fixed bugs and get em closed...
Damola says: Also 5 points in Find Traps… I bet as an event reward
Gonger says: 10, even.
Gonger says: Certainly from events.
Anysu says: It was from an event in dungeon under temple
Gonger says: I have 222 in Empathy...
Uadjet says: I do that from time to time.
Harither says: i attended only the unreal event... and with next update those granted skillups are gone.
Uadjet says: Skill bonuses granted in PSU events would be lost because the character database gets ported over fresh with... I was going to say each update, but maybe it's only updates that require a new client download.
Harither says: indeed
Thosor says: Work on your legacy PS Harither they will be carried over.
Harither says: but someone need to find bugs
Harither says: we really try to crash the server and try to find severe bugs to make the game more enjoyable
Thosor says: a bug yesterday: Just driving my drifter to OJa crashed server over and over, not wearing any enchantments.
Thosor says: I didn't check if in bug reprts yet.
Uadjet says: That's pretty harsh, if it crashes the server. Only on a drifter?
Thosor says: I never noticed running on foot. I won't report until I see if it is listed or not.
Thosor says: Only recently I can play on unreal, tried for over a cycle [year] to get my bench amd unit working, still won't.
Thosor says: Framework is all intel.
Gonger says: I hope to find more energy for PSU testing between the years. 2021 was tough, work-wise.
Thosor says: something tells me '21 was going to be a bad year.
Thosor says: Especially if you and me bring it in together...
Thosor says: sorry....
Uadjet says: I've been digging around through Unreal tutorials, and I've found a few that could be useful. Like ways to add thermal and night vision to games.
Thosor says: Nolthrirs have that attribute, right?
Uadjet says: I don't know if they'll work with PS, but I'll give them a go.
Anysu says: Night vision for enki be great.
Uadjet says: Nightvision for Nolthrir and Enkidukai, yes.
Damola says: And Klyros?
Thosor says: maybe klyros have eagle vision>?
Damola says: Not sure about lore at the moment.
Uadjet says: Dermorians have nightvision as well. And Klyros. And Ynnwn. And Diaboli.
Uadjet says: Kran have infravision.
Thosor says: But are they blinded by bright things?
Thosor says: like my shining personality?
Uadjet says: Seems like Stonehammers and Lemurs should have some form of low-light vision.
Gonger says: Blinded by the Light? (Now Uadjet needs to listen to Bruce Springsteen)
Gonger says: Aye, we spend so much time in mines and underground
Uadjet says: And the Dermorians developed night-vision in the Stone Labyrinths... where they were for 25 years. One-eighth of their average lifespan.
Anysu grins at the Springsteen line.
Thosor says: no vitamin D down ther, should be added to beer.
Thosor says: No, then they would overdose...
Carahaij says: yeah most races have some degree of dark vision for living in the labyrinths and such
Damola says: Given you also take K2 with D3 it is difficult to overdose. But of course this is no medical advice.
Thosor says: of course
Thosor says: but good advice
Uadjet says: I did note a while back that most races do have some sort of nightvision except the two races that still iive underground.
Thosor says: didn't notice you slink in.
Uadjet says: So infravision and nightvision are possible. There are also tutorials for gliding, though i suspect those are more challenging to incorporate. I know when I turn gravity off for myself the advanced locomotion system keeps trying to put my feet on the ground, and that could cause a problem with any kind of gliding addition.
Damola says: hmmm, which one is the run run run video?
Anysu says: Darn. Not helpful for Klyros.
Thosor says: maybe gills out of water are infrared sensing, like cobras.
Uadjet says: It's possible that it can be turned off while in gliding mode. I haven't asked yet. But it would be nice to have a little bit of gliding in. Safe fall, at the very least.
Thosor says: I miss the button to float in unreal, was good for looking at the map
Thosor says: was it a linux only thing?
Uadjet says: Ah, the 'physics-off' button?
Uadjet says: That was fun.
Thosor says: it was helpful, but limited in my barely working amd machine.
Thosor says: since we are still in debug mode...
Thosor says: although might not be good for the server.
Thosor says: bungee jumping...
Uadjet says: I was able to use that to get to places that weren't supposed to be available before the GM commands were working.
Anysu says: Ptero mounts for players.
Uadjet says: Any more questions?
Uadjet says: Oh, ptero-mounts are restricted by settings, not mechanics.
Anysu says: awe...
Uadjet says: I'm still pushing for Velnishi as mounts, myself.
Thosor says: The TAIL!!
Anysu says: Velnishi be cool mount
Thosor says: enkis are bad enough...
Anysu says: Rivneks have tails.
Thosor says: no stinger...
Thosor says: enkies hide something in there, like a dagger or something.
Thosor rubs his face scar...
Uadjet says: There are some kind of spikes that enkis wear on their tails in the lore somewhere. I've seen a sketch or two.
>Anysu Atani grins impishly.
Thosor says: I do believe I got it during a haircut though, she must have slipped with her razor and put me to sleep somehow.
Anysu says: Spikes on tail...
Thosor says: Or bumped me with her horns, you know, the hairdresser near the market.
Uadjet says: Or blades.
Anysu says: Tail blades...
Uadjet says: But if there are no more questions, I should probably run out and get my cat some food.
>Anysu Atani grins impishly.
Uadjet says: Unleash the Anysu!
Anysu laughs
Thosor says: catfood shortage here last few weeks
Carahaij says: tell the cat i said hi
Uadjet says: Thank you all for coming, and I'll see you again at the next meeting in two weeks!

Uadjet says: Hello and welcome to the Developer's Q&A! This is an out-of-character meeting where you can hear about the development of the game and ask the Dev and GM teams any questions you might have. If you do have any questions, please line up at the lecterns in front of the stage.
Migg says: don't remember what event these came from
>Migg Ellorean raises a drink to Uadjet before gulping it down. Cheers!
Fliks says: sadly i cannot join you down there migg as there is no ladder out of my fortress
Fliks says: good view of the place tough
Migg says: that's like an upside-down parachute
Damola says: Ah, some apple cider. Very nice, Uadjet.
Migg says: pretty sure they don't work upside down
Fliks says: they might because if they are upside down it turn inside out
Fliks says: then it be round the right way
Uadjet says: Okay, so the first update I've got is that Talad's got the mounts working. They should go where you aim them and at the right speed.
Fliks claps at Uadjet
Damola says: Yeah I noticed 0.7.15 update.
Migg says: \o/
Damola says: I already updated, but had no chance to play yet.
Migg says: wait, what do you mean where you aim them?
Migg says: you have to shoot them like arrows?
Uadjet says: Ahh, I should have mentioned the 7.15 update first.
Fliks says: i asume like you do with your character at the moment
Damola says: Its not yet announced on the website.
Uadjet says: But mounts could, at times, just not go where you wanted. He's got that fixed.
Migg says: so PSU is almost done!
Uadjet says: It's getting closer, that's for sure.
Uadjet says: If you go to the wiki and the roadmap page, there are a lot of things flagged as "DONE".
Uadjet says: It's really nice to see.
Damola says: Yeah. And it is such an amount of work Talad and others have done.
Uadjet says: He's also done work on Talents again.
Uadjet says: Those are the special abilities that are unlocked upon reaching certain skill level milestones.
Fliks says: oooh
Uadjet says: Those aren't finalized, and some skills need new Talents. Talad said that ideas are welcome, so if you have thoughts on what Talents would work for certain skills, feel free to suggest them!
Damola says: I think I first need to see an example for them. I do not have the time to watch all of his streams.
Uadjet says: If you look at stream 593 at about 2 hours 52 minutes in you can see him scroll through a list of sorts.
Damola says: Thank you.
Uadjet says: I know he's looking more for active talents than passive ones, but any thought is welcome.
Damola says: Ah, it is not just for combat or so, but also for harvesting, like "Tuber Farmer"
Damola says: And they are automatically activated at certain skill levels?
Uadjet says: I think the gathering skills getting more items at certain skill thresholds is a fairly decent passive bonus, but there could be active ones as well.
Damola says: Is it also planed for magic? Might not apply to well there, I don't know
Damola says: Ah, there is also something about the ways
Uadjet says: Does anyone else pause videos to read a list, then try to scroll down while the vid is paused to read the rest of the list?
Uadjet says: Maybe it's just me...
Damola says: haha
Migg says: muscle memory
Uadjet says: I can't recall.. Did I mention the new creature animations last meeting?
Uadjet says: Ah, I must have. That was over two weeks ago.
Damola says: I think you mentioned something. I hope that animations for female chars get adapted. Damola in PSUnreal when walking has a bit "Hey, what do you want, you little something?" kind of walk
Damola says: It is funny in a sense.
Uadjet says: But for those who missed it, the new system allows for easier addition of new animations for things like gobbles and whatnot.
Damola says: Nice talent to guess prices of items
Uadjet says: I've forgotten which stream it was, but Talad had a lot of fun racing around as a Klyros at something like 8x normal speed.
Fliks says: oh i want to rey that
Fliks says: try*
Migg says: that's something reserved for GMs?
Fliks says: zooming around hydlaa
Damola says: haha, major appraising… to guess house prizes so you know when the GMs are ripping you off!
Migg says:
Damola chuckles
Fliks says: speed potion
Migg says: double addlepated kormi grab?
Migg says: if anyone has read the noob comic
Damola says: It is nice to see how Talad already adds things to PSUnreal that are not in Crystal Space PS.
Uadjet says: I think that's reserved for Devs!
Damola says: So the update will not just update the graphics, it will also have new maps and then even new features already. It is much more than a 1:1 port.
Uadjet says: It was part of his attempt to get the game to let players move at mount speed instead of normal player speed while mounted.
Uadjet says: Oh, the full port? Yeah, the map is far bigger than it is in Legacy.
Uadjet says: So many places to put things...
Uadjet says: I knew where some things are supposed to eventually go (once they're build), but a few places are perfectly set up to be important and I'm not sure what goes there.
Damola says: When running through PSUnreal world I still come the occasional items that is not yet at the right location like signs that show the way, or plants and such
Uadjet says: There will also be new features like Talents.
Uadjet says: Ah, yes. Some of the items placed outside cities are like that. Quite a few are floating, or are in strange places.
Uadjet says: The terrain has changed in the process of making everything one map.
Damola says: Shall we report those? Not easy to do, I think the position command is not yet working
Uadjet says: Report them if you find them, yeah. I think... Is it /loc that's working?
Migg says: also, I have trouble creating an account in flyspray
Damola says: In CS PS it is /pos
Damola says: Is it /loc in PSUnreal?
Uadjet says: I may be cheating and using the /info command in PSU. Reporting the name might work, as those signs are often uniquely named.
Migg says: is there a new set of commands in PSU?
Uadjet says: The commands for players should be the same.
Uadjet says: Hopefully the commands for GMs won't be too different.
Thosor says: how to change mouse button assignments and the like?
Fliks says: i have to go now
Uadjet says: Those will be in the in-game options, like they are in Legacy.
Thosor says: so still in build.
Thosor says: My char was taken away to heaven.
Thosor says: Tald needed him more than us mortals.
Thosor says: *Talad
Uadjet says: I think that's all I had planned to mention. Let's see... Events will be posted in the next few days. I'm missing one event and several I have plans for need better names.
Leeza says: That impresses me Thosor
Thosor says: hehe
Uadjet says: There's a book fair event coming up in January, so if you have books you'd like to sell that would be a good time.
Thosor says: The mounts ride better now, but..
Uadjet says: Not perfect yet? I haven't tried 7.15 just yet.
Damola says: Nice for the events.
Damola says: I did not yet try 7.15. I may log in after our dev q&a.
Thosor says: I was getting on or off, and I ended up looking like I was running sideways after dismounting, till relog.
Uadjet says: Yeah, mounts are surprisingly tricky.
Thosor says: Looked OK to Lurielle, like she doesn't see when I've lost my head.
Damola says: Ah, yes, I had Damola sitting in quite unexpected ways on her mount as well
Thosor says: I was sidesaddle...
Lurielle says: And we can´t talk while mounting
Thosor says: being mounted
Uadjet says: The "losing your head" thing is an issue with camera mode
Thosor says: helps to wear a helmet
Uadjet says: In (I tink) first person mode your head shouldn't be visable at all, so it vanishes. The issue is that we can still zoom out in first person mode, so we can see the missing head.
Thosor says: except my magical one, kills the server.
Uadjet says: Oh! And watch next Saturday on the calendar. Going to be doing a PSU event before the regular event that day.
Thosor says: It is third person follow my head goes away.
Thosor says: Or is how it looks to me.
Damola says: Oh, nice.
Uadjet says: Is it? It's first person where the head can be an issue. Hmm.
Damola says: Then we can give 0.7.15 a good test.
Uadjet nods.
Thosor says: Oh, so it is 1st person, but runs like I am used to in 3rd on legacy.
Uadjet says: Give it a good poke untl the code falls out.
Gonger says: Hmm... Not sure I can make it to the Unreal event in time...
Damola says: Need to check when it starts
Damola says: Does it start one hour earlier or even earlier, Uadjet?
Uadjet says: Earlier than that. I'm thinking three hours earlier, or 2.5
Damola says: Whoa, so you like to make something bigger this time?
Gonger says: Then I will definitely be late
Uadjet says: Well, I'm mainly looking for more of a time cushion, as hitting bugs mid-event chews up time.
Gonger says: Well, you cannot have it all
Uadjet says: So, any last questions?
Uadjet says: If not, I think we can wrap things up.
Thosor says: thanks
Gonger says: Thanks to the whole team for all the effort. It is much appreciated.
Damola says: Yeah.
Damola says: Thanks!
Uadjet says: Thank you all for coming, and we'll see you at the next meeting in two weeks!

Every so often a GM will bring an Engraver character to the Weekly Market on Sundays or at random times on other days. The Engravers are capable of changing the Name and Description of items¹, though not the models/icons. Keep an eye out, if you want your equipment personalized for just a few Circles! To keep track of when the markets are, you can just check the Calendar!

¹This works on nearly all items, though on occasion with Tools it causes an issue. The one thing that does break is a musical instrument if the name is changed. Change the name of a Lyre to anything else and the game won't let you use it to play music anymore. The description can still be changed, however.

Uadjet says: Hello and welcome to the Developer's Q&A! This is an out-of-character meeting where you can hear about the development of the game and ask the Dev and GM teams any questions you might have. If you do have any questions, please line up at the lecterns in front of the stage.
Damola says: Haha… and how would I even do that? Travel too quickly? I am not aware of a way to do that in game.
Damola says: Reach unusual places and sneak Damola out of the regular in game map boundaries, no prob… but traveling too quickly? No idea.
Gonger says: It happens every now and then...
Damola says: Anyway, Lurielle has a Q
Uadjet says: Lurielle?
Lurielle says: I have a question about combat mode
Lurielle says: I was killing rats in oja, and I couldn´t select the rat, only myself
Lurielle says: I´d like to know if it is a bug or I am missing something
Uadjet says: Yes, and while investigating that I managed to punch myself to death.
Uadjet says: I think we can assume it's a bug. You were attacking with mouse buttons and not the attack book, right?
Lurielle says: And I got the message You cannot attack yourself
Gonger says: Do you have a video of that, Uadjet?
Lurielle says: Yes, with mouse buttons
Uadjet says: No.
Uadjet says: It seems that the game at least sometimes changes target to yourself when you hit tab to enter combat mode.
Lurielle says: And sometimes I can hit the creature but others no one gets hurt, but that bug is already in the bug traker
Damola says: Legacy PS or Unreal PS?
Lurielle says: Unreal
Uadjet says: I'll do some more testing on that this week, with varying critters. The combat for the promo vid seemed to work well, so maybe it's caused by certain conditions.
Damola says: Ah, interesting. I may try that next time I log in.
Thosor says: I lose comtrol of mouse buttons in combat mode
Lurielle says: Try in that small room, because I think that might be the problem
Thosor says: different variations...
Lurielle says: In the wild it didn´t select myself
Uadjet says: Yeah, that's where I punched myself to death.
Thosor says: for example, I can't get mouse pointer back to go to chat window.
Lurielle says: I have no more questions
Thosor says: and I can;t seem to get out of tab/ combat mode...
Thosor says: done
Damola chuckles "Uadjet, you do not need to do that. We players aren't that bad "
Dentritus says: How much xp did you get
Uadjet says: Huh. I didn't check.
Uadjet says: I should have.
Uadjet says: It was a newly created Lemur, so I didn't have the stats set to something ludicrous like 5k. I only did 6000 damage or so.
Thosor says: It also would target myself or Lurielle much more oftewn than the enemy.
Uadjet says: Hmm. Target priority seems odd. Proximity, maybe? Although it seems like you'd be adjacent to the enemy.
Uadjet says: Gonger?
Gonger says: Greetings. If a character gets deleted by the player, is the name of the character blocked, or can somebody else create a new character with the same name?
Uadjet says: The name is available for others to use, though a GM can block a name if a petition is filed.
Gonger says: Ah, nice to know. Thank you.
Uadjet says: We do that with inappropriate names. There's no way we can predict which inappropriate names players could come up with (imagines hordes of Fortnite players joining the game) so when we change their name we block the one that broke the rules afterwards.
Gonger says: The game is rather empty today...
Gonger says: I can give you a list of French or German names that should be blocked.
>Anysu Atani nods at Gonger Xaraha.
Gonger says: Believe it or not, a few months ago I met someone in the Welcome Area who went by the name of A****loch. Loch means hole in German, I hink this is enough to fully understand that name...
Uadjet says: Ah, yes. That happens on occasion.
Thosor says: holeness monster
Gonger says: And he said, he wanted his character's character to be reflected in the name.
Anysu says: I recall that name
Gonger says: I pointed out to him that we, or at least most of us, are a bit more subtle in our behaviour.
Gonger roars with laughter.
Rykia says: lol
Uadjet says: So, Talad has done a lot of work in the last few weeks. As is usual.
Talad says: hello
>Anysu Atani salutes Talad Dev with respect.
Talad says: im actually streaming, but I can chat with you
>Anysu Atani bows to Talad Dev.
Talad says: if you have any questions or comments
>Dentritus Illythien bows to Talad Dev.
Uadjet says: Speak of the Developer, and he appears!
Rykia says: Hi Talad
>Thosor Riereri bows to Talad Dev.
Anysu says: Hello Talad
Uadjet says: I wonder if that works for all developers....
Talad says: would be nice
Damola says: Hi Talad.
Uadjet says: Eonwind!
Uadjet says: Eonwind!
Uadjet says: Eonwind!
Damola grins
Uadjet looks around.
Uadjet says: Nope.
Uadjet says: Apparently that only works on Talad.
Uadjet says: And Beetlejuice.
Gonger says: And a few others who should not be named...
Rykia says: Maybe Eonwindd would work? ^ ^
Uadjet says: So I was just about to let them know what you've been working on the last few weeks in your streawms.
>Lurielle Volanxis salutes Talad Dev with respect.
Uadjet says: Talad's done more work on the Dryken Plane, which is the place new players will travel through immediately after character creation.
Damola hands Uadjet a "Summon Developer" glyph
>Anysu Atani grins at Damola Etedi impishly.
Gonger says: Too bad all spells for that glyph are in the 15th Realm.
Thosor says: pager glyph
Talad says: I can give you some updates on Unreal
Uadjet says: Yes, please!
Thosor says: all ears here...
Talad says: yes the Dryken plane is a new area you will find just after charcater creation
Talad says: the reason is that you are travelling between your homeworld and Yliakum (for lemur and kran there is a slight different story, but pretty much you end up there anyway)
Uadjet says: You can also watch this at twitch.tv/planeshift OR youtube.com/user/PlaneShiftOfficial/live/
Talad says: and your travel gets interrupted, so you end up in the Dryken plane
Talad says: for the people who played D&D or such, you can associate it to the Astral Plane
Talad says: is a different plane of existance
Talad says: you need to exit from it, with a simple puzzle, but the point of the area is for you to learn about some important topics
Talad says: which will be part of the main plot of the game
Talad says: about the main plot it will giude you through different discoveries in Yliakum
Talad says: and maybe ultimately will let you understand why we are all here!
Talad says: another topics Im working on at the moment, is the character creation, to make it more user friendly to the people who wants to know the numbers behind the choices
Talad says: so you will have a way to see what effect each choice has on your initiatl stats and skills
Talad says: that is something you can hide and ignore if you are more interested to the background of the choices, more than the numbers
Dentritus says: Will there be a possibility of a quest reset, so existing characters can do these quests as well?
Talad says: I also added more ambient sounds to PSUnreal as there were not many as in PS legacy
Talad says: about the Dryken plane I would say no, as would make little sense for you to go back there
Talad says: but it doesnt really count as a quest
Talad says: its more of an intro
Talad says: prologue
Talad says: about other quests reset, that may be tricky as you may get items twice when redoing the quests
Talad says: so it may not be correct to do so
Uadjet says: The ambient sounds can also be randomized, or set to only play at certain times of day.
Uadjet says: That'll give a nice bit of realism.
Rykia says: Absolutely agree
Uadjet says: And in character creation, there's a new visual experience in there, and as new players in PSU are coming in from different worlds some of the background options will need to be adapted or just be unavailablel.
Gonger says: Sounds very very interesting.
Uadjet says: It would be really nice to see species/world specific options in there.
Talad says: I hope you will like PSUnreal
Thosor says: walking past a dwarven tavern vs an Amdeneir tavern sound.
Uadjet says: The plan is to avoid the min/maxing of character creation a bit. I think everyone here is experienced enough to k now that starting with 4 ranks in a skill versus 6 ranks in that skill is a really small difference.
Uadjet says: The difference of a few points in an attribute is even less significant.
Uadjet says: So the story of the background is more important than the points.
Uadjet says: People can still max things out if they want, but we don't want new players thinking they have to create the perfect character or be useless.
Uadjet says: Oh! And chat logs. Talad has also been working on getting chat logs working.
>Dentritus Illythien cheers happily at Talad Dev!
Thosor says: like scrolling?
Talad says: yes, I 've been adding few options to chat logs, as in PSUreal were not there
Talad says: and in PSLegacy they are a bit obscure, with all the possible message types in the list
Talad says: Options->Chat Logs
Thosor says: logs would help to reemember bugs encountered.
Thosor says: would logs write in real time in case server goes down in the middle of something?
Uadjet says: I believe so. Our current log system does.
Talad says: yes, the logs are client side
Talad says: and are written at every received line, so you should not lose anything
Thosor says: speaking off.. amy way to delete repettive lines in a 2 year old log? (not mac or windows)
Thosor says: such as a repeating NPC or attack.
Uadjet says: I've used Notepad++ to select lines containing certain bits of text and delete them.
Talad says: some macro from notepad++ can help
Talad says: but I dont see an easy way
Thosor says: Irs only the 21st centurt lol, thanks.
Gonger says: You can search for certain strings in Notepad++ and mark and delete them
Gonger says: But it is ... painful, yes.
Gonger says: My main log is at 55 GB
Thosor says: thats a windows app?
Uadjet says: If you look for and mark strings like "hits you for" it can be not terribly painful.
Uadjet says: And seeing thousands of lines being deleted at a time is very satisfying.
Thosor says: nvm I'll find something, not a PS problem.
Talad says: Gonger, archive it by year maybe?
Uadjet says: I'm just trying to process a 55gb log file...
Uadjet says: I don't think notepad can even open that...
Thosor says: I like to look through whole log at once, say for a familiar name or action.
Gonger says: I use a different editor also, Visual Studio Code. Superfast even on files of that size, but does not word wrap properly, because too many people use non-standard characters too often...
Gova says: I split my logs by year(ish), but stopped once I stopped generating millions of lines of crafting and combat spam.
Gonger says: Talad, I want to see all my logs...
Gonger says: Gova, you should split your logs according to activites first. There is an option for that.
Damola says: I just let Kate editor deal with the large file. Its still not perfect but they have been improving performance quite a lot meanwhile
Gonger says: Combat, Crafting, NPCs
Thosor says: I thought of loading into a line numbered page, the deleting rat bites you, rat bites you.
Damola says: 58 MiB log file for Damola meanwhile
Gova says: True. I used to have System logged in a different file. Not sure why.
Gonger says: For me it was the other way round, for a long time I had Combat in my Chat...
Thosor says: Oh, didn't think it could be so granulated. i have combat in my chat.
Talad says: I think its handy to split combat to a separate file, or not log it at all
Thosor says: not a dev problem, anyway.
Damola says: Whoa! Just tested again editor performance in current Kate. Loading of 58 MB file is almost instant. Scrolling in it is instant. And searching is a miracle even: It updates display *as you type* there is no visible delay. Searching has been a problem before, but that is insane.
Gova says: The only time I'd check my combat log is to see what killed me.
Damola says: Kate 21.08.1 on Linux, with admittedly a quite fast laptop with lots of RAM
Gonger says: Damola, does it word-wra properly? And is it Linux only?
Anysu says: Be helpful to have certain things, like combat, or crafting etc not be logged at all.
Gonger says: Check Options / Interface / Chat-Logs and define what you want to save in which log file, or not at all.
Damola says: kate-editor.org – available for Windows as well. You tried it once, Gonger, but back then searching was still slow. Now searching for me is absolutely crazy. They did something there.
Thosor says: Its in my system, will try it soon.
Damola says: I do not use fixed word wrapping on the file, it automatically wraps at window size
>Anysu Atani nods at Gonger Xaraha.
Gonger says: That is exactly what I want, Damola. I will check it again, then.
Damola says: Not sure how it behaves on Windows, but on Linux it is superfluent now. Searching has been quite an issue before, but now, zero delay.
Damola says: For as you type this is quite an achievement I'd say.
Uadjet says: Since we're on the topic of chat logs, any other thoughts on that topic while we have Talad handy?
Talad says: or any other question
Thosor says: not scrolling was my biggest complaint, when in action with another player.
Uadjet says: Damola?
Damola says: I'd consider a few changes to chat log. Chat log for a day is quite long often enough, so I'd include a date on each line. Or even use a standard time format like with "date -Iseconds"
Talad says: everytime you reopen it , it prints the day and time as header
Damola says: And it would be nice to always easily determine what chat tab a message is in. NPC and other stuff can be separated easily, however everything is main tab is just distinguishable by filtering everything else out. doable with grep, but unnecessarily complex.
Damola says: Yeah, but when you search in it, you need to scroll up quite a bit to find date of a message.
Talad says: I think I added a tag on each line now
Talad says: iirc
Damola says: Well its all not all too important.
Damola says: Ah, I did not check PSUnreal log, just going from the classic one.
Damola says: Will check PSUnreal log and open enhancement request in case I have any suggestion
Damola says: Not yet used to location of things like chat log for PSUnreal on Linux, just looking
Gonger says: I am a bit annoyed in Unreal that I have to click EXACTLY the text line to set my focus, whereas in Legacy I can click anywhere in the chat window
Uadjet says: That info is on the wiki.
Uadjet says: ~/.Planeshift I think. So /home/UserName/.PlaneShift?
Damola says: Hmm ~/.condig/Epic/PSUnreal/Saved … but do not see a chat log in there.
Uadjet says: An actual LIxux user might want to chime in.
Damola says: ini files, crash reports, PSUnreal.log, Savegames, but no chat log. Maybe I need to enable it first?
Uadjet says: In Windows it's PSUnreal/Saved/Logs, I think.
Damola says: Hmmm, PSUnreal server is not online at the moment, so can't check.
Uadjet says: Not character logs, but client logs.
Damola says: Ah, I do has PSUnreal.log in there, but no character log
Talad says: the new logs functions are not in your PSunreal client
Talad says: will be in the next alpha
Thosor says: us loded legacy log in Kate, yes, search is instant.
Damola says: Ah okay, will check then Talad.
Damola says: Thosor, before search in kate used to block for seconds or even half a minute, but now is great.
Uadjet says: Any other questions?
Damola says: No question from my side and we are way over time, aren't we?
Uadjet says: A bit, yeah.
>Anysu Atani nods at Damola Etedi.
Thosor says: no further questions, your Honor
Uadjet says: I'm making avacado, sweet potato, and black bean tacos tonight, and I need to do some shopping first.
Rykia says: Sounds delicious
Damola says: Sounds delicious, Uadjet! Enjoy!
Talad says: Im going to go then
Gonger says: Thanks for the great work and the information.
>Anysu Atani salutes Talad Dev with respect.
Gonger says: A shame that no more players are present today.
Damola says: See you, Talad!
Talad says: streaming on youtube and twitch in case you want to follow there
Dentritus says: Thank you and bon appetit Uadjet
Talad says: see you
Anysu says: Thank you Talad
>Lurielle Volanxis snaps to attention and salutes.
Uadjet says: I've never made them before, but my mouth is already watering.
Damola says: See you all
Anysu says: Talad is fast
Uadjet says: See you all at the next meeting in two weeks!
Lurielle says: See you!
>Anysu Atani salutes Uadjet with respect.
Anysu says: Thank you also Uadjet
>Anysu Atani waves at Small Table
Anysu says: lol
Anysu says: Bye all
Uadjet says: I'm going to rename that one Anysu's Small Table.
Anysu laughs
Anysu facepaws and chuckles
Anysu says: Bye
Uadjet says: See ya!

Uadjet says: Hello and welcome to the Developer's Q&A! This is an out-of-character meeting where you can hear about the development of the game and ask the Dev and GM teams any questions you might have. If you do have any questions, please line up at the lecterns in front of the stage.
Talad says: There is a conversion guide on the Wiki
Talad says: for books
>Migg Ellorean claps for Talad Dev.
Fliks says: :O Holesod thats my spot
Damola says: So are we starting?
Holesod says: ohh sorry Fliks
Migg says: can I ask?
>Anysu Atani nods at Talad Dev.
Fliks says: heh its fine
Talad says: sure Migg, helllo
Migg says: Are there public and normal books in PSU, like here?
Zarre says: Nice turnout for todays meeting
Damola says: Ah, interesting question.
Talad says: yes, the books should work similarly.
Damola says: Nice.
Anysu cheer
Talad says: what we miss in Unreal at the moment are maps (drawings)
Migg says: One issue here is that, once renamed, you can't tell if a book is public or not
Damola says: Will all our old books still work?
Talad says: all the books which contain only "text" will be migrated with no problems
Migg says: can there be something in the description that says which kind they are in PSU?
Talad says: the books which contain special characters, will require you to copy from text file, and paste into PSU
Talad says: consider that copy/paste works in PSU in all fields by default
Damola nods "I see. So better save all important self written books as text files before the switch."
Migg says: The syntax that exists for inserting images works the same?
Anysu says: ah the books by Migg and Anysu have pictures.
Talad says: the books with images will require some editing on your side to put them in, and there is a small guide on that in pswiki
Damola says: Cut & paste in all fields is really great to have.
Talad says: you can test that right now btw, by cuying ablank book as usual in PSUnreal
Migg says: Ah, I need to try that and see how it works
Fliks says: how do you pictures to the books
Migg says: I haven't got a link to try PSU
Talad says: the books with drawings at the moment are not supported, but hopefully will be in the future
Damola says: You should be entitled to, Migg, you are certainly playing PS for longer than 200 hours.
Talad says: maybe take a screenshot of those books just in case
Migg says: what about the distinction between public and normal books?
Gonger says: Copy / Paste will be a GREAT addition!!!
Migg says: giving away a public book allows everyone to make copies
Damola nods to Gonger
Migg says: but the description does not say which is which
Talad says: the logic of public/private is unchanged in PSU
Talad says: need to be tested though
Migg says: can we change the description of public books to say they are public?
Damola grins "If copy and paste works across all fields in PSU then you can basically copy private books as well"
Talad says: copy paste works when its an Edit box
Damola says: Ah.
Talad says: if you are only viewing a book, I think you cant
Migg says: What I am saying is that I have two books that are titled "My First Number Book"
Migg says: One is public, the other is not
Damola says: Yeah, and you want to tell them apart.
Migg says: the only way to tell is to give it to someone else
Holesod says: hmm
Talad says: we will have to add that then.
Migg says: Thanks!
Uadjet says: I think we're all really looking forward to copy/paste. It'll mean I don't have to manually edit shortcut files and reload them to get in long bits of text.
Damola says: Yeah.
Thosor says: On a similar note, when you put a crafted item into storage here, you lose the crafter's name when retreiving.
Damola says: Yes.
Talad says: consider PSU is in a pretty good state at the moment
Uadjet says: I don't recall: Do private books have an edit button for someone else?
Damola says: Would be nice to have crafter preserved in PS
Migg says: Yes they do
Talad says: what I need is more people testing it, and pointing out what is missing compared to Legacy
Talad says: and then we can take a decision to move
Damola says: I do have crash issues under Linux.
>Holesod Sacerey nods in agreement with Talad Dev.
Anysu smiles about the number books mentioned by Migg
Gonger says: I will ceratainly do more testing in the next days. I am finally on Holiday (TM)!
Damola says: Others have has well. Mostly in Hydlaa.
Talad says: yes Linux crashes are known by Epic, and they are trying to fix. its not something we can do
Thosor says: I get .16FPS there on linux
Damola says: I see.
Migg says: Not on Discord, so haven't gotten a chance to ask for a download link
Talad says: time to upgrade the PC boys
Talad says: there are some second hand good deals
Holesod says: my desktop is about 2 years old, but I built it myself
Thosor says: same box on winders 10 runs OK
Talad says: or ask a friend
Holesod says: on win10 my video card driver times out so I have been living in linux
Holesod says: amd has mucked up their drivers
Thosor says: w10 uses both graphics cards, can't tell on linux.
Anysu says: My machine is way older than 2 years.
Migg says: Have a GTX 660M, need to see how it fares
Holesod says: I can tell which gfx card I use on linux with both Mint and Ubuntu
Damola says: ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 with AMD Ryzen 4750 Pro with integrated graphics is doing between 15 and 60 fps.
Migg says: not sure it is supported
Thosor says: built mine 4 yrs agp.
Damola says: On Linux. AMD developers are still optimizing gfx drivers for Linux.
Holesod says: uh oh
Thosor says: new gcards are hundreds now, stupid bitcoin mining craze.
Holesod says: hope that the AMD devs don't muck it up like they did on windows
Migg says: pandemic has also messed up supply for all chips
>Holesod Sacerey nods in agreement with Migg Ellorean.
Holesod says: yeah I have been reading up on that
Damola says: At least here there is still more than enough supply with used PCs and laptops.
Damola says: Even this T14 I bought has been used.
Holesod says: it impacts everything serviced by semiconductors
Thosor says: I should look for a recent tpad on craigtslist, though I prefer desktop. I have enough laptops kicking around.
Damola says: I made a bargain on it. I would have paid almost double the price if buying new.
Talad says: buying new is still an issue I think
>Holesod Sacerey nods in agreement with Talad Dev.
Talad says: due to shortage of compoonents
Damola says: Ryzen based AMD ThinkPads are really nice.
Damola says: I made very good experienced buying used, but of course mileage may vary.
Damola says: delivery of a new ThinkPad might have taken me three months or more.
Damola says: Any other questions?
Damola says: Any news on PSUnreal?
Thosor says: I think a lot won't easily be able to go to PSU.
Damola says: Hmmm, on Linux you need Vulkan drivers, but I am not sure whether PSUnreal would be much slower when probably lowering gfx settings a bit.
Talad says: Im continuing to make good progress on PSUnreal
Talad says: I did one pass on all the characters to improve a bit the geometry
Holesod smiles
Talad says: so all of you have some more polygons in PSU
Talad says: mostly in the shoulders, to make those more round
Damola says: Crystalspace based PS and PSUnreal have similar speed here. CS PS seems to be CPU bound, PSUnreal seems to be gfx chip bound. Unreal does unfortunately not utilize more than maybe one and a half CPU core.
Thosor says: Yes, I ran across a Ylian woman, very nice.
Talad says: but also elbows and in the back
Damola says: Nice.
Talad says: its not a remake, but I think its a nice upgrade
Damola says: Are there more postures like lieing down instead of just setting?
Damola says: *sitting I mean
Talad says: yes, you can lie down, and sit on chairs
Damola says: Nice.
Thosor says: That way you can tell if someone is napping.
Holesod says: hehe
Talad says: you can basically sit on any flat surface which is about the height of a chair
Fliks says: Enkis could curl up when they sleep
Fliks says: for when you do /sleep
Thosor says: Biting their tail...
Damola says: By the way female Nolthrir have a very interesting way to walk. It looks kinda bossy like in "what do you want, you little …?" kind of attitude.
Holesod says: oh wow...
Damola says: In PSUnreal. Running is fine, but walking is kind of amusing.
Talad says: In PSU at the moment all the animations are the same for all characters
Thosor says: Sounds like someone I know
Damola says: Ah, I see.
Talad says: so female may look a bit too male
Talad says: but we can change that in the future
Damola says: Yeah.
Damola says: Good.
Talad says: we gained on emotes
Fliks says: ooh
Uadjet says: Quite a few emotes!
Talad says: there are about 10 animations for emotes
Damola says: I tried emotes, most were same animations. I bet it is lots of work to add animations.
Talad says: also also there are some "stances"
Damola says: Stances?
Talad says: like for example holding a torch, or walking injured
Fliks says: oh thats cool
Talad says: or having your hands handcuffed at the back
Thosor says: Injured walking? interesting.
Talad says: those "stances" you can use for roleplay if you want
Damola says: Ah… I wonder about character at rest animations? In CS PS its always the same animation. Is there some variation in PSUnreal?
Damola says: How you do use those stances?
Anysu says: Interesting about stances.
Talad says: I dont recall the command, but I think its like /stance injured
Damola says: Thanks, will try.
Thosor says: stance passed out
Holesod says: hmm
Damola says: One could add automatic switch to injured stance when health is below a certain level.
Migg says: would be nice if you automatically did the injured stance when , yes that
Talad says: yes possible
Anysu says: lol stance passed out Thosor
Thosor says: Damola, great, then wouldn't have to keep looking at chart.
Anysu says: That could be fun
Damola chuckles "Stance drunken after Gonger emptied a whole barrel of ale."
Anysu says: stance drunk
Anysu nods at Dam
Talad says: in general im trying to have more functions in the UI, and less by commands
Anysu says: Damola
Talad says: to make it more intuitive
Gonger says: Two barrels, mayhap...
Thosor passes out.
Damola says: Yeah, that is nice. I expect hotkeys will be all new and configuration of hotkeys won't be migrated.
Damola says: Heh, Thosor. Too much pork?
Thosor burps, and more...
Damola grins to Gonger "So no automatic drunk stance, cause real hammerwielders do not get drunk easily."
Talad says: shortcuts will be to be redone
Talad says: but you can copy paste the content
Talad says: of each
Damola says: Yeah, it is what I expected.
Damola says: Fair enough.
Holesod says: sounds simple enough
Thosor zzz zzz
Thosor mmmmmm
Gova says: I'm overdue for a shortcut overhaul anyways.
Damola says: Yeah, my shortcuts are somewhat of a mess as well.
Gonger says: It is possible for us to get drunk, but not easily.
Holesod says: hmm...
Talad says: the PS Unreal event of yesterday was nice to have also for testing
Talad says: there are some bugs which happen only when multiple people are on
Holesod says: definitely
Talad says: for example we had one bug on groups
Talad says: and you can test only with multiple people
Holesod says: I was reminded about that one with the lights causing a crash
Thosor back no longer sore
Talad says: I think at the moment the two biggest things missing are musical scores and drawings
Talad says: for the rest PSUnreal should be equal or better than Legacy
Talad says: but testing is very important to speed up things
>Holesod Sacerey nods in agreement with Talad Dev.
Holesod says: there's only so much that can be tested by one person
Gonger says: Well, we can make our own music on youtube... Things like Bo Hansson, Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings.
Talad says: yes, also I tend to avoid doing it by purpose, as I think can be distributed to others easily
Talad says: for music I was looking at playing midi files directly
Talad says: but I didnt decide yet
Holesod says: doesn't that require midi fonts?
Gonger says: I mean: It is nice to have the in-game music, of course. But until then there are nice things we can play ourselves on youtube.
Holesod says: or are you synthesizing the music from the midi
Talad says: there are free programs to edit midi, with full score and editing capabilities, redoing all that in PSU is not easy
Talad says: there are a lot of people fond of playing instruments in PS
Migg says: muusescore is a program that can create scores
Migg says: think it saves xml
Talad says: yes that one is good Migg
Talad says: we could read the output and play it with your instrument
Gonger says: Ah, you did not only mean background music, but making music ourselves. That is a good point, then.
Talad says: yes, in game instruments
>Thosor Riereri staggers over and tries to grab hold of Lurielle Volanxis but misses. Someone's had too much to drink!
Migg says: I basically convert that to PS XML
Talad says: yes, and in Legacy then you have all the UI to see it and modify it
Talad says: but in PSU that's missing
Talad says: I was thinking to take a shortcut and from the XML just play it without display or anything
Migg says: I believe just reading files created with say musescore is way better
Migg says: and it can save XML
Migg says: then we don't need an editor in PSU
Talad says: yes, this is where I will be heading I think
Talad says: as redoing the editor is complex
Migg says: It would be nice if we could still read the old songs though
Migg says: some are from people who are no longer around to port them
Holesod says: or convert?
Damola says: Would be nice if the old in game songs would still work.
Damola has a nice collection of these.
Damola says: Yeah, maybe a one-time converter
Talad says: if you can export that to XML, that's doable
Migg says: I don't have the XML for any song I did not write
Damola says: Would really be nice to be able to play all those fine songs by Zakena for example.
Talad says: I think they are in the database, and with MusicXML format
Talad says: so can be extracted
Anysu says: Zakena has so many songs.
Damola says: Ah okay, so shall we export them somehow while still in CS PS?
Migg says: Ah, but then should be server-side conversion
Holesod says: hmm
Damola says: CS PS really has a ton of functionality. I wasn't aware there was a music editor inside the game. I always just used ready made scores.
Talad says: yes
Talad says: its also pretty good, considering its hand made
Talad says: are there any other questions?
Talad says: or we can wrap up
Talad says: I will release a new Alpha in the next few days
Damola says: I am fine with wrapping up.
Damola says: Nice.
Damola says: What is new in that one?
Thosor says: oh good, will make sure I have stuff in hand
Thosor says: or is everything in storage?
Talad says: need to make a list, not sure of all pieces
Damola wonders whether he can make sure of anything as long as he lays to the feet of his lady.
Thosor says: I couldn't open my sacks
Damola grins
Damola says: Do you remember some of the pieces, Talad?
Damola says: Anyway, if not, I will see in the alpha announcement.
Talad says: for example the characters improvements
Talad says: tribes should work better now as well
Talad says: added FPS limiter, so you can decide the max FPS
Damola says: nice.
Holesod says: oooh that sounds good
Talad says: More tweaks to terrain and outdoors
Damola says: Haha, with current state of AMD gfx drivers on Linux with current laptop not too much of room to limit FPS, but its for sure nice to have on faster boxes.
Talad says: Added sounds and music to many areas
Damola says: Looking forward to all of that.
Damola says: New music?
Damola says: I noticed that PSUnreal has new background music in certain places and I quite liked it.
Talad says: its the fact PSUnreal was not using the old music yet
Talad says: but now its in
Migg says: great!
Damola says: ah, you put the old music in, well that is some feeling at home in new PS then
Migg says: but PSU has more places than Legacy
Talad says: I thnk those are the most important changes
Zarre says: Yes it is
Damola says: Thanks, Talad.
Talad says: plus all the "fixed pending release" you see on bugtracker
Damola says: I hope Unreal gets those Linux bugs sorted.
Migg says: Cool, great work!
Uadjet says: Does anyone else think the music on PSU's login screen sounds a bit Harry Potter?
Thosor says: if you get lost, can you die and reappear any place special
Damola says: I did not have crashes in PSUnreal up to 0.7.11. The crashes in Hydlaa appeared with 0.7.12
Thosor says: I'd prefer the legacy city tunes, myself,
Damola says: Yes, Uadjet. It sounds at least quite dramatic.
Holesod says: I haven't paid attention to the log in screen music on PSU
Holesod says: but I like the sound of it being dramatic
Damola says: Okay, so wrap up?
Zarre says: Thanks to all who have had a part of PS over all these years. Cheers!
>Thosor Riereri waves at Damola Etedi
Damola says: Thank you, Talad. Thank you Uadjet.
Migg says: Thanks for all your efforts!
Anysu says: Thanks for all you do and have done Talad
Damola says: Thanks to all players.
Anysu says: Thank you Uadjet as well!
Uadjet says: Thank you all for coming! We'll see you again at the next meeting in two weeks!
Talad says: see you
Talad says: test PSU!

Uadjet says: Hello and welcome to the Developer's Q&A! This is an out-of-character meeting where you can hear about the development of the game and ask the Dev and GM teams any questions you might have. If you do have any questions, please line up at the lecterns in front of the stage.
Zarre says: Hi Uadjet l/
Fliks says: two Uadjets :O
Beadeater Did you ever find out what happened to magic ranks on way quests?
Fliks says: they go up
Zarre smiles, "Now pets can talk. "
Stalfos says: They used to
Awaade says: Pets that talk can be dangerous... They will spread a word how you threat them
Uadjet says: I think that's changing. The Devs are trying to make it possible for people to train via quests instead of grinding. It won't be nearly as fast, but still possible.
Zarre says: Only if you admit to hearing a pet talk in the first place. ;-)
Uadjet says: As part of theat, quests that teach a skill in some way will provide a level or two in that skill.
Fliks says: quick make my Grofel a KiKiri
Uadjet says: I can't morph npcs.
Beadeater : So we we may be able to gain ranks again in the ways from the ways quests?
Fliks says: oh ok
Uadjet says: Believe me I tried
Stalfos says: Use Polymorph with brew potion, then give the potion to your familiar
Uadjet chuckles. "Pets can eat in PSU, but I don't know about potions."
>Anysu Atani salutes Uadjet with respect.
Jeranenie says: I expect the NPC server will need to be restarted for the morph to take
Fliks says: yes i can feed my grofel
Stalfos says: OK, that was neverwinter nights, except brew potion wouldn't work with lvl 4 or above spells
Uadjet says: And I think these are the only two potions that have a morphing effect.
Fliks says: dun dun dun
Stalfos says: Yes please, rogue potions all round
Fliks says: can i drink
Stalfos says: 10 fore each attendee
>Fliks Clawrer nods at Stalfos Kyralum.
Uadjet says: Those have very long durations, and as they're spell effects I think only dying gets rid of them early.
>Uadjet picked up a Minor Rogue Potion
>You drink the potion and are morphed into a rogue as a disguise!
Stalfos says: Sounds great, it's your round
>Uadjet picked up a Major Rogue Potion
Uadjet says: So unless Beadeater has another question, I'll give you all a little update.
Awaade says: Shortcut of Talads week of streaming in like 5 minutes?
Uadjet says: That's a good bit of it, yeah.
Uadjet says: He's been doing a lot of work on ambient sounds.
Stalfos says: Doesn't sound like a major priority
Uadjet says: Part of it is music, so that each major place has its own songs.
Uadjet says: Well, I don't know. A completely silent world isn't very engaging.
Gonger says: There is someone playing around with stupid character names, this morning we had Clerical Erroor, now it is Paladinn Celerity.
Uadjet says: Now if you can hear birds as you're running along, and frogs when you pass a lake, it just feels more real.
Stalfos says: What is needed is the ability to craft Rogue Potions, THEN work on abmient sounds
Awaade says: music can be good, but ambient sounds of landscape or citizens can have great impact on gameplay
Gonger says: Yes, sounds will make things more realistic.
Gonger says: And Stalfos, good luck telling Talad what to do next.
Stalfos says: I wouldn't dream of arguing with a god
Awaade says: Gonger - if you try hard enough on streams he may listen
Stalfos says: I might sick beadeater on him though
Awaade says: anyway we were chosing ylian female character model as viewers
Uadjet says: Heh, if he can put up with my jokes I think it's safe to conclude he's hard to anger.
Stalfos says: You can't even change Ylian female hair colours, ALL BLONDE
Gonger says: Very unrealistic, that.
Stalfos says: Bottle Blondes I'd wager
Gonger says: After all natural blondes will dye out in the long run.
Uadjet says: I think getting Ylian women in the game was the top priority. Hair color is relatively easy to change, but not as essential as other tasks.
Stalfos says: Like Ambient sounds!?
Stalfos says: But if the BLonde to brunette ratio gets to high the world ends
Awaade says: characterisation is definitely not pirimary focus for Talad, for start we need to have updated models for each race at least\
Uadjet says: If redheads die out the world isn't worth living in anymore.
Uadjet says: But I digress.
Awaade says: we want Merrida
Stalfos says: True, they can survive on less sunlight for their Vitamin D
Uadjet says: He's got it set up so that some sounds can only be heard in some sections of the map.
Gonger says: Apparently blond is on a recessive gene with humans, so in the long run...
Awaade says: we dont have sunlight here, only reflection via crystal xd
Stalfos says: Redheads are more recessive then Blonde though, I think
Uadjet says: The best example of that is the Arena. Ven and others have put in a lot of work to make the different sections look different, and be appropriate habitats for whatever type of creature is in them.
Stalfos says: The crystal gives Vitamin D, just during eclipse, eat mushrooms
Uadjet says: Now we can have sounds for each section that won't overlap. You'd only heard riverlings, for example, in their section and presumable just outside the door.
Awaade says: oh yes, i hate running around and around arena, usually i turn wrong way on first try so need to go 3/4 of way to destination
Stalfos says: Order of Keen Edge, left then right to escape arena
Stalfos says: or opposite order of keen edge for Veja
Awaade says: get killed by any monster inside and speedrun via death realm to Harnquist XD
Beadeater : Also, how come Yulbars don#t seem to be available in CS anymore?
Gonger says: Awesome work, that.
>Overriding race for Uadjet to yulbar
Gonger says: Awaade, you need to check the barrels in the corridors...
Uadjet says: They aren't? In what way?
Uadjet says: The stack of three barrels is the way out.
Uadjet says: Two on the bottom, and a third on top of those, iirc.
Stalfos says: I've tried many new characters, they all seem to get Groffels, whereas earlier they were so rare
Awaade says: Will do
Uadjet says: It's based on race of character, I believe.
Gonger says: And in the central room, one exit is marked. Just look closely.
Stalfos says: Hmm, I tried Kran, Nolthrir, Enki, All Groffel
Uadjet says: Some get groffels, and some get yulbars. Nobody gets baggas, as they don't exist yet.
Anysu says: I got Yulber.
Uadjet says: Stonehammers might get yulbars. Kran, maybe?
>Anysu Atani raises an arm and points towards Callisto.
Stalfos says: Hmm wait my old Nolthrir got Yulbar
Awaade says: i dont remember which one i have on second character,
Awaade says: ylian
Stalfos says: Thosor has Groffel
Uadjet says: Maybe I'm wrong. It could be race and gender.
Stalfos says: Now Groffel is so common I kinda want Yulbar
Uadjet says: Or maybe there's a randomness to it.
Anysu says: My other enki and Ylian have groffel
Stalfos says: Tried like 10 characters and it was Groffel
Uadjet says: That's weird. I'll ask Talad when the stream is over.
Awaade says: toss a cvoin to decide, head, tails and rim
Stalfos says: Yes, same name but it's different now
Stalfos says: This isn;t Discworld?
Awaade says: dev meeting while talad is streaming, cant be in 3 places same time... can I?
Stalfos says: It's Stalagtite world
Uadjet says: So other than sounds (and map fixes), Talad has also worked on shapechanging. It's complex in Unreal, but it is at least partially working now.
Anysu says: Will the shapechanging be same as in Legacy?
Uadjet says: That one had me worried, as I use it for nearly every event. It's also how the polymoprh spell works.
Uadjet says: I think so, Anysu. Right now it's still buggy to change from player race to monster and then back again, but a relog would fix that.
Fliks says: how do you turn into other things
Anysu nods at Uadjet
Awaade says: *sings* its a kind of magic
Uadjet says: It's the polymorph spell. Blue Way.
Uadjet says: GM's just use /morph, which has no timer.
Fliks says: ooh
Uadjet says: Oh, last bit of info on ambient sounds is that Talad has been doing a day/night cycle, so things will sound different depending on the time of day.
Stalfos says: Yeah I just tried Polymorph in UE and nothing happened
Uadjet says: Okay, so other than sounds, Talad's been talking about player housing. Specifically, player-built housing.
Stalfos says: Aww lookit the lil Yulbar
Fliks says: YAY
Stalfos says: I built a Tower In Bronze doors outside, but I think Thosor dismantled it
Fliks says: i can have a home finaly
Awaade says: on one hand: i need to grab UE and help debug with linux and my job experience in finding bugs, on other hand: just watching UE streams makes this client pretty much ugly and You dont want to play anymore this version...
Gonger says: That was not said, Fliks.
Gonger says: If the rules for homes stay as they are...
Fliks looks to gonger i can still build one with carpets
>Overriding race for Uadjet to yulbar
Stalfos says: Pthhh, in my day we had 16 bit graphics, and we were happy with it
>Label color of Uadjet set to gm
Fliks says: eek giant pet
Stalfos says: AHAHA
Gonger says: Graphics? I used to play MUDs... purely text-based with some occasional ASCII art
>Fliks Clawrer begins casting a spell at Uadjet!
Uadjet says: Talad was using the area outside Amdeneir's walls as an example of a flat, empty space where players could build things.
Fliks says: i do like the sound of that
Uadjet says: There would of course be limits. Applying for a plot of land, costs, and then everything you'd need to build the building.
Fliks says: but i already see a problem with that
Awaade says: Yeah, i reminded MUDs on stream, Talad told that PS was MUD dozen years ago...
Stalfos says: Only the richer players can afford then
Uadjet says: And unused buildings would need to fall apart of disappear if abandoned for too long.
Uadjet says: I don't know about richer.
Awaade says: richer is kinda off... after reaching some point in character development you cant be poor
Fliks says: ooh im realy likeing this
Uadjet says: i think time spent in game would matter.
Stalfos says: Sure, they disappear cos other players teal them if you are away from them or offline
Gonger says: Right now everybody is rich... there is way too much money in thegame.
Uadjet says: There are players who are ridiculously rich, and if they rebalance things for PSU then it would be profoundly unfair to newer players.
Awaade says: that makes me wonder how much tria you can get into character without breaking game XD
Stalfos says: Sure but I'm still poor compared to olders players, cos they had to max via grinding not skill quests
Fliks says: hmm i dont think that 299k tria is alot by nower day standards
Gonger says: Older players also had to pay for skill training.
Uadjet says: One of the common topics for discussion in the secret channel - and in the secret channels in IRC back when - is how to deal with the excess tria.
Stalfos says: I do remember that, although I rerolled after that
Zarre says: Not all old players are rich either.
Fliks says: how can you have too much tria
Anysu nods at Gonger about skill trianing cost
Stalfos says: Also the walk over to the approriate trainer
>Stalfos Kyralum draws a weapon and swings it at Uadjet!
Awaade says: i remember times when not only you paid for skill training, you had to buy teorethical knowledge and then practice rest of skill level...
Awaade says: soe more or less getting back to trainer after each skill level gained XD
Fliks says: that dose not sound nice
>Teleported Damola Etedi to meetingore in instance 345
Awaade says: that was unique skilling in MMO - at that time there was only 2 or 3 games that had option to train all skills and none was that complicated
>Damola Etedi waves at Uadjet
Stalfos says: Tria and PP of course, I remember standing on top of the rogue camps tents and summoning missile
Uadjet says: So the Devs are thinking tria could be used to speed up access to certain things. Not critical things, of course. More cosmetic.
Damola says: Oh look! A cute Yulbar!
Damola says: Here, you sure need some more sand cookies than a regular one.
Stalfos says: It just tried to eat my Groffel
Uadjet says: Techinically a yulbarisaur.
Damola says: Oh, that is not so nice, then I better give it some sand cookies.
Fliks says: ha
Anysu says: I recall all the gathering of pp and tria.
Awaade says: climbing skill was usable ... i mean OLD times XD
Damola says: Some day I post all those inoffcial screenshots somewhere on the internet.
Damola grins
Zarre says: Fun climbing days
Awaade says: my first contact with planeshift was definitely more than 10y ago
Stalfos says: I mean, I remember paying for skill training, Xacha, Diaboli, 2 Dwarf races
>Damola Etedi waves at Awaade Savaig
Damola says: Wow, and now you play again, Awaade? Great.
Stalfos says: AND GETTING MAGIC SKILL RANKS FOR WAY QUESTS
Damola says: Kga, Gova.
>Damola Etedi waves at Anysu Atani
Anysu says: Must be more than 10 years for me as well
Awaade says: my other character is over 350h old and that was few years ago and that was not my first contact... name is Kudar Dhanhan
Uadjet nods. "Diaboli are back, and the two Dwarven races were made into purely RP clans with the same stats."
>Damola Etedi waves at Jeranenie Kegur
Gova says: Kga!
Stalfos says: Talad said he may convert Ynwyn into Diaboli
Damola says: hmmm
Awaade says: im playing with this lemur while streaming on twitch
Stalfos says: Finally Lemur models
Fliks says: are you streaming us or a another game
Awaade says: i might not look like lemur right now
Uadjet says: I do need to have Talad delete my fourth character slot on this account. There's still a problem with traits where if you have traits not appropriate for your race you crash on character selection.
Uadjet says: Do you have any idea how often I've changed my traits?!?!
Stalfos says: There are traits!?
Awaade says: i stream multiple titles, mostly openttd, minetest, truck simulator, war thunder and now planeshift
Uadjet says: Heck, my GM character is a Derghir with - I believe - red hair in the traits.
Fliks says: whats your twich name thing im going to wach
Zarre says: *smiles*
Stalfos says: No no you Giant Yulabr now
Uadjet says: So the only character on my GM account I can play with is my Ynnwn guard.
Zarre says: Must be ingrown hairs
Stalfos says: Soon to be Diaboli
Uadjet says: So I need Talad to delete that last slot so I can create Ylian women and Lemurs.
Stalfos says: No no you can't Ylian on UE
Uadjet says: No? I thought I saw Talad as one. Maybe that was in the editor.
Stalfos says: Well, there was bug report, supposedly fixed 7.12, but it still doesn't work: new ylians for me on Linux
Stalfos says: Old ones transfered from CS maybe
Awaade says: Fliks - in general i record 30m episodes for YT using Twitch stream, so it is like recording 3-6 episodes on one go while streasming and then uploading to YT
Uadjet says: I'll try it out and see if I can access the new races.
Stalfos says: Hmm seems to be OK if you wait a while, then relog, I'll update the bug report
Stalfos says: Still all blonde though
Uadjet says: And discussion continues regarding the location of Araloth kel'Maren, the Stonehammer city.
Uadjet says: Talad wants to move it to the two map sectors we have in PSU, so that every race has at least one good-sized town or city.
Uadjet says: I'm in love with the description of that city though, so I'm trying to pester him enough that it's placed next to the outer edge and can therefore match the description on the wiki.
Uadjet says: If you haven't read it, just search the wiki for Delving. It sounds amazing.
Awaade says: it might be easier to update wiki
Awaade says: just saying
Uadjet says: I'm not giving up on that city though! I can see it in my mind, now.
Uadjet says: Maybe I should try building assets for it.
Uadjet says: But that's what the last few weeks have been like in Devland. Any questions?
Awaade says: im getting tired, and i need to wait for wife that is stuck in train, she has no keys to home and train is getting at least 40m late
Awaade says: having fun XD
Awaade says: i saw Talad works on new village with Xiosia shrine, great job, that UE is great job and tons of work
Damola says: Stalfos, you play PSUnreal on Linux? I tried, but it crashes… a lot… when I turn around, after I ran a few meters and then even directly after logging in. 0.7.11 was fine
Uadjet says: That's Homestead.
Stalfos says: Yes, I've had no problems like that
Damola says: I think I read on the wiki, it sounded *awesome*
Uadjet says: I'm glad Talad gave me a list of useful teleport coordinates.
Uadjet says: Though I think he did so to prevent me from littering PSU with teleport marker.
Awaade says: ive beek eaten XD
Stalfos says: You gotta unguard em
Damola says: Hmm, interesting, don't know why it crashes for me then. Well I reported on Flyspray.
Uadjet says: *markers
Stalfos says: Older PC perhaps, also I'm on Mxlinux
Uadjet says: Linus has been having a problem. It's a driver thing, I think. I've read that the Windows version with proton is running well.
Stalfos says: Mine runs natively, I did see the posts though about emulation
Damola says: Well I am on ThinkPad T14 AMD Gen 1 with AMD Ryzen Pro 4750 with integrated graphics, so yes, that is quite new. But it ran very well with 0.7.11 and before.
Anysu says: Guess that should be Linux not Linus there Uadjet
Anysu says: Your last line.
Uadjet facepalms. "No, I was talking about Linus from Peanuts. Still with the blanket..."
Uadjet says:
Anysu says: Thought I was in a Peanuts comic strip for a moment.
Stalfos says: Linus Torvalds created Linus yes?
Awaade says: you can say that... but its not enirely true
Awaade says: he was one of devs/creators and based on unix, but he is called father of Tux
Uadjet says: So, if there are no more questions I think we can bring the meeting to a close. Thank you all for coming, and we'll see you again in...three weeks. It's the second and fourth Sunday of each month, so the extra Sunday this months makes it a longer wait.
Zarre says: Thank you too, Uadjet.
Awaade says: as usual i would not be able to get into, in general my "shift" in home ends about 10pm cet
Fliks says: oh ok
Anysu says: Oh thanks for clarifying that
Anysu says: Thanks for the meeting and all you do, Uadjet!
Uadjet says: Now I have to go see how deep the gorge by the BD Fortress is. There's no way digging 50m down is too deep that far away from the edge!
>Anysu Atani salutes Uadjet with respect.
Stalfos says: Thank you for this GM meeting
Uadjet says: Oh! I'll do another PSU event next week. Watch the calendar for time.
Stalfos says: can't be a dev meeting without devs perhaps, can Yulbars even use keyboard!?
Gonger says: I will be on holiday in September, and hope to help with testing, then.
>The disguise fades away so you now look normal!
Fliks says: someone should stream the event so i can wach it since i cant play PSU
Damola says: Thanks for the meeting!
Anysu says: Will ther be both a PSU and a PS event next week?
Uadjet says: Yes.
Stalfos says: Different times?
Damola says: Ah, nice.
Anysu nods at Uadjet
Damola says: I hope I can stabilize my PSUnreal Linux client till then.
Damola says: Otherwise, it might be difficult to attend the event.
Stalfos says: Now, about those rogue potions...
Anysu says: I will not make either, need to work long day that day.
Damola hands Uadjet-Yulbarsaur the sand cookies
>Damola asks to trade with you.
>You agree to trade.
Uadjet says: Sorry, I was petting the cat.
>Damola gave Uadjet 24 Sand Cookies.
>Trade complete
Damola says: Yum, yum!
Damola grins
Stalfos says: not with those massive paws, I hope
Uadjet says: Rogue potions will likely be available in limited supply at a future event.
Uadjet says: That cat's a Main Coon. Her paws are bigger.
Damola says: What size can make for a difference.
Damola says: But in the end, even a large Yulbar still looks cute.
Damola says: It still looks sweet.
Gonger says: I think even Uadjet would have a hard time to run two events in parallel in different environments...
Stalfos says: IT looks at you with hunger in it's eyes
Uadjet says: My brain would break.
Damola says: See you
Damola says: It has 24 sand cookies, that will keep it occupied for… maybe a second
Stalfos says: That's not even a crumb to this collosus
Anysu says: Bye all
>Anysu Atani waves.
Stalfos says: Bye
Damola says: Then it can eat you Stalfos.
Damola runs away
Stalfos says: I think it is gonna eat your familiar
[Channel] [1: gossip] Uadjet: Okay, the Gorge is about 450 meters deep at the outer wall. There's no way a 60 meter deep city would have any problems with breaking out of the Stalactite. I'm going to make sure Araloth kel'Maren gets made properly if I have to do it myself!

Uadjet says: Hello and welcome to the Developer's Q&A! This is an out-of-character meeting where you can hear about the development of the game and ask the Dev and GM teams any questions you might have. If you do have any questions, please line up at the lecterns in front of the stage.
Fliks says: just like small things we can jump very high
Damola has hided near one of the wings of Gova
Uadjet says: Jumping height remains the same, though distance is modified by your scale the same as running.
Fliks says: makes ence
Uadjet says: Talad is livestreaming at the moment on youtube and twitch, if you want to watch.
Gonger says: We should all join stream 500...
Uadjet says: Stream number 500 is coming up.
Uadjet says: What Gonger said.
Gonger says: Next week, I guess, since today it is 498.
Fliks says: yay
Uadjet says: We're at 498 today.
Damola thinks her collision box is still too large.
Gonger says: Uadjet vs Gonger (typing) 0-2
Swee clears his throat as he attempts to understand what was said and un-scramble his interpritation of what ever it was that was just spoken...
Uadjet grins. "Fair enough!"
Uadjet says: Talad's been working on another new village.
Fliks says: ooh
Damola says: Cool!
Uadjet says: Zwei made a stable for Amdeneir, and Talad's been adapting it for a different location and style.
Uadjet says: So new, wooden textures.
Damola looks to Uadjet "I am good to be my normal size again, please." she demands.
Fliks says: hmm i think this carpet is a bit too big for me
Uadjet says: The model is very interesting, as it's left unfinished with various modifiers applied so that it can be adjusted easily. Different sizes and styles are pretty easy, it seems.
>Damola Etedi grins at Fliks Clawrer impishly.
Swee claps twice, silently...
Fliks says: oh your big again
Damola says: Thanks, Uadjet.
Fliks says: im going to stay like this till the end of the event
Gonger says: Swee, this Dev Meeting is OOC, but you can stay IC if you wish, of course.
Damola smiles to Fliks "Yes, now I can hold you in my hands, Fliks."
Fliks says: nooo im too small to be kidnapped
Fliks says: too the hidy whole
Uadjet hands Damola a piece of upelkuchen, to bring her back to her normal size.
Damola says: Upelkuchen?
Damola thinks Uadjet has just invented a new fruit
Uadjet says: It's from the 2010(ish) Alice in Wonderland movie.
Damola says: Ah.
Swee says: [thanks Gonger, this character is difficult to be in character with]
Fliks peaks around the corner to see if its safe to come out
Uadjet says: The drink that makes you small is PIshalver.
Uadjet conjures a "The More You Know" rainbow over the stage.
Fliks says: ooh i need around 65 of both please
Damola grins
Uadjet says: But yes, a new village is on the way.
Swee says: cool, but we need mmore visiters to the new cities
Uadjet says: It's basically between the BD Fortress and Amdeneir. From Hydlaa, run to BDRoad2, turn left, and run for... two maps?
Damola says: Nice, but it will then be in next version or is it there already, Uadjet?
Damola says: Which race it is for mainly or it is mixed?
Uadjet says: It's not in PSU yet, I don't think.
Damola says: I see.
Uadjet says: I think mixed race. I saw one map with it labeled Ynnwn, but that was Zwei's best guesses and not canon.
Damola says: I see.
Uadjet says: I think Talad started on the new town for the stable, because there's a cow model that he's been turning into a Goujah.
Damola says: Nice.
Uadjet says: For those who don't know, the Goujah is a large, bovine creature that is used to haul goods and power the Winches.
Damola says: Talad, may come to the meeting.
Uadjet says: He's adapted a model, and even made a yoke for them.
Damola says: He just said so.
>Fliks Clawrer picked up a Candle
Uadjet says: Hi!
>Gonger Xaraha greets Talad Dev.
Damola says: Hi Talad.
Wildling says: Hello
>Damola Etedi bows to Talad Dev.
Fliks says: hello
Gonger says: We are all looking forward to stream 500. A great number!
>Fliks Clawrer greets Talad Dev.
Talad says: stream 500 is an important milestone!
>Fliks Clawrer greets Holesod Sacerey.
Fliks says: any plans for it
Uadjet says: I gave them a quick update on what you're doing. Well, part of it. I mentioned Homestead, the stable, and the goujahs.
Uadjet says: And the yoke, of course!
Uadjet says: Aaaaannnddddd...we're live!
Fliks says: ?
>Holesod Sacerey greets Fliks Clawrer.
Uadjet says: On youtube and twitch.
Fliks says: to youtube
Talad says: The main task at the moment is to make the new land usable and meaningful
Talad says: with "new land" I mean all the land between the cities and to their sides, which was previously blocked
Talad says: we actually had invisible walls to avoid players going there
Fliks says: oh i still go there
Damola grins "I did as well."
Talad says: now in PSUnreal we have that land available, and we want to be sure that's also meaningful with points of interest and villages
Talad says: there are three main parts to that task
Fliks says: yeah the world is going to be so much bigger (defently for me )
Damola says: whoa, what a lag between Youtube stream and game. In game text Talad types is visible much earlier than in Youtube
Talad says: 1) to terraform the land, with hills, mountains, rocks, .... to make it look interesting
Talad says: 2) Add villages/buildings/ruins/trees.....
Talad says: 3) Add NPCs, monsters, cave entrances, quests
Talad says: i realized that the land to cover is quite large
Damola says: Ah, that explains it, yes, its about 20 seconds
Fliks says: yeah theres a 30 second delay betwen the person streamer and the person watching
Talad says: and this is why is taking time, but at the same time it's fun to make
Talad says: At the moment I terraformed the land to the west of Hydlaa, after the arena
Talad says: in the direction of admeneir
Talad says: added moutains, plains...
Talad says: and now I'm making a village name "Homestead"
Gonger says: Great work
Fliks says: sounds very coasy
Talad says: this village is mostly based on rivnaks and goujah
Talad says: there wqill be pens for those
Talad says: and also some other shops/tavern
Talad says: NPCs to be invented
Damola says: Nice!
Holesod says: Sounds great!
Talad says: I think one big part of UE release is exploration
Talad says: it will have for some parts the feeling of an "adventure game" old style
Damola says: Yeah, the outdoor area is much larger, but also Amdeneir is very much larger as well.
Holesod says: oh I definitely can appreciate that
Talad says: I want to maximize as much as possible the "roleplay" and the "exploration" part and not much the combat
Fliks says: ooh yeah i like the sound of that
Talad says: most RPG or MMO are basically action RPG
Damola says: I also do.
>Holesod Sacerey nods in agreement with Fliks Clawrer.
Damola says: Also it looks sooo much better with Unreal.
Talad says: and give more space tothe storyline
Talad says: in any case you will be able to play it as you want
Talad says: if you want to fight all day you still can
Talad says: I think we will push a bit more on the achivements side, integrating that part from MyPlane into the game directly
Damola giggles "Little Fliks in Youtube."
Fliks says: ooh yes id like that
Uadjet says: Speaking of achievements, we really need new ones for Quests and Events. Gonger is at 250 Events now, I think. That's not the type of achievements you meant, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
>Teleported Anysu Atani to meetingore in instance 345
Fliks says: heh
Gonger says: 251
Fliks says: when did anysu get here
Talad says: also the game hours, stops at 1000 now
Anysu says: Just now Fliks
Uadjet says: It's in the stream, and I'll post the log. Which I've forgotten to do lately. Oops.
Damola chuckles
Fliks says: oh
Anysu says: Thanks, Uadjet
Damola says: Little Fliks has always been this small.
>Anysu Atani salutes Talad Dev with respect.
>Anysu Atani salutes Uadjet with respect.
Fliks giggles
Talad says: I think we can have more types of achievements
Talad says: but yes also expand the ones we already have
Fliks says: yes i like the sound of that
Uadjet says: Hours played tops out at 2500, Quests at 300 (when players can do 400), and Events cap at 100.
Uadjet says: Achievements for participating in the automatically generated events would be great. And for finding the little secret locations you lot have been working on.
Uadjet says: Oh, Talad also built a castle.
Uadjet says: Should probably mention that.
Damola says: A castle?
Uadjet says: A rather large thing to forget.
Uadjet says: I mentioned the yoke, but not the castle.
Gonger says: Talad, how many hours does your day have? Or do you need no sleep?
Talad says: its a more than a castle , its a set of castle pieces which can be used to build fortified builds like towers, castles
Talad says: I already used that set to create two of those
Talad says: fortress like
Anysu says: Nice
Fliks says: ooh
Anysu says: Saw a bit of the castle streams.
Damola says: Maybe I find them in game when running around in PSUnreal.
Uadjet says: There are things that won't be shown in streams, as players are meant to find them in game.
Talad says: I try to optimize my day a lot, and do PS pretty much everytime I have free time
Uadjet says: There have to be some surprises!
Talad says: that's mostly evenings and weekends
Talad says: or vacations/holidays
Damola says: Yeah, I get that, I did not ask for location. Rather like to find myself.
>Holesod Sacerey nods in agreement with Uadjet.
Talad says: there are already some "secret" locations, but they do not contain anything at the moment
Talad says: bvut they will
Damola says: Oh, Uadjet, when do you plan next PSUnreal test event? After next Alpha release?
Uadjet says: Could be next weekend, actually.
Damola says: Hmmm, okay.
Uadjet says: Have to show you lot the space behind the Bronze Doors.
Holesod says: oooo
Damola says: There is a lot of space? You told there is some, but a lot?
Damola says: Nice.
Fliks says: ooh i hope you emjoy it
Uadjet says: Well, "you lot" refers to the players, but there is a good space back there. And the waterfall doesn't come from nowhere.
Damola says: Nice.
Talad says: we need people to test the PSUnreal version
Talad says: as we need to find bugs
Talad says: mainly the ones crashing the server
Talad says: last event there were crashes, but we couldnt reproduce those afterwards
Fliks says: if only i had a better PC i would find a ton og bugs
Damola says: During the first event the server crashed several times, Uadjet, when was this? It was often somewhat around a group teleport, wasn't it?
Talad says: so I couldnt fix those
Uadjet says: A group teleport did seem to crash the server. We can test that again.
Dentritus says: I crashed a lot when fighting
Damola says: However… when running around on my own in PSUnreal I had no crashes, so it was something specific to the event.
Uadjet says: I teleported individuall after that, but for large events of 20+ people that would get tedious.
Damola says: Maybe the server can store crash dumps during the event, I think events are a good test case for PSUnreal
Uadjet says: Add a "y" to the previous sentence. If you can't spot where it should go, just add it anywhere.
Uadjet says: My previous sentence, that is. Not Damola's.
Damola grins to Uadjet's statement
Holesod says: I already spotted it
Damola also has
Holesod says: but before I read it without noticing it.. heh
Damola says: It can happen to the best of us.
Gonger says: Humans are pretty good at correcting those small errors, which is why proof-reading is a true art.
Damola says: human brains are awesome.
Holesod says: I do that too... I can type and miss something...
>Holesod Sacerey nods in agreement with Damola Etedi.
Uadjet nods. "Very true. I heard about one study that found that people could figure out what words were supposed to be as long as the first and last letters were correct, and most of the correct letters were present somewhere in the middle."
Uadjet says: So you've heard about Homestead, and the castle pieces.
Damola says: yes.
Uadjet says: That would make Fort Dostin easier to make.
Fliks says: yup im watchinh Talads stream now
Damola says: Fort Dostin?
Talad says: its quite modular, so we can build different castle-like buildings
Uadjet says: It's a few sectors over. There's an area with two Bronze Doors in it, and iirc Fort Dostin makes a nice triangle with both of those. There's a war college near there too, I think.
Damola says: hmmm, okay
Talad says: we have towers, battlements, bastions, doors, stairs, round stairs, etc...
Uadjet says: The 'Meet the Vigesimi' books don't just talk about the NPCs, you know!
Holesod says: sounds incredible
Fliks says: ooh sound like it would be fun to explore
Uadjet says: Yeah, you can get really high walls and towers with those pieces, plus plenty of interior buildings.
Uadjet says: Ah, just checked. It's the battle college that forms a triangle with the two bronze doors, with Fort Dostin actually lying directly beween the two BD Fortresses.
Uadjet says: Any questions?
Uadjet says: If so, please step up to the lecterns.
Damola says: two BD Fortresses? I thought there would just be the one we know.
Uadjet says: Oh no! There are... seven.
Talad says: there are many yes
Damola says: Oh it seems I still do not know enough of the lore.
Talad says: but located around hte dome outer wall
Uadjet says: Each named after something else. So the Eagle Bronze Doors is just the only one near here.
Talad says: the problem is that the playable area will probably never reach them
Holesod says: I remembered reading about some of them in the 'Meet the Vigesimi' books
Fliks says: aw
Damola says: So in this level the Eagle Head is the one, or would there be another one in this upper level?
Uadjet says: We could just add one more sector on the Gug/Amdeneir side. That would add Listarindel, Quinterion (Dermorian), Araloth kel'Maren (Stonehammer), and the Pterosaur Brone Doors.
Uadjet says: All Bronze Doors are on this level.
Damola says: That would be nice, but also a huge lot of work!
Damola says: Ah, I see.
Uadjet says: It's just that the two octants we have available only have one between them.
Anysu says: 7 BD Fortresses!
Uadjet says: Yeah, seven!
Holesod says: sounds like a monumental undertaking
Uadjet says: And the pieces - including the massive doors themselves - weren't even made on the Dome.
Anysu says: wow
Uadjet says: They were made on The Forge, which is three levels down.
Holesod says: oh wow
Uadjet says: As were the Winches, iirc.
Uadjet says: It's amazing how much lore you come across when you're searching for event ideas.
>Holesod Sacerey nods in agreement with Uadjet.
Damola says: So you are not running out of ideas for events anytime soon, Uadjet?
Damola ponders "Hmmm, we are over an hour."
Damola says: Oh, I have one question:
Gonger says: Next week we go glyph hunting again, I think.
Uadjet says: I managed to get you all to spend two events picking up manure, so I'm not running out of ideas as long as I can amuse myself like that from time to time.
Damola says: Where did all the lore come from? Who had the idea with the lore? Talad, you? Who wrote all the lore?
Uadjet says: I do consider that to be one of my main achievements as a GM, by the way.
Damola says: Ah, glyph hunter again, nice!
Anysu says: Dang! I can't make glyph unter next week til an hour and half after it starts.
Uadjet says: Much like my greatest achievement as an uncle was teaching my nieces the song "Monster Mash" to scare away monsters.
Damola is for giving Uadjet some GM achievements badges like doing 200 events and so on
Damola says: Uadjet, did you count how many events you did?
Damola says: Oh, but what about my lore Q?
Damola says: Where did all the lore come from? Who had the idea with the lore? Talad, you? Who wrote all the lore?
Damola says: Just thought about this recently.
Uadjet says: Talad did a lot of it. He's great at world building.
Uadjet says: Other than that, I think a lot of people contributed.
Uadjet says: Most of it was in place before I even found the game.
Anysu says: Agree a badge to Uadjet for all the events down.
Anysu says: *done*
Talad says: The lore of the game has been created by so many people
Talad says: at different epochs
Gonger says: Yes, how many events did you run, Uadjet?
Uadjet says: We'd have to give the Devs achievements for number of bugs squashed.
Damola says: yeah
Talad says: I contributed a lot, but I cannot evaluate the overall %
Uadjet says: And achievements to tester for finding bugs. Especially bugs that crash the game.
Fliks says: oh no im stuck
Uadjet says: The highest achivement in finding bugs that crash the game would simply be called "Yorlak", I think.
Anysu says: Good to hear about any helped create the lore.
Anysu says: *many*
Uadjet says: We're well past the hour. Any questions?
Damola says: Uadjet, how many events did you run?
Damola says: But yeah, we are also way past the hour
Gonger says: He is too modest to answer, Damola
Damola grins "Maybe."
Damola says: Maybe he does not know anymore
Uadjet says: Errr... 7 as Uadjet, 23 as Aachey, and 210 as my Event character.
Damola says: Nice 240 in total!
Damola says: A lot!
Damola hands Uadjets a special badge with "240 events done for players to have fun in game!"
Damola hopes GM had also fun.
Uadjet says: Yeah, running events is fun.
Anysu nods in agreement with Damola
>Holesod Sacerey nods in agreement with Uadjet.
Uadjet says: I'll admit, my first one a a trainee GM was a bit tense.
Fliks says: id say running the event is the best part
Uadjet says: I was in place, waiting. Then a horde of players came racing around the corner and headed right towards me.
Uadjet says: Had a momentary urge to go invisible.
Damola says: Haha.
Fliks says: hahaha
Holesod laughs
Damola says: Well, nice to know.
Gonger says: What? I am ahead even of Uadjet?
Uadjet says: Emaline ran some, as did Sorka. And a few of mine were run of different characters for a few reason. Plus I participated in some as a player.
Anysu says: wow I have only did 151 events..thought it be more.
Damola says: Okay, time for me.
Uadjet says: Yeah, I think we can bring the meeting to a close. Thank you all for coming, and we'll see you again in two weeks!
Damola says: Thanks to all developers, to Talad, to Uadjet!
Fliks says: bye
Dentritus says: Thank you all
>Holesod Sacerey thanks Uadjet!
Damola says: And thank you to all players!
>Holesod Sacerey thanks Talad Dev!
Damola says: All together is PlaneShift and Yliakum.