Now feel free to scream at me but I just don\'t understand why the game is so difficult to start. Now im not a real newbie at it, i\'ve been playing on and off for well. almost 2 years now, and its my opinion that the PS project would get much more publicity if it wasn\'t so difficult to get started. The only reason I can see you doing this is because perhaps your trying to keep the server population low?

First off let me just say that you have made one amazing game. I must praise you all who have worked so hard to make the game what it is today.

Now, onto what i\'ve encountered from just starting it up after putting it down for quite a number of months.
The first thing i noticed was the rough feel of the controls, but after about 15 minutes i had everything worked out.  The only thing i wish was enabled was looking around with your mouse. Also, an autorun feature would be real nice (i know you have an auto walk feature) but to just be able to press 1 button and be able to run without holding it down, it gets tiresome having to hold down a button to run, and another to move forward.

Next thing i figured out is that you start with nothing, and the npc\'s are hard to find, so you are stuck having to figure everything out, perhaps starting equipment could relieve this. nothing fancy, just a cheapo sword, and maybe a cloth shirt.

I have to say all of the world building is beautiful and it is actually very enjoyable just running around exploring the world, not to mention the lack of lag in that very large zone. which is equally impressive.

I feel that if you guys just use one of your dev\'s to upgrade the playablility of the game, and the feel, to be more welcoming to the new player you will gain an even bigger fanbase, i know personally i was very frustrated in the beginning and was really about to quit until i figured how to change the movement.

My cousin runs a fairly prominent gaming website, (or actually is one of the people that run it) But i dont want to toss him the game just yet, i mean, its more of an acquired taste at this point, if you make it alittle more new player friendly im sure he would love to suggest it to his readers. Its just at this point I dont want to make him endorse something that some newbies would think is too hard, because then they would write off the game as being a Pos, and my cousin would loose some credibility with his websites fans.

These are all just suggestions and i hope you take them with a grain of salt. I dont consider this whining im just looking at it logically. Personally i\'ve already figured out the mechanics of the game and i think its pretty fun. Its just that alot of people are very willing to quit when you start out and its alittle rough to get a handle on how to play.

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~Dan

I made a picture to put in my sig but i cant figure out how to do it. Can anyone help me out with putting a picture on my PS forum name.

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I like a new type of game as much as the next guy... but i also have a love for the hack and slash. I want to know if i will be able to progress just by killing monsters, and pick a trade skill or job for just doing on the side. Will there be dungeons and such that i can hunt in... to progress in... skill points...

~Dan

Add in adjustable plane clipping. I was toying around with the game and i couldn\'t figure out where my lag was coming from. It just hit me though, that when i am in that town i am able to see everything in the town from certain points. If you add in adjustable plane clipping, the user will be able to set a point to where their vision is cut off, and the background is set to sky color or black. This way your unfortunate users with real slow computers can make the plane clipping to 0 and they wont be able to see far, but they will get alot less lag. Make it scallable from 0 to 100, 0 is only so far, and 100 is the entire zone.  I Dont know if you were working or thinking of this, but i will try to find an example of code that you could use.

~Dan