Hi,
if you have a Mac and you have some programming knowledge, let us know if you want to try to compile PlaneShift to 64bit, as Apple dropped the support of 32 bits and so our Mac client doesn't work anymore. We need someone with a Mac to recompile it and make it available to our Mac players.

Thanks!

This is something done recently live on stream. PLEASE NOTE THE PICTURE IS OF THE OLD PS CLIENT, NOT UNREAL.



Thanks to eonwind for the positive post above, but there is still A LOT before having what we have in the current PS.....

Hi,
just a quick update on my side, yesterday night I managed to have the quest back-end system working. It properly assigns the quest to the NPC and the NPC answers when you use the right trigger. We are still missing all the client side (chat bubbles / choices) which will follow later on.

In the screen shot below you see the demo quest script on the right, this is the one who sits server side in the database, and  you see the first trigger is "goldore". In Unreal i'm chatting with the dermorian, and saying to her "goldore". You see in the chat window she answers properly based on the quest.

Also today we will have live streaming of Unreal Engine developments. Join us!

https://www.youtube.com/user/PlaneShiftOfficial/live

Ok, tonight we will do a first test. Here is the event on the calendar:

http://www.planeshift.it/events/142/1518555600

There are many  good business models which are not impacting much the actual gameplay.

I would classify those in 4 categories, from the less disrupting, to the most:

1) External only: The payment should not affect in any way the gaming experience. This includes donations, merchandizing (tshirts, mugs, ...), web site recognitions (badges on forums, and such)

2) Paid client services: name changes, move a char to another account, email change and such, could be all paid services for few $. In addition access to beta features on test server, participate to special development events, ...

3) In game visual enhancements: engravings on rings, cloaks, signs of guilds, sparkling effects on weapons, guild entrances, beautifying elements already existing in game. This should have no gameplay impact, just visuals

4) In game item skins and models: new models for weapons (example spiked weapon), new textures for clothes (like new robe color), new enhanced models (like a special torso plate with new geometry), new mounts. Those are accessible only to the ones who pay.

5) In game accelerators: experience boosters, buying items, travel quick to the other side of the map,

6) In game powerful items: the sword +200 strength none has, the mount +200 speed none has, the spell to deal 2000 AoE damage none has.

Of the ones above I think I'm pretty much fine with 1, 2 and 3. I start to have issues with 4 as the content will not be available to everyone, and I always wanted the content to be fully available without payments. I have a major problem with 5 and 6, I think those completely disrupt the game, and those will never be applied in a game I develop.

What you think?

I think the issue is this part:
Could not write stringtable file '/this/lang/english/stringtable.xml'.

Ensure the user you are using to launch PS can write that file. Or change the permissions on that file so everyone can write it.