I think it would be nice for the supporting people to hear about something that works:
While the download page gives specs only up to windows 7, I believe it works on windows 8, on a non geforce/radeon graphics card, i.e. intel HD graphics 4600, as well. Mind you, i tested only five minutes and only a corner of Hydlaa plaza.
I can max the textures, activate anitialiasing and anisotopic filtering, sound works if i choose openAL. Shadows turn themselves off automatically if i enable them.
On first login, the client got stuck for some reason; I then turned off anitialiasing and anisotopic filtering and slowly reenabled all of it; maybe the client was busy downloading or creating caches at first start.
The only thing that made me think something was wrong then was an in-game reason: that I returned after ages and was overloaded and unable to move. 
Ah yes and when I hit F3 the server went unreachable once - but that may be coincidence, since I can click the icons (whci hare probbaly tied to the F#-keys).

I have been asked to provide an updater for a mod to a game that is close in the alphabet to Planeshift, named Paraworld SEAMOD/CEP.

I was thinking of your updater immediately, especially the repair functionality that comes with it.

It would be even better if it could do P2P, by the way ;-)

Is it possible to acquire the source for the updater and the update server, for example under GPL license?

And who knows maybe Planeshift can benefit from improvements I make.

This is an interesting article about a minigame within an MMORPG:

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/09/bejeweled-comin.html

Well after my windows-client is randomly dying I thought I'd run it under gdb and to run  gdb I have to run it under mingw, I think.
After my initial surprise that the options are stored in a different place I played the game for some seconds until someone lit a torch.

The last thing is see in gdb is "program exited with code 037777777777".
Before that, there is the message "Distribute leafobjects failed - !leaf_replaced"

DistributeLeafObjects failed: !leaf_replaced
  This node contains the following objects:
    0: 'effect_particles_5' (165.594,62.3881,32.0238)-(168.2,64.9942,34.6299)
    1: 'effect_particles_6' (164.873,61.668,31.3036)-(168.92,65.7144,35.35)
    2: 'effect_particles_7' (165.217,62.012,31.6476)-(168.576,65.3704,35.006)
    3: 'effect_particles_9' (164.935,61.7296,31.3653)-(168.858,65.6527,35.2884)
    4: 'effect_particles_10' (164.898,61.693,31.3286)-(168.895,65.6894,35.325)
    5: 'ynnwnm' (168.315,-1.#QNAN,-1.92962e+034)-(171.381,-1.#QNAN,-1.92962e+034)
    6: 'effect_label_8' (169.627,-1.#QNAN,-1.92962e+034)-(170.126,-1.#QNAN,-1.92962e+034)
    7: 'tools#pick01a' (169.409,-1.#QNAN,-1.92962e+034)-(170.109,-1.#QNAN,-1.92962e+034)
[New thread 2140.0x7e4]
[New thread 2140.0x730]
[New thread 2140.0x884]

Program exited with code 037777777777.

Does this throw any light on the problem or am I poking in the dark and adding complexity by mingw?

Also in http://www.hydlaa.com/flyspray_upgrade/index.php?do=details&task_id=1915

I must say Bronze Doors looks much better with the new lighting and no black area than it ever did with -fullbright.
It's like a completely new area 

Thanks to who ever did this 

I already found smaller light maps for hydlaa, but I'd like to get one for the arena too.
Where could I find one?

Reason: Im crashing frequently when entering the arena and the tunnel is kind of laggy for me.

Or maybe they work as armour idk - What I learned is the shield skill doesn't worked after putting money into a shield. Just so you know.