Very gothic and amazing use of light source. The lighting is definitely an improvement, for sure. While it takes a huge amount of work just to do the simple things, my only comments on the images I see are the Material Surfacing in some areas looks a bit off. Not only are the materials very stretched and fake looking ( like for the magic shops roof but I suspect your trying to keep game size down ) but there are also materials with high reflectivity in odd areas while other sections you'd think should have reflectivity dont have any at all. The material and shades need some work, I think. In some areas they seem to work just fine but in other areas they come across as really fake.

Nice reflections on those images. Im sure some fun stuff could be done with that later.

The games pretty much dead until you guys get all this sorted. Its not going anywhere in a hurry.

Could someone post the logs of the second "Meet the devs" please ?

I second that...

Unfortunately, due to timezone differences, ' Meet the devs ' occurred at 2am Australian time. Too late for me... ;p

I just get annoyed at the constant harrassing from GM's which just ruins the fun...If I ended up on the main server then the GM's would be harrassing me every five minutes which drives me crazy. When I sit down to relax and play a comfortable game, the last thing I expect is to be abused for trivial things by GMs.

When I was last on the role play server, I got into trouble for my description. I had said something like, ' I am dark way. As I walk, my shadow drains the life out of the grass beneath me. ' or something like that. I recall that it was a fairly casual description, if possibly, a bit non-planeshiftish. Nothing terrible.

Now, I had this Dwarf guy racing around me like a strange person. He was saying, ' Im crystal way. I hate dark way. ' and challenging me for a dual every five minutes. I refused. It wasnt anything personal, I just couldnt be bothered at the time ( I was waiting for somebody ). I basically told him in a nice way to, ' go away '. He proceeded to say, ' If you dont dual me, I'll go off and tell a GM. '. I thought, who cares?

What happened next totally surprised me. I get a message from a GM out of nowhere telling me that my description was ' Out of Character '. I was like huh? Actually, it wasnt the fact that he said it but more how he said it. He was extremely offensive. He'd constantly be interjecting with, ' Are you there? I know your there... Have you changed it you? Im going to kick you / ban you etc '. So, I decided to logoff.

Next time I logged in ( few days later ), I ended up with another GM pouncing on me. It was almost like there had been an auto-responder or something which black flagged me. Quite politely, a GM with a different name said something like, ' Ive heard you need to change your description. ' or something. This harassment continued two more times until eventually, I just quit.

Since moving to the non-roleplay server, I couldnt be happier. My only gripe has been in the server downtime, reboots six times a day yadda yadda. I totally concur, that there have definitely been GM's abusing their power on the role play server. At least, back then there was. Im not sure about today. Not having played on the role play server for over a year, I really cant say.

I dont mind which server I play on really so long as Im not forced to foreplay, and Im not being harrassed by GM's that just wont leave me alone to do my own thing. Now, which server is that? Thats ultimately the question. The non-roleplay server which is effectively a development server ( rebooting all the time ) or the roleplay one where Im told you gotta foreplay or GMs boot you?

Its very confusing this game... ;p

Its a server crash. Ooh no. Even the website ( http://planeshift.ezpcusa.com/ ) is giving me 404's.

We're all gonna diiieeeee... its all over... everythings gonna turn to anarchy... white flashes are gonna fall from the sky and we're all gonna get sucked into spaceships and have our brains sucked out by aliens... *running around while waving hands frantically in the air*

The girls have raised there voices an Octave and are yelling, " What are we going to do? I cant handle the excitement... Save us... Oh save us our hero... "

Hmm... chippies...

Once again: In-game information shall stay in game. Ask such questions to characters in game who are probably educated enough to teach your character (miners, crafters, 'Knowledge Seekers', 'Explorers' ...).

Agreeably a true statement. Nevertheless, can it be answered as to whether those 'features' are actually implemented or not? I personally, think its a fair question to know if they do something ... yet.

Sorry, my mistake. I thought the question referred to the 'flowers' and things found. I'll RTFP next time lol.

My 2 cents worth...

The Death Realm should be evil for followers of the Dark way.

It should allow Player vs Player killing. While you cant effectively die, you will have to start again if somebody catches you. This is quite annoying and will make it harder to escape. It will also act as a very strong deterrent to not end up there in the first place.

Those who choose the Dark path should be allowed to make the Death Realm there home. Such creatures have few friends and live isolated lives, hiding in the darkness and scavenging on whatever comes there way. The Realm should be very large, a labyrinth of mazes with lots of places where you can hide from other people. There should also be lots of trainers and shops so you have little need to go to the surface. You could effectively live out your days in the Darkness and never surface unless you needed to.

Dark Way spells should be more effective in the Dark region as White/Crystal Way should be weaker. The Death Realm should not be a place for those following any of the  righteous paths.

A characters eating habits should change as they become more evolved in the Dark path. Common food should become poisonous to an evil creature as they inevidably only feast on the the corpses of those fallen. It is quite possible that a student of the darkness may never regenerate health unless having eaten of his victims in the dark realm. While walking about on the surface may seem like a good idea for a while, never regenerating health could pose a problem for one evolved in the Dark path forcing them to return back to their realm should they need a fresh supply of corpses. Inevidably, regeneration may need a spell draining the health from someone already living.

The Dark path should never be advertised... it should only ever be found by those who have ever stumbled upon it by chance.

I imagine a labyrinth of dark walls (in other words, no open spaces or predictable walkways)... lots of corners making things unpredictable and hard to see. People can hide and instantly jump out to start attacking you at any moment. Its the realm of fear where all most people want to do is escape as quickly as possible.

You could require that the fallen reposses a new body in order to rejoin into the land of the living again. They may need to sacrifice a corpse to enter back into the real world or kill a creature (npc? player?) in the death realm to acquire one. For the pacifists among them, there could exist a quest that takes ages to complete. This would then ensure their return back to the living without having to fight. People would be running around the realm like scavengers trying to get back their once held life again. This would also imply that certain people wouldnt have the skill to make it back and would need to train simply to make it out of the Death Realm with their soul.

There should be an economy built on corpses from the living. Characters can establish Dark Guilds and head to the surface in order to acquire corpses from the slain. These corpses could be offered to their guild, used to improve a characters power or as an offering to the almighty to strengthen the Dark ways. The higher the level of corpse, the more potent its effects can be. Should the white/crystal way have a favourite animal (unicorn?) then bringing back the corpse of a pure animal could serve as a great achievement (or a devil if your a scholar of crystal way).

Naturally, those serving the path of good, have the right to defend the innocent from the evil and to stop them from coming to the surface to take peoples corpses.

Anyway... dont know if any of these ideas spark food for thought...