Should characters wearing Heavy Armor be disallowed from using magic? How about Medium Armor? This is a traditional distinction that balances fighter versus mage or clerics. Simply because PS is skill-based, rather than a class-based does not, IMHO, remove the need of class and skill balances. If it was up to me, I would have metal on the body interfere with glyphs, disallowing magic on any character wearing Medium or Heavy Armor.

I am able to run this, and I appear to obtain the same crash log information as running the release client.

Is there supposed to be additional information available about the crash? A different logfile, or command switch that I am not using?

Do you prefer if those long OS X crash log reports are posted here, or in the tracker?

Referencing the binary linked to in this thread:

try this http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WNRQ93K4

A while back I had opened a report on the bug tracker indicating that, when mounted, my character was moving more slowly than if they were walking unmounted. The question came up about how much network lag I was experiencing. I checked, and the lag was notable. I confirmed this and the bug was closed. I just logged that character about 10 times over the last two weeks and each and every time, the network lag is preventing me from enjoying my mount. What I am honestly wondering is why it should be any different for a mounted character compared to the character simply running and shouldn't this really still be considered an open issue?

Currently playing iPhone game The Quest. Excellent, excellent, excellent. Worth the six bucks. Just FYI in case anyone is on iPhone or iPad and is looking for a good old school RPG, I recommend it highly.

http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=36199.msg412169;topicseen#msg412169

Proper reporting features or strategies need to be in place before a reset is done. The reset needs to not be treated as "The Reset", but as "a reset". In order to gain useful information about the world for purposes of balancing the game, then the reset should be done, and then redone at a specific date in the future. This might need to happen a couple of times over a year, or over a couple of years.

Accounts and characters. It seems that the basic functionality of account and character management works well. It may be that deleting all accounts and their associated characters will produce a situation where the server is basically paralyzed for a certain amount of time while many people re-create their accounts and characters. But doing so might give valuable information on the capacity and capability of the server itself. If this is done, then it needs to apply to player and GM characters, no exceptions.

Money. Due to past exploits, it is advisable to reset all money in the world to zero. But doing this without determining an overall strategy for managing the economy of the world as a whole would be pointless, as it might simply start building again and no knowledge would be gained. In order for this to be beneficial, there needs to be a way for the team to get report data on where money comes from, goes to, how it is hoarded, how it disappears from the world, et cetera. This would probably necessitate the addition of features to allow for comprehensive high-level understanding of the economy, unless they already exist. Player and GM characters, no exceptions.

Reset all inventories to zero with no exceptions. I am definitely including items like "Rings of the Past" and all quest related items. All items, no exceptions. Past and/or current duplication exploits make this a critical issue. Once again, if there is no way to see and track item generation, usage and consumption, then it would be best to put in those features before doing the reset. Player and GM characters, no exceptions.

Quests. All quests information reset for all characters. No exceptions. Player and GM characters, no exceptions. Functionality for reporting on quest usage needs to be in place prior to doing the reset.

Skills and stats. All accounts need to be cycled through, resetting their skills and stats to the base values for the race. Player and GM characters, no exceptions. Functionality to report on skill progression needs to be in place prior to doing the reset otherwise valuable information relating to how to balance the game will be lost.

Guilds. All guilds need to be reset. All guilds, no exceptions. The number of guilds that were created with past exploits has made this a necessity. The threshold for guild creation should also be raised.

Mobs and spawns. The number of mobs needs to be increased so that there are many more available after the reset. The scarcity of mobs in the world creates a nearly cruel situation for the players. This will also increase the amount of feedback that can then be used in considerations for balancing the game.

GM powers and rewards. The ability for GM characters to create money, items, raise skills and alter stats should be removed completely until after a period of information gathering and should only be enabled after the goals of the reset have been achieved.

Discuss amongst yourselves and flame me as much as you like. It is time to set some professional standards for the evolution of this game and get serious about things. You will not lose any players, and no amount of griping and complaining should have any bearing on the decisions of the development team. This is either the greatest project ever, or the biggest joke of an MMORPG in the world. Make the game balanced and fair and your project will live within the hallowed and empryean halls of game software until the end of time. But there is no point to resetting the database unless we are serious about goals and methods.

EDIT: I changed the last "you" to "we" as I honestly love this project as many others do. But I find it near impossible to play regularly these days because of a number of conditions that are basically intimated in my points above. I thank you.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/planeshift/player_review.html?id=436661

Also, a different aspect that comes to mind is the ability to define your character pre-story. You can select who your parents were, what you did in your childhood, which deity you worship, how you were born and so forth. All of these then influence your starting attributes and abilities. In my opinion, a very nice extra that should be implemented into other games as well.

A very interesting feature is the ability to actually chat with NPCs. You could, for instance, say "Give me a quest!" and the NPC will gladly reply asking you to get him his breakfast. The chat-with-NPCs system even allows you to make choices and discuss different topics. Very nice implementation that has quite a bit of potential to it.

I pulled the quotes above from one of the added reviews nested under the main review. The main review displays a serious lack of understanding of how the project is structured and how the game itself works. The complaints basically fall into the "not enough graphics/functionality content" category as they usually do, coming from players who are used to getting their every whim catered to.

But there is a  pattern to the positive comments, and I thought the two above were interesting. So that popped up on a google today and looked like a recent review, so I thought I would post it here. FYI.

I checked the date on the review and it is actually an older review, but something changed in the google rankings and it came up at the top for some keywords I check on a regular basis. Google must be making changes internally. Sorry for that...

The roleplaying guides on an old MUD. Interesting reading...

http://www.armageddon.org/rp/