0.6.0 Release!

[Gilrond]

Thanks for the update! Probably the biggest one in a long time.

[LigH]

Now everyone, don't miss "Danow's Quest" this saturday; apparently the event calendar is a little unreliable at the moment, though.

[Venalan]

I would like to point out that as of writing this -NONE- of the new spells have fully/correctly been mirrored on to the production server yet so you will not be able to research any.

[Gilrond]

Thanks for the tip Vanalan!

[Mordaan]

Also (on next server reboot if that hasn't happened in the past few days), be on the lookout for the new athanor.  A late entry from the art dept. on that one.   

[Fantosios]

Hello,
I'm Fantasios, a newbie of this game.
Thank you for the fantastic game.

When I log in it says an update is available, but you don't have the correct permission...
What does it mean? i play on windows, maybe it depends on that?
Thank you for your help

[Venalan]

If you are on windows you need to right click 'pslaunch' and chose to 'run as administrator' when you do you will be able to update perfectly (fingers crossed).

[LigH]

Welcome to PlaneShift.

If you had searched the forum, especially the area about issues before entering the game, you should have found several threads already, explaining that the launcher needs to change files in the UAC protected "Program files" branch, if you installed it there, and therefore you have to select the option "Run as Administrator" in its context menu (right-click on its icon). That would not be necessary if you had installed it elsewhere, where the Windows UAC does not protect your installed applications from unintended changes.

[Fantosios]

Thank you guys,

I shouldn't say I'm a programmer, anyway I ran as an administrator the first time I installed it and i updated it, so i forgot about it. Now it began to update, but my antivirus blocked it, so i will try to figure out how to solve it....

I was thinking... Isn't there some more user-friendly way to give admin permission on windows (hacking in the UAC)?
Maybe i could search it and try to create some admin starting link.

I think these errors stops many potential players from playing this fantastic game.

Thank you for this game anyway again!

[LigH]

It is certainly possible to create a link including a Run-as-Admin property, so it will popup the UAC query automatically. But additional permissions are required only during an update, and only when installed in %ProgramFiles% or %ProgramFiles(x86)%. During the normal use, the launcher can run under any user's account, because it doesn't need to exchange any binaries. A temporary "escalation of permissions", only when an update is available, would be interesting to be implemented, I'll create a feature request in the bug tracker about it.

[cormah]

Well done to all for the brilliant update and all your hard work 

[Illysia]

I don't suppose someone would be kind enough to post screenshots of in game updates for lurkers?

[LigH]

I did not yet shoot many. Just one from the entrance of the new lava cave, during Danow's Quest:



And because it was you asking: Kran need food, too! Therefore, special tools to make them:

[Rigwyn]

This ( The red hot cave shown above ) definitely looks like it could be a lot of fun for a group event. I only got part way though, but then well, being all by myself, I got into a bit of a predicament that might have been fixable had I tried it with others. This is definitely worth checking out.

[novacadian]

This is definitely worth checking out.

This release has definitely shown a dev team that has the where with all to move this project forward, again, at long last.