I'm running Ubuntu on a laptop with an Intel HD graphics card.  I had PlaneShift working for a few years now.  But ever since one of the recent updates, my client crashes in open areas.  I can go around the cities just fine, but when I try walking on the roads my game shuts down immediately unless I look straight down at my feet.  As soon as I look up at the road it crashes.  I'm already on the lowest settings so I'm not sure what to do.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

I recently updated my client to 0.5.9 and it no longer works.  I tried updating and repairing my old client as well as downloading a fresh installation.  I'm running Ubuntu on an HP laptop with an Intel Integrated HD graphics chip.

pslaunch works fine, and on psclient I can get to the login screen, when I hit login is says "Connecting to server" or something and then crashes with a segfault.

I know my laptop isn't the best for gaming and PS doesn't play nice with intel chips, but all of the previous versions of PS ran perfectly fine.

Any ideas?  I can post more info if needed.

I recently started a new wizard character, and while trying to train him I realized that I did not have a reliable way to get money.

Right now there are really only a few ways to make money: mining, smithing/smelting (usually coupled with mining), leatherworking, hunting, and questing.

Since my character, a scholar, is weak and tires easily, it's unlikely he'd spend his time mining.  I don't want to break character by mining all day.  (And, OOC, mining is really boring.) That also eliminates smithing since he has no source of ore.  Leatherwork is a possibility I guess, but since he is a new character he can't kill the riverlings.  He could try to hire a mercinary to obtain them for him, but that requires money of which he has very little.  Even if he could start leatherworking, it's hardly a job fit for an academic.

Hunting is a possibility, but it has its own problems.  My character knows a few basic spells but can't kill anything much tougher than a diseased rat.  After a single fight he usually has to rest for a while to restore his magic reserves.  This makes hunting take a very long time, and since rats don't drop very good loot, the income is extremely low.  The problem is that you need money to train, but you need training to make money.  I can spend a few thousand tria training one or two magic ways, but by the time I rank them up I've only made 500 tria or so in loot.

Last is questing, a decent but unreliable option.  Basic quests like "go get my lunch" and "buy me some paper" are good easy ways for someone with no skills to make some quick cash.  These can only be done every so often though and once you do use them up you have no income for a few days.  Longer quest chains are good, but IC reasons prevent me from doing many of them.

So basically my request is, can we please have a few more ways to make a living?  Alchemy would be very good for wizards, maybe something for the sneaky type like pickpocketing NPCs or looting shops while they're closed.  Maybe something like enchanting where an item plus a series of magical ingredients can be combined to give the item special properties (shields that resist fire, daggers that have a chance to pass through the target's armor for a critical strike, "holy" helmets that resist dark way magic).  The ingredients for the strongest enchantments could be quest rewards where the character must choose only one.  Maybe have Levrus or other wizards buy certain plant parts or animal parts at increased prices for potions, so that herbalism is a viable occupation.  Maybe have prices of various goods vary over time between cities, so merchant characters can make a living running caravans between the cities when prices are favorable.

These are just some ideas I came up with in the last 5 minutes.  I'm sure we can come up with some better ones.  My point is I'd like to see the game progress to a point where the attitude isn't "Oh, you're new?  Need money? Grab a pickaxe."

As a relatively new player who enjoys questing, I have a few suggestions that I think will help make questing more enjoyable and easier for new players.

The problem right now is that as a new player, you don't know where everything and everyone is.  So you talk to a few NPCs and get a few quests.  Not so bad.  However, you aren't sure where to go to do these quests, so you start talking to more NPCs hoping to find one you're supposed to talk to.  This just leads to getting more quests, for which you have to find more NPCs, and the spiral continues.

Eventually you find your quest log cluttered with dozens of quests, most of which you can't remember anything about.  So "questing" for the most part just turns into talking to every NPC you can find and seeing if they have any quest info for you.  To make matters worse, some of the quests involve things like killing tefusangs or making gold ingots, which are way out of reach for new players.  So I have a few suggestions for reducing the clutter and confusion of questing.

1. Distinguish between "Quests" and "Tasks"

Quests should be moderately long and story oriented, and as being story-oriented they should only be able to be completed once.  Tasks, on the other hand, are simple things that require little or no skill and can be done over and over (for example, Harnquist is Hungry, Jayose Lamp Fuel, Paper for Charisa, etc.).  Quests and tasks can have separate tabs in the quest journal to help reduce clutter.  Also, quests should have significantly higher rewards than tasks.

2. Reputation Point System

Another thing that would help reduce the overwhelming amount of quests new players face is to introduce a "reputation score" to the quest system.  Each quest or task should have a reputation requirement based on its difficulty.  Easy quests like learning leatherworking or the "tasks" mentioned above would have a requirement of 0 (anyone can do them) but harder quests that involve things like killing tefusangs, making gold ingots, or traveling to multiple cities would have a higher reputation requirement (new players wouldn't be able to do these anyway).  After all, you wouldn't hire someone you've never heard of to kill a tefusang and bring back its hide or carry your important delivery to the bronze doors.  You probably would ask them to bring you a couple apples or collect some rat eyes.  For each quest the player does, the reputation score would increase.  Quests or tasks that can be done multiple times would only give you reputation points the first time.

I think that these changes would help new players get accustomed to the game more easily and not feel overwhelmed by the amount of quests they have assigned to them, some of which they are not even able to do yet.

I saw this discussion somewhere and I think it deserves it's own thread.

Let's face it.  Grinding is boring.  So why not make it a little more fun by adding the ability to train things like blade making and cooking with some skill-oriented quests?

For example, Harnquist tells you that he just got an order from the city guard for 4 new longswords.  They need them fast, and he's busy with another project.  If you agree to make them for him, he'll agree to give you a few pointers about swordmaking (and pay you for the swords, of course).  Now when you finish the quest, instead of getting experience and money you could get blade making practice, blacksmith practice, and money.  This way, people learn in a realistic way by creating a product rather than by repeatedly hammering sword handles for hours at a time.

This could apply to a variety of skills.  Mining practice could be given for the Harnquist Iron Ore quest, cooking practice for making stuff, leatherworking and armor making for making pieces of leather armor, etc.

I know there are some details to work out but I think this would help make training a little less boring.