You should be able to, though the Taskbar will be gone in fullscreen.  Use ALT+TAB to flip between your other open programs.  Is that what you meant?

Some good dialog here it seems.  Wait, what were the questions again?!

How can pvp be roleplay?
Isn't it always role play.  Every action has a consequence, so if you attack new players and kill them for fun, than that is your character, no matter what you think your character really is.  On the other side, if two players engage in PvP and they are staying more in raw character form, then they should take it slow if they want to get a great dramatic effect.  Take a couple swings at each other, charge and then maybe stand some feet apart and spout back and forth for fun.  The problem with PvP and role play is one is in real time and the other is in slow motion and interrupts the other.  Getting the two closer in time frame would add some fun.  I also think it would be great if we had 5 seconds to type something in before we officially die, instead of the "You Can't Do that Right Now" message.  That way I could say, "Well fought... ack, I die...".

What effect does Pvp have on roleplay?
Sort of what I said above, if someone keeps killing people in PvP, it will eventually lead to a greater in game conflict, which could be seen as role playing.  Eventually some "good" group would come along and try to save all the new players from being killed by the evil killers, and maybe even eventually put them in jail.  But, it would be up to the players and GMs to make it seem more realistic.


How does planeshift RP on Laanx effect pvp positively and negatively?
Hmmm, not sure about this one.  Good RP effects PvP positively I suppose.  But the RP that makes up mechanics that aren't even in the game (like casting fireballs or shooting a gun), is just a RP that could be done in the chat room.  If one role player is making up mechanics and the other is trying to stick with Yliakum settings, then how is that fair or fun for anyone to try to keep up with.  If the RP can be carried out in PvP, then seems more exciting to me and takes the game to a higher standard.

What part should pvp play in roleplay?
I always say actions speak louder than words, so PvP and the role play should go hand in hand.  If I type I stab you with my dagger and you die, but I can't do that in PvP, then to me it just doesn't seem I am role playing my character correctly.  Course this gets into power levelers and how it is tough to keep up with others and skills with a keyboard and mouse, etc, etc. but that gets into a bigger mess.  Until the two can be played together, I don't see PS getting over a hurdle and increasing participation.

If I can't work a mouse and keyboard and someone else can, and those are the mechanics for a great fighter, then I'm thinking maybe I need to try another profession like crafting.  Now is that fair or not, I don't know, maybe because it is a game it should be able to make everyone equal, but then that leaves a lot of extra programming and AI to work on.  That kinda brings me to what I usually try to say, and that is freedom should be in the game.  Being able to do other things besides be the greatest fighter, and be able to find some skill that is really useful, will make a broader base of players happier.  And with freedom, if someone wants to kill another in front of a guard, then so be it, face the consequences, but there has to be consequences.  Like UTM says, until those Laws are in game, it is tough to let it all reign free because order will need to be restored eventually as chaos will surely break out.  Right now, I bet almost everyone should be in jail for something we've done, but until that tough, deep, deep programming is in game, all I can think of is let the community sort it out.

I say the loan is unnecessary.  It causes the very risk that would put them out of business.  They do not need that much starting capital to begin doing this and a guild house to store the ore is not cost effective.  You do not want to store the ore for a long time anyway, a quick turnover is the safest and most profitable way to do business.  Paying a couple million trias for a house to store ore is not a good way to go.  Guards would probably work best to start out and then they'd have enough trias in about a month to expand from there, if successful of course.

If they did do the loan, working on some quick numbers, best case, it'd take 10,640 ores (0 slags, full 188 trias profit with their own smelter) to make 2 million trias.  If they could buy an average of 500 ores a day, it'd take ~22 days to pay back the loan.  That doesn't seem impossible to me.  Since it sounds like they don't have their own smelter, it'd take ~44 days if they split the 188 down the middle with the smelter, slags won't be too much of a problem, 1-3% delay, 5-15 ores a day.  I'd check with Trasok and Gardr, maybe they'd share some information on how many platinum ingots they buy per day, I'm sure it must be well over 500.  If it is closer to 2,000, then 500 should be possible to compensate for the loyal miners and miners that can smelt their own.

So is it legal?  I'd say so, why not?  They have just as much right to buy ore and offer an angle compared to any other smelter out there.  I don't really see the difference between them offering 1100 per ore and some other smelter.  And smelters are outbidding Gardr now anyway, so they are just another buyer entering the market.

Will it create conflicts?  Absolutely, a bunch of them, and that may be why it won't work unless the stronger smelters and guilds are okay with it.  If the loan is done, it'll be easy for competition to put their loan in default by offering free smelting, so diplomacy and cooperation will be a must.

As a smelter, I wouldn't mind them being around.  I don't think there is enough work for probably 90% of the smelters out there however since it would take about an hour to smelt a full days worth of ore, but if I happened to be around and was offered 100 trias per ore to smelt 500 platinum ores, I think making a quick 50k wouldn't be such a bad thing.  It'd be interesting to see if that is how it would work or if it would just turn into a chaotic mess of a market.  The pure miners would definitely win out on this one, though.

I say you already have mechanics in PS that just need to be improved to improve Roleplaying, Factions.  I got hooked on these things early on, thinking that if I was nice to everyone and the most helpful dwarf, my factions would really show off the character I was trying to be.  I thought the consequences of my actions would improve my character more than just killing Ulbernauts and paying someone to increase my stats and skills.  If actions are computed and adjust factions, then that may support roleplay on a more consistent level.  I think I read what UTM said correctly, but I agree that the current PPs system isn't the greatest and could be done away with.  Maybe factions as a substitute could be something to look into.  Consequences for your actions I think are very important when it comes to roleplaying, so having some way to support that would be pretty fun.  Some examples of what I mean would be:

1)  Should it be possible to be maxed in Dark Way and Crystal Way, or if you train Crystal Way should your faction for Dark Way go down or vice versa?

2)  If I kill someone in PvP, should my Good, Guard and Law Faction go down if the person I killed had a Good and Lawful Faction alignment?

3)  If I trade and constantly sell and buy for decent prices that makes my customers happy, shouldn't my Merchant Way faction increase?

This of course is probably more complicated than these simple points, but roleplaying can always be done in a chat room, making roleplaying more popular and fun in a game is always going to be more difficult, but when accomplished will have a very nice niche in the gaming world.

Ah okay, I think I understand the question now.  I'm fine with GM and Dev characters being the most powerful in the game, using huge levels of the current skill sets or using the GM codes to try to mimic the possible future settings.  Examples would be a bit easier to figure out and discuss, but I know things like morphing, levitation, teleportation, etc. are going to be in game, so GMs using those seems cool to me.  This line gets a bit blurred for players that don't know the full possibility of settings though, so right now it seems GMs can do whatever they want.  Laws of whatever universe this is still need to be obeyed, even for gods...

Personally, I was hoping leveling would be easier on the EZPC Server as well as rarer items showing up more, too.  If everything is exactly the same as Laanx, then I'd just start another character on there instead of doing the work on a server that doesn't seem "alive".  Also limits should be taking off so people could level as high as they wanted, make it a PLers Utopia.

Divide the PPs needed by trainers by 10 and multiply the practice points and experience gained when executing the skill by 10.  Oh, and make every NPC a trainer of every skill...  that'd speed things up .  And it is far from perfect, but the code would need to be rewritten for some of my ideas and it is a subjective subject anyhow, so I'll pipe down...

Yep, the brightness in game will not brighten on maps that do not allow for it.  If you can brighten your monitor settings, try that, otherwise try straight from your video card.  If you have Nvidia, there should be a control panel from them that lets you adjust the brightness or gamma for your whole PC.  If you are on Windows, you can get to it by Control Panel --> Display --> [Tab] Settings --> Advanced.  For Linux, I've installed the drivers from Nvidia's website to get the control panel, but not sure how to do it in another way.  ATI should have something similar with the drivers installed.  On a laptop, I have seen some adjustments for their basic video driver under the Display Settings, too.

Once you get through the Death Realm once, it is much easier the next 250 times.  And yep, the DR has some good reasons to go down there, so it isn't always a big punishment, can be fun.

What's a klingon?

Somewhere a Trekkie has a heartache...

Personally, I think settings and descriptions of races should be as general as possible, especially for a game with a changing population.  Just because you are a Stonebreaker doesn't mean you have to be stubborn, only good at mining, untrusting of anyone taller than you, etc.  I also don't agree with concrete limits to a race as well, there are always some that can stand out from the crowd.  You can't roleplay a dwarf that is 3 meters tall, but you should be able to accomplish whatever you work at, whether it is magic, painting, archery, climbing, etc.  Trying to stereotype fictional characters, just seems like a losing battle.