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Does it happen in both fullscreen and windowed mode?

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Complaint Department / Re: Why is my thread locked?
« on: March 25, 2015, 05:01:15 am »
Thread was locked as we already explained it multiple times. In the medieval times gay marriages were not part of the culture, and so it is for PlaneShift. If you feel an absolute urgence to roleplay a gay marriage, then do it with RP, considering though it's OOC compared to the setting.

Roleplayers should play within the given setting, interpreting their characters and reinforcing the background to make it feel more real. Trying to put real life into the game is not what I feel it's good roleplay (just my personal point of view on this).

Also I'm a bit tired of seeing always the same people which are beating some points to troll the community since 10 years.

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PlaneShift News and Rules / Status of the Dome - Quests
« on: March 15, 2015, 06:35:45 am »

Quests in PlaneShift are an important part of the immersion of the game. They are intimately tied into the progression of the game giving information about the world as well as a way for players to acquire key items and knowledge to allow use of skills, magic, as well as get special items and access to special locations.

With the latest releases we reached the amazing total of 1530 NPCs, including creatures you can fight. Of those, we have now more than 260 sentient NPCs, which will be part of the different quests in the game and your progression. At the moment there are 394 active quests in game with more being added in each update. We are on track to have more than 300 NPCs and over 400 quests in the next few updates. The current in game quests range from introductory tutorial quests, to informational quests, introductions to and progression of crafting skills and jobs, adventure quests, and some just plain silly and fun quests. We hope they all help characters learn about the world of PlaneShift, it's history, settings, people and places. They also award characters with experience and tria, give instructions on how craft and use items and to obtain critical items and tools to progress in the game, as well as unique items to personalise your character.

In the last hand full of years quest and related systems have gone through a massive revolution. There were extensive numbers of basic quests which were relatively simple and were unfortunately filled with numerous errors. We can say now the majority of those have been fixed, improved and some cases completely overhauled as the game engine has been greatly expanded allowing us to use new features to expand the current quests. These now contain a much greater array of quest possibilities and make them much more robust, stable, and problem free. We have also used these new feature to make some new very complex, challenging, and fun quests.

To improve the playability of quests we introduced an automatic "quest note" system, whose purpose is to give help to players who might be stuck and to allow them to refer it to when they are stuck. We are continuing to improve this system all the time to make the dialogue as helpful as possible, without spoiling the challenge of a quest.

We have also worked very closely with the PlaneShift community to fix every single bug reported to us in every single quest. Due to our desire to make quests as complete as possible, every quest in the game has been gone through at least twice fixing every little mistake no matter how small. This is an on going process but we are getting close to being done.

The settings team is proud to say that the current version of quests have never been this stable, this complete, this complex or this enjoyable and with no currently reported bugs which could cause a player to get stuck in a quest. This will bring to players months of gameplay and fun.

Other updates & enhancements during this period include:
  • Quest chains have been reorganized and improved.
  • Tutorial quests and billboard in the tutorial area should lead new players to where they need to go to start most quest chains.
  • Most skills/jobs (ones where you need a crafting book) have a quest which introduces it. Many of these quests are instructional in nature and help players get started with those skills as well as give info about what they should do as they progress. There are already such quests for skills in crafting weapons, armor, shields, as well as baking & cooking. In the last few years we have added leatherworking, mace making, enchanting armor, herbal, alchemy, and most recently bow making. Next on the horizon is brewing, jewelry making, and enchanting weapons. Kudos to the rules team for developing the crafting and for helping on many of these quests. It has been a collaborative effort.
  • Repeatable quests have been and will continue to be developed where NPCs ask you to make items in accordance with your skill level. This can be a great way to practice your crafts without falling into the pattern of making the same things over and over.

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PlaneShift News and Rules / February update
« on: February 09, 2015, 06:29:08 am »
Last week we released a small update, here it the list of changes. No need to update your client.
 
Rules
• Spells that were supposed to be researchable in 0.6.3 have now been added
• Several fixes to bow making transformations
• Fixed bug PS#6746 - Exclusive Azure Way / Blue Way healing rule allows Mana griefing
• Fixed bug PS#6733 - StoneHammer shortbow damage not correct
• Moved a plant rewspawn location (wyn reed) out of the gobble's tribe location
• Fixed a few NPCs Loot Rules (Xalpalock and Wild Pterosaur)
• Aggressive Trepor Tribe: the trepor tribe located in BDroad2 map was meant to be aggressive and now it is, beware!

Setting
• Numerous fixes to quests per petitions and reports
• Fixes applied to quest skill requirements which led to some quests being available before they were supposed to be
• Fixed issue with Pterosaur travel, particularly from Amdeneir to Gugrontid

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Hi,
we get this question very often: I cannot login anymore to the game with my very old account, I may have forgotten the password, can I recover it?

First of all in May 2012 we changed the way password are stored in the database, and so you are not able to login even if you recall the password.

To refresh your account, you should first login to my plane here: http://planeshift.teamix.org/myplane/

As soon as you login there, your password is updated with the new system, and so you can login also in game.

In case you still have problems, contact us on IRC (see Chat on main web site).

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General Discussion / Re: First try at some Fenki Robe textures
« on: December 26, 2014, 07:37:16 am »
Will be very nice if someone could draw a full texture (not just color) for both the female and male. Please send the proposals here on forums.

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Try to launch the updater with the option --console, this will avoid the graphical UI and will be just a text updater.

pslaunch.exe --console

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PlaneShift News and Rules / PlaneShift 0.6.3 released!
« on: December 24, 2014, 01:02:33 pm »


It's with great pleasure we announce the release of yet another PlaneShift client! Version 0.6.3 will be ready shortly for you to download. And what better timing than during Xiosiamas (Christmas) festivities?
         
 Main highlights

  • Improved NPC dialogue. When speaking with NPCs, you now have the option to click the bubbles to define the reading speed.
  • Three new client skins with new art for buttons, menus, etc... : Flames, Legend, Classic.
  • Possibility to give a name to a sack in your inventory. This will greatly simplify the organization of your items!
  • Crafting Shields. Shield Making crafting has been redesigned, condensed to 4 books for less confusion, all the shields parts are now craftable. Two new special shields, made of blue-steel metal, are now available!
  • Crafting Bows: A good news for the archers and crafters, Bow Making is now available!
  • Crafting Axes & Swords: Axes and knives handles are now craftable.
  • Magic: 4 new spells are available for Crystal and Blue Way!
  • The Howling Well rework: a mystery lurks in the well shadows!
  • Two new bosses have been designed and deployed in the game! Challenging to fight and win.
  • Access The Bronze Doors with a pterosaur, through a quest.
  • For spell research, a better system message tells you if the failure is because of a non-existing spell.
Note for Mac users: we have changed the way we build the Mac client, so please give us feedback if you experience any issues.
 If you want all details, read below. Enjoy PlaneShift!
 
 Art

Effects:
  • Taste of Death effect: New look so it better represents Dark way spirit, more realistic.
  • Fear spell, addition of skull ring.
  • Dome of perfection spell reviewed, added a 3D object for better result.
  • Added flame effect for candles.
User Interface (UI):
  • New icons added to icons.png to support all new UI features.
  • Added "ButtonStorage" definition so that the storage button now uses an previously unused icon.
  • Added new Classic skin for client, an updated old skin which use to be part of the released client.
  • Added new Flames skin for client.
  • Added new Legend skin for client (styled after the PS website).
  • Updates to all other skins to improve their final look and support all new UI features.
Characters:
  • Fixed missing bracers on Ylian female.
  • Added robes for male and female Enkidukai, currently only with a temporary textures. 
2D:
  • Added drawings to some books.
  • Added jewelry and mace/hammer icons.
  • New icons for loot window.
  • Added 3 new spell icons for Blue Way.
  • New icons for craftable leather parts and hammer & mace parts.
  • Corrected some colour profiles of old images.
  • New button highlight art for log-in screens.   
3D:
  • Fixed Ring of Xiosia so you can now drop it and actually see where it is.
  • Fixed some wrong normal map names so now all art used for potions should display correctly.
  • All in game items which wrong icon names have been fixed, and created definitions for icons which were missing them.
  • Fixed wrong texture file usages with some items.
Engine
User Interface:
  • Quests.
    Players can now click on NPC chat bubble to force the next line of text to show. You can also change the time each bubble is displayed for so you can speed it up with out needing to click each time in Options.
    A 'give' button has been added to make giving items manually to NPCs easier.
  • User configurable Warning, Danger and Flash ability added to Active Effects icons, HP and Mana bars.
  • Rename-able sacks.
  • Active Magic renamed Active Effects.
    Improved icon display and sorting (thanks to Shkirr)
    displays icons for magic items.
    timer bar and timer tooltip.
  • Glyph window
    Added help button and sub window on glyph window.
    Glyph window remembers position.
  • Storage window
    Use new icons.
    Sortable columns.
  • Chat window
    Support to allow chat tabs to appear in two rows or columns.
    Enhanced "/clear" command to allow clearing of specific channels
  • Study window
    There is now a filter which allows to display only certain transformations/combinations based on specific words.
  • Loot window
    There are now "loot all" and "group loot all" buttons which show in the loot window only when in a group
  • Skill window
    Buy skill, and buy skill level buttons now only display when you open the training window.
  • Book reading.
    There is now support for page numbers.   
Quest and NPC support:
  • Env variable support enhancements
  • Enhanced scripting commands
  • Detection of stance by NPC
  • Support for "Require possessed amount" and value usage in "Require variable [[name]] [[value]]"
  • Give NPC button in NPC dialog
Other:
  • New window handling commands using "/window" to allow you to set window visibility, size, and position.
  • Allow case insensitivity when using /me /my combined with /tell, /say and other commands
  • Support for mouse over button display effects
  • Support for use 'alive' and 'dead' in npc targeting to allow you to target just dead npcs 
  • Feature Request 5344 button background hover effect
  • Feature Request 6028 Command /clear should have parameter to define the tab ...
  • Feature Request 6391 Unable to filter unused skills
  • Feature Request 6613 Alphabetize Tab Completion Word List
  • Feature Request 6686 Chat window - Tabs in 2 rows or columns.
  • Feature Request 5857 Allow customization of NPC Dialogue speed
  • Feature Request 1981 Dakkrus curse timer
  • Feature Request 2679 Area Targeting Refinements
  • Feature Request 5668 Enhance the /study command
  • Feature Request 6291 Enable bothhand flag
  • Feature Request 6292 Items crafted that can't be held in hand fall to floor
  • Feature Request 457 Ability to name a sack
  • Feature Request 3774 Quest click box cut off
  • Feature Request 5677 Change text in NPC's dialog popup on click
  • Feature Request 6478 "/target next": "dead / alive" filter
  • Feature Request 6649 Spell Research: Easier researching with new error messages.
Bugs Fixed:
  • Bug Report 5345 hardcoded exchange-window widths
  • Bug Report 5467 possible to edit foreign music score
  • Bug Report 6230 Default chat.xml minor issues
  • Bug Report 6251 Close window mouse clicks passed through to shortcut ba...
  • Bug Report 6381 /show attackwindow toggles the spell book icon on/off
  • Bug Report 6390 Shortcut Editing window needs reformatting
  • Bug Report 6588 active magic window: tool tips
  • Bug Report 6589 active magic window: base icon display.
  • Bug Report 6634 Active Effects : minimum width
  • Bug Report 6635 Toolbar : guild icon not displayed by default
  • Bug Report 6645 Quest menu: the first page of menu options can display ...
  • Bug Report 6647 Quest menu: infinite "no quest messages"
  • Bug Report 6656 text-only npc dialog text format issue
  • Bug Report 6657 Map marker on first loading page
  • Bug Report 6658 Stats and Skills window: hp/mana/stamina bars are not p...
  • Bug Report 6689 Active Effects: With a new client the progress bar is r...
  • Bug Report 6690 Active Effects: Tool bar icon does not show
  • Bug Report 6692 Character Creation: Radio buttons for chosing siblings ...
  • Bug Report 5475 Music stopping mid-score
  • Bug Report 6396 Lock picking needs a progress bar
  • Bug Report 6395 lock pick failure unrewarding
  • Bug Report 6186 Strange timing when looting
  • Bug Report 5933 AoE spells ignore instance when detecting targets.
  • Bug Report 2253 items should not be removed by transient while guarded
  • Bug Report 5459 Item health
  • Bug Report 5655 Container inventory not updated after using storage
  • Bug Report 6241 New /equip behaviour
  • Bug Report 6550 A GM command doesn't work anymore
  • Bug Report 6672 random name button in /show gm uses /changename target ...
  • Bug Report 6211 Crafting containers linked to the world map with action...
  • Bug Report 5981 Necessary changes to game defaults.
  • Bug Report 6401 Client hangs after creating new character.
  • Bug Report 5462 Low C will not play/show up on scores
  • Bug Report 5492 deletion of a guild doesn't yield to deletion of an all...
  • Bug Report 5506 /target name gives random and useless results
  • Bug Report 5515 GetNodeXML doesn't escape xml chars in node content
  • Bug Report 5516 Scrolling in pawsDocumentView doesn't work properly wit...
  • Bug Report 5522 Play score fails silently when sound disabled
  • Bug Report 5742 Crash when opening containers
  • Bug Report 6067 New (in development) active magic window bugs and useab...
  • Bug Report 6268 equip 2 equal weps do not work
  • Bug Report 6274 Items in enchanters become invisible when moving things...
  • Bug Report 6304 Shortcut Bar - Scrolling/paging icons is not well behav...
  • Bug Report 6346 big drop entering lava cave
  • Bug Report 6384 problem with instance -1.
  • Bug Report 6405 NPC's go into berserk mode when their health gets down ...
  • Bug Report 6433 No Nightlanterns.
  • Bug Report 6439 Crashing when clicking "chat - Font" in the options
  • Bug Report 6590 Active magic window automatically displays on startup
  • Bug Report 6597 container renaming: the UI based method for multi names...
  • Bug Report 6603 "Ghost" newbies stuck in tutorial
  • Bug Report 6624 Quest menu: bugs related to giving items
  • Bug Report 6626 HP and MANA bars thumb does not show until value chosen
  • Bug Report 6628 Double clicking NPCs no longer opens quest window.
  • Bug Report 6629 HP and MANA % values are not set on options opening
  • Bug Report 6632 Container renaming: inventory not refreshed
  • Bug Report 6633 Active Effect Config : danger level value error
  • Bug Report 6637 Active Effects : Text of long items is cut off
  • Bug Report 6651 Paws: Column sorting, double clicking headings opens it...
  • Bug Report 6691 Action location: Rotation not set correct when the AL c...
Rules
The Rules department team is happy to deliver the new rules update, including new crafting, new spells, new training zone and much more!
PvP and Training Area in Ojaveda:
  • A PvP zone has been added inside Ojaveda Arena.
  • Two new dummies have been installed outside Ojaveda Arena, training in Ojaveda is now possible.
Crafting:
  • Helm making: The non-craftable parts are now craftable. All the prices have been reviewed.
  • Shield Making: Shield Making crafting has been redesigned. Displayed in up to 14 diagrams, the shields have been arranged down to 4 books for less confusion. All the shields parts are now craftable. Two new special shields, made of blue-steel metal, are now available!
  • Bow Making: A good news for the archers and crafters, Bow Making is now available! Enjoy crafting a nice selection of bows, ranging from hunting to composite bows. Three new crafting books are available with three shiny new quests!
  • Axe & Sword Making: Axes and knives handles are now craftable. Some bug have been fixed and some prices have been reviewed.
  • Metallurgy: Many bugs have been fixed, including the problem with randomised quality result of iron, tin and copper ores transformation has been fixed.
  • Jewellery: The prices for Jewellery items have been reviewed and a lot of them have been increased.
  • The transformation time calculation script has been reviewed. 
Combat:
  •   Combat system: We are working to deliver new special attacks in the next updates. In order to be able to introduce them, we had to change a few bits of rules in the actual combat system.
  • Shield Stats: We reworked the shields stats. It will now be possible to use shields to attack (shield slam). We also improved their defensive abilities rendering them much more useful to block incoming attacks (remember that shields don't reduce an attack damage but rather blocks it. When blocked, an enemy attack won't deal any damage.)
  • The damage calculation script has been reviewed. 
Magic:
  • Every spell power cap has been reviewed and revised if necessary. Most of them have been raised thus making a lot of spell's effects more powerful.
  • A new spell has been added to Crystal Way and 4 new spells for Blue Way, this will complete the asset of core spells for both Blue and Crystal way, here you can find their names:

    - Blessed Litany
    - Healing Mist
    - Healing Vapor
    - Poisonous Hailstorm
    - Venom Adaptation
Natural Resources:
  •   We made a few tweaks to plants and other natural resources, a few spawn locations have been changed (in order to fix a few bugs) and the spawn location for night lanterns flowers have been added. 
Tribes & Bosses:
  •   Tribes: We completed the work on Trepor and Gobble tribes. All Trepor tribes in BDroad 1 and BDroad 2 have been enabled as well as the Serpent and Eagle Gobbles in the wilderness area of Ojaroad and Bdroad.
  • Two new bosses have been designed and deployed in the game! Some NPC have been given small hearsay about them. Expect more to come in the future.
  • Mobs attack types have been reviewed. Each beasts is now using the proper combat system, including the appropriate type of damage (piercing, blundgeoning, slash, ...). A few new special attacks has been designed for monsters and assigned to Ulbernauts and the new bosses: the Monstrous attack style. 
Dungeon Rework Project
  • The Howling Well: The Howling Well dungeon is complete! Here you will find dangers, a deep background story along with a shiny new quest: An Undead Howling. Will you be able to discover what lays deep inside the well, and discover its darkest secrets? A GM event will be run to introduce the whole dungeon, ending just when the quest begins!
  • A stone labyrinth cave: a dungeon has been connected to the Bronze door map, as of now its setup is only temporary but in the future it will host more challenges. 
Bugs & Feature Requests
  • Bug Report 4186: Missing animation for crafting
  • Bug Report 4210: Prices for jewellery completely off
  • Bug Report 4626: Crafting Helmets
  • Bug Report 5282: re-use of shieldparts
  • Bug Report 5503: New prices for some weapons are too low
  • Bug Report 5737: NPC doesn't pay attention to you
  • Bug Report 5916: Puncher Should Not Be Container
  • Bug Report 6339: Metallurgy - Melting: Iron/Copper Ingots/Ores no random...
  • Bug Report 6388: Broken alchemy data.
  • Bug Report 6402: Sharpening axe blades doesn't provide blades making exp
  • Bug Report 6421: Clamod Perch and Rat Stew Description
  • Bug Report 6422: Typo in Ash Brother's standard sentence
  • Bug Report 6433: No Nightlanterns.
  • Bug Report 6455: mace battle handle shape weight
  • Bug Report 6461: Diamond popsicle give kran indigestion
  • Bug Report 6480 - salt spirit recipe bad weights
  • Bug Report 6481: Minor art fix: Nevis bracers…
  • Bug Report 6482: Item names with trailing space
  • Bug Report 6486: Alchemist fire not consumed on use.
  • Bug Report 6490: trash disposal in furnace gives xp/practice
  • Bug Report 6497: Typo Error in Description of the Spell Gorwealform
  • Bug Report 6500: Typo Error in System Message for Diseased Rat
  • Bug Report 6511: Typo in Purified Sand Arangma Blood description.
  • Bug Report 6526: Platinum-Steel longsword crafting animation seems to be...
  • Bug Report 6534: Hide scraper shows as a sack when equipped
  • Bug Report 6561: Possible typo on Trigrain-steel
  • Bug Report 6572: Stamina depletes and you can not move after recharge - ...
  • Bug Report 6585: Standard sockets weigh too much
  • Bug Report 6643 - Typo in Lesser Plague description
  • Bug Report 6679: No system message when drinking Orilliphia Tea
  • Bug Report 6709 - Bugged Wild Pterosaur Spawn
  • Feature Request 4573: Crafting Broadswords
  • Feature Request 5997: Repairing skills
  • Feature Request 6132: Lateral distance for ranged weapon rules
  • Feature Request 6686: Chat window - Tabs in 2 rows or columns.
  • Feature Request 6056: Can't hammer copper, zinc or tin
Settings
Quests

As always we have a continuing process of asking for, finding, and then fixing every little possible quest and settings bug in the whole of PS. We have recently done a manual pass of all quests looking at spelling and obvious grammar mistakes, in excess of 1,000 changes have been made. Quests however will still likely have mistakes so please let us know if you find any. In the update we have:

  • Twelve completely new quests, and one quest that has been replaced with a completely rewritten one.
  • Changes to pterosaur travel so that travel is quicker and so you can go to any city from any city, HydlaaAmdeneir is still the only free one.
  • The Bronze Doors now has a pterosaur which can be accessed by completing one of the new quests, which will then be part of the 'any city''any city' travel routes.
  • Big changes to shield crafting quests, there is now a much smaller chain with 4 crafting books. Many of the old quests have just moved chains. A few have new rewards and those quests have been reset so that any can re-do them. All shield diagrams have been deleted and all their quests reset so you will need complete the quests again to obtain the new crafting books.
  • As part of the new quests "bow making" is now fully released and you will be able to get the crafting books.
  • Some old quests have been expanded and partly rewritten. One updated repeatable quest has new items added to go with the pterosaur system.
  • Final 2 alchemy quests have been added - the book was ready years ago but due to numerous projects the quests to release them weren't finished but now have been. High level alchemists can now discover the "Great Work".
  • Two small quests have been added to support new and old players easily finding two new bosses.
  • Darven now has card games with real chance players can spend money on.
  • Removed old "go and see NPC-X for training" references from many quests. There will likely be some we have missed so please let us know.
  • Numerous quest changes have been changed to improve them.
  • Adjusted the path to 'Guards' winch access to make the total number of required quests more in line with other paths.
  • The tutorial has been updated to match changes to the UI system (click to advance dialogue, and the give item button.)
  • New server quest features have been added and are being used. 
Books

  • Four new books, some for use in libraries, some in special locations.
  • The first images have been added to settings books. Given artists available to make pictures more will be added in time. 
Bug Reports and Feature Requests

  •   Yonda's delayed delivery has been fixed and you should no longer get stuck.
  • Jardet will now ask for the correct amount of mushrooms.
  • A Dark Thief II has been improved, removing bugs and unclear dialogue.
  • Poor Henas has been hanging out to dry for a long time now. Nightlanterns are now available so we can finally finish helping him.
  • Feature Request 1018: Fixed errors with gorbiak not speaking common.
  • Feature Request 5366: Added a pterosaur ride to Eagle Bronze Doors.
  • Feature Request 5852: Added tip to inform people they can take single items from stacks.
  • Bug Report 6382: Fixed Minor typo in race descriptions.
  • Bug Report 6442: Fixed Errors in "All in a Day's Work"
  • Bug Report 6498: Fixed It's Gone Bad Typos.
  • Bug Report 6505: Fixed Quest notes mistake in "A Dark Thief II".
  • Bug Report 6507: Fixed Veja's stolen stock descriptions.
  • Bug Report 6516: Fixed A Breezy Day - Harnquist.
  • Bug Report 6519: Fixed Gronk Syndicate Quest Typos.
  • Bug Report 6521: Fixed Typo in Jecascis wants a ruby.
  • Bug Report 6522: Fixed All in a Day's Work typo.
  • Bug Report 6523: Fixed Learning to make a broadsword NPC dialogue unclear.
  • Bug Report 6541: Fixed To hear a whisper dialogue error.
  • Bug Report 6544: Fixed Relliom dialogue misleading.
  • Bug Report 6581: Fixed Azure Way Adept Typo.
  • Bug Report 6587: Fixed Blue Way Glyph Training typos.
  • Bug Report 6591: Fixed The Blue Way Adept Typos.
  • Bug Report 6592: Fixed Blue Way Master Training typos.
  • Bug Report 6593: Fixed Bend the Octarch's Ear typo
  • Bug Report 6594: Fixed basics of mining typo
  • Bug Report 6595: Fixed helping nalri typos
  • Bug Report 6620: Fixed An Unclear Message Reward Dialog
  • Bug Report 6621: Fixed A Helping the Guard Typo
  • Bug Report 6623: Fixed Bend the Octarch's Ear questnotes typos
  • Bug Report 6642: Fixed Intro to Combat training instructions bugs.
  • Bug Report 6667: Fixed Inconsistency in "Feeding The Guard" quest.
  • Bug Report 6669: Fixed Road to Master Cook 4 - Vladovic
  • Bug Report 6671: Fixed Quest: Its Gone Bad.... possible missing words
  • Bug Report 6674: Fixed Grammatical Error in Unlawful Undertakings for Ukabnu
  • Bug Report 6675: Fixed Grammatical Error in Learning to Cook
  • Bug Report 6676: Fixed Party of Rogues Quest Grammatical Error
  • Bug Report 6711: Fixed Yonda's delayed Delivery broken after crash

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Hi, indeed it looked like a great event!

Do you have some high quality pictures we can load as "picture of the day"? Send those to: info at planeshift dot it

Thanks.

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General Discussion / Re: Planeshift on Darknet Season 1, Ep. 6
« on: December 01, 2014, 04:17:49 am »
Hi, we have been contacted some months ago by the production of this fiction, and we produced some footage for the show. By the way we also got some footage in a south american fictions, but I never managed to find the video.

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General Discussion / Re: Last Wipe ETA?
« on: October 20, 2014, 03:34:07 am »
I confirm the quote, no other news on this topic in the last few years.

This question has been asked plenty of times, and the answer is the following.

We will do our best to preserve the characters we have in game at every upgrade of the game.

[...] overall I want to be sure people understand that their chars will be kept [...]

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PlaneShift News and Rules / Setting update
« on: May 11, 2014, 03:16:22 pm »


We have just released a quite large setting update! This update has been a long time in the planning, construction, production and testing. We must thank every Developer, Prospect, Contributor, and Player who helped us put this simply enormous collection of new work together.

Here is a list of all the changes.

Books
There are now 25 new books. This is an increase of over 25% over the previous amount so we now have more than 110. The books cover a range of topics from cultural information like marriages, greetings, and games to topics like Dark Way magic to selections of stories and diaries. These are spread out over the game world so good luck finding them all. We have also reorganised Jayose's library to try and better seperate the book topics, so you might need to spend some time finding where all the books are now.


Quests
We have released 20 new quests, which gives us more than 400 in total. These are some of the most 'advanced' quests so far written. Some are just plain silly, some fun, and some infuriating. These include much more interaction with the world, we will have players acting out breaking into a house through a window, poisoning barrels with glyphs, and cleaning dusty shelves. This is done via finding the right item and right clicking on it, exactly like you do when entering a house via the door. Due to the fact this is the first time we are being this adventurous with quests there will be the odd little bug, please let us know if you find one. The quests which use these have pointers in the quest notes to help you work out what you need to do. We also have a nice selection of quests which allow for gathering new crafting books such as those for mace crafting, heavy armour crafting, and Kran cooking.

We have now completed the quest chain re-work project. Most of the current quests have been fitted where suitable, and as well as we possibly could, into chains. We have also added dialogue to most quests so once one is completed you are pointed onto the next one or at least given hints to others in the chain. This is done by the NPC telling you and/or a comment in the quest notes. Quests in the 'main chain' are always pointed to. But not all individual side quests are. So there will be times when you will still stumble across new quests which you may not have done. We are doing this as there is no need to point to every quest, and if we did it would be like releasing a quest chain map, and we wanted to keep some things a surprise and tougher to find. If you did a quest after auto quest notes were added, the notes will automatically be updated. So if you've already done a quest, you might want to look in the notes to see what new information is stated to lead you to subsequent quests.

A long overdue change is that all glyph rewards have been reorganised such that there is a much greater variation of rewards. We can now tell you that every glyph (55 in total) is now set as a reward in at least two quests, this excludes those you can buy and excludes those in a quest which you can repeat. But be careful with some quests which rewards glyphs, if you don't do what you are asked you will not get the reward, but if you do, rewards for all. This re-organisation will make it MUCH MUCH easier for new and current players to get important spells, and glyphs. For example sleep and water, two important glyphs for early mages, are now obtained much early in their respective chains which in turn will make it easier to be a new mage. Because of these changes many of the quests with new glyph rewards will be 'reset' so that players can do them again. We have made some changes to the rewards to the magic circle quests but we HAVE NOT reset any of these, this is because it can be hard to find items to progress up the chain so did not want to force players to do this again. And as every glyph can be obtained else where no player will miss out on the chance to get every glyph. Oh, and there are 4 new glyphs, each with a spell(s) to get, one of these glyphs no one in game currently has.

Since we released the tutorial we were often asking for feed back and we have made lots of small changes. This includes lots of dialogue fixes and small menu changes, Krans now get Kran food from Abelia due to the skill release, and maps are given before entry into the main game (these are the ones you can buy from Jayose).

Since we now have the ability to give specific quality items as quest rewards, this has now been done in some key areas, especially the replacement of master crafted tools. Quests that reward those tools now give regular tools with higher quality. (Instead of a Master Crafted Rock Pick, you now get a 150 quality Rock Pick.) At some point those who already have Master Crafted tools will have those items automatically replaced. You will not have to do the quest again. This also eliminates having to have multiple entries in crafting books for each type of tool.

As always we have been asking players to report quest bugs to us and we think about 100+ quests have had at least one dialogue fix. It's hard to know exactly how many (BIG thanks to all the players who keep reporting them). If you come across a mistake in any new (more likely) or old quest (less likely) please tell us so we can fix them.

We have also added little things such as an alternate paths in Without a Way so you don't always end up having to listen to Levrus talk for ages, and small changes such as the removal of faction rewards from repeatable quests which is the first step into making the faction system 'functional'.


Other
Players have also been reporting bugs in knowledge areas (KAs) to us so we have numerous fixes to piles of KAs (big thanks again to all players to report typos when talking to an NPC or have suggested new dialogue.) We have also expanded the current KAs, which is a slow but steady project. A number of new "action locations" (ALs) have been added in the world to add function to currently inactive objects like doors, and descriptions to other objects like trees (if you read one new books in particular you will see why). A number of current ones have also been adjusted as were broken. "Action Locations" can be triggered just by right clicking on map elements in game.

Known bugs
To give you a chance to get new glyph rewards in quests you may have already done, several quests have been wiped.  One of them is The Coming Eclipse.  But to complete it you need a letter for Datal.  Since the quest that gives that item is the winch access quest, it's way too troublesome to wipe that one.  So to get the letter, you can ask a GM, or if one is not available, file a petition.  This goes for any quest where you need an item from a quest you've already done.  Please do not abuse this.  GMs will be checking if you have the right prerequisites.


Gameboards
Our efforts on gameboards continues, in particular we added games rules to the "Groffel's Toe" gameboard by Brado's tavern in Ojaveda: enjoy playing this simple draughts-like game with a friend and try to occupy the last two tiles of his/her board.


Fixed Bugs/Added Features
  • Bug#3396 Fixed Drinks in the deep incorrect dialogue appearance.
  • Bug#3983 We removed the second copy of Communicating with creatures from Jayose's library.
  • Bug#4492 Adjusted questions in "Enchanted Balls" quest.
  • Bug#5052 Adjusted dialogue in The value of gobble ears.
  • Feature#5306 Made quest chaining better.
  • Bug#5372 Quest dialogue was added to the Guards chain.
  • Bug#5372 Quest dialogue was added to the Science chain.
  • Bug#5432 Fixed item description in Crystal Way Glyph Training quest.
  • Bug#5434 Rebalanced all glyph rewards
  • Bug#5483 Corrected dialogue in Dangerous winds.
  • Bug#5575 Adjusted Jardets good bye dialogue to match his religion.
  • Bug#5580 Reward adjusted in Malco Broke Hammer
  • Bug#5688 Corrected "her father" reference in Gulm Ossoe and the Broken Legs.
  • Bug#5934 Item amounts corrected in cooking chain Apprenticeship Approval quest.
  • Bug#5988 Fixed earth glyph availability situation.
  • Bug#6009 Made changes to mistakes in Tools of the Cooking Trade.
  • Bug#6062 Adjusted menu lock logic for potions of the healer.
  • Bug#6103 Fixed reported tutorial errors.
  • Bug#6146 Added experience to Polyuntri Needs a Key.
  • Bug#6147 Made Tilavi is in Trouble text consistent with reward.
  • Bug#6155 Fixed bug with Making Magical Potions - Crystal way
  • Bug#6158 Corrected Harnquist is Hungry quest typo   
  • Bug#6159 Corrected Harnquist Weapon Commission quest typos   
  • Bug#6166 Corrected Typo at end of Aleena Teaches Herbalism   
  • Bug#6168 Corrected Harnquist is Hungry Quest Description error
  • Bug#6185 Corrected "Telzanna's acting", wrong quest log descriptions.
  • Bug#6203 Corrected Grok's Delivery for Durok inconsistency
  • Bug#6213 Adjusted a number of KAs to correct mistakes.
  • Bug#6231 Corrected Dialogue Error: Without A Way; Levrus Dahrenn
  • Bug#6257 Adjusted Gulm Ossoe needs Gems dialogue inconsistent with reward
  • Bug#6265 Corrected Badly phrased NPC response in A Wife's Dilemma
  • Bug#6308 Corrected Inconsistencies in automatic quest notes
  • Bug#6310 Adjusted Typos: Joining the Guards
  • Bug#6311 Fixed all Without a Way: Grammar problem
  • Bug#6324 Fixed Grammar error in Liera's Cure
  • Bug#6327 Fixed bugs with Chrosor Soran Has Difficulties Training
  • Bug#6329 Fixed Misc Quest Dialogue typos
  • Bug#6385 Fixed Typo in "Merrinez's Bad Mood"
  • Bug#6398 Fixed Typos in description of Kolaim's Blush Bottle
  • Bug#6412 Fixed Typo in Becoming a Red Way Adept
  • Bug#6413 Fixed Introduction to The Food Association quest notes
  • Bug#6420 Fixed Red Way Master Training Typos

103
Server Status / Server temporarly offline
« on: May 11, 2014, 10:33:43 am »
Hi, the server will stay offline until we solve a problem with quests. Should be 1 hour or so. I will update you as soon as we have news.

104
General Discussion / Feedback on new progression system
« on: April 14, 2014, 11:23:00 am »
Hi,
with 0.6.1 we introduced a new progression system for skills and we want to get your feedback on it. Training a skill now only happens through practice and there is no more the need for you to learn the theory from trainers. This means you'll are no longer required to go back and forth to the trainer to advance and you won't be required to spend Progression Points and money on it. Please note this is valid for Skills only (Blacksmithing, Sword, ...), but Stats (Agility, Intelligence, ...) continue to work as previously.

105
PlaneShift News and Rules / 0.6.1 Release!
« on: April 07, 2014, 10:07:11 am »


During the last four months we worked hard to bring you another PlaneShift Release, 0.6.1 is now live! A big thank to all developers who participated in this release and to the players, who provided invaluable feedback on current and new features. You can update your client to get 0.6.1, or download the full version from our download page. Read below all the details.

Main highlights

Windows startup crash: One very nasty bug we had was just at client startup on Windows. An immediate crash which required you to launch the game multiple times before it was working. Finally this bug is fixed! Thanks to the Crystal Space team for the support.
         
Skill advancement: we're releasing one of the biggest changes in the gameplay of the last years: training a skill will now only happen through practice and there is no more the need for you to learn the theory from trainers. This means you'll be no longer required to go back and forth to the trainer to advance and you won't be required to spend Progression Points and money on it. Please note this is valid for Skills only (Blacksmithing, Sword, ...), but Stats (Agility, Intelligence, ...) continue to work as previously.
         
UI enhancements: Under Options>Interface>Shortcut Bar and Active Magic Window, you can find many new options to customize these two windows, in particular you can change the button size, text size, type of display and many other options. Check them all.
         
Art: Added three new skins which brings the total included in the client to five. Added item specific icons to display in the active magic window for items with magical (de)buffs, at the moment this does not include looted weapons but we hope to have support for that soon. Added/improved graphical effects for 10 spells. Added athanor mesh for alchemy. Added new warhammer and mace meshes. New spell icons. Merged some icons into a single file to improve performances.
         
Stability/Memory usage: We started to use a new static code analysis tool (Coverity). The tool revealed many problems, and the engine team fixed tons of memory leaks, pointer issues, variable initializations, numeric errors, memory bounds errors, and compiler warnings. This should improve stability of the client and lower memory leaks.
         
Natural Resources: Spawn locations of plants and plant parts have been reviewed and altered to improve visibility (some of them was  spawning out of the map or in places unreachable by players). We also changed the difficulty levels required to harvest, some plants and metals will be easier to mine while other more precious will stay as hard as they are. The spawn times has been increased while still keeping it short enough so harvesting points will be easily identifiable, this was done to encourage use of harvest and mining.
         
Harvesting/Mining/Fishing: now the harvested/mined resources' qualities will be handed out with 5 step quality increase (e.g. 50, 55, 60, 65, ...). You can now harvest Treestem Wood and White Oak Wood! Find the right spot and type /harvest wood. Wood will be the main ingredient you need to craft bows and some wooden weapon parts.
         
Stamina: We revised the rules used to calculate stamina usage when casting spells and in combat.
         
Crafting: Due to a bug when two or more items were combined the output item's quality was equal to the highest quality item. Now the quality is generally averaged but favoring the mix of ingredients with the less quality difference. For example mixing a 200q and a 300q ingredient will result in a better quality than mixing a 50q and a 300q ingredient.
         
Sword Making: we have improved the consistency of many sword crafting techniques, especially for platinum steel swords (see bug tracker).
         
Bow Making: the data has been implemented but the crafting book will be available at the next settings update. So to craft your new bows you'll need to wait a bit, for now you will notice some new tools are available for purchase and some bows have changed their names to match the new dataset.

Previews

Lockpicking: We added lockpicking as a new skill in game. We are working our way to make it fun and usable. Should be available shortly. You can use lockpicking to lock and unlock boxes. Locks have a strength which can be opened by equivalent skill rank.
         
New combat: You can see there are 5 new slots in the information window. Those represent the special attacks queue. The functionality is working already, but we need to add the special moves and the quests/trainers to provide those moves to you. At the moment you cannot use this function, but will be available in the future.

Other Enhancements and new features

  • Added a "/togglerun [run|walk]" user command. (feature req 5645)
  • Added /pet walk and /pet run commands.
  • Added GM /scale command. (will be used to generate larger/smaller monsters)
  • Added /loadShortcuts command.
  • Added /saveShortcuts client side command
  • Make storage and buy/sell windows look a bit different to distinguish them.
  • Set owner in psserver and npcclient so Charm spell and /pet follow work.
  • Disabled last used tab in the descriptions window when windows is opened for the 2nd time.
  • Make storage window resizable so descriptions can be read.
  • Make merchant window resizable so descriptions can be read.
  • Save Shortcut Edit window location.
  • Made Shortcut and ActiveMagic config load font options from all .ttfs found in ttf directory (instead of hard coding). Players can now use a custom font for those windows by dropping it in the correct dir and selecting.
  • Dynamically reload the active magic window when config changes.
  • Changed Active Magic bar to use images by default rather than text
  • Added scrollbar for SC bar
  • Allow money to be dropped into the world. (patch from Neeno)
  • Improved collision of NPCs with terrain (2d detection for partial move).

Fixes
  • 6228 - Shift-Click-Split Broken
  • 6334 - Command /takestackall doesn't work on the Arena oven when targeting with mouse
  • 6273 - Mobs running in place
  • 6016 - Use CS AttachNew() instead of casting to csPtr
  • 6114 - There is a serious server memory leak with psItem.
  • 6116 - Memory leak when deleting gemContainer
  • 6120 - Memory leak in NetManager::Create()
  • 6122 - Memory leak of NpcDialogMenu objects
  • 6123 - Memory leak in CacheManager when loading craft messages
  • 6124 - Memory leak in psItemStats::ReadItemStats()
  • 6128 - psCharacter::SetActor() uses uninitialized gemActor::combat_stance
  • 6238 - Typos in help.xml
  • 6241 - New /equip behavior
  • 6235 - Chatbox Cursor Positioning by Click
  • 6251 - Fix mouse click that passed through the red X icon to function below window.
  • 5978 and 5655 by updating the open container views upon reception of inventory change by client.
  • 6274 - world containers clearing content when moving items in inventory
  • 6284 - Crash with badly written equip command
  • 5993 - Changed to use 2d distance for NPC movements when checking for reaching destination. When using 3d pos it sometimes happens that the end position was above ground and the npc would stay in one place and going back and forth
  • 4578 - Cleaned up pet code regarding timers.
  • 6295 - Fixed uninitialized values in combo box.
  • 6283 - Changed pawsWidget::SetMaskingImage to use 'GetOrAddPawsImage' so that if an image wasn't already loaded into the art cache it would be.
  • 6280 - Crash when when using GM command "/setskill me all" with skill window open
  • 6211 - Crafting containers linked to the world map with action locations are not guarding items correctly
  • 5693 - (at least the minimum change for now)
  • 6223 - where multiple icons and  'expired' icons are showing overlapped in the Active Magic window.
  • 5742 - Crash when opening containers
  • 6349 - /scale command bugs
  • 5933 - AoE spells ignore instance when detecting targets.
  • Fix stamina drain after dying by not scheduling a new psCombatAttackGameEvent if the player isn't in combat mode.
  • Fix /equip so it looks for the right stack count when searching for item(s) to equip.
  • Fixed scaled movement when NPC is controlled by NPCClient.
  • Fix usage for /guildpoints
  • Fixed infinite loop calling OnButtonPressed if npcdialog bubbles are not enabled.
  • Fixed crash if CacheManager::PreloadScripts() fails.
  • Fixed server crash where containers where moved from world to inventory.
  • Fixed several small issues related to item handling and containers.
  • Fixed condition where the game was not ending properly.
  • Fixed crashes on server if target character is invalid.
  • Fixed bug with button backgrounds by refactoring.
  • Fixed disabled config control for edit mode.
  • Fixed crash in admin manager with the /quest command when an NPC was targeted.
  • Fix sliding after death when mounted.
  • Fix a bug where the player logs out while polymorphed and takes control of random character when logging in.
  • Fix problem with displaying options->Interface->Pop-ups menu if options file not present.
  • Fix NULL pointer crash if exiting before netmanager is initialized.
  • Add buddy to database first. Error case was leaving buddy added to psBuddyManager.

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