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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Haanz on October 14, 2006, 02:34:39 pm
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Well I got curious about this protrusion of rock... and soil. So tell me... Is this truly a volcano?? or is it simply an outcropping of peculiarly shaped rocks...and soil. Whatever the case, It's big enough (in comparison to other mountains found in the currently frequently explored area of Yliakum) to have a name. Of course it could have one already and I could just not have enough friends too tell me these things (Ha!) or perhaps it is yet to be given one? Aaaaalsooo... what about "The Oja Road" and "The BD Road"... well they're roads... and I guess you could call roads by those names... but what about the terrain surrounding them?... Do they or should they have a name as well?... Also other landmarks could be named: "The pond in the cave", "The Waterfall", uuuhh... anything else?...
Well that's my opinion... and just think for two seconds... wouldn’t it be more realistic to have these things named?
--Haanz VonFranz
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So...are you asking about if the game has a volcano, or are you asking if there are landmarks?
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he's referring to a certain hill between Hydlaa and Akkaio that goes up, has a few things on top, of which includes a dip, currently fileld with water, I presume.
yes it could very well be a dormant volcano, you never know ;)
The Oja Road, the area is called Ojaveda, and it's the Ojaveda Road. same for Bronze doors :) the waterfall is part of the Bronze doors region, so it currently falls under 'bronze doors' though giving them their own names would be nice, but things like the little lake in the mine tunnel wouldnt really be given a name, imo anyway
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volcanos, haha, spent some time in school and grow up if necessary ;)
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Righto!! and is that hill filled with water?? [I don't have the best of graphics cards...]
...perhaps we're talking about different hills... [but I don't want to get yelled at for talking too much about in-game... material.]
...theres a small hill with a pond on top between the two cities... however theres also a much larger hill with a much larger depression in it... that I don't believe is filled with water... but trees and such.
as for the 'Ojaveda area' and 'Bronze Door area'... I meant something more like... 'Ojavedan Hills' but much, much more original and... cool! ;)
Edit: volcanos, haha, spent some time in school and grow up if necessary ;)
What does that mean?? ???
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ah that one.. well considering the very tops f it seem to be burnt and ashen, it very well could be, though dorment or extinct.. seeing as it has some rather nasty 'wildlife' in it ^^
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Quite! ;)
Well, If someone can confirm that these places don't have names... then maybe we could all engage in some interactive fun?... and by that I mean naming landmarks?
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I call the mountain immediately outside oja with the ramp up the east side "crater mountain" for the depression at the top where two ulbernauts live. There is a bandit and a rogue (merc?) standing on a promontory there too. Perhaps that has changed recently, I haven't left Hydlaa lately.
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Edit: volcanos, haha, spent some time in school and grow up if necessary ;)
What does that mean?? ???
Is it really that hard to gues? It is same thing as with guns, only here you have more obvious explanation.
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[bilbous... maybe edit that post... of course i don't know for sure whats too much and whats not but you've put alot of information about spawns on there.]
Nikodemus, I'm still not sure what your point is?? mm.. maybe I'm just exhausted [hah I took the SAT today!]
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No, it can not be an actual volcano, active, dormant, or extinct. Volcanos require HUGE amounts of heat and pressure from below. Ylaikum is a huge, artificial stalactite.... therefor there -is- no 'below'. There could be volcanic activities very deep in the Stone Labyrinths, such as lava spouts and flows, but not near the stalactite itsefl. That would be....bad. If it is meant to be a volcano, whoever came up with the idea has made a mistake.
As to having a name? Not likely for now. 99% of the settings are not yet figured out, so the name of a simple hill is not high on the to-do list..
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Someone-ask about mountain-name in http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=25358.msg283027#msg283027
Maybe-have answer-soon.
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Oh! well way to spoil our party Under the Moon!! :D Hah no I'm just kidding, I see what you mean... but I still think a provisional name would be good... nothing official of course! but just a nice original name to call these landmarks by. It sounds soo much better when roleplaying!
Edit: I'll make this clear here I suppose... as it was refered to in Monks post as a Volcano. We've come to the conclusion that the large mountain near Akkaio is definately NOT a volcano.
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OT: Nikodemus, perhaps instead of telling him to grow up and go to school, you should have simply reminded him of the settings? That's an immature response in itself. :)
T: I say: Mt. Talad.
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OT: Nikodemus, perhaps instead of telling him to grow up and go to school, you should have simply reminded him of the settings? That's an immature response in itself. :)
No, no, you misunderstood, i wrote maybe grow up. xP Naver called him immature. And well, yeah, maybe i'm immature if mature people are always clear in what they say. From other side, small riddles are fun. Maybe i should make them in more neutral way... so nobody will be touched.
*Nikodemus scrolls a bit to the first post*
Names for the places... would be great, but what i was always interested in is how different landscape elements formed. Because of water or maybe coz of the powerful magical powers directly from the gods? maybe wind? This brings another question, maybe the gods by creating the land used time manipulations? They were forming the land in this way in few days, but the outcome was like few thousands years of different kinds of errosion?
We could then have more ideas for the names. It wouldn't be good to call few things just like that. In real, each region, hill and peak has their story.
The story is very important in my opinion.
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That will come.
For now, Pond Hill sounds good to me. Make a good story around it, and maybe it will be named after you. Kada-El's Tavern, anyone?
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No, it can not be an actual volcano, active, dormant, or extinct. Volcanos require HUGE amounts of heat and pressure from below.
I absolutely agree. I have thought of this myself.
[what i was always interested in is how different landscape elements formed.
As some others have mentioned, I like to think of this formation as more of crater than a volcano. Depending on just how high up the 'ceiling' is, perhaps a chunk of rock broke off, fell, and impacted the 'ground' (similar to a meteorite impact) to create a crater. To me anyway, it makes much more sense than a volcano.
As far as a name goes, I usually just call it 'the crater', but 'Crater Mountain' seems fine too. 'Official' names for some other landmarks would be nice as well. For example: the stone face (AKA. screaming rock, AKA. the stone mouth, AKA rock face, etc., etc.).
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'crater' and 'mountain' seem a little extreme for a hill with a pond on it. ;)
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Under the Moon we're talking about a different hill... this hill is much closer to Ojaveda, and also much, much taller.
also... as for the name, I was thinking of names more native to Ojaveda... as it is almost right next to Akkaio. Hah and I like "Screaming rock" as a name for the rock face! Also the cliffs looking down on Hydlaa could do with a name couldn't they?...
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Concerning crater mountain it could be volcanic but it is perhaps more likely a result of the land subsiding around the raised portion. Indeed all the open areas could have resulted from subsidence.
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Under the Moon we're talking about a different hill... this hill is much closer to Ojaveda, and also much, much taller.
Yes. The one I was thinking of does not have a pond in it, just some nasty beasties. ;D