PlaneShift
Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Xillix Queen of Fools on November 21, 2007, 02:45:12 am
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I know this has been asked before so I hope neko does not kill me . . .
Some of you may be aware that we are working on several fronts to improve player feedback and increase the size of the planeshift player base without losing the sense of community all of us have come to love.
My questions is simple.
How did you end up here, and what do you think would help PS to attract more players?
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Google.
I was bored one afternoon in the summer and decided to look up free games online (not necessarily MMORPG's..i didnt even know what they were at the time) and after a pretty long search, i found Planeshift...learned how to RP and here i am :)
I'm not sure what would help attract more players...im kind of a new gamer :-[
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I searched for "MMORPG roleplaying" on Google, and found a site that mentioned PS. When I saw that this game was free, I decided to join. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Imagine if I had never done that... ::|
Not sure how it can improve, though.
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I don't even recall. I think I was looking in a list of free MMOs that contained some crafts (such as mining.) I was attracted to PS because it was a game where you didn't have to hack and slash the whole time, and that there were also some quests.
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It seems the popular answer is Google. This game looked enticing because a) its free b) its 3D and c) its the good kind of 3D, not the crappy RuneScape 3D.
Capes would attract players.
>.>
<.<
Everyone loves a cape :P
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I found PS on AnandTech Hot Deals forum looking for cheap computer deals - someone mentioned a great game they were currently playing on their new PC.
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I found it when searching for a new game after leaving Dransik (now known as Ashen Empires) which was my first MMORPG. Google = <3
And I actually agree... Capes/cloaks would attract people. Might even bring me back from WoW >.> Even though I am actually finding very good RP there :D
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I googled too. :P
Best way would be to affiliate on MMORPG websites.
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I can't remember any more, but For some reason, I think it was also google.
I took a break a while ago, around 0.3.014-0.3.017 and then came back and haven't looked back since, I love it here!
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i'm not quite sure, but probably google
the only thing is more advertising/get information about this game out on the web
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I suggest we make a.... Movie >.> Guys in kran suits. Some fake pointy ears. some make up for the colors for nolthrir and such... We could make like a full feature film or something. Some volunteers for it and it won't cost quite as much, some donations for it, etc. We could pull it off >.>
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Oh! Oh! Dibs on Diaboli! :P
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MindRover
(loved that game, played at it for 3 or 4 years - Think more, Twitch less)
They moved their BB and somehow, for awhile it was being shared with the BB of a PS guild (Secret Mentors??? can't remember)
Never played a MMORPG before, or any online game for that matter.
But had dabbled in paper and dice games and it sounded interesting.
huh, where did I put that MindRover disk? I've got to see if it will run on Vista.
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I got into Planeshift thru a friend who was trying to find good mmorpgs we could play for free. I have not wanted to play any other game since :) Also I was looking to get away from *gag* Runescape! haha
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google.
continue coding and fleshing out the game and get to version 1.0 :)
oh, and the ninja assassins are on their way to deal with you.
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I was on a StarWars role playing forum... Its where I learned how to RP, so I knew how to do that before I came here.
A woman from the forum posted about a 'free mmorpg' I looked into it, but mostly joined because she was my friend and I was curious. She doesn't play anymore, her character's name was 'Tiera Qel' A diaboli female. And well, although she didn't stay around, I did.
There is a much longer and more detailed story, going into how I went inactive after a week, and then expanding into how UTM without knowing it, brought me back into PS.
I guess you could say it was word of mouth, the players themselves advertising.
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/me puts the pirates on the perimeter to guard.
Btw I found it via google.
The one way I can think of to get more players of the right kind is to have players get some feelers out among their old pen and paper friends.
I though also of having a printable poster made and asking people to put it up in their schools, community centers, public libraries etc.
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Schools? I doubt they'd allow that, seeing as how they're so up tight on pornography and such.
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Schools? I doubt they'd allow that, seeing as how they're so up tight on pornography and such.
Skrietism as bad as it is, technically isn't pornography... Even if the fenki costumes are a big raunchy.
My sister used to play PS at the college all the time on her laptop.
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Karyuu introduced me to it, almost four years ago.
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Karyuu introduced me to it, almost four years ago.
Heya Zetty!
Where'd you run off to?
Its chorval btw... Haven't seen you around PS lately.
Jump in sometime mate.
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Google. ::)
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Wikipedia, someone on another site mentioned MMORPG. I didn't know what it meant at the time so I looked it up and found PS in the process.
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By mistake I assure You.Now on to true games that work and are enjoyable. Maybe I'll head to...well..dont care where so long as not here.
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I was looking for a free online game for linux. I don't remember if Google turned up Planeshift directly or if I saw it linked from elsewhere, but it turns up in both places pretty easily.
What made me take the time to download and try it was reading the backstory. After that, I was hooked. I haven't played as much as I'd like, but I've been keeping my eye on it ever since.
And the lack of morons didn't really draw me in, but since there weren't any around, they weren't able to drive me away.
As for bringing in more people, I have no idea.
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Linux Game Tome. I searched for a nice rpg and stumbled over Planeshift. It's the first multiplayer game I play, but I really enjoy it.
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I did post it before but from a news item in a UK magazine Linux Format (http://www.linuxformat.co.uk) in 2004 mentioning games that run natively on Linux. A while back I did try to trace the issue to ad to wikipedia but all I could find was a March 05 mention.
If there is one thing I would do it would be to try and get magazines [linux and Mac mags especially as we dont have that many games to review ;)] to actually review the game as long as they compare like for like I feel we hold up well, its only when compared to the megabuck budgets of commercial rpgs as some do despite the disclaimers.
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I found it on some list of free MMORPG's....something like play-free-online-games.com or something. It looked pretty cool because it had that RPG element, and the graphiics looked pretty good for a free game.
I think the thing to do next would be to flesh out that long awaited political system. That would make for some intresting RPG.
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Same as a lot of people, Googled for some free games one slow afternoon at University (Or maybe it wasn't so slow and I was just procrastinating :P) saw it on some game list, liked the way it looked and that was that. :)
I had actually never played any MMORPGs before or any of the paper and pencil things people have mentioned... honestly I didn't even know those type of things existed. (Please tell me costumes aren't involved. :P)
But, yeah I'm still just testing it out... not sure I'll stick around for very long. :whistling:
I searched for "MMORPG roleplaying" on Google, and found a site that mentioned PS. When I saw that this game was free, I decided to join. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Imagine if I had never done that... ::|
Not sure how it can improve, though.
*Imagines Raa had never done that... and feels a small smile appear on his face.*
Kidding, you definitely make the tavern (and the forums with threads about phantom keyboard ectoplasm) an even more interesting place. ;) Though 9 times out of 10 I have no idea why someone is trying to do something like throw you into the fireplace. :P
I found it when searching for a new game after leaving Dransik (now known as Ashen Empires) which was my first MMORPG. Google = <3
And I actually agree... Capes/cloaks would attract people. Might even bring me back from WoW >.> Even though I am actually finding very good RP there :D
Liar! :P
Skrietism as bad as it is, technically isn't pornography... Even if the fenki costumes are a big raunchy.
Major cool points for coining (or at least using the word Skreitism). Seriously made me chuckle. :lol:
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Looking for Linux games :)
Yeah, googleing, but through a blog for linux. Don't remember the name, because I don't use a fixed one.
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Found it on the Glest (free RTS game) forum, in a thread about cool open source games :)
Fleshing out the game further should be all that's needed to attract more players. As I see it,
there are lots of new players joining every day, but never to be seen again. I've stopped
counting how many swords and trias I've given away to newbies, trying to get them started.
Alas, hard as it sounds, a few of my friends I've tried fixing on PS were incredulous that I'd
waste my time on such a sub-standard game, when I could play WoW or whatnot.
I do appreciate the efforts of the whole PS team very much, last but not least it's cross-
platform.
Cheers,
-tulkhan
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Found it via a "friend" ;D
Tried it, went off abit then came back and been here ever since literary almost every single day.
How to get more in hm... maybe actually say it's totaly free and in development, the last should actually tell most that the game may have bugs but still is playable ;)
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I found PS via a link on an MMO site, i was curious and downloaded.
As for atracting more players, well... i think it would be better if you found a way of retaining the ones curious enough to download the game.
I recomended the game to a RL friend of mine. His comments were : What's with that tutorial (It took him 4 attempts due to crashing and getting stuck) When he finally got into the game he found few willing to help, only to chastise him for not RP'ing.
He also mentioned that he found the forums quite offputting, especially the help section for noobs (he visited it quite often to get to get tips) His comment was : "why is everyone so rude?"
I also found this statement quite interesting....
The one way I can think of to get more players of the right kind is to have players get some feelers out among their old pen and paper friends.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say, but what the hell is the "right type" for the DEVS? Isn't everyone welcome to play the game?
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You won't find any game (to be honest, anything) that is aimed for everyone. The "market space" of this game is very specific: mmporg with a special accent in RPing, so people who just don't know what's that, or that look for something like Diablo aren't the "right kind" ;)
I would try to spread voice between roleplaying sites, being for computers or not.
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I got DSL and wanted to try a MMORPG, so I looked for free ones in Google :)
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How did I find planeshift?
/me thinks for a bit
The mac website of course. Was cruising through the games sections of downloads and chanced across this as a freeware (YEY!) which stood out because every other game was horrible or demo or had that annoying shareware label (it's mostly free but to get at the good stuff, you have to pay....). That was, oh a year ago. But I signed up, never got a response, downloaded the software, couldn't get it to work, so just stuck with my sims (yes, the sims, don't make fun of me), until that got boring. /me taps her chin
Then decided to see if i could get that elusive game called Planeshift working. But within that year I played an MMO that was not role-playing called Eternal-lands (competitor to RS), but is still nothing like PS. I like how when you die you don't lose things (oh...that was a pain in the ass until you got a perk that allowed you to wander through monster-infested maps without being killed). And that the server is in Singapore (did I mention I used to live there?) Summary: It was free, mulit-platform playable and despite being a RAM hog, great graphics.
I think someone mentioned somewhere on this thread that there is a problem with people being ignored if not RP-ing...unfortunately it's slightly true. You do get better responses when asking questions via RP but not everyone is equiped, so to speak, to roleplay (and there are a few things that aren't obvious...like where do i go to train strength/endurance? either I run around and click on every NPC, which takes forever, or I ask someone...but how do ask that in RP?). Although I will admit my sins and have slipped a few pop culture references, but not explicitly, into RP, it's not as if they haven't fit the conservation. I guess quoting Shakespeare without directly referencing it to him is okay...is it?
Anyways, my point is, there should be some tolerance for those who find RP difficult; Not all of us have a great imagination and if you don't jump down their throats for not RP-ing, then possibly they will learn from positive encouragement. Even though there is a RP guide somewhere in this forum, it really doesn't give someone the kick that they need...I think one person, who was new, said "they really push you into the deep end with this RP stuff don't they?" And even though the tutorial does give some info, its a bit shaky and c'mon seriously, who really reads that big paragraph when they're itching to play the game. What I do suggest is there to be a more realistically formative guide (I'll be willing to do it too) about roleplaying specifically in PS.
Summary: If you want people to join, you are going to have to be *gasps* nice to them in regards to RP-ing for the first little while until they get the hang of it. Some kids can swim, but most end up drowning in the deep end if thrown in before they know to swim.
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I heard a lot from an hype game called "world of warcraft", I had a co worker who played WoW alot and I knew WoW is a mmorpg. So I googled "mmorpg gpl" and got here.
It took me some time to learn the details about planeshift. Heck, I can remeber finding my first npc, or so I thought. Well I managed to find kada els. And I saw a char behind the desk. I was sure no one would wait for hours there and therefore I was so sure this is an npc. I talked to him using his name, he answered, I asked what I need to do to learn magics and he told me how to get to Levrus. Heck, I was impressed from the npc implementation, that conversation felt very natural from me. It didn't last long 'til I realized my missunderstanding tough ;D
Well, I had no clue about roleplaying. Someone told me in game, I have to use [] for ooc as this is a medevial world. The first time I played alot with or against the game mechanics, read I powerlevel 'til my char had at least some useable stats.
I got engaged in pvp a lot, that was fun at that time.
Only after a while it happened that I got dragged into and hooked by role playing.
I don't know if my player biography ( pl > pvp > rp ) is common or seldom, but the recent changes to dueling are not that great. If I would start Planehift today I guess I would leave it without ever getting hooked on rping because pvp at the moment makes no fun at all.
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Maybe I should also state here what I like most on planeshift. Its the diversity of actions you can do. You can roleplay, you can do quests and some times some sort of events like races or tournaments. I never know what will happen when I log into pllanehift.
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Linux Format magazine
erm to attract more players PS really needs more mundane items, they don't have to actually work but better than holding an invisible latern or whatever.
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I'm not sure what you are trying to say, but what the hell is the "right type" for the DEVS? Isn't everyone welcome to play the game?
I think he means "the kind who stay" :)
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Anyone is welcome to play the game, and if you search the forums you will find many instances of me encouraging the rpers to calm down and take more time with new players. I also personally spent many months working for 8 hrs a day to teach new players how to RP in my role as xillix queen of fools in front of the temple.
The fact remains however that this is an rp focused game. I can do nothing to force the rpers to be nice to leet haxors who dl ps and come in game and make a fool of themselves and there is little i can do to make them stay.
Piker as for your buddy, I can do nothing to save people from crashes. As you have noticed the server is much more stable now, as is the npc client. Already this should be much more simple. As for the tutorial itself, well anyone who reads at a 5th grade level should be able to get through it, if they actually READ. For those who have difficulty doing this we have provided a walk through for the tutorial. I honestly don't know what more my team could do to open up the game to new players.
When one considers that how to rp is covered in the tutorial (at least well enough to get in game rpers to not be asshats toward the newb if the newb actually takes the advice), if someone still makes it in game and finds themselves ignored there are only two places to place the blame: either the newb did not heed the advice, or our players are uber leet rp snobs. Neither of these situations is something that the settings team can do much to help.
I do encourage oldbies to actually be nicer to new players, but I think if someone is to invite a friend to come play planeshift that person should probably be a friend and hold that person's hand until they find their bearings, at least in the current state of development.
Maybe if we offered free twinkies that would be more successful than expecting people to read and follow directions, but I don't have enough twinkies for that.
Thank you everyone for your answers thus far.
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i'm going to add to the "someone posted in the forums" tally. well it was back in the days of mb. someone posted on an anime forum i was on at the time. "hey check out this free game. it doesn't have any monsters, all you can do is run around and gather these crystals. there's no monsters and only two quests and one of them is broken. but it's still in development." so i headed on over to the website read through it, and gave it a run. though looking back, i'm not sure if mb had enough to hold me for long. but i as i lurked in the forums i saw this little thread, and that was the seed that developed into "steuben and the refugees" (http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=11373.0). and i had to stay around to finish that, didn't i? and well i haven't left. well i have a few other stories to finish, and i won't leave until they are... though judging by one of the ones that i have, i may never leave.
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I discovered Planeshift by reading a short (one or two paragraph) review of it in Lockergnome, a "geek" e-mail newsletter. Planeshift was the featured "internet download of the day" and I saved the e-mail so I could check it out later on. About a month later, I got around to checking out the link. :D This was roughly around 0.3.011.
This has been touched on briefly in a few recent posts, but I was already thinking it before I read that far so I'll blurt it out anyway. I think the best way for us to increase the player base and still retain the feeling of community is for each of us to introduce one RL friend or relative to PS. Explain to them beforehand about the development status of PS, the bugs, the server crashes, and that patience is a virtue. That way, they are a bit more prepared and know what to expect. Help them thru the bumps of account registration, client installation ('do not update'), and character creation. Since you know them personally, you are in a good position to help them on the phone or maybe even *gasp* face-to-face if absolutely neccessary. Once they are in-game, help them ease into everything (mechanics, RP, the community itself). This isn't really something that the devs can do, but rather the community. Still, it's my opinion and I'll stand by it until I think of something better. ;)
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I found ps through google ;D
I was playing one of those all text web browser games before but the guy shut the game down (I think it was a money problem) so I went on a search for a good game. Thats when a friend introduced SilkRoad to me (first time I played a MMORPG that needed a client) and while I liked it I couldn't get it for the mac. Then I googled games for the mac and after trying many different ones PS was the only one that kept my intrest and still does.
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I was finally finished playing Wizardry 8 when i was bored so i searched the web, not with google though, but I'm not sure with what it was :P
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In my opinion before the game can expand to new players I think the existing players need to learn how to help the new players we have now so they can enjoy the game and stay. Once the community can become like a family again then it would be a good time to add new players. Also it could not hurt if current players who still talk to their friends that ‘used to’ play ask them to come back. This is how I feel Xillix, sorry. We seem to be at odds sometimes. I also agree with Einnol, word of mouth is the best way to share a great thing! We need that feeling of family back first before adding new people. It is not the amount of people that play it is that they enjoy the game and stay. That will bring back the community feeling of seeing familiar faces in game all the time then you can think about expanding it.
(I remember seeing Arka in the plaza and almost knocking her over with a hug. It was great to see an old friend.) I hope you understand.
Oh, I found PS through a family member and a friend that no longer plays.
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Word of mouth is how I heard of planeshift. My husband introduced me to the game. He played it a month before I did. He kept saying " you should really come and try this game, there isn't alot to it but it is fun none the less." I tried it and became glued to the computer for a length of time.
My sister Dylia also heard about it from word of mouth. <----- She won't be posting so I will speak for her.
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After my White Senches 1.3 release over on the Morrowind mod forums, a friend and fan pointed me towards the race-info page for the enkidukai. To be honest, I wasn't terribly impressed, shrugged, and cast the whole thing aside.
...'bout a month later, I got curious and looked up the PS site again. I was starting to grow weary of the Morrowind CS and needed a change. Took one look at the enkis in-game, thought "Hey, there aren't any tigers. There should be tigers" - as it turned out, according to Settings there actually WERE tigers and after applying to the dev team, Karyuu put me on that as my first task.
That was back somewhere around March/May of this year.
I stay because... well, there's a heck of a lot that needs doing.
As for attracting new players, I've talked to a few of my friends about it - most of them have at least a passing interest in game design, so I give them a poke, and even if they're not interested in signing on for work, they might find a hook in-game.
Hopefully the tactic will be a bit more successful now that there's a tutorial section at chargen and the learning curve is lessened. :)
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Interesting story.
Once upon a time, I was designing a tower for one corner of our house (real life house). I found a nice little program called SoftCad Lite, which was easy to use, given my knowledge of drafting and basic CAD. The design came out quite well, as you can see:
(http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/903/towerlastww8.th.jpg) (http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/903/towerlastww8.jpg)
But the evil Silicon Gods deemed my old PC not worthy of continued life (windows ME *shudders*) after a year. Before it completely died, I was able to save those pictures to disk... but not the install file of SoftCad. The PC was wiped, and the little program was forgotten for a few years. But, some things are not meant to be forgotten. One day I found myself wanting to design another structure, and tried my best to get the copied files to work...but to no avail. My install-fu was unworthy. So, I once again took to the net, searching for this lost install file.
To my dismay, SC Lite was no longer available, and in fact seemed to have vanished into the ether of the interwebz. Only a higher cost version was for sale, and I had no wish to pay out for a single project that I could draw by hand with little more effort. I offered words to the Google gods, asking that they show me another path. Appeased by my offering, they replied in 0.07 seconds. Thus, a paths was found, though I did not yet know were it would take me...
This site caught my attention: http://www.bakhter.com/html/freeware/game_software.html yes... it seemed like it might have what I was looking for. I looked down the selections...
3D Software ... Hmm. Interesting stuff there, but not what I was looking for. Blender looks promising.
Rendering tools ... No, not it.
CAD Software ... AH HA! There is my Softcad... Oh no... link is dead. I'll look at some of these other programs later. Lotsa other cool stuff here.
Image Editors .... Cool things in here. Will look later.
Paint Software ... Eh. I am not an artist.
Draw Software ... Whatever.
Ink & Paint tools ... Still not sure what these do.
... etc, etc...
Sound Software ... mixing sounds is interesting. Might have to poke a few of these.
Game Software ... Games? Hmmm... I wonder.... CrystalSpace. Looks complex. *click*
Well, back then, the link took you to a little site with a few (maybe four) projects based on CS. The only one that seemed worth looking at was a little game called PlaneShift, which was going to release the new Crystal Blue client 'Soon' (TM). I found the idea intriguing. I signed up for the forums, but could not play the game on my old, vile-betrayer PC (still w-me).
A few months in, I started writing, and crafted my first story. And here we are.
Odd thing... in the three years since then, I never did finish looking for a 3D architect program to design that building.
Edit: Yes, that means if my old PC had never crashed, it is very unlikly that I would have ever started writing. PS and the community here brought that side of me back to life. :)
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I found it when searching for a new game after leaving Dransik (now known as Ashen Empires) which was my first MMORPG. Google = <3
And I actually agree... Capes/cloaks would attract people. Might even bring me back from WoW >.> Even though I am actually finding very good RP there :D
*Listbard adds Farren to his 'hate' list along with Raa*
I am never speaking to you.... NEVER AGAIN!
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What did I do o.o
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What did I do?
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I found the game on Yahoo. I was looking for a free game.
However, I am not certain that you are asking the correct question. I believe that it is more of an issue with retaining new players, rather than attacting more people who will quit soon after they start. The keys to retaining new players are veterans being helpful and lowering the learning curve. By almost any standard, the game is very difficult for new people to get acclimated to.
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Did an extensive tryout of (all) linux games for the nth-time to see if there was anything remotely useful and entertaining. Despite PS's size and difficult (buggy) install on gentoo (nevertheless cool that its version in portage is being maintained by one amongst us), I tried it and stuck to it. Must have tried it at least one time before but did not get it to work then.
Moral of the story: People that are suited for this kind of game will find it eventually, just make sure it works the first time they try it. This is not the case at the moment, I think chances might even be as high as 30% that it wont work the first time (videocard problems, download and updater issues, install bugs, server offline!).I understand this, PS being alpha and all, but alpha and a large public don't go together. If the server would have been offline that day I most certainly wouldn't have been here.
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Sourceforge.
I'd never tried an MMORPG and was curious to see what it was like, but didn't really want to pay for it. I figured anything listed on SF would be free. First hit on the SF search.
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An online friend from the Philippines, who was unable to play PS due to his internet connection, recommended PlaneShift to me.
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Me to i found this game whit
http://sourceforge.net/
ful of interseting software
and in my country exept somme small web page about "linux free game" nobody talk about "planetshift"
(but what is the country who talk about ps ? only 150 or 200 player online ! it is a "discret multimedia role playing game")
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I was looking for a mac mmorpg's to play and as the list wasn't very long I soon came apon Planeshift. What I found under the multimedia tab on the main page impressed me. (the game idea, races ect.) I soon found myself downloading the game and playing the game.
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I found this game through SourceForge back in Fall 2002 while searching for graphical mud engines. During this time I was writing a 2D graphical mud, and I got curious to see the then-current state of 3D graphical muds. It was through this that I discovered PlaneShift and the Treecastle sub-project, so I decided to try out PlaneShift Molecular Blue. Since then, I decided that PlaneShift-the-engine was the most mature libre 3D graphical mud engine out there, and I decided in the future I would figure out how to use this engine to produce another virtual world for the sake of knowing how to.
I believe the best way to increase the player base in PlaneShift-the-game is to encourage corporate and outside interest in PlaneShift-the-engine. Realistically, PlaneShift is a damn good engine, and it only has one competitor here which is Second Life. It annoys me to see so much interest going into Second Life (http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/story.jsp?storyId=9719662) when it should go into using PlaneShift-the-engine:
In an interview, Chuck Hamilton, Learning Solutions Leader of IBM's Center for Advanced Learning, says IBM's challenges in each geographic area are different. India has Big Blue's second-largest workforce and hiring is rapid and distributed. IBM needs to socialize them into one culture while onboarding them. So a program called IBM@Play was created, originally on another virtual world called PlaneShift, but since moved to Second Life.
Of course I'm not saying corporations such as IBM should be conducting their real-life business on Laanx. What I am saying is that encouraging interest in such groups will increase public awareness of this project. I want to see PlaneShift instead of Second Life on the front of major newspapers (http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10280952), and people aren't going to come here if they've never heard of it.
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Hmm, I think it was google as well. My reasons were that is was a free 3D RPG game, with excellent promises content-wise (namely, crafting and economy) and it worked in Linux (or was going to... I can't remember if I ran Debian already by the time I played in MB, but I remember that just getting PS to work was a great joyful experience, so I was probably in Linux by then :P).
I think PS has a lot of potential to attract people: it's a cross-platform, free-forever (no catches, thank God), MMORPG in a pretty good 3D graphics, that plays in most PCs. As many people have stated, it'd be good if we'd be able to put PS in some MMORPG lists, with a realistic description of it. Maybe we could compile a list of websites where PS is listed (gamelists) so that players can go there to vote, and therefore increase it's fame, or comment (as, for example, has happened in happypenguin.org where Zanzibar has been "protecting" PS). Just a sticky somewhere (Hydlaa Plaza maybe) would probably be enough for the regular player to help out.
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Hm, i found it a few years ago maybe on freshmeat or so, downloaded it, but was unable to make it run :(
After a few years i read about it again and gave it another try :)
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I found PS in a score, where listed the top 20 linux games. and in sourceforge, as I looked for free games (I sorted the list by rating and voila there was it ^^)
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I googled "mac-compatible MMORPG's", not expecting to find anything but RuneScape.
Then I ended up here and was like, "Roleplaying focus? I'm SOLD!"
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http://sathyasays.com/2008/01/12/25-top-3d-linux-games/
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Like so many others, a simple google for a mac-compatible MMORPG that was free. Though I have long since switched to Windows because Mac killed my inner child (http://youtube.com/watch?v=iEAGmBRC1dc).
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I'd been looking for an MMORPG to play for quite some time, pretty much Google-searching and giving everything free that I found a try. PlaneShift was the only one that had any focus on RP at all, so it was the only one that really captured my interest. :)
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Trawling Gameogre (specifically the Beta MMORPG section) and stumbled upon Planeshift, loved it since. Left it for a while, and recently bought new hardware for the pc, and the first thing i returned to was Planeshift. I love this community!
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Googled for a list of free games that contained the games I already had been playing.
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Google: searching MMORGP... I tried some there, but or I had to pay or they were boring.... So I found out PS! :)
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I found PS on torrentz.com. I just wanted to download something and PS was first on the list of the games, so I decided to try it... ;D
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http://ubuntuforums.org/
I clicked on the link: Ubuntu Gamers Arena - Offsite Link
Unfortunately that link is under construction now, but in there you can search by genre. I checked out a bunch of games on there, found Planeshift, which they give a nice little description, link the PS website, instructions how to install it on Ubuntu and I think there may have even been a video clip, not positive on that one, though.
I usually go through Gamespy.com when I use Vista. Easy place to see ratings, search by genre, get reviews and descriptions, download some demos, screenshots, video clips, etc. I think that it is a good place to get some serious online gamer traffic, too. Roleplayers may be a toss up, but when PS is ready to increase that player base, could be a good place to be listed for players looking to test out new games with little obligation.
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I was bored, so I googled free mmorpg, and the second page was the Wikipedia page for Planeshift. I read it, and the thing that got me was how the death realm was handled.
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I pretty much just found it on a list of free games, and it was luck that the first time I decided to expand my standards and download my next game instead of getting a browser based one it was planeshift.
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I was there when Planeshift first appeared, I was 13 or 14. It wasn't too long before that that I was first exposed to computers and the internet. I'm grateful my first real experience with computers was with a Linux machine (SuSE Linux 7.1). Anyway, my brother once showed me MUME, a LOTR MUD, and I was intrigued at the thought of having an entirely different life on the internet, a new person you could inhabit and live as. MUDs were cool and all, but I wanted more, so I started searching for other online games. I came across Planeshift I think before there was anything available to download.
Anyway, I had dial up at the time so downloading stuff wasn't terribly possible, but I tried anyway. It took forever but as soon as planeshift was available I downloaded it. But I just couldn't get it to work. I tried several times after but no luck. I kept my eye on the project and still itched to start playing and then finally in 2006 I was able to buy my very own computer. It was a proud moment for me, I had worked hard during the holidays to get the money together, while all my friends were off celebrating the end of school.
Anyway, not long after that we got broadband (which doesn't mean much here in South Africa :thumbdown:) and Crystal Blue had just been released. I downloaded it in May of that year and was overjoyed to find that it worked! I entered the game, met Nuthedie (Nilrem) within the first few minutes, and started RPing.
Two years later, here I am, and I don't plan on going anywhere. My sister made me try WoW, but I didn't last long there... a week I think, it sucked. When Peacer moved GoP to Regnum I played that for a while, but again didn't last long. Planeshift will always be my first love.
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My husband introduced me to it... as a way of saying - here, lose your worries in here... I have not looked back since - despite a few hiccups with certain odd things.
I have now been playing for over 4 years.
There are soo many reasons I loved it - the Role play was and still is great for one!
[p.s. Come back Rilar Lolitra needs you.... hehe]
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I found it using google. After playing a number of MMORPGs i finally found a fully 3d, free, rping one.
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I've actually been playing for a couple of years now -anyway, I can't really remember- I think it was while looking at MMO engines for my own game, and I ended up playing it.
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how did I find it... a Yahoo! search for +RPG +mmorpg +3d +linux
I've been around PS for about a year now. Not really playing seriously, but still looking for something which could be played in Linux.
I finally made the leap to a full linux system (at least on my desktop) about 3 months ago and since I could no longer play the "other" games, have been focusing on this one.
I've only recently started posting and playing on a regular basis (I still have alot to learn though by the looks of it).
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Well, I had left Second Life (for various reasons) and it turned out that I needed something else to waste my time with ;D. But I didn't want it to be like SL so I somehow decided to go for free+medieval+games if I remember right. So I used Google and this site (http://play-free-online-games.com/games/games_all.html) (jeez, I dug it out again! :sweatdrop:), clicked on a few links and the first thing I tried became my home :P
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Ever since I quit Endless Online I've been searching for another MMORPG. I was looking on a MMORPG site and found PlaneShift. I didn't give it much thought back then and forgot about it. I was looking up about it on Wikipedia around a week after and decided to play it. That is how I found PlaneShift. To make PlaneShift popular I suggest lots of people on this forum to tell their friends and get them started on it.
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When my brother use debian he seach for stuff and BOOM he found planeshift and i started to play ever sience
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Found it on the wiki entry for MMORPG, it had a table with all the games and their status...Plane Shift was the one that had the important words 'Free' and 'Mac'.
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Well, I had left Second Life (for various reasons) and it turned out that I needed something else to waste my time with ;D. But I didn't want it to be like SL so I somehow decided to go for free+medieval+games if I remember right. So I used Google and this site (http://play-free-online-games.com/games/games_all.html) (jeez, I dug it out again! :sweatdrop:), clicked on a few links and the first thing I tried became my home :P
Well, for me the story is similar, just that instead of SecondLife it was RuneScape. In other words, I found PlaneShift thanks to the same site as Morla. ;D
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hmmm i answered how i found ps... but how to get more people to play...
well the first idea that comes to mind is the cute and cuddly factor. ps plushies, the one eyed rat, the ulber, the menki and fenki.
the second is a full bore ps book, sitting on the shevles fighting it out the the wow, eq, and dragonlance books. and winning of course because ps is so full of awesome.
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I found PS in an article about different MMOs, in a Newspaper - the oldfashoined kind ;)
I looked at EVE Online, WoW and PS - 2 hours of playing after DL'ing, and I was hooked ;D
Trying to make us known to more / getting more to play:
The Mac factor is important here, since the gaming field is so narrow on the Mac-scene - if we get mention on popular Mac sites, and maybe a review in a Macmag, it'll draw people. Perhaps a review from a popular website could assist? Another thing that should not be overlooked is the human story behind PS: An interview with Talad or another dev about "How we make a World - PlaneShift revealed" would definitely spur interest also. :detective:
My 2 tria - are we making a concerted effort about PR...? (just curious)