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Announcements => PlaneShift News and Rules => Topic started by: Talad on March 14, 2011, 11:27:55 am
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[News taken from main site]
Wouldn't be nice to have a web platform where you can see your PlaneShift character, your skills, your inventory and your standings, so you could simply give a link to your fellow guild members or your friends? We think it would be very nice and so we have build a web site for it! Welcome to MyPlane!!
MyPlane is for now in its very first release, and allows you to browse your characters, see their skills, stats, description, inventory, standings and guild membership. Also a picture of your character with his traits is provided. To protect your privacy, by default your character is not visible. The nice feature is that you can decide which parts you want to show. You can enable the visibility of certain information only to your guild members, your buddies or open it to everyone.
We plan to expand MyPlane greatly in the future! The application is free and can be used by anyone with a PlaneShift account. To use it simply follow the link to the server where you have your account:
Roleplay server (zeroping) (http://planeshift.zeroping.it/myplane)
Non-RP server (ezpc) (http://planeshift.ezpcusa.com/myplane)
If you want to see an example, here is a sample character (http://planeshift.zeroping.it/myplane/profile/Erelog_Genoloe) we created.
So go on and show your character in your forum signature, your web sites, your email, in facebook and everywhere!!
Thanks to Niklas Bölter and others for creating this new platform!
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Hey, i'm the main developer of myplane and i'll try to keep a list of known issues in this post.
Fixed since release:
- Making "Stats" visible will show the "Skills" button in the profile
- Making "Equipment" invisible will also hide "Money"
- The portraits for the male Ylian characters are all wrong
- For some old characters the character portrait is missing (This is due to the increasing variety of character looks, it will be fixed in the database itself)
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Nice
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Well done.
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Lol Sarva's stats and skills are 5000 ::|
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A very nice page :thumbup:
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Well done indeed. I'll have to try it out.
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This is great! :thumbup: Fantastic idea!
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Great, great Idea...
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This is a good advance for the game, I especially appreciate how a player can set his/her own privacy settings with regards to skills, stats, factions, and character creation information. This seems similar to the "Cooperative Plot Creation Project" here: http://trollkeep.com/PS/ (http://trollkeep.com/PS/)
Perhaps if a few of Novacadian's ideas on the Plot Creation Project could be combined with MyPlane, such as the ability to contact other players via the site for the purposes of a planned or long-term Role-Play...
Nontheless, a great idea, well done :)
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:thumbup:
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Awesome! \\o//
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Talad has a Platinum Battle Axe O.O
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that's a gm/loot item
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Ummm I've had a Platinum Reinforced Battle Axe, which I sold to... Qata I think.
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Big thanks, Niki! Great work!
Unfortunately I don't see a preview picture for my "Male Ylian", Gag Harmond.
/myplane/images/characters/Ylian_Male_19_141.png is redirected to the login page.
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A fine idea. Character data can now be shared reliably without the need to contact a game master or to bring back the old functionality of nature intuition. I am sure this can also be helpful to administrate player events in the future.
By the way ...
If you want to see an example, here is a sample character (http://planeshift.zeroping.it/myplane/profile/Erelog_Genoloe) we created.
Amusing example, an azure way master of rank 2 ;)
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Good idea! First step to Hall of Fame is done!
If any suggestions are appropriate I'd like add some.
A. Combat, Magic and Jobs skills are to be selected as visible separately. Turning off combat ones can help to make a surprise to a potential opponent, and visible job ones may help to business. But not all together.
B. That would be great to add an advanced search among warriors/mages/craftsmen by their displayed skills. It may help to prepare to RP procedure of recruiting or starting business relationships.
C. Hide those skills that are equal to zero. Most of them are not implemented. The rest zeros are not subject of pride.
Thanks to everyone who creates a world of PlaneShift!
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Wouldn't it be nice to see the characteristics of items when the mouse is on it?
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A tremendous addition. I've seen such web based features with other games and always thought that was missing in PS. Good to see it finally arrive. :thumbup:
Yeah, us poor Ylians don't seem to get any face time yet. ;) Good to know it's known and being worked on. I'm sure it took a lot of work to get it going. Outstanding work!
edit: check that, it's us oldbies that are getting left out. ::)
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Because a part including my reply was cut off...
1) Images of more races are missing.
2) It would be nice to see the Buddy List like in game: Grouped by on-line status, sorted alphabetically.
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Unfortunately I don't see a preview picture for my "Male Ylian", Gag Harmond.
This is a known issue, when you created your Character, you had less choice in Beard/Hair etc combinations, myplane can only show characters that can be created now.
Good idea! First step to Hall of Fame is done!
If any suggestions are appropriate I'd like add some.
A. Combat, Magic and Jobs skills are to be selected as visible separately. Turning off combat ones can help to make a surprise to a potential opponent, and visible job ones may help to business. But not all together.
B. That would be great to add an advanced search among warriors/mages/craftsmen by their displayed skills. It may help to prepare to RP procedure of recruiting or starting business relationships.
C. Hide those skills that are equal to zero. Most of them are not implemented. The rest zeros are not subject of pride.
Hall of fame is an interesting idea, although i'd rather build something that the RP community can benefit from, too
A) This is an edge case and involves meta gaming, I don't want to clutter up the UI too much. Until i get more feedback that this is needed, i don't think it is an issue.
B) MyPlane is designed to be very lightweight on the planeshift database, which is baroque and not administered (notice the very limited character search). I will implement a list of all online characters in myplane that links to their profiles, which may help you in finding out whom of the active players you may want to start business relationships with. I won't do a search for skills until someone who understands mysql can confirm me that it can be implemented efficiently.
C) Some people may want to see their "special" skills that are not implemented, also Level 0 in Planeshift does not mean that you have no training at all, i think you will have to live with them :) And Pride is not always a good thing ;)
1) Images of more races are missing.
2) It would be nice to see the Buddy List like in game: Grouped by on-line status, sorted alphabetically.
1) Yep, known issue, see second post. Ylians are most affected by this, also something is wrong in general with Ylians, i think there is some hack in place to switch some of the hair styles, and my screenshot script got confused. (There are 588 different combinations for the Ylian male)
2) This has been changed on the test server (Revision 54), expect it to be on zeroping and ezpc soon.
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With my Klyros i found the same problem with the image.
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Why is sarva's stats and skills 5000 but sarvas metalurgy is 68
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You should have a list of all players
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Why is sarva's stats and skills 5000 but sarvas metalurgy is 68
Probably for testing, you creeper! ;D
(joking with the creeper part)
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The issue with the incorrect Ylian Male Portraits (Wrong Hair Style, wrong Beard Style) has been fixed on the test server (r55), the fix will be deployed together with LigH's suggestion when Talad is available again.
A fix for the missing character portraits of older members is being worked on. If you want to help, and your character portrait is not showing correctly in myplane, then you can post both
a) The name of the image file that is missing (for example Ylian_Female_23.png)
b) A screenshot of your character in game that clearly shows hair/beard style and/or skin/hair/beard color
in this thread or send an email to niklas@frubar.net with the images to gather some data.
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May not be easy to make a screenshot now that the character doesn't appear correctly anymore...
My character was so old that it had defaults which were not respected with the current code.
It seems that my head hair got restored already. But my beard is still missing. Go on, weltall, finish it correctly.
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beard was removed one year ago from the base model so i don't get what you mean by that
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But I swear that the NPC Percival Hawthorne always had a full beard. And I am certain that Roberet Goldsmith had as much a full beard as Gag Harmond.
Well possible that you had different models on your test server - but then you were not in sync with the majority of players, if that was the case.
I don't have many screenshots here, and they usually hardly contain any chars. But here is one taken 2010-05-19: Harnquist has full beard (and I am certain he had still the same a week ago), and the other one with the pointed beard could be Troyyer.
(http://www.ligh.de/PlaneShift/Male_Ylians.jpg)
And a really recent one: Jolter Hosull has a pointy beard as well. Screenshot taken: 2011-02-23
(http://www.ligh.de/PlaneShift/Male_Ylian2.jpg)
I know, more recent chars and NPCs probably don't count...
I will try to look for more screenshots when I am at home over the weekend.
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If myplane and psclient show the same model then it is not a myplane issue, please open a regular bug report if you think that something is wrong inside the client, as this thread is only ment for discussing the first release of myplane ;)
(I can't debug the problem either as i do not have access to the database)
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Now that the older characters got updated, MyPlane displays a correct preview. At least for Gag Harmond (http://planeshift.zeroping.it/myplane/images/characters/Ylian_Male_19_358_362_141.png).
Unfortunately I do not yet see one for other chars I remember as Male Ylian:
- Colim Gessi (Ylian_Male_358_362_142.png)
- Mordaan (Ylian_Male_358_362_142.png)
- Steuben Viscosa (Ylian_Male_358_362_146.png)
Interesting, each time almost the same name. My hair is dark brown (_141); I think Mordaan had black hair (_142), Steuben possibly blond (_146 -- not certain). The missing _19_ is rather obvious. Maybe that changes when they once logged in?!
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Was wondering if is possible to remove the creation info tab...my char grow up really differently from my initial choices, would be nice if i could remove it. I've seen that many people don't even have it, i wonder why ???
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Gen, Myplane only displays the ingame description of your character. Simply edit it yourself. ;)
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Not only. In the overview i have Description, OOC description and Creation Info tabs. As i said, many people don't even have that.
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Even when you empty these tabs ingame?
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Works for IC and OOC descriptions, but the creation info stays there. I can edit the CC in game, but can only add other text, not remove the gender, race, religion, etc.
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I'm not sure if the missing character traits are fixed yet. I wrote a script that can add them to old characters, but it required manual selection of the traits. From your image filenames it looks like 358 (Hair Style) and 362 (Beard Style) got added to Ylian Male Characters, but the Face trait was not. It may take a while to update all characters, people need to make sure they select the right trait, or all old characters will look different suddenly both in the client and in myplane.
MyPlane will not allow you to edit your character descriptions
a) Security:
MyPlane does not have the permission to alter the planeshift main database, so a security issue in myplane cannot lead to item duping etc
b) Scalability:
MyPlane is designed to work on a readonly DB slave except for its own database that keeps privacy data and a list of online characters
c) Consistency:
The psclient is how you interact with Yliakum and your Character, you should always be able to play the game without being forced to use myplane
d) It makes life easier for programmers:
Having to support different interfaces for doing the same thing and updating them always at the same time can be a headache
Let me say that i am not familiar with how some people have a creation info and some don't, changing it doesn't sound like such a big deal for me, but maybe there are good reasons that you can't change it. You will have to get the feature to change the creation info added to psclient if you want it.
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Oh, I'm an oldbie by now? Wow. I must be, for my poor Dermorians Luzino Lemigno and Marliana Evolly are yet lacking pics in MyPlane.
Other than that - it looks real good. I'm sure it'll come in handy in some way. :)
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this looks cool
Good move for those with low amount of time. Reason why browser games are so popular. Realistically, only kids and students have plenty of time. But a good player base cant be composed only of these.
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Gen the players from 4.03 or before, were able to delete the player creation info, so those who have it deleted, were probably from there, like me :)
You might just want to make a footnote saying to ignore it, until they make it deleteable again.
Also, it would be nice if the picture of the characters arn't nakid
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before it was placed in the main description and not there. it was locked editing as a specific goal so i doubt it will be removed anytime soon. when creating a char you should choose wisely not take a cheat sheet to get big results. You can always, anyway, use quickgen. That won't load it.
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Ok, thanks for the answers, i can live with that, it is not that much of a problem :) And i didn't use any cheat sheets, i had no idea of what was implemented or not, so i just selected what i liked more at the moment. Then, while actually playing, i have changed my mind on some things.
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Stats are involved = people using chat sheets. Simple fact, especially when you consider a bunch of skills aren't in the game.
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:thumbup:
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Just an idea for future expansion: Guild page with lists of members and a banner, would be cool if this included all the privacy options chosen by the guild master.
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Some guilds may not want to display details about their members publicly, though. Even individual members may have different preferences about privacy.
But indeed, it would be an interesting feature to have a "guild buddy list" outside the game, to check the presence of guild pals before entering.
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Yes, I am able to see my character now. Well done! :thumbup:
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Also this would be nice when people in guild share their profile with guild members. You do then not need to search for them to get the profile.
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All old characters should now show a portrait in myplane :)
I will look into implementing new features when i got through my secondary education exams in early april, i'm a bit nervous right now.
My Wish List so far (This does not mean i will implement it)
- Show all online characters on the same server in a list (same layout as buddy list)
- Show all characters in the same guild as your character (same layout as buddy list)
- Show a guild page that includes name, message of the day, alliance, member list with guild specific privacy options
- Add "bulk" and "storage" tabs to the Inventory, with separate privacy options
- See contents of bags
- Show progress of your skill training (this is hard to do)
- Show properties of your equipment (possibly very hard)
- Show your character wearing her armor and wielding her weapons (impossible for me)
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Your efforts are appreciated, Niklas. :thumbup:
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…Show properties of your equipment (possibly very hard)…
$query = "SELECT s.name, i.item_quality, i.stack_count FROM item_instances AS i LEFT JOIN item_stats AS s ON i.item_stats_id_standard = s.id WHERE i.char_id_owner = $charid;";
Something like that should take care of that one, or did I misunderstand you?
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…Show properties of your equipment (possibly very hard)…
$query = "SELECT s.name, i.item_quality, i.stack_count FROM item_instances AS i LEFT JOIN item_stats AS s ON i.item_stats_id_standard = s.id WHERE i.char_id_owner = $charid;";
Something like that should take care of that one, or did I misunderstand you?
That is certainly a start, yes.
Think damage per second against different types of armor, effects of items on stats and character properties (protection against different kinds of weapons), usage of items in crafting or as results of crafting, contents of books and maps, creatures summonable by that item, locks openable by that item. And that is just a short list from someone who doesn't know much about planeshift (me).
Please make sure that you understand me here correctly: If the things above should be disclosed or kept secret is a completely different discussion and won't be decided by me anyway.
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It might not belong here, but I doubt it is "secret". The database model is open source, so anyone could look tis up. :) I'll send you a pm, and we can see if I can be of any assistance :)
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he's talking of the data not the schema
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nice to see my idea from last year's June implemented, too bad you didn't asked for help on it (basics idea is implemented though so still fine :) )
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Hi, I asked Tux to contact you, and to my knowledge you declined! :) If you want to help it's definitely possible !
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Guild members has now been added. If you are in a guild, a link to view guild members will show in the left menu :)
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Wonderful! \\o//
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You guys are awesome! Thanks so very much! \\o//
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Hi, I asked Tux to contact you, and to my knowledge you declined! :) If you want to help it's definitely possible !
not really, I've agreed to cooperate with Tux since the first mail. as far as our jobs allow us, we move on further. We're in the middle of moving things to his machine now.
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Perhaps if a few of Novacadian's ideas on the Plot Creation Project could be combined with MyPlane, such as the ability to contact other players via the site for the purposes of a planned or long-term Role-Play...
Hi MyPlane devs, the above has come up again in a current Wish List discussion on tools for greater RP utilization:
http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=40723.msg457093#msg457093
It's been suggested that MyPlane could be expanded to facilitate this. What are your thoughts on including a searchable database for input on current RP involvement of individual chars? The input would be brief notes only and could be flagged by type (e.g. romance, kidnap, etc) for players to search. More details in the thread above - appreciate if you could add to it and/or send me a PM. Thanks.
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For new arrivals to PS searching the forum, this is the current link to MyPlane: http://planeshift.subhosting.net/myplane/ (http://planeshift.subhosting.net/myplane/)
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It seems that the information presented on myplane isn't regularly updated ;)
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Are there plans to update the results displayed on MyPlane regularly ;)
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What kind of updates do you expect or miss?
There are a few "achievements" you can get by passing thresholds (e.g. playing more than # hours; visiting all secret spots in all towns; ...), and the details about your character you want to publish are in sync with your character in game.
There is only one issue known to me with a missing achievement, derula's "Ring of the Past" (for playing already during the Molecular Blue era).
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Somethings haven't changed since I picked up playing PS again some months ago. Like the number of quests, although not sure if I passed the next threshold (can't see the exact number right now). Or the fact that I visited all cities (according to MyPlane I didn't), perhaps I had to do something in order to make it count. Perhaps it is all valid, but somehow I expected something else now :devil:
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Well, it is not just about visiting all cities: In every city there is one specific spot you have to visit. You will get a message and some PPs, so you will know when you found it. Once you visited all four spots, the achievement should appear.
Gonger
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Thanks for the feedback.
It seems I had to pass some thresholds in order to get more actual results ;D
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There is only one issue known to me with a missing achievement, derula's "Ring of the Past" (for playing already during the Molecular Blue era).
Would this achievement be unlocked for everyone owning one or would it be characterized by the date the character was created? I ask this question because I own an account with a character who had a ring of the past. But after years I wanted to play again, but I didn't remember my password, so I created a new account. After several months I found the password again, but I continued playing with my new account, so I just transferred my ring of the past from my old to my new account. Would my more recent character owning the ring receive this achievement?
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MyPlane reads the data directly from the game database, so there is no need for us to "update" it manually.
About the ring of the past, it will not be an achievement. We use char creation date to determine the releases played.
If you find any inconsistency with the data, let us know, there may be bugs!
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New MyPlane address - http://planeshift.teamix.org/myplane
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Only the login page works, the rest is "404 Not Found".
BTW, this would be another case where a DNS solution, as weltall keeps explaining, would save a lot of manual URL fixing by users: Each time the game server changes its IP, links to MyPlane or the update servers or the game server have to be changed to the new IP or specific host name, instead of registering a stable DNS name which resolution gets adapted to each current server.
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I get same 404 message as LigH ....
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When I told Talad about it in IRC, right after posting, he replied immediately he knew why ... :sleeping:
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BTW, this would be another case where a DNS solution, as weltall keeps explaining, would save a lot of manual URL fixing by users:
:thumbup: - Nova
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I can get to the home page, but there is no link to register. How do I log in?
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Hi and welcome,
Expand the menu "account", or go directly here:
http://planeshift.teamix.org/register/
See you soon inside the game.
Gonger
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I think you misunderstood me (or I wasn't clear enough!). I cannot log in to MyPlane!
I have been playing the game for just over a month now, still finding out how to play, but slowly making progress.
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I cannot log in to MyPlane!
Use same login as you use in the game. It is an email address and password.
- Nova
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MyPlane is on teamix as well now, of course.
http://planeshift.teamix.org/myplane/
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Thanks, LigH - now, can someone please remind me to bookmark that one when I'm back on my home computer in about a week? :P