Hi, Sov here just checking in!

I noticed this news on the frontpage and was rather worried....

Heres how I see it: Currently lots of people play without sound, either due to lack of hardware, poor computers or simply: Planeshift sound is buggy to start with. On high end systems it crackles terribly (new drivers) and is barely usable there.

My second worry is... partly from a host's POV and from a client POV. All this does is add the same content we already have, but in audio, This means that the filesize will increase massively with the V/Os and I honestly don't see much lasting benefit (Inital joy at having voice in game aside)

This seems to me like a space filling waste, sure it would be cool but its a lot of work and hassle for something ultimately... unimportant.

Though its not my place to say, wouldn't it be a better idea to iron out bugs and expand the gameworld/make it more playable as a game rather than add bloating sound content?

OP: The point of planeshift is purely the roleplay, the only building you need to find is the tavern and you have found the purpose of the game. Sound is very buggy and has been for the 5 years I've been around. There wont ever be a map I dont think, due to the fact that you can make these yourself. Part of the fun is exploring the game yourself, there is little else you can do so this seems like a good use of time.

Coming out of beta is like someone with no limbs running in the olympics, its not going to happen any time soon. The questing system has improved greatly over the 5 years ive been here though it is still at this stage, which i cannot forsee being successful, despite the amazing amount of work the devs put into it.

With the current system of questing in PS its fundamentally flawed due to the fact that people are NEVER going to type what the Devs think you will type, meaning anything requiring a fixed response that isnt a 1-9 option selection will ultimately require: A: 4 hours of your time to work out. B: Cheating by reading one of the hundreds of walkthroughs. C: being told. D: giving up on the quest.

Looking back on this post it may appear slightly negative... Sorry.

Planeshift is a nice game for rp, but if you are looking for something that works I suggest a store-bought title like wow or aoc.

Its over!! THANK GOD!!!

Ok... for creating conflict my suggestions would be: 2 factions emerge from the races of Yliakum and This should be done by race of character and then people are given the option to change faction by quests/ repuation etc... but that has to be quite hard.

Anyway people complain about PVP, not wanting to take part in it, winge about getting ganked/killed. Ok, thats going to happen, its a game, its not the end of your life particularly. Anyway the point is I think Open PVP is a little too much.

You will likely flame here but Its very good actually and i'm sure many will agree with me. World of warcraft (waits for flames) has a good war system. There are friendly areas, conflicted areas and hostile areas. This could be implemented on PS without too much trouble.

The one faction has a few starting areas, and a few low level areas that are totally PVP-free. Decent monsters, decent quests, you can train reasonably there. For the higher level of gaming, you have to go into a contested areas, which has higher monsters, monsters that give more PP.. Trepors, ulbers, tefus, etc... They all are in contested areas that have inter-faction PVP.

I think this would work because the majority of PS is a sensible community, ganking, ok it will happen, but in anywhere where pvp or conflict exists there is killing.... Sorry to burst the hello kitty bubble..

I'm not exactly sure how the factions should be split up that should be looked at in detail.. But I really think the game needs more conflict, and some areas with PVP is a good place to start.. At the moment everyone can just run to ojaroad2, kill the 40pp ulbers in a few hits, get uberxp, level to the max and just sit about doing nothing more. With PVP even if you are levelled to the max there is still incentive to carry on.

Focus on RP will not be lost through this, only enhanced as people are given the ability to RP better with the possibility of actually striking someone down... rather than having to sit through 500 declines of a duel. Or put up with a ridiculously god-mode RP fight that invariably results in both sides saying "jolly good show ol' chap, now lets go have a spot of ale in the tavern and resolve our differences like the outstanding individuals we are".

Thanks for listening and I really hope something similar to this is considered/implemented. If not, fine.

Note: I saw another poll about lack of players in PS.. I believe the lack of conflict is a good reason for people getting bored.

PS: I'd like to point out that though there is conflict between people that is not major and doesnt affect anyone but themselves, thus is not constructive to the whole game. The same for guild wars, unless on a LARGE scale.

I lol'd rather a lot actually through this whole thread.

Awesome graph, I will have to remember that..

Brush your teeth!! classic

For all those who didnt get it *sigh* it was a joke..

Check if you are silly by going here

Hmm... I usually don't like people don't read the whole thread and comment but Im going to do just this...

This is indeed a nice contrast to boredom in ps. But to be honest I think such a thing should be agreed before in ooc manner in general at least. Apart from I wonder how you carry all the things out of the house of a well known guild without being seen ic imho it would be better to speak with the victims to not scare them off oocly - because the game should be fun for _all_ players.

Apart from that... *cough* I hope not more start to use this forum as place for commercial advertizing

Sen

Ok so saying that we should plan it first... So we are meant to say to EL. "Hi, we'd like to rob your guildhall for everything you have, when would be a good time to do it, when you have lots of guards around to make it nice and fair?"

Forgive me if you think i'm stupid... but I think thats pretty stupid :p

People don't even agree to be robbed for 1 circle. How in the hell are thieves meant to survive if we can't do somthing on the spurr of the moment without OOCly asking. in advance.... Thats just stupid. Ok if we killed someone yeah we'd probably arrange that with the person.

Also permadeath is not even an option so please no talk on that.

As far as we are concerned the EL still have no evidence against us at all and until they have that I'd appreciate them not chasing us OOCly or insulting/referencing our RL & OOC lives in game.

Thank you

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