Hmm, where can I go to use it?

All the answers are in the first post, if you read it carefully you may get a clue as to who you should be lookin for

Sadly work eats up a lot of my leisure time these days, and the weekend is pretty much all I have at the moment, however I do rather enjoy a few hours over saturday-sunday just to see what's going on.

At least I have the energy and time for IRC most evenings, 

Issues:

Much longer load times on some maps, notably Hydlaa.
Massive lag, again Hydlaa, in fact I now have to use adaptive camera, something that was never needed on .19.

Shortcut buttons will take a little getting used to, but not really an issue.


All in all these are minor irritations, overall it's been a good experience so far, the world looks smoother, and lighting is more expressive than previously, ojaveda looks great, i'm hoping to make the journey out to Bronze doors later, just to complete my initial exploration of the new improvements.

I'm still awaiting my first death, and further testing of other changes and additions, but I feel positive about the upgrade so far.

If as you say you haven't tried linux before, then i'd probably have to recommend one of the Ubuntu flavours, easy enough to set up, pretty easy to install standard software. There are always plenty of alternative distros, and each has it's own particular strengths and weaknesses, Ubuntu, ( and Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc), has a decent balance of features, designed with new users in mind, it's not what I use, but it's what i recommend for a first-time user.

However as with everything linux there are a few major differences to get to grips with, it can be a steep learning curve at first, i'd prehaps suggest a dual boot configuration, as that way you can still access a familiar OS until you are ready to move to linux full time.

As it's a laptop you may find some issues with graphics drivers, however the forums here are pretty good if you know your graphics chipset   

you are refering to my hexans? ;P I just wonder where from you got the 'octans' ;>

well i assume hexans refers to the six divisions you proposed, however Jeraphon hinted that eight divisions were already a reality although not noticeable in game yet, hence octans

Do you know what is lightspeed, fiber wire and why transmissions through it are so fast? ;P

yes, the speed of light in a vacum is 299792458 metres per second, and that fibre optics use fast laser diodes for high speed data transmission, however in a hypercomplex crystalline structure such as the azure sun, who knows what reflections and refractions of the incoming light may do, there may indeed be a certain amount of light accumulation, which implies a delay in the transmission of light from surface to yliakum.

I'm not saying it's perfect science, since the refractive index of the crystal is unknown it can do anything settings says it can do, I was just trying to shed a little light on the subject

Quote from: evil scotsman on September 29, 2007, 12:49:44 pm

since regardless of the fact it's a medieval fantasy setting, the science still has to work, for me anyway. 

I like ya.

Thank you, and for the other matter, it's appreciated 

I think that indeed we would tend to use the azure sun as our natural centre point, and all major directions would be based on this, a polar coordinate system would naturally follow from this, with the divisions radiating out like the spokes of a wheel, terminating naturally at the wall, so each 'region' would be a wedge shape.

Language tends to evolve to fit the environment and culture of it's users, so I think that naturally we would refer to directions based on the position of the sun, with reference to our present position, so walking away from the sun would be something like 'anti-sun', 'wallward', or simply 'away', and toward would be 'sunward', or perhaps simply 'inward', perhaps the leftward and rightward directions would be as simply named.

I like the idea of a compass based on two systems, since this could also provide position information to a suitably skilled navigator, yet be simple enough to provide basic direction for the novice.
A system based on polar coords and a two system compass could be incredibly sophisticated, yet easy enough to use for new players, although compasses were not standard equipment for the average person in medieval times.

Planeshift has a problem, namely the compass, or to be more accurate, the cardinal directions.

Since we inhabit a spherical world we are used to using the cardinal directions we know from our childhood, North, South, East and West. However Planeshift is not spherical, and our use of Earth based directions have many major problems in our Cylindrical world.

Mostly it's a question of names, and settings. Since the world of Planeshift is cylindrical in nature, north and south lose their meaning as directions, instead i'd like to propose the adoption of more useful names, such as sunward, wallward, clockwise and anticlockwise ( or perhaps widdershins ), much the same as the conventions used in Discworld, which work in their special circular setting.

At the moment we still use the familiar north south naming system, which works only because of the restricted nature of the world we have at present, however as the world enlarges and grows, the convention of referring to the Bronze Doors as 'northward' will have to change.

In the world of yliakum the inhabitants would soon have to abandon the earth based systems they were used to, instead they would develop a naming system that described directions based on the world they found themselves in thus sunward, which would be the direction one would walk in order to go from the wall to the edge of the level, from any point in the circle this would be a consistent direction similarly the converse could be known as wallward, which would be away from the sun, toward the wall. Equally clockwise would be to walk around the level in a right hand direction, anti-clockwise, or widdershins a left hand one. Logically to give directions a combination of sunward and clockwise might be used in order to describe the location of a particular place, for instance, the bronze doors might be described as 'following the road wallward', and north gate becomes the wall gate, the south gate the sun gate, etc.

I'm not saying that these names would be the ones that would be used, more discussing the eventual adoption of some system of naming of directions in a more IC manner than the OOC manner we use at present, obviously the details will need some fine tuning, and there will always be problems with navigation in a world that has no real analogue in our own experience I'm really just trying to call attention to an issue that may confront us some time in the future as the world changes around us.