there are several places in PS where your character is looking from one defined area(the one he is in) to another defined area. I am fairly sure that the Kada-El Tavern in Hydlaa and the Laanx Temple are their own seperate maps from Hydlaa plaza. If I am standing outside of the Tavern, Or I am in a tunnel at the edge of a map boundry I can see across into the next map. But if I am standing in front of the open door to the Laanx Temple or to Levrus's magic shop I can't. It fails to draw in that section of the screen. I can get the same failure to draw problem in the BD fortress, because there are things on the map that are beyond the range of the settings I have for the camera in the camera->Details section. But the one in the BD fortress as I am looking out is expected and is a result of keeping total calculations do to maintain frame rate.

I used to be able to see into these buildings from the outside in version 0.4.03.

System -- Gentoo
Kernel 2.6.22
Video Card Nvidia Geforce 5200 FX

When using nvidia-drivers (kernel module and glx) version 169.09 I get vertical stripes in some textures and in the displays of magical effects.
nvidia-drivers (kernel module and glx) version 100.14.19 works just fine.

I have been playing a crafter now for a little bit, and this is where I think a lot can be done to give the game more flair and make more use of items already in the game.

1). Currently for the crafting of Armor and Weapons we have the following metals available
    A) Copper
    B) Bronze
    C) Iron
    D) Steel.

There are other metals that can be mined, but if you are being true to chemistry and physics, then you wouldn't
use Zinc, Mercury,Silver or Gold except as ornamentation.

2). As it stands right now, unless changed, only steel will be used for weapons and iron for shields.

This means that we have at least two metals that even if you added the rules for them wouldn't be used on shields and three on weapons, because steel weapons and iron shields (steel if you allowed it) are the best. And who is going to make inferior weapons when all of his competitors can also make steel. So if you want to see some more variance in the composition of weapons then you need to structure it so that it is the less effective weapons that can be made first. The Copper, the Bronze, the Iron swords and clubs. (not to sure about the copper but I know that bronze was in use long before iron or steel.). This is not to say that your current system doesn't work, just that there is no justification for making bronze. You have an alloy in the rules that wouldn't be used to make weapons at all since steel exists.

So here is my proposition as it were.

  Metals used
   A) Copper
   B) Bronze (alloy of copper and tin)
   C) Brass (alloy of copper and zinc)
   D) Iron
   C) Steel (alloy of Iron and Carbon aka Coal)

  Weapons and Shields

   A) Low levels use copper.
   B) Mid Low levels use bronze
   C) Mid levels use brass
   D) Mid High levels use iron
   E) High levels use steel

  Metallurgy From Low to High

   A) Melting Copper, Copper ingots
   B) Melting Tin, Tin Ingots. Copper Stocks
   C) Melting Zinc, Zinc Ingots, Tin Stocks, Making Bronze, Bronze Ingots
   D) Making Brass, Brass Ingots, Zinc Stock, Bronze Stock
   E) Melting Iron, Iron Ingots, Brass Stocks
   F) Melting Silver,Mercury. Silver Ingots, Mercury ingots, Iron Stocks
   G) Making Steel, Steel ingots, Silver Stock Mercury Stock
   H) Melting Gold, Gold ingots, Steel Stock
   I) Gold Stock.

As you can see from my list it would cause more variety of crafted items to enter the game, It would extend the length of time needed to master your craft.

What I don't know is because this radically alters the availability of the various metals what you would have to do about all the other items currently running around in the game. It would certainly force the creation of a greater variety of weapons, shields and armor.

First off, this complaint is about how things that don't pose a problem on their own, are a problem together.

1) Because of the way that the quest system is setup, you don't want to have more than 1 quest running at a time.
2) Because of another problem, that of non repeatable quests you changed it so that we can't discard a quest anymore.
3) Some quests require that you complete a second or third quest in order to finish the first.
4) Since some quests are linked, if you don't find out about the second quest to finish the first, you are stuck with a quest that you cannot complete.

Now maybe I missed a clue somewhere, but in the case of Hiacheius's lost golden shield diagram, I was told that I had to go and see Canyt Klannarr and get a quest from her in order to finish the first. Now if another player hadn't told me that I don't know if I would have ever managed to finish the quest. Like I said there may have been a clue that I missed, but in all that I did I never saw anything to point me in that direction. And since its known that having more than one quest open at a time can cause problems I wouldn't have gone around asking for quests in the hopes that I would find a solution to the quest I was working on.

Now, I propose the following solution.
1) In the case of linked quests, change them from being two or more separate quests to just one continuous quest. This way the person would still have to find each of the npc's and perform the needed tasks for the quest, but they wouldn't be constantly thinking, do I need to break the 1 quest rule and take on a new quest to finish the old quest. And in the idea of linked quests I am referring primarily to quests that give you a reward thats used to finish the previous quest. In the cases where one quest unlocks another quest this wouldn't be a problem cause you would only have one quest open at a time.
2) Allow the discarding of repeatable quests.
3) Keep a lock on non repeatable quests so that you can't delete them.

Thats my rant for the day.
Robert T Childers.

Maybe I haven't made enough swords and daggers, but there seems to be a problem with the quality equations (the 300 cap that isn't there, not withstanding).  The handle if it is of higher quality than the blade seems to be the only determining factor in the filnal quality of the dagger or sword.

Example knfe handle -- 291, dagger blade -- 156,  dagger kit -- 291, Dagger --331.

I can work with the system as it is, but it just seems to be totaly unrealistic. The blade should have the majority of the effect on the final product quality. Even though the grip of the dagger or sword is important it is the blade that is the business end.

And I know this is more of a bug report than a wish list. Cause I think your current equations doing what they do, are well, bugged.

First off I know that some of this has been covered before in various posts but I think that what I am posting was not covered exactly, but rather I am stating what I think is an answer to several posts (I read a ton of them before writing this post).

The Problem: The System is too limiting and unrealistic. Take for example the Book of Blades. 1 stock -- knife handle, 2 - stocks Sword handle, 4 stocks Dagger Blade, 6 stocks -- Shortsword etc. As the number of blades to be made increases so does the number of stocks to be used. This can easily create a balancing problem as well as just being unrealistic. Take the Sabre. this is a thinner lighter weapon than the shortsword (looks to be based on the roman gladius). But based on what I have done so far, you will have to use more  than 6 stocks for a sabre if its even in the list of blades to be made.

Why: The system needs to be not only more realistic but it also needs to be more flexible.

Solution: The answer to the problem would require a bit of a reworking of the code, as well as the creation of new data in the databases. And a new items as well.
  1) New items. A new container that would hold the books or blueprints of weapons, armor, shields and anyother crafting item you could think of. This would be needed because of the increase in the number books that the player would have. It would operate similiar to the Glyph Sack. Eventually a second container similiar to the bookshelf in the jayose library would be needed once player house's of some sort are created. A new set of books to be aquired. Each book would be for a class or type of weapon. Shortsword, Dagger, Longsword etc. This gives the dev's a way to create a more balanced system since now there are more options available and you can now have items that are different in class and design but close enough to each other in weight that the same number of stocks would be more reasonable.

2) The books would have skill requirements so that more complex or powerful weapons would only become available if the character has the required skill level. This would show up in the new system of menu's.Just like you can only repair items of a certain complexity based on your level of repair skill, only those weapons you have the skill to make would become available.

3) A new system of crafting items. Not a radical change, just the addition of a new window with a menu for the selection of what your creating. This way you can have one set of blueprints or book give you multiple blades of differing complextity within the same class. A good example of this would be if you wanted to allow players to make say Simple Daggers, Dark Daggers, SilverWeave Daggers etc. Those items  on the new menu would be the items that you could make given the number of stocks etc that you are working on and the level of skill you have. If you have worked a stock once to make say Dagger Alpha Blade, then a second working wouldn't require the menu since all  your doing is refining the blade you started with unless you want them to start with the simple blade and then if they have skill have the menu would give them the more complex blade.

It is the third point that is most required. Even if only the third point is implemented and you didn't replace the Book of Blades with multiple books for different classes of swords, the addition of a menu based on number of stocks, or other items being worked on would still give you more flexibility in the system. But I think having multiple books would be best, as this opens up more quests that you can make.

4) A side note -- Player Created Books. What I am talking about here is not where you have code that takes a set of weapon stats and creates a book based on the characters skill although this is possible as well, but rather the character/player would create a weapon design, this would consist of the parts required, the stats of the weapon, potion etc. This is then submitted to the devs/Gm/etc. If it is accepted then the character would be given the book. Like all books the entries would only be available if the character has the needed skill level to build the item in question

So to wrap this up.
1) A new system of menu's to add flexibilty to the crafting process without making a radical change to the system. 2) New items to be used in the system. 3) Player created items possible, with two ways of handling this. A) A set of menus where you select the effects of the item to be made and a set of tables draws up the plans. Or B) you submit your plans to the GM/Dev etc and they create the item when they add the appropriate data to the crafting tables. Option A, has the advantage that you select the available options for plan creations and the players decide what they want in a particular item. It is flexible but would require a more comprehensive dataset to be created, Option B needs less data upfront but does require continual human intervention to work.