Talalas walks up to the plaza fountain, a slight smile almost hidden beneath his beard.  Hopping up on the numbered, stone block facing Harnquist's shop, he clears his throat.

"Citizens, one rogue has made us all on edge, one rogue!!  How can this be?!  We must stand together, we must work together, we must fight for our freedom and our city together.  We need answers and until we know the right questions to ask, we need to have armed patrols around the plaza at night to help protect the innocent.  He has taken by dagger point what wasn't his from a fellow Hammer, he crossed the line.  He has taken innocent lives with no regard, his line for negotiations has been erased.

We have been given the okay from the guards to protect ourselves, with magic or steel.  I believe we should have multiple groups of four or more well trained warriors patrolling from the East gate to the North gate at night.  The Night Rogue has murdered many citizens in all parts of Hydlaa, sometimes right in front of witnesses.  Yahh of the Bloodstone Brethern was able to wound the Night Rogue, just before falling to the rogue's deadly blow, so the Night Rogue can be hurt, he is mortal.  Together we can take him down and send a message to any other that feels they can do what they wish in the city.  The citizens of Hydlaa should not stand by and should never adhere to his demands.  If he wants to be with his brothers, then maybe he should join them in jail or learn how to read because he'll be spending a lot of time in the library in the Death Realm."

Talalas takes a draw from his beer mug.  Wiping the froth from his beard, he watches to see if anyone is paying attention.  Holding his head high, he continues.

"With the ability to hide and even vanish out of thin air, he must be using the many shadows at night to get around undetected.  We need answers, we need to find how he can hide so effectively, and how we can hinder his ability.  I think we need to find a way to light the city better at night.  Maybe Raithen or Levrus will know of a way to shine light into the shadows so we can track or deter this Night Rogue.  Not everyone needs to wield weapons and use glyphs either, we can use everyone's help to set up traps.  Anything that can slow the Rogue down, distract his concentration, brighten his dark clothing, louden his steps, ruin his escaping ability.  This should be done and ready to go before it gets dark.  Come together people of Yliakum or we will continue to fall individually.  You'll find me in the plaza at night and searching for him at the encampments during the early morning.  He is one, we are many.  Bring this Night Rogue to justice or he will suffer his fate at the end of our swords, the force of our axes and the power of our magic."

Talalas hops down from the stone block, looks for any volunteers and begins to get to work.

Looks good to me.  I like the idea of using a prep table or anvil to "really" fix the weapon or armor.  It should speed up the process too, so instead of waiting 10 minutes to repair some high quality item in the middle of nowhere, you can do it in under 5 minutes with a full blacksmith shop at your disposal.  And yep, keep it simple for this type of feature request, the graphical feature addition or mini-game is a whole different beast.  I think Ulfer already added a feature request for this, I think your bullet points will do well in his post.

I checked the graphics options on a Lenovo laptop with the 965 Intel graphics chip, O/S Vista 32-bit Premium.  They have options for the Intel graphics chip which you get to by right clicking the Desktop and selecting Graphic Options.  You can set Brightness, Contrast and Gamma, and even select a profile that once selected will load up an application, which I assume you can map to PS. 

Seems like this thread is a bit old news, but figured I'd post in case someone new runs into the brightness issue.  The new updated maps seem to have improved in brightness for me at least.

Shaman, if you are still having brightness issues and happen to be using Nvidia drivers or have a graphics card control panel to go to, try changing the gamma and/or brightness there.  With the windows's version Nvidia installs it is pretty nice, you can set the changes to occur only when you load the PS exe.  With Ubuntu, I load PS, then open up the Nvidia graphics settings and it triggers the gamma changes.  My LCD monitor is maxed out on brightness and still really dark without making this adjustment, I can't even see my character at some places.  This helps a lot, brightens up all maps.  All monitors and graphics cards are different, so it is tough for the game to work for each.  Though someday this type of adjustment in PS setup would be a nice add.  I'm sure if you have an ATI card, there should be very similar settings somewhere.  Need any help with it, post some specs and we can see what you can do.

I like this idea and was thinking about it when I first started playing PS.  Having this as one of the venues to gaining stats makes much more sense than using PPs and trias gained by doing something completely unrelated;  ie. why I can max charisma by killing trepors and mining platinum, still seems strange to me.  I guess I can see my character is paying for ettiquette lessons, but it should take time to improve and there should be evidence of me actually using that stat, instead of maxing it out with some simple clicks of the button and in less than a couple hours.

Example would be to train Endurance, then actually running a certain distance or be active for a while before it levels up, like skills.  Each stat can be levelled in different ways so that it is more related to roleplaying.  This is actually starting to sound like how Elder Scrolls does it, train Strength, then once you use a skill that is related to strength, like mining or heavy armor, then your Strength levels up.  Quests should be part of this though, so if a NPC wants you to learn something or answer some questions, then when you accomplish it, it adds to your intelligence.  But, also if you don't do quests, then you can train Intelligence by interacting with the community or learning new skills that are best related to intelligence.  Hmm, I wonder if this copyrighted by the makers of Elder Scrolls.  Everything can always be improved on though, except maybe chocolate cake.

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.

Are shortcuts for the chat window in the works, per chance, or maybe a new idea for the chat window?  If so, then feel free to delete me.

So, for me, it'd be handy if I could hit [ and ] or something similar to scroll through the chat tabs instead of having to use the mouse, unless this is already possible?  I know /tellnpc swithes the chat window to the NPC tab automatically, if you say something, but I was looking for a way to switch to the chat tab of choice with a shortcut key either directly to the tab you want or a shortcut scrolling feauture?

Thanks!