GMA950 isn't supported. I was able to get PS working on my mac book sometimes, but like all unsupported graphics cards, it was prone to game shattering bugs. Getting a new graphics card in a mac book will be hard, as I believe the graphics card is integrated. You'd have to get a whole new motherboard, and at that point it would be cheaper to get a new computer. You can fool around with the settings and see if you can make something work, but it is unlikely that it will make much of a difference.

Some NPC's do move as well. If you can't find one, you may have to wait a bit until they reappear.

I once ate a whole lemon. Peel and all. Like an apple. If you think I did that for reproduction purposes you would be wrong. Lemon eating will NOT get me a date. And as for survival I did not need to eat that lemon. In fact, it made me really sick afterwards. But I did it anyways. Of course I made ten bucks off of it, so I guess that is a motivation. I guess we have to factor in greed.   

One thing that has helped me in the past was actually a tip from a directing book. The tip was titled "Every scene is a chase scene. Every character must want something. If not, why would they partake in any sort of action? It can be simple enough. Perhaps character A wants to know where character B is from. Perhaps character B does not want to talk about where they are from. This back and forth, giving and taking is essential for creating engaging stories on stage, and in RP. I've often fallen into the rut of "Well what do I say next to keep this going?" And a good way of getting out of that is asking myself "What does my character want here?" Often times we ignore the little goals. Identifying what they are is incredibly helpful for playing a character in any situation.

I joined PS for the RP at first. Good thing people where so forgiving back then. Because I was god awful at it. I actually had a subscription to World of Warcraft at the time, and I wandered and ended up here. My first two characters where flops, but then I decided to do something entirely different with the third. I decided I wanted her to be shaped by her own experiences, and not be a badass from the start. That was Zalya. I remember one of my first 'RP's' was asking for help to get to Hydlaa ICly. I think it was Merivo who walked me there. There I bumped into a few people at Kada's and over the next few days wound up meeting Elady at the Stonehead. I believe this was while you where away for a bit Illy. And well, one thing led to another, and now four years later Zalya is one of my favorite characters to play.

I'd love to see it change as well for RP reasons. Right now I can literally spend a whole two in-game days just talking to someone. It makes little sense. What I'd like to see is different NPC's around that train the same thing, and offer the same services, so there is always somewhere to go. It would be neat if the ingame time was comparable to RL time in some sense. Maybe not the same to account for different time zones, but something like 19 hours to a day, or maybe just six light cycles per day, instead of six days per 24 hours. We have a unique setting anyways. It would not be going too far to change the way time is measured.

I would love to see RP and game play work in synergy. I just don't see it happening though. They are just on entirely different wave lengths right now. It just doesn't make sense for everyone who visits Hydlaa for the first time to know jack squat about everything. What about all of that time they spent before arriving in the city? Of course you can't be a famous weapon smith right off the bat, but must you know next to nothing? I would much rather spend that time I could put into grinding, doing something that I actually enjoy, like RPing, or learning new things as a player. If I don't touch the mechanics, but I do my research, get good at writing sword descriptions, and find a good source of stock props why can't I be a purely RP'd smith? I'd put in just as much time as someone else would, and get far more out of it in my eyes.

And then there is the training factor. PS assumes that all people learn in the same way. It makes absolutely no sense that every single person in the world has to learn from the same trainers. PP, and tria are also broken too. Not much of the system, or anything about any MMO's makes sense when you try to add narrative logic to it. The two just don't mesh. No computer is ever going to be able to think on its feet, and make creative narritive choices on the spot. Not while any of us are alive anyways.

Sure anyone can type /roll and /me, but it takes real skill to make it interesting. Its the difference between

SoandSo swings a sword

and

SoandSo narrowly dodges the blade. Kra spins around using the momentum to heave his own sword down towards kra's attacker with crushing force.

Being descriptive, and reactive in an RP is a skill in and of itself that deserves far more attention than spending 300 hours learning how to smith 300q sabers.  When I see a good RP'd fight, I get excited. I feel like I can picture it. When I see a purely mechanics driven duel, it just looks like two idiots running back and forth, idly swinging weapons in the others direction. Its just not fun.

I personally can't touch the mechanics. It makes me frustrated, and I never feel accomplished when all is said and done. I've tried, and it didn't work for me. So I RP whenever I can. I won't let numbers define my character as much as I won't let numbers define me. Stats and rules should bend to the story, not the other way around. Only a real, human player can do that. That is what makes RP so engaging to me. The flexibility, the creativity, and the reliability. If I wanted to play a game for the game play alone, I would not play Planeshift.

I am glad though that these points are being brought up. I love to hear other points of view. It often times gives me a new perspective on things. Perhaps we only save the dice conventions for special player run events?