who is running the May market and when?

Hydlaa – Hosting Guild: Bounty Hunters, Main Host: Earowo and Derator,
[Date: January, May, September, last Saturday 9:00pm/21:00, GMT]

T'would be Hydlaa's turn, talk to Earowo or Derator if they have decided to change the date and/or time from when they previously hosted it. 

I don't mind guards roaming around patrolling, but vendors leaving at night is the stupidest thing ever. No other game does it for a reason, time consuming for players. No player is going to want to wait around for up to 2 hours (12 hours IG time, I believe?) waiting for their NPC to arrive. Instead they'd go get a life and stop playing Planeshift and buy Minecraft or WoW instead.

I could probably guarantee that WoW had this idea but dropped it because of it's time consumption to their players. You want the players to stay playing the game and not be bored, thus give them what they want when they want it.

With guards patrolling, making them stop walking when you want to train, talk or trade with them, would be a good task to place on your list of improvements, possibly at the top.

As it is Planeshift is frustrating enough with it's amount of lag, bugs, imbalance PPs, mobs and training, and broken quests.

Quote from: LigH on January 11, 2012, 03:06:33 am

This way, PlaneShift is developing from a playable and enjoyable game to a graphic demo you can just watch but not use...

I feel this way more and more with each update.

+1

If you can't find them anywhere there are plenty around many player run merchants sell them or you can just redo the quests to get them again.

The interior to Harnquist means you can now go inside the closed doors?? I have just finished updating and the doors are shut and right click wont work.

My opinion isn't how to get more players into the game, that wont solve the issue. The game is a bit technical and hard to play and the general public shouldn't really get involved because it's something not for them. The general public has a low frustration tolerance (because of the amount of polished commercial games), meaning they get frustrated easily. That is why we shouldn't attract the general public. Planeshift is a frustrating game for new players this is where I think we need to focus on. Making it less frustrating.

Here's my opinions, practically the same as the losing players thread:
Planeshift needs more support for the newer players (no not just the help tab). Generally speaking, to start off it should be easier then gradually get harder, like every game I've ever played.
- Getting chased by the easiest creature in the game, a rat, is just frustrating. Rats should always be a one hit kill. It's not hard to make rats (and some other creatures) easier to kill.
- More reward after the tutorial, even if they choose the easy way out, maybe only half as much tria.
- Quest chains making more sense, where to start (why start here, where will this lead you to?) and who to go to next?

Get rid of PPs, no other game uses such a system, for various reasons. Too hard to balance, too hard to play the game. Planeshift simply and obviously does not have the resources to balance such a system and therefore I believe it should be scrapped. (Planeshift is in Alpha, let's just see how it works without it. Get some testers to try it out, see if it helps making the game easier.)

Sorry it's a little off-topic.

Does the window look like this?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25106032/Planeshift%20window.png

If so, this is PSlaunch and the only window that will pop up is if there's an update pending to be downloaded.

You can possibly ignore it by clicking the 'OK' button and then 'Play' however if the update is large the server won't allow you to play therefore you will need to update.

If you use Window 7 (which you stated you do)
Go into 'start' click on 'computer' 'local disk C' click on 'program file' scroll down till you find the folder 'Planeshift' and click on it, then go down to PSlaunch and left-click once then right-click it, click on 'run as administrator'.
OR
Like Naira said. If you have a short-cut, right-click that. Click on 'Run as Administrator'.

Your security may come up with a warning stating something like this 'are you sure you want to allow an unknown publisher to access your computer', click 'Yes'

Then the window (The PSlaunch window) will pop up with a 'do you want to update?' 'Yes' or 'No' question. What I do, however, is click 'no' and click 'repair' and then that will search for fixes and updates, it will then ask if you want to update, click 'yes' then after a few minutes, hours, days or often even millenniums it will be finished. YAY time to play PlaneShift!!

To do the above you need administrative rights to your computer I think.

True now I see what point you are making Derula. Nice downtime logger, I think there used to be one way back with the Singapore server, it made graphs about player numbers in each month and downtime and stuff.

Also, because this is a topic about the new server/server change. It might be good that the devs work on fixing all the web pages linked to EZPCUSA and Zeroping and change them to the new server, such as MyPlane, the list of guilds on PS.it, etc.

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