July 2004, I remember all i did on that time was congratulate a kran called Acraig on the work, there wasn't that much else to do. 

I remember when running down the stairs near Kada-el was enough to kill me. I do think that more than 20  minutes isn't that good, or we may start having a lot of afk chars near the spawn point. Also i believe the timer only counts on-line time right? Personaly i don't like afk chars, and whould like to remember that to be afk is banable ofense in many roleplay communities, thus paneshift shouldn't have a mech that encorages it.
One idea: how about the time of curse is  [sum of all stats]/24. That whould be around 50 minutes for veterans and around 15 for newbies.

That said, i am very happy with this new rule, this will surelly curb the suicide rate.

I love that finally loading of zones doesn't interrupt the autorun. The game runs a lot smoother in places without grass, it fells very good.

Oh, i now if i get stuck i just have to wigle around a bit in my hole to get out of it. 

 
I made the Hidlaa-Bronzedoors road three times because i mistook the tablet with a light healing potion.

Thanks Rennaj!

I have that problem for sometime now. It isn't that dificult to move around as long as you now the maps and put some gama correction so you can see the mid distance hills.

[...Good points]

One point i would add though, and one that seemingly has eluded the weapons designers of planeshift and virtually every other RPG ever made- in the real world(and i would suspect in any real world with thinking, adapting species that lacks firearms), the battlefield will ALWAYS be dominated by two weapons:

The bow, and the spear(thrown or thrust).

The reason for this is simple, as man has always sought to extend the reach of his arm beyond the limitations Nature has placed on us. Nowadays we epitomize this philosophy with thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles and B-2 stealth bombers, but before the advent of the firearm, rocketry, and aircraft, the spear and the bow absolutely DOMINATED the field of battle. OK, so the spear is not the sexiest weapon, but it was clearly by far the most preferred because with a good spear you doubled(or more) the standoff range of that a sword could achieve.

 A sword was a gentlemen or nobleman's weapon, more a sign of status than anything else, and was really a weapon of last resort(for when your spear got broken or was lost), or one intended for dueling against a weapon of similar design.

 Even the legendary Samurai did not use the Sword as their primary weapon (naginata). Nor did the Romans(Pilum), English(Pike or Pole-arm), Greeks(Phalanx Spear), and so on down the line. The legendary European knights also did not employ the sword as their primary weapon, but instead used the lance for most mounted fighting. In reality it was not until the days of firearms that Cavalry's main melee weapon become the sabre(a weapon designed to fill a very specific role in it's own right, and one that has very specific properties as a result).

In melee combat, something along the lines of a five to six foot long spear with a 12-18" double-edged blade on either end would be very, very hard to beat. You certainly would never want to face a man(or feline) armed with one of those if all you had was a sword....and that's ANY sword!!!

[..continuation of good points...]

Sincethe beginning of history the throwing spear until the fall of the western Roman Empire, eggining of the Middle Ages, the Javelin/throwing spear was the most used weapon in the known world, even the Greek armies used a great number of skirmishers, In the roman army the only warrios who didn´t used javelins was the spear-armed triarius, The germanic and celtic  tribes went to war with 3-4 spears used for throwing and thrusting, -even the ones armed with claymores-. During the middle ages the thrusting spear replaced the javelin as the basic weapon on almost every army, being replaced by the alberd type of weapon by the time of the Reinassance.

My point is: How about the javelin? we should have at least a couple of javelin designs in Planeshift. They are ideal medium range weapons so i'm sure somewhere in the stone labirinths some race whould start throwing them over their own shock troops against the enemy. Or trow them at the distance to scare off the realy mean monsters, at least...

Elvicat: Changing gama doesn't work, f you look closely in the screeshot the rocks re already too bright. Only thing that gets dark is the grounds in that particular 3 maps. All other textures have perfect lighting. It must be a mesh thing...

Andoryn: thanks for the tip. Wil use fullscren 32 bits in my tests for now on.

Ok, made another relight in fullscren, didn't work.
Time do start fiddling with Config files...
Any idea in what part of config file the lighting can be tweaked?
I'm starting by this part:

;file->psclient.cfg
; ******************
; * Part 2: Config *
; ******************

VFS.Config = vfs.cfg

Engine.Lighting.Ambient.White = 30
Engine.Lighting.Ambient.Red = 0
Engine.Lighting.Ambient.Green = 0
Engine.Lighting.Ambient.Blue = 0

Engine.Lighting.LightmapSize = 16
Engine.Lighting.Reflections = 2
Engine.Lighting.CosinusFactor = 0
Engine.Lighting.Radiosity = no
Engine.Lighting.SpriteQuality = 1

Engine.Lighting.Radiosity.Enable = no
Engine.Lighting.Radiosity.DoStaticSpecular = no
Engine.Lighting.Radiosity.StaticSpecularAmount = 0.70
Engine.Lighting.Radiosity.StaticSpecularTightness = 4
Engine.Lighting.Radiosity.ColourBleed = 1.0
Engine.Lighting.Radiosity.StopPriority = 0.1
Engine.Lighting.Radiosity.StopImprovement = 100.0
Engine.Lighting.Radiosity.StopIterations = 10000
Engine.Lighting.Radiosity.SourcePatchSize = 16