Over & over? I've been listening to my own account for 3 days, roughly 4 hours a day, haven't heard an repeats, and only 2 songs from the same album that I can recall, & perfect choices on those too, from Zeppelin Physical Graffitti    nowhere near as repetive as my local radio station.

Karyuu, as mentioned I submitted 3, show them all if you like, I'm shure I'll survive the "constructive critisim", but technically, my 3rd, a terrible attempt at a reptilian rat, is not a valid contest entry.

So we have an official winner(s),  and a "People's Choice"     and ditto on the  "dont post mine".. at leas not that 3rd one wich was auto disqualified.. I hope
It was really an attempt at humor.. justl not very funny humor.

In my excitemnet I whipped up 2, no 3,  skins and submitted them. I should have practiced first. I think I have gotten better.. a little

My attempt at the common one eyed lab rat


at least I would of known the limit was two.

Congrats to all the rat skinners who perfected their works and then submitted them. Patience is truly a virtue


I before E except after C and truly has a U in it!

That is a pretty good game, but you are right, would be impracticle to explain in game.    Someday I'll try to work out poker,

Something like ..

1 player is selected as "the dealer", they'll only need money to gamble with.
The "ante"  and "max bet" are agreed upon,
All players put their ante in a pile,
Each player gets 3 cards
/roll 1 13
/roll 1 13
/roll 1 13

Now each player has the option to raise or fold,

Once everyone has had a chance to raise or fold, players can now call, or continue to raise etc..
Once someone "calls", the dealer deals 2 house cards
/roll 1 13
/roll 1 13

The player with the best 5 card combo wins the pot, following standad poker rules, excluding hands dependant on suit,
1 pair, 2 pair, 3 of a kind, full house, 4 of a kind, straight, 5 of a kind.

I guess I could be considered by some a PLer.. in my own defense, all the good RPers I know can kill a bandit in one or two strikes...

anyways, on topic.

I kinda like the idea actually, but I think I have a slightly better way to keep it in ratio, as a character progresses skill wise.

Once a week, occuring on the day of creation as before, but...
total the values for all skills, multiply by some number, like 0.2  .. maybe 0.5, rounded     
that number will be the number of level increases the player is alloted for the week.
whenever a player "ranks up", 1 point is subtracted.  If they try to rank up and have zero points left, they're told something like "you cant concentrate and are unable to master XYZ skill,"  possibly display how many RL hours they need to "relax" before resuming studies

This way your ability to learn more per week does increase, eg; your character learns how to learn, which is natural.
It's at a fixed ratio for everyone, hopefully motivating players to specialize more as they start out, rather than trying to learn everything. It also rewards players who have mastered a few skills, by later allowing them to start learning neglected skills a little faster.

Yes I certainly could of used a how-to a month or so ago, probably still could. Thanks to a few, particularly Induane and Illori...   some ramblings, deductions etc.. Please correct/append as needed.   I used Windows & Photoshop for the most part, later I used Gimp for Windows to ensure PNGs were RGB/indexed where neccesary.  (What can I say, I'm a web developer, a 0.5MB image file seemed blasphemous)

What I did...
With Winzip installed, browsed to the skins directory, C:\Program Files\PlaneShift Crystal Blue\art\skins\     in my case,
Right clicked one of the bundled themes, on context menu select
Winzip >> Extract to C:\Program Files\PlaneShift Crystal Blue\art\skins\THEME_NAME

rename the directory to what you want to call your theme, you'll be talking & typing it, so shorter is better, mine's called prpl

edit skin.xml   put in your  <name>, <author> and <description>   info

edit/review imagelist.xml      take note of the "trans" values for the mouse cursor, typically 255,255,255 aka white
I edited mine to be grey since at one point my mouse pointer had pure white in it
    <trans r="99" g="99" b="99" />
whatever value you pick, be consistent and always use that color/pallete entry for transparencies where applicable.

When saving images, ensure your PNGs are in RGB mode, except the mouse cursor, it should be saved in index mode, using the correct transparency/alpha channel value defined in imagelist.xml

after modifying your theme, browse back to your new theme directory , C:\Program Files\PlaneShift Crystal Blue\art\skins\prpl  in my case..

Right click, create new winzip file,  I of course renamed mine  prpl.zip
ALT, E, I  to invert the file selection,   you should have 5 items selected, 3 folders, 2 xml files

Right drag the 5 items onto your zip file , Winzip should open, the default options are likely fine, but I uncheck everything  leaving
action on "Add/Replace"  and Compression at Normal    Click "Add"

Copy the new/freshened zip file up one directory, to :\Program Files\PlaneShift Crystal Blue\art\skins\
Run Setup and select the new theme if needed and launch psclient
 
When distributing your theme, take a minute or 2 to ensure you aren't including un-needed development files, like PSDs, that make the download bigger than it needs to be.