Per has a point, up to a point. Anyone who knows the Richard Sharpe stories might remember an Exploring Officer named Maj. Septimus (ie. \"seventh\" ) Pyecroft. (Good stories, those, if you like that sort of thing...) Mostly, though, they\'ll be ordinal numbers spelled out (fifth, sixth, seventh etc.) rather than cardinal numbers or digits.

Most importantly IMHO is that, as Roander points out, every name means something, and ordinal names like Septimus or Eleventh really mean \"My parents had too many children and not enough imagination. \"

I still think that an adjective surname like Samildanach would best be balanced by a common, maybe even boring, given name like, I don\'t know, Fingal, perhaps? (You don\'t suppose Fingal might be derived from the phrase \"fionn Gael\", do you?)

That\'s my 2 tria, so I\'ll shut up now.

Originally posted by Kiramon

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Originally posted by Mr. Dave
Interesting idea - one execution for petty theft, five for grand theft, ten for premeditated murder, fifty for high treason...?

if you can find these different ways, then just go ahead

Nono - I meant \"execute the perp once for petty theft, five times for grand theft etc. etc.\" \'Cause, unles you do something really extreme, your executee is gonna find his way back to the Life Realm eventually.

Sudden thought - could banishment to the Death Realm be the sentence for some crimes?

I can\'t suggest anything, except that almost any common Gaelic given name should be acceptable (Disclaimer: I am not a GM and have no authority to approve or reject names   ). It seems to me, though, that Samildanach should be quite acceptable as a second name, in keeping with traditional medieval usage.

Memo to self:
To-do item #4339 - learn Gaelic

On several occasions I\'ve seen messages in the Communication window which I *should not* have recieved. These include GuildChat and GroupChat for guilds/groups to which I do not belong, /tells probably not meant for me, /says from characters apparently in other regions, and on one occasion a \"You tell...\" message that was obviously from someone else\'s conversation.

This happens infrequently, perhaps once in several hours\' play, and at extremely irregular intervals. From conversation, I\'m aware that other players have also encountered this. I\'ve noticed it in every region except the sewers, which I haven\'t visited recently.

I have also submitted this to BugTracker as bug #635.

You could, perhaps, go to the mines and offer to buy platinum for, say, 9 or 10 tria, or maybe gold for 4 tria. You might not get any takers, but you might interest some of the advanced miners who can dig up a full load faster than they can get to Hydlaa and back.

In another thread, acraig mentioned that he\'s working (slowly) on a players\' character-animation tool. (I say \"slowly\" \'cause he has lots of more-urgent stuff to do as well.) Perhaps you could use that to have your character \"Curl Up For a Nap\" or perhaps \"Stand In Profound Contemplation\".

/me leaps into the fray

First, welcome to Yliakum, Zaxim.

Second, before Moogie tells you, I will: The button is your friend.

Now, progression points: You use these, along with tria, to buy skills training from the trainer NPCs. You need 42 tria to use one porgression point (pp), and you need several pp to train one level, depending on the skill. The good news: if you train in Melee, you\'ll find unarmed combat even more effective than it is now. The bad news: before you can do that, you\'re gonna have to kill more rats.

As for daggers: Planeshift is a work-in-progress. This means that many features and elements, like daggers, are not yet available. They will be, eventually. Some day. A good rule of thumb is don\'t train any weapon you don\'t already own.

Hope that helps.

While browsing Bugtracker in search of my Exchange Tria problem, I noticed an unconfirmed bug #521 - Can\'t Practise Light Armour While Wearing Leather Armour. I know that as of 2005-04-07 you can practise Light Armour while wearing armour; it just takes a lot longer. How do I report this to BugTracker?

Thanks,
Dave