I am Gorphus Grenfel. I like to craft and mine alot. I have bought my theory training and am using my skills very often. I monitor my practice regularly and of late I have recieved no increase in any of my active practice!!! How am i supposed to advance without my use of skills earning the rewards they deserve??? It grieves me deeply that I am being held back like this. Please can someone guide me to a solution!

Advancing skills thru practice has been a problem for one of my characters for a number of days who uses a pc (Windows XP).   While the
character on my Mac has no problem.     Sheloo (on the PC) eventually made a petiition for help.    So Noxide came to her rescue and said
others had the same problem.   He even arranged for Sheloo to go from 3.75 skill level in mining to 2.99 and  got transported to a coal mine
instead of the pt mine.  To no avail.     Practically all the job skills are bugged.   Only the sword skill seemed bugged now.  I believe the knive
& daggers skill got fixed.  Also melee (level 22) and axe (level 6) are  to be working.    For awhile all the ways were working until I went to Oja and trained up
in blue way and then Blue and Azure ways stopped getting practice points.    Crystal way continue fine until I hit level 11 and it too stopped. But
Red, brown and dark continued to get practice points (but then they were below 11)   I did train dark up to 15 and it continued  to get practice
points.      Oh, part way thru the situation I trained in Empathy and got practice points there.   

So is it just a PC problem and not a Mac problem.  Well I had developed another char on the PC and she had mining skills and fortunately had
some pps and money and so I had her buy a pick and train up to 3 plus.  She went to the Øja Iron mine and dug iron and got practice points.

Noxide  suggested going to Bugtracker.  But after signing in with username and password, I can not figure out how to comment or even start
a new theme.   Still can't.   

Of late, my characters have run into several players who obviously followed a predefined path.
Also I created on character with a predefined path to confirm that the stats are still the same for
an Enkidukai.   The only difference is that the skills are different between the type of character -- warlock, rogue, etc.
So, here it is 2007 and no change.   
 

Mmm, could be. Delete the file "version.dat" from your Planeshift folder and then update.

Well, your suggestion worked for me!  Hurrah!
tried 3 times before deleting version.dat as follows.

Checking repository version...repository is current
Copying repository
Converting to string...
Copying complete
Compiling list of files to update (this may take a few minutes)...Done
Loading file list
Converting to string...
Loading complete
Updating root(6697 bytes of data)...Done
Updating data(6697 bytes of data)...
Error updating file updaterconfig.xml
Done
Updating docs(6697 bytes of data)...
Error updating file updaterconfig.xml
Done
Updating support(0 bytes of data)...Done
Updating art(6697 bytes of data)...
Error updating file updaterconfig.xml
Done
Updating Mac-specific files(6697 bytes of data)...
Error updating file updaterconfig.xml
Done
Update completed at 10/24/2006: 04:54:34

[actually after this update?, I got briefly into the mine area in Bronze Doors and before I could even do anything I crashed.][by the way I put 2 in the window area of the updater]

[I ran a console log and have it saved to send to you, if needed.]
I also noted that while looking at it the sound was enabled, so remembering that sound was sometimes bad in the past, i unchecked sound in  pssetup.   It still crashed once I got into the mine.  The only change in the mine was that there were not other characters in view]

[after deleting ‘version.dat’ I ran the updater.jar again and got
Unofficial Planeshift Updater.
The author of this program is not liable for any results of installing and/or using this program.
Use at your own risk.
By using this program you agree not to take any legal action against the author for any reason relating to this program.

No mirrors found, using default.
Update started at 10/24/2006: 05:28:39
Using backup mirror.
Checking repository version...repository is out of date
Downloading zipped repository
Unzipping repository
Copying repository
Converting to string...
Copying complete
Compiling list of files to update (this may take a few minutes)...Done
Loading file list
Converting to string...
Loading complete
Updating root(13662 bytes of data)...Done
Updating data(0 bytes of data)...Done
Updating docs(0 bytes of data)...Done
Updating support(0 bytes of data)...Done
Updating art(73396315 bytes of data)...Done
Updating Mac-specific files(0 bytes of data)...Done
Update completed at 10/24/2006: 05:39:50

Looks fixed to me!

Well it is not  fixed anymore!    Everytime I leave PS or the game crashes, any new items can not be stacked with the old items.  So the
slots in the inventory is quickly taken up.

 

yes I am having he same problem with stacking items in my inventory.   It will make picking up stuff much harder.   Players are dropping
loot all over the place which I hear creates lag in the game.      So the new inventory situation will cuase an increase in lag.  I pick up stuff quite a bit and sell the stuff.  that includes apples, bread and fish.   I know others do the same.

 

Thank you, dfryer! Thank you very much!!
 

My  sentiments too.   Three cheers and hurrah for Dfryer and ChaOs too!

 

Perhaps, many of you did not know that Ayshe had set the final decision for disbanding the Feline's Lair (FL) or anouncing it restart
on May 23, 2006.   But if you examine the FL forums you would discover that.

So, Ayshe what is the Verdict?

I have met a few members of the FL in game in recent weeks.