I was attending an auction in the plaza held by Proglin following normal RL auction house procedures.  He would describe the item then people would bid using auction channel.  Suddenly people were silenced.  It turned out to be Tarel.  He then appeared in the Plaza and said that at a GM meeting 5 weeks ago, it was decided that auction channel would only be used for description of item and all other bidding and such should be done in tells.

First, where was this published to the players?  You can not silence people for not adhering to a rule that was never published.  That in itself is an abuse of GM powers.

Second, to keep bidding honest the bids should be public.  While Proglin is an honest auctioneer who can say if the current bid published is a true bid or a ploy to drive the price up?

Third, have the GMs ever attended a RL auction?  I have attended silent auctions, auctions with placards, and auctions done by voice only.  The silent auction preferred by the secret GM meeting won't always work in the PS environment.

Please rethink this policy.  If this policy is to remain, then publish it in the Player's Guide.  If it isn't in the guide, it doesn't exist.

I would like to compliment the author of the Ancient Sword Quest.  It was well written and easily completed without the usual "guess the right phrase" game that some of the other quests require.  I hope to see more like this one in the future.

Updater now working properly and I now have the 14b view.  Interesting artwork!

I\'ll never forget the last words my grandfather said to me.


 \"A bus...\"



by Emo Phillips

Open Windows Explorer.  Navigate to your C drive and browse to c:\\Program Files\\Planeshift Crystal Blue\\art\\world\\.  This is the directory where you want to store the zip file you downloaded with Nilrem\'s directions.  I hope this helps.

I\'m having many problems with the latest update (2/25/06).  After manually downloading the update file I was able to get the new update, but the arena map was completely dark.  Kerol suggested I use the -fullbright switch which gave me a kaleidoscopic view of everything.  (nVidia GeForce 6600 on WinXP)  Later when I died, I was stuck in the constant loop of falling and dying in the DR.  I tried /unstick, and I tried /die, to no avail.  I tried updating zoneinfo.xml detailed in this thread with no change in the dying loop. Thankfully Kerol was still online and I was able to send him a tell between deaths asking him to relocate me which he did.

In the 2 hours I was on, I was disconnected frequently and would usually error when loading again.  I ran the updater again and received a message that the libmng-cs.dll file failed.