The way I thought of that the FR could be improved as an experience is that there could be differnet spawn points determined by the number of times you have died.

So the first 5 (say) times you die you spawn somewhere on the lower walkway, next 5 on the upper walkway and thereafter in the current start cave.  As the DR is expanded spawn points are added deeper in the realm or in more puzzling places and maybe even random places for the really suicidal.

It would be necessary to keep track of the number of deaths each character has, but there could also be some high level spells that reduce a players death memories (reduce the recorded deaths total) which may give players a method to buy their way out of the DR a little quicker provided someone performed the spell on them before they died. ( The spell can only be performed outside the DR and you cannot perform the spell on yourself.)

Just some random ideas on improvements from some who, after only a month of playing now regards the DR as just a minor inconvienience or even a shortcut to get back to the Plazza from places in the wilds.

rpm -V smpeg gives no output but the library files are not installed.

uninstall with yast as that is what I used to install it, then reinstall smpeg-0.4.5-228.1.i586.rpm from Konsole gives the same results. running rpm --erase gives error: package smpeg-0.4.5-228.1.i586.rpm is not installed.

Installing with -v option does not give much more info, only 1 line - Preparing packages for installation... before returning to command prompt.  Installing via command prompt does update yast to show that it is installed even though it isnt.

Great idea - only drawback is that the file is not on my computer, YAST claims it is installed but I cant find it.

Everything has been working great for a few weeks apart from a few known problems, occasional crashes and missing textures being the worst ( mostly down to incompatability between present version CS and AMD64FX)

I have recently upgraded my Suse 9.3 to 10.0 and Planeshift has stopped working, running psclient from a terminal gives -

./psclient.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libsmpeg-0.4.so.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Further investigation of Suse 10 does not show this as being part of the distribution any more, unless it is hidden in some other library. I have found a opy of it in Mandriva 10 but it is throwing up even more missing dependancies.

Does anyone know a quick way for me to get back to Hydlaa?

I would just like to confirm that there are issues with odd bits of missing textures in many places, DR, Laanx dungeons and the magic shop all spring to mind.  These are known to be missing by many Mac users but I have an AMD64 FX running Linux and they are missing with me as well.

It seems from searching the forums that it is a known problem with the Game Engine that should be corrected with the next upgrade, but I have no idea when that is expected.

Could someone that does know please confirm these facts and if possible give me some idea of how long I will be playing while wearing Zaphods sunglasses. ( the ones that go black when you are in danger just so you wont worry to much)

I am making an assumption (always fatal ) that this is a linux issue and specifically my box.

The font size of all menu items is to big, I can see the top 60% of every dialog, the chat window is OK but dialogs with traders and utility menus are affected.  I have not found any specific settings for font size or style.

Could be I have a font missing and another is being substituted.

It seems to me that the whole Linux side of this is stuffed, except perhaps if you are an \'expert.\'

The sticky on the main page gives an install that doesnt work, the \'Installers\' thread here gave something that seemed to work but I couldnt connect as the server semed to be down, then it claimed it was up but was to busy to talk to me, then I got to char gen and took some time to RTFM, by which time the server was down again.

Now I get the wrong version problem, the \'probems with updating\' thread gives some clues and a link to a script, that seems like it will fail, I have seen hundreds of error maessages so far about not being able to read or write to ~/.cvspass and messages about files found in discarded section, but I\'ll let it finish running and see what happens.