A sleepyness bar? That\'s what the fatique bar is there for...

But, pretty please, we definitely NEED coffee... no good game without pitch black, steeming hot coffee to get your character addicted to!

Rather (or, better still: additional) there should be some command like /play [instrument] [emotion] - for those of us who want to play bards while lacking the talent of playing ourselves

/play guitar happy
---> cheerful guitar music starts to play
---> people within range get the message \"Antranianni starts playing a cheerful tone on her guitar\"

See, the main problem were not the things you said, but HOW you said them... you made yourself everybodys enemy right with your first post. Actually, I\'m really astonished how rather nice the answers in the first thread were, in other communities you\'ld have been flamed right away (and, no offense, quite justified).

Apologizing for your rude words, but at the same time complaining about the rude answers to that, didn\'t help either - just leave it be at that, it seems like you DO have interesting things to say and it would be a shame if people would simply start to ignore you because of a bad start.

Also, please try to understand why people are thinking what you said sounded hilarious: Did you ever make a game yourself before? It DOES sound easy first, and on the paper it might look like everything will just go fine - but to be true, for Planeshift to even come as far as it did by now is a HUGE acomplishment. Most games die within the first 6-12 months (the rest going down after another 4 months), because what sounded easy at first turned out to be a pain in the... well, you know.

I\'ve participated in quite a couple of game developments up to now, and only ONE of them didn\'t end up dying. The main problem is, non-profit development is SLOW, no matter how many people volunteer to help at the beginning.

Believe me, 99% of the people you recruit now will be gone within a couple of weeks and you\'ll constantly have vacant positions within your team - vacant positions that\'ll slow down development even more - and slow development kills commitment - and a lack of commitment results in fewer developers - and fewer developers result in vacant positons... you see were this is going?

That\'s the reason why people laugh at you when you talk about how much better your game will be than Planeshift - Planeshift simply is one of the really, really rare non-profit gaming projects that managed to survive past the initial 12 months, so it\'s rather hilarious to compare it to a pre-development project.

But - and again I believe you should just try to get on good terms with everybody again - it seems like you could help make Planeshift a bit better, as long as you stop telling the devs what they (in your opinion) are doing wrong and start proposing better ways to do it. I\'m sure your suggestions WOULD be appreciated!

Hm... that kind of makes you wonder why they never did a browser version of EQ2...

Having fun together a \"waste of time\"? Brr... I\'ll nerver understand certain people

Well, it\'s a comon problem of many (if not all) MMORPGs... you have to kill monsters to gain skills and money, while you practically get \"punished\" for simply roleplaying your character.

I used to organize religious activities at other games and quite know how it feels to celebrate with barely a handful of people.

But I don\'t understand why it seems to be especially hard with PS. I already had some nice encounters IG, so there HAVE to be quite a few roleplayers in here


Btw: That festival of yours sounds great - any way a no-money, no-skill, no-nothing newbie can help out with that a bit?

Originally posted by Moogie
Are you speaking of just contributing material, or actually joining the team?

I don\'t know what exactly I\'m speaking of (I never do j/k).

I\'ld really want to contribute more than just once, on a semi-regular base - yet I can\'t say how much time I\'m able to invest each day/week/month.

During holidays, when my health\'s fine and the other projects are going slow again, I\'ld be able to work 5 to 10 hours a day - but then again there are times when I\'ld have to stop working for an entire month or even longer. That\'s my main problem.

So joining the team as a regular member is out of the question, but would it be possible to become a contributor at this rate?

Originally posted by hereticalfaction
How about a CHA-only based bargaining skill plus a factorto represent the affinity between merchant alignment and charachter alignment?

8o

Please, no!

This system SOUNDS quite nice and well considert, yet try to think what this would mean ingame... you\'ld have to stick with a chosen alignment forever, because making the alignment changeable would totaly break this system.
(\"Let\'s see... to get the best price with this smith I\'ll have to set my alignment to lawful stupid...\" )