In another thread, I was told to do this to fix the darkness bug.

Go to the PS icon on your desktop. RIGHT click on it to bring up the window.

Click on Properties.

Look at the path. Add \" -fullbright to the path line. NOTE the space between the \" and -fullbright. Do not add the \", that is just the last thing on the path line.

Click Apply, and OK.

Start the game, and it will be fine.

You must redo this if the updater replaces the exe file for the game.

I can see that making the board and the pieces visible, but to allow everyone in the room to see the game the pieces will have to be individually coded as objects moveable by the players. To avoid greifing, the objects would have to be locked to the players involved in the game, otherwise annoying types would move pieces in the middle of games (you KNOW they will). Having a window pop-up would allow that, I believe, easier than keeping the objects in the open.

I don\'t really know, I am not a programmer. But I made the suggestion and am not trying to make the developers job impossible.

I like this idea as well. It is not new, as Everquest has a Tetris style game called Gems, and when I played Might and Magic there was a card game you could play in taverns.

There was even a Quest involved in M&M with the card game, where you had to win a game in each tavern in the game. It made you visit every zone to find the taverns.

While haveing Chess, or my preference, Go, in the game, it would be  nightmare to code it as a board visible to everyone. Coding the pieces as individual objects would be a huge undertaking.

I think it would have to be almost like an instanced zone. The game board would take up the full screen of the players and observers alike.

A few thoughts on the new DR.

The graphics and look are outstanding. I was just wandering around and staring at the place for half an hour.

The lighting must be consistant. If a light sourse is needed, it must be proviced IN the DR. A new player is proviced with no equipment, so a new player will have no means to buy or aquire a light sourse.

Fighting your way out is a bad idea. This makes the DR just another zone, and one that is unusually punishing to new players.

Riddles are another bad idea. Not everyone is good at riddles, and it is not a requirement for either RP, or to get thru life. In fact, if EVERYONE must be able to solve riddles, this will undermine Role Playing, as not every PC is all that intelligent.

The best idea I have seen so far is the one where you would respawn at a RANDOM location. This prevents someone using DR as a transporter, but does not make death a prohibitive event.

On the subject of death penalty.....   RPG games have consistantly moved away from Death penaltys for a simple reason. Excessive death penaltys drive new players away from the game. The many changes proposed by others on this thread will simply make many new players frustrated, and they will give up too soon. I propose a solution for new players. Leave the DR exit as it is for now (although I have not found it yet!) but make the DR progressively more difficult to exit as a character becomes higher in level. This way, newbies are not punished for being newbies and making typical newbie mistakes, but higher level chars cannot abuse the DR.

Sorry, I cannot get the link to work. Copy the address, and paste it into the address bar of your browser, and it will bring up a photo.

I got someone into the server room, and they took this picture of the NPC Client Server machine. I think it explains everything...........

http://metku.net/modgallery/images/3786_3.jpg

(Cut and paste the address into the address bar)

Thank you, very much. I had read about the darkness issue, but missed that fix. Even if I am not fighing, it will be fun to explore.

I will get my chance, cuz I died falling off a hill just before I logged, and could not see a thing in the Death Realm. With this fix I should be able to see my way out, and then get to see the world from the \"ground up\" so to speak.

Again, thanks for the tip.