Originally posted by Karyuu
Why? That makes no sense - is there a reason players should avoid Out-Of-Character conversations on chat applications outside of PlaneShift?

For the same reason you would not have a dedicated ooc channel in game: limiting ooc talk as much as possible. Of course you can\'t stop anyone doing it (as much as you can\'t stop anyone using Skype or Teamspeak for that matter).

Having people a way to do a bit of ooc can save a lot of ooc outside it. Having played a number of MUDs and a few mmorpg I think that other channels of ooc communication are just as bad as having ooc in play and as much ruins role play.

Of course you can always not use irc (or instant messengers, or... you got the point ) but then it\'s the same of ignoring of shutting off the ooc channel if it existed in the game.

It occurs to me that maybe we see ooc as different things. I mean with \"ooc\" something out of character but still about the game. With the rest (your life, job, or friends) of course is none of my business

Originally posted by Andrek
What do you mean by follow Algorithm?  [isn\'t is alogrithm... It has been too long since I needed to use upper level maths beyond algebra]  How would it work is really what I am asking?

Well i don\'t know how it is done in 3D but usually when you do in 2D is simply a matter of adding a new dimension (and PS is not a real 3d problem because most character and monsters don\'t fly).

To make a long story short, is a matter of plotting several paths through obstacles and \"weight\" the difficulty taken by each choice, and choose the less. Speed should not be taken into account unless there are terrains who slow you down. Weighting the paths is easier done than said, because it\'s a matter of length (usually easy calculated by reducing the path to a fair number of straight segments) and time lost doing turns.

Note that all the math involved by using this method is integer math (unless you take in account simple conversions by using trigonometrics to compute segment lenghts but you can still use Pitagora\'s theorem for that )

I\'ve seen it done in a pacman-style game using the famous Dijkstra algorithm (those used to plot routes between addresses in internet space).

I am wondering if something like a follow algorithm should be implemented no matter what for monster pursuing fleeing characters.

That is, now it\'s there but it\'s terrible!

message:
error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Are you sure you got everything installed correctly? Unless you\'re on a 64 bit system, libopenal.so.0 is included in my installation of PS, so it should work out of the box. Maybe if it\'s a 64bit OS it does not load it so you must provide it yourself or go 32bit with something like linux32.

Originally posted by Izzy*dot
Spawnies, The people who claim a spawn spot as theirs and theirs only.

Nice roleplay that.  :rolleyes:

And the there is \"nearly random running\" when the hit \'T\' and forget about how to disengage auto-run

AMD64 3200+ (socket 732 or whatever is the old AMD64 socket)
ABIT KV8 (not the MAX3)
1GB Ram
2  x 160 GB HD
DVD
DVD+/-RW (Liteon)
Samsung 21.3\" LCD ( 214T ) <- this is the pricey thing

No surprise PS work like a charm!

Originally posted by Xordan
Yeah I know, the installer on the site sucks. I\'ll release a new full package with the next update which will have a much better installer.

I think it\'s a good idea. I\'m just a newbie in the game but i\'ve my share of experience with linux and still installing and putting the beast to run was a difficult task...

The installer needs to do some checking for what i\'m reading (on my box it did just fine).

If you think it\'s worth i can help making a rpm for the major distro out there (i\'m using mandriva but unless you are checking dependencies very tightly rpms are quite the same all around).