oh well  looks like it\'s going to be a nice game once it gets going good.
I\'ve been wanting to get into coding and development, so perhaps I\'ll be able to help out someday.  In the mean time if anybody could point me in the direction of some good tutorial/reference material, it\'d be greatly appreciated.  I\'m a complete noob when it comes to any kind of coding.  I\'m just now learning basic scripting.  I do know a little about modeling though but just switched to blender and have to learn the software.  Anyway, thanks for the response, guess I\'ll just have to wait for an update.  


UPDATE:  I found that by unchecking the adavtive mode where the only option it distance, but no min fps or max fps.........setting the distance to 20, then down at the bottom where is says FPS cap: set this to 15 and there\'s still some lag but the game is much more playable now.    

also for those recieving the error:

Mesh Factory naturalres#crystal_ruby not found

I haven\'t had time to check to verify but I believe the answer is on the main Planeshift homepage.  In the topmost post there is a replacement zip that contains the needed resources    )

I finally got through the update process and created a character but when trying to move I get exreme lag.  I\'ve turned off my firewall, and that didn\'t help.  Since I\'m running in window mode from command line, I started watching what was going on and I noticed that every time it lag\'s I get the same error message :

Mesh Factory naturalres#crystal_ruby not found

and/or :

Lost entity label of object Ruby Crystal!

with the random :

 Lost entity label of object Giwaorel Badok!
 Lost entity label of object Pontalis !
 Lost entity label of object Shivir Shiwing!


There\'s a whole screen of this message after message.  Can anyone tell me how to correct this.  ?(   pls

I installed using the gentoo install guide and everything\'s fine until I get down to the very bottom to run the updater.  

/usr/games/planeshift $ ./updater -auto
SCF_ERROR: metadata retrieval error for /usr/games/planeshift/pssound.so: Warning: /usr/games/planeshift/pssound.so has embedded data and .csplugin file, using embedded.
CRITICAL ERROR: XML Parsing error in file \'/this/updaterconfig.xml\': Error reading Element value..



What is the Element value??  I looked in the xml and there\'s no reference to Element anywhere, or is the problem with something else that gets pass to \"Element\" somewhere else.   Either way I\'d love to play and hope somebody can point me in the right dir.   Thanks in advance.

I followed the gentoo install guide and installed with no problems but when running the updater I get the following error message in gui and console both:


              # ./updater --auto SCF_ERROR: metadata retrieval error for /usr/games/planeshift/pssound.so: Warning: /usr/games/planeshift/pssound.so has embedded data and .csplugin file, using embedded.
CRITICAL ERROR: XML Parsing error in file \'/this/updaterconfig.xml\': Error reading Element value..


reading Element value???    I looked at the xml and there is nothing about Element anywhere in it.          I\'m really looking forward to playing and hope to have this resolved and online quickly.  Thanks in advance.