I agree that a wipe needs to occur. It is expected that, during the process of an open beta test, there will be problems, and there will be wipes. Certain things that mean a lot to people will be lost, such as single named characters, and the players accumulated wealth. But if there was no wipe planned, eventually the database would be full of bugged entries, broken items and server crashes hiding within it.

Beau inserts his two tria.

Forum ID: beau

IRC: Skylros

In game characters: Skylros, Tadibe Stracka, Gadre Solum.

Time zone: GMT

Hours in game: A few a week.

Hang outs: Skylros is currently lost in the wilderness, Tadibe Stracka is a devout Laanx follower (and some day, priest), and Gadre hangs around in Akkaio.

Religious Orientation: Skylros is an atheist, whereas Tadibe follows Laanx, and Gadre walks the natural path of Xiosia.

Guilds: None as of yet.

Short Description:
Skylros is a worker, he mines for his money. He has ideas above his station, and seeks to become a powerful warrior.
Gadre Solum is a follower of Xiosia, willing to kill to preserve the natural balance, and to protect the natural path.

Tutorial is excellent for beginners, as well as veterans alike. Very well thought out dialogue, easy to follow. Lighting system is much nicer, as well as the fact that prospective authors may now name their books. Makes it much easier to copyright a story, eh?

And cake. Plenty of cake.

After a while of playing and contributing nothing, here are some ideas i have given serious thought.

Writing skill.

Basically, it lets you write things for other players to read. Be it a checklist of the iron ore to stock ratio, or a cookbook. But i hear you say "There is no way i will take that much time writing something that will be forgotten instantly!" Ah, but see, you won't write it unless you check the box that says "Self write". And you will be able to use the auto write (Takes a while depending on two things) to do those checklists. See, the write skill refers to another skill of your choice E.G Cooking, Mining, Brewing, Herbal Etc. and depending on that skill, it gives more information.

For example, you write a book on herbal, writing skill is 9 and herbal is 1. after two minutes, you finish the book. it says "For the night mushroom, look in XXX-XX-X." Not much there, eh? However, with writing 9 and herbal 9, it will take 10 minutes. you read it and it says "The night mushroom, an extremely potent fungi with healing properties and a boost to your stamina may be found in XXX-XX-X, and YYY-YY-Y, near the swamp."
This is my idea, but it is for much later along the development line.

Ah. Thank you karyuu, looks like i forgot in my absence where to post these things.

How about when the political aspect of the game is released (Octarchs, Vigesimi), people can attempt to assassinate them. players would go to a complaint centre and lodge a complaint. EG:

Octarch's taxes are too high!
Brutal repossession of our home!
He is placing our Level under martial law!
He murdered my friend!

and also place some money in with it. after enough complaints (and money) a bounty is placed on the octarchs head. a hunter can Take the bounty, or the whole level can incite a full scale street riot, pushing a charge towards the Octarch's home and burning it to ashes. but the Hunter can be more subtle, such as placing fire glyphs in the coffers of the octarch, and incinerating him. or Tying him to a hypnotised megara and sending it towards the crystal, a la Fertedian Dalko!

For the octarch to do the above things. a tax on auctioned items, Taking a known criminals house away (or anyone elses), Hunting a criminal (or band of them) and putting the level under martial law, where the other levels are blocked off and houses are smashed into. And murder? just a random killing.

Just a couple of quick ideas i thought up.

he runs away because people keep stuffing tria in his furnace and he has to get the dragon leather gloves to peel them from the base.