I hate irony. 
I just came back to PS just over a week ago after having to put it off due to studies, it took me about three days to "fix" the problems with libc6 and assorted libraries, and as soon as I finish that, I'm informed that the server is down for an update!!   

All that wouldn't be quite so bad, were it not for that fact that in the process of "fixing" the libraries, I compleaty brock my installation, so I can no longer compile.

Hopefully Xordan will take pity on those like me, and release the installer shortly.    If not, I may be able to get an Ubuntu CD from a friend on sunday, and I'll compleaty get rid of usless distro! 

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However, those of us who PlaneShift on Linux Clients and Mac OS X Clients will sing your praises once we have something to sing and dance about too!

* Alfonso Knaf praises right now although he is a Linuxman :-p

Indeed.  Even though I also use Linux (waiting impatiently  ), Thats no reason not to appreciate all the hard work the Devs have done!! 

Everyone Cheer for the devs! Hip, hip.   

Seeing as how the winodows 0.3.015 client is released, I sure could go for a Linux version right about now... 

I guess everything is stored like on a MySQL database. A MySQL database's structure is very simple: it has a series of columns named "Name | skill1 | skill2 | str | etc." and every line would have "Timanel | 6,13 | 4,35 | 103 | etc.". So it would be very easy to empty the column skill1, skill2, str, etc. with a simple script or even a simple command ...

It may be easy to empty the stats, but it's not a good idea.  Imain starting with 0 strength (inability to do damage), 0 health (countinuious, and instantanious death), etc. 

Besides, at the character creation process, you get a unique set of stats depending on what you spent your CP on.  Unless these initial stats can be reinstated into the character (and easily), It wouldn't probably be more likely that they'll just clear the data base, and let the players recreate their characters how they want.

We could say that Laanx came down and announced that everyone was getting far too greedy and to teach them a lesson he destroyed all their weapons, armor, money, etc. and made them forget all their combat knowledge.

Typical god-like character.  Someone messes up, and all of humanity is punished.    Not a bad Idea though.  It would fit in well considering how after the wipe, more players will come, they'll start being "bad", and there will be more wipes to come.  It even has some truth to it, since the more bugged items are used, exploits exploited, etc, the sooner a wipe will occur.

I supose in theory, if every player played nice, reported exploits, handed over bugged equiptment, limited PLingand never gained/used an unfair advantage against another player, a wipe would not be neccessary, hence we would be "pleasing the gods".  Of course this won't happen on an absolute scale, so we will "incure the rath of the gods", and the wipe will take place.    Quite tidy.

BTW, what's wrong with gods rath being in the form of mist? No one seems to like the mist. 

EDIT:  The thought just occured to me, what would happen if we tried to have an amnesty day, where the dev's/GM's would demand the overly powerfull items/people with stats "so high" come forward, and if sufficient people did so, a wipe wouldn't be neccessary? ...or are the technical reasons for a wipe?

Yes, i mean, news of the impending wipe is not asking for too much and it would help...but asking for them to not wipe the characters at all is a stretch...but something alot of peopel i think would support. I mean, i think it would be more work for them to wipe every tria, skill, and item off every character...but it would be very efficient. There would be no "Lost Name Crisis" and stories could continue to their natural end, and everyone would be happy campers.

They wouldn't go around and manually remove it from every character.  If they were to do it at all, it would be done via script.  That's why I was wondering if the information of the characters original creation was saved (all those bits and pieces you spend CP on).

Mass amnesia? Easy RP way out... everyone got sick and forgets who they were!

I don't think that would work so good... That would be more likely if they kept all items and stats, but lost every scrap of RP history.

I suggesed the black mist, because it besides being really cool to run into hydlaa and start shouting "The wipe is coming!", but then we could say that everyone had x years of experince striped from them by a misterious black fog.

Sneaky. You (momentarily) avoided karyuu's axe by putting a missleading topic title in.  Rule #1 in the forums is "don't ask when".

Luckily, when I asked he said only one to twp more days, so were are almost there. 

Ooo, we got an update - updated ETA! whoot!   

It's not so bad waiting a little longer... I'm supprising myself with my productivity in these last days.  Here's a chalenge for all those "I can't wait"'s:  See how much you can get done before the update is released, the only rule is, you need to try and get PS off your mind! It may sound impossible, but let me tell you, it's much easier than "waiting". 

Thanks necko,
I've been around for quite a while, but haven't been active for almost 4 months, since I was pretty deep in study.  I remember I had a text document open with 5 or 6 quotes in it that I wanted to address, but it's gone now.  Probobly wouldn't have been that informative anyway.