Quote from: gonger on March 31, 2016, 05:14:39 pm

@Volki: Thank you for your encouraging words. Why don't you tell us about your ideas and initiatives?

All you need is a good graphic with the right message. I've done this before. Ups traffic by 10x. But would I do it for PS? Not in the state it's in right now. I don't think the game is in a good condition to retain players.

I kindof agree with Volki. As a first step, I think some marketing art posters depicting the lore and RP possibilities, for e.g, would spark more interest. Then, provide more detailed info like Gonger's or this. But depending on where you're advertising it, only the detailed text could work well too I guess

And if PlaneShift is really meant to be a RP game mainly, I would suggest advertising it as something different from the typical MMORPG's peasant-to-hero path and fighter/crafter/merchant classes. In RP, the goal is not necessarily in becoming someone powerful or successful IMO. The fun is in the different interactions and stories no matter what kind of background, motives etc a character has.

I too think though that PS could be made more newbie-friendly before starting advertising... for potential players at least. Recruiting developers would be a different matter.

/sigh

This is a game, a hobby.

This. It has already been pointed out in other threads as well, but please, let's keep in mind that this is a game. Not real. Yliakum is not the real world and obviously isn't intended to mimic it in everything in every way. It is a fictional world of its own built with its own set of rules.

If a storyteller were making up a tale, I wouldn't find fault with someone in the audience pointing out a valid inconsistency about an aspect of the story, something that should be this or that way. But I would find it rather annoying if someone keeps interrupting the tale and insisting that some aspect of it could be a certain other way instead. And sure, yeah, it could but it's up to the storyteller on how to tell his/her tale.

When it comes to same-sex relationship/marriage IG, if it were up to me, I would have gone with it being accepted in general throughout the history of Yliakum, or accepted only among certain races. And it wouldn't be purely as a show of support for homosexuals IRL. Now if the project leader/dev team decide to make it so that same-sex marriages aren't legally recognised IG, that's fine as well IMO. It doesn't necessarily mean that any of them are against homosexuals IRL. Again, I'd like to stress on this, Yliakum is a fictional world of its own. I understand that you have issue with the GM warning you received but frankly, I think you have gone too far with these accusations of homophobia and what-not against the PS team...

Game is meant to be fun in the shaping of it by PS team and players alike. Might not always allow you to play a character in a particular way you would like to but guess what, fun can be had in lots of ways.

Make up and kiss already! .-.

Freedom of expression is fine and all, but I don't consider Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of Muhammad to be a "healthy" display of it. Some of those published are only disrespectful and offensive IMO. What good is there in using that freedom if it only mocks, provokes and hurts others. Why not use it responsibly in a positive manner instead.

Anyway whether you see it this way or not, I think we can all however agree on that the shootings themselves were just horrible and wrong.

The Lonely Mountain Band heh 

Tried LotRO some months ago. I almost squealed aloud when I reached the first major city and saw a group of minstrels RPers playing musical instruments on the Market Square. An amazingly immersive game, that one.

I like the Scholar skin best out of the three

Just noticed though that long NPC responses, such as when asking "About Xiosia", don't fit in the chat bubble. And there's a minor correction needed in exchange.xml. "Header Font" style should be within widget instead of frame:

    <widget name="receivinglbl" factory="pawsTextBox" style="Header Font" >
        <frame x="185" y="30" width="135" height="20" style="Header Font" />

Btw, did you manage to fix the shadow issue? There's also another problem with window titles in that they aren't using the "Main Header Font" style in styles.xml as they're supposed to. There's a workaround for it, by setting "New Standard GUI" style "inherit" to "Main Header Font", but there must be a more proper way to fix this.

This is awesome

The music used in the game is one of the things I love most about PlaneShift.

My female Klyros character, Rhicora, has been called "sir" one too many times! PLEASE check the description of any Klyros you run into before using terms such as "sir".

ahm yes, that's part of the actual female klyros life I have this problem with mine as well.. of course as long as the female klyros is stuck with the male model, one is inevitably mistaken(?) and treated as such by strangers most of the time.. that can be quite annoying.. and that is not the only problem a female klyros char encounters.. hmpf..

This is especially true if you are playing a Klyros yourself, who would certainly know any difference that exists between a male and female Klyros!

differences between male and female should normally be quite obvious to anyone.. it is just that the female model is not available yet.. right?

thanks for the suggestion Narure, this seems to be working for me too.. except that when I run PS, the window's small, where can I fix this?