You don't need to modify the hosts file at all. Simplychange the ip="ethereumbastion.servegame.com" to ip="127.0.0.1" and you should be fine.

HTH

It seems to me any casting ought to be completely defenseless.

I think this is more a re-interpretation of stance, in terms of spell casting. So you would be defenceless if attacked as your concentration is on casting the spell not on avoiding being hit, so for attack purposes you are defenceless (as if Bloody or Aggressive in combat).

Something like this might work in conjunction with a chance of spell failure on attack (I don't use magic in combat yet so not sure if this exists or not).

So if you casting stance is Fully Defensive, your spell is not as powerful, takes a bit longer to cast, basic casting is more likely to succeed (as if you used 0% boost) but you have less chance of the spell being disrupted by being attacked. Likewise, if your are using a Bloody casting stance then the spell is more powerful, takes less time to cast, has a higher change of basic casting failure and a much higher chance of being disrupted by being attacked.

Thanks Tulkhan,

I checked out the relaytool script and lo - it didn't check for 64 bit libs! so I modified line 450

searchpath=( "/usr/lib" "/usr/local/lib" "/lib" `pwd` )
to read

searchpath=( "/usr/lib" "/usr/local/lib" "/lib" `pwd` "/usr/lib64" "/usr/local/lib64/" "/lib64" )
and walktest worked fine.

Just need to continue the rest of the update now.

Many Thanks again, it would have taken me forever to find that as the problem.

Isn't stealth more about being able to move about unnoticed?

It is perfectly possible for someone who is skilled in the art to move through, for example, a village square and no be noticed by anyone (as no one one pays them any attention). This is partly due to appearance/clothing, partly demeanour and partly just how they move from one area of the square to another (it is a form of social engineering/study/understanding). For example, someone dressed appropriately moving quitetly and casually between stalls or groups of people, stopping to chat to a few here and there is not likely to be noticed (or recalled when asked if they say person x at a later date) unless someone is specifically looking out for them. Similarly, it is possible, but *MUCH* harder to do something similar in a nearly empty location as well.

Things like shadows and darkness make the task easier in some circumstances, especially if there are large areas of dark shadow to move in, but because shadows are created by light sources this can make shadows quite hard to use. Also hiding in shadows needs different clothing and skill than moving unnoticed, and is more focused on slow, steady and silent movement.

From an implementation point of view, there is a flag in the message associated with persisting an actor which can be set to invisible, resulting (I think) in the client not rendering the actor. This might be able to be set to a different value for each client, depending on their character's perceptiveness, and might be able to be toggled (at least with a removeObject followed by persistActor message pairing - not sure if that is the proper way to do it, but might be a start). This should basically result in the player that is 'sneaking' appearing and disappearing, at different times for different players, as the move through an area, rather than a translucent or darkened appearance.

For stealth as a whole, as the skill is really made up of a number different skills, moving silently, moving in darkened areas, moving around without standing out (in a lit or busy area), or moving whilst making sounds appropriate to the surroundings (not even animals move silently through a forest) maybe the skill needs to be separated into different parts so players can use the skill(s) they need to. Why force a player to train a hide in shadows skill, when they just want to move silently behind a low wall in daylight so the people on the other side don't hear them?

I have mine turned on and set to check the downloaded list.

As do I.

I have always wondered why anyone would tell google every step they take on the internet by asking them to pass or fail the destination.

I agree whole heartedly, I was more than a little concerned when the option to use google or not was removed from the config, but seeing as the list is downloaded from google no request is sent to them for each page I visit so I am a bit happier.

Anyway I had no problem going to that page from the link at the top of this forum.

Sadly, the link from the banner also fails with the same warning.

Then again I am using Linux which has a different version number.

I am also using linux, and if it helps the build number is Firefox 3 Beta 5 Build 2008032600. If there is a difference it might be that mine is downloaded from the openSuSE build service repos not from mozilla directly. Might be worth me checking that out... The nightly builds also seem to have a whitelist feature in them as well which would help.

@Rigwyn

I had already disabled and enabled this feature to confirm that it was the cause, but I think you might be right about the potential problems with stop badware. Although it seems to rely on a sufficient volume of reports to become triggered the review process seems to be potentially quite slow, especially if your site has not been hacked or subverted in some way.

Doesn't the melee description indicate that there will be melee weapopns in the future?

Melee
Used for: Iron fist, slayer armor, spiked shield, *steel claws*, thorn helm and unarmed combat.

Description: The close combat skill. When no weapons are available, this is your fighting skill.

Advantages: Easy to learn and fast to use.

Disadvantages: Less effective for defense and more *expensive equipment*

The stars are mine, but highlight the suggestion that there is something to come, so is this probably a feature that will be implemented in time. As it is now then how does damage for a lv 15 swordsman with 50Q (or 25Q for that matter) sword compare to a lv 15 melee attack?

Not totally sure about this, but I think your card may not have a sufficiently modern chipset to handle the lighting in the new client. Someone else should be able to confirm this for you though.

How about rather than a conspiracy or plot etc, it is simply an infection which started with the Royal Jelly having unforseen consequences when ingested (maybe it didn't react well with the researcher's previous meal ) and now spreads much like a virus, requiring some specific form of contact or maybe that any victims have eaten the same foods as the researcher did (prior to ingesting the jelly) to be susceptible. That way
a) it becomesa task to find a cure
and
b) along the way the hive mind controller (maybe the tloke queen) could begin to become overwhelmed by all the new and different minds and starts to behave erratically/aggressively (giving the impression of conspiracy) or alternatively tries to seek help from other places in Yliakum ... the possibilities are almost endless.

There have probably been a number of conspiracy type themes played out already, maybe this slant would be a little different?