new error
when first entering bd from the tunnel/road
a huge empty gaping hole appears to the left of the entrance
when walking over that hole in the map you fall and respawn ontop of it
and the hole is gone, ground again


solution to the memory leak/lag
simply break bd map into 3 different loaded maps
bd main land area
bd ramp & eagle's nest area
bd tunnels w/ western tower and tunnel system

i feel its just lagging and memory leaks because the video is trying to display this HUGE area all at once
and its just not working
even with minumum display distance set to 0 and fps at max or even adaptive distance adjusted similar it has no effect and displays everything all at once


so rework the BD map and split it into 2 or 3 different maps to better adjust the lag/memory leak

and also that strange blackness and hole near the entrance to the map


EOC
-end of complaint/fix

standardization:

"where is x"
"who is x"
"about x x"
"x sent me"
"i need x"

most of those are common enough but there is limited responses given from them
adding "i need x" to a random npc should refer you to who could possibly help you if they cant give it
making "where is x" easier they either say, sorry i dont know them.. or they are near x in x area for person or object
"about x also" needs something as only ignorant npcs dont know what iron is, or what magic the land has
"who is x" definately not common enough as i can ask who someone thousands of times and certainly recieve no response
"who is talad" should be answerable by every npc that believes 1% in ANY religion
"who is merchant" occupation by who is should be easy to answer if they know someone because everyone knows the local merchant and should be able to answer name and general location or store name
"x sent me" isnt required because some quests dont require that to initiate a conversation HOWEVER, when no further dialog is given how to give information or ask for it then it is needed to have a standard saying to begin some conversation!!!! and thus continue with question and answer

making a common list of proper names for items in the world would be a great addition
every npc should have this list and be modified
if npc1 knows about a, b, e, f but d is not checked on npc then when asking anything reguarding d it would say "i dont know about d"
if npc2 gives quest about c they should at the VERY LEAST have info about c when asking, "about c" "where is c" "i need c" "who is c"

adding the list to every npc and giving them a check or no check and common dialog
however dont have accidentally mining checked but not iron,gold,coal,plat, etc checked
then they really dont know a darned about mining then do they?

if person lives in town and has optional quests about npc3, then npc3 should be checked and all info given during dialog should be checked
^give me a quest
npc1 gave quest to find npc3 about item c
^about npc3
npc3 in town4 owes me item c
^about item c
item c is such and such and ask npc3 in town4 about item c they can help you
^about town4
its somewhere ive been before because i went to talk to npc3 about item c

checks and balances, questions and answers
this will help the **lost quest information** and **npc doesnt respond** syndrome sometime encountered when blabbing all info back to npcs and getting null response


secondarily
please **less big quest with little reward for time and effort**
how many times did i run from BD to ojaveda only to have to run back to BD then continue back to ojaveda then back to bd then back to ojave and finish in BD on a single quest
3 or 4 times so far? yes
why? i get little from doing so besides a few coin and maybe 800xp
give more incentive for doing time consuming quests
such as custom items, useful skills, more xp or more money
smaller quests i can understand if "get 1 item and give to me" gives cost to cover aquire item and 100xp to complete quest
but the nonsense of i need to travel the entire first level 4 times to complete a quest inorder to gain simple 1000xp and 1000 trias is beyond rediculous
in such time i could have killed 200 rats and gotten more from doing so
what will it be like when travelling to level 8 to kill 30 mobs to get 10 hides 10 teeth and 15 chunks of coal from npc832 bring it all back to npc1 and then go to hidden area level 7 which takes 2 hours to reach then ask npc744 1 question and get letter then return to npc1 give letter and end the quest for 3000xp and a few coin



third the quest
i do understand quests get harder the more quests you ask from certain npcs
as should be expected
that doesnt mean it should become a massive puzzle game to get blue key to open blue door to find red key to give to npcR to find green info from unknown source and never finding unknown source for green info because there are 70 npcG to ask the question continuing on a downward "green info results ask green npc477 he knows more about it" then find greenpc477 and ask about "green info results in find me impossible yellow and ill tell you"
no, such things are too complex for low-mid level questing




that begins my rant on the dynamics of quest solutions and results

basically the stats are on the server page
check the stats images at the bottom it has mobs birth rate /minute

if 0 the npcs are off
if 1+ then mobs are on, and someone is killing them and they respawn
notice also the player death rate goes waaayyy down when mobs are turned off

yes i wish the mobs would have a better secondary way allowing us needing to complete quests to finish them
otherwise its just a run from bd to ojave all day long completing tiny quests

well thanks for telling me that im a noob to the forums here and that reflects that you assume i have

1: no beta testing background
2: no ability to comprehend or get points across
3: no relevant information to give because ive only been playing for 3 days
4: i should be backhanded to the face because my views are different than yours

is generally what you say when you point out that i have 6 posts reguardless if i have read the entire bug tracker, read the entire forums, and have triplicate copies of your webpage on my hdb3


last note before explosions this is not a topic to the devs asking devs to fix stuff
its a topic to the players/roleplayers that do questing and understand its enviornment

alt enter is the other way to "maximize" and "window" a window

alt-tab doesnt work for me in any game on linux
unless its windowed


vector linux 5.9
based on slackware 12
xfce 4.4.2

uh huh....
so metallurgy requires practicing once i get green to fill the yellow and begin on red?
well if i throw in some iron ore to make iron then how can i turn that into ingots to make weapons with my blacksmith skill

if ye ask me its incredibly difficult to train a level 2 skill
cmon, its level 2 why should i have to fight rats for 30 hours to get to level 3?

kind of backwards when you think about the higher levels aquiring more xp per kill and not even needing to have all the pps to get a higher skill
10 hours of killing rogues to go up to level 10 skill vs 30 hours killing rats to get level 2
whew... doesnt seem balanced in that respect


but atleast now i can just figure out how to get my red to disappear i can get from 0 to level 1 and make it useful

linux slackware 12.0
nvidia fx 5200 128mb AGP8x
amd athlon 64 x2 4000+ brisbane
2gb ddr2 pc6400


works great but had to fix inventory error
http://www.hydlaa.com/flyspray_upgrade/index.php?do=details&task_id=1149

sos now i can play tutorial



i played PS about 4 years ago on a lesser than pc with
amd athlon 2100+
geforce4 mx 440se 64mb agp4x
1gb ddr pc3200
and it worked fine


at the time there was nothing to do besides collect crystals
so i gave up after the only crystal in the game was collected constantly


hee.heee..