Quote from: Grigori on January 18, 2011, 07:08:47 pm

Weren't max levels of stats supposed to be different for different races?

no

Why? Start levels are different different races have different abilities and stats.

Speaking about books:
As for Knowledge Seekers' books, it is sad such initiative doesn't work.
But speaking about books, can we by books expand canon + semi-canon if we cannot add books to the library? Many try to write books inside PS and sell them (sometimes giving for free).
There problems they meet are:
a) only author can copy book. For that he/she/kra must save it to file and load file to empty book. If you are not the author you cannot save book text to a file.
b) it is difficult to spread your book, as probably nobody will help you to spread it, and while you are online, you could give it to really few people.
c) for most books quality is really low. No, seriously, I don't want to offense the public, but it is so. Most books are written in bad English, or they are not interesting (biography of your character is not others want to read unless your are REALLY famous ), or they are against the canon. Strange thing is the same is true for newspapers. I remember only one really good one - the Herald.

We have wiki on ezpcusa, but few visit it or even know it exists In fact it has interesting language projects, that are already implemented in the community. Words "dovoy" or "kga" can be heard often nowadays. But that's all.
On forum, where there are lots of players and devs, we have fanfiics of poor quality.

How could we start the process of constant improving of player-made books and spreading hem?

Well, now one needs progressive points and practice points to improve skills. How about leaving only practice points?

As it was some time ago with 0.4.02, the current RC distribution for win32 appears to be broken. One shall run pslaunch.exe with "--repair" in order to get art/materials.zip Just to try to get it. 150 mb and download such big file always fails

Could you guys repack the distribution with normal files?

You have a cupboard, now that cupboard only stores food, every week you do your shopping and put your food into the cupboard, some of the food goes off and starts to smell, by your scenario you leave the mouldy, smelly rotten food inside the cupboard and just stop buying food. Personally I'd prefer to clean the cupboard out and change my shopping list than just leave the cruft in the cupboard and try to work around it.

No. It is in your scenario you just burn the house where the cupboard is located.
I'd prefer to clean what is dirty and not destroy the rest. Like I said bad items could be just changed to piles of dust.

Wiping entire database is like healing headache with guillotine.

Why the hell would we need that wipe? I am here for year and I remember absolutely no bugs with database. Really.

NPC server has no bugs. It is itself one big bug.

Magic is buggy.

Battle system is buggy.

3D engine that makes people stick is  buggy.

Database is not.

It is being organised, just follow the instructions on the howto page, all accents and both sexes are welcome just match your sex to the npc and click record

Once again:

_WHAT RL ACCENTS ARE NEEDED FOR WHAT RACE OF NPC?_

Nothing about it is written on linked pages just yet.

If to follow current setting, then...

Atheism should have nothing with permadeath, but penalty for death should be greater for atheists.

It can be teleporting to random location (including sky), again death during reviving (fun indeed) or just greater effect of Dakkru's curse - 2 hours instead of 30 min and stat reducing not by x2 but by x3 for example.

The main problem is how to define that character is atheist. Character creation is bad definer. CHARACTER CAN CHANGE RELIGION DURING GAME. Faction points are not good also IMHO - there are many quests for Laanx, and they are all done for reward not for RP but there are few for Talad, and few if any for Xiosia.

Maybe it should be right of players to define who of them is not dedicated enough worshipper? Say, religion guilds ask GMs to set atheism penalty for specific players.