After much struggling and setbacks due to not meeting system requirements and resolution dependencies, I was finally able to experience this addition. Immediately my question was: so, players cannot be native to Yliakum at all? Every single player character now comes through a portal? That also means that the species who get changed upon the traversal (Ylian mages losing their native magic, Klyros being severely weakened, etc.) will have this as a starting point? If so, however, this would be a traumatic experience that cannot be relayed through bits of lore that one may never even read. Voduls avatar would need to tell them, at least, while it's at it, anyway.

This has been and still is one of my major lore-wise concerns.

I decided to decide myself whether a char I created or will create has been coming through a portal or has been born in Yliakum. Lore-wise both is possible, cause according to a lot of in game books there have been generations of people living on Yliakum already and people came in through portals already generations ago. We even had quite a few GM events with exactly that lore as background. In my point of view it is even more likely to be born on Yliakum than to come through a portal these times, see below for reasoning.

Damola has been born on the lower plane of Yliakum were many Nolthrir live. Her parents still live there and that's it. In fact she has mentioned that some times in GM events as well. Nothing of that will change due to Dryken Plane addition.

There is a culture in Yliakum already. And it should be the players decision whether to build a new char upon that culture. This combined culture of people from different races for generations, be it from a race like the Nolthrir who originally fled their home world or a race like the Kran who have been created on Yliakum by Talad, makes the medieval world we love to RP in. Additionally given there have been cataclysmic catastrophic events in home worlds generations ago it is unexplainable to me that still a huge lot of people would be coming through the portals. Unless those events have been spanning hundreds of cycles, but in my point of view a cataclysm does not last that long. It is sudden, massive and most people would have to flee in a short period of time. The people coming through the portals would all be severely traumatized from these cataclysmic events. Especially in case one would argue a cataclysm has lasted this long and developed slowly over time.

Awesome release, thank you! 

You are welcome, Gonger.

Damola shuffles that "h" into the [url] tag with her special letter shuffling glyph. That "h" resists at first, but with that highly advanced magic it finally agrees to go into the right place.

Thanks a ton for the new patch.

About the new locomotion system I like how Damola runs when running a curve like a professional racing car. 

Thanks, Gonger!

Yeah, one issue is that Yliakum in PSUnreal is just so much bigger than in Crystalspace based PlaneShift.

Often patches of harvest-able plants are quite tiny. Just a small spot where they are all growing a bit crowded even. Maybe spread out some of the locations a bit more so it becomes more difficult to run past a location without noticing it?

Also more spots in general would be great.

Plants may not grow in the same space all the time. But implementing some variation over time could be challenging.

As for concrete location would need to run around quite a bit and log positions to that I can provide accurate information.

It has been a while, but I thought I add a link here to the second installment of this:

She did it again aka Union Day

Well all I can say I do not have any plans to switch to a different game regarding all the RP. And yes, PSUnreal is really better in many ways. One may be seen as an disadvantage at first: Due to the world of Yliakum being much, much, much larger it becomes more rare to accidentally run into each other. But it also opens so much of opportunity to explore parts of the vast map, some dungeons and what have you.

While it is important not to coerce anyone… and while I do not see any benefit in anyone playing the game if not on their own free choice, I think regarding any mail to players… – if that is still a plan – I'd not over complicate things. There have been some new players in recent events and my recommendation would be to really invite players to log in during event time.