lumberjacking is very nice... but original? ^^ I wouldn\'t go that far...
Already the old Ultima Online had lumberjacking.

Some days ago I thought about games, planeshift and the mythos of original ideas (I doubt they exist) ...

It\'s an interessting fact that old games often have the most original thoughts in it, I found some old one in our cellar and was quite surprised. Some of them have interesting ideas i have never seen on any of the new games. The Graphic is creepy and clumsy but they have good ideas. It seams the Gaming industry has forgotten some of the most inovative thoughts they once had and only improved the graphic and the effects... nowaday every fantasy game which comes out is more or less the same, with little variation. It\'s a pity...
And once a game comes up with one of these old ideas everyone says, oh! wow... its so original!

I doubt there were many original ideas in the past years... Evan a very original idea becomes ordinary if it\'s copied ten times. Perhaps this is why old games look so inovativ and original, no one ever copied them ^^

Well, back to lumberjacking... the question i was interested to ask was: (mainly to flippyseal)
Wouln\'t lumberjacking become boring after a while?

Lumberjacking would enrich the game for sure, but would someone here really want to rollplay a lumberjack? As a side line, yes, but as main job?

-Nanaki

in asynchroneous time I see more disadvantages than advantages...

if 7.00 RL is on the first day Night IG ant the second day Day IG and on the third one dusk, you will never be sure what IG time it is bevore you log in... so you might  lucky to get in at the time you want may you are not.

Now for a example a 4 IG Day= 1 RL Day system.

4 IG Days = 1 RL day means 3 ours light 3 hours dark.
0.00 RL - 3.00 mean day IG
3.00 RL - 6.00 mean night IG
6.00 RL - 9.00 mean day IG
9.00 RL - 12.00 mean night IG
12.00 RL - 15.00 mean day IG
15.00 RL - 18.00 mean night IG
18.00 RL - 21.00 mean day IG
21.00 RL - 24.00 mean night IG

So you will always know at wich RL time it\'s Day ig... and if you don\'t want to stay ig for three hours you always know when to come back.
It\'s true such systems are not over original compared to an asynchroneous timeline, but for most peole it has simply some advantages.
It\'s easier if there once be a calender. Would be useful for the newspaper (wich is a very nice idea in my eyes)
it\'s more practical for meetings... if you want to meet someone at dawn for a duell it\'s quite hard to be there is the night is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter.

An other idea would be Lightcycles:
1RL day = 1 IG day BUT one ig day comprise 4 Lightcycles...
1 Lightcycle would be 3 hours night/ 3 hours day technically the same as above but more practical for calenders since you can count a dayRL as a dayIG.


A very interessting discussion to follow anyway
Some want 2 hours some want 12... quite a big gap... very intessting

- Nanaki

ah, come on, always these whining about those stupid dragons... perhaps they look great but if you think a bit about it you will see they are ...boring. Every fantasy knight has atleast killed one of those beasts... they are so... common.
You are insulting my creativity if you say I couldn\'t come up with something more original than a dragon.
Btw, all you have seen so far are the player races, how can you say we don\'t have original monster if you haven\'t seen them?

And about your task... CB is near, and Talad is busy you should know that. I\'m sure he didn\'t forget you. A quote from the news:

... We want to apologize for the lack of time to correctly follow new prospect developers and for not answering all their emails. Every small bit of our time is dedicated to release. We will start a big recruit campaign just after release to collect your help and wishes.

One problem with you task was that you removed/moved some of the pictures, so we wasn\'t able to find them after a while - quite hard to work with  a vanished picture.
And you left your task unfinished... if you had a question you could have asked on the dev channel you needn\'t to write an email. If you had done enough conceptart for your task we would have told you.
Perpaps it would als be advisable to modulate your drawing style a bit so it fits better the PS background. Don\'t get me wrong, your style is good and okay, but i remember you once said you have an other drawing style too... could be interesting to see some examples of it

-Nanaki

You know none of these spells is a real Illusion spell, don\'t you?

Illusion means false front, mirage...

If you would cast a spell on a foe which make a foe THINK he is surrounded by darkness, this would be illusion magic. An other foe who stands next to and wasn\'t affected by this spell wouldn\'t notice anything, because the darkness is not real in that case.

mind control and mind reading would be mind manipulating spells.

Shapeshifting an illusion spell??  The way you describe it you would  really turn into a monster and gain the attack bonuses... that isn\'t  illusion, thats real. If you would only look like the monster it would be illusion.



(these are my personal thoughts and NOT an official statemant, only wanted to clarify you about some theoretical mistakes you had in your thoughts.)

it\'s an honor that people remember me

and yes, I\'m WTB now. Hadn\'t much time to be on the forum becouse of that but I\'m around in the dev channel if you miss me

let me see... at the moment I\'m on my 8th task in only four weeks means every dev is working hard at the moment but I have still the wallpaper and and kwartz\' mirthins in mind wich I promised so long time ago, ...and I will finish them once I have more than ten minutes spartime :p

well.. halo?? never played that, Ineluke.. erm... didn\'t you ask me allready about that  some weeks ago?

and a again a big thanks for this post allways nice to see people interested in my work, never get such a fan threat before

-Nanaki

I like the idear that shops are run by players but I\'m really against a \"autoshop mode\" funktion.

My sister is playing Lineage2 (they have such a mode there) and when you come to an ig shop there are already 30 players sitting around it, every one in \"autoshop mode\" and afk. Its such an odd situation, 30 players sitting on the floor everyone with a message above their head.... sounds more like a kind of powergaming for craftsman only that you are gaining money - evan overnight.

Naturelly you can sell more items that way, but in my eyes is has nothing to do with rpg anymore...

What about the Trading job? A merchant could buy the \"unwanted\" goods of players and sell them to those who need it, naturelly with some sort profit. A travelling merchant would be a nice addition to the game I think.

Nanaki

stealing their shoes, mh ?   very evil indeed
but I don\'t think you will have to, I already got a task and if I finish it well I will become WTB  so its up to me, I guess

thx again for all your kind comments, always nice to see that people are interested my art

Nanaki

was a bit lazy in the last two weeks but here is my new pic. I guess it fits better into the \"dark\" backgoundsetting of ps ^^ (altough i found the setting not that dark myself - mainly becourse of the sunny atmosphere and the appletrees ig)



The Garek
Difficulty level: medium to above average
Physical Attack: fangs
 addition:poison
Magical Attack: none
Nutrition: carnivorous
Intelligance: low
Hitpoints: low
defence: high
groupsize: loner
loot: Garek\'s tongue, leather

Jarith Lily
plant typ: herb
habitat: 4. level near streams
occurrence: rare
usage: together with other ingredients it is used for different poisonous potions

Descibtion:
The Garek is a strong hunter who mainly live on the 5. level. Unlike many animals he kills more pray as he is able to eat and hunts everything from the size of a cat to a horse. Thanks to his thick leather skin it is hard to kill him, but also make the Garek quite slow.
The reason why the Garek is really dangerous, is his poisonous bite, wich can cause fiver and different deseases. But altough it is dangerous to hunt Gareks, their poison is the main reason for killing them. Theire tongues are used in different poison potions, often together with a plant called Jarith Lily and other herbs.