i found a inconsistency:

when i say a second time hello to Thorian Gronk, he tells me "I need fat more beers to speak with you".
So i bought him a beer, but he didnt want to accept it... :-(

that ring is small, so you will never see it with much detail. so create a lowpoly version of it, it does not have to be perfectly round like now, for something as small as a ring a hexaton (? five sides.. ) could be enough, or one with 6 sides. you can use the highpoly version to make invetory icon.

Asraniel, something of the sort has already begun. If you would but take a look at our "What the Team needs from You" thread in the Fanart section...

congratulations! now just everybody has to be informed correctly :-) ah i'm so happy, that is exactly what i was thinking. 

id say, get him in the team, the features can be added to the ps code, but dont have to be used. that way it's not necessary to fork PS

well, i think i'm not the only one when i say that i too think that currently PS is not playable at all. specialy as a non english speaking player, its nearly impossible to get quests, or worse, finish them.

I'm sure there are many players only waiting to see "npc communitcating now works" in the next changelog to log in again.
But i'm sure we will see that in the next 3-4 releases (so, just wait 6-8 months, and hopefully everything will be better).

i'm pretty sure he is in the death realm...

Yes, everybody here thinks the same way. Communitiy involvement it great, and it works, just look at other open source games.
And the idea of community workgroups is also great.

I see the problem Talad has, but it's not realy a problem. The community could concentrate on things like, doing new artwork (items, etc), or even small monsters (i saw lovely 3d models of a creature that is supposed to live in the woods, in the artwork forum). Perhaps even some simple quests could come from the community. But the dev team would work on the technologie to make things work, and on the main storyline, i mean, the realy important things in game. Like that everybody could be happy, talad because he can keep the secret about the main story line, and the community, because the world could be expanded much faster, and more content could be added (even if that content is not directly connected to the main storyline)

i'm something can be worked out. the art contest with the rats was a start ( i could'nt find them ingame until now... but after the changelog they should be in :-) ),but in my opinion not enough.
Realy, if you want to find out how open source game developement works, look at the wesnoth forums. There, a gamedevelopers posts some sprites and says: well, they need some work, give me your propositions. And then many people modifiy the sprites, discuss the changes, and at the end something great comes out (and in the process of discussing the changes, the people with poor art skills are teached how to do it better, and they realy get better, that is why wesnoth has quite a few realy good 2d artitsts now)

But we will see how things come out


PS: i wrote this before the last reply was posted.
I disagree that community workgroups would be a bad idea because of the quality. The community workgroup would lead by one person(or two, thats not important), and the workgroup as a whole (and everybody that is not part of it can also posts sugesstions and even participate) works on certain things until they are happy with the product. only then it goes to talad, and he decides if it goes in, if it goes back to the workgroup for some improvements, or if it goes out.

after the artwork contest, this is one more step in the right direction, a more open one, it feels much more like a opensource game :-)