If several stores are running low on a particular item to sell and then the owners put the price up, there is then a demand for that product. Merchants from other areas seeking to exploit this will send caravans with these goods on them to the city, generating quests to defend the caravans, some might pass through PvP areas allowing both NPC and PC bandits to attack while others will not, to ensure that some of the caravans get to the town.
Whenever a caravan gets to the town, prices will go down due to increased supply, shopkeepers might try to exploit this by funding bandits to attack the caravans, and hiring PCs to attack them, while not preventing a player from making a caravan and making some cash.
Shops such as Harquenist?s smithy will produce goods on their own if some PC or NPC sells them the raw materials.

I do not see reason for technology and magic to be seperate subjects, as they are both large fields with many posiblities combinations. Why should Magic and technology not work together? I would expect current technology to be more magic/machine com,binations than relying on onw or the other. After all why can magic not be termed another field of science?

Maybe only if your harvesting is good enough then you could harvest certain rare herbs. If a plant is poisonous unprepared, then you should only be able to only take the non poisonous part of the plant for use. The same thing could apply to animals, you could ?harvest? the non poisonous parts of an animal for a potion or spell, otherwise you risk poisoning yourself with it.

As Seperot arrived on the battle field he saw his army getting massacred by volley after volley of arrow fire, the few zombies who survived the arrows were killed as they tried to put their ladders up. On the walls catapults and ballistae fired into the zombies massed ranks. While the zombie army brought its siege weapons to bear on the walls zombies scaled the ladders on the walls and engaged in fierce hand to hand fighting on the walls. Seperot riding darkstorm approaches the walls and fires spell after spell into the massed ranks of the soldiers. They begin firing at Seperot, although he either dodged or blocked the missiles and spells. At the small fort things were going much better, although more and more zombies were leaving the main army at Forentium to attack the fort, and it was unlikely that they could hold them off for ever. Back at Forentium, Seperot was being held at bay by many arches and mages, although his army was gaining more ground. The soldiers had all been given a special preparation of herbs to prevent them being turned into zombies, preventing Seperot from increasing his forces and severely hindering his assault.

Originally posted by Fanomatic2000
One more thing that would make the game become more interesting were if every guild had it\'s own special power. Like if a healing-guild had a special healing magic, and a \"dark-magic\" guild had a special offensive magic. \"Martial art\"guilds could have their own moves ad so on...
These powers could only be used if you were a member of the guild.

What if you belong to a guild that is not focused all on one type of skill, i.e. a guild held together by an idealology rather that one soely focused on magic. The mercanary guild for instance.
Also, if each guild gets its own power then the devs will need to make a power for each and every of planesift\'s guilds. Instead of releasing these powers to everyone.
A final point, why would you join a guild? Because you are suited to thats guilds aims or because that guild has a 1337 power?

Despite all that, I think it would be a good thing to have, if you could get over all the hurdles

Originally posted by Esthurin

However, in planeshift I feel that free PvP should only occur in designated areas. One of these should be death realm... After all, that\'s where the evil characters will reside, and it would be nice to be able to be truly bad by killing whoever you want. Anyone killed there should immediately respawn at the entrance site of the realm.

If I understand you correctly you mean that each time you get PKed in the death realm you go back to the begining?
Imagine if a band of evil players tried to stop people from leaving the realm by repeated Pking?

From http://www.planeshift.it/setting_races.html

The city of Yliakum is a melting pot of races with different culture and origin, mixed and integrated by living together over the centuries. Racial suspicion and hostility are completely unknown, given that the greater part of people belonging to one race is normally married to someone of another race.  

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