News on next update

[leuxast]

Well Piggy, Sometimes \"noobs\" aren\'t very appreciative but chances are, if they attmpt to roleplay, they\'ll be okay. And you shouldn\'t take it as \"training\" but as sharing your knowledge. And there\'s no need to give them lots of money if you aren\'t exceedingly rich yourself;)
Plus, if they leave....we don\'t want them!
Anyway, still try, even if it isn\'t rewarding.

[Eolius]

The thing is like this:
Newbie says: How do i get a sword?
Eolius says: Oh, easy, have this one
Newbie says: Oh, cool, ty
Eolius says: Yw my frend.
Newbie says: Now what?
Eolius says: Well, you have to train sword in order to get the best out of this weappon.
Newbie says: Oh?
Eolius says: Follow me to the sewers and we can kill some rats there.
Newbie says: Oh, ok, how many do i have to kill?
Eolius says: Arround 100 for one point of training, you see, not the money will be the problem but the pp
Newbie says: 100 rats? woow, that will be loong and getting a sword was so easy.
........................1 hour passes...........................
Newbie thinks: dang! i\'m bored, i get a weappon and i have to kill 100 rats to train it

*Newbie logs out*

I really think that one can help somebody better with advices and guidance than with a weappon that is useless anyway because you do low damage without training. (that doesn\'t mean that i changed my habit of giving stuff away )

Edit: 60% of the people i gave a weappon left.
NONE of those i took on a tour of the world (took them to Ojaveda, ruins, hills, etc..) left.

[Madouc]

Originally posted by DaveG

Originally posted by Madouc
By the way, why shouldn\'t they let people migrate manually from the current CB database?

Too much stuff is FUBARed... to many people with money/items from exploits... people with level 200 in Red Way from dark red potions... glitched characters from the broken character creation stuff... etc... etc... etc...

don\'t get me wrong, i mean just the basic character, not the stats, items or money.

or just character names.. that should get rid of bugged characters

[Snobaste]

Can one of the devs please post to tell how the update is going. Are there any problems or is it going smoothly?

[John_Thazer]

They probably won\'t post anything... The only official word from devs came in form of acraig editing my thread

The blue bit in first post is by acraig.

[DaveG]

Originally posted by Madouc

Originally posted by DaveG

Originally posted by Madouc
By the way, why shouldn\'t they let people migrate manually from the current CB database?

Too much stuff is FUBARed... to many people with money/items from exploits... people with level 200 in Red Way from dark red potions... glitched characters from the broken character creation stuff... etc... etc... etc...

don\'t get me wrong, i mean just the basic character, not the stats, items or money.

or just character names.. that should get rid of bugged characters

You can just re-register your name.  It\'s not likely to go anywhere...  I hope...

[Easton]

Originally posted by Eolius
I really think that one can help somebody better with advices and guidance than with a weappon that is useless anyway because you do low damage without training. (that doesn\'t mean that i changed my habit of giving stuff away )

Edit: 60% of the people i gave a weappon left.
NONE of those i took on a tour of the world (took them to Ojaveda, ruins, hills, etc..) left.

Eolius: even though it brings me great joy to see people helping out newbies, i belive that giving anything away other than knowledge is not a good thing in the long run. even giving away too much knowledge is something that may ultimately work against a newcomer.

its kinda similar to why you can\'t feed a baby tiger by a bottle, and then let it out in the wild.. it won\'t survive.. so when you give the sword away to a newbie and then explain the training situation.. they feel they have nothing to work towards.. whereas, if you tell the newbie to head to the sewers, and point them in the right direction, they will kill rats, and work their way to earning a weapon.. this provides them with a much more gratifying feeling rather than if you gave them the weapon right off the bat..

and anyways... if anyone comes to this game, realizes it takes hard work to train, and leaves.. well i say good riddance.. they probably wouldn\'t contribute much to Planeshift anyway.

i don\'t know.. just wanted to put my two cents in. what you do is a good thing. and id rather you give away a weapon, than spam duel/invite the newbie as soon as they arrive...

-Easton

[neme5i5]

He\'s (Eolius) right. Ogu filled in and gave me a tour, and I was so impressed I invited a new friend into the game so he could see it too.

[Talamir]

i had to work for every tria.

I salute you...You are a true player of PS...Now only if you stopped whining and came over on IRC

[fken]

and then if you would like to belong to the real community start to laugh at the newbees...

You\'ll see it\'s easy to do  :]

Im kidding Im kidding !!! dont hit ! )

[Snobaste]

YAY!!!! WIPE HAPPENED!!!

Only 5 chars registered!!!!!!!

[pigottsm]

MAYBE THIS MEANS THE SERVER WILL BECOME UNLOCKED SOON, I SURE HOPE IT DOES, NO MORE CHARACTERS

EDIT: sorry, didn\'t realixe caps where on

[lanser]

Originally posted by Snobaste
Only 5 chars registered!!!!!!!

but all the accounts are still there

/me holding on to yay!!!! very tightly just in case it escapes and devours the world in mad orgy of destruction....


sorry getting a little punch drunk

[DaveG]

Yes... odd... they DIDN\'T delete the accounts... Maybe they will, or it\'s a glitch?...  ?(

[pigottsm]

well, they said they where wiping to get rid of bugged accounts, didin\'t they??