New stuff. (dont read if u wana find it out for yourself)

[jorrit]

oh ok... lol that is lame ish.

Not really. How realistic is it to assume that all characters carry around a full set of game pieces and a board, and is it really acceptable to stop in the middle of the road to play?

On the other hand most people do carry around a lot of ores, weapons, glyphs, and money without sinking through the ground. A louse pocket-sided chess board will not add much weight to that :-)

Greetings,

[Kiirani]

oh ok... lol that is lame ish.

Not really. How realistic is it to assume that all characters carry around a full set of game pieces and a board, and is it really acceptable to stop in the middle of the road to play?

On the other hand most people do carry around a lot of ores, weapons, glyphs, and money without sinking through the ground. A louse pocket-sided chess board will not add much weight to that :-)

Greetings,

That's true, but these things are real items.. Playing anywhere after buying a portable game set is reasonable. Playing anywhere fullstop.. Eh.

Personally I wish there were some more realistic way to carry all this stuff around :/ I have two gold falchions, two silvers, two broadswords, one sharp broadsword, two mugs, a bunch of ores, a glyph, leather armour AND chainmail armour, and my character still looks tiny.. WHERE does she put it?

[Gondric]

your pockets r just like santas sack

[Xordan]

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6409/shot01ox2.png

One of the new helms.

[Gondric]

i think you have mistaken that bowl for a helmet my friend hehe. but still its good to know we have helmets somewhere. i shall tell everyone ingame now
Edit: now i see it ingame it doesnt look like a bowl

[ThomPhoenix]

The chess is indeed in-game and yes, you have to go to a specific location to play it.
It works like this:
You find the location (you can talk to one of the npc's there to make sure you have the right location)
You right-click on the chess thingy there.
You click on the hand icon, the text over it says "Play Game"
Another player does the same thing
You can play now
Other players can do the same thing too and spectate.

[Bereror]

The only minigame on the Laanx server is currently in the NPC room. The minigame that the settings team wants to have has 13 rows and 9 columns. With the current minigame window pieces on the board are too small that you need a magnification glass to see them

http://www.vaikene.net/img/oc.jpg

So they are now working on a different game that works better with the current window size and could be tested.

[ThomPhoenix]

What?
I thought it would be in-game
So the minigame as-it-is-now is in npcroom only, and an improved version will be made public later?

So they are now working on a different game that works better with the current window size and could be tested.

So this game which is the same as the one in npcroom will be made public soon?

[Bereror]

So this game which is the same as the one in npcroom will be made public soon?

Yes, it will be. It just needs a better name and description that would fit the settings. "Test Game" and "A minigame for testing" are not appropriate for an RPG like Planeshift

[ThomPhoenix]

Thanks for the info, Bereror!
edit:
Ah, so it's in-game now 

[Croconil]

i think you have mistaken that bowl for a helmet my friend hehe. but still its good to know we have helmets somewhere. i shall tell everyone ingame now
Edit: now i see it ingame it doesnt look like a bowl

Haha. It does look a bit like a bowl in that screenie

[Gondric]

Theres some other ones that Xordan was moddeling for us last night. really good looking the helmets. even if they dont fit perfectly.

[Gondric]

The chess board works now as most ppl will see by reading the serva motd. brados pub.