Release 0.3.019 ready for download.

[Talad]

(news taken from main site)

PlaneShift team is proud to present you a new release: 019! Some new features present in the new version will be enabled shortly. Here is a list of changes:

Content:
- Reached mark of 100 quests.
- Complete review of quests, all of them are working in game now
- Greatly improved dictionary of NPCs, and common responses
- Added new creatures: derghir, tloke, kikiri
- Made available variations of many creatures
- Added dermorian female player character model
- Added 4 Kran skins
- Improved dermorian male character
- Added plate armor for many chars
- Added new skins for enkidukai clans
- Added spell casting effects
- Added lot of new items, like bludgeoning weapons, amulets, rings, plants
- Added missing animations to player characters

Engine:
- Shadows are now present under characters and objects!
- Chat bubbles are used on players and NPCs during dialogs
- Completely remade how inventory works server-side for more robust management
- Enabled generation of random loot, you will see lot of new items!
- Improved NPC movement and AI
- Improvement to guild management (we will reveal more in the next weeks)
- Improvements to sketches, you can now edit your own sketches
- Improvements to books, you can now edit your own books

Download 019 for windows and linux in our download pages. Mac version will follow shortly. Enjoy!
The updater is not yet populated with the new files, we will do that during this week.

[Nikodemus]

I'm very happy about the new icons for setup, updater, client, they they actually made it into game! Good its sometimes as easy as that.
These are really great.

[Feline Prince]

* Feline Prince Cackles madly and points around "I told you there'd be new weapons for alternate skills, I told you all"

Yeah I'm STILL downloading *big sigh*

[lorac]

Great Work Guys on the Glyph and missing icons and everything in general
A heart felt thank you

* lorac Bows Deeply to Talad and Everyone in PS Staff Devs GMs And Creator

* lorac claps

[Dahoma]

Yay! I was wondering when the deghir would be implemented (after reading all about them in the library), and if these are only some of the new changes. I kind of don't like the chat bubbles...makes me think a little bit about MSN or something else closely related to it . But everything else looks great. When the other features, which haven't been enabled yet are, will you add them to this list?

Otherwise the update looks great! I'm so glad it's finally out. Good job.  

[Spitfire]

Simple two words: Thank you!

[peeg]

  You rock!

* peeg grins "Though i don't like the chatbubbles!"

[Suvok]

Why is it, I tend to miss everything while I'm away from my computer? 

Great work, Devs! Can't wait to play!

[Raleigh]

Time to write some big books, hope the book writing system is already useable. This new guild management features might be quite interesting as well.

So these are the 2 most important new features for me(I don't care much about graphics and models )

[mbr1110]

I responded to some of the ones that were complaining and was chided ever so slightly. Ah well, I am older and bolder. My husband being IT Systems Support, I knew you guys were working diligently on the system to make improvements and I applaud your efforts!!!  Thank you. Hope the small donation can be of help too.

Lady Ananath

[Galoro]

Yes, only just downloaded it saw alot of the new character looks  and i've got a sketch book thing i've already edited a bit cool new additions but... server crashes like every 2 minutes!

[dying_inside]

For all my knowledge that I dont play this game very often, I still get extremely exciteted when a new release comes out. Even if I have to wait a little extra, reading about the additions to the game is always alot of fun.

Building a game is no easy task, I should know, congratulations on your progress so far.

[Zan]

This release was well worth the wait ...

I do have one question though, will it be possible for existing Enkidukai and Kran characters to transfer to one of the newly available skins or will we need to remake our characters if we want a skin that more closely resembles their appearance?

[Natrina]

Probably not. The enkis from MB have been changed colors from time to time (first we could chose, then we became black and then the current white) and we still can't chose, so it's probable we'll have to wait till a wipe comes to be able to chose our real skin tones.

[zanzibar]

... chatbubbles?  I thought the community decided against them?