JohnTheWarder

Personally, I find that summoning arenas as they are pretty much useless. Well it is nice that there is a designated area you can spam away summons and have no problems, there really is no incentive to go to one. I am not sure if its a programming challenge or just the way the game is, but getting the mana bonus when the current summoning system has "required" mana levels really doesn't help you out that much.For the amount you save in mana potions and the time it takes to walk to the arena it simply isn't worth it. For example, why would I go to the arena for rabbits/rats/beavers when I can just go to IP rat cave? Why would I go to the arena for snakes/foxes/boars when I can go to VotD/DP/other good location? I am only a noobie summoner so maybe I am terribly wrong here, but for summoning any creatures for levels 0-30 there is no need for the arena. After that there is a primary focus on stones. So why not axe the mana bonus and give another bonus like double exp?

But at what point does it save you money? Like what creatures do you have to summon for it be worth it? Take for sake of example red snakes, I only did a small amount 40. Wandering around VotD I got: ~55gc from rabbits ~50 meat (rabbits, deer, beaver, wolves) ~10-15 rabbit kills ~1-5 beaver kills ~1-5 wolf kills ~5-10 deer kills All those drops are worth more than say the 3 SRs I would have saved.

So EL is blue screening me randomly, it could be after 6 hours of playing, it could be after 15 mins, no factors seem to be contributing particularly. I tried updating video drivers, but it didn't seem to have an effect. ( I did normal install, not the long way through safe mode, but I really hate having to do that.) Vista is telling me that "NVIDIA Graphics Driver has stopped working properly." Computer Specs: -Vista Home Premium (32 bit) -Intel Core2 Quad Q9000 -4 gigs o' Ram -GeForce GTX 260M Here is the error log, but I am pretty sure its unrelated: Log started at 2010-04-13 19:37:11 localtime (Eastern Daylight Time) [19:37:11] Error: Server profile not found in servers.lst for server: Lands\el.exe". Failover to server: main. [19:37:11] Using the server profile: main [19:37:11] Warning: Didn't find your data_dir, using the current directory instead. Please correct this in your el.ini . Given data_dir was: "c:\Program Files\Eternal Lands\". Using "C:\Program Files\Eternal Lands". [19:37:11] Window size adjusted to 1018x742 [19:37:12] GL_ARB_multitexture extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_ARB_point_sprite extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_ARB_texture_compression extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_ARB_shadow extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_EXT_framebuffer_object extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_EXT_draw_range_elements extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_ARB_fragment_program extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_ARB_vertex_program extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_ARB_fragment_shader extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_ARB_vertex_shader extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_ARB_shader_objects extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_ARB_shading_language_100 extension found, using it. [19:37:12] GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat extension found, NOT using it... [19:37:12] GL_ARB_texture_rectangle extension found, NOT using it... [19:37:12] GL_EXT_fog_coord extension found, NOT using it... [19:37:12] Couldn't find the GL_ATI_texture_compression_3dc extension, not using it... [19:37:12] GL_EXT_texture_compression_latc extension found, using it. [19:37:13] Error opening sound configuration file [19:37:16] * server www.eternal-lands.com filename http://www.eternal-lands.com/updates190/files.lst [19:37:16] Downloading http://www.eternal-lands.com/updates190/files.lst from www.eternal-lands.com [19:37:16] Error: Can't open file "alias.ini" [19:37:16] Finished downloading http://www.eternal-lands.com/updates190/files.lst [19:37:17] * server www.eternal-lands.com filename http://www.eternal-lands.com/updates190/files.lst [19:37:17] Downloading http://www.eternal-lands.com/updates190/files.lst from www.eternal-lands.com [19:37:17] Finished downloading http://www.eternal-lands.com/updates190/files.lst [19:37:17] * server www.eternal-lands.com filename http://www.eternal-lands.com/updates190/files.lst [19:37:17] Downloading http://www.eternal-lands.com/updates190/files.lst from www.eternal-lands.com [19:37:17] Finished downloading http://www.eternal-lands.com/updates190/files.lst [19:37:18] Failed to download (files.lst) 3 times. Giving up. [19:37:18] Error: Can't open file "custom_mirrors.lst" [19:38:47] item_lists.cpp: Failed to open item lists file for read [C:\Users\John\Documents/Eternal Lands/main/item_lists.txt]

Still having the issue. Only EL causes this problem, other games (way more cpu/gpu intensive) don't cause this problem. Should I upgrade to Windows 7 from Vista? Or is there even less support for EL on 7 than vista?

Transparent icons for all items instead of black background would be nice.

Does anybody play Quake 3 or 4? I recently got a bootleg ver. of Quake 3 and was wondering if I should invest real money into Quake 4? NOTE: Suggestions for other FPS are welcomed! Is this posted in the wrong section?

I know they aren't supposed to look amazing, but squeezing new life and detail in to the default character clothing would be nice.

Selling: 9k Tree Mushroom - 1kgc 1k Gold Ore - offer 333 Thread - 500gc (rate comes down to 1.5 each) 108 Bone Powder - offer 89 Vials - offer 1 Enriched Fire Essence - offer sold Book Of Iron Broad Sword of Fire - offer sold Book Of Puma Summoning - offer sold Sun Medallion Build x2 - offer sold Book Of Steel Axe Construction - offer sold Book Of Cyclops Fighting - offer sold Buying: Raccoon Furs Skunks Furs Red and Green Snake Skins Supply Trading: Note supply trades can only be done at VotD Storage. Bulk orders (more than 1k) need time to harvest I will take 1 sulfur and give you 2 red roses and 2 snapdragons. I will take 1 silver ore and give you 4 sunflowers.

Wow sorry everybody! Totally stopped checking the market forum. Yep all that is fine. I even have a bit more thread and tree mushroom to throw in since I took so long to reply. = 3,6K Unless Luminii is cool with buying everything except the cyclops fighting, the sale will go to him since he has higher overall bids.

But still does not have active or completed quests. You can add such things and more yourself using the "add" entry option. Yeah but since its stored locally, I have no idea what quests I started or finished in the past. I mean I go back to the starting NPC see if I can take a quest but sometimes I won't know if I have started the quest already without completing. I am not complaining about daily quests or god quests because the notepad/quest log features suit these perfectly, its just for the long involved quests where you don't know what stage you are currently at.

But still does not have active or completed quests.

6 years later and I still think the suggestion is as valid.

It's a really nice gesture and all. But the channel name is very misleading. The game is called Eternal Lands, not EternaI Lands, I understand you did because it looks similar but its going to cause a lot of confusion.

Thank you, but this hasn't stopped the issue.

Bump for ideas and update. Aside from BSoD it occasionally just makes my whole screen black, which I can't fix without manual restart, but I know at least some processes are running since music will continue to play fine. I tried some other stuff and I think its also safe to say its not on my end due to fragmented files/ spyware / malware / virus. So I am thinking that my current driver isn't compatible with EL or there is some EL setting somehow conflicting.

I think even the level up effects or something similar in a different color would even look great.

Yep standard BSOD. edit: Did the proper video driver install today. Uninstall from device manager, than clean driver related files in safe mode, and than install new video driver. Was playing smooth for about 2 hours when once again, out of nowhere was struck with blue screen of death. Also had tried turning off shadows and the other extras and I still ended up BSoDing.

I don't get locked up or fps drop before I blue screen, its just instant. But I will test out some changes in video settings.

Sorry if this is a noob question but I never followed invasions much. But whats the expected lowest level monsters to be included in this?

Nice graphics, very well done.

I came up with a new idea on how attack and defense exp should be awarded. It has its good points and bad points like everything else. Step 1: Give less exp for successful hit/dodge then the current system. Step 2: After killing what you are attacking you receive a relative exp bonus for killing. I just thought that maybe this would be a better system. I think this would lessen PvP and promote pk, and it would also lessen dis/tele training.

Nobody uses this crakka, only you Talk again if you get above 20 a/d I actually I don't train like that, I read it on the forums once and I was like I guess thats how all the pr0s do it. To comment Masterpiter and agis; when you get to a level when you need a sword, do you have to spend more gc on the opponent that you fight against with a sword? Because if yes, isn't that just because old monsters are getting boring? Or is the gc - exp ratio worth it?

Asia - Heat of the Moment. With the South Park epi intro.

Ok I am fine if the system stays the same. But if i am going to continue to train a/d there is no reason for me to ever buy a weapon. By the way diss training? Its called like getting rich off other skill and then buy uber armor and essence and pots and fight monsters like twice as high as you. Then just dissing when the fighting gets too rough. Sure it burns money but it can be faster exp.