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  1. Spinder, this may sound like a stupid way to get around things, but have you considered closing your eyes or looking away right before you click? I have no idea what would be the result for if you turn up the EL gamma during the day and turn it down at night. Because there is no option to set gamma for anything else than the entire display (not referring to just EL). Anything else than that is adjusting colors. It would be nice if it was possible to set gamma per render window though.
  2. Player Bio & Location

    EL Forum lets you enter stuff like that in.
  3. New item: Guild Stones

    Well, it sounds like you prefer the stone to make a custom channel if it is going to spam then.
  4. New item: Guild Stones

    As an added function or maybe an alternative if the original idea is not accepted, perhaps you can make it so that the stone placed into the bag announces when something is put into it or removed from it in local chat. I know....talking stones....insanity...but this would be something similar to when a boss monster is killed and it announces the drops. This way, nobody would have to wonder who took out what or who put what into the bag. Alternatively, the stone could make a custom channel which it would tell the bag owner the number for so that the bag owner could tell the others in the group the number for and then the announcements would be put on that channel.
  5. Well, if you are going to do C++, I suggest you study class overrides and polymorphism. You could, for instance say how class A interacts with class B for a certain operation. A+B for example. Class inheritance and class function overriding is good too. Good luck learning C++ and keeping yourself away from trying to set data at a null pointer location. (always initialize your pointers and destroy when done)
  6. Entropy and the mystery of the Dark Energy

    Ok. I found something else. Theory of light gravity. I think he is talking about the same thing I was thinking about.
  7. Entropy and the mystery of the Dark Energy

    Ah. Solid angle seems to be the term for what I was talking about. I am not certain how much the density of items at a specific angle actually matter, but perhaps not nearly as much as the solid angle.
  8. Entropy and the mystery of the Dark Energy

    Uhhhh... http://en.wikipedia..../Entropic_force All definitions for entropy/entropic word combos are so complex you have to reread things several times to get a clue as to what the hell they are talking about. Last I knew, entropy meant "the inability to do work due to chaotic nature". from wikipedia: In physics, an entropic force acting in a system is a phenomenological force resulting from the entire system's statistical tendency to increase its entropy, rather than from a particular underlying microscopic force. Here is a crazy idea for you though....what if what we think we know about gravity is a bad assumption? What if the reason why closer things affect stuff have a greater gravitational affect is because there is a greater angular area (imagine a sphere around an item and then mark spots on the sphere that are inbetween the two items. the more filled in, the more angular area) and so an object with a set density would have less gravitational force if it was much smaller? That means that as the center of the universe collapses in on itself from gravity, it would have less pull on the rest of the universe and so the universe would expand. I am no physicist, so I don't know if that logic actually makes much sense, if it is right, if it is wrong or if it is only partially right.
  9. It takes alot to program things in C++. It is powerful, but will take alot of code. Flexibility also takes alot of code. It must be compiled for each platform. Python is the programming language that I currently use for work and for most of my (rare anymore) personal programming project. It is very flexible, but does not provide much speed unless you use a python module that uses bindings to libraries that were compiled from C++ or some other language. Python is a language that has a built in compiler, so as long as you can find the bindings you need for speed for the platform, you should be set. Python is used for writing a number of games anymore. Functionality per lines of code is really high for Python, so you can do something in 6 lines of code that would otherwise take thousands of lines of code. Graphics programming always depends on the graphics libraries themselves and not necessarily the programming languages themselves. You may actually find bindings for multiple programming languages for some really good graphics libraries.
  10. Enriched Energy Ess bug

    It is hard to Not have a test account since they are periodically copied from the live server. Try logging in on the test server like you normally would on main and it will most likely work.
  11. Idea for ranging daily

    We could just forget the idea of a ranging daily and have Radu allow us to shoot the targets.There are over over 4 target practice targets that I know of. Heaven only knows if we would hit the target and not get xp if it is not in the right place or not.
  12. Locked chars for rule 5

    http://www.eternal-lands.com/page/pkserver.php The pk server has no multi-play rules. $5/character. It looks like rostos are $1 each there (minimum 5 per order), but you can only buy rosto from the shop. Never been there. Just thought I would mention it. Ask around.
  13. Stackable perk perk

    So you want an FR cape with an FR perk and an excavator cape with an excavator perk and an artificer cape with an artificer perk? If so, it sounds like it will be a bit chaotic. Radu would probably notice more rare mixes and do something about it. Prices would be affected, HE costs would have a chance to drop. I'm fine with a little chaos, but who else is? Making the 7 pickpoint perks drop into multi-leveled perks with 2,2,3 pickpoints respectively sounds like an interesting idea.
  14. New Types of Giants

    Giants could just spit at you and it would do just as well.
  15. Gaming laptop

    I might suggest you don't get a computer with EFI boot. I think I saw a few articles online where the things are brickable like a phone. I have an laptop with AMD A6. The graphics processor is built onto the CPU. While it works fine for me (else than clicking those damned rabbits and wood sprites and other critters that move when you try to click them), it might not work for you. Some people would die if they did not have more than 30FPS which is what I set mine to when I play 2 characters at once (it happens occasionally).
  16. Make sure you update your custom clothes meshes

    EL statues.....I think that might be possible with a new packet type from the server and some client code to draw it in all grey with shadows. Statues of other types (glass or amber for example) would probably be doable too. So, is there a way we can test to see if our custom clothes from the official server are still working after that one little mistake?
  17. good way to level magic

    Well, FCW and DCW tend to have a good amount of mana. you might need to MD twice to get all of it. Note that MCW have no mana (if I am wrong, feel free to correct me).
  18. Make sure you update your custom clothes meshes

    If our recollection of when we logged on (probably due to alcohol consumption) is a bit fuzzy, is there a way to test and see if custom clothing from the server is still working?
  19. Trade button in view stats

    I would say either the format that DonC gave or one line per item. It could go in the chat logs and then pulled up by the stats tab. This way, you could track your history back a ways. The problem with this would be the fact that chat logs are not per character (hopes it changes for the next client). It would be nice to have one chat log per character. Other things could probably also get tossed into the chat logs in a similar format, but we can cover that later.
  20. Idea for ranging daily

    I never liked how Haidir xp was so restricted. I would like to get xp based on how I kill the monsters.
  21. Change recipie for magic arrows

    Are the EAE really that common? Fire arrows are also not practical to make. I heard that from Jeff who is a great engineer.
  22. Use of Oranges

    Ah. This thread was about your profit margins. Gotcha.
  23. Quick note on price wars, it may be a good idea to actually consider location and try to tie with (not beat) the best price of a bot at a similarly convenient location if you do not wish to fuel the price wars. Burn, I wouldn't doubt it if the book ingreds prices go up even further with the adjustment. As luciferx has said, alot of people are making books now. Some of them may actually have fast regen. I know if I had fast regen, I would go afk with powersaver cape on after this was put into effect. I would just need to manage to buy more ingreds.....too bad I am such a slacker. About 3 days is how much time it takes to get action points for 1 big book of manu if fed during the whole time. AFK + big belly + powersaver makes that much possible. It would be 1.5 days or less with the fast regen modifications. It would currently take me 2-3 weeks of getting off my butt and actually doing a/d training to get the approx 15M OA xp I would need to get up to 3 pickpoints for fast regen perk. Others may get fast regen perk faster by losing other good perks or taking neg perks. Oh. About amber, I still have most of mine from a big contest prize.
  24. Use of Oranges

    While considering this, lets also consider the idea that a person with alot of oranges would probably like the prices of oranges to go up from a simple desire for money. I am not accusing anyone of being greedy or anything. I do believe the price of 9-13k (assuming this is right) for something that you need 30 of to get the big belly perk is plenty though. That would be 270k-390k gc. I personally already have the big belly perk and I think 2 spare oranges. I am just saving them for a worthy cause.
  25. Heaven Spawner Medallion

    Ticklemonster is my alt. I sooooooo disagree. Some quests force you to go through more than 4 "map changes" to get where you need to go. Your suggestion would devalue rings for some of the customer base making the crafters in the game unhappy. The magic god has a number of map changes before you get to him. Even with portals room ingreds, rejoining an invance requires 2 map changes after you hellspawn trying to get into the battlehall. Ticklemonster has hellspawned numerous times while trying to leave hell.
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