Tropicano

im working on a small game, wich currently goes under the name Eternal Fantasy. Its a singel player RPG (final fantasy style) game. Its played out in the world of Irilion and you will be able to visit most of the places in EL.. The story will be breathtaking, to say the least And for you who actually have been around for a while there will be many familiar faces The game is developed in a program named RPG maker XP - and in order to play the game you will have to download a installer thats about 25 or so mb large, and Then download my game, wich isnt much bigger than 200kb atm (the sound/gfx etc. is already included in the installer wich is free for download, and also includes a trial version of RPG XP) At the moment i really cant present a playable version, but instead im showing you 2 screenshot of the game The screenshots are captured in lakeside and grahm's village: hope you will enjoy it once its playable. if your interested in testing it along the way, just PM me and it could be arranged... perhaps

funny, that bridge is bugged for me as well, but it wont crash the client.. its simply transparent in the reflections (just like someone else mentioned about another bridge somewhere). Check screenshot...

I must say thats an interesting statement from the reciver of the donated money ...

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This day (if introduced), will surely lead to the lowest amount of players online at one time in a very long while I think its a great idea though

sexy.. cool.. now all i have to do is get a computer able to play EL and ill get myself one as soon as they appear in-game

lol this sounds exactly like Conquer Online. Is that where you got it from? now what makes you say that? i just took that system as a working example.

the walking back might eve be Enough punishment... maybe some cash loss? but as ive said above: if people are to use the items in the game while fighting eachother or monsters: breaking (loosing items) and dropping has to be removed (or at least changed in one way or another)

The whole chance of an item to actually Break as in turning into notingness makes the whole system very hard to play around with.. Sure, you could make 1000 new flashy items, colorful and nice.. they would robably make the game look very nice in Non-k maps, but in the end: Noone would Dare to use them knowing that tey could break at Any time, or tat you could drop them at the slightest bit of lagg... The drop/break system has to go if people are to actually Use the items Roja and oters spend so much time in to making.. Just look at other great games, such as WoW (world of warcraft): where your items Do break (sure, they have durability, but thats not nessesary... they could just turn in to a "broken item") but for a heafty fee (depending of the ites value ofc) you can repair them.. in tat game you dont drop anything at death: wich leads to a Much greater PK environment, where everyone actually brings their best equipment into the battlefield and chases others off.. The only thing that happens in wow when you die is that you loose some durability on your items.. but whos to say that loosing some EXP cant work as well?

thats true.. maybe the system needs a redo so you dont loose items at death, but simply loose EXP, that way everyone would start using all the High Tech items.. also, when a item Breaks, you should be able to repair it - wit a 100% sucess rate, for alot of cash.. That way people wouldnt havent to worry about that either.. then you might be wondering: wouldnt this make the total amount of items ingame steadily increase?.. yes and no: if there was a way to alwys updrade the items, where you need 2 serps (as said above) to get a better one for example, And you paid some Npc for the formula, each time... that would lead in decrease of items, inrease of demand of the items, and increase of USAGE of the itms. It would also suck out cash from them game... depending on the prices of th formulas.. srry for all the typos, laptop keyboard susx

in order to make the prices for certain items stay the same you need to keep the amount of that item more or les static ingame.. by adding the breaking feature some time ago, an attemp to do this was done. imho this isnt enough... there are still too many serps / plate armors out there. one way to fix this issue (or at least try) is to make items upgradable. lets say you have 2 serps, you forge them together using one extra EFE (or something) and that makes a Serp lvl 2 sword.. two of those could be forged to a lvl 3 etc etc. This could be done with all better items in the game, and maybe they would have a different look to them as well.. ofc you would need a sufficient lvl in the nessesary skills in order to suceed in the process.. people would use the items in the game, forge them together, again and again.. and the "amount" of total items would decease. someting like this can be found in other games, ie - conquer online, where the economy works flawlessly.. im not suggesting to copy their economy system, but it would be stupid Not to look at working example when trying to set up one.

okay... ive had some problems with this and that for a long time now.. but there are still a few things i havent been able to sort out.. I dont know why they happen or what they mean. Was hoping you guys could help me with that First off: I cant use shadow mapping. It drops my FPS from 90'ish to 1-2(max). No idea why.. The shadows looks just fine whisle its activated, but they result in bloody low fps. secondly: I get alot of flicker with textures and elevated areas, look at these two screenshots: http://www.walldie.se/EL/elbug.jpg http://www.walldie.se/EL/elbug2.jpg it loks like that and then it flickers on and off... I also experience flickers on roads and ground tiles.. All of these bugs started to show when i changed graphic card from an 9600pro to a x800xt. Forget the drivers, ive tried numerous of different versions, the problem does not lie in them. And im not experiencing flicker in any other games. The GPU rarely reaches above 65c, wich is normal.. system: Amd Athlon 2800+ 1gb DDR 3200 x800xt everything running at stock speed.

will do, thanks no idea what could be wrong with the shadow mapping feature?

Heya, ever since i got a new gfx car in february ive not been able to play EL on this computer.. This wasnt a problem, cause every time i wanted to play EL i used my other computer. However: i no longer have another computer - so i really have to get EL working on this one Computer Specs: CPU: AMD Athlon 2800+ (2,1ghz) Mem: 2x512mb DDR 3200 (400hmz) HDD: 2xMatrox 120gb 7200rpm GFX: PowerColor X800XT 256mb GDDR3 (500/1000mhz/16pipes) Problem: Since the moment i got the "new" card, el has been behaving strange. If i run EL, ill have to count on a automatic reboot of the system in less than 5 minutes.. That, or a plain black-screen. As long as i am in EL everyting "seem" to work.. I get about 90-400pfs and everyone are happy.. someone suggested that the problem could lie in the extreme framerate, and that my PSU might not handle it - so i limited it to 30... wich only resulted in half-bad particle effects... Everything seem to flicker be4 my system dies.. roads, walls, everything.. if i rotate the camera it looks like the map was built by me (in a not-so-very-good-way).. I really cant get this crashing and flickering to end - what to do, what to do? I know for a fact that the same system worked flawlessly with a PowerColor Radeon 9600 Pro 256mb gfx card, wich i used up untill i got this one. There is no problem with the card outside of EL, i can run HL2, Q4, F.E.A.R, AOE3, you name it.. and they all work flawlessly (well, as flawlessly as the rest of my system can support ) edit: oh, now that i think about it: im having some trouble in One other game - Warcraft 3 TFT (and org) - When im playing, the game can sometime just crash, for no apparent reason, and give me a message: "unable to read memory modules XXXXXX" or something like that.. That, to me, sounds like a RAM mem problem.. I know i has some problem with the system rebooting cause one of my mem-slots didnt work very well, but i changed position on the memory chips and since then ive not had any problem except EL and War3... Ive tried alot to get this to work, and it feels stupid that the only reason i cant come back and see you guys more of then is because i paid a sick amount of cash for a GFX card a year back :| Any ideas? Anyone? Thanks in advance..

Yeah.. as i said: The PSU is underpowerd on paper, just dont know if it actually affects the system... thing is: i recently removed one HDD and i havent experiences any difference in the system whatsoever.. havent become more stable or less stable... Ill try to disconnect the optical drives / floppy and see if it runs smoother. Yeah, IF i get a new CPU / mobo i WILL get a new psu.. the current one has sounded like a jet-engine ever since i got the new gfx card.. kinda hard to sleep with the computer turned on right next to my bed

ive never had any system crashing in other games... so as far as i know, its only EL that forces the CPU into a bottleneck situation... where my GPU works the shit out of my poor old CPU and hence overheats it. (thats what i got told at least:P).. newer games, such as Doom 3 etc puts the main load on the gpu, wich handles the pressure just fine.. while EL kills the CPU ^^ I tried to play el with the door to my balcony opend just now (its winter here.. like 10 below 0c ) ...worked flawlessly... but my butt froze stuck to the bloody chair, so thats not something im planning on doing in the future .. I opend the door while i was still in the BIOS temp menu.. the temp sank from 78 to 62 in a matter of seconds ... kinda cool actually.. rofl.. "cool"... hehe.. anyhow.. im: a ) getting a new heatsink and some thermal paste b ) getting a new mobo and a stronger CPU that will work better with my GPU... figure either one of the options will help me out..

okay... i THINK i might have found the problem... at last crash i checked the temps as you suggested, these were the results: GPU: 65c MoBo: 36c CPU: 78c Could the problem Perhaps lie in those few lines?

I will check the CPU temp. The GPU temp rarely goes above 50'c (normal load = 45-50, max load = 50-ish) so that cant be the issue.. Limiting the FPS "sometimes" keeps the game going for a few more mins... but it always crashes in the end no matter what.. The PSU "IS" abit too weak for my system on paper, i know that... But i havent had Any problems with Any other games.. Its a ABIT 300W PSU. While the graphic card recommends at least 300 w, and preferably more. I just find it hard to belive that the temp would rise above critical in EL, while it doesnt seem to be any problem in other - much newer - games.. Ill look in to that next time i play EL though.. Thanks.

Im voting as often as i can... sad that more people wont follow my great example

Haven you got an X800XT and cant use Shadowmapping? same probloem here... it lowers my FPS from 90-400 to aprox 1-2... Wich makes no sense at all.. This, and ofc: my system crashes after a couple of mins..

couldnt find any writable cd or floppy to run it from.. so im trying a win based mem checker as we speak

Have you tried FPS limiting? Yes, same problem with 10,20,30 or no limit (fps)

Well, the screen doesnt "just" black out.. The whole system stops responding.. As in, i cant do Anything... CTRL-ALT-DEL wont do nothing.. This happens Every time i use EL, often within one minute of starting up EL... meh meh :(

ive done several driver updates during the last months (almost a year) and the problem remains.. i really think its hardware-related rather than an issue with my software.. just trying to figure out where the problem lies.. in memory, psu or gfx card (or elsewhere?).. :|