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Ok i haven't really played in a long time (6 month or so), and since my WoW account stoped working for a while i thought i'd revisit my old game a bit. Some stuff that struck me that would really make a difference (imo)... So here are some small suggestions from me: - Why isn't the mm perk removed already ? Keep the mm cape for those who need it, but the mm perk really makes the game boring, and screws with the sense of acheivement/difficulty of finding certain stuff, etc, etc... Just give the pp back to whoever has it, remove it from the player files and the wraith and that's it. At least remove it whenever you think this is "gold", if it's still there for beta purposes. - More content in terms of what you can do at higher levels in different skills.. nothing new there and people could do everything there is 6 month ago, you really need some higher level stuff in all the skills. I know there are those nice magic weapons you sell, at least insert "modding" and stuff. - More mobs !. It seems there are too few higher and mid-level mobs for the population and it's half what the server is supposed to host (1000) at most. - I don't know is the playable "for pay" extra continent there yet ? I thought it was mostly a matter of map-making/modeling stuff. It's money guys - And the fist fighting. There's got to be something wrong with a game where fighting with a weapon makes you a noob :lol: (except for pk maps ofc). I think you should either make the attack level increase with damage done instead of hits or add an extra weapon-specific-skill and level that only when you use the weapon.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ - Ad-Aware http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spy-Bot

Actually i think rather then introducing separate delays everywhere in the game, we should take the more consistent aproch, and introduce a 10 sec delay between each mouse click. And just have a "you failed to click the mouse button" message. This would be very much inline with the game's current design. :lol: j/k

Actually i'm convinced that EL2 is already in alpha and Entropy and Roja are playing there just so they don't have to deal with the rest of us I'm going to try to connect to all the server's ports to find it j/k

Actually, the "micro" refers to the wave length of the wave, not the frequency nitpicker . he didn't say it refers to low frequencies. Actually i think a whole bunch of objects which are thought to be black holes have been discovered. It's pretty hard to definately say they truely are black holes since you can't see them because they suck in eveything including e-m radiation. But you can see them indirectly if they are "feeding" from a nearby star or glass cloud, or something like that... the smeggers

:lol: very funny Adyna And Merry Christmas all.. i should delete my ingame textures so everything would be white

Well of course the first 1 is a flame and the 2nd one isn't (mostly, but the last line: "therefore it must be changed", is ). But it dosen't prove whatever you think it might prove about youself (you wouldn't have put one of your own posts here if you wanted objectivity). ^ This is a much more clear example of what a real flame looks like. Flames aren't insults vs criticism as you've tried to show. That's the most clear, and really the most harmless type. Insult, ban, end of story. Flames are more about arguments, heated debates versus constructive criticism. When you criticise something you say what you don't like, why, what would be a good alternative and why. You don't demand things to be done your way, you don't threaten (with leaving, etc..), you don't try to turn a disagreement into a conflict, and try to get other people to join "your side".

Just for the record i have no clue what you guys are talking about... the reason why she had to go, right ? I have to play the game more... oh well if it's anything good i bet it will be in the next edition of the times .

Bye, good luck with that thing, hope you'll come back soon.

I have to say i don't agree that the rule is wrong. "10. No obscene names, no attempts to impersonate some staff member, no offensive names. Also no utterly stupid spam names such as 0000000000 or AAAAAAAAA, etc. No characters whose sole purpose is their name (i.e. "runescape_is_cool" or "I_{love,hate}_[person's name]"). No spaming character creations by creating a lot of characters with similar names, or creating a lot of characters in a short period of time." Seems alright to me, it's up to the admins to decide if there was an attempt to impersonate a staff member (so it does have to be intentional), and wether a char delete is necessary, or a rename, or nothing at all. by the way: You broke the rule not necessarly because you tried to impersonate Lord_Vermor, but because you created a character who's sole purpose is it's name.

I've found that the IP tavern is the only place where you can get interact with people like that. I personally think that (with a few notable exceptions) newbies are much easier to engage in 'spontaneous' roleplaying, because they're still exploring and getting a feel for the world, rather then leveling & such. And ofc the IP tavern is the one with most traffic so the odds are with you.

Haha, i knew the first one (the keenspace one)... :lol:

Ok my comments: GOOD: "* Bug fixs for remote spells in strange situations * Security updates for troublemakers * #demigod command for mods to help in running PK contests * Harvesting Sulfur now required leather gloves * Two EFE are now needed for Iron Plate * Multiple other bug fixes * Server based autoharvest, click to start, click to stop * #beam me up is disabled on some maps for lvl 20+" "* EFE is now required for Titanium long, serpent, & chain" -> good except serpent stones need to be much RARER "* Trik no longer buys Iron Shields, or Steel Longs Swords" -> Why ? Player buying prices won't go down with the current changes, they'll go up. "* Price adjusted on Titanium bars" -> Makes no sense who's going to get overly rich by selling those to the shop in the new system ? "Manufacuring & harvesting how takes more time depending on how complex it is" If you have speed restriction on harvesting, those on manu/other things are rather useless, since harvesting limits speed for everything else. You didn't make 500 brs imediatly, they took the time it takes to harvest all their ingredients. About the harvest calculation ? 20 seconds on diamonds at level 60 as opposed to 40 at level 0 ? Level has to count more. You have to remember we have levels from playing in the old system, but it is pretty much impossible to reach level 60 with the current speed, that's 3500000 exp or so at snail speed. Basicly I like most of the new update as an ideea, but you need to do a lot of adjustment/tweaking now, because the game is really imbalanced. I think it was a case of if it's not broken don't fix it <_<. Now we have a mess of the old and new: - Huge "legacy" skills for old players new players will never ever reach. I think leveling from 0 is now your biggest problem, how are newbs to get their levels up ? - Same for items - people have stocks. I kick myself for not buying more tit stuff in time - Harvesting speed limit, harvest exp cap, "invisible" harvesting events, just don't mix well. If you choose speed limit get rid of the exp cap, and if you want to keep the events give a message (and one for the random harvest end). - Make rare essences not so rare. Do you realise how much time it takes now to make 1 EFE ? (what was it 1/5000 chance with artificier) With getting ingredients and all ? And people just won't have the time to play the game, that's your biggest issue. I mean new people to level up. I'll still walk around and fight things since i have the stats but new people might just not have the patience/time to do anything. Right, i know they're supposed to roleplay and socialise not level. You're removing actual gameplay so that people don't get distracted from the important things like the chat channels... Yeah the 8 people that want to do that all the time said thanx. Ok sorry for that last bit, but it's true. .

Yes i think this definetly should be fixed. No failed or succeed message ok. But please put something for damage, teleport, harvesting stoped, everything else... especially harvesting stoped, since it's so slow it's hard to tell if it's stoped or not

Are you sure it's actually slower ? I have a feeling it's the same just the fails aren't visible anymore so it seems slower because nothing happens. edit: apparently wrong. it is slow...

i think the '#' shouldn't be used for alias only for game commands, it messes things up. the way i would use it.. only have 2 extra commands: #def aliasname aliastext -> defines or redefines an alias #undef aliasname -> deletes an alias and have every RAW_TEXT (except for the ones starting with #def, we want alias replacemet to happen later) or PM sent by the the client pass through a filter were $aliasname (longest that exists at that position) is replaced by the aliastext (or by an empty string if the alias dosen't exist). it's like an outbound filtering: example of usage: #def greeting hello n00b ! $greeting #def thief Give me all your money $a ! #def a teh banned 0n3na $thief /$a $thief #def a Lord Vermor $thief!!!!! /$a $thief!!!! I'm armed and dangerous #gm i've got all of $a's money !!! figure out what that would do for yourselves obviously message length must be checked on alias expansion so as to not flood the server. the only problem i see is missuse by spamming...

If reading the map data is illegal, then all the walking bots are illegal to ? I mean i understand distribution/modification, etc... Anyway I was thinking of a text-based MUD on top of EL too, but quite differently. Simply have a bot as a MUD "server", and have users send pms to it with commands and recieve responses by pm too. I'm not much of a MUD player to be honest, but i played a lot of text-based "quests",i would have liked it to be a kinda multiplayer Zork or Adventure kinda thing and have people play it when doing something boring Don't steal my ideea before i get a chance to implement it

Leeloo, that's right it is communist. The whole Open Source movement is pretty much text-book communism btw (... well marxism) - the opposition to copyright (or in communist lingo the ownership of production means). Do you actually realise that "pure" communism means no government at all ? That it is a form of anarchism ? Communism is basicly an ideal/utopia of equality towards which all socialist movements/governments claim to aspire to (that means everything from the former soviet government to the UK labor party). And as you can expect it has very often been dumped once power has been reached. There are however a few examples that show that it can work. Communist vs capitalism isn't a discussion about freedom, it's a discussion about property rights, ownership, economy. Unless you happen to be one of the brainwashed victims of the cold war that is... But back to the topic: let's feed the devs, they aren't getting rich yet And i think it's more if you make the economy truely capitalist, because of the conflicts that arise.

Well technically i'm an Orthodox Christian. But i guess my belives are pretty far from that... Best i can describe myself is a monotheist. I belive all evidence points to the universe being created/designed by an inteligent being and i see creation as a highly efficient generator for the future states of the universe. In other words to create the rules of the universe and its initial state is mostly equivalent to creating the universe in its present state, it was simply deployed in a compressed form . But while i belive the rules of the universe to be statistically deterministic, i think there's local randomness. And not only at the cuantic level, i think that sentient beings act as true "variables" themselves - individuals have choice, and God himself dosen't know everything that will happen (although he can make things the way he wants them to be - no fun in that though ). Anyway i see God as benevolent, but mostly removed from creation. I trust in science as a way to create models of reality (species-subjective reality/sensorial data not objective reality, i think any objective reality that might exist is as inaccesible to analysis as God himself) I belive people are responsible to themselves, the other human individuals, and mankind. A human's greatest quality is empathy, the capacity to understand/identify himself with others. Nothing a human does can be morally wrong unless it affects other humans or mankind as a whole (present or future). So i don't belive in "natural" morality, as someone interested in astronomy i'm aware of our place in the Universe, and i realise nothing we do to it can possibly affect it in any significant way. I see ecology simply as resource management, and i belive mankind has a destiny beyond this piece of dirt we call Earth, which will have to be consumed and discarded sooner or later.

Cthulhu for President !!! http://www.cthulhu.org/

erm, no but we aren't called the same as them either by anyone. you said kiwi is slang for yourselves, but is it an insult too ? if so sorry... anyway it was meant slightly less rude than it sounded.

isn't punching rabbit between the ears about the same ? that kiwi looks more like a rodent then a bird to me. i think i like the fruits more. don't know about the new-zelanders, don't think i've seen that many, do you guys look anything like that bird ?

Permanent death would probably drive 90% of players out of EL and the rest would just use it as a chat program. Not a good ideea... As for other things: I don't get this opinion that annoying players is good. I don't mean making death painful, that makes sense, but punishing people who die by making them do sensless, repetitive or boring things, just to make them hate dying... So what could be done about death ? How about droping all items in inventory except those equiped (which would still have a 50%/40% chance with/without perk). You could drop exp but for overall that wouldn't work very well with our pickpoint system. I guess maybe just a procent for the skills (many many people will complain)... I like the ideea of developing the underworld a bit, but it wouldn't make much sense if you couldn't die in there being already dead and all.. How about removing the arch exit fromt the current underworld, and only teleport people out after a 15-30 min stay. And put a high level spell/potion "resurect" or something like that so you can get out faster. Of course for this to work the spell should be high level (level 40 or so) and the potion at a similar level, and using expensive materials (1 tit and 1 gold bars disolved in mercury with a bit of ale added for flavour for example + the vial ofc). Or maybe make it one of those rare ones... it would be an extra income source for potion makers. kami, read this: http://www.eternal-lands.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9143 to figure out why people proposing ideeas from the games they played before is generally bad for this one.

omg cool weapon... that must be worth half the gold in EL right now

Very nice issue It keeps getting better and with more info every time ... And i'm not saying that just because i'm in elt