Puntif

Pick me! Pick me! I am willing to participate. name: Puntif gender: Male/Male

You have read 235 of 337 books shown . . . I just finished reading the three new books.

I agree Puntif Male

To address some of the points in this thread: Price collaboration between suppliers has been tried several times in the past. It was never successful because as many have pointed out there is always someone willing to sell for less. I have a bot and I don't sell stuff for less than my cost. Any item I can't sell at a profit (or break even for a guildie) I don't make. If I have to start paying more for steel bars (for example) I try to remember to re-compute all affected selling prices. The advantage of the bot is patience. My bot can sit there all day and wait for a buyer that is willing to meet my price. If the wait is too long some price adjustments may be made. The same for items she buys - a bot (and also a player) doesn't have to beat the best prices to make a trade.

Worst thing that happened to me in EL was before the trade protocol had the two stage approval a bunch of people figured out that they could cheat my bot by changing their side of the trade after my bot had already agreed. I was depressed and kind of lost interest in EL for awhile.

It is time for me to do some swimming pool maintenance. My pool filter uses diatomaceous earth (which is almost always abbreviated). I was just looking at my shopping list and wondered why I needed death essence (the paper just said DE).

228 so far for me

I think EL was at release 0.75 Alpha (just before going to Beta) when I started playing. It must have been October or November. I am pretty sure I found it looking at slashdot.org - maybe it was on the freshmeat list. I was looking for a free game that I could play on Linux.

Bones powder has always been with no bonuses. Bones powder was originally 0 exp so the 1 exp is more like a consolation prize than an experience award.

Trying to kill someone's character just doesn't appeal to me. I'm glad to play a game that allows me to do other skills - that's what's fun for me. One option left out of the list of suggestions to improve PK is "Make rostogol stones more expensive". The current market price for rostos was based on the value of the best equipment in the game that you might lose: full iron and a serpent sword! Modern equipment is much more valuable but people still sell rostogols for the old price.

I didn't see an option for "I have COL in storage but I don't wear it - I make them to sell" so I chose "I wear it sometimes" If I wear it it's as a fashion statement but I usually wear a hat for fashion onstead. I don't wear the COL since I sometimes go afk for a long time and I'd probably lose it to acid rain or an invasion.

Maybe we could have an item that works kind of like binoculars (I picture it as a variation on gnomish eyeglasses). When they are equipped your area of vision shifts. Instead of being aware of all creatures/mines/bags in a radius around your current location, you would see creatures within a circular area centered in front of you. You would be able to see some creatures farther away but only in the direction you are facing. You would not see anything behind you (or only for a short distance behind you depending how far you decide to shift the field of vision). I guess the field of vision could either stay as a circle or be altered into a triangle while wearing the farseeing glasses.

Day vs. night should make a difference in how often your bowshots hit the target. I suspect weather also has an effect.

How about something like a mine but instead of doing damage it eliminates/purges/expires all active magic spells from the guy it blows up on? This would include magic immunity and magic resistance spells (but only the spells not the effects of items - probably it shouldn't eliminate the effects of potions either).

It might help archery - spotting targets from farther away even while they are out of range. Also in group-against-group combat situations, being able to spy on your enemy's position would be fun as would scanning the horizon for approaching enemies.

This happened again today but this time I left the client alone for a couple of minutes and it eventually did produce a minimap although I had been eaten by the grue by the time it finished. This time I was in Irsis. After reconnecting to the server I was able to alt-M and turn the min-map off and on normally.

In Scarlet Woods at 63, 198 I can walk into a rock.

I think this may have been happening all along but I am seeing it more often now that the minimap can activate mapwalking. When I try to attack something that is moving, I frequently miss and click the ground instead. While frantically trying to initiate an attack I'll click lots of times. Some of these clicks hit the actor and some of them hit the ground causing me to walk. Sometimes the client tries to keep initiating a walk even after combat has started. Sometimes this causes a successful flee and sometimes the walk will happen after the creature is dead. I believe that when combat starts any mapwalks in progress should be cancelled.

Yesterday a couple of times I pressed alt-M to bring up the minimap using the RC1 client and the client immediately locked up "not responding". I have been using the minimap all along on this client and this was the first time I had a problem with it. I used it later in a different place and it worked fine. I was on the docks at Idaloran and it was daytime. There were no unusual messages in error_log.txt. My perception is 6 if it matters. I'm running Vista (32-bit) on AMD 64x2 on a Dell Inspiron 1721 if it matters. I was wondering if the problem might be related to mines on the map but I did some testing and couldn 't trigger the problem that way.

I am a manufacturer. I do most of my buying and selling on my bot. For a long time my bot was able to buy serpent stones at a reasonably steady rate as well as steel bars, binding stones, and just about anything I needed. Recently the rate of serpent stones dropped to almost 0 per month so I decided to raise by offering price. For awhile after I raised my price I was still getting no stones but lately I've been getting some so I feel more willing to start making things again. Unfortunately the supply of steel bars also dried up so now it's taking me a long time to be able to get wolfram and hydro ore. This has caused my hoard of binding stones to grow higher than I like but I plan on using them eventually so I don't expect to sell them. A note to you other manufacturers: You can sell most high end items at a profit. Reducing your prices for high end items doesn't increase your rate of sales much in my experience so you might as well not take the losses. Any time I increase the price I pay for ingredients I try to remember to update my spreadsheet and see if any prices need to be increased for my finished goods.

I saw her rotating clockwise but I'm primarily ":left-brained",

SOLD! I have for sale: 3 physique removal stones 3 reasoning removal stones 1 vitality removal stone

Sold! This thread can be closed.

It just feels wrong to me to have to type a command to start a gui interface window. There should be a gui method of opening that window.

What about the 2-D NPC portraits? Would you still like people to contribute their personal photos to be made into NPC portraits for the NPC dialogs?