Llewelyn

Just a couple questions about how current characters might make the transition to these. Dunno if there's answers for these or it hasn't been planned that far yet, but: Will we get the pickpoints we spent on nexii back, if they end up getting replaced totally with another system? Will existing levels in Summoning be transferred to Conjuring or not?

You forget one other fact... they paid money ($50?) to be able to sell AFK. If you want to pay the EL staff $50, I'm sure you can get someone to help you set up your own bot, even if you don't know how to code.

First, a definition: The event horizon is the point at which any form of light, including microwaves and X-rays, cannot escape. Now, if the pull of the gravity tears apart some matter outside the event horizon, the X-rays and other radiation can still escape. Nothing can be detected below the event horizon, but there's plenty of stress on the space and matter outside the event horizon, which produces radiation that can be detected. As far as the earlier point, microwaves aren't just LIKE light... they ARE light. Light is composed of packets of a wave/particle called a photon. Microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, visible light, infrared, ultraviolet, radio, these are all part of the spectrum of light. Now on to the speed of light. This is a constant 186,282 miles per second in vacuum. The reason it is lower in any other medium is because it's interacting with the matter it passes through, so it doesn't travel in as much of a straight line, IIRC. However, you CANNOT "accellerate" light faster than this speed by any normal means. However, it IS physically possible to raise the speed. Yes, I know that's the definition of accelleration normally, but bear with me for a second. There is this effect called the Casmir effect. You can read more about it in Dr. John G Cramer's article it revolves around what are called virtual particles. The theory is that the reason light travels at the speed it does, and not at say one hundred times that, is due to it constantly splitting into a pair of opposite particles, which re-annihlate and reform the original photon, many, many times a second. Now these virtual particles cannot travel faster than light, because they have mass, so it slows the light slightly from what it could be travelling at. Now if you put a pair of plates extremely close together, and send a photon through, if they are sufficiently close the creation fo the virtual particles would impact the plates. Because of this, the particles are not allowed to form, and thus the photon travels slightly faster. However, this affects any and all photons between this plate, thus effectively raising the speed of light within the space between the plates. Thus light travels faster, but does not accellerate... it would jsut jump to the new speed between the plates, and on leaving return to it's former speed. There may be other possibilities of how to get around the speed of light for a communications network besides finding a way to surpress virtual particles(mini-wormholes, for example), but you can't use gravity to accellerate light. I'll give that you might be able to use gravity to warp space to cause other effects to happen, and circumvent the limit that way, but gravity in and of itself will not change the speed of light, even by trying to use it as a slingshot.

Ragnarok Online.

RO doesn't implement the logo on outfits, but it does have it after the name, and you can make and upload your own too.

Since you were still figuring stuff out for the quick-manu, I popped open the bmps and put together some of the formulas I use or will want to use in the future. Here's the stuff I added to my manu.ini from the one you included in your client on the site: #essence, matter essence,55,38,1,39,1,40,1,45,1 #essence, health essence,59,28,1,43,2 #maufacturing, leather gloves,86,92,4,81,4 #maufacturing, leather boots,93,92,6,119,1,81,6 #maufacturing, leather pants,137,92,7,81,10 #maufacturing, padded leather armor,90,92,8,119,3,81,14 #maufacturing, leather helm,181,92,3,81,4 #maufacturing, iron shield,123,119,8,118,2,50,4 #maufacturing, steel shield,124,118,8,119,2,50,5 #maufacturing, iron greaves,180,92,2,119,4,81,2,210,1 #maufacturing, iron chainmail,91,92,3,119,14,50,5,81,6 #maufacturing, iron helm,136,92,3,119,5,50,4 #maufacturing, iron cuisses,179,92,4,119,10,81,10,210,1 #maufacturing, steel chainmail,138,92,3,118,14,50,6,81,6 #maufacturing, titanium chainmail,139,92,3,117,14,210,1,81,6,50,10 #maufacturing, iron plate armor,178,92,5,119,30,50,30,81,6,210,1 #maufacturing, iron sword,101,119,10,118,1,50,2 #maufacturing, iron broadsword,102,119,12,118,2,50,3 #maufacturing, steel longsword,103,119,2,118,12,50,4 #maufacturing, two-edged steel sword,104,119,2,118,16,50,4 #maufacturing, titanium/steel shortsword,105,117,6,118,6,50,5 #maufacturing, titanium/steel longsword,106,117,8,118,8,50,6,210,1 #maufacturing, titanium serpent sword,107,117,12,118,2,50,7,210,1,41,1 #potion, potion of healing,16,6,1,25,1,9,1 The only ones I'm not sure about are the recipies that had EFEs added in the last update. I'm not high enough to test and see if it's in addition to regular FEs like iron plate, or not. If regular FEs got removed from those recipies, delete the 50,# from the appropriate line. I'm also not sure which image is the serpent stone since I've never owned one... I just guessed item 41 since it's not the iron, silver, or titantium ore. Maybe someone with a serp stone can see if that's the correct number or not. Also the line for the iron helm was messed up... the corrected one is listed above. The numbers for the mana potion items were off also I believe.