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@Caliphear: Well I remember you asked for rangers' help at that time so you probably were on the casty too. You didn't "BJ'ed the bag" directly but you participated to it and you approved it, that's the same. Anyway, this is off topic so I won't argue anymore about your case, the thread I pointed is already explicit enough.

Very funny to hear that from someone that was not sharing casty drops some time ago: http://www.eternal-l...showtopic=57254 For the current case, I think CherUT picked up the right choice. It would have been better to warn Desey earlier though in order he doesn't continue to waste arrows for nothing.

That's from a Presario 900 review from 2003, which also went on to say you're not going to be doing much of anything 3D-wise on it. It can only handle very fundamentally basic 3D according to the review. EL is still a 1.x OpenGL game, but it's above that. I used to play to EL with this graphics chipset some time ago and it was working pretty well so it doesn't come from that. If all is white, I'd bet it's because the client doesn't find the data folder. You should check the error logs to see what's going on. Unfortunately, I'm not a windows user so I don't know exactly where the files are located but it's probably in your documents & settings. There should be an Eternal Lands folder with a log folder in it. Someone who plays on windows could guide you better than me...

I had to kill 32 cyclops for Cagdas so it's just random I guess.

42? More seriously, if you're looking for performance and if you are an experienced programmer, then C/C++ is the good choice and is available on the 3 platforms. However, making a code that can work on the 3 platforms is a bit tricky. If you are more interested by reducing the coding time, then prefer Java.

That's almost 150.

You need 6 in inorganic nexus to be able to harvest it. Not everybody want to spend that much PPs in this nexus.

As an active instancer, I'd also like to see oranges sold at a higher price, that's normal. But in another hand, if the oranges have one more usage, they might become harder to gather for the global quest which is not really a good idea. Just look at what happened with grapes... So I'd say just keep it as it is.

True for ER, it's mainly useful for instances like you said. Note that with it, you can shoot almost 150 arrows with only 100 in your inventory, which is a great help. For WH, I think you're omitting the most important part which is the 'your ranged weapons are considerably more accurate'. According to my experience, it offers much more than 5 ranging levels, it's at least 10 levels, maybe more...

If you want to range in instances, ER is a must have because it'll lower the emu needed as well as the cost. I used to have WH perk since almost the beginning and decided to remove it to get some PPs back when I was around 55 in ranging. I then discovered that it was a HUGE help. WH is really a great perk so if you want be a dedicated ranger, I'll recommand you to take both perks.

What a bad girl... So we like big pink vibrating toy?

I've heard that if you break it while fighting a black panther under a ladder, you are doomed for the rest of your EL life!

If you have hyper keys, you can make an hyperbag and come get the stuff next time you go in the instance. However, depending on what you have in your inventory, you can maybe drop 1200 emu of stuff that is worth less than 5kgc, just do a fast calculation... If I were you, I'd just drop the stuff.

@Burn: I think you're taking all of this too personally. This thread has never been intended to be against you or malameo AFAIK. Both of you have put a lot of efforts in finding pears so it's fair that you find them more than others do. However a lot of people think that it's strange that pears are found so fast. IIRC, the last time I saw you find it in less than 2 minutes, even radu said "wtf?" on channel 6. So it's normal that people are wondering how you can find them so fast. But I have to agree that it was maybe not a good idea to put this in the bug section.

Some time ago, we did an instance with 4 persons and 2 of us grued exactly at the same time because of a power outage. No need to tell you that we were kicked from the instance map... Well in our case, it won't have changed anything because it took some time for the power to come back for them but it's still a bit annoying.

Yes but if only dragons are left at the end, and if the people who are tanking the dragons don't share, what should a ranger do? Because if he doesn't help, he could be accused of not helping the team... But ok, then I'll propose the following: Keep the rules as it is, including the fact that rangers are authorized to shoot only 200 PKs when they have ER perk. But in this case, they should not risk any kick if once they have shot all their arrows they don't help fighting mobs anymore. They can always do some other things like scouting though. I propose this because I think some people don't understand that rangers in the 120+ invance shoot much more than 200 arrows and they are a great help to finish the invance as fast as possible. If rangers were shooting less arrows, the invance would take much more time. And if the invance take too much time, it's not interesting anymore in term of xp and gcs. It'd then be much more interesting to go train on a spawn because in the same time, you'll get as much xp, probably more gcs and you'll take much less risks. But from my point of view, it's not a big problem though if the invances take more time because it's still great fun. EDIT: I forgot to say that indeed, this would probably encourage people to share the drops a bit more if they want to finish the invance ASAP...

So you are telling that rangers should not help if they don't get a share? Well, this thread is to try to find what helping is. This kind of comment is not helping at all for sure.

You can increase the a/d experience as much as you want, people with a low a/d won't go melee strong mobs like dragons more than now.

Like some people said already, there are many ways to help during the invance if the mobs are too strong for you. You can heal people, summon stuff, range, protect the rangers... However, even if you have a low level, you can always try to find a team of people with who you can fight. And if someone is willing to tank biggest mobs, you can help by joining the fight. For the armor, I think it's up to people to decide what they want to take but in general, if you don't want to be always attacked by mobs while being in a group, you'd better have the best armor you can. Anyway, from my point of view, one of the biggest problem of the invances is the gcs because some people are greedy and want the drops for themselves so sometimes it totally screws the team work. Moreover, as a ranger, I don't find fair that some people get large amount of gcs with the help of rangers and then don't share what they get. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying that I want to get the money back from the arrows I used because I would not mind spending ~10kgc for all the exp I get in return. What I'm not finding fair is that some people get a lot of gcs whereas others spend a lot. So I think that removing the drops from the invances would be an excellent idea. This way it'll be totally fair. But I don't think giving gcs to everybody at the end of the invance is a good idea because the experience reward is already more than enough. However, I would go even further, I would put the invance map as non drop in order people are able to participate without the fear of losing a rosto BUT if you die during the invance, either you don't get any experience at the end or your experience reward is halved at each death. Just my 2 cents.

Getting xp according to how many damage you dealt is not a good idea IMO because it'll favor higher players and will increase the gap between low and high players even more. I like the suggestion of Aislinn about having several waves, it's a good way to have something to kill for everyone all the time. EDIT: Moreover the number of waves could depend on the number of players that are currently in the invance... Another solution could be to split the 120+ invance into 2, a 120-140 and a 140+. The 120-140 could be made just a bit easier than the current 120+ by replacing the MBs by bulas and reducing the number of dragons. The 140+ could have only nasps, giants, dragons, bulas, MBs...

What about a few days ban? According to your story, some people went off limits IMO...

@CalsoniC and PkG guild: stop thinking you are the center of the world, all is not turning around you. And AFAIK, Maxine can't start invances... To be back on topic: I think it's not fair to punish the whole team for someone's bad behavior. Now I don't know exactly what happened in the 100-120 range but I can see two scenarios: 1. if it was a kind of dispute inside the team, then let the team manages that, people are tall enough I guess. 2. if it was rule breaking or harassment, just use the ban button on people who did it.

Just to let everybody know, in today's invasion CalsoniC took the drop from the casty and didn't share with other people who worked on it. He was not alone from PkG guild though so I'm sure they shared between them. They probably do that because they think they are cool or something or maybe because they want people to PK them... I don't know and as I don't PK, I really don't care honestly. All I know is that starting from now, I won't give any ranging support to any member from the PkG guild in invasions. It's not a lot but it's the least I can do and I encourage all people who were here to do the same as well. They are not worth your arrows my friends!

Excellent, your 3 Orange will greatly help, thank you! Excellent, your 50 Amber will greatly help, thank you! I am trying to make a special potion. I need 10000 Gypsum of which I have 10000, 1200 Amber and I have 846, 50 Refined Vegetal Mixture of which I already have 50, and finally, 25 Orange of which I already have 10.