nathanstenzel

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Weird. It is working ok now, but it was not working this morning. Same client and game data.

On the notepad, if there are more note sections than will fit without scrolling, you will not get the note you were clicking on when you are scrolled down any. If you click the 3rd row of the 1st column (when you look at it) when it is the 5th from the top scroll wise, you will get the 3rd from the top scroll wise. Not sure if I am describing this well enough for people to know what I am saying, but try clicking on something when you have a bunch of notes and the scroll bar is not all the way up to the top.

Radu and Entris, if you had noticed, a few of us were also paying attention to our collected critter drops. I did not mention it, but my ticklemonster character was keeping track by his collected feathers. Wuffzel was collecting tiger furs. I have suspected that after completing a haidir quest, you are then assigned the next one, but that you are not told what it is until it is time (and you ask) and then if you kill any critters before that, they still count even though you didn't ask what the quest was before you got it. I posted to that effect a few times before. Of course, it would be a slim chance that the stuff you killed was actually part of the Haidir quest that you didn't ask about yet and so proving such things would be hard and it would simply look like counters are off or there is a small 1-2 off error on server counts. I am sure Radu will never comment about the order of things since that would lead to the idea of people actually trying to complete a haidir quest before finding out what it is....which could lead to a bunch of wasted time...but some are just that crazy.

If someone is on a horse, their horse may end up getting killed. If I had a lance the same length as my opponent's lance, I would aim for the horses throat so the horse will throw its rider. People taking out the horse of a rider is also pretty common. Just figured I would mention this before you bring horses into PK. As for the jousting tournament idea, that could be done on a special piece of a map and would be kind of cool. An NPC could even take bets...but that would be a bit complex to set up.

I similar counter issues with pandas (using a sword/pick) and with falcons (using steel long) yesterday. Ya...two different characters.

I wish this idea with the platinum coins would be implemented as it would help cut the inflation that we are having. I guess the downside is that by cutting the inflation of shop item prices, it cuts the growth of demand for shop items.

How about an option to show your current coordinates under the compass in the bottom right? I also like vinoveritas's idea in post #7 for the minimap.

I don't wanna die, so when I get there, I will probably stay by the gate when I get in there.

Others may have more info for you, but in my experience, the sliding characters mean that your actor animations are not working which most likely means that CAL3D is not working. CAL3D is the module that makes the joints move in EL. I am not sure if the client would still run or not if the files that the actor animations are pulled from were tainted or unavailable. Does the current official client work for you? (not referring to the test clients)

Would encourage people to use training arrows which is NOT what invances are for. If you get training arrows back at the end of the invance, you can shoot them during normal archery training. I would not recommend using training arrows in an invance either. Wouldn't really encourage people to give archers stuff, ain't broke don't fix it etc. Bragging rights. Else than that, IF a person wanted to donate stuff to rangers, they would know who the rangers were. What? You don't need to reset to range...People are gonna reset to do invances? What? Personally don't think there's anything wrong with how it is now I never said you need to reset to range nor was I suggesting people do it. People have different goals in the game and some people reset for various reasons. I was referring to TuDaeFadda's post about it being unfair for rangers to get ranging xp bonuses when they don't do any fighting. TuDaeFadda made a statement against bkc's suggestion. I made a statement against TuDaeFadda's statement. It is only fair. It is logical that if a person did reset and did not want to focus on a/d build at the moment that the person could do haidir daily via archery (I believe that counts) and archery/magic/summoning in invances to get a total of 600k-1m OA xp a day. For that case, a person could probably just place poison caltrops or land mines in an invance (and hopefully nobody with One perk sets them off) and they would actually earn their a/d xp from that.

bkc, I can understand that argument and I can understand how people would see it as being too easy to level ranging if you got ranging xp bonuses in invances. May I recommend a slightly different bonus? Maybe you could get 25% of your arrows back or you get some training arrows instead. If it can't/won't be implemented server side, perhaps you could take donations. I personally appreciate all the effort the rangers put into the invances. It has helped me save some HE and occasionally saved me from a dis ring or even death. Supposing there was no added bonus for archers, it would be nice if the server announced the number of hits the archers made at the end of the invance so that people could give them some training arrows or something. I do not know how easy such a thing would be to implement. Edit: It may also be unfair for people that got their a/d xp up would be able to reset and then get their a/d xp from invance by playing the part of a ranger. Of course, now that I mentioned it, no doubt people will try that out.

I tried out Mandrive One 2011 (Mandriva is a Linux Distrobution) last night. I regret it. The release in the ISO is not stable. The installer froze a few times resulting in the need to powerdown (hard) and try again. You can't use the web browser at the same time as the installer in live mode or you will get such a problem. It is a pain to upgrade the packages from that point to the current state because of the dependencies feeding back on eachother. Although this might be related to harddrive issues, I ended up with a few programs locking up and some bad inodes on the disk. My root partition is currently mush and I will have to try to delete it and make a fresh partition there with bad block detection turned. Thank goodness for a separate /home folder! If you can get a newer copy of this than the ISO image, it might not be as bad. Although it was buggy for the version that I had, it did not feel too bad when I was using it. Some compared it to Unity and didn't like it, but I found it to to be familiar enough. It does not seem like Konsole is working normally lately, but it seemed buggy in 2011 towards the end too.

Nice video for the advertisement. It does not look too good on my phone, but I am sure it looks great on an actual computer. If nothing else, it gives a good idea of what the game looks like while viewed from the phone.

I think it would also be useful to have the option of having any life bars show (for x seconds) when they go down. That way, when working as a team, you know when your team is getting hurt. If you never see your team's life bars and they die on you, they may get annoyed with you.

I was looking around on the web and I found that Qt has made great progress. There is even a QtCreator app to help make the apps. It looks like an android-lighthouse project which allowed easy compiling of a Qt application with little modification and use of the Android NDK is being sucked into the main code. QtCreator already seems to directly compiling for Maemo and Symbian devices. I was thinking that if we can replace the SDL code with Qt code, we might be able to make such a move and get the game on alot of devices. Do you think this is possible and who would be willing to work on it if it was possible?

Xaphier,do you have any idea when/if there will be a make.default that works with your code? I imagine it is too soon to put your work in the main branch in an active state due to added compile dependencies that your branch has, but I was curious. If we had a make.defaults with your code disabled by default, the people that want to test the other things could do it without the added dependencies and we could test yours after you push to the main branch.

Who all is compiling this under Linux? I can compile git://git.berlios.de/elc and I can compile https://github.com/raduprv/Eternal-Lands, but I can't compile https://github.com/xaphier/Eternal-Lands. ...and yes, I am silly enough to check out all three. My latest problem with compiling yours is as follows. CMAKE: -- Could NOT find Freetype (missing: FREETYPE_LIBRARY FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS) -- Could NOT find OpenMP (missing: OpenMP_C_FLAGS OpenMP_CXX_FLAGS) (It seems to tolerate it and make the makefile anyways) make: In file included from /home/nathan/Eternal-Lands/engine/abstractframebuffer.cpp:9: /home/nathan/Eternal-Lands/engine/texture.hpp:55: error: ‘GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_ARRAY’ was not declared in this scope make[2]: *** [engine/CMakeFiles/elengine.dir/abstractframebuffer.cpp.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [engine/CMakeFiles/elengine.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2

The requested operation could not be completed Connection to Server Refused Anyone have details on why this site that has supplemented EL for such a long time is no longer serving pages?

Thanks for fixing it.

Well, you could try sharing it and then "like" your share. The difference is that your "like" will not show on EL. Considering people "like" some things that they actually dislike and the total lack of a "dislike", I don't think we need it displaying here. Just my two cents. Of course, it is totally possible that you meant an EL "like" button, but that sort of thing would have to be added by the people that make the forums for EL. Try http://www.invisionpower.com/products/board/ if you want to influence there. You will notice the link down below with the text of "Community Forum Software by IP.Board 3.1.4". After a feature like that is added there, Radu would have to decide to go to that version, probably spend some hours on updating skins (assuming these mismatch like during the last forum software version change) and then he may be able to opt out on certain features. You might perhaps be able to set your forum siggy with a Facebook "like" button in it, but that would only let people "like" what you say and not anyone else....and that is assuming that works at all. I only did a little bit of playing with making a Facebook "like" button. It might malfunction and have the "like" applied to the thread or the url they are looking at instead.

Two things that sometimes cause trouble are reflections and point particles. I think the person mentioned the non-free software list because sometimes the video drivers are compiled for the kernels and put there with permissions so that a person could have an automatic update of their proprietary video drivers. They may actually be free even, but they don't match the distribution's copyright policy. I think you get the point. Good luck with your video drivers. It has always been my least favorite obstacle to tackle when I install a distribution.

Any news on this? I need to install the app again.

You could have the characters blink when their life bar color changes too. You could have your life and mana bars blink when it changes color to a lower value color. Oh wait....there is no variation in color for the mana bar...maybe we could add that.

I believe there was a plan for the distant future to allow people to build structures, barricades and such. The change of map structures at the beginning of the year was supposed to be a step closer to this. I imagine switching to the newer OpenGL version support (and discarding some older versions) is another step towards it. I do not know what is left though. Perhaps if you look for "city" and "mayor", you will find the thread(s).