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  1. No More Bags

    Not a chance, aren't you complaining about complaining? Another solution is to make all maps pk. (PvP is the better word) On a serious note, people with lower emus bag mix at storage to compensate for this, its easier to remove items from a bag, than storage.They normally never step off these bags so 'cutting off the head to remove the headache' just doesn't work. Isn't the person mixing in the bag a "bag camper?!" Its the same thing with 'spawn serping'. In many other games, what we call training is called "Spawn\Mob camping" and considered bad. So someone will always complain about something, plus people need there complaint exp! +102 +102 +102
  2. How Did You Get Your EL Name?

    I recall posting to another el name question thread but here goes again: After a moment of boredom on a POS database project, I went looking for a free mmorpg to kill maybe an hour. I found this page , installed EL. I first tried the name Rigel, from my Quake 1 days. Rigel[T] but it was taken. I do embedded systems stuff (MCU robotics etc) and my little robot, BoB was in mid rework on my desk, so I tried robotbob. And not so shockingly it was available. In hindsight, its not very RPG like, perhaps a space rpg, but anyway it stuck. I never planned to play more than just one evening, oh well
  3. Underwater City

    Also, I always imagined C3 could be a Moon, But perhaps both ideas will happen in: Player Based Cities
  4. Equipped Item swap..

    AFAICR, removing a col when you have less than your normal heath does nothing. Protected slots would have been a complex option. Having the ability to enable/disable the feature was the simple solution. I recall dying to this on more than one occasion. As far as I can recall, you lose -150 regardless, at least in all the 'oops you lost a rosto moments I've had'. I'll test and see if something has changed later, but I know my fear of removing my col pre-restore was founded somewhere. And on complex, [sto all] has a [save last row] option, how about a ignore first 2 on equip?
  5. Equipped Item swap..

    I do love the equip swap, however I see a fatal ingame problem. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can accidentally drop something on a CoL (Rainbow headband of ultimate sarcasm™) and instantly kill yourself? Its just like accidentally removing said CoL and ka-boom. So can there be protected slots\row to prevent a fumble ftl? Search. Snarky replies™ is a feature of the suggestion forum
  6. Changes To Combat

    This suggestion is almost a verbatim of the Runescape Combat Triangle thingy. Not a bad thing, its a good combat system and it would be great to see it in a game that isn't shitty. It is rather balanced, but no one wants their high A\D suddenly trumped by a 50 level ranger in this game. So the game's current population will fight tooth-and-nail, to keep the battlemage, the only viable combat option.
  7. Horse whistles from the shop

    I agree that would be a great use. Also many great uses: Hunting Leonard Finding Invasion Monsters To GTFO Summon a Zoo, and Charge in to the battle with them in tow? And so on... It would be great if you could range from them, or fight with only certain weapons ie cavalry friendly. I understand not mixing or harvesting from them. Ever tried to bake a cake from horseback? Let alone pick veggies, since its 1 carrot for you, 10 for the horse ----- And some people should learn there is a difference between opinions and insults. Maybe an understanding of slander, libel, defamation would let you see opinions are not sanctified and golden.
  8. Original monsters

    Runescape, Guild Wars maybe(saw an image but never played) probably more, rather common monster. Alike like basilisk, wyvern.
  9. replacement for ogres...

    My advice is to enjoy ogres and their drops now, you think training ogres is marathon-like, just wait for fluffs\feros. At that point you will be nostalgic for ogres again. If you are getting bored now, wait till a few levels require the same experience as 0-100ad.
  10. umm....just read this,,,i could use ur help

    It means nothing, its just the board's rank system based on post count.
  11. NO SOUND! by coolkid_08

    One is the sound system itself and one is starting a type of sound within the system? So different you can pick both options? I know I'm nitpicking, but this is confusing from a end user point of view. I never assume end user logic, I always ask "Is it plugged in?" "User: Gah it won't work I have it enabled!~!1" So can I delete this ini and have a new one generated. My current one has a massive number of 'newlines' or just wait until the next major client update coming soon. Should it be "Start Sound Effects"? Instead since they are enabled by Unchecking Disable So maybe: Enable Sound and Music System Start? Sound Effects (Since it does not enable it only begins playing them) And if you select "Start" it checks Enable Sound... in the same move? I know, you wanna kill me now. But you asked I am willing to assume clunky-ness and move on.
  12. NO SOUND! by coolkid_08

    In what regards? Each of those options toggles (either checked or unchecked) independently. Yes, therefore you can enable sound effects and check Disable Sound and Music System at the same time. Enable Sound Effects should clear Disable Sound and Music System. I never looked at the code, I'm just commenting on a confusing element in the audio config. It seems odd to have an enable option and a disable option, We have. #disable_sound= 0 but then we have: Set enable_sound to 1 to turn on sound effects, or to 0 if you don't want the EL client to take over your sound card, or if you have sound problems that might crash the client. #enable_sound= 0 Shouldn't #enable_sound do on 0, of the boolean 1/0 that #disable_sound= 0 ? What happens here? #enable_sound= 1 ; #disable_sound= 1
  13. BroD - beware !

    This thread should almost be sticky'd so would be 'evil people' can learn a nasty lesson beforehand and save the 200k. So desperado answer: Just a lil more to highlight teh stoopid. () 5% chance to decay item, That is 5% of HITS. Unless you can hit your target, use a normal stick, its cheaper and will be as effective. They could break their expensive sword on your head that way :/ No one will be ignoring you now. No one cares about their 'stuff' and your hopeless chance. Even if it breaks and you don't buy another, or renounce how wonderfully evil you are , NO ONE is ever going to give you mercy now. GrAts! ur teh winnar!
  14. Guild ideas for RL money

    I can only comment on the private invasions. I don't think it would be a good idea, only if the monsters did not give attack defense experience or token drops. Because it would be wonderful to just pay daily, for 2 hours of mass DCs in the guild map, while I or anyone suck up massive amounts of experience, only limited by my $. So for that matter just make a\d experience a shop item...
  15. NO SOUND! by coolkid_08

    Also many zip programs, in windows will 'extract to' creating a directory from the file name so you end up with \sound\sound\atmosphere-spooky01.ogg Make sure the path is(in windows): \Program Files\Eternal Lands\sound\ With the OGG files showing this path: \Program Files\Eternal Lands\sound\atmosphere-spooky01.ogg and so on. Also make sure in settings, Enable Sound Effects is checked and Disable Sound and Music System is unchecked. (yes they don't toggle :/)
  16. godless removal stone

    Because its a game? and 3 second choices shouldn't take 8-12 RL months to fix? ( the punishment is, gaining back OA 120+ takes almost a year for a normal random free time person ) I always found #reset bizarre. its tantamount to "lmao you didnt understand the games attribs system so you get to start over lmao nooob!" (my first reset was to remove mm perk, hell I didn't know) Personally I think resets should just mass free pps and let the person choose were to put them, really is it needed to zero everything out in a game that is constantly changing? when to recoup it can take RL months to reclaim. So at least creating a stone to remove various perks\ attribs remedies the problem while creating a money sink\wealth redistribute item.
  17. bot killed

    That is bizarre since TRADE_WITH uses a number, an actor id. When you receive the add enhanced actor stuff, you get [colour byte][playername][space][colour byte][guild short name][null] and [actor id] in the inbound data. I, and what I've seen of the client and others, just save this actor data in a linked list. Its created when the player arrives and its deleted when the server sends (Remove Actor). So I cannot see how and past names could have any bearing on it. UNLESS it for some reason is saving this actor data in a file\database? The disconnect, is probably the server reacting to a bad trade_with. If you get anything wrong in the size, order, etc. the server just disconnects the client. Do you have a link to this source, so someone can identify the bug?
  18. bot killed

    What? The server is not sending SLACKERxNGMAN ,that would be the result of not clearing your OWN buffer. Edit: Are we assuming that renames create SLACKER[null]NGMAN in the players char file, of whatever format its on the server? Myself, in the 3 different langauges bots I've created, kill and trades, never received newplayername[null]partoftheoldname Can you give an example?
  19. Therefore, I agree to opt in robotbob male
  20. Resource shortages idea

    I'm for usl ideas on roleplay events that affect resources, just not silver is depleted this week. Since it should be depleted forever, but a mine cave in that requires, payment or game effort to "clear" sounds fun. From the few quests that are ingame, Im still awaiting "pirate invasions of Portland" as an event. This reoccuring element is mentioned in a quest, would be fun to liberate pl from teh pirates.
  21. Runescape o0

    There is a difference between the free spell "tele to lumbridge" and 'home tele' home tele is for player made homes on p2p. But yeah I assume all games take from the same thought pool on RPG ideas, there are only so many. And yes I have a cb 85 character there , it is very geared toward 10-15 yr old people. But if you ignore local messages, its an ok way to kill time if you only have a browser availiable. So old people can muck around with it. Its either that or Pop-IT :/ I log in once a month to ensure my account doesn't get deleted, but I think I logged in a total of 1 hour for an entire year. And no I don't "wanna be ur hawt gf"
  22. Please don't shoot the messenger, but I feel compelled to ask this, as I see it violating informed consent and its a little shaky on the social research ethics grounds. With: However the researcher is a player, (very well known, long time player) of whom I won't name for obvious ethical reasons, but shouldn't everyone be informed of this? I feel the participants have the right to know. Its only with "Radu will provide me with the game data" but people are consenting believing this is going to a arbitrary 3rd party not involved in the game. Please don't be mad at me, Ulla , or anyone, but I feel morally compelled to ask this. (Awaits his punishment )
  23. Sudden computer shutdown

    most likely hardware,driver related, not directly el related. Something is probably overheating, like the video card. I had a similar event when my vid card fan was slowly dying and I was unaware.
  24. Cursor - Fight Mode

    Well I meant to post earlier but here is the cause of the attack icon shifting in a fight. (at least one reason) If you cast a spell, you instantly get the EYE <O> after. So you get immediately: If you try to attack without right clicking cycling the attack cursor. There is -no- time to click a button on the toolbar. Try this to die or totally miss the person you were trying to engage. "LMAO I got away n00b" You cannot use alt-left click because you are firing alt+# for spells, ctrl+# for inv (ie alt+# for mi, same approx seconds you try to attack) You see: ALT fails. You see: ALT fails. You see: ALT fails. Ive always accepted the combat interface was clunky and awkward and tried to master it in hopes my opponent was fumbling with it. <cast Mana Drain!> <fails> You see: robotbob You see: robotbob You see: robotbob <cast Restore> <You need 25 ethe....> Fight mode would be wonderful. I dont know how many people I attempted to trade with in a fight or how many You see: Ive seen trying to MD people. (for that matter looking up in the chat window with it high speed scrolling MoL messages for a spell failed message is another great way to donate a brick)
  25. Removing rule 5 (multiplaying)

    (initial statement) ----- It is funny I'm pointing out the pros of this, since it would cause me to reset, and agonize over my lost levels I wouldn't use and relevel an alt. I have reasonably high other skills and its going to be a big pain to level again but, I rather see the game grow if this helps all involved. Leveling summoning from zero is going to suck :/ lol Ok lets group these: All of these negatives will happen if the game becomes more popular and we get more players: This is true, I know, I am a all rounder. Highly subjective I don't know if you are aware of it, but they do now. True, this is actually a pro. Bad, how? Getting ings fast yes, fast to level no. There is a still a human running this, are you aware people use USD to buy gc in order to buy tons of leveling items now? Have you played runscape? ever seen the exp required for 80-99(cap)? I hardly call it easy. Well the current strategy is , am I a fighter, or allrounder or a pure mixer, after that is just the same. This only causes specialized charas. I insist this statement is backed up by examples, it smells a lot like 'teh pk is dead!11~~' This is done now, some people have an alt they play while their main harvs, the only thing is its illegal for them to interact.
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