Brom

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Hello fellow returners. My name is Brom in the game, and outside of it my name is Ben. I have been playing Eternal Lands for well over a year now, I started playing a month or two before the great crash. From that time I have worked and played in this wonderful game. Starting as a newbie harvesting flowers and fruit from the holy apple (The apple in Portland). I moved onto killing mass amounts of wolves, then onto goblins and gargoyles. I soon found helping others to be more fun and more fullfilling to me than leveling myself. I would roleplay with friends and go out and do things I never had done, such as summon Fluffy White Rabbits or Chimera and hunt around dangerous maps for things to kill. I joined a very good guild early on in my EL life and though them I have learned Linux. The Linux warriors have grown so much from that time I can hardly recognize them. Ive worked in many of the teams in Eternal lands, even when I did not have the time to work in them. Bug Hunting and Testing, Storylines and Roleplaying, Moderating and Newbie helping. I have a wide view of what is going on in the game and I like the way it is headed. With a good administration and excellent plans we can go a long way. And so I ask each and every one of you to keep EL in good condition. Work on it, help it, ASK what you can do. Prod, give suggestions, be kind. In all, please stay that wonderful EL community that I have grown to love. Thank you. I am sad to announce that one month from now, I will no longer be playing Eternal lands for a long while. Two years to be exact. I have been called and accepted the call to serve God in my church. I will be leaving my home and everything I know. Learning a foreign Language and teaching the gospel in it. During my mission I will not have any contact with EL whatsoever. I will not be stopping by and I will not be playing or keeping up in any teams I am a part of. When my two years are over I do plan on comming back to this wonderful game Eternal lands. Keep it clean, Keep it good, keep it fun. This is Farewell, but not goodbye forever. Now some personal and directed comments to the teams and certain persons of this fantastic game. @Moderating\Administration Team: You have known for a month that I would be leaving, I thank you very much for allowing me to help and listening to my input, I value every member of the team. I know it can be hard on all of us at times, but you keep your heads up and weather the times. Thank you. For those of you that lack confidience in the Moderation team, take my word for it, They do everything they can to keep this game good. You may not like it, but they do EVERYTHING they can. @Linux Warriors: I seriously think we should change the title back, This EL Linux community is politically correct, but the Linux Warriors rings more true. Thank you so much, I plan on comming back to this great guild. @Gnomes: Keep up the fight, I know those other races can be quite rude to you, but you gnomes are the best. Thank you. @Roleplaying Group: Roleplaying will never get boring. It is the only thing you can count on that I know of to always be original and creative. Keep the roleplaying up, enrich the game with the spirit of roleplaying and it will grow. Special thanks to all of the roleplayers in the fourm: Kendai, Ladywolf, Dunian, Atahn, Sora, Zelse, Pennifuin, Sparhawk, Derin and many others. @EL Friends: I would greatly appreciate it if you would keep an eye on my family. Orick my cousin, Cwan, and pheobe my sisters. One month, then I will be leaving. Thank you all. Brom the Storyteller Note: Ill be posting a story about myself shortly. I think a few of you may like it.

Im doubting the double exp very much. But I think Learner can make them more socialable. Grab some AI code and throw it into them. There is a bot that already does this, a psycologist no less, but I will not reveal its location. (Good work whoever built that by the way)

Try again, You cannot outlaw while in Hell or on IP. Interesting idea on the exp gain or the perks of going outlaw. But I do not think it should really be a positive thing, or if it is, a very slight increase, not double. And exp will not be gained while being outlaw fighting outlaws. That is to eliminate players endlessly leveling on eachother. You can still gain exp as an outlaw fighting anything with the exception of other outlaws. And outlaws will not be killable by all people because we would have hundreds of dead newbies per day. Sorry. That is also why there is a level requirement on it. I am raising it to 40 on my suggestion. Thats what I mean...Ill try to clarify.

Its never bad. Good work I will not be joining this one as I will be leaving soon. Keep it up!

Somethings I knew were going to happen while I was gone. But I was hoping that I could wield that Rapier before I leave. Beautiful weapon. Very good work Roja, Entropy, Learner and everyone else! When I come back I will not know this game. Note: That Eaglewing strongly reminds me to Ancanar...Roja are you getting your inspiration somewhere? Hehe, I love Ancanar too.

Keep in mind that when thinking about the future direction of EL, you also need to see what has been done in that past as well. At times it might even be desirable to bring back all or part of some features, come up with hybrid approach or go in a different direction. Well said. It is important to look back and know you have come a long way, pat yourself on the back so to speak. If not, you will not love your game and put your heat into it.

We have done it. It is a lot of fun when you do, It does take time and lots of effort on the Moderation team however. One of my favorite invasions to date is when a small group of roleplayers charged into the inner bowels of Vermor castle to rescue a damsel in distress. I have one planned I hope to run before I go, More will come of course. Thanks!

((Sadly Ill be leaving in about a month so lets see if we can wrap things up here. Here is some direction. We need to head down the three tunnels and obtain all three jeweled monkeys, Get off of this island and give them to someone who can heal Kendai.)) Brom looked around at the people gathered. They had traveled far, worked hard and were so close to the end of their journey. "We are almost through this." Brom said. He spread his voice around so that everyone could ear and understand the full explaination that he could have given, all placed into those five words.

I rememeber a command in an MUD I played, sizeup. Which let a message come back on weather or not this person would kill you. For example. Me vs DonPedro #sizeup DonPedro return: "If you have a deathwish." Me vs Orick (similar levels) "Should be a good fight." Me vs Newbie (mid vrs low) "Why would you pick on him/her?" That way we can tell how close someone is to our level, it could also be used on monsters/animals to size up your opponent. Just an idea that might work well with this. It has its ups and downs, but thought I might throw it in.

It could be worked around.

::Ponders how he could hurt Sora... Done Brom watched as Sora looked up with a glazed look on his face. Turned to the left and fell. Sora was off into the dream world again. Perhaps he would wake up and join the rest of them soon enough. Brom waited for a response before he proceeded into any of the three tunnels.

I think something like this is in the works, Do not fear it will come in due time. If not exactly what you said, something similar. Good, I like this. I know at one point we had an auto-adjust Camera. But if you turned it on it would make you feel sick. Either way, I was hoping that we could get an auto-adjust camera now that we have a persepective view. You will still be able to swilel around like normal, but an option to turn it on so that people like my sister (Who hates using the arrows to move the camera) Will easily be able to click on Raven when the trees were in her way. Likewise with houses. Good suggestions!

Decent idea. I however think it goes against the idea of the game. We are trying to keep EL in a way that one person can do everything. So, no classes, no specialties unless you want to. I love your idea and as long as there is still an option for "Everything" and a way to get out of only picking a few specialties, Im all for it.

Happy Birthday to Eternal lands! Happy Birthday to Eternal Lands! Happy Birthday to Eternal Laaaannndddssss! Happy Birthday to YOU! Yippie! And many more!

I doubt this is it, but its also worth a try looking in /etc/groups (Or like with Suse) to make sure you are in the appropriete groups. Though If I remember right Suse just puts everyone in each group.

Haha! I appologize for that, whenever I see something along those lines I just file it away in "This came is unique" or "That gives the game character!" Dont worry, you will not see that often.

Down to Graphics, No worries. Can we get this answer: Which Linux distrobution are you using?

The minimap is awesome! your going to love it. Keep in mind there is a new perk being used with the minimap which should allow you to see around your guildmembers also. Nifty Nifty!

We had a thread going about this. I love the idea of taking time on ships, even the short trips inter-continent.

I think that was the night Lord_Vermor was marrying (is that a word?) off all of the mods, including men to other men and women to other women.

They are? Ha Ha Ha! I was laughing so hard. Here I was expecting a word like "a thing of beauty" Instead he spits out, Pure Sex! Haha! I suppose that is one of the greatest things in the world, quite the complement. Though to be completely honest Ive never done that so I wouldnt know. Excellent review, good job.

Im going to have to disagree with this one. A object that is so powerful and imbuned with such great abilities should look frail. IMHO. A magical item should not also look like a high-defense item when it is not. The armour on those crowns is very low if any, as it should because it does not cover the head! I will say however that it would be nice to have more items and I know they will come in due time, Just be patient and you will have your nice helms and black armours. If you get bored and want to see whats comming, I recommend looking through the files that are included in the EL Download. There you can find the items pages and see a picture of items to come. There will be many more, but you will see the new ores in there and you use your imagination to see what armours those will make. Patients, It will all work out.

Rank Ten sounds about right. I concur. If for some reason #ig needs to be below #gm then please set it at rank two. That way a guildmaster could set the rank of a guild member to 1 and have them not be able to chat at all. (Ive seen two cases of this already)

As far as I know it did not happen, and does not plan on happening. Send a Forum PM to Zelse to get a direct answer.