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Zamirah, you didn't quote the final line I wrote after that, about it being "grandfathered".
What was meant by that was that the free pp's would be for anyone without the perk.
Those who have the perk already would lose it but keep the pp's, as removing pp's that are likely not available would be troublesome for most players.
A reset would kill them though regardless, and have to be re-earned through the suggested on-OA basis.
(For this grandfathering, it would just mean radu would have to keep the info on "who has the perk" in his database, so only those without it would get the bonus PP's on OA. Code-wise, not difficult.) -
It is something to complain about when you "purchase" one perk and it's randomly changed months/years later to something else that's unacceptable, that you'd never have taken the perk if you'd known it was going to be that way. And we're not talking about something that's easily removed for anyone who's been around long. If there were going to be a change to it, there's been *years* to think about that, and warn people of it before the rule 5 removal, or even the day it was removed. Waiting 2 months for people to get comfortable with the change, then suddenly screwing over everyone is *not* how you keep players.
Honestly, it's completely inexcusable to change it to something worse *at this point*, rather than before/at the time of the rule 5 removal.
The rule 5 removal essentially nullifies the reason the perk existed in the first place. Nullifying the perk that relied on that rule only makes sense, and is essentially the only change that won't result in a serious revolt. And with the current number of players, any amount of revolt is a Very Bad Thing... -
Seriously, the idea that anti would get taken in massive numbers if rule 5 was killed has been known for years.
It's been brought up with every past poll, and there's been several of them.
It was brought up the same day rule 5 was repealed. Two months later nothing's been changed about it.Trying to change it now in any further-negative way will do the opposite of the intent of the rule 5 repeal... push people away from the game. If something were to be done, it would have been done by now. And most definitely should not be done so late in the process, after a huge majority have likely taken it who wouldn't have otherwise.
Changing it now would be nothing more than a piss-off fest. That's the last thing EL needs. Suddenly the majority of players are needing to figure out how to get 10 pps back to remove the perk, skyrocketing prices on all attribute removal stones as so many try at once to get rid of the perk... I think the negative-wanters don't quite grasp the harm they're attempting to cause the game.
The idea to just remove it, as it wasn't better than free pp's even before rule 5 repeal, and make it 10 bonus pp's for everyone (possibly on hitting certain OA levels) is probably the best suggestion given, in the above-linked previous discussion about this (non-)perk. No pissing people off this late in the rule 5 change, and making it pp's available to all in a general "bonus system" manner isn't going to do a drastic effect on game play. Just get rid of the perk.
*This idea would have to grandfather-claused... those with anti would have to just keep the 10pps regardless of OA and others get pp's directly based on OA. A reset kills these pp's as well and get re-earned as bonuses. -
With glacmor rings at ~210gc, and any other c2 ring guaranteed to be 350gc or less (NPC price)...
1) Rings are cheaper than the 500gc or so per ship trip, by at least 150gc.2) Rings can be used regardless of where you are. A ship is limited to one place you have to go to.
3) Rings can take you to any one of 18 different c2 locations. A ship only takes you to one.
4) Those with Portal Room access likely know the "secret" place they can go to c2 from c1 with just a portal spell.
5) Even dung teleporters are as low as 165gc, and 10 of its 15 exits are C2.You'll need to present the actual "positive aspects" you claim to see, as I don't think many others will see those. If it's more expensive, with such added limitations, it just won't get used.
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bluap/odie - I've made the changes in a fork of the code, so if accepted you only need copy from there (not that familiar with how github works).
https://github.com/feeltheburn/Eternal-Lands-TestGround/blob/master/manufacture.c
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First post updated with bluap's additions (thanks!) and more, current as of June 14th.
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So instead of a simple fix, turn what has been a single-hand gameplay aspect into a two-hand situation?
My dog, my coffee, my sammich, and my cig among other things wish to have a word with you about wanting to take my free hand away....But since you do things that way, the changes won't affect you so no argument against it.
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RPMs have been updated to the current GIT pulled today.
Enough changes warranted an updated build. Particularly the work bluap and radu have done to show timers on shield/TS/Invisi spells so you know when they'll end. (Please test these and report any issues!)The timer shows as a blue bar behind the spell icon in the bottom left of your screen. It'll get smaller until time is up.
* Wed Jun 13 2014 flamesworld@gmail.com
- Update to current git code. Changes include:
-- Timers showing on spells to indicate how long before the spell stops.
-- Mother Nature Takes a Dump added to counters
-- Auto-Saving no longer occurs during fights to avoid a lag
-- Pressing ctrl or alt while hovering over item in inv or sto will increase font size of amount number
-- Heal Allies added to spell list
-- Many various internal fixes
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Figgered it out ;-)
The below changes will make the box appear as shown in the above image. Fully tested on test server.
For placement, I set the clear button offset via the left side of manu window, the rest are offset from the right side of the window. Reason: Clear button is the only one with possible variable size as it grabs its text from language files.
There is the potential issue of "Clear" text being too long in another language, but considering the current button location I don't think so.
These are all the necessary changes to manufacture.c :line 566 (+ and down arrow location - recipe box controls)
int wpx=manufacture_menu_x_len-100-25;
line 672 (location of the 6 mix slots)
draw_production_pipe(manufacture_menu_x_len-100-25-SLOT_SIZE*NUM_MIX_SLOTS,manufacture_menu_y_len-37, -1);
line 913 (recipe controls click handling)
int wpx=manufacture_menu_x_len-100-25;
line 1021 (click handling on the 6 mix slots)
pos=get_mouse_pos_in_grid(mx, my, NUM_MIX_SLOTS, 1, manufacture_menu_x_len-100-20-SLOT_SIZE*NUM_MIX_SLOTS, manufacture_menu_y_len-37, SLOT_SIZE, SLOT_SIZE);
line 1182 (recipe control help text)
int wpx=manufacture_menu_x_len-100-25;
line 1226 (6 mix slots help text)
pos=get_mouse_pos_in_grid(mx, my, NUM_MIX_SLOTS, 1, manufacture_menu_x_len-100-25-SLOT_SIZE*NUM_MIX_SLOTS, manufacture_menu_y_len-37, SLOT_SIZE, SLOT_SIZE);
line 1264 (Mix One help text)
show_help(mix_str, manufacture_menu_x_len-100, manufacture_menu_y_len+10);
line 1272 (Mix All help text)
show_help(mixall_str, manufacture_menu_x_len-50, manufacture_menu_y_len+10);
line 1379 (Mix One button location)
mixone_button_id=button_add_extended(manufacture_win, mixone_button_id, NULL, manufacture_menu_x_len-100, manufacture_menu_y_len-36, 43, 0, 0, 1.0f, 0.77f, 0.57f, 0.39f, ">");
line 1384 (Mix All button location)
mixall_button_id=button_add_extended(manufacture_win, mixall_button_id, NULL, manufacture_menu_x_len-50, manufacture_menu_y_len-36, 43, 0, 0, 1.0f, 0.77f, 0.57f, 0.39f, ">>");
line 1389 (Clear button location)
clear_button_id=button_add_extended(manufacture_win, clear_button_id, NULL, 2, manufacture_menu_y_len-36, 70, 0, 0, 1.0f, 0.77f, 0.57f, 0.39f, clear_str);line 1399 (drop-down recipe menu location)
recipe_win= create_window("w_recipe", manufacture_win, 0, manufacture_menu_x_len-100-25-SLOT_SIZE*NUM_MIX_SLOTS, manufacture_menu_y_len-2, recipe_win_width, num_displayed_recipes*SLOT_SIZE, ELW_TITLE_NONE|ELW_SHOW|ELW_USE_BACKGROUND|ELW_ALPHA_BORDER|ELW_SWITCHABLE_OPAQUE|ELW_USE_BORDER|ELW_RESIZEABLE);
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That was actually my first thought, but not being well-versed in anything but Perl coding-wise, I got a little lost and couldn't determine how to move the mix list.
So I got a little limited, and found this to work.
With the thought that, if you're clicking to get the list, you're probably changing your mix anyway so a Clear wouldn't do much harm.
But I agree, if that's doable it would be preferred. Just couldn't figger it out myself. -
Suggestion: Move the "Clear" button so it's to the left of the two mix buttons, as shown above.
Reason: It's way too easy to hit "clear" when doing massive mixing projects. Having tested this on test, I'm finding this drastically reduces that annoyance.
And as muscle issues slowly get worse with time on this end, misclicking becomes far more common, to the point where I was willing to go through the code, find this, and work on a fix myself. ;-)
While others may vary, most generally have their food to the right of the manu window, meaning cursor-crossing over the Clear button with each restart of the mix. This just puts the Clear button out of the way of that. And it does seem to make more sense to have it directly next to the ings, since that's what gets cleared.
[Edit - Removed changes. See post below instead...]
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Spirit es:NPC price: 9 gc
Mix price: ~15 gc
Solutions:
#1: rise npc price to 13gc.
"Solutions" like this one won't work anyway.
Your suggestions in most cases tend to leave the NPC price still less than mix cost.
The end result would be continued purchasing from NPC since it's still cheaper than the mix, just costing everyone more, adding to inflation.
(Even I as the top alcher, who still does a motherload of alching, buy from the NPC at times when the ess cost is lower than (or even equal to) ing cost. Level with the other items where NPC is too expensive.)
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The online players page is stuck in a time warp from before this started. Those players aren't actually online. (It says I'm one of them...)
Or well, three of them. ;-)
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Ctrl+O (Options) -> Controls (first) tab -> Floating Messages (set to On)
Also "Floating Session Counters" if you want things like "number of beavers killed this session" (has to be set by right-clicking on that tab in the skills Counters)
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You need root privileges to edit anything in /usr/.
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As a very regular user of Potion of Action Points, I regularly find myself clicking the Potions section of inventory to get one, only to have to go to Magic instead.
I'm suggesting this Potion get placed in Potions, with the rest of the Potions.
Besides the reasoning that it is, in fact, a Potion, there's also the issue that there's nothing "Magical" about it to warrant it being in Magic.
Its purpose is to provide action points, in the same manner that a GHP provides health, an FP provides food, and an SR provides mana.
It's just filling a bar, like those three.
(If someone can give valid reason for it being in magic, fine, but at the least have it *also* in Potions.)
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That quest does annoyingly show up a lot more often than the others. (I'm not the only to say that.)
I recall doing it multiple times in a row, just don't recall how often as it's been a long while.Give it a few more times to see if it changes, as I'm not sure 4 is enough in this particular case to call it a bug yet.
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Thanks... was already intending to update that, just forgot.
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As the point of it is to stop the harvest, not the actual coins, I don't see it happening.
(Especially not now, with the newly found freedom to have multiple harvester alts. Harv events of all types are the only thing that slow down the possible constant harving of said alts, as people have to constantly keep clicking various alts to keep them harving. Which in turn limits how many one person could easily handle.)
Most every suggestion that reduces events in any way is normally ended with "use a harvester medallion" since that's the primary reason most use them.
Oh, and gold coins from harvesting no benefit? Current stats:754,803gc from loose gold coins (mini events)
390,326gc from bags of gold (major event)
1 million+ gc isn't exactly chump change ;-) -
It's a "hack" of sorts, but yes, my blog link in previous post will set things up so "el.exe name" will give different settings.
Written for Linux users, but works the same on other systems, just different file locations.
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Ctrl+N
From there, you can right-click your name to get a menu of other options.
*glitch* No pear on new game day
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Posted · Edited by Burn · Report reply
http://i.imgur.com/BKmFKW9.png
There's a glitch in the code somewhere that can cause a pear to not appear on new day.
It's apparently very rare though, first time seen in years of hunting.
This forced me to do real-life stuff instead of hunt. Ebul! ;-)
"Today is the 23rd day in the month of Chimar, the year 0039, Age of the Eternals"
Or today, current game day just started just before this is posted.
Edit: Pear was available the next game day, so it's nothing big, just a possible minor glitch.