shallara

Thank you Marwen, for validating my concern.

During the first blue chat announcement, fighters were called for. I do not consider myself a fighter, therefore I did not go. I also have a tendency to not quite get the gist of the more technical aspects of the game, so I do not attempt to interfere, and possibly incur teh wrath of teh god. Today, again, fighters were called for. According to the posts, the needed number of testers did not show. Yet the changes made will affect everyone, not just fighters. When a request is made for fighters on the test server to test something involving chances and modifiers and such, with references made to testing partners, which implies pk / pvp, the average hunter, out only for animal drops, excludes themselves. Hunters will be affected by this change, as will mixers. (tools degrading) My main concern is... if fighters do not participate enough, then the lower level hunters and also mixers are affected if the system enters the main server with bugs. Yet the statement was made that compensation for bug errors will NOT be made. Is there a way to include others to test, possibly stating in layman's terms what you are specifically looking for?

Greymage and Evilshiva added to the list. I apologize for the time it is taking to pull together all the details. We are assembling the prize packs, and it's taking a bit because we wanted to make SURE they were ALL good! Please keep checking for updates. I will try to give a full week's notice once the date is set. Thank you all. Shall

Riva Rivan Warriors http://www.rivanwarriors.com/ GM MilesP (my RL fiancee, he's sitting right here playing GTA while I post this lol. He owns both the guild and site, etc) If needed I'll have him PM you in forums or in game to verify.

Back when I first started, I concentrated on getting to know the game. Ended up starting pots on my own by giving out healing potions at beam and getting the vial back (waaaaay back when lol) After I had gained enough to make my own healing and mana potions, I began training a/d hard to gain the levels to get into my guild of choice. After that.. for the last two and a half years, I've tended to focus on whatever skill I needed to focus on in order to provide for myself and my guild. I went on a leveling spree to get all skills to 30, then leveled them a 'spree' at a time. Like others, my goal is to read every book in game, and be able to make every item in game. It's a long way off, but I'm fairly self sufficient now. I won't object to staying close to the top of the craft and pots charts either lol.

yes yes yes! Please bring back the snowman! "you need food? ok, follow me... (walks to snowman)... now... I kid you not... pick his nose.." Do WHAT?? rofl

Like others, I also think that Eternal Lands can only benefit from having less, larger, guilds. As was stated in the other thread, maybe gradually increasing the requirements, automatically disbanding guilds in which the GM did not qualify (after adequate warning, of course). When a balance is reached suitable to the community, and Teh God, of course, then those requirements can be made permanent. Also, I definitely do not think creating a guild should be OA based, especially if the idea is implemented to keep guilds from being transferred to players that do not have the requirements to make a guild (which I am all for) For, if guild creation was based on oa... and the GM, after months and months, chooses to #reset... what happens? If guild ownership cannot be transferred to anyone that does not have the required skill levels... and the GM resets (if guild ownership/creation is based on OA level)... does the guild poof? GM get kicked from the guild? Server message saying "Teh uber GM's of guilds are not allowed to #reset by order of Teh God"?

The relief in fails is all about boosting that level... At pots 80, I make up sr's in batches of 2k, and it seems the vast majority of my 'crit fails' end up being EMP's instead of fails...

I've made way too many to count, been through 2 or three different systems, 3 or 4 hard drives, and never did manage to properly back up the counters thing through all the updates since they were implemented... Once you get to a certain point, you find yourself loving to make sr's because they get so simple to make (I promise) You get the emu to haul the wine and supplies... the levels in complimentary skills to help... and you end up breezing through k's upon k's of sr's without even a thought. Then turn around and make up k's more feasting pots to make more sr's lol.

Some of us pride ourselves on being able to make everything... Granted, I have a bit of a ways to go in Manu and Summon, But with the rest of my stats, it *is* possible. I have sacrificed the fighters stats to be able to pour pp's into nexus to be able to accomplish this. One day I hope to be able to make everything in game, and still be able to train a/d. And yes, I do have the craft levels to make the Stone. And the knowledge, and the pickpoints handy to put into it if Entropy decides to up the arti nex requirement.

As Stated, I am looking for a set of either physique or coord removal stones. Thanks. Shall

Now buying only one phys removal please. Thank you.

Basically a rosto for mixers. With a Saving stone in inventory, mixing a high cost item, if you get a crit fail (ingreds lost), instead of losing ingredients, the saving stone gets used, and you get to keep the ingredients.

way to make the gamer gals happy.... talk code to us... that's right... lol

robotbob - I was more meaning people capable of intelligent brainstorming and coming up with logical effects and impact on economy, pk, and play style, based on Entropy giving a vague idea (or specific). For instance, he could bring before the group.. "I want to have an item that would go under the engineering skill, be fairly high level, that would negate the magic effects of items, or destroy the magic items themselves. I want the effect to be distance related, similar to a hand grenade, and only usable in PK." And the group would talk, come up with how they think the main player base would react, specific questions about Entropy's intentions and how they could be addressed, and suggestions for how to implement what Ent wants.

With all due respect... and them some. There are many players on these forums that rarely offer unsolicited advice, and the posts they make on these opinion polls are nearly always well thought out, with none of the reaction you so dislike. Entropy, you could still get prospected player opinion on possible items, without dealing with the nonsense you hate so very much. Hand pick a group of current players whose opinions you respect as being fair. People you can trust not to give you the BS that derails every topic. People that will think of the tweaks and possibilities, and, taking YOUR wants and ideas into consideration, be able to come up with a balanced final item for your approval. Make a separate private section of the forum (like bot-owners) for this community players team for you to present your thoughts and ideas to them without the automatic judgement you get from some here. I apologize if this is out of line, just a suggestion to hopefully meet the wants of all parties.

Something to remember, Entropy said the chance of an item breaking was INVERSE to its value, which means, in a nutshell, it is WAY more likely to lose a dis ring, and extremely unlikely for your Cutty of Mage, NMT, or thermal serp, to get touched. I'm guessing it will be much more likely to lose an NMT or therm serp from a brod (or lucky hit without NMT) than the EMP (or whatever name it will go by) Edit: for pure laugh purposes, can we call it the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch? Even if it's not specifically a hand grenade...

I really like the ingenuity of this idea. BUT, as others have stated, the percentages and approximate statistics should be known to make a more informed decision. As with many others, if the EMP is implemented, it should be more expensive and/or more difficult to make... It does seem it will level the playing field so to speak.. I can easily see a PK contest '[NL] guild has taken over Fort Bragg! come and defeat Dushan and his allies and rid the fort of their tyranny' (just had this one a week or so ago) 10 friends come in in leathers... with a couple EMP's apiece, rush the fort, and use them all... then they get out of KF, (or die) and their armed buddies take their turn... To me it seems the equivalant of suicide bombers rushing an invasion force with grenades, risking their lives so their allies can finish off the enemy. However you feel about it, it is a tactic long used in warfare. No, I'm not a PK-er, but a person doesn't have to be to see the tactical impact. Also, we already have an EMP item in game.. the Extra Mana Potion. So maybe an alternative name or acronym would need to be decided on?

*if* Rare player drops, above and beyond deathbags, were ever incorporated, it would only be logical if ALL races dropped something that would make RP sense to that race. If only P2P races were targeted, there are many of us that would be targeted simply for wanting the look. Surprise surprise, there are P2P players that did NOT get the race for the PK advantage. Seems illogical to punish a whole race of characters simply for wanting spiffy colored hair, or glasses.

along those same types of lines... if you can smelt or recycle a sword down to partial ingreds or ore... why not be able to take an iron sword, add some bars and fe's, and get an iron broad? or take an iron broad, smelt it down some (or something) and get a regular iron sword? Yes, it would complicate the game, and the weapons skills, and strategy and leveling and most likely take quite a lot of effort on the part of the developers to incorporate all the different facets this subject would lead to. Bottom line is, if the result is worth the effort, and that is up to Teh Powers That Be to determine

Please let me know how much for these.

crack addicts? or cracked addicts.... "Hello, my name is Shall, and I'm an ELcoholic"

I am interested in several things, please get ahold of me in game to discuss, thank you.

Please.... please.... the amount of annoyance this could save many veterans of EL...