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  1. The magic nexus is currently used for Crafting because Crafting does require magic. Your imbuing items with magic. Hence the magic nexus.

     

    And I think nexuses are way too direct. If magic nexus was used to better magic. It's not that big of a deal for fighters to spend maybe 5 extra pp compared to 20 or 30. And also then all the top crafters can instantly become 1337 magic people.

     

    And yes, it's fine if high nexus levels give bonuses. But there should be more things that benefit magic. Because just about every attribute benefits fighting in one way or another.


  2. My perception is 9.

     

    I was wandering egratia, watching a player in full steel fighting a clops. I moved back and forth, watching the clops disappear before the player in plate. The update said that armour makes a difference in whether a playeris more or less visible, but I would humbly suggest that being a 10 foot tall one eyed club wielding big bastard should also have a bearing.

     

    Lighted areas seem to correctly limit the effect of perception also.

     

    I will add more to this post when I notice more :P

     

    S.

     

     

    You are absolutely correct.

    Right now, all the monsters have a default visibility. Soon, they will have a different visibility based on size and maybe color.

     

    Good, good. Though rabbits might want to be always visible or something. Newbies might get frustrated at night time.


  3. How is Arcane, or Arcana the magic nexus? Sure in game mechanic terms they come from the same place. But Attributes and nexuses DO NOT do the same thing.

     

    Nexuses are used to better yourself in what you can create

    Attributes/Cross-Attributes are used to better yourself in how powerful/good your character is.

     

    Arcana just puts a line between "I'm a fighter with uber high magic because I use Restoration every 2 minutes" and "I'm actually really good at casting magic and launch a big ass fireball into your face for massive damage"

     

    Perception can be used for Bows&Arrows/other thrown objects and the night vision.


  4. I highly like the 'Arcana' idea. Especially with the addition to some higher level items and staffs/wands or something.

     

    It makes it so you don't have to slave away on the monsters to be a threat in PK. Especially with Archery coming up. Then guilds in PK could have more meaning. You could have some '1337' fighters out in front. Then some archers a bit further back and mages healing and throwing fireballs. It would give much more variety to PK. Without this with the addition of ranged spells and the like it just means that the high leveled fighters just get more powerful. If you look the highest fighters are the highest magic people. Arcana throws in the determining factor for the difference between a more true mage and a fighter.


  5. So was the break rate ever revealed or am I babbling idiot and completely missed it?

     

    Also, Ent, thank you. I like your blunt, vulgar responses. It brightens my day when Admins express themselves in such ways. (No that isn't sarcasm). :(


  6. I have a GeForce 4 MX 4000.

     

    My beautiful Linux OS makes sure I get 120 in non-crowded areas. and like 15-40 at VotD storage (depending on what I'm running in the background).

     

    Windows gave me from 5-45, no matter where I was. (Well no more then like 10 at a crowded area).


  7. Stereotype. Have you not heard of the movie "Revenge of the Geeks" Or is it nerds? Which brings us back to the point of which one's which?

     

    Anyways, this is about anime, so back to anime.

     

    Anime Central is coming up in May. www.acen.org

     

    It's in Chicago.


  8. I'm agnostic. I do believe in the idea of religion, and personally want to have a minor in theology. Though I want to do some studying of each of them. My first large study project I guess I would consider is my English paper. It's a research paper from the narrative perspective. So I decided to do it on Jesus. Jesus of Nazareth was a very interesting person, and a pretty wise and short-tempered, mean kid.

     

    I personally like the beliefs of Paganism but I'm not motivated enough to be religious enough to consider myself Paganism.

     

    And then if I'm in the mood I'll consider myself Pastafarian. And with everything that the people of vanganza.org have established it's not too far-fetched of an idea anymore. If your very optimistic that is.

     

    Taoism and Buddhism have also struck my fancy, but I don't like the customs.

     

    Judaism doesn't sound bad, but once again customs.

     

    The reason I stray away from Christianity is because there are too many scatter-brained people who "claim" to know the bible and "claim" they're Christian and they're always right, I'm always wrong, and the "You need to be converted" idealistic thoughts. The bible contradicts itself in many areas. Though, I might take up Christianity not too be saved, but because it's a pretty bad-ass religion. Jesus and well half of the bible is wicked hardcore. Most people read the things such as Genesis, and the important lesson teaching books, maybe Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John for Jesus's life and stuff. But have you taken a look at Revelations? Some of the works of Josephus? The Apocrypha? Banned from the Bible? Some pretty wicked things went on.


  9. Just because YOU personally like one but not the other doesn't mean that it's not a fine line. A lot of people aren't in both ends of the spectrum but they have a similar approach to society. You'll find a huge computer geek hanging out with a huge anime nerd. I think it's because of how society looks at them, and they can relate to things. Both usually use proper English and try to have an extended vocabulary. Geeks I envision as thick rimmed glasses with tape around the nose-piece area with suspenders and a tucked in collared shirt with a with a pocket and pocket protector seeking revenge. Then nerds, basically the same thing, usually with a larger horizon of what they like, but they're destined to rule the world.


  10. I recommend Fedora Core 6. I haven't used Ubuntu recently but I thought it was quite messy when I used it. Mandriva is a nice one also, but I was a nub and screwed my experience up. But unless you plan on playing hard hitting games, Linux is very nice. All you really need is to properly configure Wine, get VLC (Video Lan Client), your accelerated graphics driver, then Eternal Lands, you should be set.

     

    Google is also your friend. If you don't know how to install something, usually you can type "Installing <program> on <distribution>" and you'll find some guide on how to install it. Fedora Core 6 and Mandriva are recommended by me because there's rpm's. Debian and Ubuntu have apt-get which is a similar more stable version of it, but it's not as widely supported by software distributors.

     

    And if it's not a game, there is probably a clone of the software out there somewhere.


  11. I started playing about 8 months after this date. And since EL was a giant chatroom with some graphics for like 5 months when I joined the max on was like 12 and it was astonishing when we hit 20. Good ol' days of no beam, transparent figures and the huge wait at beam for weapons and armor to be visible on characters.

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