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Oric, level 35 ranger, wants to strip the fur off some cats in Paw. Who's with him? I'll be standing around Paw entrance today from 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC/GMT, 7 AM EST, 4 AM PST) or so to see what's going on, and anyone of any level and class is welcome. This is strictly just for fun, and to...

Oh, we don't mind staying still and hitting things in the face when the exp is good, we just go for sightseeing sometimes and try to do slightly unusual things to the game (like duoing Shrouded Isle at the moment, in crap gear). It's fun :)

Nice stuff. Finally someone explains tmaps with real footage. I have yet to try those.

Rusheeth: Oooh, it's Oric and Ayba :D Great stuff, that movie :) I've corrected the post, now the lizard has its proper label. I thought I'd seen Rushonix wear a robe, didn't know beastlords had one. Waldoff: Numbers are bouncing up and down a bit, on bad days it's around 20 views, on good...

Oh, thanks :) Would love to group with you! :) Yes, we do enjoy the game a lot. I don't feel really pressured to get to 65 as fast as possible -- it wouldn't work anyway, both Ayba and I have really busy lives at the moment and we only get to play for 3 or 4 hours a week. The result is that...

Sorry if this was mentioned already, but it appears the "official" SoD video on YouTube was taken down? I only get the following message: The video is "Shards of Dalaya - Join us!" at this URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1IILncMXxo Age restriction! I'm old! I'm allowed to see...

Thanks again! :) Meanwhile, I've convinced my girlfriend to write as well, since I can't produce enough output for you guys all the time ;) I will try to contact Aomi again about that theme for Planet Dalaya. I've subscribed to it and it's really interesting to hear about all the raids...

I just tested a few things. Under Ubuntu Linux 8.04 using WINE 1.1.20, the following works: Target ring works using ATI card, even when the same machine under Windows can't show it. This is with a modern Radeon 4730 series cards and on an older X1950 First person and boats work using a new...

@Waldoff/Aomi: Great :) Planet Venus uses XSLT to translate a bunch of XML to XHTML. So we can attack the XSLT if we want to attack the actual HTML, or we can just poke the CSS files. I'll contact you on IRC and send you the default CSS that's currently in there. Fun! :) Edit: I gave the...

Here's an example of how a planet works: http://www.psy-q.ch/~planetdalaya/ Pay no attention to the look, that's one of the default themes that ships with Planet Venus. We can change the look any time. I took the liberty to include those character blogs I could find in this thread, just...

By the way, if more of us set up such blogs, it would be fun to set up a planet :) Like Planet Ubuntu for example: http://planet.ubuntu.com/ Planets collect all articles from all blogs they know and republish them as a single page and a single RSS feed. That way, people can get a feel for...

@Gawain: I agree, she did make it sound a bit suspicious :( But all in all it came off positive anyway. @Waldoff: Wow, I don't know what to say! I'll be looking forward to a surprise at some point :D Thanks again everyone, from both of us! By the way, my girlfriend hasn't played any MMOs...

@madwurm: Running it under Linux with WINE seems to solve the targetting ring problem as well that happens on some ATI cards. Woohoo :) My guess is that the boat/first person bug lurks somewhere in how that other company used Direct3D and how the modern Nvidia cards and drivers implement those...

Ah, interesting! So there is a path into the future! :) That gives me some peace of mind. So I'll enjoy what's here in "this SoD". I'm sure someone stepped up to keep running the SoD servers? I'll look through the forums to see. I wonder what technology they're basing Dawntide on, will have a...

I realize I'm too much of a noob to have any weight in anything, but here's a mad fever-induced dream: Writing a fresh server and building a new client for a future SoD? There are a bunch of FOSS projects that develop an MMORPG, but those are nearly useless to us. But there is one that "only"...

Wow, today Tipa linked the blog from West Karana :) That's a really unexpected surprise. Waldoff and everyone: Thanks! I'll be writing a bit more about game mechanics and game observations in between diary entries. I already have two or three posts sketched, but I think I need to spend a bit...

Thanks a lot for the feedback. And thanks a ton for all the help, gakule! Watch for a posting about it soon :)

I've always been jealous of Tipa's West Karana blog. It gives quite a good impression of the atmosphere of various MMOs (EQ, EQ2, Wizard 101 (?), LOTRO, Chronicles of Spellborn). I wouldn't have known Spellborn if I hadn't read about it at Tipa's. So in the spirit of West Karana, I decided to...

When I try this, eqgame.exe crashes after the "low-resolution" entry screens, i.e. after the password screen. Is there any other option in the .ini file that needs to be set? Or perhaps it depends on the version of the client? I have the Titanium one.

Hi there. I've played EQ from Kunark until Luclin, but I never really invested enough time to do any great raids. My main character was a 54 mage on Seventh Hammer, and I had a 37 bard as well. I didn't even take part in a single dragon raid, but maybe that's something I can fix in SoD :)...