Very nice server...Well done...
One thing though...I think moving the fog way back would be a good thing to do.
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I'm trying to find the balance between seeing things and crashing. But seems a nice idea. Thx btw :)
-Mel
Did you mean to make Ted a sent? Im thinking it was a misclick...
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Did mean to :P
I get why you say it, he wasn't sent for longer than 18 hours. He pertty much ruined it in no time.
-Mel
how did Ted ruin being a sent?
someimtes he does act a little over the top....
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He used the power a 'bit' too much when he shouldn't.
Poeple complained too, and not 1 or 2.
-Mel
Were all the GS sents meant to be Sentinels on Arivs
Can sents put people in jail :D
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Jail is a place where the gate puts 'unwanted objects'
They can get out of it if the gate lets them. Freezing has a load of advantages over jail too.
-Mel
How was i using the power to much, i was simply doing my job. I used on any who broke the rules then use it again. Any1 who was complaing was eather lieing or just jelous that I have one and they don't' EXcept for viper wich i already said sorry to.. :glare:
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There's a time to use your 'powers' and there's a time to not sue them and just tell the person.. Cutscene stoning for testing a spell in the corner by yourself is not a time to use your powers. :unsure:
:)lol ive gotten over it its just that ppl lied and were jelou sso they complaned to mel and the dm's :angry2: :( i think gasmo istill can't get over it him self <_<
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The other dm's have nothing to do whit it. I just added a few extra sents for arivs (4-1 now) to have some sents on time to time. Nobody else has anything to do whit it. You somewhat ruined it by 'playing' whit that rune. Saying you didn't 'play' whit it is like telling a joke (I know what happens on my server). And I'm not (re)adding extra sents anymore. It will stay on gs sents + the 3 extra sents now. Because Arivs (and Gs) are running fine and Mo does a nice job as head of the sents.
Some good advice... just drop the idea you have.
-Mel
ya i know that but how did u ruin it, by simply doing my job. :( and doing wut they have do ill show u even if u want cuz ur seeing the hole picture :(
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If you don't get what you did wrong you won't make a good sent anyway. You better just stop about the whole thing. There isn't a point to continue about it.
In fact I somethimes would like to be a normal player. You don't have to worry about randomers or about bugs in the scripts. Or other things like it...
Being sent/dm also has drawbacks.
-Mel
Arivs comes from a old server runned by frostgroove like nathan said. Nathan is a old dm from there. From the point frostgroove couldn't run it anymore, I hosted it.
I stopped whit it because it asked too much of my time and I found out gs :P
ya, about the hellball....redone for lag reduction? if so why not just do the harm visual? this also applies to the banning visual for godspire...it's ping is around 500 when i'm usually there...and i've crashed several times from the visual effect of that (it looks cool, but maybe just Gate and Harm)[snapback]12071[/snapback]
Talon did say he may change the hellball effect like on arivs. Making it a harm visual isn't right in my eyes, hellball has a quite big blast radius, harm is at 1 point. Whit my 5 years old hardware I never had problems whit it anyway ...
(ping doesn't has to do anything whit the hellball visual, the frames per seconds are)
-Mel
ya, about the hellball....redone for lag reduction? if so why not just do the harm visual? this also applies to the banning visual for godspire...it's ping is around 500 when i'm usually there...and i've crashed several times from the visual effect of that (it looks cool, but maybe just Gate and Harm)
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Hellball doesnt effect your latency. The only lag you will experience is caused by your own PC.
This is amazing! The real dms from the legendary Arivs!!!! FRrom the time of the dawn of nwn! This is as if Guido's Shop popped up on lucid magic!
btw.. where did the name Ariv's come from?
And I NEVER figured out what was happening on Arivs. It used the Chp 1 of the OC and everybody just seemed to be talking ... so what was that mod about??
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Arivs comes from frostgroove <-(account name), he named on of his char like that too. He played under the name Tebryn most of the time. It's correct that arivs used the OC mods (good for the newbs). There was a kind of filtering by 2da's and it wasn't a server fixed on one stile of playing. Not really had a rules either, but acting like an ass or not behaving was something that turned against yourself anyway.
Main difference whit gs is that you had way more freedom to do what you want. And to be honnest, gs is good, arivs now too, but I still miss the old one.
Arivs now uses 2da's too, but I might change a few things on it because it also filters out some ability's of shifters. (no immumes on rasha's/dragons for example)
-Mel
ya, about the hellball....redone for lag reduction? if so why not just do the harm visual? this also applies to the banning visual for godspire...it's ping is around 500 when i'm usually there...and i've crashed several times from the visual effect of that (it looks cool, but maybe just Gate and Harm)
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Hellball doesnt effect your latency. The only lag you will experience is caused by your own PC.
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all i know is after a hellball(in any visual effect) if i pan the camera i'll crash NWN, and i know it's not completely on my end cause i play WoI and i don't hang as much, and granted i'll crash mostly when there's about 20 ppl on GS...so i don't know why the hell it does that
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all i know is after a hellball(in any visual effect) if i pan the camera i'll crash NWN, and i know it's not completely on my end cause i play WoI and i don't hang as much, and granted i'll crash mostly when there's about 20 ppl on GS...so i don't know why the hell it does that[snapback]12250[/snapback]
It's normal if there are a load of players visible and dueling, hiding andcasting hellball that there is high load on your computer. If your connection is slow on top of it + gs on a lower connection now, it doesn't sounds weird to me that it gives problems somethimes. But still, I crash as good as never now, even on gs as dm. Whit a years old pc, so it's prolly your machine.
Btw, you're on dailyup or a other connection? Just curious.
-Mel
Changed wof:
If hd is high enough it allows for a fortsave to reduce the blind duration to 6 second (duration of 1 round, same as ironhorn) The DC is the normal DC for a level 7 spell + the castlevel/3
The DC may get changed if it doesn't fits well. Main idea is to give fighters and noncasters the change to counter wof a bit.
-Mel
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only one thing i can say to that,
BAH!!!
i just perfected my anti-wof strategy!
oh well :P
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all i know is after a hellball(in any visual effect) if i pan the camera i'll crash NWN, and i know it's not completely on my end cause i play WoI and i don't hang as much, and granted i'll crash mostly when there's about 20 ppl on GS...so i don't know why the hell it does that[snapback]12250[/snapback]
It's normal if there are a load of players visible and dueling, hiding andcasting hellball that there is high load on your computer. If your connection is slow on top of it + gs on a lower connection now, it doesn't sounds weird to me that it gives problems somethimes. But still, I crash as good as never now, even on gs as dm. Whit a years old pc, so it's prolly your machine.
Btw, you're on dailyup or a other connection? Just curious.
-Mel
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WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY, DID YOU JUST CALL FRANKENSTEIN A PIECE OF JUNK :angry2: :P i'll do this nice comparisons, while normal guys beef up their cars, i beef up my PC EVERY THREE MONTHS new cards, every year a new mobo.
it might be the 56k AOL connection but then it should crash on WoI when i walk into a horde of Flame-Throwing Wizards but it just gets a wee-bit laggy but it doesn't...and i have been in a party with 4 ppl each of which launched a hellball at a horde of Shadow Knights, that crashed me. <-that's why i was thinking it was intense VEs that were causing me to crash on GS (Still have yet to crash on Arivs)
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all i know is after a hellball(in any visual effect) if i pan the camera i'll crash NWN, and i know it's not completely on my end cause i play WoI and i don't hang as much, and granted i'll crash mostly when there's about 20 ppl on GS...so i don't know why the hell it does that[snapback]12250[/snapback]
It's normal if there are a load of players visible and dueling, hiding andcasting hellball that there is high load on your computer. If your connection is slow on top of it + gs on a lower connection now, it doesn't sounds weird to me that it gives problems somethimes. But still, I crash as good as never now, even on gs as dm. Whit a years old pc, so it's prolly your machine.
Btw, you're on dailyup or a other connection? Just curious.
-Mel
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WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY, DID YOU JUST CALL FRANKENSTEIN A PIECE OF JUNK :angry2: :P i'll do this nice comparisons, while normal guys beef up their cars, i beef up my PC EVERY THREE MONTHS new cards, every year a new mobo.
it might be the 56k AOL connection but then it should crash on WoI when i walk into a horde of Flame-Throwing Wizards but it just gets a wee-bit laggy but it doesn't...and i have been in a party with 4 ppl each of which launched a hellball at a horde of Shadow Knights, that crashed me. <-that's why i was thinking it was intense VEs that were causing me to crash on GS (Still have yet to crash on Arivs)
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yeah leave khad's pc alone, he just upgraded to an uber PIII 800!!! top of the tree :P
and please ramp horrid back up mel :)
I'm finding the same problem I have with the GS set of rules. They are not clarified enough.
Is summoning familiars and shifting casting, What sizes are allowed when shifting, Lay On Hands and Wholeness of Body healing etc etc etc.......
I know it's small peanuts but it's becoming increasingly frustrating when there are quite a few "new" regulars that insist on argueeing. Ironically they ignore rule 5 in doing so.
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That's not too weird when you know it has the gs ruleset... I did add a few things like about the familair summoning, but to make nice clear rules I would have to rewrite them completly. I'm going to do that when I go off the gs ruleset. There are already a few big differences whit gs, but I'll add a few more in favor for the not mage/not sd classes.
For shifting I think the lizzard size is about the biggest you can have out of duel, lay on hands and so give direct hp like cleric spells and are healing spells, and counterspell is evil and bugged :P I can start to add things that make it impossible to use it in duel and make things that you just can't fight out of duel, but I doubt if anyone is going to like that.are you going to change the no damage thing?[snapback]12827[/snapback]
What's the no damage? That item property's that isn't filtered? It doesn't hurts a fly so and there a few more that aren't filtered, like light or containers. Those last can give problems I think. But didn't see any yet.
-Mel
Arivs will be down somethimes next days. Won't be on 24/7 next week because I need the server for things more serieus than running a game service. GS didn't went down for more than a few minutes last days, so I don't think it'll bother someone.
-Mel
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Now whit the patch I'll take it down earlyer, I need it wensday anyway. Won't be on from now till I post something about it being up again. And about gs being down, well ... bad timeing, I can't help on that.
-Mel
could you all shed some light on why those "instant heals" are prohibitied yet regen spells are? both heal you....so why is one allowed and the other not?
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Regen can be dispeled, doesn't last that long either. It's very usefull againt monks but againt other clases it does less. At low level it's even not worth casting.
Heal just bumps up your health to max, no way to stop them exept making them fail a concentration check or silenceing them. If you managed to beat off 800 hp of a char you wouldn't like it heals then. Whit regen there's no way that the hp can be fully restored or you would have to duel for long time whitout getting hit.
On top of it, regen gives max 9 hp a round (stacking isn't allowed :P)
Shifters can't help they get it on a shift to vampire or so.o
Heal can be casted each round and whit spellslots allows a character to virtual have 5000 or more hp. Just by a few spellslots.
Also, bard song gives temp hp and is a form of healing too. Divine power too. But I don't think they are as worse as heal in a duel.
-Mel
Mel can you try to forbid the null form ? A name without any nick is employing it and he is bother me randoming , breaking the rules . I can't BAN him so I let him frozen but .... he doesn't wanna stop .
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What was the name? Any information like account/last name used/logon time can help me to track him in the server logs.
Maybe 'Maink2' ?
I'll also look at a way to prevent this. The forum is keeping me busy right now :P
-Mel
Mel can you try to forbid the null form ? A name without any nick is employing it and he is bother me randoming , breaking the rules . I can't BAN him so I let him frozen but .... he doesn't wanna stop .
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What was the name? Any information like account/last name used/logon time can help me to track him in the server logs.
Maybe 'Maink2' ?
I'll also look at a way to prevent this. The forum is keeping me busy right now :P
-Mel
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I think his account is Maink2 but I am not sure . Don't BAN him I am not sure and I don't wanna BAN an innocent because of my mistake :P He didn't have any nick if that can help you .
Mel can you try to forbid the null form ? A name without any nick is employing it and he is bother me randoming , breaking the rules . I can't BAN him so I let him frozen but .... he doesn't wanna stop .
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What was the name? Any information like account/last name used/logon time can help me to track him in the server logs.
Maybe 'Maink2' ?
I'll also look at a way to prevent this. The forum is keeping me busy right now :P
-Mel
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I think his account is Maink2 but I am not sure . Don't BAN him I am not sure and I don't wanna BAN an innocent because of my mistake :P He didn't have any nick if that can help you .
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Maink2 was in without name around the time you posted. I'm pretty sure it's him, the change that my information is incorrect is 0,000000......000001% so :P
-Mel
Mel can you try to forbid the null form ? A name without any nick is employing it and he is bother me randoming , breaking the rules . I can't BAN him so I let him frozen but .... he doesn't wanna stop .
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What was the name? Any information like account/last name used/logon time can help me to track him in the server logs.
Maybe 'Maink2' ?
I'll also look at a way to prevent this. The forum is keeping me busy right now :P
-Mel
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I think his account is Maink2 but I am not sure . Don't BAN him I am not sure and I don't wanna BAN an innocent because of my mistake :P He didn't have any nick if that can help you .
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Maink2 was in without name around the time you posted. I'm pretty sure it's him, the change that my information is incorrect is 0,000000......000001% so :P
-Mel
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Yeah, it's him.. He said the server was gay anyways.. Tis why he was beeing annoying I think.
There has been several players coming in with null bodies.
In GS rules there is something about not having a torso and pelvis but I looked and didn't see anything about it in Arivs and they weren't making a stink so I let them be.
Might wanna clarify what's allowed.
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actully meclar its been the same guy the whole time
No, gefol, there have been "several people" using null torso/pelvis parts......
One of whom is supposedly the brother of a Sentinel who follows the rules....
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Viper does, hellsalyer (his bro) does to. Atm I didn't script out null torso parts. I did script out cep armors that cause it and null appearance.
Besides, arivs will be down for a while. I'm backing up things and cleaning a 100gb backup. + compressing stuff. Won't bother most poeple anyway. It's not teh right time to play nwn anyway, on x-mas :P
-Mel
Holy Avenger isn't working properly.
Several times, with different characters ranging in paladin levels and equiped with the HA property, it would remove the property completly or show as a +1 enchantment bonus. Even with the same character HA would show on one weapon and not on another.
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Can you give a bit more information? Like what chars, what weapons and so? Atm I never had a problem whit the HA fix.
I best can fix something when I can reproduce it.
-Mel
well, my non-pally HA shows only +1 enchantment (if this is what you meant then it worked) i need to change the rapier now :(
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Well, I never saw a problem, I wonder how meclar did get it.
Btw, equiping a HA weapon as non pala makes it +1 non-HA. It's not so that equiping it whit a pala again will change +1 to HA. It's not like that.
-Mel
ok Mel but i would really liek to show u wut i did, just so u know wut i did... :angry2:
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YOu stoned Viper for calling you a retard and left him like that..in my opinion you rightfuly deserved it too. You dont stone people for inulting you with minor words like retard. You do something like daze them and ask them to stop. From what i remember you didnt even give any kind of warning before putting him in a cutscean.
One character that I had a problem with HA was my pally-15 fighter-4 bard-1.
He has a mace that the HA worked fine with but when I equiped a two-handed flail the HA changed to the +1 enchantment bonus, even when it was unequiped it didn't have the HA.
Rather than spewing all the info here I can email the character to ya if ya need more info.
I remember something.... When we were at GS I would level 20s and give them 40 xp for the hell of it but now with hotu they see that I can level up more. So with some 20s I have to lvl down the xp when I enter Arivs otherwise I get the lvl screen and stuff. I think when I change the xp when I enter it causes the HA to change which would explain why only the flail changes because that's what I have equiped when I do this.
I'll try it out tomorrow errr New Years tomorrow nevermind errrr later this weekend.....
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That would be pretty weird. I'll try to see if I can reproduce it. It's not a mayor problem either so might take a bit till I fixed it.
But it's better if I have not 1 buggy effect in my scripts, I hate them :P
-Mel
On Hit Cast Spell isn't filtered correctly.. It still works..
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yes, someone came in with a whip which had wail of the banshee on hit. (was crap) but still, it got past the filter..
On Hit Cast Spell isn't filtered correctly.. It still works..
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yes, someone came in with a whip which had wail of the banshee on hit. (was crap) but still, it got past the filter..
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I'm doing something wrong whit it when they join I think. Just like whit the HA that isn't filtered right if you equip it when you enter.
Maybe a delay or unequip/equip only for the weap will help on it.
-Mel