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What?!?! What about scaleable creatures and placeables (no limit to size), colorable creatures, height-mapped outdoor tilesets and Speedtree?!??!?!?

-420

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Yes.. yes. I don't care about these things. I also don't care if you can make your own high detailed kermit placeable and have him tell jokes while standing on his head. Sure it would be fun, but bells and whistles are not why I consider buying a game.

I didn't buy nwn either, my brother did.

-Mel

"Hubba Bubba" sounds sweet? Lmao.

-Mel

Poll says it all.

"LM.com" leads to someplace called http://www.telerama.com/

-420

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I second that. And I don't think my current dns-servers have something to do with that

Ah ye, had this too, on my first succesfull hit: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\forum\ips_kernel\class_db_mysql.php on line 486

And the site does act like flashlight. That is on and off all the time too.

Anyway, the site is doing it as well *couch* as last time I've been here. Nice job to bring back LM just like it was

-Mel

New pc? You buy them with a broken cd-drive?

Anyway, if you can get it on that pc and patch it to 1.66, you won't need the cd to play.

-Mel

Oh, forgot to mension...I don't use lamespy (gamespy) Last time I used it I got like 5 trojans!

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If you use directconnect you easy can avoid gamespy. Just say lan-game and directconnect to bluestarnet.com

Note: In contrast with the httpd, I never had problems connection/playing on the GodSpire nwserver. Also never heard of trojan problems connected with gamespy... I missed something?

-Mel

@Maxou

The easy way to add scripts and so to the mod, is the toolset. If you for example have ftp acces to the module directory of the server, and can restart the mod, you can add scripts and other things. You also can debug the mod if you notice things that break.

If you don't have acces to it, then you can send someone who can acces the mod, new things. But that person still has to get it in the mod and maybe debug it. So that person should have time, and as far I know, nobody with acces has enough of it right now. It's also not efficient for a load of things, as you have nearly no idea what the internal parts of the mod look like.

-Mel

Piojo

Nice post too.

-Mel

Nice post, it's funny.

-Mel

Well, I'm having fun on GodSpire right now. The duels are actually very good. (I even die in some, that's not that useual)

Btw, 6 on, 1 dm, 4 sents, and me. I think we need more sents/dm's

-Mel

Errr, you're all talking about titles and who's more important on GodSpire? Guess that's some real bullshit. It did and will do the server more harm than good. (gets poeple offended too) Also, I didn't notice gaps after beeing 10 hours online for 3 days, there's no need of new sent/dm's or promotions, the server just need more players and a bit more quality. (how about 1 hour less GW and 1 more nwn)

Anyway, I'll be less active on GodSpire, 10 hours is too much, isn't it? And I'm not "excommunicated" (means about the same as banned...) on the ante server, I'm just welcome there.

@Mo
I looks like I somethimes can't load the the forum because it redirects "http://bluestarnet.com:1000/forum/index.php?" to "www.lucidmagic.com", and as "www.lucidmagic.com" redirects back to "http://bluestarnet.com:1000/forum/index.php?", it looks like a loop I never get out. Maybe that helps to locate this months old pageload problem.

-Mel

Nah I read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince .

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I've read a load of english books, including the one you mention. (in fact, not hard to read that one, it's easy) But my english doesn't gets better, as I only use it on the web (I never talk it in rl or something).

Oh I see how it is, everyone still waiting for me to add new custom drinks and gnoll sayings eh? I have uncovered the real reason people are upset, HA!

That was a joke of course, imagine the post covered in smilies if that helps.

OFF TOPIC: Mel, you can play GW on Linux if you use a Windows emulator called Cedaga.

ON TOPIC:

Percieved Problem: some players like the old layout that GodSpire used for years. Some people like the new one. The old was better for a pure PvP only sever, the new one is better for a combo server with dungeons, creatures and a city.

There is no real solution to this since it is purely based on opinion and asthetics.

Real Problem: Xen had a lot of new ideas for GodSpire that he didn't bother to test, did a half-assed job on, didn't think through and has no intention of fixing.

Mo has said he will fix those issues when he has more time.

-420

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I love that post, completly agree with it. I would like to add a few things, but I risk to push about all of someone's buttons with it. ;)

Offtopic:
About Cedaga, I'm not a starter with programs to emulate the windows api on linix/unix. Few days ago, because I have too much time right now, I finished half-life a time on hard while running it trough wine (cedaga is based on wine). I just prefer to support (like buy/donate/ect) projects that don't forget a very huge amount of poeple that happen not to run windows. A linux/unix port of GW would also, for sure, reduce the work to get it running.

Anyway, thx for telling. If I ever miss a linux port for GW you may be the one who tells me.

-Mel

When the problem showed up? If it's a new card I would go to annoy the dealer If the card used to work right, I would check what changed on the computer since last time it worked fine. To see if it overheats, I would keep an eye on the temperature of the card and stress it with other things, maybe some benchmarking tool or so. And see what happens. Also, I try to check the internet to see if anyone reported a simular problem with your card and the mainboard. (somethimes just a time google helps) And like Mo said, it often helps to start from a clean partition and rebuild the system.

About the manufacturer,
I think ati is doing it a bit better at the moment than nvidia if you run windows. If you always use windows, try ati. Still, there's almost no difference between them. (and I never had problems with my nvidia cards) If you don't run windows, never buy ati cards. The drivers for non-windows (lets say for xfree86 and xorg) are just incomplete and bad (I still want to blow up my ati-mobile chip in my laptop, it keeps me from running a load of things). Nivdia is fine, the driver isn't opensource, but it works at least.

-Mel

You can get through any closed door without needing to open it.

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Angband has a second way, unique to the map. But I'm sure that isn't important at all, I just mention it as something of the good old days.

-Mel

Well, the antediluvians server is also empty on moments. But there they don't think it's running bad because of that. If the players would drop in, even if it's empty or if they don't know anyone, I think it will go back upwards with the server. Or at least, it won't fade away faster than the game nwn does.

I miss the old hall, and you have to know where to take the lift to get fast in the new hall. (I'm repeating what others said with that, I bet) For the rest it was ok, and angband still has the same old flaw to get past the gate.

And I saw some players I remeber from the old GodSpire, actually, there were more than 10 players on, it's still 8 now. I guess that's not too bad these days.

-Mel