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Assuming I still have a job, I'm going to start by updating what's going on irl that's been keeping me away and when I think it will change. Then I can hopefully come back and relearn everything and dive into whatever needs to be done.

Working 12+ hours a day so I can afford my last 2 semesters of college and also because we've had 3 recent firings out of the 8 people in my group.

Aug 28, we'll have a new hire to take some hours.

Aug 30, we start training a new hire to take some hours.

Sept 15th (ish), new hire starts regular hours.

Hopefully around the 28th, I'll be getting a promotion which means … less work? Actually, yes. So with any luck, I should be able to start learning around the 28th. I'm going to try to log this weekend to do some stuff too, so if anyone can respond with the IP/port that'd be super!

Goodonya!

First off, whomever did your mount had a few issues. Level 105 is the max I've let people have on a pmount ever (if someone has this I will gladly compensate for any previous extra levels you have bought). If you have an extra spell or would like to change one of the current ones for fire barrier, either note me or pm me and I'll try to fix that up as soon as possible. And I was unaware that people were getting special damage types, but I will set up a list of prices for that since it has been offered and requested. So look for that in the next few days crosses fingers he gets to his computer again before then

As far as crusader vs paladin, the skill mount and weapon style shouldn't be making the mount assist you. It should give you the ability to hit something while riding. Therefore, hypothetically lets say you're neither a crusader nor a paladin. If mounted, you'll get the extra damage boost, but you will only have a 60% chance to hit. As a paladin, you'll have the damage boost AND a 90% chance to hit. As a crusader (a specialized paladin), you would have the damage boost, the 90% chance to hit, and have the mount assist you. This means that if you want your mount to assist you, you should go/have gone crusader. Trample (the crusaders other mount-involved ability) doesn't seem to be even as good as circle in most scenerios. If paladins were able to get mounts to attack with them, crusaders would have next to no usefullness simply because their only selling point would be holy sword and holy shield (both of which I'm sure you have 50 scrolls of each).

eRT

warp <destination>should help you out a bit. I'm not sure if that'll work on the testport or not since I can't connect to any clients from this computer.

Hope this helps.

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I'll make those mountable, but I'd like them killable as well. I'll have to test that out before any changes are final.

eRT

Sorry about that, Llauf. I thought there was a helpfile, but once I can get to my computer (probably tonight) I will post whatever information I have and make up the rest on the spot (ya know, how I usually do things)

Again, sorry for the inconvenience.

eRT

I'm not sure what spurred this, however, I'd like to point out a few simple things. Anyone can make inferences about where someone is. If, for example I'd like to pk someone, and I see them in the pyramid for any length of time, I can assume they are in PoA and camp for them. Likewise, being that mystica is the only dungeon we have, I can assume that there's a good possibility it's being camped if I'm trying to get back from PoA.

On a second note, Well put Llauf. It is too bad that people had to abuse this to make it an issue. However, if no one knows about it, it's really very difficult to dissuade people. If you have a problem with this, either come to any immortal online and they can help deal with the situation, note me along with a system time (type time) and I will look for any foul play, or e-mail me with a log of what happened (also include a timestamp please) and we can help.

I don't really see who has been deleted unjustly and who has not been punished at all, but if anyone would like to clue me in, you all know how to get ahold of me. This is just a small reminder though. If you ask someone why they were deleted, 9/10 times they will say something like "because the imms hate me" or at least try to downplay their part in the need for discipline. We currently have a pretty good system with 3 IMPS at the top. If you have a problem with an immortal ruling, let us know. If you have a problem with any of the IMPs, let another one know. If you have a problem with all the IMPS and the imms, you may just want to stop and wonder what you did wrong :-p

eRT

Hey Folks. Sorry I haven't been on the message board as much as I should, but I'm still around. Just got this chain letter in an e-mail, and rather than piss everyone off by sending to all addresses I have in my e-mail, I'm gonna post it here so you can choose to read it or not. However, it's not one of those dumbass ones that tell you yer hair is gonna fall out or gremlins will come in your sleep and give you herpes or anything else outrageous. It's more of a public awareness e-mail that seems like it would be very effective if everyone would take the time to do a little research.

Anyways, here it is.

"Subject: Gas war

Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.

Phillip Hollsworth, offered this good idea: This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.

Please read it and join with us! By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.09 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50- $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace….not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.

The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK. Kerry Lyle, Director, Research Coordinator

Interventional Cardiology Research Laboratories Division of Cardiovascular Diseases

932 Ziegler Research Bldg

703 South 19th Street University of Alabama @ B'ham"

I cut out some crap he had in there about reaching 3 million people in 8 days. Basically just want to broadcast the message because this really does make sense. Feel free to copy/e-mail this to anyone or refer anyone here.

eRT

This needs to be at least toned down if nothing else because they are also vuln to fire (one of the most common types of damages)

Keep a discussion on how to improve this please.

eRT

Interesting idea, Xev, however, it seems to me that if we calculated weight through a total, things like souling would become easy. How many souls can you carry back in 1 load? I would say 300-500 depending on how much of a packrat you are. Now imagine that with a slew of containers that have a 10% multiplier. lets say they fit 100, so discounting eq (100 pounds for simplicity) if you can carry 500 lbs, that's 400/10 = 40 containers filled with 100 souls each. 4000 in 1 run would make church upgrades a snap, along with multi'ing. Now imagine if we change the weight of bottles as well… lets say you can carry 5 per lb. 20k souls if you packed light. I know this is an exageration, but it's definately something to be considered.

eRT

catch me in-game (no notes or e-mails on this one, folks) and I'll be glad to fix items with messed up weights or unknown material as long as I'm not doing something else at the time.

eRT

no :roll: It's at 1 because the intent was to reduce all item weights to 1, not to 0. if it were 0 there would be no need for a max-weight thing.

eRT

What exactly are you protesting and how is that a protest? You were the only PK church. shrug guess it is now declared that you won't be pk'ing another church? :wink:

But I shouldn't be razzin on ya'll. FIGHT THE POWER!!

eRT

Also, along with randomness, the intent of having a mastered skill is not to have a 0% fail-rate, but rather to have a greatly reduced fail-rate. I think 40% is exagerating a bit, but we can't do it based souly on percent.

eRT

true, but cast in the correct room it may make a difference. Also, it wouldn't necessarily be meant just for that. what about spells like wither, inferno, afterburn, ice storm? Maybe it doesn't work for them currently, but should it? Dispel area would take care of room shields (if this is a course of action decided on)

eRT

As a non-titan, I am partial to titannic attack. It is a defining skill similar to minotaur's charge or slayer's shift.

I also like the fact that they can dual wield a 2-handed weapon.

If you're looking for something to balance titans (I'm not sure if we are or not… Inimical?) can I suggest maybe making dual wielding 2-handed weapons hurt dex or str? I believe we need to make it so not everyone has every stat maxed out. This will make people really decide what is important to them and possibly diversify the game. However, this may be hell to balance;I haven't really thought it through.

eRT

This may be a bug and I will talk to Syn. If it isn't, I agree completely. Maybe we need a 'dispel area' spell that is a beefed up dispel room.

eRT

bows They wanted a challenge and they whined when it was "too hard!" :wink: Mortals: 0 Ertai: … how many deaths was that? I would venture around 20.

[Nimue]: oh, that's just wrong

[Nimue]: MiniErtai is too powerful for you to imitate.

[Nimue]: the Baby Ertiekins is more powerful than me :P

Muahahahahah!!!

1.WHAT TIME IS IT NOW? 10:40pm

2.WHAT IS THE COOLEST NAME YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? Not sure about the coolest, but I've always been partial to kalie's and josh's. Never met one I didn't like

3.WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? Insomnia (again) or guitarone magazines

4.WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? My last name! :D

5.WHAT'S YOUR GIRLFRIEND/BOYFRIEND/SPOUCE DOING NOW? I'm between women right now… but one is working (the one on the left) and the one on the right is about to take me to a movie

6.FAVOURITE BOARD GAME? I love drunken monopoly

7.FAVOURITE MAGAZINE/PUBLICATION? guitarone

8.FAVOURITE MUSIC/GROUP/PERSON? Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Nappy Roots, Silverchair

9.FAVOURITE SMELL? vanilla prolly... that or new car smell

10.FAVOURITE SOUND? see #8

11.WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD? being used

12.BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD? being between women 8)

13.WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? Think... in the morning?? what's wrong with you people!?

14.WHAT IS THE LAST THING YOU THINK ABOUT WHEN YOU FALL ASLEEP? I find that if I think about stuff, I can't fall asleep so I usually have to meditate

15.HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE? depends on which phone... if it's the cell phone I usually don't hear it for at least 3 vibrations and 4 rings... if it's the regular one, however fast I can get there

16.FUTURE/CURRENT DAUGHTER'S NAME AND WHO ARE THEY NAMED AFTER? prolly kalie... and named after this girl... well, ya know

17.FUTURE/CURRENT SON'S NAME AND WHO ARE THEY NAMED AFTER? josh... my first roommate. kickass guy

18.FAVOURITE FOOD? hard to say... anything cajun or ribs probably

19.CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA? vanilla

20.DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE FAST? who doesn't?? besides Lukus... :wink:

21.DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL? nope

22.WHAT TYPE WAS YOUR FIRST CAR? sierra sl oldsmobile

23.WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT FORM OF TRANSPORTATION? malibu

24.HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT? that's the reason I went from car number one to car number 2... the third (current) one was because I ran the 2nd into the ground (over 250k miles)

25.MEET ONE PERSON DEAD OR ALIVE WHO WOULD IT BE? I really got nothing... I'd like to maybe talk to the singer of alice in chains (dead) but got nothing in particular to say

26.FAVOURITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK? tequila or a fuzzy navel

27.WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN? uhh, ares maybe? april 8th shrug

28.IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED WHAT WOULD IT BE? film critic maybe? not sure

29.DO YOU LIKE LONG HAIR OR SHORT? mid length... between bottom of the ears to just past shoulders

30.IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOUR? I dyed it blue, bleached it, and redyed it dark brown. I think I'm happy with natural

31.EVER BEEN IN LOVE? yup, twice

32.FIRST CRUSH? jen wilkes (kindergarten)

33.IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL? what a shitty question. Why can't it ever be all full? Well, I guess the intended question would make me say half empty

34.THE THING YOU MOST WANT TO SAY? I say most of what I want to, so nothing comes to mind

35.YOUR FAVOURITE MOVIE? The Rock

36.WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? Nothing... just moved

37.FAVOURITE SPORT TO WATCH? Hockey!! Yay wings :twisted:

38.WHY DID YOU FILL THIS IN? to disillude myself into thinking I am important and people value what I have to say.

39.PLEASE SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT THE LAST PERSON WHO ANSWERED THIS SURVEY. Garbhan... uhhh, you have wonderful typing? I don't know you, otherwise I'd have more to say.

40.WHAT TIME IS IT?10:52... man, I just lost 12 minutes of my life 8O

eRT

I guess I was under the impression that you couldn't use another skill/spell but it would give you a chance to get in your standard attacks. I don't believe we should be able to heal and circle in the same round, but I liked the idea when you could heal, finish the spell, and sit for the rest of the round (disabilitated aside from standard attacks)

Maybe this is exactly what you're talking about, Inimical…?

eRT