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Bug Report | 7807 | No | Quests | Critical | Unconfirmed | Joko | | Starting Menitas Puzzle Quest crashes the server | 19.11.2023 | | 1 |
Task Description
Talking to Menita and confirming the quest with “I will try” crashes the server.
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Bug Report | 7939 | No | Crashes | Critical | Could not Verify | Daevaorn | | Items keep randomly disappearing form containers in gui... | 22.12.2023 | | 1 |
Task Description
When I learned about the new transformation mode I took it upon myself to clean up our guildhouse.
In the process I removed many old items from the map and stored them in containers instead.
While I did this occasional crashes happened, which on returning seem to have deleted items stored in these containers. I have lost roughly 70% of player generated/crafted items, some of historical value this way, as well as many player crafted weapons and armours of highest quality.
A very alarming issue.
If my asumption is correct the server automatically deletes any item that it suspects to be involved in crashes. While this maybe desired behaviour in terms of the technical side of things, in terms of a persistent game world this is REALLY, REALLY bad, if true.
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Bug Report | 4191 | No | Quests Dynamics | High | New | RlyDontKnow | | npc synonym musn't occur in a trigger | 12.08.2010 | | |
Task Description
if an npc synonym occurs in a quest trigger, it'll break that trigger because incoming messages will be replaced by the more_general value while the trigger still expects synonym. therefore the quest parser should refuse such quests as they're obviously broken or at least throw a warning about such occurrences.
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Bug Report | 4221 | No | Tools | High | Assigned | RlyDontKnow | TaladAngela | missing Terms of Service | 05.08.2010 | | |
Task Description
there aren’t any terms of service on the website and consistently the user doesn’t have to agree to them at any point.
this is a big issue in my opinion as the user isn’t strictly bound to such terms and therefore cannot be accordingly punished in case he’s causing really bad issues.
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Feature Request | 4398 | No | Sound | High | New | | Mathias | Set all volume but npc speech to 20% when npc is talkin... | 19.04.2010 | | 1 |
Task Description
When an npc talks the volume of the music ect makes it hard to hear them. Lets try setting all volume to 20% or so and see how that effects it.
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Bug Report | 5626 | No | Sound | High | New | Talad | weltallAndrea Rizzi | Creature sounds implementation | 06.05.2012 | | |
Task Description
As per this document:
http://planeshift.ezpcusa.com/pswiki/index.php?title=Sound_System#Sounds_in_factories
the creature sounds are not working properly in game today.
The common.xml file is properly read, and the resources are properly loaded, but the only state ID which works consistently is state ID 2: charge.
Idle seems to kick in only after attacks, and anyway not consistently. The others are never launched. The problem is that those events are not properly sent to the client a sound events.
In particular we need the following events: IDLE, CHARGE (when first engages in combat), COMBAT IDLE, ATTACK, (being) HIT, DIE, WALK, RUN.
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Feature Request | 5638 | No | Crashes | High | New | Mario Rohkrämer | | Overhaul errorlog.txt usage, make it contain useful con... | 02.08.2014 | | 5 |
Task Description
There are numerous (at least dozens) complaints in the forum that (especially under Windows) the errorlog.txt contains only uninteresting default errors which are not at all critical, but misses really useful and critical entries instead.
The whole “error console” concept is nonsense for Windows users. Windows builds don’t output anything useful in the console they are started from, and this would be the only console where output could be redirected to files.
If you call the client with the parameter “–console”, a new console is opened, but this one can’t be redirected with “>” or “2>”, you would have to mouse-select as much as you can keep in its history. Most PC users will not know enough about Windows to tweak this console window, maybe not even know how to select and copy from it. On Windows 7 it is even worse, when the client crashed, the new console is nearly disabled, so you almost cannot select and copy text from it after a crash.
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Bug Report | 5790 | No | Quests Dynamics | High | New | Venalan | | Quest menus dissapear to quickly to click on responese. | 15.10.2014 | | |
Task Description
A general problem with the quest menu system at the moment is the speed at menu disappear. The problem occurs in the following situation.
All the following is within one step in the following format.
Player gives NPC 1 item. Menu: text. NPC: text. Menu: No. Menu: Yes. NPC: text. NPC: text. Give 1 Melorick's Scroll Case. Assign Quest.
You give the npc the item. The initial npc text appears. Once they have finished talking the next two menus appear, but before you are able to click on the menus the menus vanish. This results in you losing the item needed to trigger the quest/step and are unable to repeat it. This was only became a problem with the introduction of the 'bubble' menu system.
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Bug Report | 6340 | No | Game Balance | High | New | nobody special | Davide Vescovini | Commanding pets gives no experience and little practice | 24.03.2014 | | |
Task Description
Commanding pets is similar to combat skills in that you get no experience for using them but in the case of of combat you get the experience for the kill. I could not get my pet to attack with my 30 empathy, I was able to get a message that my pet targeted successfully as well as a message that my pet needed a target to attack.
Practice seems to have a cool-down period where subsequent commands give no practice. I would think that the cool down period should just be for identical commands, when you need to target something before attacking both actions should give practice.
It would be good to have some information on the state of pet activities.
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Bug Report | 6397 | No | Inventory/Items | High | New | Venalan | | Loss of item crafting data and names | 04.06.2021 | | 3 |
Task Description
Players, Taya, and I have all seen that crafted items are suddenly missing them name of the crafter. There are also reports of missing names such as “finest”.
I was also able to craft a steel ingot and within a few minutes I managed to lose the information in the examine window which showed I was the crafter of the item.
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Bug Report | 6666 | No | Quests Dynamics | High | New | Venalan | | Quest menu: when triggering a quest menu with the same ... | 26.10.2014 | | |
Task Description
There are many time in quests and KAs when they have the same trigger, for example “about armor” or “about apples”.
When you click a quest menu (or type some text to an NPC) the first dialogue(s) to be searched should be quests and if a matching trigger is found the quest menu should be sent, then if nothing is found in a quest it should search KAs. What is currently happening when you have two or more matching triggers you are getting a random choice between the quest response and the KA response. This results in players getting what seems to be a response from the NPC but the quest does not continue.
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Bug Report | 7090 | No | Quests Dynamics | High | Could not Verify | Talad | Talad | Sometimes the list of quests is not correct, it contain... | 17.02.2021 | | |
Task Description
Redo quest/events implementation to send/receive, also remove XML.
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Bug Report | 7725 | No | Effect System | High | New | KiFunStuS | | Magic light is giving no light with low graphic setting... | 09.02.2023 | | |
Task Description
Magic light is giving no additional light in game after casting it.
on lowest graphics settings no light on medium no light on high there is light epic graphics settings it is showing light
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Bug Report | 7828 | No | Quests | High | Unconfirmed | chronicler | | Harnqust's Regular Advertising cry is replacing quest d... | 15.04.2023 | | |
Task Description
Issue: Harnquist regularly calls “Blades, shields, repair kits! Get them here!”. If you are collecting a quest from Harnquist, his regular cry can replace a page of his dialog providing the quest information and there’s no way to get back to the page of dialog that was replaced.
His regular cry should be supressed whenever a player is talking to him, so the player can read all the information he is providing.
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Bug Report | 7851 | No | Quests | High | Unconfirmed | Thosor | | loss/restart of of completed or in process quest when q... | 29.10.2023 | | |
Task Description
Scenario: You have several in process quests, You go to NPC, look for list of quests. You pick, a quest offered by say Levrus, “more coal”. To you, it sounds like a new quest, so you click on it to see what it is. It then starts you over on that quest from the beginning. You completed and forgot that quest long ago, but it then gets deleted from your completed or in process quest list.
Unless you check all your completed or in process quests, you are doomed to repeat the entire quest.
If you have many quests done, you may think this is a new quest due to user memory loss, or similar titles of quests. In addition, quest notes are saved locally to a machine, so if you have several machines, or installing new OSs your notes don’t follow.
As an experienced player, I kept trying to please the guards for a pet for a long time before realizing this situation.
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Bug Report | 7914 | No | Crafting | High | Could not Verify | Daevaorn | | Dropping an item in an occupied container slot doesn't ... | 07.12.2023 | | 2 |
Task Description
affected version: 0.7.38 (couldn’t be set yet as the version)
When trying to drop an item on an occupied container slot, the item remains “in limbo”, i.e. nothing happens.
This affects crafting severly: Shift-clicking a stack placed into a container, you have always been able to “fan out” stacks of items in containers for crafting processes that would individually change quality (thereby averaging the random factor of the process). This is no longer possible.
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Bug Report | 7928 | No | Models and Maps | High | Fixed pending release | Daevaorn | | PCs can get locked into the Ash Brotherhood Lair | 17.03.2024 | | |
Task Description
A server crash happened while I was inside the Ash Brotherhood Lair.
On restart the stone in the doorway had been reset in its closed position, and I was effectively trapped inside, without a way of triggering the mechanism to re-open the passageway.
There should be a second trigger/gear/switch on the iside.
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Bug Report | 7935 | No | Models and Maps | High | Fixed pending release | Daevaorn | | Trapped in the Dwarven Fortress | 17.03.2024 | | |
Task Description
I am now trapped in the entrance area of the Dwarven Fortress for the second time in 24 hours. The door of the cell that gives access to the lower levels closed on its own while I was inside and there seems to be no way of opening it from the inside.
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Feature Request | 7936 | No | Characters | High | Unconfirmed | Daevaorn | | Cannot target players sitting on a mount | 04.12.2023 | | |
Task Description
A player that is mounted on a Rivnak or Drifter cannot be targeted, for actions such as trade, or even emotes.#
It doesn’t make a difference whether you click player geometry or the mount’s, you always end up selecting the mount over the player.
Even if one could argue for trading that it might be inteded (which I don’t think is overly realistic, since you can hand someone on a mount a loaf of bread), itt would be very strange to greet someone’s pet instead of the owner, when passing on the street, wouldn’t it?
(Selecting high priority since this seriously hampers RP supported with game-mechanics such as emotes)
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Bug Report | 7978 | No | User Interface | High | Unconfirmed | Daevaorn | | Port /unstick as a means to solve critical bugs on play... | 24.12.2023 | | 1 |
Task Description
It has happened to me a dozen times over since joining UR after it has replaced legacy, I relogged inside a guildhouse/law map and I am eternally falling for having spawned slightly beneath floor level.
In several instances I had to wait hours for a /tp back to the map, and so it is happening again today.
Please make a quick fix of this enabling players to teleport themselves back to the map in such a case. It’s a real downer to have to wait for a long time in such a case, particularly given the fact that you probably have to stay online for a GM to /tp and fix this. Huge waste of energy with the constant 3D animation.
This could also be of help if players are trapped in map geometry, inescapable pits, rifts and so on.
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Bug Report | 8003 | No | Bugtracker | High | Ready to test | Tutharel | | Armor/tools never decreases in quality no matter how mu... | 12.05.2024 | | |
Task Description
A while ago I spent some time fighting some enemies, like ~20 hours worth of it over a week or two, and my armor has never decreased in quality. I think this is awful for the item economy. There is never any need to create new and exciting armors since once you have the set you want, you will never need to replace it. Almost every other item you use decreases in quality. I suppose tools could also be lumped into this as they also never decrease in quality no matter how much I mine, harvest, craft, etc.
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Bug Report | 8026 | No | Bugtracker | High | Unconfirmed | Thosor | | Loss of mouse control during combat | 13.05.2024 | | |
Task Description
When shooting at live target, tab, get red reticle, seems fine. When target dies, or you miss, you get split white circle.
You cannot click anywhere on screen, quit or chat. If you are windowed, or alt/tab to another window, you can X out the window. This was proven during the 240511 event with other players, me on Linux, another user on Mac.
I have had this problem since PSU, thought it was me, and previously on another Windows machine.
Could not reproduce on dummies in arena, It did happen on dummies in event.
This is new draft, will complete soon.
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Bug Report | 8027 | No | Bugtracker | High | Unconfirmed | Thosor | | Loss of mouse in combat | 13.05.2024 | | 1 |
Task Description
Coming soon…
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Feature Request | 538 | No | User Interface | Medium | New | John | | Shortcut windows with subwindows for organizing shortcu... | 05.06.2021 | | 4 |
Task Description
Now we have space for 200 shortcuts/Macros it would be useful if one could group sets of shortcuts into their own subwindow so one could have a window for combat shortcuts, a window for crafting, a window for RP shortcuts etc.
It could be fixed 4×20 8×10 or user selectable
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Feature Request | 726 | No | Crafting | Medium | New | Drunk Hammerwielder | | Redesign/Add to the Crafting GUI. | 25.02.2013 | | 5 |
Task Description
Related to: http://hydlaa.com/flyspray_upgrade/index.php?do=details&task_id=611&histring=crafting
Goal of this feature request: To provide an alternative to the numerously unneeded clicking and dragging through the addition of additional options.
Possibilities:
1. Allow all targeting equipment to be targeted and add short cut commands as discussed in http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=30727.0;topicseen and http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=28284.0 .
1B. Add a /place command that would place a specified number of a specified item into a targeted container.
1C. Add a /remove command that would remove a specified number of a specified item from a targeted container.
1D. Add a /combine command that has the same functionality as the combine button that is on the right click menu.
2. Have the stock casting containers automatically convert large stacks of molten ore to the largest possible unit. (IE: A stack of 63 Molten Iron would yield a stack of 6 Iron Stocks and 3 Iron Ingots.)
2B. Add a button and command to Stock Casting that will toggle that will allow the user to cast only ingots.
2C. Allow the user to combine large amounts of objects at a time so long as the proper amounts of objects are present. (IE: 81 Iron ore and 9 Coal ore would yield 90 Molten Steel. Also, you could combine 10 sword handles with 10 sword blades to quickly put together 10 swords.)
3. Add a key to be pressed and held that would allow the user to pick up an entire stack.
I believe that there has been discussion of several other alterative on the forums.
Thank you for your time: - Tontow
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Bug Report | 918 | No | Engine | Medium | Assigned | durwyn | | Repair - Switching weapons | 27.02.2021 | | |
Task Description
when you repair a dagger for example you have to - equip it in right hand - do /repair and wait for it to end.
if you try to select the “weapon” which is being repaired you cannot move it. you get the message : “You cannot move an item being used”
BUT if you take another weapon, select it and put it on the weapon being repaired, they will switch themselves (i mean the weapon in the hand will go to the INV and the one in the INV in the hand) and the repair action will still be active. (the weapon you started to repair will be repaired, not the one after switching).
hope to be clear :p
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Feature Request | 1642 | No | | Medium | New | A. Kiefner | | /possess an NPC | 15.11.2008 | | 3 |
Task Description
This command has been on the wishlist (and also on the ToDo list for releases) since a very long time. I post it here in the hope it will be more visible to interested people to implement. The idea of the command is to control an NPC completely, not just talk as them through /impersonate. However, since controlling the actual body of an NPC is extremely complicated, it would be much more convenient (also from GM side) to simply make it seem so to the player.
Thus a possible way to implement the /possess command: The syntax would be
/possess [NPC_name|target]|reset
Issueing the command would have the following effects:
1. The GM is moved to the location of the NPC. 2. The NPC is renamed to “$originalNPCsurname_P” (family name is unaffected). 3. The GM is renamed to $originalNPCname and the original GM name is stored in an extra db field. 4. The label color of the GM is set to NPC (/setlabelcolor). 5. The NPC is /slid u 1000. 6. All scripts (most importantly movement) of the possessed NPC are temporarily frozen. 7. GM temporarily gets all traits of the NPC (original traits of GM are stored on db). 8. GM is /set invisible off.
Issueing /possess reset would have the reversed effects:
1. Possessed NPC is moved to the location of the GM. 2. The name of the GM is restored. 3. The NPC is renamed back to §originalNPCsurname. 4. Labelcolor of GM is reset. 5. Scripts of the NPC enabled again. (GM is not moved).
It’s important that the status of NPC (possessed), name and traits of the possessing GM are stored on DB so that a possible server crash has as little impact as possible.
If one is possessing an NPC already and then tries to possess another NPC, it should automatically issue /possess reset before executing /possess otherNPC. When possessing, it should give a warning that the path of the NPC might be disturbed if /possess reset is issued too far away from the original position.
As a final cut, resuming scripts of the NPC should be delayed for 2 more minutes, giving the GM time to switch back into possession without paths getting in the way. That way it is possible to possess two or more NPCs back and forth.
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Feature Request | 2205 | No | Misc | Medium | New | Qia Fask | | More user control over the loudness (range) of speech (... | 01.01.2022 | | 4 |
Task Description
As a heavy role-player, one of the most common annoyances encountered is that there is often no appropriate way to communicate to various groups of people.
Example one:
A group of five sitting around a table for an important meeting, talking in hushed voices. Currently the only option is to create a group for this, which is unrealistic, as people very close by should be able to listen in.
Example two:
Someone is standing in front of a crowd of people in the street, announcing something to them. Currently, the distance of /say is so tiny, that the only way to communicate to this group and have the people at the back hear you is to use /shout and have half the countryside hearing you.
Example three:
Sitting in the Tavern talking over a drink, not worried about your voice carrying. Currently, the distance of /say is so minimal, that half the Tavern will not end up hearing you. Using /shout would be considered very rude. No way to deal with this.
Solution:
/quiet - Speaking in a hushed voice to those nearby. Range limited to about 8 to 10 feet.
/say - Speaking in a clear, loud voice. Limited to a range of around 50 feet, which is quite a bit further than it carries to now.
/shout - Long range yelling. The current range of shouting would be fine.
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Feature Request | 2631 | No | Movement | Medium | New | Elvors Amenoras | | Running up slopes should be more taxing | 26.03.2009 | | |
Task Description
I consider it unrealistic how terrain is (not) interacting with movement.
As far as I know, in real life, every meter up is as taxing as ten meters across. (The factor of 10 is from a schoolbok, it might be a good idea to verify this from a professional source.) Going downwards requires concentration to avoid slipping and falling, and a surprisingly large amount of strength to absorb the shock from “falling” the height would lose with every step. (Walk down 250 metres of a moderately steep slope with a backpack on your shoulders and you’ll know what I mean.)
In terms of game mechanics, this would mean: * When running upwards, the speed should decrease and stamina loss should increase, and the cumulative effect of these two changes should be drastic. It’s possible to trade one change for the other: keeping the speed unchanged and massively increasing stamina loss would force players to rest, keeping the stamina loss constant would call for a massive speed reduction. However, I think it should be a little of both since that causes interesting effects (see below under “game experience”). * When walking downwards, there should be no stamina loss (you can make the physics work for you), and you should be faster, but you lose mental stamina. The less your mental stamina is, the higher the probability of slipping and falling. If you fall on a too-steep slope, you continue skidding. Falling should do damage that’s proportional to the total weight (character + load), blunt damage (not much help from armor); skidding should do damage-over-time, armor protecting fully (essentially this is abrasive damage, which is similar to slash - but don’t give characters armor training from that).
In terms of game experience, this would mean: * Getting up on a slope is a time-consuming experience, and almost never worth avoiding the walk around the hill. People will stay on the paths in the valleys. This will cause more interaction between normal travellers (and make Cutthroat Lane work better for the Cutthroads, too). It will also make people who leave the road more likely to remain undetected. * The Settings team can make NPCs less accessible and less likely to be found by placing them on a hilltop, or in a valley behind mountain pass. * Players with maxed stats have less issues with upward slopes than newbies, but they will still avoid slopes unless they have reason to. * Hilltops will become a tactical advantage. An attacker will need far more time to reach a defender on the top, and expose himself to ranged combat for a longer time. (Take this into consideration when reducing the effectiveness of long-range combat spells; ideally, a mage would win against a fighter from a hilltop, and lose against a fighter on even ground.) * Hilltops also become a bit of a trap. Defenders forced to flee from a hilltop risk falling and getting overwhelmed. * Pursuing down a hilltop is problematic due to risk of falling. Defenders might want to hide a pursuit team in a nearby valley that’s near the height of the route of the attackers, though that would force them to split up forces. Decisions, decisions… which means tactical variation, which is a Good Thing when it comes to making the combat aspects of the game interesting :) * Reaching the Eagle Bronze Doors takes a lot of time already, making them even less reachable will no doubt make many players very unhappy. An alchemist that sells stamina regeneration potions at the bottom of the path up would help with that.
Just my 5 cents :) (and no, I don’t expect this to be implemented anytime soon :D )
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Feature Request | 2658 | No | Inventory/Items | Medium | New | | | giveitem command for players | 26.03.2009 | | |
Task Description
Syntax: /giveitem [PlayerName] [Qty|All] <ItemName> [Any]
Playername is optional, otherwise default to selected target, fail if none selected
Quantity is optional, default to 1, All gives all in inventory/equipped
ItemName required, quotes needed for multi-word item names as in “Platinum Ore”
Any is optional, allows items in containers to be given. Omitting this protects containered items from being given accidentally, allowing players to put things in sacks or other containers that they want to keep safe, same as the Drop command.
Similar to GM giveitem, but with the following restrictions:
player and target must be in touch range
player and target may be sitting or standing
player and target must not be otherwise busy (fighting/crafting/repairing/etc.)
no restriction for target being overburdened (available slot/stack/capacity limits still apply, see Caveats below)
similar to PVP, players should have persistent selectable option for receiving given item(s): Always Accept / Prompt to Accept (default) / Never Accept
Along with the command, make Give an option to context menu, which opens a slot window same or similar to that which one gets when giving to an NPC.
Justification:
Caveats:
Makes using mules a little easier, as in an unattended mule with Always Accept can become a dump bucket for loot or Ore, however current trade rules allow this already, the only difference is that the mule must be attended to complete the trade, while not for receiving a Give. Eventual random spawns of monsters will mitigate this for loot, and miners still have to move all the collected ore to wherever it is to be processed or sold. IMHO the benefits to RP outweigh this issue, since miners have already worked around unattended trading to some degree, either by mAlting or dropping stacks while guarding in proximity.
Extending the idea, add a die-roll chance for target and near proximity observers to be made aware of the exchange. Giver’s Int. and Agility should apply, and Target’s Int. and Observer’s Int. should apply but I’ll leave it to devs to work out how to implement. Any exchange that is more than 1 single item should incrementally raise the chance of being observed. One might still have a good chance of slipping a couple daggers into someone’s pack, but a stack of 20 Ore would be nearly impossible not to notice. Sleeping target might also factor in.
A further extension might be an optional Sneak parameter whereby the Giver attempts to be especially discrete in the exchange, thus lowering the chance to be observed by the target or near proximity observers, but this should be mitigated by quantity as above.
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Feature Request | 2767 | No | User Interface | Medium | New | Andy | | Saving throw commands for Roleplay | 20.02.2009 | | |
Task Description
Saving throw commands for Roleplay
Example:
/dodge
ROLL =< AGI results in “[player] dodges.” ROLL > AGI results in “[player] does not dodge.”
/jump
ROLL =< AGI results in “[player] makes jump.” ROLL > AGI results in “[player] misses jump.”
/sing
ROLL =< CHA results in “[player] sings a lovely song.” ROLL > CHA results in “[player] lets out an awful screech!”
ROLL = random(200)
Might also be expressed like…
/saving agi dodge dodges|does not dodge /saving agi jump makes jump|misses jump /saving cha sing sings a lovely song|lets out an awful screech!
Variations on this are almost endless and could apply to any stat or skill. Saving throw commands are designed to be used by a single player, with the results shown in the channel originating the command.
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Feature Request | 2951 | No | GM System | Medium | New | A. Kiefner | | /petition improvements | 28.06.2022 | | |
Task Description
1. Ability to teleport to the player from the petition window 2. Player side: /petition should open the petition window with a short introducing text (in another text window?) how to use the petitions (not to post wishlist items there, how to use (possible) categories..) 3. There should be a drop-down menu for selecting a category [Not Specified; Movement; Bugreport; Name; Event; Harassment; Quest; Miscellaneous] to classify the report. This could be used for statistical purposes post-process as well. 4. A button to mark the petition as URGENT which will add a parseable <star><star> URGENT<star><star> (<star> = *)to the header of the petition so our post-processing tools (aka gmbot) can forward/poke outside the game. (This is important!) 5. Before the petition is finished there should be a preview to check everything again, to make last changes. 6. As long as the petition is unassigned the button shows “claim”, once claimed the button shows “release” to unassign the petition again.
Request from FS#3092 :
“In the GM petition window, there should be a button ‘Guidelines for petitioning’ and when you click it, it gives just that. Guidelines for petitioning.
I recently filed a petition and didn’t know what to include, what was superfluous, whether it was too long winded or not, etc.”
Request from FS#3101 :
“We need enhanced petition system to allow adding several notes and note titles, as well as ability to review closed petitions. The ability to add several notes to a petition would also help us handle an issue, then log off, but leave notes for other GM’s to review what we have done and pick up / complete.”
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Feature Request | 2956 | No | Combat | Medium | New | Orgonwukh | Davide Vescovini | Combat system calibration | 19.04.2010 | | |
Task Description
Combat system calibration
Short version:
I propose that in general the amount of damage dealt by any weapon or magic spell should decrease with the distance from the attacker to the target. Also, fast weapons should generally deal less damage than slow weapons. The combat system including both weapons and magic has to be more balanced.
Elaborated version:
Damage (D):
This is the amount of health points subtracted when an single attack is successful. Examples for magic are:
For weapons one has to include the levels and stats of attacker and target. As a reference I determine both attacker and target to have maxed stats and levels, full heavy armour equipped and to use two weapons at a time in bloody stance. The weapon damage is the average damage including the failed attacks. One could either ask a dev to look this up in the database or do a numberof attacks and measure the arithmetic mean. For convenience I determine the damage of short swords to be 500 HP. This value is not the value specified in the weapons properties, but the “real” damage dealt.
Maximum attack distance (MAD):
This is the maximum distance from which an attack can be made. MAD can be measured in game units (the values you get if you type /pos). One unit should be about 0.5 metres. Examples for magic and weapons are:
Attack speed (AS):
This is the time in seconds (s) between the starting of the attack and the moment when the damage is dealt. Examples:
Damage per second (DPS):
This is simply D divided by AS.
Effective Damage (ED):
I propose to let the DPS decrease linearly with the MAD. I introduce a factor (F) with which you can put more or less emphasis on the distance weighting. Based on the above assumed value of damage for short swords, I propose that the ED with a value of 500 should be used to weight all weapons and magic attack spells:
ED=F*(D/AS)*MAD=500 or ED=F*DPS*MAD=500
For F=1 this simply is
ED=(D/AS)*MAD=500 or ED=DPS*MAD=500.
Let us fix F=1 here for now for convenience. If my proposal for weighting is too daring or too conservative, we still can talk about setting a different value for F.
What does this mean?
Let us look at the weapons first and assume that the values for short sword are as I wrote above: AS=2, MAD=2 and D=500. Then DPS=250. This short sword deals an average damage of 250 HP per second. Since MAD=2, ED=500 HP. I have nothing to object concerning these values. This is my reference for the calibration of other weapons or magic spells from now on (see below).
Let us look at the spells: With a short sword you deal an average damage of 250 HP per seconds from a max. distance of 2 units. With Summon Missile you deal a damage of 100 HP per second from a max. distance of 57 units. With Flying Rocks you deal a damage of 225 HP per second from a max. distance of 74 units. Is that fair? Does it make sense that more damage can be dealt from a safe distance? This “unfairness” is reflected in the ED values of the spells:
We notice that the value of ED is way higher for spells than for the short sword. Flying Stones also have a very high MAD and hence a high ED value. If we assume that my proposal is appropriate for evaluation of the power of weapons and magic, this means that Summon missile is 7.4 times more powerful than using short swords and Flying Stones is 33.3 times more powerful than short swords. I think that is quite a realistic reflection of the current state
Calibration
I propose to calibrate weapons and spells by setting the values of D, AS and MAD in a way that the ED is about the same for all of them. In case we use the short sword for a reference, we could adjust the values for Summon Missile and Flying Stones by reducing the MAD, for example To do this we solve the equation for ED in regards to MAD:
MAD=500*AS/D
Then the values for the calibrated spells would be:
If you think this attack range is too low, there is the possibility to calibrate the spells by setting the damage after solving the equation for ED in regards to D:
D=AS*500/MAD
Then the values would be:
It is also possible to calibrate the AS with AS=D*MAD/500. You can also try out different trade offs between D, AS and MAD as long as ED=500. As long as the ED is the same for all weapons and spells, the relation between damage dealt per second and the attack range is maintained.
Calibration will also be helpful once the attack range for weapons is implemented. Let us examine the calibration of the broad sword and let us assume that this sword has a damage value of D=750:
So the attack range is the same while the attack speed and damage differ. One might think that it is more important to increase the attack range instead of the damage because of the bigger size of the broad sword. So let us assume that the damage value for the broad sword is D=600:
This seems to me an appropriate representation of the differences between the weapons: A broad sword has a longer range and deals more damage, but is slower than a short sword.
Final notes
This is a proposal for balancing the combat system. All values of weapons and magic are either estimations or assumptions. Feel free to provide the true values, if possible. Since the ezpcusa server exists, this might be a good opportunity to try such a system out. My assumptions about the levels, stats, armour and weapon properties of attacker and target are subjective and should be discussed.
Limitations:
Maxed levels were assumed, the properties of lower lever levels are unknown to me. But when known, those levels can be calibrated as well. I did not include the amount of mana needed for the spells yet. A simple rule could be to have a linear relationship between damage dealt and mana used (maybe 1 to 10, so you can still kill a 800 HP opponent with 222 mana, which is the maximum at the moment as far as i know). While the attack area of spells is a circle with a radius of AD (you just have to be closer than AD, facing direction is disregarded) while the target is in the centre of the circle, the area for weapons is much smaller because the attacker has to face the target. It should be something similar to a triangle. This disadvantage of weapons is not accounted for here. On the other hand, it is assumed that a spell caster casts spells as fast as possible. This disadvantage is not accounted for here, either. If those differences between weapons and spells is considered too big, you can think about setting F to another value than 1 for an appropriate weighting. Once spells and weapons are calibrated, prices should as well be calibrated. You could either raise the weapon training costs or lower the magic training costs. Maybe doing both is a good idea.
Advantages:
Using this calibration, it is possible to design various weapons and spells which are different concerning D, AS and MAD, but they are weighted in a more appropriate way than it is the case now. Your choice of weapons is based on what you prefer: range, damage, speed or a weighting/combination of them. Combat can be balanced and become more interesting once players fight each other with different properties of their weapons and attack style. The work for the devs is small. You need to change a single value for each weapon and spell.
Link to corresponding forum thread: http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=35352.0
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Feature Request | 3511 | No | Engine | Medium | New | Seytra | | Ideas for inventory accessibility | 15.02.2010 | | 1 |
Task Description
While sacks and other containers are good for bulk storage, they have the significant drawback of making the inventory harder to navigate, and sorting as well, especially since one can always only have exactly one container window open.
To fix this, one might consider the following ideas:
1) allow any number of container windows to be open, so one can simply put stuff from one container into another, instead of having to put it into the main inventory first.
2) instead, make the container window, once opened, refresh by what container you click on, instead of having to go the rightclick-select-open route
3) instead, make any containers append to the main inventory slot space, but replace the first slot with an image of the container, and clearly separate the appended areas from each other and from the main inventory space by a diferent frame style (could be different for each container type), or at least some additional space. Also, slot spaces that are not provided by a container should remain blank so that a container always starts at the first (second) slot of a fresh line.
When selecting a container, the appropriate window / slot area frame should flash or something so that one sees which container has which window.
4) Let container windows be resizable, and possibly more compact by default.
Mounts
Having each mount have an own (player-accessible) inventory would allow:
1) armor / other enhancement slots for the mount 2) mules that actually are mules, not PCs 3) easier inventory handling
Maybe most of the extra inventory (handling like above) should not come from the mount itself, but from the saddle or whatever one uses on it. Without saddle, there would maybe only be two inventory slots or something.
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Feature Request | 3553 | No | Engine | Medium | New | Pascal Detrait | | Idea proposition for Drawing skill | 16.02.2010 | | |
Task Description
Hi,
the Drawing skill is not yet available. I propose the following idea for developpers :
Each save could rise the skill experience
Each new created sketch could rise the skill experience, significatively more than the save function
Each rank could rise the number of allowed element in the sketch
Each "special" rank (defined by developpers) reached could allow new elements (ie. curves defined by 3 points, new icons, symbols, legend, several pages in the same map ...)
Best regards
Pascal Detrait
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Feature Request | 3649 | No | Movement | Medium | New | kjm | | Dismounting places player directly under/inside mount | 16.12.2009 | | 1 |
Task Description
After executing a dismount, I end up underneath (and partially inside of) the mount rather than beside it.
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Bug Report | 3684 | No | Inventory/Items | Medium | | Seytra | Suilensh | NPCs don't accept split stacks traded | 11.01.2010 | | |
Task Description
When an NPC wants more than one item, but you have the items in different slots (even containers, like when your inventory is full and you can’t easily make room for the full stack), the trade won’t complete, even if the total sum of all items traded is the right amount. It should not matter if you give an NPC a stack of 63 items or ten stacks of ten items plus one of three, or seven of nine( ), etc..
Edit: they also don’t get given the items when they’re in the right amount but in different stacks / sacks in the inventory. One gets “You have to give manually, because you got too many items” instead. /Edit
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Feature Request | 3835 | No | GUI | Medium | New | bonifarz | | Value of goods in trade window | 03.10.2022 | | |
Task Description
I would like to suggest an additional widget in the trade window that gives the total (NPC-trade) value of the goods offered, similar to the one for total tria offered. With the quality based pricing system, this could help to lower confusion and make trade and economy flourish. The obvious but neglectable downside is that players could abuse this to identify an enchanted items value without finding an NPC merchant. A solution to that problem could be found when thinking about a feature to identify such items (based on intelligence, dweomer detection, factions with merchants or whatever).
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Feature Request | 3956 | No | Character Creation | Medium | New | Andreas Renberg | | Allowing apostrophies or dashes in names | 03.10.2022 | | 3 |
Task Description
Not sure if this is possible, but seeing as how the names are treated more as actual names and less as usernames, I believe there should be some support for apostrophes or dashes in names.
For instance (some common fictional apostrophized names) Teal’c T’Pol Kal-El Jor-El
Perhaps if the apostrophized version of names are only for “display purposes”, so if you see someone named T’Lara, their name is stored as a “key” in the database as tlara, and people can access their name (for instance with /tell) using Tlara, but for display purposes, their name shows up as T’Lara.
Not important, just a thought…
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Feature Request | 4110 | No | Engine | Medium | New | Orgonwukh | | Mining while sitting on a mount should not be possible | 09.12.2022 | | 2 |
Task Description
It is possible to mine while sitting on a mount. I propose to remove this ability because it seems unrealistic to me.
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Bug Report | 4236 | No | Guilds/Groups | Medium | New | RlyDontKnow | | dr updates sent for group members without actors | 14.02.2014 | | 1 |
Task Description
the server send DR updates to all group members even if the actor causing it is not in range and therefore the target client doesn’t have an actor associated with it. this results in a “Stat request failed because CelClient not ready for EID:xxxxx” for each movement of the group member that is out of range.
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Feature Request | 4237 | No | GUI | Medium | New | Seytra | | Ability to add custom tabs to chat window | 23.03.2010 | | 1 |
Task Description
In order for the custom channels to be useful, they need a convenient interface. The need for typing /x before stuff isn’t terribly annoying, but also not terribly convenient. However, the biggest issue is that with multiple such channels, all talk gets mangled into one. The designation for the originating channel doesn’t help much in that case.
Therefore it would be nice to be able to create and assign custom tabs to channels, which would then function just like any of the built-in tabs. It would be even nicer if that arrangement could be stored, which would go very well with the auto-joining of custom channels proposed elsewhere.
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Feature Request | 4256 | No | Quests | Medium | Assigned | mickra | JayRuaanAlison ColemankatuRon WhitbySemutaradrJack | Tilavi is in trouble, option request | 05.08.2010 | | |
Task Description
The quest objective is to help a certain NPC find a missing object, that's what my char agreed to do. After finding the object and proceeding to final steps I suddenly receive a ready-made line "X listens to your story" and find my char spilling its friend and ally's whereabouts to X, with me having absolutely no means to prevent or stop it. Honest, it feels like being godmodded by the quest system and is awfully disappointing, to say the least. It also clashes with the general idea of quests being done ICly.
Dear Devs, please add a "not squealing" option, something like "I've just found it somewhere" and let the player deal with one of the main ingame alignments (Law) according to that player's RP. The way it is done now, it's not C&C, it's M&C, having to bear with consequences of the game mechanics, and somehow it doesn't feel right… at all.
PS Ver: 0.5.3
(Edited for clarity.)
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Feature Request | 4318 | No | Crafting Transformations | Medium | Postponed | Oliver Nothers | | Implement Brass | 29.03.2014 | | 5 |
Task Description
Since there is bronze (and more and more people work with it), and there is also zinc besides the tin to possibly combine with the copper - make brass available. What other use was there for zinc anyway? The actual mix should be similar to bronze, with zinc in place of tin to go along the copper.
Would also be great if there were finally possibilities to craft something out of those alloys…
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Bug Report | 4369 | No | Sound | Medium | Assigned | | Mathias | Sound Bugs Effects/Spells/Etc | 14.08.2010 | | |
Task Description
List of all bugs regarding sound to be fixed for next release.
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Feature Request | 4448 | No | Engine | Medium | Unconfirmed | Stefan | | Random Spawn zones: NPC often spawn in mid air | 02.03.2011 | | |
Task Description
NPC in random spawn zones often spawn in mid air. It would be nice if they could be hidden until they hit the ground. Don’t send the NPC pos info to the client until it has stopped falling down?
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Feature Request | 4465 | No | Character Creation | Medium | New | Minks | | Show naming policy in char creation. | 20.08.2010 | | 3 |
Task Description
An newbie in the tutorial brought up this idea, and I like it a lot: It would be nice if the char creation provided a clickable link or a pop-up window to the naming policy.
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Bug Report | 4484 | No | Engine | Medium | Could not Verify | Jon | | Unable to pick up quest item when inventory full. | 17.12.2020 | | |
Task Description
I was trying to do the Jolik’s Letter quest. My inventory was full when he handed me the letter, and I dropped. By the time I dropped something from my inventory, the letter was gone. Now I am stuck on this quest.
May be related to bug 3712 .
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Bug Report | 4505 | No | Engine | Medium | New | CXDamian | | buddy command - toggle behavior | 12.06.2010 | | |
Task Description
friends list does not display all friends after using command line without add/remove(onoff), may remove other entries.
starting with no friends:
‘/buddy abcdef’ = ‘abcdef is already on your buddy list’ (refresh friends window, abcdef was added)
‘/buddy abcdefgh’ = ‘abcdefgh is not on your buddy list’ (refresh friends window, abcdef is no longer listed, abcdefgh is not listed)
‘/buddy abcdef add’ = sometimes added, sometimes not
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Feature Request | 4513 | No | User Interface | Medium | New | Mario Rohkrämer | | Combat ratings in /targetinfo should mention a defense ... | 07.06.2010 | | |
Task Description
It is only partially helpful to estimate if an opponent is more or less stronger than my own char, as long as I don't estimate its defensive qualities too. I would like to see a pair of chances to get hurt by it, and chances to be able to hurt it. Especially since some oppoments are so well armored that even "Extraordinary" quality crafted weapons won't do any damage as long as the character has only average weapon skills. And it is quite vital to estimate the chance of breaking the armor before starting a fight. Even if the opponent is "about as strong as" the character, it is not just risky but suicidal if the opponent is the only one which has any chance to hurt.
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