CHAINMAIL running for a while (trial basis only)

[Neo]

Not my day for computers it seems... first I spend several hours switching all my hardrives etc..across to a new case, board, p4 etc.. only to have windows refuse to run...grrr.. so spend more time switching everything back to the old one till i can suss the problem and decide to chill out on NWN for an hour to two..get real excited to see a Chainmail trial is in progress...only to be thwarted at the gates as it were LOL.

I've made a character six times now and tried to get in but everytime I get server timeout you have been disconnected... Must sleep now..hopefully tommorrow will be a more technologically happy day heh.

 

[EN_blakman]

Besides the rough edges, this module is impressive/incredible.
Though i would love to play PoA til the end (just recently got on), i have no problems with a switch to this module (i could play PoA at home, just to see it all).

The only concern i have at the moment is the stability of the module, crashed for me and others yesterday sometimes (more often than PoA).

 

[Felonious Ntent]

I found it fun the bit I played. But I can see it being very hard to find people to group with. While I realize we can get henchmen which is good it isn't as fun as being part of a group of actual players. If this mod is used definatley need to implement something like the scrying device in POA for finding out who else is on especialy concidering the size of the mod.

Another anoying feature was when in the forest if you prefer to stay zoomed out the trees block your view.

Did anyone get subraces to work?

 

[Morrus]

There haven't been more than 2 people online at the same time for the last day or so, which explains why you can't find a group to adventure with. Hopefully some others will come check it out.

 

[Greylock]

When I tried to make a Wood Elf, he defaulted to Human as far as his stats, feats, skills and appearance went. So I just made an Elf. Will assume he's Moon.

The henchies and soldiers are an interesting touch, but when I tried my first dungeon run, the Crypt, the soldiers did not follow. Caught me a little off-guard. I think I'm going to like this place. I like a wide open world. But a pc-scrying device would help.

Got about an hour or so of exploring around town before my first crash ;p. Came at a good time. A zombie had just had just about killed my char.

Is resting alllowed in town? There needs to be a place to pick up basic instructions.

[Added] Yes, Morrus, the elf Aelrahd was my char. I assume you were the platinum blonde with the halberd?

 

[Felonious Ntent]

There haven't been more than 2 people online at the same time for the last day or so, which explains why you can't find a group to adventure with. Hopefully some others will come check it out.

Actualy most of my experience was with a party.
First off I met you and some one else on the boat. I was the bald fighter.
You and I talked a bit in an Inn.

After that game crashed and not having character saved I spent time experimenting on making other characters I ended up grouping with 2 people. We died alot especialy me in the forest and then south of town went into a crypt with an army of soldiers. In there we met another palyer who seemed to have a high level character at this tiem I had to leave.

This was all made possible only because of a chance meeting on the initial boat. I like the mod alot. I liked playing a low level character. But I would like something like the scrying device implemented if this mod is used. With the teleporters all one needs to do is scrying and tell to a player found and if they want to group can meet up pretty quick.


I can't remember any names (I think Niko and Elyinel I grouped with)including mine as it was generated by NWN and not one I created. but in the group I was once again the bald fighter/cleric.

 

[Greylock]

Ouch. Thanks for pointing out the char save bit, Felonious. Afer the crash I'm back to Level 1. Yipes. Not that I had accomplished much, but I was about to save when the server went down.

 

[Felonious Ntent]

Did you figure out how to save? Only thing I could do was save Char in the options menue of NWN but someone said that only saved a copy to my HD not the server.

 

[Morrus]

I agree - a scry advice would be great. Problem is, I have no idea how to make one - and the device from PoA doesn't work when you take a character with one into CHAINMAIL. I'll certainly suggest it to the designer, though.

One of the problems I'm noticing is that people are arriving with PoA characters (which, by the nature of the module, are VERY munchkiny). Because this module operates around a different magic item system (you can't usually buy them easily - you buy masterwork stuff and enchant it), I can see the sudden influx of hundreds of high powered magical items being a bit of a problem long-term. Someone was waving the Staff of Anduin around the other day, which is a PoA-specific artifact!

 

[Morrus]

When you exit the game (as opposed to a crash, I guess), the module automatically saves your character and location.