CHAINMAIL running for a while (trial basis only)

[Felonious Ntent]

cool thnx

I guess one could just shout when the enter the mod to see if anyone wants to group. I know not good etiquette but could reslove things.

BTW how long you leaving it up?
I am off Thurs and would love another go at it. Probabley wont have a chance to play tell then.

Also anything can be done about things like trees blocking a players view if zoomed out? Or is this a "feature".

 

[Greylock]

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.

Nope, didn't figure out how to save to server. Just hoping it worked. But I didn't get the chance.

Morrus? I hereby withdraw my comment above about continuing my PoA char in Chainmail. Now that I've seen it, I agree with your comments that it is a bad fit. And munchkinky to the extreme.

 

[Felonious Ntent]

You could allow the char with levels intact to come in but no equipment and minimal gold for those who don't want to lose the time invested in a char.

Me I am when this becomes permanent going to start over.

 

[Greylock]

I'm wondering if they were established chars coming from PoA. I hate to say it, but I had stopped visiting PoA. In the late night hours (American CST) I usually play, I had been seeing world-jumpers coming in and powergaming all over the place. Not that I'm innocent of it at times, but I always try to keep the RP to the forefront and I ran screaming from some of the shenagins I saw.

Maybe the Wanted board will snuff that out.

 

[Felonious Ntent]

If this is up and running on Thursday I want to try to figure out how to do the subraces. Beyond that I am going to wander until I find a lyncanthrope. I will then let it kill me I want to see how this works.

 

[Neo]

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!

with regards to the Scrying Crystal, that device and it respective scripts from PoA just needs to be exported, then imported into Chainmail for the item to be usable. which should be possible if PoA is opened in the toolset and the Scrying crystal located in the item menus.

with regards to magic items... for the purposes of keeping existing characters you could always have a day where everyone has to sell off thier items and just allow people to port over with thier cash... or completely free of any items or gold.. The characters themselves are more important to me than thier belongings... "things" I can always find again.

 

[Neo]

So I finally get a new character get upped to level three go buy some equipment module crashes... I try the character again find I've not only lost the 2 levels the man on the boat gave me, but all the gear I bought and im in town..level 1...grr.

Managed to get an hour or so of play with some of the guys, made a new character got the levels from the boat man, logged out and in to save... had it crash a little later lost the 1500xp from everything we'd fought and lost everything I'd picked up... this time when the server comes back I reload in to find my character level 2 but with starting gear again.....grrrrrrr

Without a save function on this mod that doesnt involve logging out and in again which just if anything makes the server more likely to crash its a little frustrating. Losing everything time and time again.

However content, size and feature wise the CHAINMAIL mod is great..

 

[Greylock]

That was pretty much my experience this morning. And I've since heard from a friend who said the same thing happened to him last night.

But ya know what? I already like this mod. Get us the scry device and a save pen, and I won't really want to go back to PoA.

 

[Morrus]

I'll try, guys - but I don't know if my skills are up to it!

 

[Morrus]

OK, I've done as suggested and imported the PC Scry Device and the Saving Pen. Dunno if they'll work, though - but I guess it's worth a try.

I hate meddling with stuff I don't understand. I worry about making things more buggy than they currently are.