CHAINMAIL running for a while (trial basis only)

[Jesus_marley]

I don't know about you guys but I think it's a little screwy when a level 2 spawns a Bulette and after I made it to level 3 I spawned a succubus in the newbie cave. These encounters are a little over the top. I like that you don't get super uber xp for a kill ( MY best is 196 for a minogon) but a Succubus??? at level 3? that jsut ain't right.

 

[Chaz]

Some of the SO CALLED 'super xp' you guys were refering to is I think when you killed one of the 'unique & named' monsters that used to spawn fairly well in beta 2. I havent seen this in beta 3... and frankly its needed. The xp and spawn were much better in beta 2. Its all screwed up in 3. Spent several hours killing tough stuff with 95% of the creatures giving 1 xp each. thats rediculous. Waste of time, no fun like this.

Peace

 

[Doshi]

I have to say, I still have not been able to play. I haven't made it past character creation before the server times out or crashes. Last night sometime after 2300 EST it went offline completely so I gave up, again. I'd like to be able to play on the EN server, but I'm getting a little frustrated with Chainmail. Is there anyway to run Ascension concurrently, or is there only one port? Personnally, even though it sounded good, I think Chainmail's a bust :-(

 

[Neo]

Some of the SO CALLED 'super xp' you guys were refering to is I think when you killed one of the 'unique & named' monsters that used to spawn fairly well in beta 2. I havent seen this in beta 3... and frankly its needed. The xp and spawn were much better in beta 2. Its all screwed up in 3. Spent several hours killing tough stuff with 95% of the creatures giving 1 xp each. thats rediculous. Waste of time, no fun like this.

Peace

Heya Chaz.. the super xp I referred too wasnt from named unqiue creatures (xp for them was rarely much different from normal creatures).. I've had in excess of 2k xp from a single undead in Beta 2 and im not referring to a named or unique one at that .

I dont think the encounters are screwy but the rewards for epic characters obviously dont scale well.. and will hopefully be addressed in 4.

 

[Greylock]

Well, as I said in the other thread, Beta3 seems to run smoother. But my 3rd level char met the same spawns as my 8th level. The main difference was that my 8th level got 1xp [roughly] per kill. He's hardly Epic ;p.

 

[Morrus]

OK, I'm going back to PoA. Seems this module is pretty unpopular!

 

[Felonious Ntent]

Edited as with Morrus's post is not needed.

I don't mind going back to POA. Actualy I may use my Chainmail character in it. I am liking my 7th level Lawful Good Human fighter even over my 16th level char. I just need to equip him properly.

 

[Chaz]

Its a good module(chainmail) I just miss the spawn that it had in beta 2.
That said, I can certainly see where its better for non epic chars so I will shut up about that. The xp does seem much less though on many critters that should give more.

Without the extra spawn the world is less crouded with monsters. But I see now that it will be easier for lower level chars so I guess its ok.

Its better than POA any day.

Peace

Edit after reading Morrus' last post: No lets not go back to POA please!

 

[cantrip]

Hey, Morrus. Could you remove the item level restrictions? I don't want to use my chainmail characters in PoA...

 

[Jesus_marley]

While PoA is fun and all, please don't think that CHAINMAIL is unpopular. It is a definite Beta release and still quite buggy. It instabilitity seems to be the primary complaint followed by its unrealistic (heh) spawning code with XP coming in at about the same level. I think that once completed, it will be a vastly superior module, however, it still needs ALOT of work to get it running smoothly. when a new version comes out, please run it so we can playtest. thats the only way that the problems will be addressed and fixed.

I am looking forward to version 4... (just when I was getting my character levelled too) :/