Jaapy

Nindax got it right!

Don't believe Hunter for a second. Of course we're getting paid! Uhh wait... is a pat on the back from farjat considered payment? :-( I suddenly get the feeling we're getting ripped off here. *Goes on strike*

I don't like the idea because it can be exploited. You would never need a Zem again. Just 'loan' your most precious items from your alt to your main character for as long as possible and you never have to worry about dropping them again. You said this, but you didn't provide a solution to it - and I can't think of one either.

You have a lot of merien stones to sell, don't you? :rolleyes:

More endurance only.

If you can draw concept art, let's see it. I could try to make a 3D model out of it and render them properly (the spider was made from 3D model too). Or maybe someone else will step in and can make the 3D model! Once they 3D model is done, I can do the rest (make PAK and add them to the game).

I made this a while ago. Just didn't make it into PAK file yet (specifying those frames is not fun).

Unlucky Jeff.. I hope he's OK or going to be OK soon!

Closed.

New Host: Ping statistics for 201.212.0.247: Packets: Sent = 224, Received = 224, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 239ms, Maximum = 278ms, Average = 255ms International (US) Host: Ping statistics for 69.93.64.178: Packets: Sent = 354, Received = 354, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 120ms, Maximum = 141ms, Average = 122ms Double the lag for me!

USA is desperate for players, keep that in mind :D

This man sounds correct!

First of all, I use Vista too so yea I know what's like. Furthermore, I own a very very decent expensive system and I play in Vista, and I still get crappy frame rates. Even crappier than everyone else. Sometimes my FPS drops to 2-3 fps even, especially when I open my bag. And it sucks, mostly because I play all the latest games on max quality settings and I have no problems with them. HB is bugged and old graphicswise. Anyway! You also don't know what a pain it is to fix this. If it was easy, it would be long done. It might take a fair amount of free time to fix this. Seeing as HB is a dying game anyway (even with a fix like this it would still die) my guess it's not worth to fix. I am still in doubt as it may be borderline. Do you think a fix like this will save the future of HB?

Well the suggestions you gave were mostly based on the argument of realism. The suggestion would make HB more realistic. But since when should HB be realistic? It's a fantasy RPG game, it is hardly fun to roleplay real life.. right? So it was just my way of saying realism in games is ridiculous. You know.. Anyway, no need to cuss.

Yes! Helbreath needs realism!!! YES! Let's force all character to have breakfast or they will be grumpy -> spells cost more mana then. All monsters need sleep right? So between 23:00 and 7:00 all monster go away. All maps are empty. During winter (1 december - 1 march) all monster go into hibernate sleep!! And let's add, in addition to hunger, the POO-STATUS! Once a day you feel the urge to take dump! If you don't, you miss all the time! And we should introduce a new building for this: the bathroom! And let's face it, we should delete Iblis. Who calls himself Iblis IRL? No one, so also not in HB! -_- Yeeeeeej!

Yep, this is one of the major issues with Helbreath that has been here from the start. In Helbreath, networking, rendering, animation and user input are all processed in a single frame. So the more frames you can render per second, the more packets your game sends to the server, the faster your animations display, more often is your keyboard input processed, etcetera. Siementech has patched a few critical issues, but you can compare that patching to somebody covering a wound with a dirty brick! While this is one of the solutions that are available... I would not suggest it. The real thing we should be doing is adjust the time critical portions of the game and unbound it from FPS. We need to base the amount of times stuff is done on real time (seconds) instead of frames per second! That's (very) basically it. It's alot more technical than this, I hope you understand what I meant with the above. I really want to fix this. But it's really hard. HB code really sucks and it's just like spaghetti like I've said many times before. It will take a good amount of time to fix this. I don't know if it's worth it.

Making selling items for real money illegal isn't going to stop people from selling items for real money. It will only make people sell their items "underground" if you will. Those people will diverge to different means to trade their stuff. Of course this might be better, as it will possibly relieve the GMs from some of the work involved in solving real item trades that went bad. But it will never fix the problem at hand completely. To ban item selling for real money effectively, we need a way to detect it basically. Right now, we cannot reliably detect if you sold your item for real money. You might as well have given it away for free! We can't tell the difference! This makes things really hard for us. So we have look into non-HB related things. If you have an answer to that problem, let me know!

It has always been like this. Platinum ring and Sapphire ring have been worthless for a long time. Me saying that they don't work doesn't suddenly make them worthless. That's crazy! PA capes were worthless before me saying this! And why delete the stats from them? Just because they are worthless doesn't mean we should remove the stats. If we apply that logic than we would need to delete all sorts of stats off of items! Let's delete all shortswords, because what use is a Strong Short Sword End+35% right? Let's just delete them! *sighs*

Exactly right!

A PA27 cape will not work. The reason is that PA only works when the equipment is hit. A cape can never be hit (it's endurance therefore won't decrease, same as rings). So if the cape can't be hit, then the 27% damage reduction is not applied. PA doesn't work collectively like MA does. This is the same reason why a Sapphire or Platinum ring won't work. Rings will never get hits.

What if we opened up a 2nd server to test this stuff and balance things out (WS2)? Let's see if it's really fun and if everyone really likes it? It will be more effective than discussing specific stats here. We could also use this server to test-deploy some patches before putting them live. Well basically I figure that it will be a fruit server (uberhigh exp, copy existing character over there, 1g for everything in BS/Shop/wzdtwr, maybe high drop) so it will probably turn out to be that no one will play server #1 and everyone will play #2, that would suck. Need to figure something out to prevent that. Thinking of limiting this server to specific times being up (short time frame 1 week before deploy?) and just putting up a map or 2, everyone in the same town or disable EKs, dunno. I'll discuss with farjat about this.

HB Portal is not set up by HB USA initially. The content added to that portal was done by players. HB Portal is still filled with errors and/or rumour stuff. Once HB USA took it over (or became partner or whatever) nothing was changed to the content. It still got those errors. Besides, HB USA has changed alot of stuff because they lost alot of players. They did some radical changes, some crazy ones! They changed official weapon damage, too. I also think that changing damages or altering gameplay a lot will not do any good to Helbreath. It will change the way you are used to play now, making it a different game basically! I suspect there will be alot of disagreement between players about what changes will be good and what changes will be bad. I am worried about making it so that everyone can be happy.

I and many others (I'm sure) have pondered over the idea of a 3rd and maybe even a 4th town. Seems like a fun idea, but it will be so much effort to implement this in the current game given the state of it's code as-is already. I mean, spaghetti is nice and all, but only for eating not in my code :(