PANIC PANIC!!! The irc-server died???? + what Kailas said...

Edit: Neither irc.seedthecommunity.org nor irc.mkc.fr is working anymore.. what gives?

yayyy! zorg is back! yayyy! \o/

Thanks yall.. I will have to remember to add you to my "do not terminate" list...

Yes Portal is quite excellent.

Have you made any more progress? Full upstream is now available (its not fast but better than it was)

you only need to download either the one 2.5gb package or all the seed.part** files.. both have all the directories from my repository in them. If possible give me some sort of progress report on how many files you've been able to download.. I would suggest downloading the different parts since if for some reason the download gets corrupt (as I believe will happen very likely since my connection has been a bit unstable in the last few weeks) you will have to re-download only a small part compared to downloading the whole 2.5gb file again.

Downtime for the repository will continue for I have not yet been able to find a suitable spot for the computer. It's too noisy to be running in my room and there isn't a closet as good as in the old apartment. But do not fear about the contents of the site, everything is backed up on my main computer and as soon as I get a nice quiet moment I will burn them to dvd's. I will try to find a solution for the computer placing as soon as possible.

On a sidenote the new apartment is looking great with 20m2 more compared to the old place. Everything is starting to find its place and only a few boxes to unpack anymore.

I'll be there!

I'm in.. I dont mind which time so everything goes.. I _WILL_ need a reminder though..

I agree with Darkhawk in some way that the day cycle should be longer than 2 hrs.. at least 6hrs or so imo..

I'm definitely interested in this project. Just took a quick glance at the rules and it's looking very very good imo. Few things I would like to discuss about but nothing major. I have studied sound engineering a few years back and I can produce "studio quality" music and currently I'm studying software engineering at Savonia Univerisity of Technology (Savonia-amk, tietotekniikan insinööri, erikoistun ohjelmointiin [to be more specific]). There is also a very dedicated WoW fan/player in my group and he also seems to be a pretty talented artist. I'm not sure if he is any good with computer graphics but I've seen some of his drawings and they're pretty good.

The thing I'd like to see in an mmorpg is the sense that the world is HUGE. Like if you would go from town to town walking it could take days or even weeks (ingame of course) to get there. I know it is an issue related to the fact that the game should be enjoyable but if you take the medieval times for example, not that many people travelled half the world. It was the rich who could afford to travel at all.

Also another thing would be some sorts of mutating diseases. What I've been thinking related to this which I will explain very simply is that there would be x amount of effects on a disease. Then the disease and/or effects would have a mutation factor, infecting factor, incubation time and the possibility that the disease remains hidden. Lets say your char gets infected with disease A which is a common flu. As effects it has fever and cough. During the incubation time he also gets infected with a more serious virus B. The it would be possible for these two diseases to mutate together to form a disease C with effects from A and B. Of course it would require a lot more complex system than that and the possibility to do research on the diseases too. And that would depend a lot on the world concept of course.

Also one thing has troubled me in most fantasy settings and its the "racism" in almost everyone. One original idea could be that if there are different races to play, the world would be divided into different "countries" like the real world instead of just different races fighting each others. In my opinion that would make a bit more sense than the usual "every orc is a spawn of evil and cannot be nothing but evil" setting. And it would bring diversity to the game. Of course there could be areas that are more populated with a certain race depending on the type of vegetation for example.

Have you given any thought on the world concept at all? Fantasy, sci-fi? There's a lot I'd like to discuss about this matter. And I'm too tired to write more now. Maybe some tomorrow.

Thank you Norah for a couple of beta vids and Darkhawk for providing the latest version of the client. Sounds funny saying that.