I don"t mind boats if they are done nicely. Sailing from BB to FP was ok, except for the bugs of course.Camerous said:Boats should be pointless. If ther was one thing I ALWAYS hated about EQ1 was the damn boring ass boat rides. Just plain fuck that. Give me a porter any day of the week.
How do I install it with that? It asks me to extract the folders, but I don"t really know where.Hachima said:It sounds like your DX9 didn"t install properly then. dunno how you tried to install it but you can get the full installer fromFilePlanet: DirectX Installer
From what I was reading (skimmed it), everyone was talking about WoW or something.Lusiphur said:Can we have a "help Sithro" thread and limit him to posting in there so we can actually get some freaking game discussion going on ???
You realise you asked and answered your own question right? I remember the GD dragon ring very well. In the early days, if you didn"t have the shard, you couldn"t port there. So you had no choice but to run it first. But the big point is, you only had to run it once. I think thats a reasonable compromise.RunningDog said:If you have instant teleports, then why have a big world? Every MMO that"s tried the "big world" has hit the same problems - people get fed up travelling so they dont travel, they congregate in a few spots.And if your players are staying put, you"ve wasted lots of time creating areas that aren"t visited; plus it obviously makes grouping more difficult in any location outside the popular ones.
I think the WoW solution of flight masters is the best compromise. The first time you have to run from A to B, and afterwards you can run or pay and fly. As the flight time isn"t instant you still get a sense of scale and there"s some "effort" involved due to the time taken and cost. For VG I guess they could make the flights cost half your current level to keep it hardcore ;-)
Vanguard - Discussion BoardsLusiphur said:Can we have a "help Sithro" thread and limit him to posting in there so we can actually get some freaking game discussion going on ???
That"s what I did, yet it still didn"t work.Wolfen said:All you have to do is go toMicrosoft DirectX: Home Pageand download the latest version. I got the same thing when I recently loaded EQ back up.
That"s how EQII"s dungeons usually are. At the entrence is yard trash, but farther in you get to those clay giants. A named spawns and drops nice armor. That"s the core of the place, it"s really awesome.I have been trying very hard to break away from the "hang out in central hub to find a group" mode of thinking and move to the "go to the dungeon and find a group" style. Part of the problem with that, is that the concept for all of the dungeons (as I understand it) was creamy easy outer filling with tough insides: i.e., soloable "yard trash" so people had something to do while waiting for a group to move in and do the tough stuff. Somewhere else on this board someone pointed out directly how that was currently not the case in many dungeons.
While a great idea "conceptually", the aspect of "permanance" negates the possibility. Mostly because you"d end up with as many permanent structures as there are players. Imagine 5 or 6 hundred permanent structures all littering the countryside around a dungeon. Certainly not practical. Mainly because the players creating them will inevitably move away from the area.Draegan said:It would actually be a cool mechanic if the crafters and other folks can set up shop at will and sell shit to people doing a dungeon. If you could do some mini building a tent or a shop, then who knows towns might be built up permanently. That would go a long way (but not near all the way) to make shit "next gen". The ability to alter the game"s landscape on a permanent level.
You"re running Vista, right? Fix is simple, download the latest DX9 and install it, that gives you the .dll file you need. Strange that DX10 that ships with Vista doesn"t include all the latest DX9 files, but that"s the case.Sithro said:Guys, I hate to bother you again, but...
"d3dx9.31.dll Not Found" is the error.
Anyway, thanks.
Yeah, but then it just reeks of "money/time sink". Still, there need to be incentives to even using temporary structures. Like offline merchantile. You pop your stand in a temporary mini community for the night, and your character goes into merchant mode. And other little things. Perhaps a 5% experience bonus for a length of time equal to the offline mode, up to a specified and reasonable maximum. Not "rested xp" per se, but just a small incentive to actually motivate the player to actually utilise those aspects, instead of relegating them to running back to a town.Draegan said:Wasn"t really clear, what I meant permanent is it"s there as long as the player uses it. 1-2 days of no use and it goes away.
No, I"m running XP, actually.Kendrick said:You"re running Vista, right? Fix is simple, download the latest DX9 and install it, that gives you the .dll file you need. Strange that DX10 that ships with Vista doesn"t include all the latest DX9 files, but that"s the case.
Doh, replied to this before I saw the five other poeple that beat me to it.
Wouldn"t this turn into the UO real estate problem where literally every square foot of ground which COULD have a house, DID have a house? I know placing a large brick was a bitch, and I was in there early.Draegan said:It would actually be a cool mechanic if the crafters and other folks can set up shop at will and sell shit to people doing a dungeon. If you could do some mini building a tent or a shop, then who knows towns might be built up permanently. That would go a long way (but not near all the way) to make shit "next gen". The ability to alter the game"s landscape on a permanent level.