Progress report:

We have about 100 'full size' areas up now (it takes 45 mins to walk from Phlan City to the north border!) Plus we hope to be connected to Arabel (!) by land and Scardale by sea. Good news for those who wanted to visit the Dales! They'll be a 20 min sail away.

Now, all this building in 6 weeks probably means some errors have crept in. If you find e.g. you cannot get from area P123456 heading east, send me a PM here at SP. Note: There is a known Bioware bug that makes long thin transitions hard to find, so run up and down the borders a bit before you give up ;)

More general questions you can raise here, e.g "Should I be able to rest in the Town Hall corridor?"

OK, our mighty QA team, sharpen your pencils, only a week to go! Don't forget its HCR rules, not NWN rules, so if potions are more expensive and you can't respawn, that's not a bug, that's Alfa life!

[ August 26, 2002, 10:03: Message edited by: Erran ]

Cool! Can't wait! Too bad my remaining exams all start in September, so I won't be able to play till the 15th or so. :wail:

This is looking good. Thanks for that little tour Erran, sorry I had to leave early. I will be logging on Sunday night, probably around 8:00 PST, if anyone is around that time. Is the server going to be up 24/7 for the beta Erran?

20 minute boat ride ... does that mean that it takes 20 min in RL?

During that time, do we get to interact with people on a ship screen, or is that the perfect time to take the dog for a walk?

Also, are you scripting random encounters to happen while traveling (like in BG2) so that I could get ambushed by a Krakken (or a dozen nubile mermaids) while on that boat ride?

Check your Faerun map, that's a tenday sail so 20 RL mins is cheap. Your choice, you can have a coffee or stay with it. You can go below and interact with a travelling merchant.

No sea monsters in NWN and the sea is not walkmesh. If you remember in BG flying creatures had to cross rivers on bridges, same as PCs. Someone may script it someday, but it's a major hack of the engine.

Ship to ship pirate battles should be do-able.

Erran - I'm stuck in V Crypt 004. The transition out doesn't do anything. Was it accidentally set for the crypt rather than outside? When I click on it, my character runs up to the transition and then just turns around and stands there.

Erran: A possible bug...After you left me out in the Wild, I tried to enter the woods. The place I entered never opens. The area loads, but never opens, then it disconnects me.

The area number I was trying to enter is: Q096078...If that helps!

Anything you can do about it? Can you move my character to the last area before the one I am entering?

[ September 04, 2002, 03:37: Message edited by: Sir Belisarius ]

Erran, when you buy the lantern and you equip it, all your character holds up is a bag. the light is there, but the lantern is not.

Possibly a bug: I was in the laughing goblin, talked to the waitress. Left, went to the adventurers guild. And the waitress showed up in the guildhouse.

Cullain

Cata: may not be a bug, this is a made up item in the HCR.

Cullain: did you order a beer? our waitresses are VERY dedicated. One followed a customer into the sewers to deliver his pint! :D

Erran - Last night there seemed to be a problem with your server and the vault server. I created a new character and started playing. I met someone who asked if there was a problem with your server and the vault server because her characters didn't show up when she logged on, but they did show up on other servers. I told her I didn't know since I just started with a new character.

I adventured a little and then went to the Adventurer's Guild to buy and sell some equipment, and of course I have that inventory freeze bug that hangs my game. So I restart, and my character doesn't show up for me to pick. So I recreate him and start to play. Well, I end up in the Guild at the exact spot my character was before, but he's a new character instead of the one that had a few XP and a Skeleton knuckle...

So it seems that the characters are saved somewhere, but they're not showing up when we log on to your server...

[ September 18, 2002, 16:55: Message edited by: Blackthorne TA ]

This afternoon I created a character in the sword mountains. I disconnected and wanted to connect to Phlan server. This character was unavailable, so I created another one. (I waited 5 min. to be sure he would not show up) Tonight both appear on the vault server.

But when I tried to use the character created in the sword mountains, at first everything went as usual , he appeared just outside Phlan, but a fragment of a second later I had the gray screen of zone transition. He reapeared in the sword mountains, arrival zone.

[ September 19, 2002, 17:48: Message edited by: feldrol ]

I dont think this is a bug, this is what is supposed to happen. The Sword mounntains are not near to Phlan so you should not be able to log out of one and into the other. That is what the ALFA pass does. The Beta trick is to drop your Sword Mountain pass before you try to join Phlan, then you are accepted as a 'stateless refugee'. When we go live the passes will not be dropable.