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• • vista?

  •   Always a pleasure to read a well-reasoned, thoughtful post.

    Incidentally, there is an unconfirmed rumor that Windows 7 will revert to the XP kernel.  The basis is that there are simply too many enterprise programs that will not run under Vista.

  • Posted: 6/12/08 5:13 PM
    Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted
• • Ghostland.

  • Plots belonging to lapsed subscribers will be reclaimed.  Anyone not subbing, who'd like to keep their plot needs to resubscribe.  The first preliminary headsup emails have gone out to ex-subscribers; ex-players should be sure their email address is currentif they care.

    As Shadowmage mentioned, the plot sizes are being looked at as part of the reclamation.  You can build on the smaller plots, but the larger buildings don't fit. The revision should help a lot.

    The player base size is confidential; we do know there were more than 10K players, and it was growing well at the time of the disastrous sale. (Dragon lairs and other dragonlub had just been added. )  That growth made the sale attractive to the VC and the seller alike. Due to massive mismanagement, during the PMI/EI period, the subs fell.  Now we know the "game is growing, and in the black".  My own completely speculative guess is that  the game's major shortfalls will be fixed before much marketing is done.  With the billing fixed, plot reclamation almost done, Unity players migrated, and lag mitigated, I think that Vista is the sole outstanding issue; and of course that's being worked on.  Requests for players' preferences for a revised or new launcher were just posted, as part of the Vista upgrade.

    No one on. Hmmm.  It is a big place, much the largest MMO land area at the time it was released. There are several chat channels that would help... Marketplace, Dragon, and depending on the server (and I forget the names) advice and new player channels.There is also a /who function that shows who else is on, their level, class, etc.  

    Order, the role playing server has fewer players than Chaos... I play on Order, and have never, even at the lowest point, seen 0 other players. (There are clearly more on now, including some of the old players from beta... )

     

  • Posted: 6/10/08 12:24 AM
    Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted
• • vista?

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    This thread on the community forums discusses Vista, now with SP1! and extra goodness.   As indicated above, it can be done, but seems to be hit and miss. It is being worked on of course, but unfortunately no date yet.

    I just read that 10-20% of major business programs don't run on Vista; part of the reason businesses are beginning to announce that they're waiting for Windows 7(?). 

    http://community.istaria.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17885

  • Posted: 5/19/08 1:25 PM
    Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted
• • Horizon's now called Istaria

  • Biped multiclassing isn't that great a factor until you have multiple level 100's under your belt.  Some time ago, 2 years perhaps, the sentient Evils, the Withered Aegis were "evolved" ; i.e. upgraded to continue to challenge the multi-classed.  Critters in general were not evolved, so you have a good breadth of difficulty; some fairly easy targets for their level, some quite a bit harder, especially at the upper levels.

    Dragons (the most popular race) do not multiclass.  The Dragon Rite quest lines pretty much require grouping, and the epic bosses certainly do also.  In general though, people group because they enjoy the company as much as for the need for attack power.

    The engine and models are both being worked on.  Nothing radical, but steady improvement, especially in performance.

    Since Virtrium took over the game, there has been a steady increase in the player population.  It's not back to the level it had rerisen to before the disastrous sale to EI/PMI, but it is increasing; with an extra jump now that the European players have been transported from their server to the American servers.  I'd strongly suggest joining a guild, which helps too.

    I could be wrong, but I think the Vista compatibility changes will be completed before Virtrium starts advertising seriously for new players.

  • Posted: 5/03/08 9:47 PM
    Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted
• • PVP?

  • I'm only playing intermittently these days; however I can honestly say that I have not seen this (I play on Order.) Nor have I seen mention of this on the Istaria community forums. 

     

    We used to have a would-be roleplay enforcer on Order, who caused considerable flaming, but she's been long gone.

  • Posted: 5/03/08 9:27 PM
    Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted