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Trade and Market Hall / Re: Angels Guild--Adventure Outfitters
« on: May 19, 2022, 05:09:39 pm »
Oak shortbow taken, 1500 true left.
Silk hood taken, 1200 true left.
-Felcairn-

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Trade and Market Hall / Re: Cailomel Goods and Wares (updated)
« on: May 18, 2022, 01:29:29 am »
Merin's Bracers and Soppi's Cloak bought, 9600 true left in the payment chest. - Felcairn-

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*A simple note is left on a clean piece of parchment*
Bought - Blue boots. Aamethelia is the name on them.
Left 4000 true as your note priced them. -Felcairn-

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*A simple note is left on a clean piece of parchment*
Bought - Rings of strength, two of them, common gems but set well. One falchion, good copper make, acid coating.

Left 6491 true as your note priced them. -Felcairn-

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*hastily scrawled*
Took gold ingots, left 800 true for 8 of them.
-Ruk-

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General Discussion / Re: hi
« on: April 23, 2022, 01:57:26 pm »
Hey mumbles

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Trade and Market Hall / Re: Angels Guild--Adventure Outfitters
« on: April 19, 2022, 02:24:05 am »
*A poorly scrawled note is left in the greater jewelry case*

Took dragonscale bracers and left proper true per your standards.

I also took three greater resistances, electrical, fire and acid. Belt of the Battlemage taken. Do you wish true or trade?

An emerald amulet and ring taken. Unsure who they belong to. I left a few similar in their place, and some more emeralds. Hopefully they'll be put to use better than in my pockets. If a problem, or if wanting true, or more gems, or anything, send bird. I may be back within the season. Probably not. But maybe. Probably so.


-Rukrym-

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Took the Messenger Blade and left 13,500 true at the door.

-K. Agaetis-

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General Discussion / Hi
« on: December 18, 2021, 12:47:52 pm »
This game was awesome. How you all doing?

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General Discussion / Re: Computer Advice
« on: September 17, 2012, 04:00:10 pm »
Look good? 1400 USD


[table=head;sort=1a,2,3]Display|                                 17.3" Full HD LED-Backlit Display with Super Glossy Surface (1920 x 1080)|
Video & Graphics Card|                                 Nvidia GeForce GTX 660M GPU with 2GB GDDR5 Video Memory|
CPU Processor|                                 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.30GHz) [$70.00]|
Thermal Compound|                                 Stock Standard Thermal Compound|
Operating System|                                 Genuine MS Windows® 7 Professional 32/64-Bit Edition ( 64-Bit Preloaded ) [$60.00]|
Memory|                                 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 4GB|
RAID Storage Options |                                 Non-RAID Storage|
Primary Hard Disk Drive|                                 180GB Intel 520 Series SATA3 Solid State Disk Drive [$155.00]|
2nd Hard Disk Drive|                                 500GB 7200rpm SATA2 Secondary Hard Disk Drive [$80.00]|
Optical Drive Bay — Optical Drive or Hard Disk Drive in Optical Drive Bay with Caddy case|                                 8X DVD±R/RW/4X +DL Super-Multi Drive & Software|
Wireless Network Card|                                 Killer™ Wireless-N 1103 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module [$60.00]|
Primary Battery|                                 Smart Li-ION Battery Pack|
Microsoft Office|                                 Microsoft Office Starter 2010 - Included in Price|
Warranty|                                 Sager 1 Year Limited Parts and Labor Warranty|
[/table]

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General Discussion / Re: Computer Advice
« on: September 12, 2012, 05:52:22 pm »
Thanks guys.

I live in the US, I was pricing it out straight off the Sager site.  I heard they were good laptops without much excess bloat software, but I'm not married to the idea.  So if you think of a good place to shop, I'd love to hear it.  I do not want to go through a dell equivalent because it ends up having a lot of junk I don't want.

On the RAM, I wouldn't have the first idea on how to install something new.  How easy is it?

On the processor, a i5-3210M would be $70 cheaper but I'd be losing the quad.

Is it easy to set things up to have the OS run off a separate SSD?  I'm new to this.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer Advice
« on: September 12, 2012, 01:40:28 am »
Thanks for the responses!

I suppose my real question is why I need an HDD with 1TB when after 6+ years my current computer is at 180GB... and bloated with 100 duplicates of nwn1 and nwn2 worlds that I should've erased 5 years ago.

Is it merely a space thing or will it affect performance if I don't have it all separated?

Any thoughts on the processor/ ram bang for buck as I laid it out in additional costs?

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General Discussion / Re: Computer Advice
« on: September 11, 2012, 01:43:40 pm »
Thanks for the advice everyone.  Currently looking at this for just under $1400:

[table=head;sort=1a,2,3]Display|                                 17.3" Full HD LED-Backlit Display with Super Glossy Surface (1920 x 1080)|
Video & Graphics Card|                                 Nvidia GeForce GTX 660M GPU with 2GB GDDR5 Video Memory|
CPU Processor|                                 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.30GHz) [$70.00]|
Thermal Compound|                                 IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU [$35.00]|
Operating System|                                 Genuine MS Windows® 7 Professional 32/64-Bit Edition ( 64-Bit Preloaded ) [$60.00]|
Memory|                                 12GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 3 X 4GB [$40.00]|
RAID Storage Options |                                 Non-RAID Storage|
Primary Hard Disk Drive|                                 120GB Intel 520 Series SATA3 Solid State Disk Drive [$100.00]|
Optical Drive Bay — Optical Drive or Hard Disk Drive in Optical Drive Bay with Caddy case|                                 8X DVD±R/RW/4X +DL Super-Multi Drive & Software|
Wireless Network Card|                                 Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module [$35.00]|
Primary Battery|                                 Smart Li-ION Battery Pack|
Microsoft Office|                                 Microsoft Office Starter 2010 - Included in Price|
Warranty|                                 Sager 1 Year Limited Parts and Labor Warranty|
[/table]


It would cost an additional $160 for an i7-3720QM.

It would cost an additional $90 for 16GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB.

SSD looks to be $60 jumps for 180GB and 240GB.  Looking at my current computer that I've had for... 6 years I think, I don't think spce is much of an issue and I use external drives for 'legacy waste' so to speak.

Thoughts?  See any gaps?

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General Discussion / Re: Computer Advice
« on: September 01, 2012, 11:26:29 pm »
Quote from: Hellblazer
Checking the laptops of sager, I would truly suggest you take at least an i7-3820QM. Yes it's more expensive, but it's a quad core with hyper-threading.

[TABLE=head;sort=1a,2,3]3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.30GHz)   [+$70.00]   |
                   3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3720QM Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.60GHz)   [+$230.00]   |
                   3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3820QM Processor ( 8MB L3 Cache, 2.70GHz)   [+$420.00] |
[/TABLE]
Big price difference, how much of a performance change?

Quote from: Hellblazer
And I don't know what you do with it, but if it's anything to do with video/audio, get a second drive. Having your work files on the same disk as the os disk can cause problems.

Hope that helps.

I'll be playing games on a limited basis... maybe a couple of hours per week - but it'd be nice to have a machine that can play the new ones.  For comparison, Skyrim is too much for my current machine.  I'll also be doing work stuff, nothing crazy - a fair bit of work in adobe cs5.

But I had a question about having 2 drives.  How does it work?  Why would I want it?  It does bring up an interesting point that I would love to have my work stuff segregated from games as it's not the coolest in my line of work to open it up at a meeting and have mass effect 3 as the primary start menu button.  But can't you just do that by adding a partition?

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General Discussion / Re: Community Building
« on: August 13, 2012, 11:32:16 pm »
Quote from: Guardian 452
Sorry Chongo... I call em like I see em.

Naturally.  I don't think that comment is unfair.  I check the forums  now and then to look for something interesting enough to make me want to  play here again.  I do this for me, and I won't pretend it's anything  else.  Nor do I think my opinion should hold more stock for the  community than anyone else's.  Past efforts, current efforts, past  positions, current positions... they don't matter here - the initial  query from Row was regarding growing the playerbase.

So as one person who sometimes considers playing here again, I say that  responses like yours are the choir of the unchanging.  It's the current  and active playerbase, which should never be undervalued mind you, that  goes tit for tat on every little change that it ends up barely blowing  your own hair back when the change comes.  My opinion is that the  minutia that results in these underwhelming discussions does little to  grow the playerbase while still giving the team excess work.  This in  turn sometimes drives team assets away and you end up retaining a peace  keeping force instead of creative drivers.  And mind you, I'm not  implying myself as the latter - there are much bigger fish that have  been in that sea.

Again, not to be undervalued, the active community rarely wants change  that might potentially compromise efforts or change the rules by which  they did it fairly with their own hands... I have been there, and I know  how it sounds.  But honestly - you deserve what you get.  By all means  cling to what you have and have deservedly fought for individually...  just realize that without hair-blowing-back change amongst things most  have already seen and experienced - you might end up clinging to your  own crown and little else.

I like Milty's idea.  I think that the choir is confusing it with  shutting down the persistence of the servers when it's really just  internal outreach to get little adventuring companies planned amongst  old friends.  Let it occur in these little groups and empower them.  I  don't think anyone is talking about old school quests with 30 people.   Empower small groups to do their own thing and use the server actively  for small-group plot and dynamic.  Give them an interesting and easy  avenue to start up and have things more interesting than 7 days of rat  killing in tattered cloths whilst trying to have an adventure together  that rivals the other things available elsewhere.

I don't think this is Layo's vision, and I'm alright with it.  Hopefully  one inactive voice with an unabashed statement of need and opinion is  taken for what it is - bothering to tell you.  Years ago when it all  seemed so bustling with life here... it wasn't hordes of people like you  willing to stay the course for a decade, it was voices like what I'm  entertaining here.  They're not bad people, they just didn't sign on for  til death do us part.  Either embrace solitude amongst those that  chugged through with unchanging discipline - or adapt quickly enough to  get small surges here and there.  I think you're all fine folks either  way, but you deserve what you get.

And kill the boldface bud.  No hard feelings, and this is blatantly  patronizing, but I look back with several  shades of shame on how I used to write on these forums.   This will likely be one more shade someday, but hey, adapt and keep growing right?  They're either  going to read it or they won't (this is definitely too long), and the  boldface just calls people into the soundbyte.  I wish I was more  like Rhiz.  Everyone should.

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General Discussion / Re: Community Building
« on: August 09, 2012, 01:00:01 pm »
People came to Layonara because NWN was popular and there was inherent  traffic deriving from marketing on NWN sites.  That doesn't exist  anymore so the entire community and team need to come to grips with  reality and stop treating this like an mmo or even a traditional PW.

Adapt.  Do what Milty is saying.  Coordinate the world into an  adventuring company system.  Come up with an outreach tool for all the  old players to get them committed to that one night a week.  And make it  worth their while.  You're delusional if you think you can compete with  anything else out there for folks to do maintaining the mindset that  the 'game' is the draw.  It's going to be old friendships that drive  it.  It's going to be ease of new integration.  Alter the GM team to  expand it into a sub category of adventuring company story masters.   Make it easy for them and empower them.  Give them story options that  aren't utterly flaccid.  Let players start at level 10 and just give  them a bloody shop with fun gear for their new start.  Come up with a  list of simpler code changes to enable this transition, and someone like  Dorg just commit to one hard night of work.  No more, no less - just  plan it all for that and stop entertaining suggestions that don't fit  into that one night... because you and I know full well they aren't  going to get anywhere.  You're not going to rebalance the physical world  because you have no one willing or able to do it.  Make the PC's more  powerful through simpler code changes.  Stop dreaming that you can do  anything else.

Most of the existing players here are creating as much of a problem as  the diehard 'this is a grand grand world' folks on the team.  You need  to stop clinging onto the past.  Commit to a true change and don't turn  back.  Adventuring company server.  You all get so darn sidetracked and  never commit to true changes.  Someone suggests changing xp rates and  the choir of clinging to past efforts burst forth in the song of 'But I  but I but I!'.  Someone says make gear more available and the choir of  crafters crafting alone for no one sing 'but I but I but I!'.  Someone  suggests progression alterations and the choir of world leaders sing  'but I but I!'.  You're not a world leader talking like that, you're the  mayor in the town of 2.  Be a leader and let your people flourish.

Go with Milty's idea and commit.  And don't let the old songs of 'but I'  creep in slowly as they always do and corrupt the whole darn thing.  If  you want real ideas on how to make it happen, I'll tell you them.  I'm  nothing special but I do know what was built in this game and how it  works.  Second I hear that choir though... ugh.  

It's simple.  If you can't adapt to bring back the old players by way of easily  acquired community, then you don't deserve the population you seek to  have entertaining you.

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General Discussion / Re: Haven Mines
« on: November 03, 2011, 11:57:14 pm »
Wasn't me.  That is a very old map, could've been Pan.  Pretty sure it was here when I first joined, so it predates most of us that are still around.  Maybe G?

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General Discussion / Re: Happy birthday to the tech guy
« on: October 26, 2011, 01:04:29 am »
Happy birthday orth

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Don't you get the damage vfx that is appropriate to the element type?  I know its not the ball, but I could've sworn I've seen little acid damage vfx on the actual target.

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General Discussion / Re: World policy update -- Discussion
« on: October 04, 2011, 09:25:19 pm »
Quote from: Dorganath
Chongo went into plenty of detail, so I won't (thanks, Chongo!)

It's my uncanny ability to be extremely concise that makes me the forum phenomenon that I am.

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