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Introduce Yourself / Hi all« on: January 31, 2015, 09:10:56 pm »
I play Callaman a level 6 Fighter. Been playing mostly with Delia doing jobs around Layonara and exploring. I love NWN and the server (I played here years back but did'nt get far). Just saying hi and looking forward to meeting some players. (Especially low levellers for groups).
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General Discussion / Ancients Legacy Performance« on: January 24, 2015, 02:39:40 pm »
Hey Gang,Sorry I had to bail on the quest today. The lag was just so bad on my end, it was unworkable. I suspect it has something todo with my terrible network connection. I am unable to get anything decent in my particular subburb of Prague. It was great to see all the familar faces, and the passion still there. Keep it up. Hopefully one day I can rejoin you again.
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Layonara Server / Version 3.40.2 is online!« on: January 24, 2015, 12:25:34 pm »Version 3.40.2 is online!No new downloads required for this one. Just a few tweaks and nice to haves added here and there but a significant set of new areas added by Dorganath as well!Fixes:
Additions:
Unused undroppable items can be removed by the player with =c noneed . For example =c noneed emotewand. Type =c noneed on its own to get a list of items you can have removed[/li][li] Added some brewer's yeast and empty bottles to the Great Spikes outpost. [/li][/list]
More bosses now give XP[/li][li] Over 35 new areas added. Explore to discover. [/li][/list] Other updates:
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Layonara Server / Version 3.40.1 is online!« on: January 24, 2015, 11:34:59 am »Version 3.40.1 is online!Not much to this one except a couple nice to haves. You will need the following updated ctrl hak, don't worry it's quite a small file: Fixes:
Additions:
Tweak AoE spells to last better in lag and with the caster moving[/li][li] Silence spell ignores ally's SR[/li][/list]
Few more bosses give boss XP[/li][/list] Other updates:
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Introduce Yourself / Thanks for the Warm Welcome« on: January 03, 2015, 10:04:31 am »
Hi all,Some of you will have met my character (Liana) in game, but I thought it would be a nice idea to say hello to those who haven't too! I also want to thank everyone for the warm welcome; the people I have spoken to have been incredibly helpful and have made my experience so far incredibly enjoyable. Looking forward to meeting some of you again, and the rest of you for the first time!
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Ancients Legacy / Posted at the Stormcrest Shack« on: January 14, 2015, 03:40:15 pm »
For a time, a mess of different parchments and map scraps were seen inside the Shack where notices or requests used to be hung. The handwriting was so messy as to be indecipherable, with sentences at times seeming to be in pieces on different pages, and terms that could be nonsense or some sort of slang or technical jargon used profusely throughout. Nicknames that might be descriptive to someone offer little hint of what person or places they reference, and at times the writing is not even oriented to the page but rather upside down or in an imaginary margin. After a few days, they are replaced with a smaller number of neater pages, carefully printed in a small block script. CONSTELLATIONS SHIFT
LEADS THAT COULD BE FOLLOWED - TIME IS VERY RELEVANT SO THE MORE HANDS DIVVYING UP SMALL TASKS THE BETTERKNOWLEDGEABLE PERSONS SUGGESTED -
((This information, however presented, is IC, and so may or may not suffer from unreliable narrator. Corrections and further information should be given IC as well. The names given are those that have been talking plot lately and not representative of all of those involved. This information is now public and especially intended specifically for those not mentioned here for catchup. )) The following users thanked this post: Charm2009
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Layonara Server / Version 3.40 is online!« on: December 26, 2014, 01:20:17 pm »Version 3.40 is online!This isn't a very significant update in terms of fixes or additions for players but those will be coming. The biggest change is merging Central and West together and cleaning up the haks. We hope this will make joining up and playing together easier plus it alleviates issues with the cross server portals, horses and other inconsistencies across the servers. It also makes deployment, administration and coding a bit simpler. Should the need arrive to separate them due to performance or other issues then we'll go back to that way but all the other updates mentioned in this post will still exist. If you haven't downloaded any haks I mentioned earlier you can get them from here in one large rar (the Downloads section will be updated shortly to get each individual hak should that be easier for you): If you have recently downloaded the big hak I mentioned in the other thread to get a jump on things, you will now only need to get the two below: http://e5bf79fd7133583b11df-dabb80c66fac67c5c4cbee545d8dd728.r44.cf1.rackcdn.com/haks/layo_resr1.rar (6.83MB) Fixes:
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Added recipe cards for all devices to crafting merchants[/li][li] Added a roulette table to Scamps Mug Inn[/li][li] Updated icons for spell immunities to show which immunities instead of a generic icon[/li][/list] Other updates: Merry Christmas! -orth The following users thanked this post: Charm2009
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General Discussion / Merry Christmas!« on: December 24, 2014, 06:04:10 am »
Hope everyone is well and happy! God bless and Merry Christmas! Happy birthday Jesus Christ our Savior!
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Layonara Server / Holiday Bonus Event« on: December 22, 2014, 12:13:23 am »
Hey all,As our holiday gift to everyone, a bonus event is now in progress. During this event, you will receive extra XP, gold and Fortune. As an added bonus, we've encouraged the Soul Mother to take a bit of a nap... so enjoy!As with other events where we've disabled the Soul Mother, this is an OOC change and should not be RPed or acknowledged in-game. If we notice anyone abusing this fact, we'll re-enable the Soul Mother for the duration of the bonus event.This event will remain until at least January 4th, 2015, though it may possibly extend beyond that point.Enjoy!
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Layonara Server / Upcoming update. Complete HAK reorganization. Merging both modules together.« on: December 20, 2014, 05:12:15 pm »
Hello everyone,I am preparing a big update to clean a bunch of cruft up, make things speedier and merging both modules into one. There are a lot of advantages to merging the two modules into one from both the development side and for your enjoyment. Previous limitations to such a large module have new work arounds plus the limited community size and new hardware it is hopefully not a concern for overlagging the server. At the same time of doing this I've decided to reorganize the hak packs. There was over 11,000 (10%) resources in the haks that were duplicated either because the higher up one was a fix/update or just plain duplication error. Reorganizing them eliminates this duplication.This is going to mean everyone is going to have to download an entire new set of hak packs. I apologize for this but it's a rare occasion and hopefully you can handle a 950MB or so download these days. I know this is a bit of a frustration but I've also made a couple of fixes to things at the same time. The minimaps now work in the forest areas (Dapplegreen, Great Spikes - Ice areas, Blackford Outskirts etc) and I also fixed the minimaps in The Deep. The forest tileset has been updated to the final release as well. I've also added a couple other things from the vault.If you want to get a head start on downloading the new hak packs you can do so and place the haks in your hak/ folder while waiting for the updated release.They can be downloaded here: http://e5bf79fd7133583b11df-dabb80c66fac67c5c4cbee545d8dd728.r44.cf1.rackcdn.com/haks/layo_allhaks.rarIt is possible that I may end up having to update 1 or 2 of these haks before the release of the module but it won't be as big a download. It may be discovered that the server just can't handle the modules being one and we realize the stress is too high with 1200 areas in one module and we'll have to revert to the old way and run two servers but the new hak structure will still be in place either way.I've no timetable on when we'll be moving over to this. First I need to get some guinea pigs to download the haks and help me test some things but it will probably be fairly soon.All the best over the holidays,orth
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Rumour Has It / Want to be a Stormcrest Guide?« on: December 15, 2014, 04:00:32 pm »
Someone's come back to the Shack, and found it awfully dusty! She's been too long wandering Elsewhere to know what's what in the world, and who is there to be guiding her? And if she's being perfectly honest, she was never a very good guide, just the guide we got... That's not even mentioning the time she fed everyone the wrong berries and left everyone too faint from the squats to carry on to the destination!!
Can you tell north from west?* You can be a better guide than Acacea! Do you remember where you left the horses? You, too! Can be a better guide than Acacea! Can you make basic campfire food without feeding everyone coals? Again! You have the advantage! Can you... remember local dangers and prepare your group against them? remember enough about a place to pass a little knowledge on as you pass by? Be Prepared For Things? Know Stuff About Places?
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Layonara Server / The NWN Servers are going to be moved« on: December 04, 2014, 06:55:48 pm »
Hello everyone,I hope you and your loved ones are all well.I've recently been able to secure a great deal for the NWN Server on a much faster machine on a Black Friday special so we're going to be moving it over there some time in the near future.I'd like to get the server up and tested this month so we can confirm that everything is okay to go and I can cancel our previous account before the end of the month. I haven't yet set an exact date and time but I'm thinking maybe late Friday or Saturday night this week.Players shouldn't notice any difference, you will still connect to xora.layonara.com (5121 or 5122). The IP address will change if you use that but I'll inform you of the new one when the time comes.This may also mean we can revert to automatic cross-server portals without crashes which might be nice but we'll have to test that.The new server will only cost $40 a month in donations so we can hopefully extend NWN Layonara at a fairly inexpensive price for as long as folks still enjoy coming here.For those curious and in the tech know:Existing server is a 4GB RAM, Dual 2.53GHz CPU, 250GB SATA HD running Windows 2k3 Server dedicated system.New server is a 10GB RAM, 10 2.3GHz CPU, 100GB Turbo SSD HD running Windows 2k8 Server cloud server.My initial tests have the servers starting up in half the time the old ones did. I'm not sure how much this will help lag and larger groups but we'll hopefully be able to test that.All the best,-orth
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Rumour Has It / On the wind...« on: November 14, 2014, 02:49:30 pm »
Hoof beats echo on the sound of the wind. Flashes of beautiful women turn into simple glimpses of trees evocatively shaped trees. Is that a forest fire? No it's just a swirl of Autumn leaves in the breeze... http://layonara.com/calendar/event/on-the-wind
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Layonara Server / Heads up! For Thursday...« on: October 21, 2014, 04:09:59 pm »
...be watching the forums and be prepared if you pop IG. Stuff is going to happen throughout the day, in multiple time zones.
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Layonara Server / Version 3.31.3 is Online!« on: August 10, 2014, 08:38:24 pm »Version 3.31.3 is online!This is primarily a minor bug-fix with a couple of area updates, so it's pretty small and limited. Even so, it bears documentation. As mentioned earlier, there is an updated TLK file required for this update. Download layonara_v28.tlk (contained in layonara_v28.rar) here: http://layonara.com/nwn/nwn-downloads Fixes:
Area updates:
Other updates:
Regarding the adjustments for Champion, all that has happened in this update are name and text changes, removing nearly every reference to Champion or Unholy Champion of a given deity and referencing solely “Divine Champion” or “Unholy Champion”. The custom Champion classes that we created have been renamed in such a way to a) encourage player action and b) discourage taking those classes on level-up between now and the next update. Any players with characters that have Champion levels for some deity other than Toran or Corath must contact a GM to be de-leveled/re-leveled in order to remove all “Champion of X” (or “Unholy Champion of X”) levels so that they can be replaced with “Divine Champion” (or “Unholy Champion”) levels. Please do this as soon as possible. If anyone still has levels in the non-standard classes by the time version 3.31.4 is released, these characters may be considered illegal by the game server. Enjoy! The following users thanked this post: Charm2009
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Layonara Server / Update coming soon -- Please read« on: August 04, 2014, 10:53:56 pm »
All,There is a small module update coming soon, hopefully by or during this coming weekend. Of particular importance for this update is the need to download a new TLK file. You may download this file and extract it into your NWN TLK folder at any time. It will not affect your ability to play on the current version.For convenience, the link to download this file is: http://layonara.com/sites/layonara.com/files/nwn/haks/layonara_v28_0.rar
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General Discussion / Under - Fun« on: August 01, 2014, 10:28:05 pm »
I just wanted to send out a thanks to all the intrepid higher levels that ferried Mimir through some nasty Under Places last night. Lots of fun (except for the period of looking at my corpse ha!) Thanks to Mangus for raising me and for everybody coming back - Gromak, Rasa, Grog, and Kalberen (sp.)The funniest moment for me (and I wish I could have gotten a screenshot) was everyone standing around looking at Mimir's prone form and Gromak asking Mangus - the party medic - "Are you sure that was the right spell??" Next time I promise to stay away from the mage...
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Just for Fun / Cool video my nephew did of our vacation at my parents house in Anna Maria Isle this July 4th« on: July 15, 2014, 09:15:28 pm »
Hi all,I thought this go-pro video my nephew Ryan put together was pretty awesome. It's taken in Anna Maria, FL where my parents live and we had a little vacation there this 4th of July. We brought our boat over. In the video are my nephews Ryan 19 (blonde short hair), Austin 17 (tallest with color striped shorts), John 14 (green shirt), and Daniel 13 (dark hair with wavy bangs). Obviously Bill and I are there but good luck telling us apart because we're twins. Bill is wearing mostly the yellow patterned shorts and sometimes white shirt and I wore black shorts and some short grey ones and sometimes black racing shirt. I hope you enjoy it; its about 25 mins long.Davidhoff Here's the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9LgVpXepzY
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Introduce Yourself / another hello again« on: June 26, 2014, 07:51:54 pm »
Once again I got lured back here. And Layo is still here! I joined almost 10 years ago and you guys have squeezed every drop of fun and RP out of the clunky ancient Aurora engine. Dorg and Onest8 and Orth and everyone else involved in building and maintaining should all be running the government with that kind of efficency hahaI was skmiming the site and saw some familiar names and missed not seeing others. I knew soooo many people like Seteece, Pathfinder, Celgar, Marainna, Brutus (yes I saw you on here you old dog), Ollom, Cole Einfall, Dorganath (shared a house haha) Bris, Plen, Rakish, Farros (oh, the kilts!) and too many others to name and try to spell. Heck I even remember an attempted server attack by a disgrunted player! I had a great time playing Fian and Drawna especially and more recently Mimir.So once again I'm going to try and get into the PW I liked the most online.Now, the uncomfortable quesion - how the heck do I log in?? All my old server addresses don't work (but I know my NWN id !) I think I need another helpful PM from Minera or somebody *whimper*
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Fixed Bugs / Broken Amulet« on: December 09, 2014, 07:25:09 pm »
Posting this for Charm2009.Description: Charm successfully crafted an exceptional amulet of eagle's splendour III and stated it would not cast the daily spell for her. I verified it would not work as it should.
Location: Testing took place in Fort Vehl. Verified: Reproducible: Yes, reproduced. I took the broken amulet from Charm and provided her a new one from the toolset. She tested the new one and it would not give her the option to cast the spell. I tried to equip the amulet myself and had the same result. The following users thanked this post: Charm2009
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