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In Silver and Gold? I don't think that's possible right now. It's plausible in the Open Source editions, but would require you to fidget around with a good few things to get it working.

It's all plausible, but the thing is that you'd need to have a very good understanding of the core of the engine to write up such overhauls. It's simply not designed to run in a modern fashion but rather reslies on legacy mechanics that have simply always been there. The spell system needs a good rewrite to begin with since it's a huge clusterduck so that's not an easy fix either. It's all been thought of and some have done it or tested it, but this engine is really beyond its life expectancy and both the language used and way it was written are simply causing trouble these days. :( Not to mention it's a bit of a waste to spend hours remodelling something when it's far more efficient to write up a brand new engine that works the way you need it to function from the ground up instead of hacking things into it.

I believe this doesn't exist in 3.0 by default, and you'd need to make such a system yourself. It's not very complex to do so though. :)

Mostly yes, but the way Eclipse uses some things to hack functionality into a VB6 program either doesn't work in .NET or will simply do more harm than good. Some portions of the engine would require a decent rewrite to make full use of the benefit of the .NET Framework and the languages associated with it.

For the sake of readability it may be slightly better to stickwith what the rest of the engine does though. :P But yes both of those should work.

Basically a server runs and its internal tickcount which Eclipse relies on keeps rising, and rising. But eventually the value will be over what Eclipse is designed to run on (Far over a 32 bit value) and will thus Eclipse interprets it at some rather awkward values, breaking every timer and loop in the engine. There's no public fix for it available as far as I am aware and some people have extended the time you can keep a server running, but generally speaking you'd need to reboot once every week or so I believe to keep things going.

That makes sense. So once the loop simply takes too long to actually send out the data before it caps out it ignored half the data to send. Learn something new every day. :)

Oh there was an actual fix of it by now? Cool. :o Does that mean you know what causes it as well?

Ah that's sort of possible. Thing with Eclipse is is that it uses TCP connections so every X amount of packets keep being checked if they arrived or not. And if not resent. :) So It's very possible that his connection to you is just so poor that it will constantly require data to be retransmitted.

In that case I'm not entirely sure honestly. Like I know I've seen it happen a few times but could never quite pinpoint the problem. Have you tried hosting the server elsewhere to see if it's just your current computer having issues?

Ping doesn't make any difference if packets are never completed. The response delay can be 0 and packets can still be dropped. But alright.

Honestly the simplicity suits the graphics style. It seems to resemble older games a good bit. :)

Make sure you don't run a client and server on the same computer. I've had this happen on slower machines before for some reason. Never did quite understand or catch why though but it seemed related to WinSock not receiving all the data properly (Possibly skipping over a buffer entry?)

Oooh that looks really fancy! Reminds me of a more polished Breeze tileset. :)

I doubt it's just an update since it's written from scratch but I can't answer that for sure of course. It would be very logical to assume you'd need to pay an upgrade price at the very least though.

He's off to boot camp if I recall.

the DD7 runtime installer includes everything EO based engines use. (EO2.0, Event 2.3, Nightly 3.0 and derivatives). Just make sure you replace dx7vb with dx8vb if you're running a D3D8 engine!

Of course it errors, the map format for EO3.0 is different from the CS:DE format. 

I'd say drinking a potion in combat should be possible, but you should take X amount of additional damage during the 'drinking period', you can't guard properly when you're thumbling with your pack!

Aherm, can we drop the colorful language and return to the adult world please?

Partly, LOTRO has some ressurection scrolls (on a 30 minute cooldown) and stuff to increase crafting chances, reputation gains etc. But you can't buy higher level characters and the like on it. The only thing that really affects the game in my opinion, are the stat books they sell. (Permanently increases your xxxxx stat by x, one time use only and there's several levels of them) as well as these stats and effects you'd normally need to grind up for your Weapon(s). Other than that, I rarely see anything in the game that really promotes the store an awful lot. It's fair in a sense, although I do hear a lot of people complain about DDO's system.

I suggest you look into the model Turbine holds for LOTRO, you gain shop currency by doing deeds, specific events and just random achievements you get in those games. It's not a lot, but there is the ability to play for free entirely, should you dedicate a bit of grinding to it. They also offer a decent base game, with free stuff so you can -always- continue, even if it's a grind. But to make it easier, they sell cheap quest packs for new zones, boosts that make your characters stronger and whatnot. There's also cosmetics and helpful items that say, remove specific points so you can restat a weapon(Legendary Items are more complex, but just to make a simple point ) or increase the chance of a critical craft(increases the item quality). Keep in mind that LOTRO also has a subscription option which makes most quest packs freely available.. So that might not be a good idea in full F2P games.. But you get the idea 

ISTools is a decent tool for installers, it generates the scripts based on your input. Anyhow, I believe the original DD7 one shows what files are required by the engine, of course this doesn't include the D3D8 libraries, but I'm sure you can figure out the difference between dx7vb and dx8vb 

I tend to use Inno Setup, it allows me to select what files it has to register during installation.

Holy crap, you guys have terribly messy desktops! Here's my current, just click to get the full sized version: [](http://www.freemmorpgmaker.com/files/imagehost/pics/6cd46dbcf6e735bd8795b2223a9846d6.png)