So. After recent testing and deciding that this was actually a thing. We've sort of figured out a major cause of frame lag/lag in general.

Remember how we said that Weather/Night time caused a lot of lag and no one really believed us? The difference is visible in game, but here.



Outside of Dormeho (this applies to every area that I have been to with the night-time overlay). The lag is real. CPU usage is through the roof for this game. Just SL2 is eating up 40% ((50%+ if I'm in an area with weather effects going on as well)). Before you ask, no. My PC is actually pretty decent. I can play a good chunk of 3d games ranging from League to something like Dragon Age 2. So, that isn't the issue. Even if it were. Every player that I have talked to about this experiences the same sort of frame lag/lag in general from this.

So. Let's go into a house, namely my own character's player house.



The CPU usage dies down almost instantly. Nearly a fourth of what it is outside. This is reallyyyyyyyy not okay.

So.. what now? Well. After some recent chats with players on OOC. The overlay for 'night' actually shouldn't be blue. Which. uh. Is what I've always seen. It's meant to be blackish grey. Sooo after fenagling with BYOND settings and relogging. Turns out the preference to have "hardware acceleration" on makes CPU usage a lot less taxing on the computer. It can be found by going to BYOND SETTINGS > Preferences > GAMES and toggling it on. If, for some reason, it's already on and still lagging. Try it the other way to see if that alleviates the problem.

Honestly, this is about the best I can offer on that lag front because holy hell did it make my SL2 playing a helluva lot better.

Can we get an alternative combat mode, similar to stylish in that regard.

"Realistic" mode would change up some things. Namely view points. Enemies wouldn't be able to see any tile selection choices. You use a gun? Only your team (or just yourself) sees the squares that you can target. Health? Like SL1. FP is the same, barring Zeran stuff. It also (might) get rid of buffs... or at least what level they are or possibly their duration. Somethings would still be visible, of course, BoI, obvious buffs.

This would probably add a Line of Sight rule too for PVP that occurs in houses or in dungeons so you can't snipe someone through a wall with a bow. The gist of this, however, is to make certain things 'better'.

Some skills people flat out just don't use. Why? Because they're very bad in almost every sense. No one uses traps from Rogue (or archer really) because of this and the fact that every person in the game has a way to pretty much completely ignore it. Whether it be Shukuchi now instantly teleporting you for ??? reason. VA's being able to dual wield for teleport movement... or Black Knights being able to crescent rook past. Traps are rather worthless because people can see where they're placed. Tag along the fact that their damage is so miniscule. So worthless, that it can barely hurt a dodger, let alone a tank.

So this is a way to help make traps 'better'. Could even have them not appear with stealthy traps activated. Just lets the person know a skill was used.

A crafty rogue must always be prepared to take advantage of a situation, you've learned to carry around a larger variety of traps that can be deployed quickly.

Rank 1: Allows you to carry and deploy Bear Traps with varying degrees of abilities during combat which benefit from other trap support skills.

Rank 2: Allows you to carry and deploy Combat Pit Traps* with varying degrees of abilities during combat. Increase Trap skill Deploy range.

Ranks 3 to X: Increases to Damage and Deploy Range of traps deployed using this skill. (I do not know a good balance for those, so i'm not attempting)

* As is obvious, it doesn't make sense for a normal 'pit trap' to be deployed mid-battle, so as part of this suggestion, i add that Combat Pit Traps be craft-able with the recipe of an existing pit trap, and a craft material that could represent Earth Magic to create a pit, maybe a Geode which currently has the description of Earthen Power.

Most of us have thought it.

"[url=http://neus-projects.net/viewtopic.php?p=11823#p11823' Wrote:Neus » Sun Jan 24, 2016 12:14 pm[/url]"]Have you considered becoming a baker instead of an adventurer?

I was wondering if we could adjust the pet icon layer relative to available icon layers. Ideally I wanted to have [strike]Ember[/strike]Fire Chariot circle above my head and not behind it.

I was unable to find anyone with this shard or who was willing to use it to see if it is bugged or not.

I used it and in the very last slot under head, I now have a duplicated Googles.



I can wear both and one is listed as Goggles one is head.

Thought it might be cache, but clearing does nothing and I cannot use another Antennae Hat shard, nor do I see it in the mirror.

So one of the things that bothered me about playing mages is... it's difficult (or impossible) to make a mage that specializes entirely in one element without being hard-countered to no end (seriously, once someone knows you're a specialized mage, unless your element is Ice and you're also a Verglas, you're done). To make this a bit more doable, I propose the following skill be added to Mage:

Domain Mastery
Ranks: 5
Type: Passive (Main Class only)
The character has learned that focus is power, and has applied this to a single domain to take it to new levels. While equipped, any Mage or Mage promotion spell cast that shares the domain of the first spell in your skill pool will ignore (X * Y)% elemental resistance, where X is skill rank and Y is the number of offensive Mage or Mage promotion spells equipped that share that domain.

Rank 1: Ignores 1% elemental resistance per spell.
Rank 2: Ignores 2% elemental resistance per spell.
Rank 3: Ignores 3% elemental resistance per spell.
Rank 4: Ignores 4% elemental resistance per spell.
Rank 5: Ignores 5% elemental resistance per spell. Additionally, if all equipped spells share the same domain, they ignore the target's elemental absorption and immunity.

So I actually have no idea how many other players have this issue, where they actually play the game with someone in their house, and they can't trade ANYTHING to each other, because it supposedly infringes on the 'twinking rule', even if you're ICly offering them something along the lines of food, or a low-rated weapon that will help them along, or handing them crafting materials, so that they could ICly make you something as like a work order or something like that..

I myself have actually been teaming up with my girlfriend on SL2 while in the same house, and the only thing we can't seem to do is trade at all, whether it be a small amount of murai (less than 50* the receiving character's level), to a few pieces of food. Is there any way this rule could possibly be changed a little, to at least allow people with the same IP address to at least be able to pass usable food items to one another?

I have no idea if I worded this wrong or not. If I did, I'm so sorry ;w;'

Ever since the update whenever Iahsus is a different colour (checked with laplace that this was the case), instead of the usual message of 'Iahsus is now glowing purple', it'll just display 0.

This seems to occur for all colours except for the default.