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|  | Posted By: Sanya Thomas | 2003-10-31 18:54:36 |  |
| |  |  For some reason a bit of doggerel about smelling feet keeps running through my mind.
Q: There are a few new slash commands – can you explain them a little better?
A: /use2 – this slash command is the same as the "use secondary ability" on the keyboard settings. It's meant mainly for artifacts that might have more than one ability.
/interact – this is how you might read or otherwise interact with a scroll or an artifact. If you've got something potentially nifty, try and /interact with it. See what happens.
There are some other, quest specific commands as well. One of the ladies on the Pendragon board said it best – "Rule of thumb: if a quest explanation says SEARCH, PLANT, USE, EXCAVATE, etc., it usually implies that is the command you need to use."
Q: Insert technical question here:
A: Go to the Knowledge Base search field in the upper right hand corner, and type in Trials of Atlantis. Thousands of typing chimps have worked their little paws to the bone updating the knowledge base with solutions to everything our tech support people have come across. And believe me, after this week, we've come across just about everything.
Q: If I do parts of another trial before I finish the first trial, can I still get credit?
A: From the criminal mastermind herself, our Director of Mythological Ecology: "If players do the sub-parts to other trials, they will get credit for them. However, it will not show up on their master sheet until they are officially on that trial. For example, if a person is on master level 1(and hasn't killed the final boss) and they finish three sub-parts of master level 2, they will get credit for those three subparts (but never for the final 10th encounter). It will not show up on their sheet until master level 1 is out of the way."
Q: I found an artifact! What does it do? Or, rather, what might it do someday once it's been well-used?
A: For more information, you can ask one of the named Sphinxes in the region the artifact belongs to. Don't be surprised if you get a riddle back – Sphinxes are notorious for not giving straight answers.
Q: My quest journal doesn't show all my quests – either that or some of my quests have disappeared!
A: The quest journal does have some limits – fortunately, the slash command does not. Just type /quest, and you'll get a nice list of everything you still have going.
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Short bag tonight, guys – I'm about to slap up a monstrous document with more details on making your own User Interface skins. I'd like to warn you – it's not for the faint of heart or those without a fair amount of technical skills. It's definitely not stuff friendly to a tech newb – and as will all our XML stuff, we don't provide personal assistance if you run into trouble. Seriously, if you
don't understand the document, don't even try to make your own skin.
Other announcements:
News from the CS pit – we are resolving a large number of problems via email. The way our customer service tools work, though, is one of the CSRs presses a button cleverly marked "send email to customer." The system pulls up the email address you gave us when you registered. So please, for the love of all that is good and lightly fermented, please make sure your registration information is up to date with your real email address.
Hugh Hancock, writing on behalf of Machinima.com, reminded me to let you all know that one of our own DAOC movie makers took home a prize at the film festival – so our heartiest congratulations to Joe Falcione, the director of "The Outcome," for his award for Best Editing! Nice work!
Tonight, we all watch for the return of the Great Pumpkin, and if you don't get that reference, please don't email me to make me feel old. Speaking of pumpkins, I got a bunch of terrific emails with photos of DAOC-themed carvings – my favorite was from Zeldara and Festa of Percival. I don't want to crash their webserver with traffic, so take my word for it, it was way cool. Thanks for sending those in, everybody.
Shout out to Goonster of Palomides, who apparently was a real hero and saved the life of a friend in a serious car wreck. Get well soon, man, you have a lot of friends who miss you.
Have a fab Halloween weekend. There are a billion small creatures darting in and out of traffic, so please drive cautiously – and should you indulge in a little witches' brew of your own, get someone else to drive you home. Be safe, y'all.
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