Internet modem is broken. Estimated repair:
Tomorrow ... about 20 hours from now.

Can pick up new modem around 16:00 european time.
After that its fixing and maybe some configuration time.

To be continued.

Today I heard a a very disturbing story about "uncool" pvp-play ... I heard this from a now very frustrated but also once very enthusiastic (RL friend) GvM player.

He now is about to quit playing GvM entirely because of "pvp-unfairness" ...

What was going on: a player named thelizardking was constantly harassing my friend and continuously did not resurrect him because that was not really needed (Devine Protection was on) ... but it should have been fair play to do just that ... kinda showing respect perhaps or showing some care about someone who doesnt like to pvp and who has walked and fought to finally get to the place where he wanted to be with his character.
Probably thelizardking is an old player from the old-days when PvP was "hot" ... but nowadays this isn't the case anymore.

As this server is still lacking enough players ... I think that pvp should be more left alone or at least controlled (by events or by making arrangements with each other or something like that) ..... But the least thing PvP-players need to do is to resurrect the dead victims! .. be "chivalrous"! (king Arthur style)!

I really am worried about "Having Fun" lots of players have playing this server will cease if nothing is done about this so called PvP aspect without resurrecting.
I for instance will keep away playing as long nothing is done about it ... and I really am afraid my RL friend really quits playing GvM now .... I know PvP should be allowed somehow but I never ever liked it in the first place and surely not the way pvp is handled as described  above.

I really hope some regulations will be made about the way pvp should be handled these days ...
otherwise people will leave this server because of "poor" or "no fun" play.

 

Great to read good happy end ... also welcome back DarkKnight1980 !! 

Server up again ...
hmmm wonder if it has something to do with new area 

Reboot time is becoming a bit fuzzy lately ... can't exactly pin-point reboot times any more ... mostly because RL is "getting in the way" but also because lots of times in weekends some people actually play GvM again!  
I don't like to bother them therefore postponing the reboot.

By rule of thumb:
Reboot will occur in weekends (mostly Sundays in the morning GMT+2) ... sometimes even on Monday's (midday or evening GMT+2)

@Val

Sorry you didn't get any response on this one for such a long time  ... maybe because it was rather a bit off-topic request placed in "reboot time" topic (... moved youre request as a separate and new topic to here as you can see).
But also because this forum is a bit less occupied lately (less and less people seems to post here, maybe because lots of issues about this module is being covered already?

But for you ... a tip:
for the lower 15 levels ...
kill and loot as much as you can in the easier parts ... you'll find soon enough what you can take and what's not so easy.
sell poor loot in the chests from Mad wizards pocket (starting area) ... and slowly build up youre gold stash.

Note about gold: My experience is that at higher levels ... gold isn't that important any more.

As for faster re-spawn ... dunno if its worth the effort to modify this GvM module for this.
Also its been years and years working like this ... never heard any trouble with loot re-spawns before.
But that's just my opinion
I'm quite incapable in doing so ... can't script this module ... just hosting it.

just wondering ... is rusty ring which Tiny can drop ... not needed??

  thnx again -fire- !

 

 
Up again
 

I probably might have some ...
Meet me on-line some day
I am trying to be on-line on Thursdays (around 21:30 ... European time)

wRspct
GreyDeth

So very very sorry it took so long!  
Was quite occupied lately in RL ... and forgot to check forum the last days.

Weird thing ... never saw this kind of "crash" before ...
But server is up again!

Will check more often ...   

Love It !! 
(But you already knew that :-)

Powecable was taken out by mistake ... sorry

But up again 

Sorry in advance, for not waiting long enough ... but took the liberty to update ambient and Music sound in "Pocket"and "Eru's".

It really gives me a wonderful feeling to hear these sounds (nostalgia and boosting happiness amoung others  )

Hope others love them too ... or at least can appreciate them 

Great story background! 

Dunno really what to think of this build ... cause I never really dug deep enough into sorcerer builds.
Looks nice though, although I doubt if this build can make its worth in our GvM-module without lots of help from others.

Thnx for sharing!

 Phew thnx m8 ... was worried I never would hear the "original starting sounds" of wizards pocket

Awesome!! Great work -fire- !
 

But ... but ... what happened to the great "middle age - like" tune   ... now its only ambient sound ... which is honestly working on my nerves if I spend more than 5 minutes in wizards pocket or in Eru's.
 

Please get the old tune back ... its rather soothing and pleasant + its nice nostalgia ...  
the tune made me always feel very happy and feel like "finally home"

Reboot will not occur this week by me ... cause I'm away for a week (little holiday)
Next reboot by me ... probably Saturday May 16th 

 

Promise delivered in different way indeed ... dance didn't got to my doorstep ... instead I traveled miles and miles to witness it ... but not less enjoyable! ... I liked it very much 
Thnx again Yoghy for all the care to make it happen!

Hope to see the movie soon 

Soulster and Endlessorrow ... wow ... these are names I've seen a loooong time ago ... great to see you here again!  

@Soulster:
Loved to read the recognizable "Are you winning yet?"  
And if you can help in "advertising" our NWN-server into the world ... plze do and/or advice us how to do this.

And Endlessorrow maybe you were looking for this info?
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW: http://www.gondorvsmordor.com/gvm2/forum/index.php?topic=3197.0

Hope to see you again online soon 2 !
 

Think only copying files doesnt cover it all ... still need to copy registry keys too
for instance:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BioWare
Registry key is very needed I believe

Best thing will be a total re-install indeed

Good luck!
And just ask if I can help you with missing files.

Am very very happy with you firecracker!!! ... helping by improving this mod to stay in touch with the recent needs of our players.
Thnx!!!  

You asked my opinion about our server as it is now ...
Well I honestly don't exactly know how to improve popularity ...
But I can tell what I think of it now ...

After years of idolizing this server as one of the best mods I've ever seen (Still think so) ... I still feel I'm totally at a loss whilst playing it.
So after all this time i feel like a total n00b.  

For instance:
It was until after most of the old players went away ... and only a few months before Turrils server went down for a long long period of time ... I discovered THE map made by Chaozrulez (Thnx for that Chaoz!!) ... before that time I only followed other experienced player-groups to places I just couldn't find on my own afterwards. And most of the time I just hadn't a clue why we went there in the first place.

Now I have the map I finally know little a bit more what to expect in some places and how to get there.
BUT ...
lacking a lot of travel tokens I still never have visited lots and lots of places ... just because the distance and almost always the resistance in some areas is just too great ...
It also still leaves me quite clueless about a lot of other things ...
for instance ... where can I find the "Bosses", how high in lvl should you be to defeat them and what kind of quests are there around and where can I start them? What kind of nice gear is there to win/find? And how do I know what/who/where is worth fighting and dying for over and over again? ...  and how can I learn or read this?
Roaming the forum just ain't covers it at all.

Also ... having new means of earning travel tokens ... is just great ... only I still have not a clue how to obtain them ... yeah by doing some quests ... but which quests then? Where to find them?  And which level do you have to be for these quests? ... BTW ... How many quests are there anyway?

Just some examples about cluelessness and frustrations ... new players will probably have these too

I think ... That we need to remove these frustrations and questions as first priority, to keep new players playing at all.

Other thing:
We still have a very happy few who still play quite regularly.
Maybe they can start a topic about when they are probably online and willing to group and for what quest or goal?
This can attract some extra players who still read these forums but almost never play.

Just a couple of my thoughts ...
Please do add more thoughts people!!
Otherwise I truly believe this server will officially be declared dead in months to come.

Just for the record ... am digging into this mod slowly but deeper and deeper every time I dig ... and begin to collect a lot if info I never knew before ... (for instance ... learning about all kind of programmed conversations and journal comments is learning me somewhat more about existing quests ... maybe I should post something about that somewhere?)
1 example ... I never knew there was a cold essence "partquest" ... needed to give to Beorn so he can give you a special ward which in turn you can use for another "follow-up-quest"

Funny ... or maybe not??  
The server was down for almost 2 days ... and nobody noticed or cared ... or at least I didn't read any server down notice here ...
But I found this one out myself and corrected it.
server is up again.

Oh and what its worth ... still have the newer hardware waiting for me having a lot of spare time to make this one our new server.
Sad thing though ... I almost never have a lot of spare time anymore lately ...
Still ... new (old but better hardware than the one running now) server will get there eventually.