Oh good so the maps aren't graphical?  I thought they were graphical and I wouldn't be able to use them so I didn't waste any riln on them. Well I better go buy one so I don't get lost again. Thanks again guys.

One thing I would like to know is rather or not you can get boats and ships in this mud. After all, I think I would like to sail the high seas. I can think about all the battles and the like if this was and or is a part of the game world. Then again, it would be nice to be able to build a ship too...

I don't get much lag despite being in the UK, though I've noticed others mentioning it. Strange that. Of course if you mean the round time then there's nothing to be done about that, it represents the time it takes your character to perform the actions.

Lag or latency is just a reflection of internet traffic, it isn't something that is turned on or turned off.

Yeah round time, for travelling and such. You even get it when examining items, which seems to be excessive.

You mean Shadgarde I assume? There are a lot of trainers in Mistral still. The thing to do is to buy a lost lands map from the general store for 20 riln then use it to help you find your way, staying on the roads at all times. From Mistral the only road leading out should either be heading east or northeast I forget which, then follow the road round going southeast at the fork and continuing as close to south as the roads let you. You will have to head east for some of the time but when you get a choice of direction choose southeast or south if it's available.

When you get there you'll find a canyon you have to enter using the go command like with the mistral ruins, just follow it round and enter the gatehouse in the same way and you're there. Just a note of warning though, don't buy metal items in Shadgarde unless you're happy with bronze or copper. The prices of iron and steel down there are incredibly high.

Just make sure you pay attention to what people are saying on esp because people have been making the gaea angry because they're overhunting/foraging/logging. So if they say to move on, please do it and move on. Use the area command to know if they're talking to you or not.  If you keep doing it, the players that are udemi get hurt, and if you continue to do it, the forest can fight you. Thankfully I've never had it happen to me, but I've heard it is not fun at all.

Victorious, the roundtime and travel times are different. When you're in travel time you can still do normal actions, For example, peer in  directions, or eat, draw a weapon, attack something. The other thing is, if you are cutting down trees or mining or doing any activities like that wearing armor will significantly raise the energy drain and rt for performing that activity. To make sure you're not wearing any armor, type armor, and it'll show you the various slots for armor and tell you if they are covered by anything. For the most part I don't even notice the rt or travel time, it's just something you grow use to I suppose. It makes it really easy to react to things because you know you're not going to die instantly if something jumps out at you or suddenly happens because for the most part you'll have several seconds to react to it. Unless you're unlucky anyway. I'm going to be posting an idea on the bbs that may help new players just a little bit, as logging and mining are meant to be professions, not just something you can pick up and start instantly making riln from, so I'm going to see if we can have some various odd jobs people can do around the cities, like go out and forage blah blah blah for the herblist, , or go sweep this and this street or something. It'd probably have a limited amount of riln it will provide, but hopefully it's enough to teach the new players a little about the game, and give them a bit of riln to play with..
NPC trainers, to learn a lesson, you'll first need to ffind an NPC trainer, or a pc trainer which I'll explain  how that works here in a moment. An NPC trainer can be found by looking at the npc in question, so when you start out in shadgard I believe you start out in the hearth and home, in In that room are two NPC's, to figure out if they teach something you can look at them, and at the bottom of their description it'll say something like, he's a trainer, you can ask him about training. To do this just type ask npc-name about training, and they'll give you a list of things they teach. To learn something from them type ask npc-name about skill, ,it'll describe the skill and tell you how much it'll cost to get that lesson. Most starting skills will cost you about 50 riln. The way lessons work is that when you have taken a lesson in something you instantly get a 1 point bonus to that skill, more if you have a new player bonus, or a role playing award. You also get a period of time equal to 24 hours (play time, not rlrl time) in which your skill gains for that skill are doubled, it only doubles a maximum of 2.5 skill points, if you reach the 2.5 before the 24 hours is up it ends the double skill gains, and you are freed to take another lesson in it. You can only study up to 3 things at once, to see which skills you are currently studying, type skill study.  If you do not finish your training in that lesson within the 24 hours, or if you abandon the skill prematurely you will still need to get the 2.5 skill points before getting another lesson in that skill. . You can abandon a skill by typing abandon skill name.
PC trainers, a pc trainer is a player who is skiled enough in something in which they can give you a lesson, so say bob knows how to log, and youy want to learn how to log, you can ask over esp, esp hello, I'm trying to learn logging, would someone be willing to give me a lesson in it? I am currently in shadgard. This will send a message to everybody who is tuned in to ESP, and hopefully someone will respond, ,and you can set up a place to meet. To teach someone something you type teach bobby about logging,, to learn something when someone offers to teach you you would type, teach accept. Usually PC's don't charge for their training, though there's nothing stopping them from doing so.
If you guys have any other questions don't hesitate to ask over the question channel, they're usually answered pretty quickly, and yeah. I'm gglad to see so many people enjoying the game that I love. Anyway hope that helps, and happy cloking.

Hmmm. I'm wondering if the sound pack in question is slowing things down a bit. The first pack I got was the 2.5 pack for vipmud and found that I hated that it did alot of text replacement. I replaced with the one that was linked to last in this topic and found it better in that reguard. True, it doesn't have the speed walks, but... The last time I was on, I was talking to someone who kept on going about over hunting in the forest. I wasplaying the part of someone who did not care all that much as long as death doesn't come. Basicly, I am playing a char that likes to be a part of the wild.

Hi.
I'm doing a lot of logging right now so does that mean I'm skilled in it? It hasn't said anything about skills increasing so I'm not sure about it.
Btw, how do I get from haiban to shadgard or mistral lkae? When I'm in the wilderness outside of haiban and I check my map it says there is no root there. I looked up the way to get to shadgard but it just says shadgard is northeast of me which doesn't really help me a lot. Please help.

Yeah, I just found out that way. I think I'm going to use that more. I used to head out the ruins, and then go down to valeria, and turn northwest and go through the pass, but that way is so much easier. I don't know why I didn't think of it before.

Did anything happen yesterday? I only got on a little bit, but then had to leave.

Probably so. I saw some of it, but not a lot of it as I had to go, and forgot to log back in later.