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ok, I'm not Ascaron and I can't give you a direct answer but maybe this helps also for better understanding: as all you know the textures, items etc. are stored in socalled .pak files (compressed with zlib [maybe modified version] ) now a bit abstract thinking: 3 peeps are standing in the same view area. the server send the clients the informations what has to be load from the pak files - ground texture a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-I - landscape texture - a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-I -- char textures -a-b-c - item textures -- a lot -- and some more infos behind the scene now player a casts something. ok server send out to the other clients to "play" the 3d effect (animation) - not much load (3d happens on your gfx), couldn't produce "lag" - even all 3 players are still standing still, and all casting a spell didn't make lag. but .. player a moves a bit to the right - the client load the new ground and landscape textures - right not seeable for the player b and c but loaded - now player b moves to the right, same happen now to player b -- everything needs to be loaded AND (!!) syncronized with the player a and c. Here we start with one prob -- ascaron coded a not perfect streaming, where who what does. players changing items - textures load - moving around - textures load -- and in mp all this has to be syncroniced by the server. AND the textures have to be decompressed in realtime (see above explaination -- .pak files are compressed). now and this was the point schot replyed me -- client a is a bit slower in loading and decompressing .. client c is a bit faster in loading and decompressing... small differences are not that much notable -- but one between the others breaks out and is more slower or more faster. sync starts gettin nearly impossible. resulting in raising ping times till the throwout. The difference: because sacred2 is a 3d game loading of textures, precalculation of the game world is a absoluty different thing to sacred1 -- sure there can be also sync probs but not resulting in such problems we often enough see in s1. Conclusion: to reduce the possibilty of async - all players should have the same pc, the same software running and the same connection speed... impossible. better idea is to have the fastest possible HDD and lots of RAM. The 32bit color depth on or of makes on modern gfx cards not that much differnce. on older ones it can. same for the anti-aliasing. --- You all should keep in mind that sacred is a 2D game(!) with some 3D effects. Never tested but for my understanding a Matrox Parhelia Card in a fast computer mybe has at least better performance then ati, nv, and all the rest because matrox card are more specialized for 2D then for 3D. Ment not to buy such a card! They are expensive like hell and you can't use them to play actuall 3D games -- it's just a thought that these cards might have a bonus. Yours Pyx PS: hope that I don't wrote to much rubbish

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nope... really .. the game is free ... even you wanna play it up to level 100 ... the thing is that they have special mounts and special items you can pay for... ok the y are usefull but not necessary to play the game.. that's how it works! also lots of players ingame offers theese special items for rupees (like gold in sacred).

Hey ... wouldn't it be great to have an international task force of sacred players there ? Our Guild named AncariasRappeIz --- we are playin on YETI Greets Pyx

Never or maybe heard of it ? Rappelz - a classic Asia MMORPG for free -- yes it's for free -- 3D Game Typical Asia Grinder, Dungeon Parties, farming etc. pp.. but... it's fun yes! -- the RAD-Community has allready 33 Rappelz Player and if you're interested in, then just take a look. http://www.gpotato.com -> rappelz You can find a lot of pics over at the rad photogallery, the game is in english ( ^^ ) and it's playable with all your peeps on the same server. I know this is very short introduction for a game, no description about the pros and cons. OK some : - party play with 8 peeps (even hundreds can be active on the same server) - 3 general races, each with 3 classes - fighter, mage, breeder - you can have a pet in the game which fights with you or for you - intersting skill system - questing system - pvp possible in special arenas to test your skills - servers sometimes very laggy - usabillity not perfect - grafix are nice but not the best - korean to english translation sometimes are .... worse than my english ^^ I think it's worth to give it a try, a new client is atm under development with lots of enhancements (actual is Client Epic III). If you have questions, then ask. Cheers! Pyx

@gogo ... mostly yes .. not everthing was fine there but.. at least it was a great time

Elementary School (?) .. Helmholtz Gymnasium http://www.lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de/~za3809...mholtz%20Bilder ..

now I'm lookin' like a tomato

or the germans have to learn english

Heyas Funkified! Greetings from Germany keep contact here to get tons of infos, news and sneaks of sacred2.Also having fun here... this community is one of the best I ever saw the last three years.. the founders have my respect! Cheers to Australia! Pyx

^^ yes, you will have the unbelievable experience to meet one or more moderators of the GSF :rolleyes:

Ok... FORGETT IT! AS FAST AS POSSIBLE... Loki is bullFECAL MATTER!... bugs, more than sacred in it's release version.. the skillsystem is horrible, gfx outdatet .. so much errors in gameplay ... totaly unbalanced... Some of HoPE and RAD tested Loki -- all (100%) sold it after 1 week at ebay because the game is /()§$/)§?("§&("/§& DO NOT PLAY LOKI!

I think and believe for the future of sacred it would be a good thing to bring the communitys a bit closer together By the way one thing... I know that a lot of security risk messages are out there warning of the IRC .. but it's not that worse. one simple rule to follow : never download something from someone you don't know! Simple eh?

I will try maybe with the next beta -- where I work we also have lot's of problems with the mac os version - seems really not to be that what Steve Jobs whant... but I think even as a Windows User you should give it 10 min on your harddrive just that you can say "it comes, it checked it out, I throw it away" ^^

IRC .... Holy Hannah!?! ... some know, some not, some never heard of it, but its outa there... the irc, the mystical chat system. yes a chat.... you say ... oh go away, I have my msn, aim, icq or whatever... why should I use the irc ... just clear why... the irc has a chatroom namend sacred-game, sacred2 and cisacred-fanpage ! what you can expect : friendly sacred players, lot of fun and meet the devs (sometimes ^^) how you can particpate : download the mIRC client from http://www.mirc.com -- it's shareware with a nagscreen after 30 days but full functional even after 200 days ^^ how to use: after installing and starting klick in the menu on file -> select server, there look for gamesurge - select it and press ok, after that just klick again on file and then on connect. after connecting type in the status window /join #sacred-game or /join #sacred2 or /join #cisacred-fanpage that's it. hope to see you there soon, Cheers! Pyx

then take a look at this one ^^ Sacred Gold Poster but no way, this one is not available

Could I please have a pint of your best stout? Cheers everybody! Summer's commin, weather's fine, tons of party's the next weeks. hope that it will be unforgettable for everybody!

*ponders what bribery might work to liberate the banner from Pyx* nothin -- but.. what I can offer is a sacred underworld poster with signatures of the devs The German Sacred Underwold Poster

Some of the Prices Some of the PricesII Here you can see the banners which are the prices... I allready have that one with the red sacred2 logo on it

Between the 22 and 26 of August the biggest European Games Convention (GC) will be held in Leipzig. 40% more Space for the Companys, more exhibitors than ever before. For all live in Europe really the biggest show to take a look on upcommin games. Also Ascaron will be there and present Sacred2. And you can be sure that I will also be there Over here is very comfortable so I think that I also will write some words here after the GC. But Stop! -- Maybe someone else of this community whant to visit the GC? then get in a rush and organize all tickets needed! Greets n Cheers! Pyx

Absolutly - I saw them twice live ... back to topic: Coldplay - Politik

Meanwhile I checked out which programs are running with the intl. sacred version. All programs running except Cheaters Nightmare (CN) and the patch... sorry for no better news atm

I will also play the Shadow Worrior first, dark matters one small note: you know that you can play "light" or "dark" - remember that the seraph can ONLY play light, and the SW ONLY dark, the other 4 chars can decide which path they whant to follow Sunny Greetings from Germany Pyx

you asked about "great pc and great connection" -- that's not really the point. in fact huge amount of ram (2gb as minimum) and a diskdrive as fast as possible will help most. SATA-300 or SCSI 320 ^^

SacredVault is afaik the only CodingCrew who does allowed tools for Sacred/UW . They have also done an inoffical Patch (2.29) which atm only works with the German Version of Sacred. They have also started working on tools for Modding. Unfortunatly Ascaron is not very happy about and therefore no modding tools are available, and maybe never will be presented to the users. One more highlight is the Cheaters Nightmare Tool for the open Net of Sacred (I don't know if it's work only with the german version or not). It can directly filter out Cheaters and bann their account on your gameserver. Most of them participate at the betatests for Sacred, they have good Connections to Studio II. SacredVault is imho not german only, they all speak english on a high level.