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Hello everyone, Many of you will not remember me, but I am a retired GM and previously a long time player. I still keep in contact with some of the friends I made here, and one of them alerted me to this news. Bara was one of the best people I have ever known. He was a better man than me. He was amazingly compassionate and friendly. As well as even handed as a GM. Always willing to help in any capacity he could. He kept us GMs well in check, I can remember being lectured by him once or twice. He knew how to put his foot down with us. But I mostly remember him as a friend. He will be missed. Rest in peace.

Yes for me also. A tiny thing like candles get added to the game & everyone (on home at least, dunno about wild) is talking about it. Which is a nice change from the usual complaints about fighting. I'm not saying that combat should be forgotten about, but it's just a nice change to have something new added to the game for once. What was the last thing added anyway? I don't even remember. I agree that the game just feels like it's going backwards atm. Lets put fighting aside for a few weeks & come back to it later.

I find it a little depressing that my shield skill is now about half my weapon & fighting skills with no way for me to balance it out again. I've used longsword & shield since the start & they stayed pretty closely in sync (about 5 points variance). With such a huge gap now, I guess I may as well switch to duel wielding :'(

The shop should be back in a day or 2, but you can try contacting Egal if you will actually run out before this.

I've already tested white dye on lanterns & it does make it brighter, I don't have any screenies though, sorry. Lets see if I can explain why white dye makes it brighter As I understand it, the way lights work in games is not really the same as RL. what a light does is in effect lighten black-white of the models in the game. so if one was to add pitch black to a game, all the models would basically be coloured black, they'd blend in & you wouldn't be able to see anything. when you add a light source, it creates an area, usually a globe or cone where the models blackness is lowered. sometimes with a tinge of other colours, like the yellow on an unpainted lantern. So, in theory, if we can artificially add more white to the light, we are effectively lowering the black that is in the cone or globe further. Which leads to the obvious conclusion that if you add black to a lantern you will actually make the light less effective. Also, this is how Notch (the dev who wrote this lighting code) said it works 8)