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I have some suggestions that might not be a high priority,but it would be great if you could implement: 1.Notes on friends list: I have added a number of builders as friends for contacts. However, I can't remember who is who. Although I have used the captain''s log for this now, it would be great if we could have a note section next to friend to make small annotations. 2. Captains log is nice,but I would like it broken into two parts: one tab for notes,which is the way it is now. The second tab for sectors and nav discussion where we can annotate mob lives, ore levels, etc. In fact, even better would be three tabs for notes, mobs and ores for each nav site. 3. Some mission,such as the level 30 hulls take too darn long and are frankly a bore to travel over hill and dale. En B wanted these long missions in order to keep people paying longer. However, do we really need to go from Endriago, to Aragoth to Dahin planet and back to Arargoth? Shorter, less boring missions would be great in my humble opinion. 4. It would be great if you can implement an email server between characters where folks can send stuff to friends or to their alts. 5. We discussed cross vault slots for all alts. This would be wonderful. If we lose the bottom 6 slots, that would be a small price to pay. It would also result in less accounts and less server resources. 5. Trade missions should be improved. Frankly, everyone knows that Sumerled- Fenrus is the best trade route around. Frankly, I think other trade routes should be expanded. This can be done monthly with the "Trade mission of the month" that will give bonuses. Moreover, by varying different trade missions, it will force folks to go around the galaxy more and not congregate at a few sectors. 6,. Holiday events: EQ II does this well.Four times a year, special bonus missions, that are easy to do, are offered. They give a variety of items, experience etc. You can have a summer solstice, Christmas, Halloween and New Year events. 7.At each level, the same weapons, shields, reactors are attempted by each class. Somehow, this should vary a bit. Maybe adding in new stuff would change the equation. 8. In regard to the above, many manufacturable items seems to drop on mobs that are much too high for folks at that level to get. For example, a crossbow III projectile dropped on level 25 CL mobs. Generally, we get build III around level 25 OVERALL. I think you might want to consider lowering the mob levels for drops to something more akin with the level of the item, or, even better, slightly below the level of the item. 9. Guild Screen Addition of location: It would be nice if we can go on the guild screen and see who in the guild is online and where they are. I don't think that we can do that now without adding them to the friends list. 10. PVP: Although I personally don't like PVP< some folks do. There should be new areas that allow this. They can be set up for guild wars, wars between the races, special mobs with special loot which would encourage folks to go there etc. I would provide no loss of exp if you die in those special zones. I don't know if this can be implemented. Overall, I thinnk you guys deserve HUGE kudos for what you have done. This is an extraordinary effort of love and patience , and I, for one, really appreciate it.

Folks, I too have experience GREAT lag on my Alientware Wondows 7 machine and little lag on my XPS notebook I think part of the problem is win 7. Both XP machines and even Vista are better with the game. However, I was able to solve most of the problems with my Win 7 machine. Here is what I did and suggest that you do: 1. Update your video drivers to the latest beta version of the video drivers. Don't go to Windows for the Update.. Go to the video driver manufacturer. Thus, if you have an nVidia card, go to nVidia's web site and get the latest Beta version. 2. Do the same with your sound drivers. 3. Do the same with your hard disc drivers. 4. Shut off any firewall, especially with your Norton or MCacfee 5. Shut off the antivirus while you are working.

Yes, same here. Are servers down? I didn't see any announcement either here or ingame. If down, any idea when they will be back up?

It is now Sept 10, 2010 and the server seems to be down. Any idea as to how long it will be down?

I like role playing in games. Although this may not be top priority, it would be nice if you can have guild houses or lounges filled with vendors, all refining and manufacturing machines and other items. In addition, an NPC vendor that offers beer and snacks would be nice for guild get togethers.

Congrats Slayerman. Maybe you will achieve the same immortal status as Merlin did with ores.

Who gives out the level 75 Hull mission for Progen Priv? Where are they located? Thanks for help

I solved my problem! I simply downloaded the latest beta version of video drivers and shut off my norton firewall. Yeah Now if I can only solve the lockups that I sometimes get at mission terminals.

I have been complaining about my dssktop that keeps lagging and crashing. Now the same desktop can't seem to post entries on this site. I don't get the "start a new topic" button on my desktop. In fact, it says, "you cannot start a new topic." I don't have any viruses or spyware since my desktop is relatively new and I run norton 360 weekly. It is directly atteched tot he router and not a wireless connection, unlike the laptop that I am using now. Any iteas? By the way, it also doesn't give me any chance to log into the site incase that was the problem. In fact, I don't see anywhere where I can log into the this site with my desktop.

I just read over the August changes for the new Push. WOW is all I can say. I want to thank Tienbau, CDEV and the whole development team for their wonderful work. It really is appreciated.

Tienbau, Just for the record, I am using Win 7 on my desktop. I have tried various compatibility setting such as Vista, Windows XP, etc, all to no avail. I have also tried with the pocket optimation both checked and unchecked, all to no avail.

Thanks Tienbau, I would gladly be willing to run a debug build. However, you will either have to give me instructions on how to do this.You can email me when this is ready or call me or post this info here.

I LOVE the Earth and Beyond server notifier. Whoever developed this, Kudos!

Thank you very much for that link, but where does it say which area and mob drops the Athenor Standard mount on the url that you sent me?

Thank you for your quick response: I am aware of the site that you mentioned, however, I see no place where I can input Anthanor Standard Mounts. I also checked on mob levels 5-14 and didn't see it. Admittedly, I am partially blind and computer illiterate, so all this could be a cause. However, I don't see the answer.

For my PP menace mission, I have to find 10 AnthanorStandard mounts, 10 Cyclo 50ghz modulator, and Blackbox G12, Ithink I got the Blackbox G 12 in Mars Beta,but can't find the rest. Strategy guides show that these are droppable components. Can some shard, knowledgable person tell me what mobs drop these and where they can be found (including the nav point if possible) Thank you in advance for your help.

Point taken, I changed my response. Thanks.

Hey, I love the game and am happy the developers put in the work to make this a cool game. I was just curious.

Haha, good luck with that fair use argument. You should tell that to all the folks who shared music for free and are now being hunted down by the music industry. However, I don't see a lot of damages considering that EA shut down the game and is getting nothing from it. It's not like they are losing revenue. I was wondering, however, how you got the original client to begin with. By the way, the game is terrific. You guys have done wonders. I applaud your efforts.

Several online games, such as everquest, have a few slots that are useable among all characters. It is less desireable to require us to have multiple accounts in order to transfer items among characters. Please consider adding this to the updates if possible.

Wait, I keep seeing posts that you won't advertise in order not to piss off EA. Did you not get their permission for this? I say this because the name Electronic Arts is all over this game from the log in, to the characters generated etc. Even the name Earth and Beyond was probably trade marked. I know there was a lot of additional new coding,but there must have been a lot of the original coding used. Thus, how are you guys able to legally use this?

I agree that more details for missions is necessary. I had a major mission from Mars Beta to find magnatite ore. I mined mars beta till I was green and never found any. I asked in chat where it could be found to no avail until one person finally told me to go to the next sector in Mars. Who knew? If there were thousands of players, we could get questions answered. However, with the relatively few players, although growing, that we have, it is essential that we have more detail on the missions!

I keep meeting folks who have multiple tunes because of the 150 level limit. Is it possible to raise the limit to say 175 and add a few tough zones for those folks that need it? Since I don't know what was involved in the programming, I admittedly can be all wet on this. Also, I would suggest that once you get finished with your beta testing, you invite game reviewers for game magazines to do a review of EnB. I think you will pick up hundreds or even thousands of potential players. I used to review private shards for Ultima Online. Game reviewers would LOVE to test this private game out.

If you would like many more donations yearly, consider this: give a donation reward based on the donation. For example, you could give something small like one skill point for every 10 donated up to 5 points. Alternatively, you can give a nice item for every $50 like their choice of a weapon or device for their level. This certainly won't imbalance anything and will encourage donations. Also, you should advertise more. I accidentally heard about it from our guild. You do need to get the word out.

This is probably a dumb question since I am a new player, but I have seen some classes have repair equipment and some don't. How does the classes that don't have repair equipment, repair damaged stuff, other than by begging someone with the repair equipment skill?