Moonshaes needs to be finished: Please Help!

[CloudDancing]

I've had the enjoyment of DMing on the Moonshaes server three months after it went live. It has wide tracts of land and wonderful places of whimsy.

But the server is NOT finished.

While some servers have complete statics and all their land layouts smoothly done so players can play persistently, Moonshaes does not.

I personally can only do two things as a DM, design environments/items and live DM and having neurological issues continuing is NOT helping me do so.

My HDM Castano is trying to do everything else by himself. That is ALL the scripting, implementation of my work and others work, creating all the linkages, and preparing them for upload.

It does not leave much time for him to play or enjoy Alfa.

This is my cry for real help. This server needs to be finished WITH statics working and everything repaired and working before WHL opens up. It lacks the things it needs to be persistent and reward players for Rping in general even without a DM.


We need:

*2-4 Dms who can familiarize themselves with the module. We particularly one who can run a Skaug campaign for the exotic and morally challenged. We need people willing to learn autonomously, work independently still, and not just flake off after one week.

*A technical team to check through the module and fix the various statics and related content. The Skaug areas need a full going over both in composition and size of each area as well as a legal items check.

*Someone to build statics. I literally cannot do it due to reversing letters. I'd like to have as many as BG.

We can't do this alone. Castano is a good HDM and very easy to work with. And this is my please to get Moonshaes to the level of a fully persistent world that Baldur's Gate and TSM is.

[I-KP]

The Skaug areas need a full going over both in composition and size of each area as well as a legal items check.

Not wishing to add to the workstack ((Clearly I'm going to suggest doing just that...)) but could Caer Callydyrr[sp?] be hit with the remodelling stick as well? ((Oh, there it is!)) It's a nice place but it's viciously over-built and rather NWN2 camera unfriendly. (I know, only open fields with naught but weeds suit the NWN2 camera.) Suggest it be cut in half; 'north' quarters / 'south' quarters.

MS is a fine server and I'm very happy to call it home for my current PC. All work that has gone into it is hugely appreciated by this particular protagonist. If I had the time to build I'd help out where I could, but sadly RL (and Red Orchestra 2) makes demands that scupper that idea for at least the time being.

PS. Oh, can we have a map as well, please? kkthxbye!!!!1!!!one

[Castano]

Thanks guys!

Maps are posted in the MS player forum. Because it's a bunch of islands, i strongly recommend you print out a map when you play and familiarize yourself with each of the islands we have built (Alaron, Moray, Gwynneth). Skaug be built on its own grid Yarr...so that one should eb easy to maop out, plus most of the residents are illiterate. That said if anyone would like to make a new map go for it!

I really am easy to work with, absent +10 vorpal swords or horrid tech problems, if you build it it usually makes it into the mod...this is doubly so for statics.

We could badly use a set based on the Nashkell/Rivermoot statics.

The mailbag quest is in and working now, happy to report.

[Castano]

Maps:

OUR SERVER MAP: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55362265@N ... otostream/

http://www.forgottenadventures.com/FRMaps/Moonshae.htm


I would seriously like to sit down with every alfan who tells me MS lacks a map and get your feedback - are the above links not displayed prominently enough in the MS announcements?, are the maps hard to read/understand? or is there some other issue I am unaware of?...I keep hearing from the same people "there is no map for MS", despite there being links to a FR map of the region AND a handdrawn map showing the parts of the region we have built and their area transition links.

Please review these maps and comment....I genuinely want to know what is and is not working about them, and how we can fix them to make them better.

Hopefully we can put the map issue to bed by mid October.

[I-KP]

Well, to begin with you can barely read a word on them.

[Hexigo]

I am willing to help the Moonshaes

Unfortunately I don't possess the know-how besides item creating and giving ideas
I do manage to learn, if pointed out in the right direction with some guidelines.

[Heero]

[Heero]

I am willing to help BTW.

[Castano]

I am willing to help BTW.

You've help immensely with our caves. What would you like to do?

Any help building statics is a plus. Don't worry about setting the xp/gp rewards vs difficulty thing, I can edit a static quest fairly well once it is built.

[ElCadaver]

Did you put my old stone forrest in?

[Castano]

Did you put my old stone forrest in?

Yes it's been in since 2010.

[Castano]

Well, to begin with you can barely read a word on them.

The color map is VERY zoomable Try saving it to desktop and opening it in the usual stock Microsoft graphics viewers or even in internet explorer. After all we used it to build the server, so some of us could obviously read the place names and see the terrain contours!

The hand drawn map on flickr is zoomable as well. try right clicking and choosing "large".

[I-KP]

Colour map is a high compression JPEG that is not 'very zoomable' at all. Although it isn't being displayed at native resolution on that website, I can still barely read a word on it at native res (and any zoom beyond 100% isn't going to reveal more information).

Granted, the black and white map does have a level of zoom that I didn't see. (Pet peeve: I loath any web tool that makes you click several times to see the native image resolution.) It's still a rough looking map that isn't particularly clear in places (in and around Corwell for example). Players who aren't already familiar with the region will find it hard work, as I did back in the day.

As for terrain contours: there are no contours on either map, not that they matter to the typical player.

Clearly a better/updated server map is needed as there are supposedly readily accessible regions on MS that long term players (and DMs!) don't even know exist; Moray Isle for example. (The fact that the AT to Moray is invisible doesn't help much either.)

[CloudDancing]

I am fond of this one. I think there MUST be the full version on the Candlekeep Compendium. (looking)

[Castano]

Colour map is a high compression JPEG that is not 'very zoomable' at all. Although it isn't being displayed at native resolution on that website, I can still barely read a word on it at native res (and any zoom beyond 100% isn't going to reveal more information).

Granted, the black and white map does have a level of zoom that I didn't see. (Pet peeve: I loath any web tool that makes you click several times to see the native image resolution.) It's still a rough looking map that isn't particularly clear in places (in and around Corwell for example). Players who aren't already familiar with the region will find it hard work, as I did back in the day.

As for terrain contours: there are no contours on either map, not that they matter to the typical player.

Clearly a better/updated server map is needed as there are supposedly readily accessible regions on MS that long term players (and DMs!) don't even know exist; Moray Isle for example. (The fact that the AT to Moray is invisible doesn't help much either.)

craptastic..the jpeg on that website is not the one I DL'd from that website a year ago - look like it has been replaced. I cannot put up the color map I have (the zoomable copy of it) as it is a WOTC map...but I will email it to anyone that wants it.

By contours I mean the terrain icons: mount. hill, forest swamp, plains. No one needs more. We're not hiking the appalachian trail here.