EDIT: never mind, I thought of about 200000000 ways to exploit this a second after I posted it.

Having taken a few hours to cool down, I want to apologize for sounding like such a whiny bastard. Same thing happened to Shiloh a couple hours earlier (on the same square, no less -- I should've seen it coming) and he was far more civil and mature about it than I. I'll do my best in the future to avoid posting when I'm angry (or drunk, like my post about cobblestones a while back...)

Anyway, onto more useful thoughts. Some way of limiting access to materials on the map is something I think most would agree would be quite nice.

No, they are affected by overloading, and you're right, they do skyrocket. Which is why I also tend to log 20 or so, drop them off, then go back, log 20 more, drop off. Logging hundreds and hundreds at once is such a stamina drain that it's more worth it to keep traveling back to put materials in the building's store. I do kind of miss the overloading bug, haha.

If people who don't have a kit can't even see logs or stones on the map, it means that they can't help lug things around if they decide to split the work--one person logging, someone else dragging logs around. That's not necessarily a /bad/ thing. But I suppose it's not very cig-efficient, if you have a building party going or something.

I like the idea of the cart, though. I guess to be fair it would have to require a crapload of stam to tote around, depending on the amount of stuff you've got in it, but it wouldn't affect your logging/stonecutting rates which would be phenomenal.

I would also love it if gathering materials was less prone to losses to clueless rookies and Theiving Midget Bastards. Some interesting ideas here.


Another change I'd like to see: when you edit your bio in Preferences, you have to do save, back, view bio to see if it has come out right. A preview box or screen would be lovely.

And another: the Hall of Fame for clan buffs is getting overfull! Now that 14 out of the 25 displayed have infinite buffs, how about having a second page?

The stamina gains from the Meats should be at least tripled. Devouring a Seventy-Headed Hellhound's 200 bits of crap meat gets me 20% stamina, and fills me up from starving (fattening too). One steak from Pleasantville gives me 62.5% stamina, I need 3 of them to fill me up from starving, and they're not fattening at all. I need to see if Tasty meat is much less fattening and if there's also variance to how filling the 3 levels of meat are, but I'm sure it wouldn't be overpowered if Cleaning the Carcass had a lot more value to it than its pittance of a game mechanic it is thanks to how much better eatery food is.

I think these are better suited in here, instead of in a topic about NewHome and Rookies:

May we please have the 'drunk text' we used to get from Pan-Galactic Gargleblasters back?

That was FUN.

I'd LOVE to be able to use the Hunters Lodge items out of the lodge. Change your title/colouring on the fly when doing a scene in a building somewhere? Ten degrees of awesome sauce!

Alright. I'm sorry, and I realize there's more pressing issues about the Island, right now, but... I'm sort of thinking/hoping that something like this is a much easier fix than most other things. Another two gripes about the console theme:

I really, really dislike Google Chrome for multiple reasons, but that's not the point of this thread, so I won't get into it. Suffice to say, though, that I'm not going to be using it as my main browser, quite possibly ever. Unlike a lot of people who play (I guess? So I hear) FireFox works, for me, perfectly well on the Island, and it even loads pages much faster than Google Chrome does.

I personally love the Console skin, because it's easier on my eyes than the other ones (which sounds a little sad, I realize), but there are a few things about it which irritate me. First is the font:

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/5013/consoleff.png

It's really ugly, and it messes up italics something fierce. However, I noticed, to my surprise, that perhaps this isn't the way it's supposed to show up. On Chrome:

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6254/consolechrome.png

Wow! Look at how much better that looks! Obviously, Firefox and Chrome are defaulting to different fonts/styles, and I'm wondering if this can be changed so that it appears in FireFox the way it appears in Chrome.

Gripe the second: on the console skin, the number reading how much stamina you have left (%) gets really damn dark against the background, both green and orange, and I can't read them unless I lean in close to the screen. Could these be made brighter colors so that they're actually readable, please?

That's it.

Fonts and colours are very much a matter of personal taste. I can't use the console skin, it hurts my eyes. But, for me, Firefox there, in your screen shots, seems to be more readable than Chrome. All that can be concluded from that is... hey, big newsflash, people are different. Who knew?

While I was looking at your images, I couldn't help noticing something else, from the character names. Am I the only one for whom the `J blue is practically invisible against a black background?

If I could change one thing, I'd rename Sheila's place to Sheila's Shack of Pants and Shiny. Just to save confusion on where you buy armor at that most new people (including myself...) experienced.

More hotkeys. Definitely more hotkeys. One for crazy audrey would be nice (5 for instance, as it definitely isn't used in any of the outposts). Hotkeys for inventory interaction. That would be cool too. Same system as in eBoy would work.
But most of all, the ability to do actions in bulk. Maiko's kitchen, material-on-buildings-slapping, decorating, if cart idea gets implemented, maybe even chop-until-you-drop or some other similar thing, item transfer between inventories, ...
Could we?