I'm back. Some things changed and some stayed the same. Starting wealth is appalling. But I was happy to see we can still run some caves for gold. The imps look funny They didn't have bunnies and cardinals and squirrels when I left.

How do I log onto the official forum with a character name? It seems to only let me use my account name and there is no option for changing it in the profile. I've tried logging out and putting in a toon name, but it won't let me log if I do that.

There are so little players compared to when I left. When I left, there would still be like six hundred people logged on at any time. It's so weird to be on and see like a hundred and fifty. Most of the towns are empty with a few toons standing about, but not alot.

With no chants, it is hard to level a wiz. I'll get there slowly. I forgot that since they changed things, it's not like when I was on before and leveled up pretty quick.

I am enjoying just being back and playing some low level caves, even if the gameworld is kind of player scarce.

My wiz's name is Caprice.

Nevermind about the official forum, I can see if I want to reply to someone, that's where our toon names are.

I was looking over the new magic system for the new server. The changes do sound positive. Something about the mana regenerating like health? No more mana crystals to buy? That is appealing

I don't understand the bunnies or cardinals; they have like no good exp at like any level lol...

I do like the new art for the imps, the daemons looked funny (picture if you will: Satan)

They went and completely screwed with their forums, and purged all old posts; stating it was for 'security'; we run the same forum they used to, only a newer version (ofcoarse there will be security issues with a script thats 6 years old).

To logon to the "official" forums, go to the main site http://www.realmserver.com and login, then click community then click forums; most the itme it'll work, but i've found that lot of the time it won't.

lol i don't think the current server could handle 600 people in all honesty, last time we had 300 we had a lot of warps due to data curruption that no one knows why it happened :rolls eyes: which caused a lot of people to leave.

Yeh, lack of chants sucks, you could try asking if anyone could chant for you in 4.

lol, yeh they're saying they'll bring mana back like it originally was, i'm hoping for mana bananna's baby! lol

Should I get too attached to my levels if we have to move to the new server?

Six more levels and I'll have my shields. I think I can make a chanter, just take alittle time. But they do make it horrible for noobs just starting out. If you don't know where to go, it's bad. And I hope they leave at least one TH place for noob running on the new server. Without it, I wouldn't have even had the gold for spellbooks or anything. And I hate quests, at least book quests. I don't mind storyline quests like getting the symbol from DH.

Anything so we don't have to buy mana anymore. I always found it annoying, plus you can get PP'd. That was another of my long list of complaints. Wizzies always got their mana stolen when walking about outside town, if they forgot to put it away. And we need it for fights.

Speaking of thieves, I don't like the new idea of letting thieves on the new server PP in towns and be able to take other items off us. I really don't like it at all. It's always harsher on noobs who might not have alot of things and cannot afford to have their stuff stolen. Plus, you can have something sentimental that a friend gave you stolen right out of your inventory. Just don't like it. It should be optional if you want to let the thief class at you. The other thief stuff, I did like. I think the poisoning idea is good. The traps don't sound so good for the rest of us. If they don't let us cave run for gold, I won't be happy.

Some of the new Wiz stuff sounds really good. I have wanted Summon an Elemental for the longest time. And Mass Heal will be kewl.

Tailoring sounds interesting.

Since I'm just starting up again, I think it will be easier for me to move to the new server. Less stuff to lose I think it sounds like they will make it more interesting to play. Time will tell if we actually like the changes

There will be an additional server if/when they upgrade, the current server will remain "as long as it can support itself".

And yeh, its' hard on newcomers to do just about anything lol...

The new server, from what i understand, will be the same server, just fixes and a new skill system (minus all of our riches as well). So all of the current hunting areas should remain as is.

Theeves can PP in the town in the swamp; when we had the town rebuild they could pp in town as well.

And yeh, summoning ele's would be nice for a high hp mule to get hit... mass heal is no biggie, its like eb imo, only minus the poison cure...

the new server won't be here, or at least stable, for a while, sernon on the main forums stated that they don't even have an in house alpha of the new server, yet it's supposed to be there for us to play in the beginning of 2007... strange...

I like the idea of everyone starting out the same all over again. The economy was always out of hand.

So is it the beta that will be out first? Then later we get the real new server? They have me all confused with what they are doing. But I do suspect we'll have it before Summer.

AFAIK it goes beta then final; beta meaning they can and will tear it down at anytime should coding permit (ie if a bug is found and exploited, much as the trading system they tested out about a year ago was).

I'm tired of starting over from scratch, i've done it too much over the years lol...

OMG, I know the feeling too well. That's one of the reasons I'm back here instead of hacking up TS2 at the moment. Every time we get a new Expansion Pack, I have to redo all my hacks and I'm just sick of it. They will be making new EP's for the next two years, then they go to TS3, which I refuse to move to. I can't keep redoing all my stuff. I'm completely burnt from it. I'd rather go to the new Realm server and try to build up some toons, which we will all hopefully have for a few years before they do anything major again. It does suck to have to redo Realm toons as well, but it seems they don't do major changes for a few years at a time like this.

OMG, since when can the low level undead heal themselves??? This was a total OMG moment for me. They couldn't do that when I was last here. That sux. Luckily I didn't die, I had all the right potions with me. But that was a shocker.

"regeneration", several months now i think...