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Best way to do this is to reapply, especially if you're not on the normal CoPaP mailing list which has sent out the new passwords twice in the last week.

Mystara, EA, and Abyss have not looked at the threads yet. Sometimes they take a while to get around to it. I'll keep you posted.

Not sure where that email came from, but thanks for the heads up.

It is my pleasure to announce the opening for the seventh and newest Avlis server, The City of Kuras! Unlike our current areas in Southern Avlis, this place was once capitol of the majestic Kurathene Empire, which has long since crumbled into a group of warring fiefdoms. Only this city remains as a ...

Hello CoPaP fans, It is my pleasure to announce the open beta test for the newest Avlis server, The City of Kuras. Unlike our current areas in Southern Avlis, this place was once capitol of the majestic Kurathene Empire, which has long since crumbled into a group of warring fiefdoms. Only this city ...

The linked worlds of CoPaP have decided to give players with strong items a new opportunity. If your character has an item with any of the following properties: Immune knockdown Immune mind affecting Immune spell school Immune specific spell Immune spell by level Immune Critical Hit Immune Sneak Att...

Great, I understand now. Good explanation. You could conceivably take this as far as you wanted. If all you wanted to do with it was arrange weeks for server focus, that's good with me. However, you could also make this a hefty recruiting tool if you announced your "server of the week" on ...

Just to get a clearer picture here.... So essentially what you'd be doing is organizing groups of players to come play together on various servers in CoPaP at designated times with 1st level character alts? The servers who wanted to be part of it would sort of sign up, and such? That's a fine idea i...

Sounds really cool.

Correct, this means DM's won't be able to take that item through the course of *normal* looting.

As for bags, if they have one of the banned properties on them, yes, they can be tagged. If not, because they can't, then no.

From the Avlis Team boards comes a possible solution: On to design... You really don't want a column per property, that makes changing the property list very difficult. Alex, you've got sort of the right idea, we can encode the properties and arguments as numbers. The containers_2 table has a field ...

Tagging items with a "homeworld" variable is not as easy as you think. The variable will certainly stick across servers, but when someone goes to put this into a persistent chest, the item is actually destroyed, and remade when the player takes the item out again. Thus, the homeworld varia...

A proposal to make people tag their items involuntarily will never pass, so we need to move on without that idea. This discussion was not meant to be a "quick fix" discussion on fixing item balance, and btw, as far as I know, there are not any "banned" items still being handed ou...

Good point about the weapons not disarming, but this would only really be for the so-called "banned" loot, i.e. things that fall into that list that Psycho put up. I don't think this is too much of a problem, i.e. I don't think there are too many of these items YET. However, with any close...

Tag as plot/undropable item or loose it soon merasure.

You got it all wrong, Star.

It's:

Volunteer to have item tagged as plot/undroppable or have NO consequences for opting not to.

Exactly, Arandil. I don't understand the fuss either. I think the major issue here is many of the posters simply do not understand what Psyco is proposing, because all of the counter-arguments seem to have nothing to do with what he was saying.

This implies that the plotcursing is supposed to be an ongoing process, not a one-time-offer. I'm not sure. Definitely a limited time offer at least. Possibly an ongoing process since all it takes is having a DM zap it with their wand. @Arandil: This is only for items with the so-called "banne...

The idea of going from Avlis death planes to other CoPaP planar servers has always been there. Really this is why the portal to Hala was originally put in the Ysgard death plane, you know. But you're right, the problems of equipment are hard to get around.

The character with one set of Boots of Speed will happily agree, and the solution works nicely. But the characters that have built up some cache, either because they are collectors, or merchants, they WILL loose items, simply because they wouldn't be able to carry on with all these items being curs...

Likely, we'll need tons of small steps, and certainly Psyco's proposal won't address the issue in its entirety, but its a possible step in the right direction, particularly at the high end. This is not what I'd call a small step btw. Again, this is an engineering problem. If DM's require an occasio...

Ok, cool. teleri is the expert to talk to then. Avlis is still in the process of switching over to the new VaultSTER, so it'll be a little bit before we are capable. You'd probably be better off linking to Outlands actually, since you're both outer planes. Once the planes are all linked, Avlis can l...

Sarrena, we've done a ton of link tests already with Abyss, no? (Thought you'd be a pro there for getting a link up going.)

Avlis has at least one system that puts a variable on items made there that tell what the homeworld is. Dougnoel can shed light on that subject, so you can ask him.

That's true, unless you have a race that just has stat adjustments, an already-existing base race, and absolutely no racial feats or special abilities. Limited case, certainly, but still possible.

As long as the race isn't ridiculous and does not require any copap hak change, you can make whatever you like, according to that post on custom races. Things only get tricky when you have to change racialtype.2da or add any other kinds of 2da's to the hak. That would have to wait until patch time, ...

This is done better on the wiki. See there if you want a list of systems and descriptions.

Feel free to add to these descriptions/directions if you feel you have some info that could help future worlds have an easier time with it.