Minkata Shard Update Saturday October 13, 2012

[Tai'lahr]

I had a similar idea, Janaba - to create a brief & dedicated log to a specific issue (hope the ticket readers appreciate that), but the one I submitted was just confirming what you, D'Lanor and Treehugger had said about panic-linking when going to the last cloth in a solved Ahnonay. Then, I started a new one to document creating a new Ahnonay and the bugs you had mentioned. But, aside from the camera being overhead on arrival (which fixed itself when I jumped once), everything else there went fine. However, there does seem to be a bit of flashing on arrival, especially in the first sphere. I'm almost sure it's an image of the spheres.

[janaba]

The thing is that nothing works, maybe I didn't mention that explicitly this time, but I did (and in my former post),
because I don't have any quabs showing up in all of my 3 Ahnonays (the first Ahnonay has the Relto-out issue happen),
and thus the spheres don't turn and I'm stuck there ...

[Tai'lahr]

Yes, I understood that, Jana. Just saying that I went to Ahnonay, expecting to find some of the same difficulties you did and planned to document them so the devs would have additional information, but, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, after jumping to realign the camera, all went well for me. I don't know if this will help or do anything at all, but I've sent invites to two of my Ahnonays (primary avie & new avie) to your new avatars. Thought maybe you could visit and see if you can see quabs there. Just an idea for an experiment.

Btw, I'll be hosting Janeerah's weekly Age Gathering group on the shard tomorrow. We'll be meeting at 13:00 KI time in the Tokotah alley. I plan to send them to my Relto where I've turned on all the kickables so they can see the changes. From there, I'll give them the choice to go to Jalak to see how the physics have changed there or to ride the harvester in Er'cana or swim in Ahnonay. Everyone is welcome to join us!

[janaba]

Ohh, that's a great idea, Tai'lahr, thank you ... will try that out tomorrow, it is late here already (00:35 am) ...

[Ehren]

OKAY, found something pretty HUGE

If you open the FULL KI by hitting F2 right at the same time as you start jumping in a run jump (make sure the SMALL top left KI is already up before trying this, or hitting F2 just brings that part up.), you will start wiggling and flying up in the air! As long as you keep the KI open, you will keep floating. It seems to work in all places, though some spots seem easier to make it happen then others.

So far it has happened to me in Kadish, Relto, Ahnonay, Cleft, Teledahn, etc.

I have pictures from the Relto blast off, Teledahn, and Ahnonay to show how high it can take me (depending on how well it goes you may rise up slow or fairly fast), had to leave the KI display up because it does make you fall once you finally close it.

Pictures in this spoiler thing: (yes I had neglected to update the avatar's look from default so far, didn't seem like a rush)

Spoiler

Now this one should definitely be put on the list, someone please do that!!

I can show this to anyone in game if they are online at the same time (good party trick?), or better yet, you should try it yourself!

If you can't get it to work for yourselves, you can ask me to post logs from when I preform the glitch (if you think logs would even help), I can get the glitch to happen fairly easily now.

[JWPlatt]

Confirmed. That is interesting. And you happened upon that - how?

[janaba]

This is absolutely awesome and fun, Ehren ... and I can confirm that it works as well ...

As far as I've experienced it right now it couldn't happen by chance, so, I also wonder
how that happened, Ehren ... Ok, as Ehren mentioned, the small KI must be in place,
for the run jump you should have caps lock activated, then hit arrow up and almost
at the same time space and then F2 almost at the same time, not all at once that
doesn't work ...

When I logged in today, I immediately tried that out and I immediately succeeded, and
I was flying up up and away in my Relto until I closed the KI again ... You'll see that in
the pictures below ...

Yes, when you fly up you have to close the KI at one point otherwise you fly up until you
relto out ... Many times you only hover above the ground, sometimes jittering, but also
many times you just fly up and away lol ... and it works everywhere, inside and outside
and with all my avies... Please, look through the pictures I've taken ...

Spoiler

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I've been visiting your Ahnonays Tai, but I had no luck, there were no quabs and I couldn't
activate the turning of the spheres ... I've sent you invitations for my Ahnonays too ... I've
sent them to Tai'lahr (1023) for janaba1 and janaba2, maybe you'll be more lucky ...

As you've seen in my pictures above, I've been trying to meet the quabs again as it happened
once, I thought I'll link in and out until I meet them again lol ... and one time I really succeeded,
they were there ... I've been pushing them all down the hills into the water and happily tried to
turn the spheres by linking to the Cathedral, but in vain, nothing happened still ... So, I think
I've been trying everything possible for a simple explorer with many avies lol ... I'm done with
this for now unless you'd have another idea ...

I've saved the log from this and uploaded it again, just in case anyone would be interested as
it also contains the KI ride and the visitation of Tai's Ahnonays ... You can download it here
if you like ... Now, I really like to test other stuff lol ... See ya all any time on the Shard ...

[Tai'lahr]

Oh, what fun! Thanks for sharing, Ehren. I hope this one doesn't get fixed and I see no reason why it should. It's not a game stopper and rare for anyone to discover it by accident; plus, maybe the skydivers could use it.

Janaba, Janaba, Janaba... my report: I found quabs in janaba1's Ahnonay, but also arrived with the camera overhead which I was able to fix by jumping. I did not find any quabs in janaba2's Ahnonay, but was able to turn the sphere. Would you like for me to kick all the quabs out of janaba1's Ahnonay so you can move on?

[janaba]

Wow!!! Yes, of course, please do that, Tai ... Haha ... I kicked them out once and nothing changed,
maybe you'll be lucky ... Thanks ...

I'm going to see into janaba2's Ahnonay where you've turned the spheres without even quabs around ...
Our poor programers and coders ... everything is totally weird with Ahnonay ...

[Tai'lahr]

Okay, janaba1's Ahnonay is turned to mist sphere. There were some stubborn quabs there, too.

Btw, if you were too preoccupied trying to find quabs to remember to touch the first cloth, don't forget to do it just before you swim out to the maintenance area.