2003.12.14

While you wait for next release, here is a preview of the new dwarf character. As you can see more details were added and the model has a more realistic look. This is a rendered image.

Here you can find also some pics of the coins that will be present in game (trias, hexas, octas, circles). Those are in game images.

2003.12.08

The release of Crystal Blue has been delayed; it will not be out for end of year. The new target date will be presented as soon as possible.

In CB we will have skeletal animation, that will enable us to have better and more numerous animations for characters and monsters. We want to thank the cal3d team for their support.

A first version of combat is in place and the devs already killed a lot of monsters in the demo server :)

We are a bit behind schedule with the char creation and with the new character models. Don't worry we are making good progresses. Thank to the community of fans and all the people that are following us so closely.

Recruitment was a bit delayed lately, but we will process our applications during next weeks. See you on-line!

2003.11.08

The announcement of our 100.000 players has been published by many big sites, read it here on warcry or on stratics.

2003.10.28

It's with great pleasure that we announce the 100.000th player registered on PlaneShift Laanx Server. To celebrate we would like to give him an in-game prize. The 100.000th character is Moyra! Congratulations! Moyra, please send us an email with your account password, so we can identify you.

2003.10.27

Hi PlaneShifters,
Some time has passed and we made good progress toward the next tech release (codename: Crystal Blue).

- We finalized the magic rules and added some particles to test spell casting,
- We tested in more details the combat rules and added more options like the battle stances
- The Crystal Space 3D engine is improving at good speed and we plan to use some of its new features to bring more speed to the 3d rendering
- The 3d models are being redone to use the new features of the engine and to save some memory
- Dialogues of NPCs are being expanded to give designers more options in creating quests.

Release of Crystal Blue is still set for end of year, all team working hard for that deadline.

2003.10.05

The render used in the warcry interview is now posted in the Wallpaper section.

2003.09.14

We felt there was a bit of confusion about the irc fan channel to use, also some of the identified servers have bad up times. Officially from today, the new irc server for planeshift fans is irc.quakenet.org at channel #planeshift . Please join the community of fans on this server.

003.09.02

Did you dream about a french, spanish, german (I had to list all but I can't for space reasons!) translation of the PlaneShift client? Here is an initiative about it.

2003.08.28

In these days we are featured on some big gaming sites with news on the current MB release. We have released an interview at http://www.warcry.com, a great site with lot of content and updates.

Here is the direct link to the interview. It contains also an exclusive new rendering!

2003.08.23

The PlaneShift Team is working hard on the next release (codename: Crystal Blue) and here is a brief update on the major features we are working on.

We want Crystal Blue to be a lot more playable then the current tech demo, and for this reason we will introduce some new game features. It will not be a complete game, but it will give you some weeks of game play.

An improved char creation will add Role Playing background to your character. Skills and stats choices will be explained in better details and simplified. Thanks to that the character you will create will seem more real and will fit better into Yliakum's society.
A first version of combat will be present along with some enemies to fight with. This first version will enable us to test our combat rules and balance better the different skills present in the char creation.
The world will be expanded to give players more areas to explore.

2003.07.29

The Mac OSX testing is completed, the results for now are not good. It's running too slow and we are working to improve it. We will post a news a soon as we have a new version to test. Thanks to all testers. The ones that did not have the chance to participate to this testing session will be part of the next one, we have your email addresses.

Another good news is that we added three new NPCs in game, and one of them has a completely new model and skin. This NPCs are involved in a new quest! Will you be able to find it and solve it?

2003.07.24

The new server has been replaced and is currently operational. It responds to the same address as before: planeshift.fragnetics.com. If it doesn't work, try to use the ip address: 203.81.47.74

Thanks to Fragnetics and to acraig for the quick move.

2003.07.15

Thanks to the efforts of Ben Norrington, PlaneShift Molecular Blue (0.2.010) now works also on the Mac OSX platform. We are still having some performance issues and so we need some testers to verify the package on a number of different hardwares. Please send an email to info@planeshift.it to be one of those testers. We will give you the URL of Mac package (around 100 Mb). Please apply if you have a good internet connection and a good hardware (cpu + video card). Should not be the best out there, but from average to high. In the email please specify your internet connection and your hardware specs. Thanks.

2003.07.13

The first wallpaper contest is complete. Thanks all players that have participated.

You can check the winners in the wallpapers page.

You can also check the forum page where more wallpapers have been posted.

2003.07.06

PlaneShift has been reviewed on the paper magazine PC Action (italian version). A full article of 4 pages explains some of the goals of our team, many screeshots of the current char creation process and of hydlaa plaza enrich the article. Thanks to PC Action for the review!

Here is the first page of the article.

2003.05.26

We want to thank all the people that submitted requests to support us becoming Official PS Servers. We have carefully logged all your data and we will contact you in the future when more servers will be needed. Right now we don't feel the need of new servers because the current one is running smoothly. Also the current average number of players on-line is around 20 and splitting them on different server can decrease the fun. This is the main reason we are not opening other servers. As soon as we have a bigger player base we will evaluate the opportunity to open more sites.

Thanks a lot for your support.

2003.05.18

The quest is going on well, we have collect some more people that completed the quest just few hours after the people at 4th place. Those will receive a prize of 4000 rubies to use in weapons.

5th place: Badakai, Chronok, Devoted, Droopy, Havena, Mikalquartz, Sparkyhawk, Spawnman, Wizzaro

Please if some of those are double characters declare that to us. (See last news)

Actually the prizes are awarded manually, since the game doesn't yet support this feature. In addition we wanted to give big prizes just to the first players that completed the quest. For those reasons we will not provide weapon prizes to people beyond the 5th place. We are working on new quests that will award again big prizes.

2003.05.15

We just discovered that some players (even amongst the ones that are entitled to get the prizes) have completed the quest with more than one character to get the prize more than one time. This is NOT allowed and is considered cheating. We identified the people doing that, and since it's just the first time we will not take any action against that (no prize removal, no public names, no char deletion, etc...). We will simply give the prize to just one of their char. But please remember to play fairly, next time we will take some actions against that.

If you have completed the quest with more than one char, please declare to us your additional character names, so we will not flag you as cheater.

Thanks and happy hunting!

2003.05.14

Here is the list of people that completed the quest till now and their prizes. Congratulations! Was not a simple one!

People that completed it first had a bigger prize. Since this is the very first quest in PlaneShift the prizes are quite high.

1st place: Kada, Sabrewulf, Woodstriker. Rewarded with 8000 rubies each.
2nd place: Deedolito, Ericeliza. Rewarded with 7000 rubies each.
3rd place: Bushie, Jerec, Kiern, Lantor . Rewarded with 6500 rubies each.
4th place: Allabreve, Arell, Bonez, Crj, Daireve, Enraged, Gronomist, Kel, Kranx, Pmnoxxx, Ralin, Reishid, Shadows, Thrash, Xaeon. Rewarded with 5500 rubies each.

The rewards are in rubies and usable only for buying items. You can buy one more expensive or more of the ones less expensive at your choice (yes, you can also spend everything in mugs). Please send an email to info@planeshift.it with your character name and password (to be sure it's you) and tell us what you want to buy. The price list is on this page. The items will be magically added to your inventory in the next days. If you want to you add some of the rubies you have in your inventory to buy a more expensive weapon. Just tell us that in the email. Any reminder of your prize after getting the weapons will be put in rubies in your inventory.

2003.05.13

A bug was fixed in the quest! It was not properly ending. So if you think you have the solution, try again the same path right now. We will award the prizes tomorrow. The quest will remain active and prizes will be awarded to everyone that completes it. Prizes will decrease in value as soon as more people complete the quest.

2003.05.06

We added a quest that you can perform! And to help you on that we published a small guide on how to talk to the NPCs. Many people asked if the quest is the one about bringing the hides to Thorian. No, it's not because actually NPC doesn't accept objects and also because no special text appears when speaking to him (see the guide for more details on which is the text you should expect at quest start). Enjoy!

2003.05.02 - afternoon

We received many notifications of the message: "There is an error in the database on your account. Please contact a PS Admin for help". This is mainly caused by being behind a firewall that doesn't allow incoming connection to port 13331. All those accounts remain locked till deletion. Today we deleted all those. You can find the list of the deleted accounts here. These names are now available again for char creation.

2003.05.02 - morning

Some weeks ago we started a Wallpaper contest for PlaneShift. The contest is still valid and open. Please read the rules and current submissions here. Contribute to the PlaneShift community with your art and ideas!

2003.05.01

The development team is working on the next release, but we are also trying to add some small improvements to the public release you are playing. For this reason we created a new merchant page where you can buy items!

To be fair to anyone, we deleted all current weapons present in game, most of those were given by devs or spawned by error.

The merchant page is located here. Be sure to use the check-only option first.

2003.04.29

Thanks to the help of Malverian the Gentoo Linux distribution now incorporates PlaneShift sources as one of the available packages to install. Just type "emerge planeshift" from your Gentoo install. This is recommended for developers! If you just want to play PS on your linux machine download the binary package here.

2003.04.17

The forums are down. It's not a news I know. The news is that we finally decided to move the forums to a new host. More info on that soon.

2003.04.14

Thanks to Atanor the Linux distro for release 0.2.010 is ready! Get it here.

2003.04.13

A new patch is ready to download! It introduce some weapons and the ability to wield those. Also the loading time should be faster.

To get it just run the updater of your installation. If you don't have PlaneShift installed, just go to the download section and get the whole package.

Hope you enjoy it and remain one of our loyal fans!

2003.03.31

Check the screenshots and renderings sections to find some new images of the game. In particular the renderings are very nice, thanks to Boonet for those. We are working on a new patch for the current Molecular Blue release. This patch will introduce some fixes and will enable us to introduce some additional objects in the game. So you will have the chance to collect something different from crystals. The new patch will be released in few days through the updater. A full download will be provided also. The Linux package is ready and will be out with patch 008.

2003.03.14

Hi crystal-hunters,
While you were searching for more crystals, the PlaneShift Team was busy fixing some problems in the client. We are aware that PlaneShift runs slowly on lower-end machines. In these days the devs fixed some problems and the new release is more stable and uses less memory. Load time should be better also.

To upgrade to the new 0.2.007 release you have to:
1) Exit from PlaneShift Client.
2) Download the new updater here. Unzip it in the PlaneShift main root folder overwriting the files.
3) From the PlaneShift Quickstart menu, click on the Updater Icon. It will download about 10 Mb of updates.

If the updater program fails or stops for reasons like network interruption, you can run it again and it will restart from the point it stopped.

2003.03.10

Hi planeshifters, we are receiving a good feeback from you all.

Here is web page where you can find information about our current Official Server Laanx, information displayed is number of players, accounts and some stats on the Crystal Hunt.

We would like to express the appreciation to Fragnetics team that's providing our current server. Their support and professionalism is great.

2003.03.07

Thanks to the great efforts of all the PlaneShift Team the new tech demo is now available for download. Join us in testing this new release and enjoy!

Get the new release here.

2003.02.26

A new web site layout is ready to support the new release. Please be patient as we update all sections of the site.

The player guide provided in the new release will use the same layout and will provide content that you can browse off-line.

2003.02.04

Gamiix server is no more available, so we decided to not install the 0.1.004 version on another one, but wait for the next release.

This means that currently there are no servers that can be used with the released PlaneShift Client. A new one will be available with new release on.

2003.02.02

Thanks to everyone for their support, we are now in contact with some companies that want to host PlaneShift next tech demo. We are working with them on the techinical details and to have the servers up and running as fast as possible.

See you soon!

2003.01.31

PlaneShift has WON the HappyPenguin poll and has been elected the "Most Promising Linux Game" of the year.

2003.01.29

PlaneShift Team is searching a sponsor for hosting its next free game demo.

The benefits of hosting it will be:
- PS will advertize your site on its web page and in the community.
- The game itself will be downloaded by a great number of people that will love the company that's providing the resources.
- The PlaneShift Team will give you the chance to participate in future beta testing of all upcoming releases and to have direct access to development news
- You can help the free OpenSource project that is rapidly becoming one of the most popular in the world.

What is needed:
- a linux machine connected 24/7 to the Internet. The machine hosting ps requires a high desktop or low server configuration.
- ability to install apache with php, mysql and our server application.
- ftp and account management to apply patches and upgrade the game.
- current bandwidth usage is very low, around 10k/s with players connected.

Thanks in advance for your participation. Contact us here.

2003.01.20

There is a nice poll on HappyPenguin site that lists the most promising games for Linux. Please vote for PS if you like it!

Remember that you have to register on their site to vote!

2003.01.19

We changed IRC servers. The fan channel is at irc.gamesnet.net #planeshift The internal developers channel is now at irc.freenode.net.

2003.01.04

Happy New Year from PlaneShift Development Team! During holidays the progress slowed a bit and prevented us to complete the new release. We have most part of it ready and the work can now restart at full speed.

The things we need to finalize are some characters animations and some improvements on dynamic level loading. Without dynamic loading the game will use too much RAM and can be critical on some systems.

We are still searching for someone that will handle the Mac release. Please send us a message if you think you can do that.

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