Hey everyone. It's been languishing too long. But our listing on TopMudSites.com has been updated. Let's see if we can get GemStone IV in the top twenty again! The direct link can be found here to vote: http://www.topmudsites.com/vote-gemstone.html

You can vote every 12 hours! GO GS GO!

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~Wyrom, SGM
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Something that would likely help draw back more voters would be to let pures hunt as much as weapon users do by increasing the manna regeneration rate so we don't continue to run out of manna every few monsters/minutes and have to wait 14 minutes for our manna pool to refill.

I'm currently hunting Stone Valley and can typically kill two stone giants using wither (with 2x Harness Power, 250 manna) and then spend the next 14 minutes reading a book, watching a dvd, or playing another game waiting on the 'manna full' sound effect to happen. Really gets one out of the mood to play the game, makes t.v commercial interruptions in the flow of a movie seem tame in comparison and I gave up on t.v. back in the eighties.

Triple-train in Harness Power so you have more.

Get more ranks in Mana Control: <your Realm> so you get it back faster.

Hunt with a Bard brave (or stupid, or just good with a timer) enough to run Song of Power.

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Mana in today's world is so much more friendly. The possibility to have FIVE (5) mana per level? Oh, heck yeah.

<<I'm currently hunting Stone Valley and can typically kill two stone giants using wither (with 2x Harness Power, 250 manna) and then spend the next 14 minutes reading a book, watching a dvd, or playing another game waiting on the 'manna full' sound effect to happen.>>

As Lyradie said, you'll need to be careful with your hunting areas. Choose the hunting areas and target critters that are best suited for your strengths. At your level, you should have no problems with mana, but it's still far too early to use wither as your main attack spell. Unless you can find something that will die to wither on the first cast without fail, you'll want to find something squishy and susceptible to a lower level spell.

Gretchen

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We officially made it into the top 20 in just under 48 hours! Awesome work! You can vote every 12 hours!

http://www.topmudsites.com/vote-gemstone.html

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Hi all,

I’ve gone ahead and added the TopMudSites voting information to the VOTE verb, so that you can have an easy way in-game to access the link. Just type VOTE GS4! If we list on any other sites, we’ll add that information in there, too.

Thanks for your support!

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--Zythica

Is Dragonrelams doing something like the Vote verb also?
I noted GSIV is number 2, and Dragonrelams has dropped to number 11 or 12.



Clunk

(Buy your swords at CBD weapons in Zul Logoth.)

I don't get the IN/OUT thing on the site

Thanks! I didn't get it either.

-- Robert

Our spies...I mean curious testers...nope, our spies and research indicates Gemstone IV is far more advanced and outside of Aardwolf is the most populated of the competition. Plus, rep your own. Get out the vote.

We're had a TON of success with the OUT vote. Those are the tallies for people clicking the site to see what Gemstone IV is about.

-Geijon

Crap I keep forgetting about this.

Let me tell you a story. My work requires me to log in and log out each day. No one actually cares what hours I work, just a website cares. Well I was scripting lynx, but they added senseless JavaScript to the page so lynx didn't cut it anymore. Behold I discovered xdotool and now I script Mozilla Firefox on my work PC. It would be a cinch to set up my work PC to pop over to this webpage like clockwork 2 times a day and "click" a button. Hey it already does that twice a day on weekdays.

Yes yes yes, my other script already HAS a randomizer for the time and a multiple attempt effort for any LAN issues.

Not sure that'd be all officially supported but, I'll go write it soon and toss the script somewhere. You'd need to be in Linux to make it work. In principle it can work in Mac OS, but even my colleague was too lazy to try installing firefox from sourcecode from macports or fink to see. And no clue at all about Cygwin, not my cup of tea.

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daid (player of the temporally-challenged Harvest-Moon clan)

>Out of no where, a ki-lin gallops in.

I just added the Gemstone voting link for TopMudSites to my browser favorites right above play.net. Now whenever I go to login to the forums (which is usually in the morning and sometime in the evening) I hit the TopMudSites link first.

-- Robert

I just wanted to take a moment and thank everyone for their hard work at getting and keeping GS to the front page. We might not be first, but the exposure is definitely helpful.

There are a few other MUD sites that we're trying to regain access to, hopefully we'll have regained some of those as well in the coming months.

Thanks again, for your support.

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~Wyrom, SGM
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I think it's safe to say we've lost interest in voting. is there another site where the perpetual #1 doesn't also run the site?