Re: Tips and Tricks! (Known player workarounds for bugs or other issues)
Issue: you can't equip a new crystal into a socketed tool, weapon, claw or something else
Trade the item with a friend or put it into a structure like a guildhouse (some said it works with your vault too), this will reset the item and you can equip your crystals again to it.
Issue: after dying you try to eat something and get a error message: you can't eat while in combat...
Attack the tavernkeeper or something else and enjoy your meal.
Re: Tips and Tricks! (Known player workarounds for bugs or other issues)
Issue: Got stuck in khuhit mode and can't turn back into a dragon
Click on the khuhit mode hotkey and wait for it to cycle
Click on the dragon mode hotkey and you should reset back into a dragon.
Issue: After switching from khuhit mode to dragon other players see my scale colours go dirty
Go out of range of the affected players and return. The game will reload your scale colours for the other player and the 'dirty' colour will be gone
Issue: Attempting to attack a mob and the game reports that the mob is 1m away and you can't melee attack it.
Cancel the attack.
Move your character directly on top of the mob and restart the attack.
Your character will move backwards into the combat position and the message should be gone
(this happens mainly with undead mobs with a dragon attacking using melee).
Issue: Other players can see my cargo disc when i don't have it equipped
While in range of the player equip your cargo disc and then unequip it. This will fix the problem on the other players client.
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Stickied as it's very helpful!
Re: Tips and Tricks! (Known player workarounds for bugs or other issues)
Issue: I have a SoundBlaster Audigy or other sound card based on the EMU10k1/EMU10k2 chipset, and Horizons takes a very long time to load.
Follow the instructions in the following post to resolve the problem : http://community.istaria.com/forum/s...266#post194266
Re: Tips and Tricks! (Known player workarounds for bugs or other issues)
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Issue: after dying you try to eat something and get a error message: you can't eat while in combat...
Attack the tavernkeeper or something else and enjoy your meal.
*snickers*
ISSUE: I'm working on my RoP and I cant get the Crystal Golem to spawn.
Delete the quest and speak with the hermit again to get the quest for the shards again, everything should work fine after that.
ISSUE: I downloaded and installed the map pack, but when I open my map I get nothing or I see jumbled tiles
Edit with NotePad the value "string mapPath" at the bottom of the file located in the folder horizons/prefs/ClientPrefs_Common.def:
string mapPath = "resources_override/resources/interface/maps"
Be sure to also create a prefs folder in resources_override and copy the new ClientPrefs_Common.def into it so it dosent revert back after an update!
Re: Tips and Tricks! (Known player workarounds for bugs or other issues)
great topic!!!! thanks for all the usefull infos!!!
Re: Tips and Tricks! (Known player workarounds for bugs or other issues)
Issue: I see other players with colorful text and I want my own... How do I do that!
This syntax does NOT work while typing live text from the keyboards, only when you add it to a prefix or use a hot key:
<!--color r=n.n b=n.n g=n.n> (note: replace n.n with any value 0.1 - 0.9)
right click your main chat window and select chat settings, click the "Prefix text" checkmark, and put your < color > statement above there. Now every time you chat you will be colorful.
Hotkeys are the same. you can have a hotkey do a text command and within the hotkey editor you can imbed the colors there:
I have targeted a nasty looking <color> %t% <color> level <color> %r% <color>
(replace all <color> with the <!--color r=n b=n g=n> statements.)
Which brings me to another interesting tip / trick:
Issue: I see other people spamming target information, even with colors. How do they do that?
There is a small list of shortcut commands that NPCs use to greet you:
%n% = first name of target
%nn% = full name with emblem of target
%t% = your target's name
%r% = your target's rating
%l% = your target's location xxxxx,yyyyy
%csch% = your target's craft school
%asch% = your target's adventuring school
%race% = your target's race
%resp% = "respect" (sir for males, miss for females, blank for dragons/sslik)
Speaking of the Tavern keeper humor:
Issue: I died in the rift during an AROP. It says I can't use the rune of teleportation because I am in combat. What do I do?
Use a dragon tool ability. Then use the rune of teleportation. All Fixed!!
Re: Tips and Tricks! (Known player workarounds for bugs or other issues)
Issue: I programmed my prefix for colored text but it is not coming out in color.
Fix: Open the chat settings and make sure the emote box is checked, then save the settings.
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Inviso bug issues:
Issue: I just ascended, and no one can see my new body after the bubble.
During the "bubble" take a baby step forward and back. Your body will re-render for those to see. You don't have to walk far, just one step forward and back so you stay in your bubble.
Issue: I am trying my emotes but none of them seem to work.
If you haven't moved since logging in, emotes don't work unless you update your world position (move a few steps forward).
Issue: I got disconnected (DC'ed) and died, I log back in but no one can raise me.
Because you can't move (you are dead) you cannot update your world position, so therefore players cannot target you correctly to raise you. Logging out while dead = no ressurection. This is the same bug that prevents being raised if you die in the air.
Issue: I see characters around me but they don't respond when I talk to them in public chat and they tell me they aren't where you see them.
Again, take a step forward. Because of this feature (bug) other characters are not updated as well and will vanish when you move.
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This thread died out :( Ok Time to add a few more :)
Issue: How do I make a mob scanner?
Edit a blank hotkey by right clicking it and "Edit Hotkey" (note which bank and key this is)
Pull the first list down and select "Text Command" and on the right text entry, type /select mobname (mobname = name of mob you are looking for)
Press the button with the + (plus)
now add a "Wait" and "3" seconds and press the + button
now add an "Execute Hotkey" "bank / button" (which should be the hotkey you are editing) and press the + button.
Pick a nice icon for the button and <SAVE> it.
Issue: I am doing my ROP and can't target the needed mobs to use my phylactry on.
Drag your phylactry to a hot key.
Edit the hotkey (as descrbed previously)
Add "Text command" and "/select mobname (Kaa, Lem, Shadow Dragon, etc) press the + button
Take your mouse pointer and click on the text command (#2) and drag it up so it becomes (#1)
Press <Save>
Every time you press the hotkey, it will select your mob and use the phylactry on them. No mess, No smell!
Re: Tips and Tricks! (Known player workarounds for bugs or other issues)
Issue: I have a tool that requires a certain skill level to use, but it won't let me equip it. Yet, when I go to craft, it says I have a high enough skill when I'm in the crafthall.
Solution: The skill applied by a crafthall is only available when you have a crafting window open. It is then added to your current skill. At that point, you should be able to equip the higher skill requirement tool. The tool will remain equipped even after the craft window is closed, even though your skill will drop back below. Recommendation: equip and process at an expert shop or t6 lair chamber (+75 and +90 skill boosts, respectively), if possible.
I've noticed that some people have not seen this sort of skill boost before, so I figured adding the tip here may help.
Re: Tips and Tricks! (Known player workarounds for bugs or other issues)
Issue:
I cannot open dialogues with NPCs. I highlight the NPC and then click greet (or right click) and wait 10+ min and they refuse to gimme their dialogue.
Solution: Check your chat panel settings. One of the checkboxes says "/tell". ONE of your chat panels MUST have this checked! Don't worry, player tells will not go to that window, if you have "send tells to new chat tab" enabled. NPC dialogue is considered a /tell and if you have no chat windows that are able to take /tells, you will never see NPC dialogue.
Re: Tips and Tricks! (Known player workarounds for bugs or other issues)
Issue: I hit a red wall when flying to the satry isles or drakul
If you are an ancient dragon then fly to max height and you will be able to fly over the red wall
Issue: I cannot zoom out the camera on my character
Switch from 3rd person mode to 1st person mode and back again. This should reset the camera (providing you don't have a wall etc behind you)
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Issue:
I got a new PC/harddrive and still have the latest Istaria version on my old PC/harddrive, how can I get it over on my new PC/harddrive? And I don't want to loose my setting and mods!
When you just copy your latest Istaria version to the new PC/harddrive, it won't launch because there is no regestry entry.
- Get your Horizons box or download the game from the istaria.com page and install the game on your new PC/harddrive.
- After the install, copy your old Istaria folder over the install you just did.
- Istaria should now work like it did before, but full scan is recommended because here are some files that need to be cleaned up by the patcher.
Re: Tips and Tricks! (Known player workarounds for bugs or other issues)
Trick: Extending the distance to the vault keeper NPC
If you have a 1 item or 10 item cargo disk in your vault, you can open it up and put things in it while in the vault. keep the inventory window open for that cargo disk. Any time you are within 15m of a vaultkeeper you can access those items in the disk as if the disk were anchored and nearby.