EL miscellany

Miscellaneous info about NEW server at Eternal Lands

Note: Iron Helm added (5/5/04) to Manufacturing, please help fill in the ??

welcome to the new server:

You start your adventure at Wraith on IP, with 3 (or more) pickpoints available. You use those pickpoints in one of three ways (by requesting them from the Wraith). (pickpoints are determined by your overall xp, which increases when any of your other xp's increase, then sent thru the levels formula to generate your Overall level. Overall level will appear as nnn/yyy where nnn=pickpoints already used. and yyy=overall level) Pickpoints (pp) can be used to increase:

attributes - 1 pp per attribute point
nexuses - 1 pp per nexus
perks - several pp and varying gold, depending on the perk chosen (want more pickpoints? - choose a 'negative perk' and you'll get some, but forfeit certain rights/privileges forever!)

You can make, harvest, fight a lot of things from the beginning, but your failure rate will be high and raw-products/inventory losses will make it undesirable to try things that are above your skill level. There are some things that you CAN'T do; this is where the BOOKS and NEXUSes come into the act. In fact there are some things you CAN'T do at all unless you have researched the right books and obtained the right nexuses. (for instance, you CANNOT harvest (mine) iron ore until you have two inorganic nexuses AND have read (researched) ALL these books IN THE ORDER SHOWN: Metallurgy, Metal Mining, Iron Mining [this last one is a VERY big book, takes several hours to research!]): Research goes faster with a higher Rationality cross-attribute, so you want to spend some pickpoints here (via Will and Reasoning) before you dig into the books! Food gets consumed at a much higher rate for many of the manufacturable items, and many things cannot be done at all if you are hungry (food level at or below zero).

Rationality:
Rationality is a cross-attribute obtained from (Reasoning + Will) / 2 It has importance for two reasons (more may yet be discovered):

Research time (RT) is significantly reduced : RT = (research points) / rationality
Experience points are increased for everything you do: xp = xp(each item) + Rationality (to be tested: bone powder, xp=0 and not assigned to a skill)

Price changes:
Harvey now sells empty vials for 3 goldcoins plus 5 quartz, changed from 6 goldcoins and 5 quartz.
Taverns now buy raw meat for 1 gc, changed from 0.30 gc.
Fire essences once 7.5gp, now sell for 3gp.

storage:
Storage now has 100 slots vice 50
Serp stones can be stored (good thing, because it may be a long time before anyone can make a serpent sword!)
Raw meat is storable, under the 'Animal items' category
Food, including beverage CANNOT be stored
Books obtained from the library CANNOT be stored, RARE books CAN

the 4 cloaks have colors:

Excavator Cloak
Cost: 2900
Gives you the excavator perk, which doubles the quantity of resources you harvest.

Fast Regeneration Cape
Cost: 3400
Gives you the fast regeneration perk, which causes you to recover attributes, hits and mana 3 times as fast as normal.

Powersaving Cloak
Cost: 3800
Gives you the powersaving perk. Food level will not decrease if you are not researching anything and no stat is restored.

Conjurer Cape
Cost: 4500
Gives you the conjurer perk, which halves the mana needed for summoning.

Mirror Cloak
monster drop
Gives you the Mirror perk, which gives you a 10% chance that a hit received will be deflected and enemy takes damage.

	Excavator Cloak Cost: 2900 Gives you the excavator perk, which doubles the quantity of resources you harvest.
	Fast Regeneration Cape Cost: 3400 Gives you the fast regeneration perk, which causes you to recover attributes, hits and mana 3 times as fast as normal.
	Powersaving Cloak Cost: 3800 Gives you the powersaving perk. Food level will not decrease if you are not researching anything and no stat is restored.
	Conjurer Cape Cost: 4500 Gives you the conjurer perk, which halves the mana needed for summoning.
	Mirror Cloak monster drop Gives you the Mirror perk, which gives you a 10% chance that a hit received will be deflected and enemy takes damage.