Vet's Newbie Help

From LSWiki

The purpose of the Document... is to try to help a new player learn the basics of LostSouls, and some nice hints/tips ive picked up from playing.

Contents 1 Starting out 2 Talking 3 Global Movement 4 Skills 4.1 Combat

Starting out

So, you start out with the Human, pre-made character, nothing wrong with it to start out with, but well deal with that later...

The first thing you should learn to do is how to walk, talk, send tells, and use the newbie channel.

LS (LostSouls) has 4 basic movement commands.

north, south, east, and west.

To move, just type them. (note - you can also abreviate them, ex n = north, e = east ect ect ect...) You can also move nw = northwest, se = southeast, ne = northeast, and sw = south west (when the movement is allowed.) All of those commands can have a Up, of Down direction added to them, this is because the map of LS, is 3D.

ex - typing 'seu' will make you go southeast, and upward.

Talking

So now that your able to move, maybe talking is a good thing to learn next. To talk, use the command 'say'

ex - say hi <- will result in You say, "hi"

Be in mind that all NPCs/Players might not speak your language.

Using the say command is important when interacting with NPCs, and other players in game.

There are lines of communication, that bypass distance, allowing players to talk no matter how far away they are, unlike 'say' only lets you communicate with things in the same room as you.

A important one that you will use a lot is the Neophyte channel. This channel is made specifically for players called 'the Wardens" to help new players out with questions/concerns they have.

To use the Neophyte channel, simply type...

newbie [your message]

This will result in something like -

#Neophyte Vetallas# Hi everyone

Use that channel if you have any questions about anything, and someone will help you.

There are also many other channels you can talk over, the 'OOC' channel is the most used one.

To show the channels you can use simply type "show channels" which will bring up a box looking somewhat like this

/---------------------------- Channels of Simaos -----------------------------\
| Channel       Type     #   Info                                             |
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<
| announce      other    20  OOC                                              |
| balance       other    9                                                    |
| devhelp       support  20  OOC                                              |
| emergency     support  20  priority, OOC                                    |
| ooc           other    20  OOC                                              |
| shapeshifter  guild    3                                                    |
\-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/

You can also block channels from appearing if they cause to much spam.

ex - OOC -

To block the channel simply type in the name of the channel with a '-' after it.

To un-block the channel, do the same, but with a '+'

ex - OOC +

Global Movement

Think of the LS world like a grid.

There is one huge grid, (the global map), which is broken down into smaller grids, (regions)

Cimbra is a region, in the main grid.

Every region is made of a 81x81 room box. so, this means the values of a room can be from -40, to +40.

Well talk about the gird as if its 2D for now

so, LostHaven (the main town of LS) is at -21, -24 Cimbra.

This means it is 21 rooms west and 24 rooms south of the center of the region.

Every room on the grid as a X, Y, and Z value (ignore Z for now)

ex - You determine that you are at the coordinates -21, -24, 0 in Cimbra...

To move up on the X-axis, move east, to move down on the X-axis, move west

ex - If im at -21, -24. moving 1 west, will put me at -22, -24.

To move up on the Y-axis, go north. To move down on the Y-axis, go south.

ex - If im at -21, -24. moving 1 north will put me at -21, -23

Test yourself by moving to Stillwater from Lost Haven

Still Water, is at -11, -27. Thus meaning you must move 10e, and 3s.

-21 + X = -1, X must = +10, so you must move up on the X axis.
-24 + Y = -27, Y must = -3, thus meaning you must move down on the Y axis.

Or, using multiple direction commands, you could move 3se, and 7e, as i mentioned in the starting of the page.

'The Z axis is used for areas such as mountains, oceans, inside the earth, and air (if you can fly), so be mindful of your surroundings.'

Skills

Skills effect everything you do.

In LS, we have a specialty point system, which determines how many points you can have in a skill.

A skill without a specialty point in it, will only be able to go as high as 40, which is fairly low, But with 1 point added, the new cap is 80.

3 points = 120, 4 points = 150...ect ect ect

For every 10 points you have in a attribute, you will have 1 specialty point to put into a skill for that attribute.

ex - Your Strength is 80, therefor, you have 8 specialty points for Strength.

Use the command show specialty points to view how many you have, have assigned, and can use.

To view your current rating in a skill, use the command show skill [skill name]

A few commands you might want to play around with...

show specialties [skill name, or attribute name]
show specialty access [skill name, or attribute name]

Combat

You have a few ratings that determine how well you are in combat, almost everything effects these ratings. Skills, Attributes, How dark it is, where you are, how big you are...the list goes on