Here it is 2 years later.

• The walkways in Tazoon are still unstable for some seconds upon arriving. 
• The game still overloads after 4-5 hours and freezes.
• Still need to use Full setting to enter game without Glitchs
• Takes awhile sometimes for Graphics to catch up,  floating names no player/NPC.  Shrine a large grey column. Buildings, what Buildings.

I cannot remember anymore, but I have experienced old bugs and glitches, hehe. Only thing is the Great Tazoon Lag Beast is gone. But I think that is Due more to the lower population then anything else.

Looks like I might come back to Horizons, but not for a few weeks    and just the small subscription.  I am a glutton for Mmorpgs  but on fixed Income.

I am sad to say that its my goodbye to Horizons.. i want to still play so badly. but i dont think i will be able to afford it anymore. RL has made some complications and i knew i could not play once the billing system was working again.... sadly i could not say my farewell in my game.. and i dont believe i will see aguas wings flap one last time... you can still contact me via my yahoo. or my hotmail. ill be around ... *HUGS CLOSE ALL HER FRIENDS AND PEOPLE OF ISTARIA* may ur wings, beat as proud as ur heart. and may your swords stay sharp.

much love

Agua Rush

Timeless

I have posted a small survey regarding some 99c charges people have been noticing.

Please see the post at: 

http://community.istaria.com/forum/showthread.php?p=155917

Please respond here .. or there, but it is not necessary to respond in both places.

So I had a drawn out argument today in MarketPlace on Chaos with a couple people that have completely differing viewpoints from my own. Part of the argument was me stating my opinion backed up by personal eperience, and part of it was just me wanting to argue with someone for a while because I'm a bit stressed out from work. :P

Anyway, it started (as most interactions these days do with the HZ community) with people telling me that my chat bot is stupid and should go to some private channel somewhere. then it evolved into why I'm doing it in the first place, and ym views on the state of the game in relation to the lack of development, and EI. In the end I probably alienated myself from half of the people who ever thought kindly of me in the past.

Now, about my program.

What it does:

1) Dump packets for study.

2) interpret sc-communication messages and relay them to a particular port

3) listen for data on another port, and relay that text as a new cs-communication message

When 2 and 3 are used together, a chat bridge can be made, such as my IRC chat proxy.

What it does not do:

1) Steal passwords

2) Automatiucally trade.

3) Automaticaly craft.

4) Automatically hunt.

5) Grant any wm powers.

6) Move the character.

What it could possibly do if given the motivation:

Steal passwords (given that it works by intercepting command line options)

Spoof /random rolls (verified)

Any player action that is initiated by a cs-... message, given an example of such an action to replicate.

Q. So if you can see all the packets, why are you only doing chat proxying?

A1. Simple answer: Because I'm stuck. Communication messages are very simple, and easy to reconstruct even without knowing why certain parts of the message contain certian bits of data. A chat proxy can be made with just this level of knowledge, so I did it.

A2. Complex answer: HZ uses XML for messages, as evidenced by the manifest. However, HZ sends the XML back and forth from the server in a binary form. Interpreting the message is not difficult given the manifest, net log entry, and message in a hex editor, but so far I've been unable to programatically parse messages and map them to their base XML fields. This means I'm stuck being able to manipulate only the simplest of messages that only have a few possible combinations of paramaters that can all be accoutned for. It also means that I have no hope of creating even the simplest of server emulators, one that just allows you to log in run around and chat, until I can figure it out.

Any other Qs? Answering them would be better than getting into another argument about EI.

Where's the Player Customization forum!? BAH!

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>_>

Editable posts! yay! 

    Somehow I deleted the stand alone launcher and all the version information. Is there somewhere I can get the updated game ? Well other than the site when its up. Or even just the stand alone launcher and let it update.

WHAT R U STILL DOING HERE GET ON!!!

hehe see u there :D

Yes I know I am ranting!

No I don't want to calm down!

Yes I would like a pound of Extra Dark Chocolate now!

So I had (Had being the main word) several hours today to play.... MY main day off ....

The day has become the maintence day FROM HELL!!!!!!!!!!

I'm Freakin Out Man! Freakin Out!

my account has been invalid since saturday, and now this, i hope it all get back to normal soon

JUST TRIED TO GET ON AGUA USING THE OTHER WAY I POSTED AND SAYS THAT SHARD IS UNDER MAINTENCE ... idk if that is a good sign but its better than what we have been getting :D

trying not to get hopes to high though...