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{{Stendhal Development Meeting 2010-06-08}}

The next meeting is planned for Sunday 20th June at 2000-2100 server time (do <code>/info</code> in game to check server time) which is 1800-1900 GMT.

===Stendhal introduction translation===
*[[:Category:Stendhal Introduction]] has some translations for the [[Main_Page#Stendhal|Stendhal introduction text]] and we asked for help:
:*New translations of the text for other languages
:*Corrections to existing translations
*Perhaps the [[StendhalRuleSystem|Rules]] should be translated too?
*Other projects have started to translate the game itself into other languages but it is not something our team pursues, and the other teams seem to give up after a short time

===Help for new players===
*It is really nice when higher level players help lower level players but we cannot force this
*Mostly people think the system of help from other players already works well and they are grateful for help
*The reward is feeling involved

===Costumes===
*New costumes can be made from [http://charas-project.net/charas2/index.php charas] or by hand
*We should explain the Graphics specification at [[StendhalRefactoringGraphics]]

===Equipping items===
*New players don't realise how to equip armor
*A tutorial event to explain this when you get new armor would help
*If you could see the 'character' window of another player you can see what they wear and so if they understood about equipment yet
*A guided tutorial which you work through was suggested (explaining all skills needed)

===Min level for more items===
*Lower level items don't yet have min levels
*It was suggested it would be fairer to add them
*You can make a list of the itemname and the level plus a reasoning of what that min level fits

===Marking dangerous areas===
*Zones where the creatures are dangerous for your level could have a warning
*RP is balanced enough that we can calculate danger levels, we'd need to include creature numbers
*Perhaps it is simpler just to mark the zones dangerous for low level players and draw it directly on the maps
*A list of zones with a minimum level may also help
*It's not decided how the warning would appear visually - skull and crossbones is an idea

===Marking paths on the minimap===
*Marking paths on the minimap would help new and old players
*They shouldn't use non-PVP (protected) areas just to do the marking, it should be a new map layer
*We need help drawing the paths: <player>pimp</player> was the first volunteer