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<h2>Welcome to Deliantra</h2><br /> |
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<a class='button' href='about.html'>Introduction</a> |
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<a class='button' href='faq.html'>FAQ</a> |
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<a class='button' href='history.html'>History</a> |
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<b>Deliantra is Free</b> |
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Deliantra is <a href='http://www.fsf.org/resources/what-is-fs'>free software</a> (some say 'open source'). |
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In addition, there are no premium accounts. You don't |
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have to pay money to access the rest of the world or to |
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get decent equipment for your character. |
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Deliantra is a cooperative multiplayer RPG and adventure game set in a classical medieval |
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environment with ubiquitious weapons and magic. The game play is quite similar in style |
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and setting to the venerable games Nethack and Moria. Deliantra, however, is fully |
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graphical and runs in realtime. |
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What makes Deliantra special is its depth and the sheer amount of maps to explore. |
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The world is vast, with over 4000 lovingly hand-designed maps organized into multiple |
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continents. There are hundeds of monsters to fight, including epic bosses lurking in the |
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depths of Deliantra's dungeons. With 16 unique races, 17 |
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classes, 40 skills, and hundreds of spells to choose from and combine with each other, gameplay |
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in Deliantra is complex and full-featured. The gameplay is also very open and sets very |
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few limits on character development. Of course, the best part about gameplay in an MMORPG like |
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Deliantra is the fun that is to be had by playing cooperatively with |
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others exploring the same world. |
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<h2>Gameplay Details</h2> |
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The official Deliantra server is designed to make gameplay fun and engaging. Because of |
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this death is not permanent, and it causes no stat depletion or loss of items to other players. |
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Although there is a slight experience point penalty when you die, if you survive the test of gods you can |
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even get away with no experience loss. Currently the test of the gods is the classic game |
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Minesweeper, so if you are careful you can die without any loss of experience at all. |
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In addition, game play is tailored to make cooperation easy and enjoyable. Friendly spell |
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fire causes no damage, so you can fire area of effect spells without wounding your |
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friends. In addition, if you summon pets or monsters to help you they will not block or |
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attack your friends. |
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For those who like PvP it is possible to set your player state to hostile and fight with |
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other players who have done the same. However, everyone starts out in a friendly state that |
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provides invulnerability from other players, even if they have their player state set to |
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hostile. |
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Even though it is free Deliantra is also reliable. The server is monitored 24 hours a day and |
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will be automatically restarted in case of problems. If you do experience problems the |
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admins can be reached via IRC: server irc.schmorp.de (alternatively irc.plan9.de), |
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channel #schmorp, user(s) schmorp or elmex. |
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Or you can reach the admins by sending email to: support@deliantra.net. |
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For extra protection player files and other data is backed up every 15 minutes to a remote |
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location. Backup history for the past 3 months is available. |
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