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Wyvern Players Frequently Asked QuestionsThis section has commonly-asked questions by players, old and new. 
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Q: How do I use skills? A: By training with Trainers. Your character starts with some Skill Points. You can see how many you have by typing score. You use your Skill Points by spending them on training. To do this:
Training costs a lot of gold, but it's worth it. You can read about the available skills on the Skills Page. Q: Is there a place I can store things? A: Nope. Wyvern no longer has bank vaults or storage lockers. They were removed because they were causing game-balancing problems. People would hoard everything they found, and everyone suddenly had too much stuff. Players were giving away hundreds of fancy items to other players, and nobody actually had to work for anything anymore. Now we only let you save what you can carry. You can, however, use ATM machines in banks to deposit your gold coins between sessions. Q: How do I identify stuff? A: With spells, or using Identify Tables. Many shops (such as the Magic Shop in the newbie village) have tables that you can drop things on to identify them. It usually costs 20 gp to identify an item. Q: I have 2 items with the same name, and I want to sell/drop/eat/whatever the second one. How do I do it? A: sell/drop/eat item N A: Most commands in the game take a numeric argument. For example, If you have 2 rings of strength, and you want to sell the second one, type sell ring 2. You can also do stuff like put potion 3 in bag 2. You can also just right-click on the correct item in your inventory and choose a command from the popup menu. Q: Is there any way to tell which of two weapons is better? A: By shop price, or using the 'appraise' command. The shop value is usually (but not always) a pretty good indicator. You can also put skill points into the "blacksmith" skill, which allows you to appraise armor and weapons to see how good they are. The first point in the skill lets you see how damaged an item is, and subsequent points tell you more information about the weapon or armor. Keep in mind that there isn't always a "better" — for example, some weapons are lighter and faster but don't do as much damage. Weapons can do cut, stab or smash damage, or a combination of any of the three, so different weapons work better against different opponents. You should try out all the weapons and decide for yourself which ones you like best. Q: What are corpses for? A: They hold the monster's possessions, if any. Corpses are left by monsters when they die. Monsters don't always leave corpses. The monster's inventory will often be "in" its corpse, and you have to get <item> from corpse or get all from corpse to get the items out. You can eat monster corpses, but be careful, since some are poisonous. Q: What's the difference between ordinary and blessed? A: Being (blessed) sometimes makes the item better. There's now a note about this in the Advanced Section of the Player Manual. Q: What do I do with a used spellbook? A: Nothing at this time. Eventually we may make it so that carrying a spellbook gives you extra power when you cast that spell, but right now there's no use for them. Q: What do I do with a treasure pile? A: Try picking it up. Each time you try grabbing a treasure pile, you'll take some random treasure from the pile. Some people have accidentally managed to pick up the pile itself, but we think we've closed all those bugs. If it happens to you, please drop the pile and report a bug. Q: How do I do a quest? A: Ask the villagers for hints. You should chat with villagers (not players — you have to solve quests on your own unless you get permission from a senior wizard or higher to collaborate on a quest), asking them about the quest. That is to say, type talk quest or chat quest to each villager. You can also type talk <whatever> to see if the villager knows about specific subjects. For instance, if you think your quest has something to do with a sheep, you can talk sheep to all the villagers, to see if you can elicit any information about the creature.
The easiest quest is in New Verden — it's called Garignor's Amulet. It's entirely contained in a mansion on the east side of the village. Good luck! Q: Can't the map view get any larger? A: Not at this time. We might add this capability in the future. The basic reason is that a larger screen costs me more money. I'd have to send more network data to your client, and that's more expensive. I've made the screen as big as I can given my limited resources. You can resize the client window if you want — the graphical view won't get any bigger, but you can get a larger view of your inventory and the text-output area. You can also try the new "floating inventory" option in your View menu to pop your inventory out into a separate window. Q: Argh! Someone hacked my account and stole my character! How can I get it back? A: There is no way to get the character back. If somebody tried to brute-force the password on a character, we'd notice. The only way to log on as a char that isn't yours is by A) knowing the password, B) by being able to log in to the owner's email account and then using Wyvern's "forgot my password" form, or C) hacking the computer that runs Wyvern, rewriting the login code to accept a "universal password", recompiling it, and then triggering a reboot. We can't prevent the first two (well, we could remove the lost password form, but then we'd get people begging to change their password) and if the third happened it'd be quite obvious and we'd reload everyone from backups anyway. Assuming there hasn't been news about whatever email service they use being hacked, it usually means that either the owner gave out their password or played Wyvern someplace public and didn't clear out their password. If you lose control of your character, we'll just banish the character permanently. Q: How do I get a custom image for my character? A: Get into the Hall of Fame, then make one. First, you have to get into the Hall of Fame by reaching level 25. Then, you or another player can create the images needed. Be sure they meet the custom image guidelines. You can't use copyrighted images, and your player image still has to look like the same race. Once you've created the images, made sure they meet the guidelines, and gotten them named correctly, submit them to a Senior Wizard or higher for approval and uploading to the game. When you reach the HOF, you can ask a wizard to upload the image for you. We may eventually allow players to purchase custom images before reaching the HOF, and sometimes costumes can be purchased for special events.
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