Horizons: Gale Busy on the Forums

Zync: Anyone know where I can DL Horizons?
The other posters are correct. Currently the only way to obtain a copy of Horizons and a CD-Key, which is required to play, is to purchase a copy of the game from a retail outlet.

xixan: So, does AE condone macro'ing for levels and wealth?
As stated by David Bowman: http://horizonsvault.ign.com/features/askae/askae_j uly03.shtml

What will your stance be towards macroing of skills? Will you design the system so that it is impossible, will you attempt to curb it with disciplinary action, or will you simply allow it?

Skills are statistics that are used to calculate results of various actions taken by the character in the game. The skills themselves cannot be macro-ed, but perhaps the abilities that utilize them could. A sophisticated macro user could potentially develop a macro that would allow them to be in the game world 24/7 and increase their character's possessions or statistics. As long as this behaviour did not prevent other players from enjoying the game, then we would do nothing other than evaluate why a player would prefer to macro what should be fun. If the player's actions prevented other players from enjoying the game, they would be punished under the rules that govern all player's behaviour in Horizons.

Mercling: ...everytime I enter combat with a monster my char seems to stutter and lag really badly, he just stands there with his hands in the air for about 5 secs and the I get a rush of numbers. I . Other players also seem to have this problem as I've seen post about combat lag before, whats causing this and when is it likely to be resolved?

My second issue is with the loading of players and npcs, It appears that Horizons model system for players is on a layered basis, i.e one model such as a helm is placed on another model such as the players head, this creates terrible loading time as a fully clotherd player has 9 different model parts exculding any held objects and facial models such as hair, horns, beard ect and all of these items are textured. Is this correct and is it the reason behind the high loading time for players to appear?...
As others have pointed out, your first issue may be related to server lag and not your machine. I know the dev team is hard at work optimizing both the server and the client to provide a seamless gameplay experience.

As for your second issue, the same answer applies and it is something that we aware of.

Thanks for your feedback!

Jolan_Nederlander: Cant you turn these off [referring to debug logs] by turning off the debugging option in options or are these different logs?
Logging is turned off by default for all new installs. However, any existing installation will have it enabled until it is disabled in the options (Select Options from the menu, and it is the top item on the Options tab.)

Hope that saves some of you a bit of hassle.