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Time Commitment

2010-11-15T02:28:55Z

Ogyhyvala:

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How much time it takes to play DarkWind comes up on occasion, so this page has been created to record a variety of events and how long they took to complete.

Most events give each player 30 seconds per car to plan their move. Some events allow a custom turn-amount, but the majority are set for 30 seconds. The more cars a player controls the more time they get to plan their move, or moves as the case may be.

Obviously, the times will be approximate, and the more human players are involved the longer the game will take as each person has to plan their move.
>== Town Events ==
Times for town events are based on reasonably functioning vehicles. If your vehicle gets damaged to a point where you can't get above 40 MPH, the event is going to take much longer than 'normal'.

* 2-lap race on Somerset Junkyard Track 2, with a single human player, 5 NPCs: approximately 15 minutes
* 4-lap race on Northern Speedway, with 3 human players, 3 NPCs: approximately 45 minutes
* 2-lap deathrace on Somerset Junkyard Track 1, with a single human player, 8 NPCs: approximately 20 minutes
* 4-lap race on Somerset Junkyard Track 3, with 1* human player, 11 NPCs: approximately 15 minutes
** The race started with 2 human players, but one was absent and auto-resigned after 5 turns.
* 3-lap race on Somerset Dirt Track, with a single human player, 12 NPCs: approximately 15 minutes

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== Wilderness Events ==
Approximate times for scouts, or wilderness events, should be taken with a pillar of salt (or the entire mine), as the number of variables is extreme.

* Single car (LandRunner) against 2 enemy vehicles: approximately 10 minutes from event spawn to return to lobby

'''NOTE:''' Times listed for single car scouts should be '''NOT''' be taken as a recommendation to solo scout. As noted elsewhere in this wiki, solo scouting is ''extremely'' dangerous.

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Talk:Gladiator

2010-11-15T01:12:29Z

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Talk:Veteran Gang

2010-11-15T01:04:49Z

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Talk:Gallowglass

2010-11-15T01:04:15Z

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Talk:Gangs

2010-11-14T22:49:58Z

Ogyhyvala:

>* Is there a reason the section on lying characters was removed? I haven't found any indication in the Forums that characters now tell the truth about their skills. Did it change, and if so when?

==== Lying Liars ====
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It is important to note that the characters you will be recruiting '''lie'''. If you are recruiting for someone with the Driving skill you will be
presented with a list of people who '''say''' they have the skill you need. That doesn't mean they actually have that skill.
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Until your Fame reaches the triple digits (about 400), you should consider yourself lucky if your new recruit is also honest.

*Sorry, I forgot to put in a comment. It changed a few weeks ago - characters that would previously have lied now recruit with the correct skill, but only 15 points. I have a couple of characters in Texan to prove it :)

There was never a formal announcement that I can find, but sam posted about it in one of the mammoth factions threads:

http://www.dark-wind.com/forums2/index.php?a=topic&t=10306

*That info should be in here someplace shouldn't it? Perhaps a modification to the '''Lying Liars''' section:

==== Lying Liars ====
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It is important to note that the characters you will be recruiting may '''lie'''. If you are recruiting for someone with the Driving skill you will be
presented with a list of people who '''say''' they have the skill you need. That doesn't mean they actually have that skill. A character who lied to
you will be recruited with the desired skill a bit lower than normal (15 instead of 20 or more).
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Troubleshooting Guide

2010-11-14T22:22:48Z

Ogyhyvala:

>== Problems connecting to an event ==

Restarting the client can help in some cases, but if you get this repeatedly it's usually a firewall/router issue, darkwind needs ports 28000-28005 open (possibly higher than 28005 depending on the amount of event servers) on both UDP and TCP (''not sure if TCP is really needed'')

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== Problems running the game ==
Make sure your video card drivers are up to date.

On Windows, if you don't have the ''Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package'' already (possibly from installing another application) then download and install it from this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32bc1bee-a3f9-4c13-9c99-220b62a191ee&displaylang=en

== Problems patching the game ==
If you're running Vista you should be running the game as administrator (right click on the .exe and choose "run as administrator"). Otherwise the patcher might not have write access to the files/folders it needs to update.

== Problems loading the Lobby ==

If you can launch the client, and it appears to connect properly, but the Lobby interface doesn't load completely, you can check the port it is using by checking this web page:

[http://www.dark-wind.com/lobbyPort.php Lobby Port Check]

The Lobby ''should'' be finding the proper port automagically, but if it doesn't you can enter the port reported by the above link in the ''Port'' field in the Lobby, and that should resolve the issue.

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