Meridian 59 User's Guide

Table of Contents

 

Preface

About This Document

 

How this Manual is Organized

 

Getting Started

Hardware Requirements

 

Installing Meridian 59

 

About Your Server

 

Your Character

Customizing Your Character

 

Name

 

Appearance

 

Statistics

 

Spells

 

Skills

 

Growing Your Character

 

Saving Your Character

Death and Suicide

 

Death

 

Suicide

 

The World of Meridian 59

 

The World Screen

About Screen Windows

 

The Action Window

Move Around

 

Look Around

 

Pick Things Up, and Put Them Down

 

Find Out About Those Other People

 

Find Out About Objects

 

Fight

 

See What Time It Is

 

Use the Map

 

The Chat Window

 

The Game Menu

Connect

 

Disconnect

 

Preferences

 

Change Password

 

The Options Menu

Large Graphics Area

 

Animation

 

Music

 

Sounds

 

Colors

 

Fonts

 

Save Settings Now /Save Settings On Exit

 

The Spells Menu

The Actions Menu

 

Who is logged on

 

Ignoring Someone

 

Modify Groups

 

Set Aliases

 

Guild Configuration

 

Wave/Point/Happy/Sad/Neutral/Wry

 

The Help Menu

Contents

 

About...

 

The Tool Bar

 

The Chat Window

 

Your Character

 

Status Bars

 

Your Worldly Goods

Using An Item

 

Looking At An Item

 

The Stats, Spells, and Skills Buttons

Stats

 

About Karma

 

Spells

 

Skills

 

People

Real-Time Chat

 

Sending A Message

 

Group Communications

Creating a New Group

 

Talking To a Group

 

Tell Friends let's meet at the fountain in Tos.

 

Adding Members to A Group

 

Deleting Members From A Group

 

Eliminating A Group

 

Viewing A List of Current Groups

 

Listing All Members of A Single Group

 

Making Your Communications Bold And Colorful

Using Body Language

 

Talking to Permanent Residents

 

Newsglobes

Using Newsglobes

 

Meridian Mail Service

 

Who's Who: Meridian Social Structure 101

The Guardians

 

Murderers and Outlaws: About Player Killing

 

Murderers

 

Outlaws

 

Guilds

Joining A Guild

 

Creating A New Guild

 

Achieving Maturity

 

Administrative Fees

 

Managing Your Guild

Membership

 

Rank

 

Exile

 

Support

 

Abdicate to:

 

Leave Guild

 

Alliances

 

Invite

 

Change Guild Password

 

Abandon Guild Hall

 

Disband Guild

 

About Guild Rankings

 

Creating Your Guild Hall

 

Paying Rent

Taking A Guild Hall by Force

 

Conquest By Enemy Guild

 

Conquest by Allied or Neutral Guild

 

Conquest By Mercenary

 

Conquest By Betrayal

 

Words of Wisdom

 

 

Places

Main Attractions: In The Cities and Towns

 

Deposit Money

 

Withdraw Money

 

Check balance

 

Main Attractions: Beyond The Town Walls

 

Monsters and Other Wildlife

 

Things: Your Worldly Goods

Looking At An Item

 

Picking Up An Item

 

Equipping Items

 

Dropping Items

 

Buying Items

 

Selling Items

 

Carrying & Protecting Your Booty

 

Skills and Spells

 

Weapons

Using Your Weapon

 

Weapon Enhancement & Repair

 

Basic Tactics

 

Armor

Using Armor

 

Enhancement & Repair

 

Skills

Acquiring Skills

 

Honing Your Skills

 

Challenge Combat: The Arena

Challenging The Champion

 

Claiming The Title

 

Magic

Acquiring Spells

 

Casting Spells

 

Improving Your Spellcasting

 

Enchanted Items

 

Potions

 

Circlets

 

Weapons and Armor

 

Food, Drink, and Rest

 

How to Reach Us

3DO Customer Service

 

Credits