Archive for June, 2011

A typical hour of Pardus use can see you generate around 15 Mb of traffic. Most of this traffic is generated as you download images that are shown on the Navigation screen.

You could easily be downloading as much as 450 Mb every month… maybe more if you play in several universes!

Cutting down on the amount of traffic you are downloading will improve the overall responsiveness of Pardus, and if you have to pay for an expensive data plan – you might save enough for a Premium Pardus Account!

Attention! This guide has been tested and proven to work 100% properly using the Windows 7 and Mac OS X operating systems with Firefox 3.5x, Firefox 4.x and Firefox 5 browsers. No extra extensions or scripts are required to get Firefox to read local image pack files… just follow the steps.

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The Waistelands is growing a new economy and we need to encourage traders to trade our buildings while we are off skilling, ranking or otherwise “doing something else”.

Up until recently the prices used in our buildings were heavily focused on providing a high profit margin to the building owner.

This meant the trader did a lot of hard work, using up their APs every day – and didn’t get a huge return for their efforts.

Conversely, the building owner, like an absent landlord, made a very good return – taking the lion’s share of profits for no ongoing effort.

As a result we have always struggled to find regular and reliable traders for our sectors.

To encourage traders to our sectors the focus on profits has had to change. We need to ensure that traders have a reason to trade our buildings – and to trade them regularly and reliably.

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