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I am a newbie (sorry), just discovered CF one week ago. I downloaded, compiled and installed the following files :
crossfire-1.5.0.tar.gz
crossfire-1.5.0.maps-big.tar.bz2
crossfire-client-1.6.0.tar.gz

Everything seems to work fine, but I saw in these forums that you're talking about serpentman. How come I can't play a serpentman? And how come that, on a friend's computer, using windows, the starting map is different (having 2 beginner dungeons, and the map looks bigger), and last, how come he got 1000 gold coins and 10000 diamonds in his appartments?

i just don't get hit.

Anonymous wrote:Everything seems to work fine, but I saw in these forums that you're talking about serpentman. How come I can't play a serpentman?

Someone was probably referring to a NPC. List of available races can be found from the Crossfire handbook;
http://crossfire.real-time.com/guides/h ... html#2.1.2

Anonymous wrote:And how come that, on a friend's computer, using windows, the starting map is different (having 2 beginner dungeons, and the map looks bigger), and last, how come he got 1000 gold coins and 10000 diamonds in his appartments?

Perhaps he has got another version of Crossfire maps? The stuff in his apartments should be his own

hoxu wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything seems to work fine, but I saw in these forums that you're talking about serpentman. How come I can't play a serpentman?

Someone was probably referring to a NPC. List of available races can be found from the Crossfire handbook;
http://crossfire.real-time.com/guides/h ... html#2.1.2

The serpentman race is available in a CVS version of Crossfire. It looks like you have downloaded the "stock" release of Crossfire from Feb-03

Sourceforge appears to be having problems at the moment, so I can't provide a link on where to download the a CVS version.

For the apartment containing gold & diamonds, that's what i did on my test server, so that players can buy apartment & extender to test stuff. Maybe your friend did the same thing.

As for bigger map & 2 beginners dungeons, this sounds like bigworld maps (versus small world maps), though from your description you did install those.