Exploring the World In Tibia

Exploring the World In Tibia by faye
in Computer Games (submitted 2010-01-25)


Travelling the world of Tibia is part of the fun. However, adventurers need to know some basic things before they can start out to explore the world they are living in.

A note in advance: Before exploring a new area or dungeon it is a good idea to ask a veteran player what to expect. Remember you could get lost or run into the arms of some unfriendly creature!

a) Wilderness There are many settlements, but for the most part they are nothing but isolated outposts of civilisation in a land that otherwise is wild and unforgiving. The wilderness is full of dangers, and even though there are some well-kept roads travelling is always risky. The following is a list of things you may encounter on your travels.

Blueberry Bushes: The popular Tibia blueberries grow on these bushes. To pick berries simply right-click on the bush and select "Use". Grass: While grass is not as well suited for travelling as roads are, your character will be able to move reasonably fast on it. Jungle Grass: Highly grown jungle grass is impassable. However, adventurers can remove it using machetes. Loose Stone Piles: You should watch out for loose stone piles, since they are usually reliable indicators that there is a hidden entrance to a dungeon. You can open the entrance by using a shovel on the stone pile. Roads: Roads are built for travelling, and on no ground will your character move faster than on a road. Sand: Not surprisingly, sand is quite common in desert areas. It is fairly good to travel on. Snow: While your characters are quite immune against its cold, snow will slow them down considerably. Swamp: The eastern regions of Tibia are full of treacherous swamps. Swamps cannot be entered, so you will have to find a way around them. Trees: A common sight in Tibia. It is not possible to cut down trees. Water: Even though there is a special underwater area it is not possible to move on water fields, so to cross rivers or other bodies of water you will have to find a bridge or perhaps a ferry. Be careful when handling items close to water, because any items thrown into it are lost forever. It is possible to fish in water fields by using a fishing rod onto them. However, note that fishing may not work with certain water fields, or if a fish has recently been caught in the field you are fishing in. Wheat: Wheat is cultivated in many areas on Tibia. Once it is ripe it can be harvested by using a scythe. A bunch of wheat can be used to bake the delicious Tibia bread. b) Dungeons The world of Tibia is ancient, and many different civilisations have left their mark on it. There are mysterious ruins and long-forgotten dungeons everywhere, and these remnants of past glory are now ideal hideouts for the many dangerous creatures that roam the land. Dungeons come in many forms, but there are one or two things players should know. Pay attention to the ground you are moving on, because dungeon floors are often muddy, and your character will be much slower than usual when moving on such ground. Also, note that dungeon floors can conceal secret holes. Use a pick axe on the floor to find out if there are secret openings. To go down a hole move your character onto it. However, note that you need a rope if you wish to climb up a hole. Place your character on the floor next to a rope spot and use a rope on it. Note that it is also possible to rope up other characters or creatures from above if they are placed below a hole.

c) Transportation Even though the Tibian oceans are notoriously difficult to sail there are some fearless captains who brave the treacherous waters. These weather-beaten men of the sea will take you to almost any place for a hefty fee, provided you are a premium player. If you are on a ship from or to the Ice Islands and happen to arrive in a large crowd of Tibia adventurers, Buddel and his colleagues Svenson, Carlson and Nielson can bring you to a random nearby place outside their ship. Just greet them and ask for a kick. Note that this does not work in Svargrond. Also, there is a flying carpet service which is famous for its convenient travels and the unrivalled speed of transportation. Unfortunately, though, this service is only available in very few places. Finally, there are rumours of an underground connection between the dwarven city of Kazordoon and the small island of Cormaya. It is said this service relies on mysterious dwarven technology, but as of yet, no hard evidence has been found that could prove the truth of these reports. Kazordoon, however, has a very unique transportation system available for all Tibia adventurers. Within the city, little ore wagons serve the 5 most important locations: depot, shopping quarter, temple, steam boat and main gate. Once you have paid your weekly fare at Lokur in the depot, hop in the correct wagon and get quickly to the destination of your choice. Thanks for your reading,and hope this section will help you to understand much more about the world of Tibia.

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Eastlake Homes And Foreclosures

Eastlake Homes And Foreclosures by Rob Presley
in Family (submitted 2010-01-24)


Eastlake is a very well planned "master planned" community in a large easterly, previously undeveloped portion of the southern part of San Diego. It is part of Chula Vista and consists of over 3,000 acres, contains roughly 9,000 homes, and has many new and modern community features. Eastlake is a brand new town on the edge of San Diego with new everything built by numerous residential and commercial builders over the last decade or so.

Making Eastlake homes unique and highly desirable is the closeness of the many new full blown and unique recreation, shopping, and schools in the immediate area. Eastlake is home to a lot of the "quality of life" features you want in a community. Within, what feels like a 2 mile radius on Eastlake's newer 3 lane main roadways lies the ARCO year round Olympic Training Center, The Eastlake Shores man made lake (large enough for paddle boats and shoreline fishing), The Eastlake Greens Golf Course, The Otay Lake (large enough for boat fishing), The Otay Ranch Town Center Shopping Mall and Entertainment Center built and opened in 2006 and contains over 120 upscale retail stores, restaurants, boutiques, and a state of the art (and comfort) AMC Theaters.

Eastlake home owners are by enlarge families and also appreciate the 3 new elementary schools, new high school, and many new and large parks with recreation centers, sports fields, dog parks, horse trails, and more located throughout the Eastlake communities.

Most Eastlake homes were built in the past 7 years including some homes that are still being built today. Numerous new home builders took part in developing Eastlake and they built mostly similar "mini-mansion" type 2,000-4,000 Sq. Ft. homes with stucco exteriors, tile roofs, and upgrades throughout.

However there is dark side to Eastlake. When the housing downturn struck it hit Eastlake homes very quickly. Most of the Eastlake home owners had recently just bought their home, essentially at what turned out to be at or around the peak of the market. Many foreclosures in Eastlake occurred quickly in the initial stage of the housing downturn and it had a domino effect creating many more Eastlake foreclosures. Prices were lowered by healthy amounts quickly, more significantly than any other area of San Diego homes with any where near the same quality of master planned community and new infrastructure features.

For the past 3 years the vast majority of the homes for sale in Eastlake have been foreclosures or short sales priced 30-40% below their peak values. Eastlake currently has home prices that when combined with today's interest rates make it truly cheaper to own than to rent the same home in most cases. In addition to Eastlake homes and foreclosures being priced at numbers that are cheaper to own than to rent, they are also priced below reasonable building costs and are also cheaper to buy than to build yourself.

Because of its unique circumstances all the stars are aligned for 2009 and later Eastlake home and foreclosure buyers as Eastlake now offers great bargains at today's prices. Because of these factors values have more than stabilized in Eastlake and have now been stable for at least the last 12+ months.

Combine the new home value, the new master planned community and all it's features value, and the cheaper than rent home ownership costs together and you have a winning formula for a home purchase. If you are looking for a great place to live and raise a family and want a home priced under $500 in a great San Diego community then visit Eastlake, look at the homes and community, and crunch the numbers and you'll likely put Eastlake high on your list. There isn't much down side to owning a home for less than the cost of rent and Eastlake foreclosure homes may likely turn out to be one of the best San Diego Home buying opportunities around.

About the Author

Rob Presley is a 20 year San Diego Real Estate Expert with over a billion dollars of San Diego Real Estate Sales, Financing, and Construction experience.

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Costa Rica Ecotourism, Magnificent Corcovado National Park

Costa Rica Ecotourism, Magnificent Corcovado National Park by Victor Krumm
in Travel (submitted 2010-01-24)


Interested in Costa Rica ecotourism?

There is a little known gem called Corcovado.

Know of it? No? Well, neither have most other people.

Corcovado National Park (Parque Nacional Corcovado) may be the Amazon of Costa Rica. With good reason. The little park, merely 42,000 hectares (about 100,000 acres) in size, is explored on the Osa Peninsula, situated along the south Pacific shoreline of Costa Rica, close to the Panama border.

This is the largest remaining primary forest in Latin America.

When Captain Christopher explored the Americas in 1502 he sailed the Caribbean from Mexico south on to a land he called 'Costa Rica', the 'rich coast'. For more than five centuries the name has remained.

Tremendous tropical forests blanketed the area from the Atlantic to the Pacific back then and there were such large numbers of marine turtles that sometimes seafarers, lost in the fog, found land by means of listening to the sounds of tens of thousands of paddling in to nesting beaches.

Sadly, the passage of 500 years hasn't been kind to either the forests or animals and today the majority of the primary forests from Mexico to South America have been cut down or simply burned. Happily, Costa Rica had the foresight to preserve Corcovado.

Columbus never visited Corcovado. The first Western traveler to see it was Sir Frances Drake.

Name strike a bell? He is the sea captain who demolished the Spanish Armada in 1588 and protected England from Spain. A few years before that famous encounter, he dropped anchor just north of the Osa Peninsula in a beautiful area today named after him: Drake Bay. The bay serves as the gateway to Corcovado.

Despite the fact that Corcovado is extremely little, merely about 20 miles in length and 8 miles wide----less than half the size of New York City--- it might be, as National Georgraphic says: the most biologically intense place on the planet.

Consider this: They're 400 various species of birds crammed within this teeny place. Compare that to the U.S. which has approximately 900.

The most significant remaining Latin America population of the magnificent, and increasingly scarce, scarlet macaws is still here.

The Corcovado mammal species account for 10% of the varieties of mammals found in all of the Americas and they exist on just .000101777 percent of the earth's land. Additionally, 116 kinds of reptiles and amphibians and 139 different species of mammals.

To put this park's size in context, it would fit it into American's Yellowstone National Park at least 22 times!

Yet, it hosts six types of wild cats, among them the impressive jaguar and puma.

For anybody who is a fan of amphibians (I am talking about frogs here) Corcovado is really a fantastic place to find the glass frog, poison-arrow frogs, and the rare red-eyed tree frog.

It is also one of the few places in Costa Rica you will find squirrel monkeys.

You might look for fishing bats hunting for fish above the estuaries and rivers in the evening. This park is believed to be one of the remaining stands of the Harpy Eagle which is quite possibly on its way to extinction in Costa Rica.

At Corcovado, you will discover kilometer after kilometer of apparently deserted beaches. I say apparently because, though they look deserted, in fact these beaches provide nesting grounds for enormous leatherback turtles (weighing more than half a ton), Pacific Ridley, green and hawksbill sea turtles.

Tapirs are abundant and provide prey for ferocious jaguars and crocodiles. The footprints of these large cats are frequently seen along the muddy trails around the Corcovado Lagoon and they may also be sighted frequently. Carry your camera and stay alert!

Corcovado is one of the greatest tropical rainforests remaining. On your Costa Rica vacation, you will see why it is referred to as the Amazon of Costa Rica since it is as extraordinary as any rain forest in Brazil, Indonesia, or Malaysia.

Torrential rains fall in the area from April to December so the best time to tour is in the dry months from January to April.

About the Author

Victor C. Krumm writes from sunny Costa Rica in his beautiful Costa Rica Vacations site. Visit here to learn more from wonderful Costa Rica Eco Tourism opportunities.