Update2: There.com
I have posted about There.com twice before, but I am back to post another one since I have learned a lot of tricks in the past month. Most importantly, make sure you run the There Tweaker that is included with the program. You’ll find that under START/PROGRAMS/THERE in the start menu. With this utility, you can set your screen resolution for the game, as well as the graphics engine. The default is 800×600. I have been using this game (I call it a game) for a while now and never knew it. I bumped it up to 1024×768, which is so much better, especially for the browser windows that come up in the program. I also tried changing my graphics engine to DirectX instead of OpenGL, but I soon changed it back. My computer is slow and OpenGL runs smoother on my machine. I don’t know if this is true for everyone. I don’t know if one graphics option is better than another. It’s too bad that the program can’t take advantage of DirectX 9, but I guess doing so would alienate people out with older graphics cards.
To enhance There, pay a visit to the Thumdar website. On this site, you can download add-ons and make use of scripts to alter the There environment. So far, I have only tried the sound replacements, but the amount of stuff to tinker with is intriguing. Also on their site, they have a complete list of all the emotes that can be used in There. Not all of them work for me, leading me to believe that I need to use a Thumdar add-on to enable the entire list. I don’t yet know how easy it is to uninstall these add-ons.
If you want to ratchet up your skill levels, search the Groups for “Whippaa’s Hillside Mansion.” Once you are invited in, it keeps your avatar from going to an away status when you are not using the computer. While in the mansion, jump on your board, backpack, or bike and walk away from the computer. When you come back later, the game will have raised your skill rating on that particular item, thinking you were really using it the whole time. As you raise your skill rating, you are awarded more freebies, and ultimately increase your There FunPass. The other day I earned a silver FunPass! For more for tips and tricks, visit Therefan.com.
Good stuff! The reason all the emotes aren’t working is because you don’t have the hacked emotes installed. Just look for “Hacked Emotes V2.2.8″. I set it up with an installer so it’s a snap. Feel free to shoot me an email if I can help!
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