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A Change of Structure in General | |
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written Tuesday, April 25 2006 11:46
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Looks like I just increased the number of topics I've started by 25%. :) Aran, do you also plan to calculate each user's post distribution by forums, average number of posts per thread posted in (tendency to participate in debates), and other fun trivia? -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
What style of graphics would you like to see in Avernum 5? in General | |
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written Tuesday, April 25 2006 11:30
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Since Jeff is reading these boards, this might be a good time to discuss what kind of graphics we want to see in future Spidweb games. This poll is about graphics alone, rather than skill system, spells, or any other part of the games. Exile Trilogy / BoE category refers to Exile 1, Exile 2, Exile 3 and the user-made graphics for Blades of Exile. Since graphics changed during the course of the trilogy, please consider most recent / best graphics. Avernum Trilogy / BoA category refers to Avernum 1, Avernum 2, Avernum 3 and the user-made graphics for Blades of Avernum. Since graphics changed during the course of the trilogy, please consider most recent / best graphics. Avernum 4 category refers to Avernum 4, with its use of recolored images to represent different ranks of soldiers, Drakons recycled as Sliths, etc. Jeff had said that he can not afford to hire a team of professional artists, so what we see in A4 is what we are likely to get in A5 with this option. Finally, please take this poll seriously. If you want to have some fun, wait until question 4 of the poll. [ Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:32: Message edited by: Zeviz ] Poll Information This poll contains 4 question(s). 68 user(s) have voted. You may not view the results of this poll without voting. function launch_voter () { launch_window("http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=poll;d=vote;pollid=TpgNhcvPYNhc"); return true; } // end launch_voter function launch_viewer () { launch_window("http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=poll;d=view;pollid=TpgNhcvPYNhc"); return true; } // end launch_viewer function launch_window (url) { preview = window.open( url, "preview", "width=550,height=300,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status,menubar=no,scrollbars,resizable,copyhistory=no" ); window.preview.focus(); return preview; } // end launch_window -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General | |
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written Tuesday, April 25 2006 07:54
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The sequel is just as good as the original. Let's just hope there will not also be 3 prequels. :) Infernal, Plutonium is still available, if you want a famous radioactive substance used in weapons. quote:Minor characters still die in "everybody dies" endings. In fact, they die even faster than major ones. :) So I predict that you will have died from random friendly fire in Geneforge, or when Ur-Noob was searching for hiding Spidwebbers in General. quote:Don't worry, I am sure there are people here capable of building a particle accelerator. (*i is the first person who comes to mind.) [ Tuesday, April 25, 2006 08:03: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
Keeping your old pets around (GF2) in Geneforge Series | |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 15:47
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A cryoa that I kept from the start of the game (made it the same way you did) was half as strong as Dryak for about 1/10th of the cost by the time I could get Dryaks. Eventually I did get rid of it because of the 4 creature types limit (I had more essence than I knew what to do with by that point), but a pair of cryoas (along with some periodically-replaced creations) served me well for most of the game. I didn't even invest any additional essence into them, so all stat gain came from level-up. And a note about XP: the penalty is much smaller than the gain for other creations. (You lose about 20%, while your creations gain 100%.) Also, the higher your level, the less experience you get from killing same monsters and doing most quests, so there isn't much advantage in not making extra creations. [ Monday, April 24, 2006 15:48: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
Av1, 2, Total inept +plus brittle bones rocks in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 12:05
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If I am not mistaken, the amount of experience you get for killing things depends on level of your highest-level character. So the levels of all of your other characters were held back by the presence of that high-level disadvantaged priest. It sounds like you did fine anyway, but I wonder if you would have had easier time in the end-game with a more conventional party. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
Power Corrupts in General | |
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written Monday, April 24 2006 11:18
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quote:I am still curious about this, so I'll try again, this time with a more detailed explanation. By the way, could you summarize (or give a link to a summary of) Kant's argument. First let me switch steps 1 and 2 of the proof, because that doesn't change the meaning, but makes my arguments shorter: 1. A non-existent being is clearly less great than one which exists. 2. By definition, God is the greatest of all possible beings. 3. Therefore God must exist. Here is what you are doing in the proof: Step 0: Define a quantity X ("greatness") that can be compared for all beings. Step 1: Modify definition of X to say that it's greater for existing beings than for non-existing ones. (Let's say positive for existing beings, negative for non-existing ones.) Step 2: Define "God" (G) as a being that has the largest X (maxX) and a set of other qualities (Y). (Omnipotense and omniscentience are some of the qualities included in Y.) Step 3: G has maxX, so it must exist. The problem here is in Step 2, where you assume that an object G combines two sets of qualities: maxX (which implies existance) and Y (which doesn't). Just because this assumption is called "definition" doesn't make it true. It could be a false definition. It's true that there is an object O1 that exists and has maxX. (Because that's how we defined X.) It's also true that we can make up an object O2 which has Y, but doesn't necessarily exist. However, nothing in our proof implies that O1 = O2. To be more presice, we still have to prove that O1 and O2 are the same object. We can't just "define" an object G that is both O1 and O2 simultaneously. [ Monday, April 24, 2006 11:31: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
Power Corrupts in General | |
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written Friday, April 21 2006 16:11
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quote:This looks like a good examples of people's assumptions interfering with their logic: The problem with this proof is external to the proof itself and lies in the definition of "God": 1. By the Bible's definition, God is the greatest of all possible beings. 2. A non-existent being is clearly less great than one which exists. 3. 1 and 2 imply that God must exist. However, how do we know that Bible's definition of "God" is true? Because Bible is the word of god. 4. God exists, implies that Bible is true. If we assume some other definition for "god", for example, any polytheistic definition, Step 1 of above reasoning would no longer apply. EDIT: This also illustrates why religious arguments between religious people and atheists, or between followers of different religions usually go in circles, getting nowhere. Since different religions have different definitions of divine, morality, soul, life, and so on, the axioms of one side, don't apply to the other side in such debates, which makes any logical reasoning pretty difficult. [ Friday, April 21, 2006 16:20: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
"Policing" ourselves? in General | |
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written Friday, April 21 2006 10:39
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Aran, considering the number of referencies to that thread here, I think it's important for people to see it in its original form (if for no other reason than to judge for themselves whether I am quoting Archmagus Micael out of context.) So could you please put the nazi thread back into public view. PS As for "a reason to equate antisemitism with criticism of Israel's foreign policy", I am not opposed to any criticism of Israel's foreign policy, as long as the critics can explain why they aren't aplying the same level of scrutiny to the Arab Sudan, African Nigeria, or any of the other African and Asian countries with equally, or, in many cases, more questionable policies. PPS And I agree that the point of this discussion should remain on whether it is wrong to compare Jews to Hitler, rather than discussing which modern country has the most questionable foreign policy. EDIT: Thank you. [ Friday, April 21, 2006 11:22: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
"Policing" ourselves? in General | |
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written Friday, April 21 2006 10:06
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quote:"...Thay're both wrong, maybe Hitler a bit more..." ?! "a bit more" ?! Oh yes, all those gas chambers the Jews are building for "the final solution" to the "Palestinian Problem". Considering that Jews killed more civilians in last couple of years than anybody else in the world (and if you believe that, check out casualty numbers for Iraq, or Sudan, or any of the conflicts that didn't make the headlines), it's no wonder they are the ones compared to Hitler. After all, as we recently found out, thanks to some corageous professors, everything from 9/11 attacks to Iraq War is the fault of the Zionist lobby. So it's quite obvious that the ones whom you should be compairing to Hitler are Jews, rather than Arab government of Sudan, or Christian governments of Britain and USA. [/sarcasm] The second problem with comparison between Jews and Hitler is that it encourages sentiments like this (from Tyranicus): quote:Am I the only person here who thinks that murdering millions of people in an attempt to wipe out an ethnicity is more than just "a social blunder"?! Hitler had been villified too much? How would you feel if somebody tried to wipe out all people of your ethnicity and succeded in "purifying" north America? If most of the people you know had some (sometimes distant, sometimes close) relative killed on that person's orders? The difference between "genocide" and "aggression against civilians" is as big as the difference between a single murder and destroying a city with a nuclear bomb. And even in the "aggression against civilians" category, there are plenty of peoples who should be listed ahead of Jews, unless Jews have a special place in your heart. [ Friday, April 21, 2006 10:19: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
OoC Thread for "An RP in the World of Avernum... *Reloaded*" in General | |
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written Friday, April 21 2006 09:36
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quote:It's a tradition in Arena RPs (from which this one originated) to have plots involving an evil enemy so powerful that everybody has to work together to defeat them. I think the term they use is "Rising Menace". So Rakshasi will be such an enemy for this RP. As for why TM is the one controlling them, probably because somebody has to and TM is one of the veterans who know how to run such a plot. PS And if I understand the idea correctly, the factions will start getting wiped out if you don't work together, just like in any other RP where DM throws in a powerful boss. [ Friday, April 21, 2006 09:39: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
"Policing" ourselves? in General | |
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written Friday, April 21 2006 09:06
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quote:Is "OM" Archmagus Michael? quote:Either I totally didn't get this post, or he is agreeing that modern-day Jews are worse than Hitler. PS I wouldn't delete this forum. You can't shut down every nazi forum on the Internet and it's good to know what some Spidweb members think. EDIT: I agree that hosting a Nazi forum is bad. I just like this opportunity to find out who the Nazis on these boards are. (I am disturbed, but not really surprized to find out that there are at least a couple.) [ Friday, April 21, 2006 09:22: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
Geneforge without the Geneforge in Geneforge Series | |
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written Friday, April 21 2006 08:52
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I completely agree. Variety would be pretty good. Otherwise, canister-crazed Shapers and Geneforge-building Drakons are going to become the evil Vahnatai of the Geneforege world. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
is this game worth playing in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Friday, April 21 2006 08:40
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quote:It depends on what you want in your games. If you want a good story and fun gameplay, Exile is great, especially Exile 2 and some BoE scenarios. Think of it like a book: books don't have 3-D graphics or special effects, but some books are more fun than most computer games. If what you want in your games is realistic graphics, realistic real time movement, etc, buy The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. (However, you might have to buy a new computer to play it. :) ) -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
Have You Any Pets? in General | |
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written Friday, April 21 2006 08:32
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quote:Thank you. quote:Some people have 800x600 screen resolution. And even people with a large resolution often don't have their browser window maximised. (Especially when they are browsing these forums from work.) -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 21 2006 08:25
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quote:Because arguing with fascists is a completely useless activity. Nothing a Jew says will change anybody's mind on whether Jews are trying to take over the world. When somebody says "Hitler wasn't such a bad guy", or "Zionists are resonsible for 9/11", he makes his position very clear and continuing the argument will only give him more excuses to preach his cause. And that's just if the person is really preaching his views. If instead he is trying to draw attention away from something (derailing UN conference on racism, making most civil wars and ethnic cleansings lose headline space to "more shots fired in Israel, 3 people injured", etc.) you'll just be playing into his hand by helping him move the argument to Jews away from whatever he is trying to draw attention away from. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
A Change of Structure in General | |
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written Thursday, April 20 2006 16:45
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quote:lol I just realized what it sounds like in modern English. I guess it used to mean something different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_Council -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
A Few Advance Notes On Geneforge 4 in Geneforge Series | |
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written Thursday, April 20 2006 16:42
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quote:There is some way to change your character's graphic to whatever you want. (I don't remember how to do it, but some people have done it.) It's not very easy, but if you really want it, you could try. I think you have to overwrite the character picture with the picture of Drakon, but somebody who knows will have to give you the details. [ Thursday, April 20, 2006 16:42: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
A Few Advance Notes On Geneforge 4 in Geneforge Series | |
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written Thursday, April 20 2006 16:31
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quote:Any "office" program has a text editor with a spell-checker in it. And there is nothing embarrassing about using it. I use it myself whenever I want to make sure that my post is completely correct. (Like this one. :) ) In fact, it just found a typo for me. (I've originally typed "emberrassing", instead of "embarrassing".) As for the ideas in your original post, some of them you can try in some games already: If you use the Genefoge in Geneforge I, you don't turn into a Drakon, but still become powerful enough to destroy almost anything. Also, there are some places in Geneforge 3 where you get to command parts of Shaper army. It's not much of a command, but still gets a bunch of soldiers to follow your orders. PS And thank you for trying to make your posts easier to read. :) RE-EDIT: Thanks, now your post is far more readable than before. [ Thursday, April 20, 2006 16:39: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
A Change of Structure in General | |
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written Thursday, April 20 2006 16:18
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quote:This is true for a feudal system. However, the world of Exile/Avernum seems to be in the late stages of absolute monarchy, so I assume that Royal Advisor would be similar to a Privy Counsellor. Privy Counsellors were predesessors of modern ministers. Those people were high-ranked nobles, with additional powers. (In Russian Empire, "Privy Counsellor" was an actual title, one of the highest in Peter the Great's hierarchy.) -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
Have You Any Pets? in General | |
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written Thursday, April 20 2006 10:16
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MagmaDragoon, your pictures stretch the forums so much that we will have to scroll to read every line of text, which will quickly get quite annoying, as this sentence illustrates. Could you replace the pictures with thumbnail links (much smaller pictures that link to larger ones), or at least shrink all of them to be the same width as the first one you've posted. As for this thread's topic, I have a dog called Tishka (from Russian word for quiet/shy). He is a labrador/something (possibly chau) mix. He looks like a labrador, but bulkier and with a blue tongue. [ Thursday, April 20, 2006 10:19: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
Beta call for "Where the rivers meet" in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, April 20 2006 09:29
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quote:Beta testing could be a game itself: How many ways can you break the program, do things author didn't anticipate, etc. It's a very different experience from playing the game normally, and you'll be unable to play normally after having gone so deeply into mechanics, seen the plot beforehand, etc. However, there are plenty of other games/scenarios to play normally, so that isn't a big problem. [ Thursday, April 20, 2006 09:30: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
Patrick's tower in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, April 20 2006 08:38
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If I remember correctly, there is an important piece of information hidden in Patrick's room in Tower of Magi. I think it's either a portal code for Angerech(sp?), or something related to Empire Portal quest, but I don't remember exactly. (Assuming you are talking about E2.) [ Thursday, April 20, 2006 08:38: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
A Change of Structure in General | |
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written Thursday, April 20 2006 08:04
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About the order of new titles... quote:Technically, Royal Advisor is a much higher position than a regular Nobleman. I am not sure about Nobleman v. Sage, or Sage v. Guild Master (depends on position of mages in society), but Nobleman and Royal Advisor should probably be switched. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 20 2006 07:59
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quote:That's right, all of us are perfectly normal. It's the rest of the world that's crazy. :P -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
still not getting avernum... in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 19 2006 08:47
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The good old Exile v. Avernum debate is back. :) Exile has better spell system and better graphics. Avernum has better skill and experience system, more convenient dialogue system (I can never remember what I am supposed to say to whom), and slightly more dialogue/side quests. Overall, I ended up registering Avernum. -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |