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Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, May 11 2007 16:33 Profile Homepage #2
*blinks*

Is this really true? Wow, what a powerful undiscovered exploit. Wow.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Regulation - Complexity sidebar in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, May 11 2007 09:43 Profile Homepage #39
quote:
Originally written by Stillness:

I see the difference, but as of yet have seen no detailed theory as to how such a thing could occur.
The problem is that you haven't been saying "This is conceivable in theory, but I haven't seen a detailed theory as to how it could occur." You've been saying "This is impossible. It just can't happen."

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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It is done. in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, May 11 2007 07:36 Profile Homepage #4
Grats, Aran. It's about time you got some formal recognition.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Place Your Bets in Avernum 4
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, May 11 2007 04:30 Profile Homepage #1
Fresh Exiles.

No, seriously. The Darkside Loyalists, assuming they have some real political power, make this plausible as a plot device.

The real limiting factors are that we know from other comments of Jeff's that you can still be humans, nephils, or sliths, and you can still use the same unusually varied set of skills. There aren't many occupations that welcome multiple races and have such a varied skill set. Adventurer. Bandit. Uh... Unspecified Services, which is basically the same as the first two. Prisoners? Hostages? Mercenaries?

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Avernum 5, April Update in Avernum 4
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Thursday, May 10 2007 19:03 Profile Homepage #63
quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

You start as a Chitrach.
DIE. But seriously, this isn't even funny.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Regulation - Complexity sidebar in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Thursday, May 10 2007 07:17 Profile Homepage #18
"How do you measure specified complexity?"

I think it would help, Stillness, if you just explained in your own words. You don't need to give lots of details, and it's totally OK if you want to measure it qualitatively rather than quantitatively. But "qualitative" is a quality of measurement, it doesn't actually explain how it is measured. That's what needs explaining.

If you mean to define it the way the Supreme Court defined indecency -- "I know it when I see it" (but can't explain how I make that distinction) -- then just come out and say so.

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My Music in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Wednesday, May 9 2007 21:19 Profile Homepage #48
Big Brother using his dad's credit card, that's quite the image...

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Regulation ]|[ in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Wednesday, May 9 2007 21:17 Profile Homepage #2
The first replacement topic can't be replied to, Nioca.

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Regulation ]|[ in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Wednesday, May 9 2007 20:30 Profile Homepage #0
The original topic was eaten by the message board software, and the replacement topic appears to have fallen prey to a similar bug. Here's a second try at a replacement topic for the "Regulation" debate.

N.B.: Cat pictures will be edited out mercilessly. If you break the thread, justice will be delivered Shaper style, preferably with a Discipline Wand.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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G4-another analysis in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Wednesday, May 9 2007 18:37 Profile Homepage #9
Synergy, don't be a -- oh, wait. Never mind. ;)

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Deathmatch Tournament -- Round Two, Part One in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Wednesday, May 9 2007 18:34 Profile Homepage #38
Sorry for the delay folks... I have been really busy at work this week and haven't had much free time. That will continue at least until Friday, so expect to see results and round 2.2 maybe Friday. The response volumes suggest that others also find it tiring to compose thoughtful analyses, so perhaps this is a good break all around.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
"Slartucker is going to have a cow when he hears about this," Synergy said.
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Hello i'm back!! in Geneforge Series
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Wednesday, May 9 2007 06:16 Profile Homepage #3
Andrew Hunter has also been doing art for Spiderweb since the early days of Exile, FWIW.

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Area 22? in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Wednesday, May 9 2007 06:15 Profile Homepage #27
Nikki, weren't you just complaining about "smacking newbs about"?

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My Music in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, May 8 2007 03:44 Profile Homepage #31
quote:
Originally written by Sarasaphilia:

Quick update:

Nico, while you were gone, Episode 3 finished, I made lots of self-centered posts, talked myself up a lot, and annoying spam has been going strong.
FYT

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Blades of in Geneforge Series
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, May 8 2007 03:32 Profile Homepage #19
As Jeff has commented before, there are elements of the Geneforge engine that lend themselves less readily to scenario design than Avernum's.

The big one is that it's much less generalizable. BoE and BoA have the potential to fit practically any world you can imagine, and can fit most generic fantasy worlds without significant added effort. Geneforge really only fits the Geneforge world. This would severely limit the number of scenarios likely to emerge from Blades of Geneforge, and would even more severely limit the number of people who would even be interested in using the scenario editor.

Also: One of the easiest and most popular ways to customize BoE and BoA scenarios is with custom graphics. Geneforge engine graphics require more frames, and altogether a lot more work to get a set of sprites that actually looks reasonable.

The poor showing of BoA is the nail in the coffin, but I wouldn't expect to see BoG even if BoA had seen Avernum 4 level sales.

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To Relieve my lack of info.... in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Monday, May 7 2007 07:29 Profile Homepage #36
(To get that unwrappable URL out of Active Threads.)

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Blades of in Geneforge Series
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Sunday, May 6 2007 18:38 Profile Homepage #13
There will not be Blades of Geneforge. There will never be Blades of Geneforge. There are numerous reasons for this, which involve not only the performance of BoA but also the fact that Jeff has said it doesn't make sense, for numerous tactical reasons related to scenario design. And he's right.

There will never be Blades of Geneforge. Do I need to put it in the forum header?

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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About the new creations of Geneforge 4 in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Sunday, May 6 2007 18:36 Profile Homepage #4
No, war tralls aren't even good as meat shields.

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Avernum 5, April Update in Avernum 4
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Sunday, May 6 2007 18:33 Profile Homepage #52
Clearly you should spend more time playing Exile 1 and 2.

Also, let's remember that Avernum 5 is being written by Jeff... not Drakefyre.

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To Relieve my lack of info.... in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Sunday, May 6 2007 05:01 Profile Homepage #6
2) The correct spelling is "Arghhhhhhhhh".

3) TM was permabanned (banned permanently) following a six-year history of intentional attacks on pretty much everyone here. He cursed and used hate language liberally, evaded the autocensor, posted inappropriate pictures and links, incited flamewars, maliciously targetted certain people, and was banned temporarily numerous times. He was tolerated for so long because (unlike other banned members) he also made positive contributions to the community -- intelligent and lively posts, and numerous scenarios.

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Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central
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Best weapon for a Shaper focusing on Creations? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Sunday, May 6 2007 04:07 Profile Homepage #5
The brokenness reportedly applies to actually factoring in the strength bonus to damage, not to displaying the strength bonus. All versions display it.

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