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Title	Raven v. Writing Desk
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Registered	Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00

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In Which I am Bothered by the Whole Insanity Deal in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Sunday, March 25 2007 06:12 Profile Homepage #13 The fluffy turtles are no mere Adamantaimai. Be warned! -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Boo! in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Sunday, March 25 2007 05:56 Profile Homepage #44 If you're going to start throwing Axis II around, you may as well diagnose the whole forum. I mean really :P -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Really anticipated ideas for A5?? in Avernum 4
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Sunday, March 25 2007 04:01 Profile Homepage #76 The selling cursor is a very good suggestion. Alternately, just making the place you have to click bigger would do wonders. This is an example of an easily fixable interface problem. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Second Annual Themed Party Contest in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 20:33 Profile Homepage #0 It's been about a year since the first contest, so I'm pleased to announce the second annual Themed Party Contest. The idea is to make an amusing or appropriate party in an RPG and take a snapshot of it. The party can have a SW-related theme, or not, and it can be in an SW game, or not. All themes and games will be accepted This year there is a list of bonus themes and games whose use will earn you bonus points. However, creative or well-implemented themes not on the list can earn bonus points as well. The best entries will choose a theme and a game that fit together well. A good example is Dikiyoba's entry from last year, done in BoA and following the story of Episode 1. The winner will receive his choice of several exciting prizes, graciously donated by a consortium of self-proclaimed oldbies. Good Luck! Bonus Themes Episode 3 "Delicious Geneforge" The Five Noobs of Spidweb Shadow Vale Desperance Rainbow Brite Clue Bonus Games Nethergate Super Smash Bros. Might & Magic III Pokemon (whichever) Super Mario RPG Battle for Wesnoth Realmz [ Sunday, March 25, 2007 08:29: Message edited by: Imban ] -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
To players of Avernum/Geneforge series in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 19:32 Profile Homepage #15 I believe your point was slaughtered. Three people posted to say that Exile should have been in the poll, and four to say that they greatly prefer it to Avernum. [ Saturday, March 24, 2007 19:32: Message edited by: 227 Chitrachballons ] -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
To players of Avernum/Geneforge series in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 18:07 Profile Homepage #8 That's your opinion, but there are plenty of people here who disagree. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
To players of Avernum/Geneforge series in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 15:47 Profile Homepage #1 Well, this is a little ambiguous, since Avernum 4 uses Geneforge graphics, and big chunks of its engine. Regardless, you've left out Exile and Nethergate, so there go all my votes. :P -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Why were these game decisions made? in Geneforge Series
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 14:44 Profile Homepage #12 Some of those blurbs have been practically unchanged since Exile 1 even though the game engine has changed a lot. Geneforge has a few that were copied from Avernum, I think, even though the stats are different. But Str and Dex have been incorrectly described in multiple dialogue boxes for numerous games now. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
New Scenario: Frostbite in Blades of Avernum
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 14:29 Profile Homepage #23 Does anybody else miss Bomber and Lord Llama these days? -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Why were these game decisions made? in Geneforge Series
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 14:05 Profile Homepage #10 It does have some inaccuracies when it talks about what the statistics do and other technical aspects of the game engine, but it has far fewer than anything else out there, including the little blurbs that display in Geneforge 3 itself. But the FAQ is generally excellent. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Boo! in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 12:25 Profile Homepage #23 Nalyd, it's pretty rude to publicly state, to someone you've never met, that you could care less about them. It's rude to say that to anyone, but it's particularly stupid to say it to someone you've never met, since it suggests to everybody watching that you are (1) mean, and (2) jump to conclusions. It's triply stupid to say it about someone just as they are being welcomed and praised by others, since it suggests to everybody watching that you are (3) contrary or spiteful towards the community itself. If you intend to be part of the community here, you had best change your attitude. You have repeatedly and proactively attacked others here. You need to stop. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
In Which I am Bothered by the Whole Insanity Deal in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 12:16 Profile Homepage #2 "Insanity" isn't an adjective. Regardless, I think this post proves that you are insane. ;) -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
About special skills (lethal blow etc.) in Avernum 4
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 11:51 Profile Homepage #11 Actually, you can change skill point costs, more or less. It would be fairly simple to create a dialogue script that exchanges skill points for skills, at the appropriate, dynamic rate, after checking to make sure you have enough. That would bring us back to Exile-style, talk-to-the-trainer training, but I don't see a big issue with it -- particularly if it's only used for special skills, for which it isn't unrealistic to require a special trainer. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Carcassonne, Caylus, and Catan in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 11:42 Profile Homepage #7 Khoth's post clearly suggests what somebody's next project needs to be: Settlers of Spiderweb. If you gather some spam, some content, a server and some software, and you can make a satellite forum. Servers and software allow you to build more extensive network connections, while enough spam and content will allow you to upgrade your satellite forum into a forum that people actually visit. Spam, content, and servers allow you to buy community cards. The Ur-Noob may try to steal your resources, but you can always play a Moderator card to force him to move... -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
About special skills (lethal blow etc.) in Avernum 4
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 08:56 Profile Homepage #9 No, no, no, no, no! The problem isn't the skill points, the problem is the skill costs (and powers). I don't care if you get 200 bonus skill points when you start out, you're STILL not gonna want to train in Blademaster, Anatomy, Lethal Blow, Magical Efficiency, Riposte, or Resistance. Some of the skills are great to train in, because they have reasonable unlock costs AND provide useful abilities. Parry and Quick Strike certainly, and sometimes Gymnastics, Sharpshooter, and Magery. Magical Efficiency is entirely useless AND insanely expensive. Insanely. Anatomy doesn't really do much, at least at the low levels you can get to. Lethal Blow is good if you get a lot, but it's so absurdly expensive (absurdly) that even with 400 bonus skill points, it would be stupid not to invest them elsewhere. Resistance isn't bad, but it's stupidly expensive, stupidly, prohibitively. Riposte is honestly not great -- it doesn't seem to add to your chance of not being hit, it only works on melee attacks, and it does miniscule damage when it does work. Plus, it's ludicrously expensive. Ludicrously! As for Blademaster, you need to invest a vertiginous amount just to break even with the same investment in Strength and one of Melee or Pole Weapons, and given the profuse non-skill-point based boosts to Str/Pole/Blademaster available, you'd never do that. Vertiginous... For those skills, it is pretty much always better to spend the skill points elsewhere. If you want the skills to be buyable and useful, make them buyable and useful, don't throw off the rest of the game balance. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Carcassonne, Caylus, and Catan in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Saturday, March 24 2007 01:45 Profile Homepage #1 I'm curious to hear your alternative explanation. But I will say that I think those elements are present sometimes in the games you mentioned, though not on the surface and certainly less bluntly and painfully. How many times have you seen someone (or even two someones) lose a game of Settlers because they got stuck on having the longest road? Or because they bought too many development cards, or too many cities, or built in a way that brought them lopsided resources with no way to balance them? Then too there is the (rather Monopolyesque) limitation on building: you can't build if you don't have the playing pieces for it, so there is a static limit on how many towns you can have at once, and you can't canvas the island in highways (unless several players all abandon more constructive pursuits for it). Anyway, I'm not convinced of the link between building and popularity. Other games are popular too -- even in Germany. And conversely, the U.S. is full of cynical, disaffected people who flock to beacons of hope like Oprah, but they don't flock to Catan in such numbers. Even in academia I find more people play Scrabble, and amongst gamers more people play Warhammer or Doom. I dunno... -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
G/A/E muitiplayer? in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Friday, March 23 2007 21:03 Profile Homepage #10 ...goodness. You're right about that, Alorael. It would probably need to be from the perspective of the Empire, seeing as they won pretty much all the actual battles. But really, who doesn't want to lay siege to Bargha? -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Boo! in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Friday, March 23 2007 17:59 Profile Homepage #3 There are very few people here whose reappearance would be an Event in itself... EDIT: On TM's behalf: I'd post, but I'm banned. When the (TM words) do we get to have another scenario? [ Friday, March 23, 2007 18:03: Message edited by: 227 Chitrachballons ] -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Spells in Blades of Avernum
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Friday, March 23 2007 15:24 Profile Homepage #18 They're all Ed. Ed is the Imnoob. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Best PC class? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Friday, March 23 2007 11:12 Profile Homepage #8 The fact is that NONE of the classes have problems; they are all almost identical, really, if you look at things on a strategic and numerical level; the Warrior and Shock Trooper simply don't have ANYTHING to recommend them above the other three, whereas the other three each have their own strengths. I think there can be little debate that the Lifecrafter is the most powerful, while the Infiltrator and Servile are the most flexible. There is honestly almost zero difference between those last two classes, it's just a little extra HP vs a little extra essence. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Quick Avernum 5 Update, March '07 in Avernum 4
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Friday, March 23 2007 11:02 Profile Homepage #79 Dylan X, you really need to stop telling other people they're bad posters. Your judgment is way off, and you've already been warned about it. I know my patience with you is exhausted, and around these parts, I'm one of the patient ones. You need to stop. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Forum overlap poll in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Friday, March 23 2007 07:11 Profile Homepage #0 This is pretty self-explanatory. If anyone wants to cross-post a link to this topic at the other forums mentioned, in order to decrease the bias involved in having it hosted here, go ahead. Poll Information This poll contains 3 question(s). 49 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=zvFrKbDvzkqj"); return true; } // end launch_voter function launch_viewer () { launch_window("http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=poll;d=view;pollid=zvFrKbDvzkqj"); 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 -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Think Inside of the Box - Thoughts from TM. in Blades of Avernum
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Thursday, March 22 2007 18:57 Profile Homepage #8 quote: Originally written by Tyran: I succeeded where he failed because people actually like me. :P I can't think of anything sufficiently mean to say here. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
The U.S. and Iraq in General
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Thursday, March 22 2007 04:08 Profile Homepage #56 That's an interesting perspective. Under that ideology, though, I would expect a sort of fractal system of political parties, with the democrats subdivided into two other parties and each of those subdivided into two more, and so on. Actually, that would be kind of interesting. Binary tree politics. Instead of incumbents we would just have iterative candidates. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00
Quick Avernum 5 Update, March '07 in Avernum 4
Slarty Raven v. Writing Desk Member # 261	written Thursday, March 22 2007 04:05 Profile Homepage #57 In E1, there were very few interesting characters, and Solberg had some good stuff to say about the history of Exile, so he gets a pass. In E2, Solberg was actually a pretty cool character. He actually had a legitimate reason to isolate, withdraw, and be bitter, but for once he didn't whine and complain about other people; he actually tried to be helpful. And he provided an interesting perspective on the final plot point of the game. In E3, he whined and moaned about Linda but didn't actually do anything about her return. I always found that a little bit ridiculous. Solberg was the senior triad member, and I can't imagine either X or Mahdavi really pushing to get Linda back, let alone Micah. So I've always held Solberg partly responsible for the Tower of Magi disaster. Plus, he got demoted to teaching frigging level 4 spells to noobventurers. Lame. A4 saw more whining and moaning and general uselessness. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00

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