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xp penalty in Avernum 4
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 20:09 Profile Homepage #3
He did?

*scratches head*

Well, maybe I'm confusing it with G4 or G3, both of which I've experimented with more recently; it's been nearly a year since I've touched A4. I suppose I shouldn't answer these questions anymore.

I could have sworn I remember having discussions about this and everyone concluding it was based on the highest level character, though.

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A New Series in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 20:02 Profile Homepage #16
NO. We learned a valuable lesson in Avernum 4. Re-using graphics across different game series is disastrous. It's one thing to do it with something like goblins, that are more or less generic anyway, but old PC graphics do not go into that category. If I look at King Arthur and I see a Guardian, I will scream.

I got over Professor X turning into a booming, Shakespearean Captain Picard. I will not get over King Arthur looking like a Shaper. :P

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xp penalty in Avernum 4
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 07:04 Profile Homepage #1
You're right that the penalty is based on individual penalties. However, experience is also scaled based on the highest level out of all your teammates. This is relevant because individual penalties obviously influence how fast you gain levels.

Because the level-based scaling is so incredibly steep, this means that a party of four 65% penalty characters will reach a higher level than a party of three 65% penalty characters and one character with no penalty.

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Endeavor and Privacy in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 04:30 Profile Homepage #4
Oh.

GET RID OF THAT. I mean, that's lawsuit city. Seriously man. I don't see how a workable lawsuit involving money would be likely to arise from a spidweb profile, but it certainly could.

Besides, it's generally poor netiquitte to preserve personal information that somebody didn't think would be preserved. (*coughs in the general direction of Shadow Vale*)

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Endeavor and Privacy in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 04:12 Profile Homepage #2
It is a good question though, as to what use there is for crawling and storing the free-response fields in the profile. If you want to avoid lawsuits, I'd stick to the information that *can't* be personally identifying even by accident. The rest is readily visible (and linkable to) on spidweb.

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House Unshaperlike Activities Committee in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 04:07 Profile Homepage #139
Khyryk is the only Trakovite NPC who's been fleshed out at all, so I have to imagine he'll be around -- unless the Trakovites are gone.

What the next game *really* needs to do, IMHO, is shed this whole choose the Shapers / choose the Rebels thing that's been going on for four games. Enough already. G4 did it well enough that it was bearable (even after G3), but I really don't want to deal with it again.

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A New Series in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 04:04 Profile Homepage #8
The combat/character engine has undergone relatively minor changes after Nethergate, and that includes all the Avernum and Geneforge games. Although changes to the AP system and even the skill point system (in G1) are interesting it is still the same basic system with a lot of commonality.

I'd love to see something new, but we're going on ten years with this PC engine.

Shaping was certainly new, I guess.

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wikipedia forever? in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Monday, January 22 2007 06:37 Profile Homepage #32
That's especially ironic considering that Wikipedia has been repetedly vandalized from the buildings that house the US Congress.

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Episode 3 Continued in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Sunday, January 21 2007 20:43 Profile Homepage #75
quote:
Originally written by Nioca:

Ouch. That would be nasty. Then again, I suppose it would be a bit like spamming. Except instead of raising your post count, it would raise your death count.

Aha! Tyranicus is spamming death! :P

Well, we still have three problems to deal with: the rat army, the flooding, and the summoning machine. Of the three, the flooding is the one that has me stumped. You can destroy both the summoning machine and the rats, but how the heck would you get rid of that water?
Maybe in the next chapter Tyranicus will hack into the story and upgrade his death count. :P

The solution to the flooding -- or the trigger for it, at any rate -- was rather blatantly foreshadowed in a previous chapter. More than that I won't say out of respect for the story.

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Your most amusing G1-3 stunts in Geneforge Series
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Sunday, January 21 2007 08:28 Profile Homepage #39
quote:
Originally written by Delicious Vlish:

We either listen with our minds or pick up vibrations with our central tentacle. :P
...

Seriously Andraste, these are great. Somebody go poke Jeff to look at these.

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Episode 3 Continued in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Sunday, January 21 2007 08:26 Profile Homepage #61
Riding on the water to the Nethergate 2.0 forum in the heavens, I see...

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A Statistically Happy New Year! in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Sunday, January 21 2007 05:38 Profile Homepage #73
Well, I know where I got my numbers. 40 posts, post count of 71. Sounds like 30 to me.

I'm starting to get the impression that in a previous life I was Torquemada or something.

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wikipedia forever? in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, January 20 2007 19:57 Profile Homepage #20
What did you teach at University? Look, everybody, it's a closet academic ;)

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House Unshaperlike Activities Committee in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, January 20 2007 19:53 Profile Homepage #136
Yes, Khyryk was definitely killable in G3, and the canon is that he wasn't killed.

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A Statistically Happy New Year! in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, January 20 2007 18:42 Profile Homepage #69
Shame on you, Andraste, for defending lies. The view recent posts feature accounts for every last one of your posts. Unless you're going to tell me that Tyro made 30 posts while neither you nor Lazarus (he was listed as an admin, so I checked him as well to be thorough) have made any, bull.

(Shame on you for defending patently obvious lies, anyway. If you're going to be deceitful, at least do it well.)

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wikipedia forever? in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, January 20 2007 17:44 Profile Homepage #18
People really have been adding lots of "citation needed" tags in the past few seasons. Anyway, if you see a statement made on Wikipedia without a citation, you can always look into the literature yourself using other research methods.

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Dikipedia in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, January 20 2007 17:42 Profile Homepage #24
I like MediaWiki a lot. The point is that I wasted an absurd enough amount of time just typing into a spreadsheet. (I made whole columns of the necessary tags, copied and pasted.) I mean speak for yourself, Aran, but I don't ever want to see:
== See also ==
*[[Gimmicks]]
*[[Pedestrians]]
*[[Postaroni, Pizzabella]]
*[[Skribbane]]

{{stub}}
[[Category:Members]]
[[Category:Moderators]]
[[Category:Oldbies]]
[[Category:Richard White cultists]]


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A Statistically Happy New Year! in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, January 20 2007 16:14 Profile Homepage #62
I agree, this is suspicious. If you add up the post counts for all the forums, you get about 230, but if you add up the post counts for all the registered users, you get about 280.

Tsk tsk!

EDIT:
Furthermore, although Tyranicus's profile gives 71 for "Total Cumulative Posts", the handy "Find Member's Posts" option only produces 40 posts.

*shakes head sadly*

[ Saturday, January 20, 2007 16:18: Message edited by: Rhymes with Slarty ]

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Dikipedia in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, January 20 2007 11:10 Profile Homepage #21
No, that's a rather egregious omission. I was waffling on what to do about his death count. He has at least one discrete pseudodeath before he is actually ripped apart by the undead in Episode 1, but (among other things) it's not clear how many deaths that death is really made up of. Death like legos.

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When I was your age, school was 25 miles away! Uphill both ways! in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, January 20 2007 11:04 Profile Homepage #3
I'm 24, and old enough to garrote the lot of you.

I think people usually feel they are between age ranges. At the moment I feel caught between young and old. 24 is young as far as I'm concerned, but I have a job and a career and all that stuff, and my friends have been getting married off. Sic transit gloria mundi, eh...

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wikipedia forever? in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, January 20 2007 10:51 Profile Homepage #6
What Dikiyoba said. Wikipedia is not god's truth, but neither are academic papers.

Fatman (Bismark, you *are* Fatman, right? I get confused), I remember having an argument with you about this as part of an ugly fight about the Crusades. Anyway, that was a case in point, as some extremely sketchy pieces of academia were cited.

The amazing thing about Wikipedia is not its content, it's its organization. Wikipedia organizes useful information on a scale and with a breadth that has never been achieved elsewhere. That makes it an ideal jumping-off point for any research project. I certainly had college professors who referred to Wikipedia for their preliminary research.

Citing Wikipedia would be kind of stupid -- but for other reasons. The biggest and simplest is that Wikipedia does not (ever, to my knowledge) present original research, so there's no REASON to cite it. In a serious paper, you'd never cite somebody who's just passing on another finding; you'd cite the original finding (with an "as quoted by" in some cases). This is the same reason nobody cites Encyclopedia Brittanica.

EDIT:
The ironic thing is that Wikipedia (or the pedia thing eventually became wikipedia) originated as an encyclopedia that was only supposed to include expert articles.

[ Saturday, January 20, 2007 10:53: Message edited by: Rhymes with Slarty ]

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Dikipedia in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Saturday, January 20 2007 05:58 Profile Homepage #13
I dunno bout that. The Scripters haven't really done much aside from slowing down the n00b army with traps in Episode 1. Even that was a mixed success -- TM was killed by his own scripts. And both Kelandon and TM seem to have more powerful abilities outside of scripting (bans, and DIE!).

I mean really, from a gameplay perspective, Ephesos is completely broken.

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The Adventures of Onan the Barbarian in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, January 19 2007 21:13 Profile Homepage #26
The only place I can think of that what you do with Monarch could really have an effect -- based on the fact that the scripts never reference it outside of a few dialogue changes -- is the ending. And even that I doubt.

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Dikipedia in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, January 19 2007 16:14 Profile Homepage #0
http://minmax.ermarian.net/dikipedia.html

This began as an innocent, curious attempt to group those appearing in Dikiyoba's scripts by the sorts of abilities they had. Then it became a bit more expansive. Look, just be glad there's no mediawiki involved :P

The groupings are based on what people actually do in the scripts (thus Ash Lael is not listed as a Scripter) and they only cover significant (and generally stereotypical) skill sets that also overlap with others. So we have Fighters and Mages, for example. No Thieves -- Lurkers instead. I tried to make this somewhat modular, so there is no Evil Overlord skill set. There is a set that's close, though.

The numbers keep track of order of apperance, beginning at 1 with Episode 1 and jumping to 101 and then 201 for the following episodes.

There are some interesting lists at the bottom of the page.

I had something more to say about this, but I can't remember what. So, I'll just hit the post button and be done with it.

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A long time ago... in General
Slarty
Raven v. Writing Desk
Member # 261
 written Friday, January 19 2007 14:59 Profile Homepage #8
Happy birthday. Have a cake glaahk.

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