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| Displayed name | Slarty |
| Member number | 261 |
| Title | Raven v. Writing Desk |
| Postcount | 3560 |
| Homepage | http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/slartyvsdesk/ |
| Registered | Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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| Crossbows in Avernum 4 | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, October 20 2006 19:19
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Crossbows aren't necessarily superior, they are just used in a different way, generally faster and easier in combat. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Good news! in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, October 20 2006 17:19
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The real question is what's up with the Vlish. Are they still overpowered enough to warrant being called Vlishnu's avatara? -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Episode 3: A New Game in General | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, October 20 2006 14:21
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Snakes? Bah. STEAKS! -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Good news! in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, October 20 2006 05:50
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Remember that, because of the way registration is handled, Jeff has a fairly decent idea how many of the people who buy his games are returning customers, or new ones. I suspect that the commercial success of A4 really was due to higher numbers of new customers. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Cheer up in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, October 20 2006 04:04
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quote:I was going to say "what do you mean back in your day, don't you still stare at @ all day?" But it seems @ gets the respect it deserves around here. Very nice. It makes me feel very xyzzy. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Episode 3: A New Game in General | |
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written Friday, October 20 2006 03:57
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quote:No, but AGRAJAG is quite comparable. Agrajag, Aran, not Wowbagger. Sheesh. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Cheer up in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Thursday, October 19 2006 07:07
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It warms my heart to hear you say that, SoT. It also makes me a little jealous of the beta testers. How much longer are we likely to wait? "Before the end of the year" isn't too encouraging. Of course, I'd also rather more time get put into the game than less. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Quick newbie question in Avernum 4 | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Thursday, October 19 2006 05:23
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quote:Nope. Manna isn't available until Mancuso, after Dark Waters, and Minor Manna -- which is tucked away in the Aranea cave, so many players miss it -- isn't much better than Light Heal All at stopping starvation, IIRC. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Quick newbie question in Avernum 4 | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Wednesday, October 18 2006 20:41
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Yes, E2 makes a big deal out of taking away all your food... and then goes out of its way to provide opportunities to pick up hydra burgers and the like. The Tomb of Delrin-Bok (Dahris? I always mix them up) can be a little scary. Also the optional Resting dungeon, if you aren't at a relatively high level. Even the Ruined River Fort has Quickghasts that used to do a number on me. I love Dark Waters, probably because your inability to access anything outside of NE Exile means that intelligent players won't automatically outclass every encounter by having sought out useful stuff all over. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Which game to play? in General | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Wednesday, October 18 2006 05:48
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There are few Exile "purists" here, but there are plenty of people who just plain think Exile was better in more ways than Avernum was. I'm one of them, but based on the games you listed off, I suspect you might prefer Avernum. *shrug* -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Geneforge 3 Enchantments in Geneforge Series | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Tuesday, October 17 2006 18:46
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I wrote up some topics on enhancements, most easily accessed by searching for "Strategy Central" in this forum. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| The Bad Get Polling! in Blades of Avernum | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Tuesday, October 17 2006 06:34
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Do they have to be FIGHTABLE villains? If not, Vinnia would easily qualify as the villain of VoDT. She used several interesting assassination techniques in a bureaucratic struggle with rather big implications... -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Turgid, fleshy in General | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Tuesday, October 17 2006 06:25
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Exile 2/Avernum 2, actually: "You rapidly convert to Catholicism. The demons flee in horror." ...a brothel, Ephesos? In Fort Exile? Are you sure about that? [ Tuesday, October 17, 2006 06:35: Message edited by: Slack Pumpkinhead ] -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Turgid, fleshy in General | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Monday, October 16 2006 08:00
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So my question is, will that actually pop up in the game anyhow, or was it just an easter egg STR# back in the day? The other one is: "Anaximander unzips his robe and steps from it. His body is much better developed than you would have thought. The reward for your long, hard adventures is at hand!" -------------------- 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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written Monday, October 16 2006 06:59
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Unless Jeff also employed a very sophisticated comma- and hyphen-inserting mechanism -- which he didn't -- the lines must have been edited by hand. [ Monday, October 16, 2006 07:00: Message edited by: Slack Pumpkinhead ] -------------------- 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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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Monday, October 16 2006 06:13
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So, this is sort of an E/A 2 question, but I think it fits better in this forum. I was searching my text dumps when I came across the following line, which appears in both games' dumps: "The turgid fleshy sex drones of Almaria sweep down upon you, hauling you away to pleasure-soaked realms beyond human comprehension. You immediately forget about Exile and its troubles, and well you should!" "The turgid, fleshy, sex-drones of Almaria sweep down upon you, hauling you away to pleasure-soaked realms beyond human comprehension. You immediately forget about Avernum and its troubles, and well you should!" Somehow I think I would have remembered this if I'd encountered it in the game. Does anyone know what the heck this is from? It was updated in A2, so it can't just be a weird artifact... -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| What's your opinion... in Blades of Avernum | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Sunday, October 15 2006 03:22
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Interesting analogy, but I'd contest it on the grounds that somebody's "life" is intricately tied both to the person living it and to the world around them, whereas a "scenario" is 99% the same regardless of the person playing it, and is by definition the world they are put into. Encounters might feel different depending on PC skill sets, certain situations might go differently based on stats or player choices, but these effects are exceedingly few and very small, compared to the way you affect your life. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Physics conundrums in General | |
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written Saturday, October 14 2006 08:59
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quote:Yes. Similarly, the invisible four-stomached steak flow is constantly affecting what you think and do, not least by its influence on the udder particles of which we are composed, and which are constantly bowed in the direction of the Nine-Headed Cave Cow, whether you like it or not! ...I'm not disagreeing, but I think you get that point :) -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Countering bulk in Avernum 4 | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Saturday, October 14 2006 08:53
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Dex doesn't help with melee to-hit in A4, regardless of encumbrance. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| "Turn al on" ...why? in Geneforge Series | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, October 13 2006 04:18
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Even under that system (which I haven't used, because every time I try to play A2 I end up replaying E2 instead) I imagine that a penalty of, say, 50%, would be unlikely to put you more than a few levels behind, and could easily be worthwhile depending on how advantages work in A2. And smaller penalties are almost identical under both systems: a -10% gained penalty is roughly equivalent to a +11% needed penalty, a -25% gained to a +33%, etc. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| batta Gamma? in Geneforge Series | |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Thursday, October 12 2006 20:45
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Yup. -------------------- 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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written Thursday, October 12 2006 18:47
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Can you even get 6 points in Create Battle Alpha? I don't think so. -------------------- 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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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Thursday, October 12 2006 18:46
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Disposable creations work less well in G2+ because levels from shaping skill only give half a point in each stat per level, just like regular levels. In G1 those bonus levels gave a full point per level. Combine that with the prohibitively high cost of raising your base shaping skill bonus too high above +10, and you will end up with creations that are SIGNIFICANTLY more powerful, by ten or thirty (!) levels depending on the creation, if you keep them around and let them gain experience. Meanwhile, because all characters gain xp relative to your PC's level only, no matter how much xp drain you have from companions, you will never be more than a small handful of levels behind a permasolo PC, about 1-4 levels. (The xp penalties for advantages in Avernum work the same way. They are hugely less significant than the bonuses of the advantage/creation.) -------------------- 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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written Thursday, October 12 2006 18:41
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Right, and templates work really well for that if you think of it *ahead* of time. We set that up well with the Apocrypha template/category, for example. Templates also only work for things that fit in templates; they don't help with page titles and links that appear in article text, among other things. -------------------- 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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written Thursday, October 12 2006 08:13
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Technically, I'm not using grep, just batch find processing. But it was harder to make that fit into the onyx scepter slot :P It would actually be really nice if EE had some kind of grep capability. That would give us a little more flexibility in implementing a consistent style and organization by removing the barrier of having to change absurd numbers of pages by hand. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |