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| Title | Raven v. Writing Desk |
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| Registered | Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Monday, June 5 2006 14:06
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The sliths and nephils *are* original; lizard-men and cat-people are not. -------------------- 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, June 5 2006 13:56
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Lots, if you count the number of times people playing Agents save and reload :P Seriously though, how many agents do you see at all? Very few. G1 has none, G2 and G3 definitely have more shapers and I think more guardians. Shanti, the only agent who is ever significant to the plot, dies. Macwhatserface in G3 dies in the Rebel storyline. How many agents do you see who prosper? -------------------- 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, June 5 2006 13:49
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Lizard men are far older than sliths, and -- aside from the name -- these sliths have few of the characteristics that distinguish Avernite sliths from lizard men, such as extreme magical prowess, highly developed religions and cults, two-tined spears, and so on. Besides, plagiarism of races is the basis of RPGdom. Dwarves, elves, and halflings (called hobbits before the Tolkien estate intervened) are all from Tolkien, who had his own sources for many of his ideas. There was a very popular shareware game in the mid-90s -- the name escapes me -- based on Star Trek which originally featured enemies called Klingons, Romulans, and so on. The game's authors apparently received legal threats from Paramount Pictures and subsequent versions of the game had the names changed to Kigons and Rulans or something like that. -------------------- 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, June 5 2006 12:57
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quote:No, not like when you can report a servile. My point is that a true hardcore loyalist -- as you describe her -- would be stubborn to the point of suicide. If I were a hardcore loyalist, I would want to be sure of my survival and my eventual ability to deal with the most egregious violations of Shaper rule -- like Litalia and Akhari Blaze -- rather than throwing hissy fits and possibly getting killed over a couple of reclusive, paranoid humans. Diwaniya might require punishment, but he can be dealt with after the more immediate problems. There is no risk involving in killing or reporting traitorous serviles, on the other hand. [quote]Failure is met with termination, probably in the form of an Agent coming for you in the night. The Shapers are a results oriented society... Not uncommon in total totalitarian rule.[/quote]While there are people who say this, there is also evidence to the contrary. Greta was allowed to live, despite her magical skills and her quite obviously traitorous leanings -- and that was when the Shapers still held absolute power and would not have been troubled to execute her, or simply to punish her with more than just an expulsion. Failure is often but not always met with termination. -------------------- 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, June 5 2006 11:58
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The point is that when you have absolute power, as the Shapers previously did, it's easy to enforce "any contrary opinion will be met with death." When your factional power base is fragmented, injured, and mostly inaccessible to you, and when you personally are just a lone apprentice, it's not the same story. Litalia forcibly demonstrates that you can't enforce those kinds of absolute rules, when the game begins. The absurd but unavoidable power escalation your PC experiences aside, Lord Rahul, the most powerful Shaper in the area, is also unable to enforce such rules, even when he has a decent number of other Shapers, and armies of warriors and of creations to back him up. -------------------- 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, June 5 2006 08:11
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I have to imagine that many hardline loyalist Shapers, after witnessing firsthand the destruction of their school, after being easily incapacitated by a foe (Litalia), and after hearing rumours about the other islands -- not to mention Terrestria -- being overwhelmed by rogues, would decide that the times called for a less unilateral path. IIRC, Alwan doesn't even comment on the Sea Caves people, and he's pretty much the Geneforge equivalent of Karl Rove. -- Also, if a hardcore loyalist would take down Lankan at first sight, why does Diwaniya become so horrified if you kill him? Diwaniya seems pretty straight-edge when you talk to him. -------------------- 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, June 5 2006 06:51
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Has anyone made other suggestions as to what else the red particles might be, or what their origin was? -------------------- 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 Sunday, June 4 2006 15:37
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They're criminals? *scratches head* -------------------- 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 Sunday, June 4 2006 11:25
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Didn't Exile have a Fear spell? And some kind of Morale stat? -------------------- 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 Sunday, June 4 2006 07:44
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The AI is annoying enough without giving it the ability to *directly* kill you by accident :P -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
| Ur-Glaak stun resistance in Geneforge Series | |
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written Sunday, June 4 2006 07:41
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I *think* stun resistance for creations is covered by the same stat as energy resistance. Glaahks, Ur-Glaahks, and Vlish all have a base of 80% for that resistance. If it's not covered by that stat, there doesn't seem to be a stat for it. Increasing Strength (manually, and possibly by levelling) may also increase stun resistance. -------------------- 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 Sunday, June 4 2006 07:35
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Linguistics is also a relatively small discipline with an emphasis on theoretical construction (as opposed to lots of empirical studies). A lot of linguists are also rather analytically obsessive. As a result, research conclusions are often distributed unofficially, in half-baked form, by scholarly social networks. One of the most significant developments in linguistics in recent years is Optimality Theory. The manuscript of the paper that introduced OT (by Prince and Smolensky) was widely circulated starting in 1993 and was extremely influential. It was cited in numerous other papers. But the paper itself was not actually published until 2002, because the authors wanted to wait until they were happy with their formulation of OT. Nine years! -------------------- 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 Sunday, June 4 2006 06:58
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There are No sunsets in Austraaaaallllliiiaaaa -------------------- 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 Saturday, June 3 2006 18:10
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Yeah, but the thing is, people mention lots of random human deaths, too -- and the gatherer camp is a case in point. People dying was one of the reasons Lankan rebelled, no? We do hear about some dead serviles, but it seemed like we heard about more dead humans. IMH memory. -------------------- 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 Saturday, June 3 2006 12:40
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Something DeVlish alludes to that would also help balance the creations would be to make the cost to improve creation statistics not be creation-dependent... or at least to make it less creation-dependent. The fact that it costs so much less to upgrade a Vlish than a third-tier creation is one of the reasons Vlish are better even at equal levels. Similarly, it costs something like 6, 7, 8... to upgrade a Battle Alpha's scores. It costs 14, 15, 16... to upgrade a Rot's. Or, better yet, it could be related to creation type. Make it cheaper to upgrade Battle creation Strength or Endurance. Make it cheaper to upgrade Fire creation Dexterity. And so on. -------------------- 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 Saturday, June 3 2006 12:28
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I am always worried when somebody uses really vague language to describe something, if just a teeny bit of specific clarification would make it seem reasonable instead of wacky. Such is the case with the "biological cell like nature" of the red particles. It would only take a few words to specify some unusual characteristics that might lead them to make the rather bizarre leap from "particle" to "cell like". Similarly, the fact that they are more interested in describing the origin as "extraterrestrial" rather than "from a comet" probably tells you something about their target audience. -------------------- 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 Saturday, June 3 2006 11:22
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I hereby dub Drakefyre "Junior". -------------------- 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 Saturday, June 3 2006 10:35
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Hmm. On second thought, it is a great idea, but it still needs to be accompanied by battle creations having better attacks than other creations. A vlish's melee attack is close to as good as a clawbug's, arguably better because it poisons; unless something makes clawbug attacks better or vlish attacks worse, slowing won't make me use clawbugs, it will just make me change how I use vlish, who are still superior. -------------------- 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 Saturday, June 3 2006 10:30
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ALL CREATURES STUN. ALL ATTACKS STUN. Higher level attacks might have a higher chance to stun, or might stun for more, though if there's a difference it's pretty small. Ice Bolt and I think also Icy Touch have a special chance to stun, 70% if the documentation is to be believed; they also stun heavily. The stun wand, whatever it's called, presumably has a 100% chance of stun though to be honest I don't think I've ever used one. Levels of stun delivered may be dependent on damage type. Stunning is completely separate from slowing, which is caused only by Vlish missile attacks, Glaahk melee attacks, Gazer/Eyebeast melee attacks, and the Icy Touch attack used by ghosts, as far as I know. Slow seems to have the same effect no matter how much of it you have, which is to reduce your AP by 50% every other round only. Stunning, in contrast, definitely does more when you're hit with more of it. Stunning reduces your AP by some proportion based on how many levels of stun you have. In practice, you have to be stunned many times, or be hit by several ice attacks to get below 5 AP -- unless you are also slowed that round, because the AP reductions are cumulative. -------------------- 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 Saturday, June 3 2006 10:16
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Yes, yes we do. Sigh... -------------------- 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 Saturday, June 3 2006 07:12
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Rotghroths are certainly good and don't deserve to get trashed with the rest of battle shaping. I'm hard pressed to see how they're the best creation, though. There are situations in which they're extremely useful, but their QA is low enough that Gazers will do as much damage on the whole (and more consistently), and the lack of a missile attack makes Rots less flexible. Eyebeasts and Vlish would certainly have to be in the running, too. -------------------- 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 Saturday, June 3 2006 05:48
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Implementing the 'slowing' move away feature of A4 would be a great way to restore the value of battle creations. I'll second that. -------------------- 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 Saturday, June 3 2006 05:28
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quote:What book was that? And Aran, why in the world are you so eager to have everyone under your webhosting thumb? :) -------------------- 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 Friday, June 2 2006 18:28
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Yeah, but we can't understand a divine plan, now can we? That's the easy answer. From a scientific perspective, it seems awfully convenient. But from a religious perspective, it's a key fact about our lives. If the ID people would just attach "from our religious perspective" to their views, and the evolution people would jsut attach "from a scientific perspective" to theirs, there wouldn't be any conflict. But everyone is convinced that they alone have a monopoly on the truth. Well, maybe not everyone, but some very loud militant people are (nobody on spidweb, really) and as a result everyone else becomes defensive. To quote Einstein: "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." -------------------- 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 Friday, June 2 2006 16:50
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quote:Actually, that's not true. Quest XP rewards are scaled according to your level. If you look at the scripts, there are actually two numbers given: a base XP amount and a level at which the base amount is awarded. You get more or less XP depending on what your actual level is when you complete the quest. This may scale differently from enemy XP awards, but it definitely is lowered with level. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |