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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Encumbrance is a good way to force tactical choices, but I agree that it is merely tedious when all it really does is force you to trudge through an area again in order to pick up all the loot.

What I'd suggest is keeping encumbrance, but allowing the player to Fedex loot to towns, by means of a variant of A4's portal technology. Have a mode or a button or something that makes it so that you can click on things, and designate them to be carried away by creations when you leave the zone. The items thus designated will arrive at a specific spot in any friendly town that you have explored. So I guess you'd have to have some way to choose the destinations from among known friendly towns.

This seems to me to be plausible for Shapers, much easier to implement than pack mules, and wonderfully convenient for the player. And while it would make carrying treasure very easy, it would not help at all with carrying items that you need to actually use. The encumbrance limits for those could even be lowered, now that the PC doesn't need to carry any treasure.

A nice added feature would be the ability to sell items directly from their arrival point, without the need to go and pick them up and carry them to the merchants.

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Originally written by Thuryl:

It seems to me that any complex arrangement is a specific complex arrangement... the definition of life simply comes from humans looking at the universe and applying their own perspective on what counts as a particularly interesting set of patterns... In other words, to return to your analogy, the only reason "designed" counts as a specific complex sequence and "tvohdrsd" doesn't is that humans arbitrarily declared it to be so.

To declare that only "useful" information (that is, information which produces results which are interesting to humans) counts as information seems like anthropocentric bias at best and intellectual dishonesty at worst.

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Originally written by GremlinJoe:

This religion is very different from Christianity and Judaism, it just looks similar. All the major points about it are in fact the opposite though.

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Seriously, Allah is not Arabic for God. It is the proper name of a specific deity.

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Originally written by GremlinJoe:

And by order I don't mean a part of something ordered or something that appears ordered, I mean something truly ordered. And I also mean true chaos, not something involving something as structured and orderly as fractals.

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Originally written by Randomizer:

While tweaking the item weights gets rid of an annoyance, it eliminates the main restriction on agents and shapers. They usually can't afford to carry much because they don't increase strength like a guardian. If you reduce too much weight even for minor items then you pile up junk that you wouldn't collect until after an area is cleared and would probably carry it around.

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I thought that baton damage should be reduced to keep it in line with spell damage reductions. Batons and crystals with missle weapon skill are almost as deadly as spells, but easier to obtain.

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Originally written by The Creator:

Also, I'm not sure about Buddhism, but I would say that it doesn't have rules so much as advice on how to become spiritually better off.

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Hey, could we get a stat for "total number of posts in topics started by member"? This would be at least a rough measure of how well people do at entertaining the masses by initiating popular discussions.

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