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Mouse Buttons in Geneforge 4 in Tech Support
Micawber
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 written Thursday, March 22 2007 10:54 Profile Homepage #6
I can only assume that Jeff bypasses Windows mouse-handling and reads the mouse clicks directly. Or to put it another way, you're stuffed.

I suggest you both politely e-mail Jeff (spidweb@spiderwebsoftware.com) and ask if he's aware of the problem and whether he can devise a solution. Even so you'll probably have to wait till Avernum 5.

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G4 EDITOR in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Micawber
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 written Tuesday, March 20 2007 11:15 Profile Homepage #17
Personally I don't have a problem with Tullegolar's editor; if you're going to cheat you might as well go all the way. Don't try and kid yourself that merely altering one little stat isn't cheating; it is.

The access to the editor is the first signpost in the game: in the north-eastern area of the rebel base docks, by the store room. Just click on the signpost and you'll access the editor.

I've now updated the download page with fuller instructions.

Edit: removed nonsense.

[ Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:21: Message edited by: Micawber ]

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G4 EDITOR in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Micawber
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 written Monday, March 19 2007 14:22 Profile Homepage #9
Well I'm not sure if he offers 1000-4000 damage (I rather think not), but Sarasaphilia's editor is now available on this page.

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G4 EDITOR in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Micawber
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 written Monday, March 19 2007 13:14 Profile Homepage #5
Sarasaphilia, check your e-mails.

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Quick Avernum 5 Update, March '07 in Avernum 4
Micawber
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 written Monday, March 19 2007 12:55 Profile Homepage #3
Hooray!

All of this is really, really good news. (vii) Especially pleases me. I hope it will be possible to join win the game from the Anama point of view.

And I missed the boats and boats in A4, glad to see they are coming back.

Hooray again :)

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G4 EDITOR in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Micawber
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 written Monday, March 19 2007 12:41 Profile Homepage #3
Nor did I?! Sorry Sarasphilia, I haven't received your e-mail. Maybe the spam filter ate it. Can you send it again and I'll keep a look out for it this time!

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Time Magazine: Shaper of the Year in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Micawber
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 written Saturday, March 17 2007 22:58 Profile Homepage #7
Actually that wasn't a drakon, it was Tuldaric:

text1 = "MAGIC AND THE SERVILES, by Learned Jaffee";

text2 = "When the Shapers created us serviles, they were faced with
a great quandary. How were they to simultaneously give us
intelligence and autonomy and take from us the powers that come to
human students of the arts of power?";

text3 = "Keeping serviles from learning magic was of great
importance to them, so they attempted to shape us to make us unable
to work spells. They were partially successful. Learning magic was
possible for serviles, but generally drove the caster mad.";

text4 = "But that is in the past. Thanks to the Shaping techniques
learned on Sucia Island, the blocks placed on the serviles by the
Shapers have largely been removed. And that is only one of the
marvelous modifications Tuldaric has performed.";

text5 = "We Awakened see ourselves as free beings, equal to humans.
Thanks to our work here, that claim has much more justification.";
Edit: Tully, well done for finally coming up with a poll that Barzahl will win...

[ Saturday, March 17, 2007 23:01: Message edited by: Micawber ]

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Game music -the poll in General
Micawber
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 written Saturday, March 17 2007 13:32 Profile Homepage #2
Also forgot Exile 3, which had a nice little opening chord.

Anyways, I voted Geneforge 2, that theme is just so haunting.

Anyone who can't remember all the themes might want to go visit Tyranicus's site http://music.nethergate.net, in order to refresh their memory.

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Rentar-Ihrno in The Avernum Trilogy
Micawber
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 written Saturday, March 17 2007 12:04 Profile Homepage #36
quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

quote:
Originally written by upon mars:

Sorry about the imprecison i am talking about A3.
Is there a way to make that alien die? so i can finish the game?
You're not supposed to kill Rentar, and gain nothing from doing so. If you've set all ten beams already, just go to the control panel.
This was a lot more obvious in Exile 3. There was a big inviting white dot (which you knew always signified something) attracting you over there. Whereas in Avernum 3 there's just an indistinct blue blog with white splodges, which could easily be overlooked.

Edit: Well I meant blob but I'm going to leave the typo as is for comedy value. Rentar's blog, just imagine it! "Decided to get revenge today (again). Think I'll set loose a plague of monsters. It didn't work last time, but maybe if I use shades..."

[ Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:08: Message edited by: Micawber ]

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If you could be any creation... in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Micawber
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 written Saturday, March 17 2007 11:56 Profile Homepage #3
Mixture? WTF?!

I'd be a gazer, because they have my favourite attack. Many's the time I've wanted to be able to cast a kill spell IRL.

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Need some help installing Exile1-2 in Tech Support
Micawber
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 written Saturday, March 17 2007 11:50 Profile Homepage #2
Well I can confirm from that the Exile trilogy runs fine under XP and even Vista (and in both cases I installed from the Exile trilogy CD). So whatever is wrong is specific to your system.

I did a google search for "can't find shell.dll" and it's not good news. It sounds like your system might be infected with something. You should probably try running an virus and spyware scan.

A workaround according to this site is to go to your C:\Windows\System directory, find shell.dll (if you can't it, it might be invisible so go "tools -> folder options -> view -> hide protected operating system files" and untick). Copy it into C:\Windows\System32. Fingers crossed, that will do the trick.

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Avernum on Microsoft Vista in Tech Support
Micawber
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 written Saturday, March 17 2007 11:24 Profile Homepage #2
Yes, I can confirm that patched version available on spidweb.com runs fine under vista. Don't worry, updating to the patch doesn't unregister the game or anything.

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Who is the Hottest? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Micawber
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 written Friday, March 16 2007 14:15 Profile Homepage #26
I note that the front-runners are also the only women who were without obvious insanity, death or other disqualifying conditions. This suggests that spidwebbers are actually quite practical in their tastes.

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Geneforge world geographical questioning. in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Micawber
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 written Friday, March 16 2007 14:06 Profile Homepage #23
Terrestia definitely isn't the only shaper continent.

From the Geneforge 3 intro:

IMAGE(http://www.anthonygoreham.net/jpg/gf3introscreenshot.jpg)

Sorry Tully, time to redraw the map...

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Where You At Now? in General
Micawber
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 written Friday, March 16 2007 11:49 Profile Homepage #15
I graduated in maths six years ago; my job in finance involves numbers and formulas and macros and stuff. Put that way it sounds sort of inevitable; but it didn't have to be this way. Every time I had to make a decision I just went for whatever sounded the most interesting of the opportunities on offer. It seems to have worked out.

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Who's the Hottest? Male Edition in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Micawber
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 written Friday, March 16 2007 11:11 Profile Homepage #24
Trajkov all the way for me. I like that he can handle the power. Plus, he has that exotic foreigner thing going for him.

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Something badly interesting... in The Avernum Trilogy
Micawber
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 written Monday, March 12 2007 13:26 Profile Homepage #9
quote:
Originally written by help I'm trapped in a PDN factory:

Well, that explains a lot :)

quote:

—Alorael, who wonders what exactly the Empire does if, say, Rentar is defeated but there are still bugs infested Bigail and golems chopping their way through the northeast. Does Prazac just send in her infinitely large army?
I always supposed that by that time, there would be nothing of Bigail and Monoroe left to save.

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Guess What? in General
Micawber
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 written Monday, March 12 2007 13:03 Profile Homepage #2
Duh, Dark mage, you have to follow the link.

Nice instalment, btw, Sarasphilia.

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Java Programming.... in General
Micawber
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 written Monday, March 12 2007 12:51 Profile Homepage #5
I tend to recommend O'Reilly books. The best one is "Java in a nutshell".

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Titan's Halls location...? [SPOILER] in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Micawber
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 written Monday, March 12 2007 12:43 Profile Homepage #17
Southwest corner of Northforge, there is a control (in the drayks quarters). This switches off some pylons in the southeast corner of Northforge. Behind the pylons is a box containing the key.

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An editor. in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Micawber
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 written Monday, March 12 2007 12:34 Profile Homepage #60
Revised link:

quote:
Originally written by Micawber:

OK, the Geneforge 4 Editor is now available to download here.


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Exile in General
Micawber
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Member # 2759
 written Sunday, March 11 2007 03:42 Profile Homepage #14
quote:
Originally written by Tyran:

Speaking of that, you might want to link your site in your sig again. I, for one, found your Avernum Gazetteers very helpful.
Oh, thanks. Well in that case... Done.

I removed them before because I changed ISPs and it was v difficult to upload, so I stopped updating the site. Now I have a new host+domain, I hope to give the pages an overdue facelift.

[ Sunday, March 11, 2007 03:44: Message edited by: Micawber ]

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Geneforge 4 - 9.41 (9.9/8.8) in General
Micawber
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 written Saturday, March 10 2007 23:37 Profile Homepage #7
Geneforge 4: Rebellion

The most ambitious of GF games, and an incremental improvement on its predecessors in terms of graphic refinements, new spells, creats and classes, broader scale and more attention to the bilinear plot. A more interesting and more morally involved plot than Avernum 4, and a lot of the engine tedium of Geneforge 3 removed.

One slight drawback is the lack of transparency of the reputation score, which can be major pain, and some actions do seem to have a disproportionate effect on your reputation (completing a minor quest may give you +/- 2-3 while siding with one side in a major part of the plot is only +/- 4-5).

Nonetheless, quibbles aside, this is still a great game. I'll give it 9.5

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Exile in General
Micawber
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 written Saturday, March 10 2007 14:45 Profile Homepage #9
quote:
Originally written by Dark Mage:

I'm curious: How are the Spiderweb Cd's? What cover do they have? They have images of the games that the CD includes or it's just a plain simple cover??
Now I have a new web host and it's much easier to upload stuff, I'll post some pics. Just let me warm up the scanner...

Edit: Hmmm, shiny cds + scanner lamp = trouble. I didn't realise quite how difficult it would be to make the pictures visible. It's getting late, so I'll post what I've done so far, and come back to it in the morning.
IMAGE(http://www.anthonygoreham.net/jpg/neth.jpg)

IMAGE(http://www.anthonygoreham.net/jpg/boe.jpg)

IMAGE(http://www.anthonygoreham.net/jpg/etrilogy.jpg)

[ Saturday, March 10, 2007 15:40: Message edited by: Micawber ]

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What happened to the mayor? in The Avernum Trilogy
Micawber
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 written Saturday, March 10 2007 04:54 Profile Homepage #4
I was curious, so I used the character editor to set forward the day.

The mayor is in the hospital, which is in the northeast of town (you may remember, where you met Jed).

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