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Displayed name	Arancaytar
Member number	2984
Title	Law Bringer
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Registered	Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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OBoE in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 13:52 Profile Homepage #16 A project whose first fork precedes the first roadmap sounds kind of doomed. And a fork is a bad thing when the project is centrally hosted. --- So if I understand this darcs thing correctly, it's like CVS and SVN except that you aren't committing to a single repository but to several separate ones. Do all changes need to be pushed to all the available repositories? Or what happens if there are more than, say, 2-3 repositories out there? If anyone can host their own repository - what's the difference between a checked-out working copy and a repository? Can a code base be both at once, or is there still a client-server structure in spite of the decentralization? Sorry if I'm asking dumb questions, but Wikipedia can only take you so far and I've never heard of darcs before... [ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 15:05: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Strategy in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 13:47 Profile Homepage #21 Um... now I feel dumb. Back when I was beta-testing, I'm sure I ran into some blue cold things only a few bends down the underground river from the start. I could've sworn they were hydras.. I guess they were lizards or some other manner of reptiles, and I remember it wrong. But I remember that they were badass. Edit: So badass, in fact, that they reminded me of the swamp hydras from Ancient Domains of Mystery. Mystery solved. [ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 13:50: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Preaching to the Choir in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 13:45 Profile Homepage #12 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: ...co-sponsored by the Association for Scientologist Science. :P Uh... you're kidding, right? Please... -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Strategy in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, May 29 2007 04:21 Profile Homepage #16 The poll may be dumb, but then most polls is a useless weight attached to an otherwise interesting topic. Please don't spam it up. quote: But the fact that we regularly take several stabs at Spiderweb battles seems to say that in fact the games have non-trivial tactics. Or that we sometimes just get rotten luck. Yeah, I did retry many battles (especially in Bahssikava), and I did them differently the next time. But there was one battle in Exodus where I depended on luck. The ice hydras were badass. I could sometimes get one of them with one shot of Adlerauge and one razordisk, but sometimes they had a few hitpoints left to pwn me in the next turn. Roughly each round that I didn't take out one ice hydra would equate to one dead party member in the end. I ended up reloading until I got through without casualties. Not much strategy about that... [ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 04:23: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Deathmatch Tournament -- Round Two, Part One in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, May 28 2007 23:47 Profile Homepage #48 The irony about this is that it's been done before (in a manner of speaking), I was on the list of contenders as well, but the thing didn't live long enough for me to actually be in a match then either. <_< -------------------- The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead. Encyclopedia • Blades Forge • Archives • Stats • RSS (This Topic / Forum) • Blog • NaNoWriMo Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.' Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Strategy in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, May 28 2007 22:14 Profile Homepage #13 I buff before I enter the dungeon, I stay in combat mode while exploring, and I go for the spellcaster. If you call that strategy, then I'm Sun-Tzu. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
OBoE in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, May 28 2007 14:49 Profile Homepage #6 Where is it hosted? I don't pretend to know a bit about C, but I'll peek inside if I have time one of these days... -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Node Limit in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, May 28 2007 14:47 Profile Homepage #13 I have no real qualms with breaking compatibility of new scenarios with old game versions. Now, old scenarios with new game versions is another matter, since updating ancient works whose designers have disappeared is virtually impossible. But the shift to open source will likely mean an end to CD-distributed and pretty much any other media that isn't downloaded from the net (who'd produce and store them?), and since the game is completely free, it's no big hassle to re-download and re-install the game. Of course, we would need to implement compatibility checking so it actually tells the user that they need to update, instead of breaking randomly. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Few questions about Blades in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, May 28 2007 14:14 Profile Homepage #2 There are many, and they are good. And the best way to play high-level scenarios is to use a party that has already played through low and medium-level scenarios to reach a high level. However, there is also a tool (well, a scenario) that can beef up your party to a high level immediately. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
OBoE in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, May 28 2007 14:06 Profile Homepage #4 Speaking of repositories: I can host Subversion (SVN) projects if needed. For joint development, a version control system could be kind of useful. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Node Limit in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, May 28 2007 13:28 Profile Homepage #10 I haven't yet looked at the code, but I'm a bit surprised that the node limit is so closely entwined with the scenario format... -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Blades Chat Tuesday, May 22nd 10:00PM EDT in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, May 28 2007 12:56 Profile Homepage #13 http://stuff.ermarian.net/arancaytar/txt/logs/blades.chat/2007-05-23.txt I did link you earlier by AIM, but from your lack of response I guess it never arrived. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Node Limit in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, May 28 2007 09:26 Profile Homepage #5 The "increase by another 200" sounds a bit messy to me. Could we instead have an option (perhaps even a global setting) that says "turn off node limits"? It's a useful safeguard for inexperienced designers (though perhaps increase it to 500 or so), but if they know what they're doing... We can have another check in the game that asks whether the game should allow this setting, with the default set to a warning - "The designer of this scenario has [...]. Do you wish to proceed?". So the player has some idea what they're getting into. [ Monday, May 28, 2007 09:30: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
OBoE in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, May 28 2007 01:39 Profile Homepage #1 Smooth. Well, what exactly is Khoth doing with BoE and where can I see that? Is BoE being ported to Linux some time soon? -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
2 VERY Minor questions about the Geneforge trilogy packaging in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, May 28 2007 01:31 Profile Homepage #2 My bet is that Jeff copy-pasted without proofreading very carefully. It happens. Exile III rejects corrupted save files with the message that "this is not an Exile II save file", for example. [ Monday, May 28, 2007 04:36: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
SYNERGY LIST?Nethergate: Resurrection Items in Nethergate
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, May 26 2007 23:32 Profile Homepage #5 Uh, just a random comment: Is there a reason for all those mdashes? My browser got hickups from the high-bit characters for some reason... -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
I just thought some of you might want to be informed of this potential heretic. in Richard White Games
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, May 26 2007 13:31 Profile Homepage #18 I cast Summon Grouchy Sniper, +10. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Spiderweb in PC Gamer magazine in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, May 25 2007 11:30 Profile Homepage #6 quote: Originally written by Micawber: Most magazines are cover-dated the month after they come out, for the benefit of newsagents[] as it makes their shelves look more up to date. For example if your magazine is published 15th May, and says May on the front cover, the newsagent wouldn't want to have it around for the first 14 days of June because customers will think "that was last month's" even though it is technically still current. [] This is the British term. I realise I have no idea what the American name for a newsagent is. Heh. I did the same when I was still posting the monthly stats on the 17th. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Spiderweb in PC Gamer magazine in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, May 25 2007 07:39 Profile Homepage #1 It is May 2007. How do you get a magazine from the future? -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Pied Piper Project IV: A New Bot in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 24 2007 21:34 Profile Homepage #22 Well, I have no chance of stopping the file from being overwritten, but the files are only kept for safety anyhow. The database holds it, and in the database the deleted posts would stay around. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Pied Piper Project IV: A New Bot in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, May 24 2007 12:19 Profile Homepage #19 quote: Originally written by The Almighty Do-er of Stuff: Question: How will this automated PPPbot handle edited and/or deleted and/or moved posts? Topic-specific changes are not yet fully taken care of. PPP archives all pages in a flat file cache, but also parses them and stores the posts in a database. The files get overwritten of course. What happens to edited posts in the database - whether they get stored as new revisions or overwritten - isn't yet implemented. Up till now (and for quite a while yet) every topic only gets saved once, so I haven't had to deal with that. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Pied Piper Project IV: A New Bot in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, May 23 2007 21:38 Profile Homepage #16 Oh really? What did you save? I never did collect all of PPP2. What I do have will take a while to line up for "digitizing" into the database from the files I have, but I'd very much like to have the complete archives before I start doing that. :) Edit: Time for a stats table again. PPP1 and PPP2 aren't completely in the database. The former due to errors I haven't fixed yet, the latter because I don't yet have everything. PPP4 is much bigger than PPP3 because it covers the whole forum both times, but only General got purged in the meantime. There is a huge amount of redundancy, but with the space available, that's better than trying to figure out which threads have had new posts (or edited posts) in the meantime. Also, PPP4 isn't actually archived. What is shown above is merely the result of the indexing I just completed. Since there is no urgency, I had this idea of archiving the topics of PPP4 asynchronously, with one topic every five minutes (avoiding overloading the server). This will take over a month, so be patient (I'm not Google :P ). [ Wednesday, May 23, 2007 23:52: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Moderators in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, May 23 2007 03:44 Profile Homepage #87 Hm. I've only heard of the process of "defending" a doctorate thesis from the Netherlands... is that common elsewhere, too? -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Release the old games as freeware? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, May 22 2007 23:05 Profile Homepage #10 quote: Originally written by Excalibur: Well, people still buy the Exile series, but transforming Richard White Games into freeware sounds practical. Weapons of sanity destruction have tight export controls. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Blades Chat Tuesday, May 22nd 10:00PM EDT in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, May 22 2007 20:55 Profile Homepage #9 So it turns out everything is possible. Sleep is for the weak. quote: Originally written by i: Topics will include: 1) Next Contest 2) Blades of Exile Development 3) General scenario design issues. Funnily, about 80% of the chat was occupied with Any Other Business. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752* \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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