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Originally written by Ishad Nha:

[QB]As for the Blaze Ring, it has one active special ability and no passive abilities at all. Here I am using the terminology from the BoA Editor Help file. If you have both active and passive abilities in the same item, one will suppress the other.

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To see what I mean about the hassle in enumerating every possible case, read state 12 from t2Raiser.txt in Kelandon’s High Level Party Maker. You can’t just say “what level party does the player want”, you must have this for every possible input number:
check_text_response_match("1");
if (got_text_match())
what_num = 1;

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This scenario also illustrates my point about custom spells being second-class citizens. Yes you can buy them and have levels but the description screens are not as good.

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As for timers, you can’t have one run for more than 255 moves if you do it by incrementing a flag, unless you use two flags and some fancy footwork. I struck heaps of problems with timers when I ported the Exile scenario River and Leaf to the Avernum world, in particular the On the Dacgban zones. They are tough if you want to have two running at the same time.

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Rotating the viewpoints, the Neverwinter Nights game does it well. I feel it would add realism to the BoA world. I don’t think it would create that much extra work, apart from the graphics. I have had a stab at it myself.

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Damaged gear is found all through Nethergate: Resurrection, I think designers should alter monsters so they don’t always drop perfectly good stuff.

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Originally written by Dintiradan:

Take off, you hoser! Adhering to stereotypes is a beauty way to go!

Seriously though, if I was speaking what I posted, that's exactly how I would say it.

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Originally written by Drakefyre:

By Magic Shops he means the random item shops from Exile.

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Originally written by Dintiradan:

So... how about those Spiderweb Software games, eh?

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?
- Oscar Wilde

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... For instance move_to_new_town can only be called in a special encounter that the party has walked into...

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For example, “town_visibility()” is a variable that is always defined. But you can’t improvise a call like “get_town_visibility()”, because the game has no provision for it. This is also a problem with the trait names, the High Level Party Maker, (t1Library.txt) has to list every possible trait name, there is no call like “get_trait_name()”.

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The text response function currently requires enumerating every possible allowable case. Thus you can’t simply have the script accept a number at random, the number must be assigned a place in an allowed case. The underlying problem is that the Avernumscript has been simplified a bit too much in some cases. Sometimes the simplification requires more work just to do basic things.

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From what I can see, a Jewel of Return is impossible because none of the Avernum calls do what is needed, travel from the outdoors to the starting town or its environs. Thus the new is not always better than the old.

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You can’t have both active and passive abilities in the same item, a restriction that may not be necessary.

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Need the ability to customize the descriptions of custom items.

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The First Aid in Avernum 4 was really useful, how unlike Blades of Avernum.

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If there is one feature badly needed it is the ability to rotate viewpoint. Currently the north and the west are the favored directions. A rotate command would make the south and east favored instead. All terrain, loose items, floors and creatures would have to be moved to new positions. Thus 12,23 in the current viewpoint would be 35,24 in a rotated vista, for a 48 * 48 zone. Default viewpoint would be the current one. Where terrain has a distinct facing it must be inverted, thus south-facing hills must become north facing. Ditto where creatures have a distinct facing that must be inverted too.

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It is not easy to make the outdoor appearance of a town match what is found when it is entered. Never an easy task when there are so few outdoor wall, building graphics.

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Some guff about graphics

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In Blades of Exile it is so easy to set a timer, just set a special encounter, then choose the appropriate sort of timer: General or Town Specs. In Blades of Avernum the routine is to increment a flag in the Start State of the town script. It is not as convenient as the set – and – forget Exile variety.

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To create Magic Shops in the Avernum world is a real problem. Quite a few BoE features can’t be replicated in Avernum, even the Avernum 3 – style Jewel of Return is a tough problem.

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Combat
In Exile series, the monsters sometimes drop items when killed. While in Avernum, every last piece of monster equipment is dropped. It still retains its full market value. All monster gear is undamaged after the PCs have killed the monsters by every violent means permitted in the game.

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Custom Spells
At the end of the day, the custom “spells” are just scenario states, they lack all of the features of the real spells: spell levels, description screens and ability to buy them. If these features were to be available for the custom spells, they would require the use of scenario states and SDFs. Basically they are second-class citizens.

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The Blades of Avernum program is not GURPS, it is not infinitely versatile and it can only be customized so far

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Originally written by Billy Bob Joe with an Afroking:

Just like I will be able to become the next King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Originally written by Azuma:

Maybe we can have a poll to decide..

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Originally written by Azuma:

Oooh..bands I never heard of..I only know MCR and Foo Fighters..

Hmm..has anyone here heard Voltaire? The guy's good..

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Originally written by Zacron Nawak Azguy:

If anyone is looking for a good storyline for a scenario, I have an idea for a GREAT one. It is on a grander scale tho', not a Settlers type at ALL.

~Lord Zacron

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Originally written by An Iffy Shaped Milk Bottle:

I don't get it.

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