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Carbonized Avernum Public Beta in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon
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 written Friday, December 30 2005 13:23 Profile Homepage #12
I meant for right now, at least.

Will our old saved games still work? I think I remember that the Carbonized A3 didn't work well with the Classic A3 saves.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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Singleton party in Avernum 4
Kelandon
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 written Friday, December 30 2005 13:15 Profile Homepage #49
There is a way to deal with that cave that makes it pretty easy, probably even easier for a singleton than for a full party.

EDIT: Does anyone else think it's kind of nice having Jeff around, reading a few threads here and there and posting? You should do this more often.

[ Friday, December 30, 2005 13:29: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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Do we have a future? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
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 written Friday, December 30 2005 12:48 Profile Homepage #23
A HLPM god party is pretty invulnerable, though. Unless you script something to kick out god parties (which can always be removed by savvy players), you're stuck with the possibility of god parties.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Active Players? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Friday, December 30 2005 12:45 Profile Homepage #32
Take it as a compliment. I at least intend to play it. I don't intend to play, for example, UV. :P

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Active Players? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Friday, December 30 2005 10:34 Profile Homepage #30
quote:
Originally written by harf'er'melora:

I think Druids of Krell is next on my list.
DoK has been "next on my list" for several months now, and I can never seem to work up the motivation to play it. :P

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
I need a COMPLETE walkthrough. in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
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 written Friday, December 30 2005 10:29 Profile Homepage #5
I think I just posted the link to the VoDT FAQ in order to tell him where the walkthrough was.

Anyway, if you're in the Experiment Halls and your way is barred by a brass door, you need a key from a golem in the Libraries. This is the relevant section:
quote:
Use the Opening Stone to open the front gate of the library. Wander around inside searching. The most interesting room is the one in the northeast corner. There are strong hints that the golem there wants a textbook.

There are several textbooks in the school. To find one, go back to the Student Quarters level, enter the meditation cells area, and go through the secret door at F. There is a textbook in the box. Return to the library, have the character with the book stand on the rug with no books on it, and drop the book. (There are also textbooks at A and B on the Experiment halls map.) You will be rewarded with a key.


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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Harry Potter 4 in General
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Friday, December 30 2005 01:52 Profile Homepage #38
quote:
Originally written by Synergy:

I'd guess he's got too much class to bother getting possessive or petulant about it.
:P

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Harry Potter 4 in General
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Thursday, December 29 2005 23:13 Profile Homepage #36
It's a dash, not a hyphen.

—Kelandon, who is demonstrating how it is done. :cool: And for that matter, he may as well mention that Alorael has sanctioned Dikiyoba switching into the third-person in his final paragraph, as it seems to be just being weird, rather than duplicating a custom sig.

[ Thursday, December 29, 2005 23:18: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Carbonized Avernum Public Beta in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Thursday, December 29 2005 21:20 Profile Homepage #9
quote:
Originally written by nyagase:

Is it possible to use the non-carbonized full version on the CD to play the full version of Avernum 1?
Of course. It'll just be in Classic mode. If you want to play it natively in OS X, you'll need to download the Carbonized version and get a new registration key.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
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Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
They Do Exist in General
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Thursday, December 29 2005 21:14 Profile Homepage #19
quote:
Originally written by Synergy:

Moreover, if you take the first verse of the Revelation seriously, which says the vision is "put into signs"
Whenever someone says something like this, I feel the urge to look it up, and WOW, the Greek of the Revelation is weird. I've only looked at it once before, and that only briefly, and I was struck by it before, but wow.

In any case, I assume you're referring to the verb "sêmainô," which literally means that the god showed by a sign. This is one of those weird ambiguous Greek words that gives interpreters terrible headaches. I think — and I stress the word think, as Revelation is very hard to interpret — that the sentence could indicate that the message of what was going to happen was carried by a messenger rather than delivered directly. "Sêmainô" can mean showing by a very obvious sign — the example in the LSJ is to give the signal to attack — and it could be used to contrast with the form of didômi shortly before, saying that the god gave the revelation directly to Jesus, but he had to use a messenger — an "angel" — to deliver the revelation to John.

Then again, the word is also used of oracles, which could sometimes be extremely ambiguous, so I think it could carry the meaning suggested by Synergy, too. Context would dictate what it actually meant, but context (as often in the Bible) is extremely ambiguous.

By the way, does it surprise anyone to learn that the word that is traditionally translated "servant" in the KJV and just about every other Bible ever is normally translated "slave" in all other texts? Revelation casts us all as the slaves of the god. (And I keep saying "the god," not "God," because that's how the Greek reads. And I have my doubts that even that renders the Greek faithfully.)

Uh, but as to the topic, life on other planets somewhere in the universe is highly probable, if you're talking about something on the bacterial level. But intelligent life was by no means a certainty even on this planet — it took several mass extinctions to create what we've got now — so I doubt it's all that likely anywhere nearby.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Carbonized Avernum Public Beta in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Thursday, December 29 2005 20:14 Profile Homepage #5
quote:
Originally written by nyagase:

Will there be a carbonized installer?
What do you mean? The installer from the download is OS X native. Your CD's installer isn't, because you got it before the game was Carbonized.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Singleton party in Avernum 4
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Thursday, December 29 2005 15:49 Profile Homepage #41
Hmm. Experience scaled in some way in the Avernum series (I didn't play Exile much), but the first time I noticed it was in GF1, when I found that challenging opponents were suddenly giving me no experience. This continued in A4.

This leads me to believe that the drop-off is much sharper now than it used to be, which hurts singletons. (That's not a bad thing, necessarily.) I am not sure that the drop-off is sharper, but I think it is. Anyone have data on this?

And I never found that my PCs had to "work together" in any way that would have been challenging for a single character with the same skills, except that I sometimes healed and attacked in the same turn, which would create an AP problem for a singleton. I probably should've said that first in my previous post.

[ Thursday, December 29, 2005 15:54: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Singleton party in Avernum 4
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Thursday, December 29 2005 13:07 Profile Homepage #39
quote:
Originally written by Spidweb:

The thing that makes a singleton hard is NOT how experience scales. It is the basic way the encounters are designed. I tried to set them up so that several characters need to work together to do whatever.
I disagree. A4 is set up so that there are several roles to be played, but one character could play them as well as four, provided that this one character has all the necessary skills. That is, if a character can be the one that you want the enemies to attack (a role occupied by my meat shield), the one who dishes out most of the damage (a role occupied by my archer and mage/archer), and the one who does the healing and spellcasting (a role occupied by my priest and partly by my mage/archer), then that character will be able to perform just as well as a party.

The problem is not, as you say, finding the AP to perform all these tasks; being attacked takes no AP, and my mage did all his spell-casting before the battles began, so one need only balance healing and damage-doing.

The problem, as Synergy is finding, is allocating the skill points to make a character capable of performing all three of those roles, a problem exacerbated by the scaling XP, since this character doesn't gain as many levels individually as a four-person party would gain combined. The key, evidently, is to find skills that are effective at low levels, rather than trying to pump one skill up to 15.

Of course, the problem is that a singleton needs Arcane Lore and Nature Lore at artificially high levels in order to access everything. But most of those things don't really need to be accessed.

Yeah, Synergy, I'd say come back for Dispel Barrier later, if you haven't already decided to do that.

For the record, I never used Divine Retribution.

[ Thursday, December 29, 2005 13:09: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
3D Editor not working in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Thursday, December 29 2005 12:45 Profile Homepage #3
Do you have any problems with any other Spiderweb-related products? Like, say, the BoA app itself?

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
3D Editor not working in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Thursday, December 29 2005 12:45 Profile Homepage #3
Do you have any problems with any other Spiderweb-related products? Like, say, the BoA app itself?

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Cutscene problem in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Thursday, December 29 2005 12:34 Profile Homepage #8
Placement of the brackets doesn't matter. I used to put brackets in the places where Fire Shards is putting them, and it worked just fine.

Alint gives me nothing. I'm pretty sure the syntax here is correct, although some of the effects (erase_text_bubbles, as mentioned above) will not be the ones desired.

Is there more to the script than this?

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Cutscene problem in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Thursday, December 29 2005 12:34 Profile Homepage #8
Placement of the brackets doesn't matter. I used to put brackets in the places where Fire Shards is putting them, and it worked just fine.

Alint gives me nothing. I'm pretty sure the syntax here is correct, although some of the effects (erase_text_bubbles, as mentioned above) will not be the ones desired.

Is there more to the script than this?

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Favorite and Most Hated Music To Play in General
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Wednesday, December 28 2005 20:12 Profile Homepage #20
quote:
Originally written by Secular Right:

Kel, you fill me with rage and loathing.
I have succeeded. :D

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
How do I free the prisoners from the giants cave? in The Exile Trilogy
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Wednesday, December 28 2005 18:12 Profile Homepage #1
It didn't get erased. You just need to go to the upper-right corner of the Exile Trilogy board's main page, right under Post New Topic, and choose "Show all topics" instead of whatever it says now.

[ Wednesday, December 28, 2005 18:12: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Favorite and Most Hated Music To Play in General
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Wednesday, December 28 2005 17:25 Profile Homepage #16
quote:
Originally written by Secular Right:

Apparently "recorder" is no longer politically correct and we should all be talking about blocklutes (Blockflöte) or fipple flutes.
The word "recorder" always bothered me. I expect it to be something that, you know, records. For the sake of linguistic (if perhaps not musical) harmony, I think we should just ditch all recorders in favor of pennywhistles, which are almost the same thing anyway.

[ Wednesday, December 28, 2005 17:26: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Um - NPC help... in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Wednesday, December 28 2005 16:44 Profile Homepage #12
You'd have to do some odd things for that to work, though. There's no way to create a new character out of a blank (deleted) party slot, as far as I know. You'd need to mutate one of the party's characters and just instruct the player to change the character's name and graphic.

[ Wednesday, December 28, 2005 16:45: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Um - NPC help... in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Wednesday, December 28 2005 16:44 Profile Homepage #12
You'd have to do some odd things for that to work, though. There's no way to create a new character out of a blank (deleted) party slot, as far as I know. You'd need to mutate one of the party's characters and just instruct the player to change the character's name and graphic.

[ Wednesday, December 28, 2005 16:45: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Stuck under Keep of Tinraya! in The Exile Trilogy
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Wednesday, December 28 2005 12:19 Profile Homepage #2
You may be able to salvage the situation by nefarious means if you ask the right people by PM.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
char_has_item? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Wednesday, December 28 2005 11:21 Profile Homepage #10
It defaults to 0. You don't have to set it to 0.

When they're supposed to get the ability, set their uses to, say, 1.

Then, in the state that gets called when they use the ability, set the uses of the character who used the ability back to 1. (That is, if the ability is ability number 1, for example, the first line of the ability state should be
change_custom_abil_uses(who_used_custom_abil(),1,1); All of Bahs's abilities work like this.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
char_has_item? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Wednesday, December 28 2005 11:21 Profile Homepage #10
It defaults to 0. You don't have to set it to 0.

When they're supposed to get the ability, set their uses to, say, 1.

Then, in the state that gets called when they use the ability, set the uses of the character who used the ability back to 1. (That is, if the ability is ability number 1, for example, the first line of the ability state should be
change_custom_abil_uses(who_used_custom_abil(),1,1); All of Bahs's abilities work like this.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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