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written Tuesday, August 9 2005 11:53
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Itsuart, you very badly need to learn some manners. All you had to do was say: "I made this to present an alternative to NOSE, which has some features that I do not like." Picking a fight is bad and against the CoC. Indeterminatus, sometimes on these boards you'll have to let things go. You made your point; now be the bigger man and leave this argument alone. I don't want to lock this thread, but I will if bickering ensues. To summarize: >8E -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, August 9 2005 11:43
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There are a few people who like Lost Souls. Icshi and Zorro apparently like Galactic Core. I think I heard a spirited defense of Ocean Bound from Cavanoskus once. -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, August 9 2005 11:39
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I have little idea what you're talking about, but I'll take a stab at it. Every time an area (town or outdoor section) is loaded, the floors and terrain are reloaded from what you see in the editor, so anything done by set_terrain reverts to the original. If you want to make a permanent change, you have to set a flag and check that flag in the town's INIT_STATE, and if the flag is set, run through the same set_terrain changes as before. (You can see a somewhat complicated example of this in the Deeps and in the Catacombs in Bahssikava.) Killed creatures stay dead, but creatures that have moved around, appeared or disappeared, or other things lings that also reset, so you have to do the same thing. -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, August 9 2005 11:39
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I have little idea what you're talking about, but I'll take a stab at it. Every time an area (town or outdoor section) is loaded, the floors and terrain are reloaded from what you see in the editor, so anything done by set_terrain reverts to the original. If you want to make a permanent change, you have to set a flag and check that flag in the town's INIT_STATE, and if the flag is set, run through the same set_terrain changes as before. (You can see a somewhat complicated example of this in the Deeps and in the Catacombs in Bahssikava.) Killed creatures stay dead, but creatures that have moved around, appeared or disappeared, or other things lings that also reset, so you have to do the same thing. -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, August 9 2005 06:28
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Except that then certain players will avoid your scenario because it has a pre-fab party. No, you really can't win. Do whatever you want. Players will find some way to screw it up. -------------------- 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 19:24
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Looking at the automap may help, or if you're looking at the automap already, looking at the main screen may be more useful. The iso-3D thing is based on a 2D engine. Do you use the mouse or the keypad to move? (Or the arrow keys?) [ Monday, August 08, 2005 19:25: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 16:24
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BoE towns are small — I'd think that if you knew what you were doing, you could pull together a town in less than five hours, perhaps less than two if the town were simple. But you also can't do very much with an individual BoE town, so 15-20 isn't as many as you'd think. TM's been known to pull together such scenarios in a couple of weeks, but he's a madman. Depending on how detailed your towns and descriptions are, you may be able to make a connection with the characters in less than 15 towns, but your writing has to be pretty darn good. [ Monday, August 08, 2005 16:26: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 14:50
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Incidentally, the Lost Souls demo keeps insisting that I ought to register in order to "fell good about myself." -------------------- 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 13:51
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I don't think it's even theoretically possible for "God" to be any more real than "Allah," but we've had that conversation before. A god could be verifiably real. It'd just have to demonstrate itself and its power in a reliable, measurable way. None have lately, but they could. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 13:31
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A lot of people use the same party for every scenario. That means they'd use a level 70+ party even for your beginner scenario. Also, I think the HLPM has made it easier for people to design scenarios for whatever level they want, so they do. But if you want to design a beginning-level scenario, by all means, go for it. -------------------- 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 11:51
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Odd. A little bit of research turns up that morior shifted from the fourth conjugation to the third in -io at some point in early Latin. Plautus wrote moriri, but Cicero wrote mori. [ Monday, August 08, 2005 11:54: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 11:11
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The Holy Roman Empire never conquered large expanses of territory. It varied from the size of a single European country today (France) to one and a half countries today (Germany and Northern Italy), but it was never like the massive Arab and Turkish conquests. Also bear in mind that the Holy Roman Empire is distinct from the classical Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire only existed for the last two centuries of the first millenium, but it existed for almost the entire second millenium. So in a word, no. [ Monday, August 08, 2005 11:13: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 09:45
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As you can see demonstrated in, for example, town 5 in Bahssikava (in the northwest corner). -------------------- 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 09:45
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As you can see demonstrated in, for example, town 5 in Bahssikava (in the northwest corner). -------------------- 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 09:43
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I'm not sure if anyone else cares, but I replayed the demo of LS for about the tenth time (I do this once or twice per year), and I noticed that the AI is pretty weak. It seems to favor taking land over saving its pieces, so it will move a knight two spaces to get one piece of land and end up right next to one of my warriors, so it gets killed on the next turn. It also seems to favor using up all of its moves, so it will take the most indirect route to wherever it's going. Has anyone else noticed any other glitches like this? Or, relatedly, does anyoone know why it builds the pieces that it does? -------------------- 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 09:38
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quote:You know, the only reason that Christianity didn't do the same thing is that it managed to convert an empire that had already been conquered. But the Middle Ages saw the Crusades and later eras saw Christian holy wars on a massive scale. (Tell the Germans of the early seventeenth century that Christians don't have a long tradition of holy war). Spain did some serious conquest and mass conversion, too, in the colonial era. However, I see your point that Muhammad himself was thought of as a conqueror (and so were his immediate successors), while Christians didn't start doing this until almost a thousand years after the religion was founded. But I think this is only because they didn't need to conquer more during the classical era and were not able to conquer more during the Early Middle Ages. The two religions do have different histories, but I think those histories have more to do with their contexts than they do with the tenets of the religions. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 09:28
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Many, many times. I am of the opinion that it could make a decent action fantasy movie (kinda like LotR) if done well, but you'd have to take out most of the in-between towns wandering and a lot of the combat, too, focusing mostly on the interactions between people (meeting Erika, meeting Patrick, etc). That said, it'll never happen. -------------------- 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 09:20
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Yes, any of these, as long as it's your own story (set within WoT, but your own story) and small enough that you stand some chance of finishing. -------------------- 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 09:16
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Moriebaris si hoc elocutus eris. This literally means, "You will die if you will have spoken this out," but it's probably more Ciceronian to use the future perfect in the apodosis than to use the present. It's probably simplest to use eloquor for "speak out loud." (And by the way, the infinitive of morior is mori. Third conjugation deponent, you know, morior, mori, mortuus sum.) Thralni: Having a dictionary doesn't get you very far in Latin. You need to know the grammar. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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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written Monday, August 8 2005 08:51
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quote: -------------------- 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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quote: -------------------- 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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written Sunday, August 7 2005 23:31
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You know, now that I think about it, I think Augustus Caesar, Socrates, Jesus of Nazareth, and Karl Marx would've been able to converse in Ancient Greek. Augustus and Socrates definitely spoke it. Marx definitely read Latin and Greek, so he'd probably have been able to pick up conversational stuff pretty quickly. Jesus may not have spoken much Greek, though; he might need one of his disciples to stand in as a translator. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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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written Sunday, August 7 2005 23:13
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Look, fyorna, you've been told this before, so now I will warn you: asking for registration keys on this forum is a Banning offense. You say you've bought the game before, so all you need to do is contact Spiderweb and tell them the name you purchased the game under (and possibly a little more information — they'll let you know if so) and they'll give you a new key. Stop spamming, and stop asking for registration keys, or you'll get banned. If you need further instruction about this, I suggest you post in your original topic on the matter. [ Sunday, August 07, 2005 23:19: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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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written Sunday, August 7 2005 23:11
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I'm not sure how that explanation is any different from the explanation that you gave before. Regardless, I think the problem is that you're misunderstanding either which part of the castle you're entering from or which arrow means which direction. I have no idea what else could be the problem. As far as the START_STATE thing, what part don't you understand? The game picks a random number from 1 to 100 for each of those text bubbles, and if the number is below 7, the text bubble pops up. This has the effect of making the bubbles appear occasionally over the characters' heads. If the flag (1,7) is set, some bubbles don't get displayed. -------------------- 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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I'm not sure how that explanation is any different from the explanation that you gave before. Regardless, I think the problem is that you're misunderstanding either which part of the castle you're entering from or which arrow means which direction. I have no idea what else could be the problem. As far as the START_STATE thing, what part don't you understand? The game picks a random number from 1 to 100 for each of those text bubbles, and if the number is below 7, the text bubble pops up. This has the effect of making the bubbles appear occasionally over the characters' heads. If the flag (1,7) is set, some bubbles don't get displayed. -------------------- 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 |