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quote:
Originally written by Nioca:

Thanks. However, I think I've found a bug: You have the spell levels too high for god parties. Their damage levels are now wrapping around to zero as well.
Hmm. That's a tough one. I was testing my god parties in Exodus, where the spell levels are definitely not too high. I guess if one uses a god party in a low-level scenario, though, one might run into this.

I'm not immediately coming up with a resolution for this problem. Any thoughts, anyone?

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Also, maybe you could make a kill-switch for the arena. More specifically, an ability you could use as a last resort to immediately end the fight (in case you get in a little over your head). And maybe a healer in the shopping area that can raise dead party members.
Hmm. Can do.

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How to take screenshots.

Ach, I didn't notice how old this topic is. My excuse is that it had already been revived, and this is such a common question that a link to the most obvious source of such information is good to have in any case.

[ Monday, March 12, 2007 13:19: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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This probly belongs on WoTC, but... in General
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Woah. I just checked who Ktgsvgnfgn is, and he's Lone Flame, isn't he? Blast from the freakin' past.

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quote:
Originally written by Infernal Flamming Muffin:

(unless it is one of those "I will whip you" schools).
I just envisioned a whole category of schools with this quote emblazoned on the front entrance with devils on either side. :P

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You guys rock. :D

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No one ever says thank you. :(

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quote:
Originally written by Dr. Johann Georg Faust:

Sorry, lol.

My posts used to suck back when I came here, but now I only write things that are actually worth saying! To spam^H^H^H^Hexcellent postage!

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Originally written by Dr. Johann Georg Faust:

Kelandon has a higher member number and a lower post count, and still I'd say he's more oldbie-ish than me.
w00t i are teh win

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New version uploaded. I didn't want to change the current default use of the HLPM, but I'm always up for adding a new feature.

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Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
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They can get more money from the character editor if they want. The idea of the money cap is to make a realistic party of the appropriate level, but one can easily edit in more money from the character editor if one wants to make something else.

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Staff contact? in Tech Support
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Some people don't have e-mail notification turned on.

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The FRAPGVRUKCP: 1001 Posts Wiser, or Just Spammier? in General
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My reasons for posting in this thread are not all that different from Tullegolar's, really, which suggests that I need to re-examine my priorities in life.

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Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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You're thinking of a real scenario, not a HLPM. The HLPM is just an extension of the character editor. There's no need to "test" the player. "Quests" would be silly.

[ Sunday, March 11, 2007 06:45: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Conservapedia in General
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quote:
Originally written by Garrison:

Is it just me, or does this Wikipedia article about Conservapedia reflect considerable bias?
I think it's mostly just you. Some bias, perhaps, but inevitably so.

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Dialogue? in Blades of Avernum Editor
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You need a "break" at the end of your INIT_STATE. You also need a START_STATE and an EXIT_STATE for BoA even to read your script.

The easiest way to make a functioning script is to copy a short script from an existing scenario (say, t20Small Cave from VoDT) and delete everything inside the states without deleting the states themselves.

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Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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Spidweb spends very little time on these forums, except immediately following a game release. Jeff has delegated that responsibility to non-employees.

Try the spidweb email again. They occasionally don't get/ignore an e-mail or two, for unknown reasons.

[ Saturday, March 10, 2007 11:31: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Wow. Some of those are quite good. Beats the ads for enhancements that tend to clutter up my mailbox.

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Again, the point is that, even if it were 100%, at current energy growth rates, this won't be a significant factor until at least 150 years from now. We're talking about orders of magnitude, not factors of two or three (or even six). The percentage is irrelevant as long as it is less than 100%.

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quote:
Originally written by Fi5e:

Well, there goes science. We should trust only the opinions of those are unqualified! They don't have any preconceived ideas, either.
Of course! The only way to be completely unbiased is to be wholly ignorant of the subject. IMAGE(http://www.steelheader.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blindfold.gif)

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"Any significant degree" is the key phrase. :P

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Originally written by The Walrus xx:

What ya gonna do? BAN ME?
Yes.

Sorry, haven't read the topic, just saw this in Today's Daily Topics and figured it was worth a shot.

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I'm rather fond of their number 5 reason that Wikipedia has bias: it doesn't take Conservapedia as seriously as Conservapedia would like. *huffy*

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Originally written by Acidic Helixbolt:

I would pretend that actual square might be smaller, because both industry and sophisticared-lifestyle (and therefore energy-consuming) end users mostly focus in GB/France/Germany/and abit to the north zone, my point is quite different.
How neglible is this?

Um, you might pretend this, but you wouldn't really be right. Energy consumption is spread out all over the globe. High levels of energy consumption are found in the U.S., all of Western Europe, China, India, and so forth. I should have added that, even if you concentrate this energy all above Europe and raise the temperature by (as of right now) a hundredth of a degree, within a fairly short time it will have dispersed into the rest of the atmosphere of the Earth via diffusion and have even less of an effect.

In other words, the effect is pretty darn negligible at the moment.

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Energy consumption growth rates.
My point in the calculation above was that, although I don't know how much energy that we produce is simply radiated off as heat, I'd guess that it's no more than a sizable fraction (1%? 10%?), which means that we'd have to be producing ten thousand times as much energy for that sizable fraction to matter really at all. I do understand your exponential growth argument, but as you pointed out, even at our current growth rates, this effect will be pretty much negligible for almost two hundred years. I think we'll have much more serious environmental problems before then regarding other issues, and we can re-examine this issue in a century (when energy usage should be a hundred times what it is now, just when this contribution may be starting to become significant), and start to account for it then.

And, interestingly, this argument only applies to energy generated here. It doesn't apply to energy already in existence that we're capturing, which excludes solar power, wind power, water power, etc. — in other words, really only the energy gained from burning something (oil, coal, gas) or blowing something up (nuclear) matters here — since solar, etc., all just catch energy that already exists, instead of converting potential energy into electricity (and waste heat).

In other words, there's no real way to argue that waterwheels or windmills heat up the Earth to any significant degree.

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Because we, probably unfortunately, still got the atmosphere and +15, and absorbed energy, unlike on a un-atmosphered body You described, will be greenhoused there.
Come to think of it, I bet we do absorb just about all the energy from the sun that we get. A quick look at a relevant EPA document reveals that the way that ozone works, basically, is through absorption and re-emission, as well as some scattering, not through reflection. Only reflection would cause the energy to go away without raising our temperature much; that is, we already do absorb it.

I'm not aware of significant reflection from any level of the atmosphere that is currently being depleted, but I'm willing to be enlightened on that subject.

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Factors 1 and 3 warms us, factor 2 is supposed to cool us, and for the planet to stay roughly as we know it the major values of this equilibrium has to stand roughly as those are.
Um, what? Wasn't factor 2 the greenhouse effect? That's not supposed to cool us.

As far as I know, the major cooling factor in the Earth's atmosphere is the energy emitted from the top layer by blackbody radiation. There's also some effect from losing particles at the top layer, but I don't know how significant it is, and there are some other effects, too, but I'm not sure of their relative magnitudes.

[ Thursday, March 08, 2007 07:11: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Originally written by Acidic Helixbolt:

Actually, it is not, because of the aforementioned ozone.
Ah, this is what you mean. I see. The amount of flux from the Sun is a constant, but its effects certainly are not.

For the record, however, without an atmosphere, the surface temperature of the Earth would be around -15°C (if you just consider the flux it receives from the Sun and the flux it re-radiates through blackbody radiation). This makes me suspect that we could absorb all of the energy from the Sun without a significant change. Then again, I haven't done enough planetary science to know for sure how much the ozone blocks out.

As others have pointed out, I was under the impression (and the Wikipedia article bears this out) that the main problem with ozone depletion is the increased amount of UV bombardment that reaches the surface, which has harmful effects on life (not on temperature).

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Originally written by Inneninanout.:

—Alorael, who wants to see statistics on heat produced by wires and appliances.
I was thinking of an easy way to do a back-of-the-envelope calculation on this. One of the relevant equations is Q = m c T, where Q is the thermal energy (heat) required to increase the temperature of a mass m and specific heat c by a temperature amount T.

If we consider density also constant (both flawed assumptions at large changes of T but not bad for the kind of values we're talking about), then we can express the mass as the density of air at room temperature times the volume of the air in the atmosphere. The volume can be the area of whatever part of the Earth we're talking about times the scale height of the atmosphere, which is (loosely) the height at which the atmosphere gets pretty thin. (Detailed calculations would pick up a factor of two or three from the scale height, and even more detailed calculations would pick up a more complicated factor, but we'll neglect that. The order of magnitude is what matters.)

If we take the specific heat of air as constant for small changes of T, that yields: Q = A h p c T, where A is an area, h is the scale height, and p is a density (for lack of a rho). A can be the land area of Europe for fun (which is about 10,000,000 square kilometers). The scale height of the atmosphere is around 8,000 or 9,000 meters. The density of air at room temperature is about 1.2 kg/m^3. The specific heat of air at room temperature is about 1.012 J/(g K).

Plugging in numbers, the amount of energy required to heat up the atmosphere above Europe by a single degree is around 10^23 J. For reference, a Wikipedia article puts yearly world energy use at 10^21.

In other words, if the entire world were to generate a hundred times as much waste thermal energy as useful energy and ship that energy all into the air above Europe, the continent's average daily temperature would increase by one degree. To accomplish this for the atmosphere of the entire world, we'd need around five thousand, not one hundred.

For comparison, as I said, without the greenhouse effect, the average temperature on the Earth's surface would be around -15°C (a little less, if I remember correctly). It's actually around +15°C. That's a thirty-degree swing, across the entire Earth. (Of course, only a small fraction of that effect is man-made, but it's growing all the time.)

[ Wednesday, March 07, 2007 23:08: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Originally written by Acidic Helixbolt:

a) Global warming as an aggregated result of many factors. Most important among those:
1. Amount of sun radiation received by planet (As opposed to one reflected by infamous Ozone atmosphere layer)
2. Amount of IR radiation out of the planet (as opposed to IR radiation “caught” by atmosphere CO2)
3. And, what I am talking about, amount of heat produced on planet from initially enviromental-temperatured sources (coal, fossil/nuclear fuel, hydro plants etc).

I've numbered them for easier reference.

1. This is a constant. It is not contributing to any "growing more warm," just to an underlying factor of "being warm to begin with."
2. This is the significant factor in the greenhouse effect.
3. I can't say that I know statistics on this, but I'm fairly certain that this is a negligible effect. The amount of heat produced by burning coal is small compared to the amount of heat produced via the greenhouse effect.

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And b) Trans-area climate changes via “heat/cold” transfer, of whatever form.
This is not going to be worsened by solar panels.

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And you will then go to a great length of argument to remain in peace with your optimism.
This is not optimism. Greenhouse gases are causing catastrophic environmental changes that get worse with each year. We have to deal with them or we risk completely destroying our way of life. However, your there-are-no-green-sources-of-energy point of view is not really accurate.

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Acidic, you don't quite understand the physical processes involved. Tranferring energy is not the same as transfering temperature. There are power lines running into your house that don't cause your house to heat up like an oven.

The amount of heat radiated by a wire is proportional to the resistance of the wire. Some wires have very low resistances (and superconductors have zero resistance), so it is possible to transfer a whole bunch of energy without radiating much heat at all.

Besides, I don't think we're talking about literally using the Sahara to provide power to the whole world. Solar panels can be installed locally to provide power to local neighborhoods, which doesn't involve transferring energy more than across a city at most, and we do that already.

Likewise, absorbing light doesn't cause global warming. Radiating light from the Earth's surface at infrared wavelengths causes global warming. The amount of surface area we're talking about is negligible compared to the surface area of the Earth, so the effect would be minimal, and since the panels would be at approximately the same temperature as the Earth's surface, they'd just radiate like normal blackbodies and have no effect on global warming at all.

[ Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:57: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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