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What car in General
Warrior
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Profile #4
The tank mentioned above is highly unlikely to keep you as safe as practically any modern car. Furthermore, being a tank, it will handle like a tank - not the most comfortable position to be in if (when) you get into trouble.

That said, the number of kids that wipe themselves out driving a car that is too much for them to handle is without number. And those kids all thought that they were hot stuff - the people who know they need more practice aren't the ones that get themselves in trouble.

At least the two cars you are looking at are both FWD.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Good Books 1885-1950 in General
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #13
quote:
Originally written by Icshi:

Really? Jeez, I didn't know Herodotus, Thomas Hardy, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy used electric typewriters...
I retract and, in fact, reverse my assesment. When people had to hand write their manuscripts they seemingly knew no bounds .
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Good Books 1885-1950 in General
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #11
What about anything by Jules Verne?

Mind you, the requirement that they be at least 200 pages strikes me as a bit odd. For example, 'From the Earth to the Moon' just makes it at 208 pages for an edition I found on Amazon. When you had to hand write your manuscript people were a little more sparing with the words.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Most intense gaming moment in General
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #24
quote:
Originally written by Drakefyre:

Escape Velocity, destroying the Alien Cruiser without the forklift in a Lightning.
Amen, brother!
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Avernum 2 keyboard movement in The Avernum Trilogy
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #2
I have found that playing Avernum on a laptop (well any computer without a numeric keypad) is a pain. At least on my Powerbook putting the fake numpad on locks out all other keys - so you will constantly be switching back and forth (don't know about your technical problem - but it does work on my laptop. There is a special key which lights up when the numpad is locked in, F6 I think). Also, the alignment of the keys is off compared with a numpad so you get more confused.

My solutions are, in order of preference:
1) Plug in an external keyboard with a numeric keypad,
2) Use the mouse to control movement - in the vicinity of the party it becomes an arrow and you just move it in a circle around your party to pick directions. You can get quite quick at using this.
3) Just use the arrow keys. They only give you four directions of movement but, except for combat, that's enough to get anywhere you want.

Oh, as for up arrow being NW etc. That makes much more sense to me because it aligns with what you see on the screen given the pseudo-3D projection. Press up and your character moves up on the screen (which happens to be NW). The same is true for numpad movement - N is actually 9 rather than 8. Forget about the labels given to the directions - the arrow keys correspond directly to what happens on the screen.

[ Thursday, September 01, 2005 14:39: Message edited by: Skippy the bush kangaroo ]
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Artila Eye in Geneforge Series
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #21
quote:
Originally written by poolwin2001:

Dont you guys think that this topic had gone way off topic??

Way off topic? No. There is a clear thread that runs from your original post all the way to the end. Indeed, we're not even talking six degrees of separation here - two at most.

Way off-topic would be discussing whether a thread is on topic or not. Oh, ... never mind.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Artila Eye in Geneforge Series
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #18
Playing as a shaper the first time through I found money to be an issue. It costs a lot of money to get, for example, Lady Anjil to train you in shaping skills and there wasn't that much money to be had.

Playing as an agent the second time around I found that money was not an issue. Basically I had fewer things to spend my money on. But I had also learned what worked and what didn't in the game. When you go through the first time you are apt to try everything and this will bleed your cash.

At any rate, in the latter game the basic unit of account is around 10,000 gold and you don't find that kind of cash lying around.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Khryk's upgrade in Geneforge Series
Warrior
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Profile #4
It's easiest to use the v1.0.2 patch rather than use the solution posted here earlier (it involved messing about with debugging commands and is 'inelegant'). Of course, if you don't have a F13 and F14 on your keyboard you might want to read this topic.

Edit: And on reflection I realise you might have been saying that you got the v1.0.2 patch and it still doesn't work. In that case, using the fix above may help. Alternatively, the problem is that it will only work if you start from scratch (or at least from before you interact with Khyryk). The final option is that it still doesn't fix Greta's upgrade - I don't know because I have been avoiding the patch because I don't have F13 or F14 on my keyboard.

[ Saturday, June 04, 2005 13:07: Message edited by: Skippy the bush kangaroo ]
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Help with the Agent in Geneforge Series
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #1
Agents stop being wannabe mages and start being gods.

Happy?

In other news: There really is a Santa Claus!
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Quick Save/Load in Geneforge Series
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #3
I have a PowerBook and the change irks me - no F13 or F14 here either. But, I solved the problem when they were on F3 and F4 by using the fn key and changing the keyboard control panel so that I had to hit fn-F4 or whatever to adjust the volume rather than just F4. I've also done this because a number of programs I use also make use of the F keys. Do iBooks have the same option?

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Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
The Big Decision in Geneforge Series
Warrior
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Profile #5
Middle of the road doesn't really cut it in this game. While in previous ones, going middle of the road allowed you to get the best bits of both sides, here it gives you nothing much. Both sides will say, "I won't teach you this or that until you prove yourself".

One of the points of MoR in previous games was to become the strongest you could by collecting all the goodies from all sides. The equivalent strategy here is probably to exhibit bipolar disorder. Start out as a 100% committed Shaper until you are ready to leave Dhonal's Isle (because that's where most of their goodies are). After that, if you are so inclined, you can switch sides and go 100% Rebel. However, there is less need to switch sides to the Rebel's because most of their goodies consist of canisters and, given enough living tools or mechanics skill, you can just take them regardless. The training that is offered by the Shapers is less amenable to such larceny.

Finally, if your reason for MoR as a strategy was that you wanted to remain ethically pure and rejected both sides, you can't do it in this game - you must choose -- eventually. Given that, you might as well choose as early as possible.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
The invincible Thad! in Geneforge Series
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #3
I think you will find that they are still susceptible to area effect attacks such as 'aura of flames' from Inferno Worms.

When I played through the first time I concentrated on Battle Shaping and decided it was a mistake. Sure Thahd Shades were neat but they couldn't really hack it against the tougher monsters. Also, you were all right for most things but some monsters were just impossible. This was mostly because battle shaping is all about melee attacks. Burning shrubs and inferno worms - you're toast; Submission turrets - you can't get close. Taking on a room of burning shrubs with Thahds and Alphas was the most difficult battle I faced in the entire game. When I tried it again with decent missle attacks it was dead easy.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Greta's upgrade from Khyryk (solved?) in Geneforge Series
Warrior
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Profile #3
Well the sdf hint from Seletine worked for me. She ended up with a pretty powerful essence orbs attack if I recall correctly - at the very least it was blue instead of green and didn't do acid damage any more.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Errand boy vlish in Geneforge Series
Warrior
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Profile #5
This was something that came up in beta testing - moving to and picking up items was very tricky when you had a large group of creations and your shaper was not at the front of the pack. If you wanted to pick something up in a corner or small room you had to individually select your character and move them rather than moving your whole party. More often than you not you would end up positioning your shaper out of reach of whatever you were after. It was annoying.

The discussion here highlights an interesting side-effect of the change. Nonetheless, I believe the advantages in terms of streamlined gameplay of the current arrangement make it superior to the alternative. Maybe a tweak to the stealing code could close the loophole - but it is kind of nifty as it is.

Interesting thought: While a battle alpha may not be quick, maybe it takes something and then says to the shopkeeper in a Mafioso goon voice "You didn't see anything - did you?"
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Litalia Bug in Geneforge Series
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #7
You can get through to Akhari Blaze without killing Litalia as a rebel with a leadership of around 10. However, if you choose one of the dialogue options (maybe some others) in her second conversation with you (where she wants to prolong conversation with another human) - "Why do you want to attack me?" she will oblige even though you talked her out of it in the first conversation. I hit this the first time and then went back to the Autosave and chose a different dialogue path and she didn't go aggro on me.

Probably best to describe it as a bug...

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Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Incredibly annoying.... in Geneforge Series
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #4
To make it clear for all the other laptop users out there: You can toggle the behaviour of your F keys - using the keyboard preferences you need to have the option 'Use the f1-f12 keys for custom actions' checked so that G3 works as normal and you hit fn-F3 or whatever for all the special actions.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Training ground question in Geneforge Series
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #13
Adding endurance to your creations would seem to be the difference.

I think I'll have to work out the highest essence to endurance conversion rate available to maximise meatshield performance. I'd always assumed that it was more efficient to create another creation rather than add endurance to an old one.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
the eight artifacts in Geneforge Series
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #2
Depends when you got the recipe - if you don't use the hintbook/read this forum you need to not only have the ingredients but the recipe. And don't forget the demon's bile (although that seems to be a little more common now than when I first went through). I made the all-protector first because that was the first thing I had all the ingredients for with the recipe.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Training ground question in Geneforge Series
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #11
Not so much pot calls kettle, as tiger calls alley cat calls pussy cat ;) .

I'd be interested to know what you did it with - when I tried it earlier on with battle alphas/betas they couldn't dish it out fast enough (at least for the fifth stone fight).
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Training ground question in Geneforge Series
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #9
You are all pussies!

I took the Golems in a toe to toe fight without any of this running away wussiness (just a bit of cowering in the corner while my creations took care of business). Mind you, by the time I was ready for the final fight my creations consisted of two eyebeasts and something else I can't remember (maybe a rotghroth).

As a shaper I was a weed so had to make sure that none of them got anywhere near me - but two hasted eyebeasts can really dish it out. Other than that I just healed and battle raged them as required. By the end the eyebeasts were all out of spell points and were attacking the Golems with melee - but they got them all eventually.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Recipes in Geneforge Series
Warrior
Member # 5268
Profile #13
quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

In G2 the EC was far and away the best item, but in G3 I have found something I like slightly better. So right now I'm actually wishing I had saved my components and held off forging the EC.
I would guess that it depends what type of character you are playing. As a shaper I only needed to be strong enough to withstand any area effect spells because my creations were doing the real grunt work. So, the creator's belt and a five-stone bracelet (admittedly not forged, but taking up the glove slot) were the main game. Quick action, parry etc. - What's the point? An all-protector - maybe as a swap item.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
things I can't find in Geneforge Series
Warrior
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Profile #3
4) If you are less than steadfast in your love of the shapers you can also sell research notes to the woman running the shop on the outside north wall of Fort Wilton. Alwyn is scandalised by such actions.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Spharon? in Geneforge Series
Warrior
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Profile #3
I think he meant pots...

Because that's certainly where you will find it (just don't go searching for it before you need to because you won't find it).
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Improving attacks in Geneforge Series
Warrior
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Profile #6
quote:
Originally written by andrew miller:

What stat should I raise so that Greta can cause more damage with her fire attack?
Money.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00
Khor's Deeps (possible spoilers) in Geneforge Series
Warrior
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Profile #6
Sounds different from my experience. While I visited Khyryk multiple times, it all made sense from a plot perspective and flowed obviously. And I never reached a point such as you have where I was completely stymied.

Given the wide range of possible explanations Jeff would be best placed to identify the problem. I'd be interested in the answer.
Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, December 7 2004 08:00

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