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Displayed name	Thralni
Member number	5977
Title	Master
Postcount	3029
Homepage	http://thralni.ermarian.net/
Registered	Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00

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The Future of Blades of Avernum in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Saturday, December 9 2006 03:45 Profile Homepage #7 I like BoA as it is. The bugs are irritating, for some things which I actually need just don't work. On the other hand, to change that isn't such a hassle, it's just a pity. I'm also very sorry to hear BoA solled so poorly, I never suspected it. I really like BoA, and I like telling my own story in the BoA engine. To be honest, i wouldn't want to make a scenario in the new Avernum engine, just like die-hard Exile fans don't want to make scenarios in the BoA engine. I'm very happy to read point (1). When you announced Nethergate 2 and Avernum 5, I started to get a little worried I was never going to play BoA again, as it doesn't work on Mac OS 10.4.8 at the moment. With (3) I agree with kelandon: it's sad, but I understand it. About (4): I understand that, and peronally, as I said, I won't want to make a scenario in the new Avernum engine. I, for one, that find that a real pity, to be honest. BoA is good anough for me, and I'm totally in love with BoA's graphics. If Avernum 5 will be like Geneforge 4, which, for some reason I really liked (and I only played the first two or three sections of it), then I can't wait. What I read in the other thread about it I found very promising. Happy holidays Jeff, come back in one piece. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Friday, December 8 2006 04:24 Profile Homepage #3 quote: Originally written by Spidweb: Elevations. Candles and lamps making more light. Thank you, oh lord. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
"The Order of Operations" in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, December 6 2006 05:27 Profile Homepage #4 I'm not really "veteran," but who cares. With things like these I tend to work in total chaos. "Where the Rivers Meet" started with the idea "I want to make a scenario." That changed into a basic plot idea, and I startred building on that. When I had creaed three town, I made a major change to the plot, and this way I continued, getting it to what it is now. My second scenario I'm making in a totally different way. - First I layed out the plot in general terms: where will it be (caves or underground), what will the party do, what is the basic goal. When I figure that out, i start designing. - First I make a small list of things I definetely want to try (like special spells and abilities). -After that I start designing the outdoors and twon in a chronological order: * First I make the outdoor section the party will start in, same for the towns. * Then I start to lay out the route the party will follow in the outdoors. I do not design the whole outdoors! I start with the first tghree sections and design the towns in it, in a chronological order: the town the party encounters first will be designed first. - While designing I also code. I don't code a whole town upon finishing it, though. That's what I did with my first scenario, and I regret it until now. First i code the things that are important now, which are is mainly plot advancing dialogue, cutscenes or special rectangles. All the secundary stuff which isn't really plot advancing, I code last, certainly with dialogue. There is an exception to that: puzzles. As soon as I know how to code a specific puzzle I will code it immediatly and test it, even though it might not be plot advancing. I hope this helps you a bit. It's actually simialir to Ephesos's way of designing. EDIT: typos [ Wednesday, December 06, 2006 05:30: Message edited by: Thralni ] -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Nethergate 2.0 development "announced"! in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Monday, December 4 2006 23:13 Profile Homepage #10 I must say I'm quite unhappy to hear that, because he promised he would make sixes for the Avernum series, enabling people with Mac OS 10.4.8 to play them. I sure hope he is still going to do that. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
The abominable winter photo thread! in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Sunday, December 3 2006 00:20 Profile Homepage #13 In Holland we have broken records almost every day with our current temperatures. In 300 years it wasn't so warm here during this time. It's abotu 3,5 degrees warmer than normal, 1,5 degrees warmer than last year. I don't complain... -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
OoC Thread for "An RP in the World of Avernum... Reloaded" in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Sunday, December 3 2006 00:17 Profile Homepage #421 I made an end to my facton. if somebody wants to take over and continue with the spies left (see my last post in the IC thread for their locations and names), you're welcome. I don't feel like continuing. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
All good things must come to an end... in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Saturday, December 2 2006 04:54 Profile Homepage #25 Oh... I liked your presence, your good argumentation but espacially your signatures, which at first confused me. I never really read signatures. You showed that there are exceptions to that rule. Thanks for all you did, come back whenever you want. And if you aren't leaving but wanted to see how everybody thinks of you, then you are a bastard :) . Don't worry, you will be a nice bastard. Goodbye. May the chickengods smile upon you for the last time. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Embers of Rebellion Released! in Blades of Avernum
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, November 29 2006 06:53 Profile Homepage #12 Good work Ephesos. Once Jeff fixed the problem that's present in all Avernum games on Mac OS 10.4.8, I'll play it through and rate it. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Mac OSX Lag in Blades of Avernum
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, November 29 2006 06:51 Profile Homepage #2 Jeff already said he would fix this after releasing geneforge 4 for Mac and Windows. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Scenarios in Blades of Avernum
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Monday, November 27 2006 07:06 Profile Homepage #19 I have started a new project about four months ago, if my estimation is correct. I actually already started it before I released where the rivers meet (which reminds me: are there any reviews coming soon on the lyceum, or will Nioca's be the only one (thanks for that kind review by the way :) )?). Don't wait for it now, though. It will be finished, like where the rivers meet, in 14 months or so, I guess. Usualy I only work in weekends and vacations, but even that may not happen at this moment, as my marks good be better. [ Monday, November 27, 2006 07:06: Message edited by: Thralni ] -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
The SpiderWebWorld in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Friday, November 17 2006 03:56 Profile Homepage #83 I'll be Holland, though I'd rather not be... I could be Israel too, as I have loads of family there. You decide, I can't. By the way, does this mean that we can declare war on each other? -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Runescape anyone? in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Tuesday, November 14 2006 06:57 Profile Homepage #453 quote: Originally written by Archmage Alex: I can cut gems. :D I haven't been a member for several months, and stopped playing when my membership lapsed. Though with all that's been added, one of these days I'm probably going start up again. I can cut them too, by the way. But that's not the reason I quoted you. Thing is, that even though everything looks nicer, it's still Runescap, and it still is rather boring. I can play it for ten minutes before I log out, of pure boredom. Yes, that's right, it's my last resource. if everything that I could do proves not to be that interesting or I simply don't feel like doing these things, I play Runescape. Call me if you need help, though. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Your religion in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Sunday, November 12 2006 00:00 Profile Homepage #14 I like money, money likes me. I'm the political advisor thingy of the church of the divine Lucre. That's also the main reason nobody really likes that cult. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Linux: what flavour is your favourite? in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Saturday, November 11 2006 23:41 Profile Homepage #8 Ah yes, that's Fedora. As far as I understand, Fedora and Redhat are not exactly the same, Fedora being an open source project, a cooperation between Redhat and FOSS. Problem though, is that it will tak up at least 3GB, and since I have 15 GB available on my PC at the moment, I'm not sure I want to fill it a Linux partition already to the top with only the system (after partition I will have about 6 or 7 GB for Linux, the rest goes to Windows). So, anyway, thanks for all the help. Eventually i chose for the simplest option: just install mandrivia and be done with it, so I did. It now runs on my PC. partitioning went without problems, Windows and Linux run fine. Linux does have problems with the soundcard and hibernating, but it's nothign serieus (I hope). [ Sunday, November 12, 2006 03:52: Message edited by: Thralni ] -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Linux: what flavour is your favourite? in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Saturday, November 11 2006 10:30 Profile Homepage #5 quote: Originally written by Tyranicus.: I personally prefer Red Hat Fedora Core. Many people claim not to like it, but I've been using it for years and have been highly impressed. And that's indeed the first Linux distro I looked at, but as there was no free version for me to try, i decided to look alsewhere. maybe I missed it? Anyway, I'm quite certain now I want to make my PC a dual boot, like my iMac, with Windows and Linux. I noticed that Linux Mandriva came with a tool to do this. Can I safely use it, while Windows has already been installed an dproparly configured, or can I forget about that? -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Linux: what flavour is your favourite? in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Saturday, November 11 2006 07:52 Profile Homepage #3 Yes, Vlish, i certainly agree :) I succesfully downloaded and installed Linux Mandriva (or Mandrake, i never understood the difference anyway), and after some mangling with BIOS settings I got it to boot succesfully. I'm impressed. The handling is so much better than Windows, that I'm actually thinking of making my PC a dual boot, like my iMac, with Windows and Linux. I know of none of the Linux versions mentioned here, but I'll be sure to check it out. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Linux: what flavour is your favourite? in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Saturday, November 11 2006 03:38 Profile Homepage #0 I came across this website earlier this morning: http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html It's a website containing the most popular of GUIs ever produced, and it's quite interesting to see the development of all these OSs, at leat I enjoyed looking at them. Anyway, when I got to the Linux section, it sparked my interest. I have been using Mac from the start, and Windows for four years now, yet I never used Linux. At this moment I'm downloading the free, 1 CD version of Linux Mandriva 2007. problem is, I don't know if that's a recommended version of Linux. So, all of you who work/have worked with Linux, what do you suggest? Also, should I just insert the CD with Linux on it into my Windows PC (Not my iMac!) and wait untill it boots Linux, or is there a certain procedure? Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance. [ Saturday, November 11, 2006 06:08: Message edited by: Thralni ] -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
That's a joke... I say, that's a joke, son in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Friday, November 10 2006 01:43 Profile Homepage #13 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: I ended up Tweety. Then I filled in all my second-choice answers and got Pepe Le Pew. Exactly the same for me. And I did that OS quiz twice. I never got to be OS X. Sirrus, you are a lucky bastard. EDIT: By the way, why is everybody suddenly posting this enormous amount of quizes and tests? Has inspiration left this community? [ Friday, November 10, 2006 01:44: Message edited by: Thralni ] -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Episode VI: Return Of The Abominable Photo Thread in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Wednesday, November 8 2006 07:01 Profile Homepage #22 That foto was taken in Rome about a month ago. The people you see from left to right: Casper (a friend), me and Jelle, an other friend of mine. Yes, I DO have friends! Golly, aren't I a happy person now!? Oh well. I had a cat too, so what. Oh, and sorry if the picture stretches the lot a bit. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Personal Flair in Blades of Avernum
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Tuesday, November 7 2006 23:31 Profile Homepage #13 Though most advice has already been given, I'd like to add the following: Looking at your NPCs as characters in a novel might not always work. I'd rather look at them as real, living people. Look at them as being your friends in real life, or familiy. Something more important though, is that you let things happen. If you let things happen (think o small things: a parents' son has died, or a few mice plague a bakery, no big fancy stuff, like armies conquering the city. That makes it too complicated than it has to be), you will have to form an opinion for at least the NPC(s) directly connected to the thing that's happened. I'd say that you give other NPCs in town an opinion about it too. It will liven up your characters incredibly, or so I have felt it myself. When nothing happens and nobody has really somehting to say, a town can get boring quite soon. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Praying for God's forgiveness even now... in General
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Saturday, October 21 2006 06:41 Profile Homepage #31 http://thralni.ermarian.net/ The link to my website. Have fun with it. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Contest Registration in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Friday, October 20 2006 10:58 Profile Homepage #3 Where the Rivers Meet Newcomer [ Wednesday, November 29, 2006 07:58: Message edited by: Thralni ] -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Contest Rules in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Friday, October 20 2006 08:42 Profile Homepage #6 I just wanted to state I sent out my scenario to Spiderweb, though they didn't put it on their site yet. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Where the Rivers Meet: may it flow safely for a long time. in Blades of Avernum
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Thursday, October 19 2006 23:11 Profile Homepage #34 I was in Rome for the past two weeks (schooltrip) and therefor i didn't answer the questions. So anyway, what gates are you exactly referring too? I saw some complaints about the creation halls, about the gates in the castle gates and about the Senarti fort. EDIT: i forgot to mention that the thing about Ea and the chickens temple and all that you mentioned is my sens eof humor. You like it or you don't, and most SW's don't seem to like, for all I know. [ Thursday, October 19, 2006 23:13: Message edited by: Thralni ] -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Avernum games: slowly in 10.4.8? in Tech Support
Thralni Master Member # 5977	written Friday, October 6 2006 04:57 Profile Homepage #8 Thanks for the tip, Dikiyoba. I'll try it. Also, thanks for making clear what the problem is. Pity you can't do it sooner, but I guess that's juts how it is. Now at least I know what's happening. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 \| Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00

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