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Harry Potter *WITH SPOILERS* in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Saturday, July 28 2007 22:22 Profile Homepage #45
I think making Harry an oversung hero is the point of the books (and it's ironic how well they succeeded at that). And personally, I find Voldemort more disappointing than Harry. For all that we learn about his past, he's basically just an overpowered, short-sighted caricature of evil. Where is his supposed cunning and charm? How did he manage to take over practically everywhere so quickly? I dunno, maybe Harry wouldn't have had to rely on dumb luck and other people's sacrifices so much if Voldemort wasn't the ultimate evil wizard.

Dikiyoba will admit to liking less-than-ideal heros more than ideal ones, though. It would be more inspiring to watch a person mortally afraid of heights climb a ladder than Spider-Man climb to the top of a skyscraper, because the ladder-climber is challenging themselves while Spider-Man isn't risking anything at all.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
deleting saves in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Saturday, July 28 2007 15:48 Profile Homepage #3
You can, of course, just save over your old saved games. It's a bit easier that way.

Dikiyoba.
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Any robot games in the future? in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, July 27 2007 12:21 Profile Homepage #6
Originally by Dintiradan:

quote:
...I've got an LCD monitor now. It's only a few centimetres thick. 3D graphics would look terribly squashed on it.
Relax. The games themselves will still be 2-D. The only difference is that they will now come with a pair of 3-D glasses.

Dikiyoba.
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seclulded forest areas in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Friday, July 27 2007 11:26 Profile Homepage #1
There are a very few cases (and it's usually fairly obvious) where talking to the right person, doing something, or getting close enough will open up a secret passage, but for the most part, there is nothing in those black areas. Clusters of trees are like walls and cliffs in that sense.

Dikiyoba.
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im sorry spidweb team but.... in Avernum 4
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, July 26 2007 18:42 Profile Homepage #4
Well, whatever engine and graphics Jeff uses, someone will be off-put by them. Hopefully, A5's engine is much more streamlined than A4, what with the return of elevation and the engine advances of G4. If not, well, there's always Blades of Avernum, the updated Nethergate, and replaying the original trilogy.

Dikiyoba.
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Editor or Item Spawner? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, July 26 2007 12:13 Profile Homepage #9
I can't get your editor to work either, Sarasaphilia. I downloaded it using "Save As" instead of copying, so it's not that. The itemchars one scrambles up all the graphics, and the other one just breaks all the dialogue completely.

Dikiyoba is on Windows, so maybe that has something to do with it.
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Harry Potter *WITH SPOILERS* in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, July 25 2007 20:17 Profile Homepage #25
Dikiyoba didn't like the epilogue and wishes that it was left to the imagination instead. Other than that, it was okay.

Edit: Typo.

[ Wednesday, July 25, 2007 20:18: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
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Harry Potter in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, July 24 2007 18:52 Profile Homepage #73
Dikiyoba calls Dobby the house-elf.
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Editor or Item Spawner? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, July 24 2007 09:32 Profile Homepage #5
Open up the file gf4itemschars and do a search for the item you want to add to your inventory. For example, living tools. Then find the item number (begindefineitem #). A living tool is number 255.

Next, find a person or sign that you always have easy access to and open up the dialogue script (the one that ends in dlg) for the area that the person or sign is in. Let's say Delna in Southforge Citadel, so the file is z1sfcitdlg. Make a back up copy in case something goes wrong or you want the original file back. Then, search for a question that isn't tied to a quest or shop and isn't the beginning of a set of questions (mostly for convenience). "How old are you?" works nicely. At the end of the answer (and right before the next begintalknode), add
code =
reward_give(item #);
break;
exactly how it is written. If you want more than one item, add them all in individual reward_gives.

So, if you wanted Delna to give you three living tools every time you asked him how old he was, the script would look like this.

begintalknode 135;
state = 133;
nextstate = 134;
condition = 1;
question = "How old are you?";
text1 = "_Oh, old. Old. <...> Never let them raise me dumb._";
code =
reward_give(255);
reward_give(255);
reward_give(255);
break;
Dikiyoba hopes that is enough guidance.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Happy Birthday.... in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 23 2007 21:59 Profile Homepage #10
Originally by Arancaytar:

quote:
I note that I just incremented a more significant decimal place...
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
You look like Harry Potter
And you're angsty like him too.

:P

Dikiyoba knows it's not as good as a Cthuhulu plushie, but if you don't advertise these things in advance, you just have to be grateful with what you do get.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
It's spelled GUARDIAN in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 23 2007 21:04 Profile Homepage #5
So, Aran, how are you going to get the rouge spellers to see this topic? Bump every other day? :P

Dikiyoba.

[ Monday, July 23, 2007 21:04: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
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Message Board in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 23 2007 09:19 Profile Homepage #82
Whoops. I didn't mean you. I was refering to "your" forum. Mods and admins should lock any threads started by or ruined by Ed (or any other troll) and IP ban the offender without any more disruption than is absolutely necessary.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
El Presidente - Beta in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 23 2007 09:06 Profile Homepage #10
If you still need me, send it to Dikiyoba (at) aol (dot) com.

Also, if you have any song titles you really want parodied in the beta report, send those over too and Dikiyoba will try to work them in. :P
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Message Board in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 23 2007 08:55 Profile Homepage #80
The fact that Ed has evolved from just another annoying troll to the puppy-kicking epitome of ULTIMATE BADNESS (of doom!) in [some] people's minds is a bit disturbing. Can we please move on (or in Iffy's case lock, ban, and move on) instead of getting sucked back in? Don't feed the troll and all that.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
G2 Editor? in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, July 19 2007 16:27 Profile Homepage #3
The G2 editor is here.

Dikiyoba doesn't know how often this question has been asked. Enough times for Dikiyoba to favorite the editor, though.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
New Geneforge in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, July 19 2007 09:55 Profile Homepage #5
If you had clicked on the link Randomizer provided, you would have seen that G5 will come after A5, and that will be the end of the Geneforge series. Jeff is currently working on A5.

As for textspeak-type writing, posts that are hard to read mean that people won't understand what you wrote or will simply ignore them, making it difficult for you to get answers to your questions. Thanks for cutting out those graemlins, by the way.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Harry Potter in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, July 18 2007 21:27 Profile Homepage #17
Dikiyoba is quite relieved that the series is finally ending. Dikiyoba lost Dikiyoba's enthusiasm for it after the fifth book came out. But hopefully, since it's the final book, it will be better than five and six were.
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Skill Canisters! in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, July 18 2007 20:49 Profile Homepage #11
12 leadership sounds too high for G1. I think I only ever had 10 or 11. I usually get my mechanics to 14 or 15 and ignore the unlock spell altogether, but since I think the highest trap is 14 mechanics and the tinker's gloves provide a +2 to mechanics, the highest mechanics needs to get is 12. I get those two skills up as soon as possible (Vakkiri has a lot of rewards for doing so) and then ignore them for the rest of the game. A few points of luck helps too, but not too many, especially since you can buy luck later on.

As a Shaper, put skill points into at least one of the shaping types for powerful creations, intelligence for essence, and blessing magic and healing for support. Add strength (for carrying capacity), endurance, spellcraft or dexterity/quick action as you need them.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Unhandled expection in Exodus in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, July 18 2007 20:31 Profile Homepage #6
Presumably, if the crash occurs "when it says your flying to the camp", there's not a lot left to be missed. :P

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Unhandled expection in Exodus in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, July 18 2007 07:28 Profile Homepage #3
I ran into this bug as well, but it was so long ago that I don't remember exactly what I did. What I think I did was find my saved game right before the fight (save a backup copy in case I'm wrong), set flag(44,7) to 1 in the character editor (choose advanced features, then set stuff done flag, then enter the three numbers individually), and travel back to the slith camp. Hopefully, things should continue as they are supposed to from there.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Skill Canisters! in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Tuesday, July 17 2007 16:51 Profile Homepage #6
Dikiyoba thinks that's right. You'll know for certain when you try to cross the ruins into the Spirit City temple, though. If you can get across them, you did it correctly. If you can't, well, you messed up somewhere.
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Social Degradation and Religious Decay (Split from "Life on Europa") in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 16 2007 14:16 Profile Homepage #120
Pushing your religious beliefs (of any religion) on others does more harm to your religion than good. For example, there are only a few denominations that have people go door-to-door (and not every person who goes door-to-door is disrespectful and extremely invasive) but it's often all Christians who get scorn because of it.

Yes, there needs to be talk about faith and religious beliefs, but it needs to be less of a push and more of a helping hand.

Dikiyoba.
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Social Degradation and Religious Decay (Split from "Life on Europa") in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 16 2007 13:30 Profile Homepage #116
Originally by Salmon:

quote:
It is kinda silly. It would be silly beyond epic proportions if atheists began wearing that symbol on chains around their necks, or plastered on the back of their cars. But come on, no one would ever dream to do that, right?

ps. This previous statement just begs for someone to find a reference or illustrative picture.
IMAGE(http://evolvefish.com/photos/FSM_racecar.jpg)

Dikiyoba also found a necklace and shirts.

Edit: Added quote and links.

[ Monday, July 16, 2007 13:36: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Social Degradation and Religious Decay (Split from "Life on Europa") in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 16 2007 10:54 Profile Homepage #108
Depends on where you are, Salmon. In other places, it is the disbeliever who is inundated. A majority opinion means nothing in itself.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
creations in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Monday, July 16 2007 09:47 Profile Homepage #8
There's only one upper-tier creation per base creation, so only 30 creations, plus the ornk.

Dikiyoba.

[ Monday, July 16, 2007 09:47: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ]
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