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Why there? *warning: displays secret of G1* in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 22:05 Profile Homepage #27
But if the Shapers are just as evil as the other cultures, why are they in the right to take over? They certainly didn't need two entire continents, not when the other cultures were already established and kept things peaceful and under control. At least, until the Shapers came, started an unnecessary war, let loose a bunch of rogues, and killed a lot of innocent people.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Happy Easter in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 12:14 Profile Homepage #11
Happy Easter to everyone who cares!

I must say that the stuff the Easter Bunny sends me is much less satisfying now that it comes in a little brown package with my parents' address on it instead of a brightly colored bucket or package... and also when it contains socks instead of candy.

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The Silent Assassin is obsessive with the Easter Egg Hunt.
Every year, he hides exactly three eggs around our property for me to find.
I've found the first two already, inside my box of Basic 4 and underneath the brake pedal in my car...
Something tells Dikiyoba that those aren't boiled eggs, either.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
A3: Where can i learn Dispel barrier? in The Avernum Trilogy
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 11:55 Profile Homepage #1
Okay, I know this was just asked.

*rummages*

Ah, here you go. Dikiyoba thinks that should do it.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
The Episodes: the poll in General
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 11:46 Profile Homepage #40
Originally by Nikki:

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Originally written by Sarasaphilia:

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Originally written by I.F.M.:

Okay "New Arrival" :P

Umm... he's been around a while longer than you. Custom titles aren't an oldbie ranking, they just show how much attention you give to these boards through posting. And, I wouldn't go around calling people "New Arrival," because that is exactly what you are, frankly. You have been here for a little over a month. Hell, I'm still a newb, officially, but I usually don't go around continually speaking about newbs, noobs, newness, noobness, et cetera.
Noob.
Newb.

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Originally by Sarasaphilia:

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You're an older member, and a mod, and you know what the problem is, and you've asked for it to be solved, so... aren't you technically the grammar and spelling police?
Um, how is Synergy supposed to change IFM's PDN when he isn't an administrator (and in fact not even a mod of this forum)? Besides, I just can't see him being part of an ultra-secret ninja death squad.

And in the interest of stuffing as much content into this post as possible, Dikiyoba will say that this poll was, in fact, maybe perhaps slightly likely to be useful in some small way. Or something like that, anyway.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
To Destroy The Foe in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 11:27 Profile Homepage #1
Dikiyoba would make several thousand dexterous fyoras, thahds, and artilas. :P
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Ideologies of Geneforge (4) in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 06:16 Profile Homepage #64
Originally by Lord Safey:

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Where is this moral high ground. seems to me that the rebelion is makeing the same mistakes
Fair enough. Giving the drakons the moral high ground was never my intention.

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Also in the shaper ending they enter a truce with the rebellion.
A temporary one. They intended to go back later, just as soon as they had the resources and willpower to spare.

"So a temporary peace was declared...But no one truly believed that the war was over...The rebels never slept easy. They knew that, one day, the Shapers would come."

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The shaper ending says that they study the reason for the rebellion , learned from their mistaks, and took steps to prevent another.
It does not say that they learned from their mistakes. It says they learned to be even stricter and more controlling. And it worked for several centuries. But then, there were two centuries between the abandonment of Sucia Island and the start of a rebellion that lost the Shapers half a continent for a while and the Ashen Isles completely (at least until they fight another war to get it back). The Shapers can't control everyone and everything forever--the Shaper ending clearly implies that there is another rebellion. And how big and devastating will that rebellion be, considering that Shaping progress will continue and the creations thrown around will be even more deadly than kyshakks, war tralls, and wingbolts?

Dikiyoba.
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Project Spiderweb. in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 05:45 Profile Homepage #9
Originally by Randomizer:

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Edit - An Avernite mage will do since that's what Dikiyoba made me in the episodes.
Dikiyoba actually pictures you running around as a little short servile, but no big deal.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Ideologies of Geneforge (4) in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Saturday, April 7 2007 21:56 Profile Homepage #62
Originally by Lord Safey:

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Oh and what are the dryaks doing? Haveing tea parties. Their is a reason the rebellion is crumbling under pressure. when the same pressure was applied to the shapers they held strong.
I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at. Could you explain in more detail?

My point was actually that the Shapers aren't necessarily learning from their mistakes. Instead, they're making bigger ones.

Keeping a stranglehold on everything and killing every creation they don't like isn't the solution--it's what caused the Rebellion in the first place, and it's caused rebellions before this one and will cause rebellions after this one. The Shapers could approach the unhappy humans, independent serviles, and drayks. The Shapers could negotiate with them and make a few compromises. The bulk of the Rebellion is then gone and the Shapers have a much easier time getting to and dealing with the drakons, if they can't negotiate with them.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
GF 1 - Shaper Crypt in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Saturday, April 7 2007 20:14 Profile Homepage #2
If you still have other zones or quests to finish, go finish them first and see if you can gain a level or two. Are there any tombs left from earlier in the game that could improve your skills any, especially in the shaping skills?

If you haven't had your creations for very long and so they haven't leveled up much, try experimenting with different ones. Equip a Shaper robe and something to increase your intelligence if necessary. Vlish slow, glaaks stun, plated clawbugs get extra AP, and I'm told that drayks and cryodrayks are very nice. Improve their stats if you need to.

If you still have mind nutrients, you can give them to the servant mind and have him turn off all the pylons for you.

You'll want the crescent rock you need to clear the area on you so you won't have to fight your way through again.

Speed, blessing, and shielding effects will help you and your creations out. Especially speed.

The "spawners" in the crypt aren't actual spawners that you can kill but machinery that you can't turn off, so there will always be spawning monsters.

Save your progress with different save files so that if you accidentally save yourself into a particularly tricky combat and can't get out without getting killed, you can reload without losing much.

Finally, if you need to, turn the difficulty down, especially if you are above normal. Dikiyoba doesn't think there's any shame in doing that.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Why there? *warning: displays secret of G1* in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Saturday, April 7 2007 19:53 Profile Homepage #20
Originally by Nalyd:

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Why is it so horribly impossible that Shaping spread peacefully?
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If you had an easy enough alternative that involved no loss of human life and little human effort, while simultaneously greatly increasing your chances to win a potentially horrific war, could you honestly say that you wouldn't do it?
I think you just answered your own question: because it's easier and more successful than diplomacy.

Also, Khyryk on earlier civilizations:

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There used to be all sorts of tribes and peoples on Terrestia. The Shapers absorbed or defeated them long before you or I was born.
Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Combat became harder and harder for me in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Saturday, April 7 2007 16:29 Profile Homepage #1
Originally by swapoer:

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PS: Some of my record disappear during the game,is this a bug?And i find no way in chapter 2 to ask the general of shapers give me more task so i can improve the relation between me and the shapers.He ask me the location of some rebel but i choose the answer of persuaing him to believe that telling her the location will make me in the risk of be suspected by rebel.And he dont give any task to me any more ,just ask me to do more thing to the shapers.So in chapter 3,i cannt communicate with the shapers,only do the task of rebel.
If you do too many pro-rebel things (like killing Shalia, wiping out the loyalist unit in Dillame fields, etc.) then General Alwan won't trust you enough to give you the quest to restore Moseh and you're basically shut out of the Shapers side of the game. Sorry, there's nothing much you can do about it.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Why there? *warning: displays secret of G1* in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Saturday, April 7 2007 16:24 Profile Homepage #14
Originally by Eugi:

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Most of what I find is that the Shapers simply lack compassion. I recall several examples from GF3/GF4 where regular people are upset with the Shapers because they can't see the reason behind the Shaper's actions (and the Shaper's can't or don't want to soften the blow).
But if the Shapers have no compassion for ordinary people, then how to do we know that they are trustworthy? That is, how do we know they are working for or even care about ordinary people at all? If they don't have the best interests of the ordinary people in mind, then what are they working for, and why should ordinary people support the Shapers? And even if they do have the interests of ordinary people in mind, can we trust them to make the right decisions?

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The Shapers were right - introducing such shaped crops would have created potentially disastroues consequences for the region later on. However the Shapers also failed to alleviate the crisis in any way.
Or so the Shapers claim. There's no one to back them up. And the Shapers don't mind trying to create crops despite the risk in other areas, like Drypeak (and perhaps Sucia Island). Why was this area different? Was the risk of disease and damaging the environment the real reason for denying the farmers their request for new crops when the Shapers couldn't even be bothered to provide extra food or to clearly explain why they couldn't help. How do we know that the Shapers just didn't want to spare the resources to help out such a poor and remote area?

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In GF3 the perfect example is the quarantine imposed on the Islands. Most everyone recognizes it's necessary to prevent the spread of the Rogues, but once again the Shapers fail to do anything to alleviate the plight of the "common man".
And that worked out really well, right? It sure stopped the spread of the rogues, didn't it? Quarantining Ashen Isles was a colossal failure. The abandonment of Sucia Island was another. The clean up of Sucia Island was yet another. And how many poisonous dumps and sealed areas have we seen in four games? Plus, there's all the pylons and rogue creations the Shapers use that kill indiscriminately--are those really good for ordinary people?

Dikiyoba isn't going so far as to say that the Shapers are evil. Dikiyoba also realizes that this could apply to the Rebellion or just about every government or society. But how can you blindly pledge your support to the Shapers when you are just one problem away from becoming rogue food or having a toxic dump in your backyard? And how can you condemn the Rebellion for all their mistakes when the Shapers have such a poor record after centuries of practice?
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Storing Items in Avernum 4
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Saturday, April 7 2007 10:57 Profile Homepage #1
You can put your stuff anywhere you'd like. Many people like to keep their stash near the pylons in Fort Avernum. The only real limit is two hundred items per zone.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Clicking on Journal Crashes Game.... in Tech Support
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Saturday, April 7 2007 09:49 Profile Homepage #6
Except that Dikiyoba already tried that. When Dikiyoba said Dikiyoba shut down all other programs/background processes, Dikiyoba meant the antivirus program too.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Ideologies of Geneforge (4) in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Saturday, April 7 2007 09:29 Profile Homepage #59
Originally by Lord Safey:

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If you read the shaper ending it shows that they learned from their mistakes.
And there was peace... until the next rebellion.

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The attempted assation by the takes only proves to me that the rebellion wants peace no more then shapers do if they did they would have least have let the awaken alone but no they were as desperate as the shapers to destroy them.
The Takers do not exist anymore at the time of G4. The one previous Taker you meet at the Freehold is old, tired, and broken. The situation in G4 is not what it was in previous Geneforges.

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The drakons consider the shapers on the same level as food do you negotiate with your food?
The drakons do not consider Shapers as food. They see them as enemies. Eating slain foes is a lot different than eating ornks. The drakons would probably negotiate if they held a position and a reason do to so.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Why there? *warning: displays secret of G1* in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, April 6 2007 19:13 Profile Homepage #3
But the Shapers did (and still do) have the habit of wiping out all other cultures and peoples that they ran across.

Dikiyoba.
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characters and creations that join you in g4 in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, April 6 2007 09:11 Profile Homepage #8
You have to get the quest to kill Moseh before he will talk to you.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Where will G5 be? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, April 6 2007 09:05 Profile Homepage #23
From Dillame, you take a boat to get to the Shaper council. That's all there is.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Aranclonetar in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, April 6 2007 06:59 Profile Homepage #89
Originally by Arancaytar:

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Good analysis. Except I already found out, and pretty much everyone you're talking to here has already been replaced by one of my bots.
Dikiyoba has no idea what you are talking about.

[ Friday, April 06, 2007 06:59: Message edited by: Dikiyobot ]
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Clicking on Journal Crashes Game.... in Tech Support
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, April 5 2007 16:49 Profile Homepage #3
Nothing from me besides sending an e-mail about this problem to Jeff. (He checks here, but not always regularly, so it could be a while before he sees this topic.)

Or just avoid using the journal.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Are Drakons superior beings? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, April 5 2007 16:44 Profile Homepage #435
Originally by Morior:

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So are the Awakened, but if you run from Sucia Island in G1 without doing anything to Goettsch or Trajkov, the Shapers ally with the Awakened. And the Awakened never change their beliefs.
But there is plenty of evidence in G4 that the Shapers still do not accept the drayks.

General Alwan about Shorass: "Of course, he is a drayk, so he is marked for death no matter what he believes. Drayks are Barred. He must die."

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
New Geneforge 4 review in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
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Member # 6600
 written Thursday, April 5 2007 13:20 Profile Homepage #2
Spiderweb Software almost always gets marks off for their graphics in reviews. It's pretty much expected.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Just one complaint in Avernum 4
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, April 5 2007 13:18 Profile Homepage #3
And they get pretty ticked off when you tell them they don't exist or their opinion is wrong.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Frostbite problem in Blades of Avernum
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, April 5 2007 06:59 Profile Homepage #14
You have to cross the stream, make your way up to the hot springs, and fight the hobgoblins. There should be a tree or two that look different and that's where you get firewood from.

Dikiyoba forgets exactly how you get the firewood. If just getting close to them doesn't work, then try searching them.
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Are Drakons superior beings? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, April 5 2007 06:48 Profile Homepage #430
Originally by Lord Safey:

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honestly can you imagine a drakon sweeping a floor
If they had no one else to do it, then yes.

Originally by Nalyd:

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The Drayks that haven't left outright are disgruntled and mistreated. The humans and serviles are pretty much dead. Where do you see internal strife in the Shapers? The Shapers teamed up with a Geneforge warped Servile, if you choose to play as a Servile.
The drakons only started their excessive arrogance and mistreating the drayks and serviles a few months before you arrived, once the drakons realized how badly the rebellion was losing, just like the Shapers are only willing to work with you because they're losing.

Originally by Emperor Tullegolar:

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Humans can tighten bolts if they need to, the game hints a few times (shaper ending) that drakons can not.
Where? I just went through a Shaper ending and saw nothing like that. Quotes, please.

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I don't think the question is whether or not they would work, the question is could they? They lack fine motor skills, as has already been pointed out.
They don't lack find motor skills. They just aren't as good as them as humans are. They can write, even if it is large clumsy handwriting (and drakons are larger than humans--their handwriting is going to be larger as well). They are capable of doing the work, especially if they had drakon-sized tools to work with.

Dikiyoba.
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