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| Displayed name | Randomizer |
| Member number | 6785 |
| Title | Law Bringer |
| Postcount | 4643 |
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| Registered | Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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| One Planet Down, Eight To Go in General | |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, August 28 2006 21:14
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Actually I was a bit tired when I originally wrote Pluto was Greek. It was technically right, but in the instance of actually naming planets the Roman names have become the custom even when the Greek names were used earlier. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
| Story LIne in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Monday, August 28 2006 17:16
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Delicious Vlish favored backing up and luring your enemies to their destruction. Even with using the Geneforge in GF1 if you let your enemies swarm you, then you can get slaughtered. There is nothing wrong with a tactical retreat. As Worf in Star Trek: The Next Generation quoted that famous human saying, "He who fights and runs away, lives to run away another day." Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Monday, August 28 2006 17:10
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Anatomy greatly increase damage from what I have heard. Dexterity only in GF3 increases missle weapon damage which includes wands, crystals, and batons. Dexterity to prevent damage doesn't work well enough to put that much into it. Slarty tried for a dexterous agent and found that he couldn't increase his dodging ability enough to guarantee success. Edit: It might be possible to use battle shaping if you have mental spells high enough that Daze will stun almost all enemies so your thahds have time to close and attack. After Harmony Island you should have thahd shades that will be better able to avoid being hit. [ Monday, August 28, 2006 18:43: Message edited by: Randomizer ] Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 21:28
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It goes back to which game, character type, and playing style. They all require different skill sets. Battle shaping only works well for meat shields and melee style combat. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 17:54
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Do you know of a school that has textbooks that were never not out of date? History textbooks are usually at least 10 to 20 years behind the times. Science ones are even worse. Mathematics are probably the least out of date since new discoveries usually don't apply at that level. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
| Genefore 1-Buried Cells in Geneforge Series | |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 17:48
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If you check the FAQ it will tell you that there are less mind nutrients than servant minds that need to be fed. Jeff's little way of making you prioritize your needs to fulfill all quests and pick the ones that will do you the most good. You can usually get away with not feeding the mind in the Guarded Docks area. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
| geneforge 1 walking speed in Geneforge Series | |
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 17:45
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I don't think you can do so without editting the scripts to change your movement rate. I pretty much just find something else to do while I wait. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Sunday, August 27 2006 17:43
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Check out Strategy Central for information about the different classes and playing styles that you don't get in the manual or FAQs. This mainly applies to Geneforge 3, but with some care you can use it in most games. Battle shaping helps in the later part of the game when you can create a thahd shade with very high dexterity. It can sit in front of your party and draw attacks that will miss it. Generally as a shaper fire shaping gives you the earlier creations and magic shaping can give you vlish that can stun opponents. It usually doesn't pay to get skills where you are weakest in learning them because the cost in skill points will hurt your character. You need some mechanics to disarm traps and it helps to unlock doors. Luck will help you get more monster dropped items. Leadership will grant you more conversation options and will allow you to avoid some quests or get items and information that you would otherwise miss. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Saturday, August 26 2006 19:00
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My local paper had astrologers already calculating star charts based on the influences of the dwarf planets. Some of them are mad about the demotion of Pluto. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
| Avernum V ideas in Avernum 4 | |
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written Saturday, August 26 2006 18:58
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Actually for unlocking doors the spell benefits more from spellcraft and other mage skills. Tool use is only for traps and if you don't mind the damage then you only need a little to finish the game. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, August 26 2006 15:46
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Vacuum if you want to stretch the definition of a perfect insulator. The separation between hydrogen atoms makes ionization for conduction into the megavolt range. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Saturday, August 26 2006 15:43
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Apple II+ came out in 1980 or 81. I think that's what you are referring to in your post. It had separate floppy drives from the main computer. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Saturday, August 26 2006 15:34
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quote:The other planets beyond Pluto fall into the same dwarf planet class for now as Pluto. This will last until they discover something beyond the Oort cloud that fits the definition of a planet. The dog Pluto was named after the planet Pluto. The planet Pluto was named after the Roman god of the Underworld. [ Saturday, August 26, 2006 19:44: Message edited by: Randomizer ] Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Saturday, August 26 2006 01:05
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My view would be that "water' defines a fluid with certain properties and uses. To each person the fluid on their home Earth would have the same properties and uses unless they could determine the chemical structure as part of their normal existance. For most people they would not be able to determine a difference. On the question of water conducting electricity, at a sufficiently high voltage it would conduct even in its purest state. The current would probably flow through air long before it reached this point. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Friday, August 25 2006 17:54
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The new mnenomic I saw was My very educated mother just served us nothing Still some day you can tell your children how easy they have it because when you were in school you had to learn the names of 9 planets. For a few years you even had to know that Pluto was closer to the Earth than Neptune. [ Friday, August 25, 2006 18:01: Message edited by: Randomizer ] Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Friday, August 25 2006 17:38
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I still have a 12 year old PC with a 50 Mhz Pentium CPU (original series not the later ones). I won't even try internet connections with it. It'll do word processing and the Exile games without any trouble, Can't run Avernum or Geneforge which is why I have a more recent one. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
| which game is the best? in Geneforge Series | |
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written Friday, August 25 2006 17:28
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Out of the choices I voted for Avernum 2 even though I preferred Nethergate. At this point A2 is ahead of all the Geneforge games combined. So much for Geneforge forum bias. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
| foley? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, August 25 2006 17:23
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I never found him in Exile or Avernum 2. I always thought that I missed him when I got to the west part of the game and had better things to do. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Thursday, August 24 2006 21:16
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Not the best by Douglas Adams, but then he never finished it. They are still dragging stuff off his hard drive so there may be more to come. Have you tried Don't Panic the biography by Neil Gaiman? It has some great bits from Douglas Adams and it was recently reprinted with additional material. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Thursday, August 24 2006 21:12
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If it had gone the other way you would have to learn all the new planetlets. Although they will probably revise the definition in a few years. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
| Shapers keeping secrets in Geneforge Series | |
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written Thursday, August 24 2006 19:23
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What do you think about the shaper's need to keep things secret? In Geneforge 1 there was Sucia Island being barred and the reason for it being kept secret. There is the great secret in the Temple of Spirits about shaper origins. In Geneforge 2 you learn about the coverup of the events of GF1 on Sucia Island. The Shapers cover back up the secrets of the geneforge and the canisters. Even the shapers involved in Drypeak keep from the council what they are doing with that secret information. In Geneforge 3 on Dhonal's Island you meet the purity inspector that destroys information that shouldn't be released to the general population. There is also the Sholai visitor searching for news of the earlier expedition led by Trajkov. The shapers say that he never made it and they never heard of him. Knowledge is power and the Shaper council wants to control the release of all knowledge. Only shaper trained mages are allowed to learn certain spells. No release of creation information to mages. Is the secrecy hurting the shaper society or keeping it stable until the rebellion forces it out into the open? Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, August 24 2006 17:51
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Replying to Telanos: 4. Fire and force barriers were useful for two things. Containing quickfire if you were fast enough and were in the right place. The other was to deflect those moving blocks so they didn't crush you. 9. Food is still around as a source of healing for those that want it. Poison is not as useful since most monsters die before it takes effect. There are still a few items that duplicate it like the oozing blade. 11. It's buried in the instructions, bug Jeff did mention the change on combining tool use and unlock spell. 12. The wait 40 turns isn't needed since you can't get back health/spell points by using it any more. 13. Some of the lower level skills were useful like parry and riposte. Lethal blow is just too hard to train up to in a real game. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Thursday, August 24 2006 17:35
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It's one of those treasures that's there to taunt you. Spend your time looking for the hidden chambers that have supplies that you can use. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, August 23 2006 20:56
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It's that Germanic blood. Organization, record keeping, taking over the world, .... Pretty soon well be informed that the board has been taken over for our own good. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
| Strategy Central in Geneforge Series | |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, August 23 2006 20:46
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Thanks for moving it forward. I didn't want to go and find it myself. You'll need to make a new version for GF4 in a few months. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |