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| Displayed name | *i |
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| Title | The Establishment |
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| Registered | Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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| im probably goin to break some unwritten rule.... in Blades of Avernum | |
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The Establishment
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written Wednesday, November 19 2003 20:19
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This is getting a bit off topic, but I will try and answer. Jeff does not own Galactic Core, he only markets and distributes it. In order to port it, you would need to speak to the original author. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Comments on louvres Blades of Avernum graphic database in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, November 17 2003 16:48
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Has too much potential for argument. If you want to restart the topic with constructive criticisms, go right ahead. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Music in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, November 16 2003 10:01
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Probably not music, Jeff hates the stuff. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Should color-edits be pulled from the Louvre? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, November 15 2003 08:35
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Choice A. It just makes the whole thing easier overall. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Should color-edits be pulled from the Louvre? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, November 6 2003 19:45
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Edits themselves would still be valid. Just not ones that only shift the color. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Should color-edits be pulled from the Louvre? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Wednesday, November 5 2003 20:44
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Remove the color edits, but first define color edits strictly so there is little question as to what gets in and what does not get into the database. I suggest defining a color edit as: Any graphic that contains little or no editing beyond simply shifting the colors of the original. Therefore anything with discerable editing such as lightning on something and such would not be classified with a color edit. However, very slight modifications such as changing a few pixels would definitely not remove it from the category. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| BoA out? in Blades of Avernum | |
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The Establishment
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written Thursday, October 9 2003 08:06
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According to the forum header: Blades of Avernum (BoA) is not available yet. Jeff Vogel is hard at work on it - hopefully it will be available by year's end. It's doubtful they have it. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Leaders of the Empire? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, September 12 2003 19:24
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I would not focus on the amulet of Phrizoc. It is a an obscure (although important) part of Imperial history. No one knows when it was created. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Leaders of the Empire? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, September 11 2003 20:44
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I would put no definitive date on the Aizonic Empire. First evidences of its existence came about around 1000 BIE as the first real nation formed. However, it was very unstable with no fixed borders. Some evidence suggests by around 250 BIE, that Aizo was very loosely united in one Empire as kind of a confederacy of truce with several warring factions. By around 100 BIE, the Aizonic Empire pretty much was gone, torn apart by the civil wars of the warring factions that made it. There were many who would come to possess the amulet over much warring times. It's influence made the powers of the time. It was probably created before the first formations of the Aizonic Empire and its influence was very subtle. Nobody knows when the Phrizoc incident occurred, it is a myth. The best guests are around 100 BIE. I would put the full assimilation of Pralgad during the middle of the reign of Sol III. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Combat in scenarios in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, August 18 2003 18:36
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Perhaps the damage caps can be lifted for BoA. If the testers push hard enough, then it can probably be done, if it is not too difficult. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Intelligence in General | |
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written Friday, August 15 2003 12:06
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It also depends on what you take as your population. Do you take the US? The entire world? All brain sugeons? Or just the population of the board members? If you take the entire world or even the entire US population, these could be about right. If we take just this board, then the stats are wrong. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power!! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| BoA Status Report! in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Wednesday, August 13 2003 09:20
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Alcritas has a Mac? I was unaware. Anyway, this is very good news indeed. It is true the NPC options are doable in BoE, with great difficulty. But you seriously do not get nearly as much control as a designer would like. So this is definitely an improvement either way. I look forward to be able to use this product. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Message to Somebody/Order Mage/Iceman in General | |
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written Tuesday, August 12 2003 03:52
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All right, this has gone on long enough. The administrators have decided that the probability of OM/Iceman/Somebody being different people is too low for any reasonable person to discount. Therefore, we conclude that he is in fact using the same account. The action taken is little more than a warning. Order Mage is free to return, so long as he does not continue along his path of wrongdoing. This decision is final here on this board. Take your arguments about this topic elsewhere. Otherwise, this topic has served its purpose and has turned into a land of empty flames. All related topics shall now be locked as will any attempts to continue such discussions, because they only lead to more argument and hurt feelings. We try to keep this board pretty open, but we cannot allow things to get too nasty, as they have now done. I regret that we feel this step is necessary. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power!! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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The Establishment
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written Sunday, August 10 2003 14:09
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quote:Yes, you are free to stay, just behave yourself and don't make unbelievable claims. The title has been awarded by Drakey. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power!! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, August 10 2003 13:23
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This is all not including case sensitivity mind you. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power!! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Leaders of the Empire? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, August 10 2003 12:46
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I did refer to a few lines in between Sol and Prazac in Gallows, but oh well. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, August 10 2003 12:44
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quote:That's just laughable. Consider what you are saying. There are 37 possible characters in your password, (26 letters, 10 numbers, and one underscore). Let's say we choose a random password that is just a mere 4 characters long. That would mean there are: 1,874,161 passwords If the process were completely random, this would be over a l in 1.8 Million chance. This is essentially zero. Now of course, selecting passwords is not random, so the actual probability is a bit lower, but it is still zero even if we were to pick even passwords that someone would use. But for the sake of argument, let's say a 1 out of 10000 probability. The three of them asking you the same question is quite interesting too. I have never had anyone ask me that question of all the years I have been quite actively online. This is not a common question like, "How are you?" or "Where are you from?". To have all three of them ask you the same question is an extremely low probability. Let's again say 1 out of 10000 and be generous. Similar typing styles is another issue of concern. Just like you would be hard pressed finding two of the same people with exactly the same handwriting (or even close to) it is difficult to find two (let alone three) people with so similar typing styles. This is again a low probability here. Let's be generous again and give this a 1 out of 10000 probability of three different people who know each other having very similar typing/writing styles. Combine that with the evidence of sharing the same IP and e-mail address, which could be explained, but not in the face of all the above coincidences. Since this could be explained, we'll not factor this one in. Now, we can compute the actual probability by multiplying these three together. This gives us a probability of: 1 out of 1,000,000,000,000 That's one of a trillion, over a hundred times more people than there are on this planet. Probably even more humans that have EVER existed. And this is being generous, especially on the passwords where I could easily say 8 characters which would bring the probability for that one thing alone to 1 in 3 trillion. If I were to give you a more realistic estimate, I would say the probability would be around: 1 out of 35,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 1 out of 35 sextillion, which may as well be never. Zephyr -- It is fine to support friends, but you need to understand when the evidence is stacked against them to the point where there is no logical alternative. Of course I only estimate the probabilities, but they are roughly what they should be within a few orders of magnitude which hardly makes a difference overall. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power!! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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The Establishment
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written Wednesday, August 6 2003 11:34
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Oooh, the Fruit Baskets of Pain are already here!! And gone is all that is of the light. Prepare, for the new reign of darkness is upon!! :( :( :( :( :( :( [ Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:35: Message edited by: *i ] -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power!! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Mountains in Blades of Avernum | |
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The Establishment
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written Wednesday, August 6 2003 11:07
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Either way, we should have the ability to make custom graphics. Meaning even if it is not included, we can still make them anyway. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Where Are All The Mods? in General | |
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written Friday, August 1 2003 07:36
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I try to show up a few times a week. I've been quite busy to post. Also, we have not really had too many incidents lately meriting our activity. Anyway, just behave yourselves, and there will not be any trouble as usual. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power!! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Friday, August 1 2003 05:38
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Worse...Admin powers... *ominous music plays in backgroud* -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power!! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Friday, August 1 2003 04:35
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Actually, I'm the one who applied that one. For the next couple weeks, Drakey's reign of terror is over!! Now begins my reign of terr..ific moderation. Yes, terrific moderation. I think they'll buy that, the fools! I mean, what a nice day it is. :cool: -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power!! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Leaders of the Empire? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, July 29 2003 13:28
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All right. I need some way to make the leaders of the Aizonic Empire special. It could enhance the elvish parts of normal humans, making them more powerful. I still think the Emperors should be becoming more and more human over time just because of blood mixing. Hawthorne and Prazac would have very little of the original elvish bloodline in them by that point. It is possible that as the Empire declines after At the Gallows, a more pure bloodline seizes the throne. Phrizoc's origins will not be revealed at this time. He does not belong to any faction and has no political ambitions. His motivations are unknown as of yet and his activities are quite indirect. He probably wanted to create an Empire spanning the world for some reason. Exactly why, is yet unknown. I do not want to see a major cataclysm kill the Empire, at least while it is strong. I have the Empire declining after At the Gallows. Although we can have a major event, the Empire should already be on its last legs by that point. Basically, I, like many members here, have a very hard time accepting a huge cataclysm and much of the Echoes storyline as an official storyline. The changes are radical and the scenarios are not extremely popular within the community. That says nothing about your design skills, it just means that the Echoes storyline has failed to capture the audiences of many. I know of very few people who can really explain it. However, if we take Alcritas, his scenarios are very popular and can probably be explained by most people in the community who have been around a while. I tried playing many of the Echoes storylines, and they are really hard to latch onto and often the fights are a bit too challenging. I would be a lot less uneasy if at least one of the Echoes scenarios would be considered one of the best scenarios. That does not mean to suggest that your additions to the history are any less valid than mine. It's just it feels like right now we just have a very small number of people making fairly important decisions about the official history of the universe. Scenario designers may have any unofficial history they like, but if we want to make an official history, we need to have more than what we have right now. I feel Drakefyre should definitely weigh in on this conversation before everything we say is set in stone. I probably do not want all of my parts in the official line. Basically, I have the Empire go into decline after At the Gallows. The Empire as it exists, pretty much begins to fade into the centuries as it slowly loses power. Like Rome, eventually no one feels the same allegance and patriotism to the old Imperial order. The rulers and elites have mostly taken to fighting for themselves. Nobody really cares when the last official Emperor is dethroned, they are too busy trying to survive in a harsh and dying world that has been drained of much of its resources. This pretty much gives about 1800-2000 years during the Imperial era. Eventually humanity finds different ways to survive as societies are slowly rebuilt. If I ever get to this era, I will show what follows. Which way we wish to have the decline/fall of the Empire (if any) is up to the community. We could compromise the two, or do nothing. Either way, no one member should be making arbitrary decisions without consulting other veterans. [ Tuesday, July 29, 2003 14:15: Message edited by: *i ] -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 29 2003 05:53
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I would put the reconquest of Aizo much later than 3. The conquest of Pralgad was not done for some time. It was really accelerated by Sol III. Also, keep the lives of the Pralgad Emperors of fairly standard length; by that time the Emperors are becoming quite human due to the mixing of blood. By that time, all belief in the Aizonic Empire was mostly gone and the situation was one of tribalism and many separate nation-states. The conquest was done by Raven, a general of Sol III, and was met with great resistence. It took many decades of bloody combat before Aizo was conquered. During this time, Raven slaughtered many of the non-human races on Aizo and further efforts were done on Pralgad. In Fission Point, I am going into the foundations of the early Aizonic Empire. Written by an Imperial historian: "According to legend, over thousand years before the Empire on Pralgad, the immortal archwizard named Phrizoc appeared. His magical talents were unparalleled at the time and is said to be responsible for the creation of many the world's most powerful artifacts. One such artifact is the so-called Amulet of Phrizoc or the Sylvian Amulet. It was worn by the Emperors of the Aizonic Empire, although historians have yet to confirm that fact. The amulet is said to transform the wearer over time, giving him or her incredible powers and longevity. These augments allowed the wearers to dominate over other normal humans and eventually led to a ruling class. Some believe that these transformations allowed the Emperors of the Aizonic Empire to live extraordinarily long lives and pass on the powers to their children. Of course, this is all speculation. Sometime after the collapse of the Aizonic Empire, the Amulet of Phrizoc was lost. Although records document its existence, evidence of its true power remains a mystery. Although there are numerous stories of its path, none of them have ever been validated. As for Phrizoc, his existence is even less documented. Many historians doubt of his existence at all. The legend says that opponents of the Aizonic Empire managed to track Phrizoc to an island far in the ocean. They managed to defeat the wizard, but he could not be destroyed. He was entombed with the strongest magics in his Citadel and abandoned. The location of the island was removed from all maps and was forgotten. Since then, Phrizoc's island has never been found and many doubt it ever existed at all. Unfortunately, there is very little evidence for any of these stories. However, much of what we know about the Aizonic Empire has come from tales and legend which later have been validated, but only by a scrap of evidence. So perhaps these tales have a grain of truth in them..." Like much of the Aizonic Empire, there is a great deal of speculation. However, Fission Point will provide a few answers. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Piecing scenarios together in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Wednesday, July 23 2003 07:27
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The problem is the motivation. The rewards usually do not justify the effort of collaboration. So what happens is that people in the project do not contribute their fair share and the thing does not get done. Now, it would be great if this method would work. In theory, and on paper, it sounds like a magnificent idea. However, when applied in practice, things almost always do not turn out well and you end up with a lot of wasted time. This is from much personal experience. My suggestion: Everyone should make their own scenario. That way if it never gets done or is poorly done, the author has only him/herself to blame. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |