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Contest Discussion in Blades of Avernum Editor
Triad Mage
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Profile Homepage #45
I'm not too keen on having three votes to throw around - maybe you could make each judge pick a 1st and 2nd choice worth 2 and 1 points respectively? Or even 3 and 1?

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Contest Discussion in Blades of Avernum Editor
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #36
When it says you have three votes to allocate, can I place all three on the same scenario?

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Contest Discussion in Blades of Avernum Editor
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #34
Right - before CSR existed numerical scores were fine, but now they're just a mirror of CSR. Discussion judging for the finals would be good for me.

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I need advice in Geneforge Series
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #25
GF1 has a lot of crypts that teach shaping.

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SW Game Release Dates? in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #1
Look in the Announcements forum.

EDIT: And if you download every game the Version History document should have a date for 1.0.0.

[ Wednesday, August 30, 2006 14:17: Message edited by: Drakefyre ]

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Contest Discussion in Blades of Avernum Editor
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #29
Salmon's method reminds me a little of staff picks at a book or movie store.

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Contest Discussion in Blades of Avernum Editor
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #25
I guess another part of my disillusionment with the ranking system is that the contest results are basically predetermined based on CSR ratings. This would be a vote for a discussion-based system here, actually. Or at the very least having all scores emailed to the contest runner, so nobody sees other judges' scores until after the deadline to maintain independence.

EDIT: Yes I know these are completely different ideas, but they're somehow similar in my mind.

[ Tuesday, August 29, 2006 17:59: Message edited by: Drakefyre ]

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Contest Discussion in Blades of Avernum Editor
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #23
Well, IRV results aren't different at all. The advantage I see is that it's a straight majority vote for best scenario - in a points system everyone can rate a scenario an 8.5 and none of them have it 1st choice, and it will still win. Nobody (except the author) is happy then. After second/third votes are counted for getting a majority for best scenario, it ensures that the best scenario is actually chosen.

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Contest Discussion in Blades of Avernum Editor
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #21
I've just done my tests on the 7th contest - it looks like we don't have enough judges for Concordet or Borda - one vote can change things a lot. The results were the same except for Roots and NTH switching (by one point) and Corporeus and Areni switching (also by one point). IRV gives the same results as numerical, but I can see where it has advantages over the numerical system.

EDIT: I should add that this was for Best Scenario judging - which happened to be every scenario entered.

And I'm not sure I like the discussion judging for something like this - independent judges tend to give more real, unpressured results.

[ Tuesday, August 29, 2006 17:13: Message edited by: Drakefyre ]

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Contest Discussion in Blades of Avernum Editor
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #18
I'm not so keen on the point judging system. I wonder what a relative ranking system would give ... someone (maybe me, later) could go through the last contests on the Lyceum and see how the contests would turn out if they were judged in the following ways:

MLB MVP voting
Instant-runoff system
Condorcet method

EDIT: A reason for this is to prevent a few people who hate or love a scenario from dragging a scenario to victory or defeat.

[ Tuesday, August 29, 2006 16:30: Message edited by: Drakefyre ]

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Anagrams in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #87
Not if it's "a locked thread".

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I need advice in Geneforge Series
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #18
quote:
Originally written by Micawber:

Fire shaping was already more expensive, even in GF1...

Is there some subtle pattern in whether you post as Drakefyre or the Great Potato? If so it's too subtle for me :)

It was the same price and overpowered in the beta/unpatched Mac version.

I'm the GP at work and Drakey at home.

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Shapers keeping secrets in Geneforge Series
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #22
These forums are definitely a monarchy.

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Using BoA to tell a story in Blades of Avernum Editor
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #13
Standard is not always best.

And this idea works better with BoE but is fine for BoA too.

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I need advice in Geneforge Series
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #15
It's more expensive because of GF1, when it was also massively overpowered. So Jeff toned it down AND raised the skill price, and now I never touch it.

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Anagrams in General
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #83
It could also be a lead tech dork.

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Using BoA to tell a story in Blades of Avernum Editor
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #5
Are you going BoE or BoA?

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Shapers keeping secrets in Geneforge Series
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #11
I wish you had your karma visible because I would definitely rate you 5 stars right now.

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I need advice in Geneforge Series
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #11
Okay, I take it all back. Missile weapons are godly.

EDIT: I'm on torment and all I do is sneak up on people and shoot them, and a Daze if I get surrounded. Unstoppable.

[ Monday, August 28, 2006 18:34: Message edited by: Drakefyre ]

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Story LIne in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #30
I'm a servile. Serviles are plenty cowardly.

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Time Zone in Tech Support
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #9
Well, this version of UBB doesn't allow you to set individual time zones, but there are mods that do, and later version of the UBB let you set the time zones.

If I had access to the actual files on the server, there are plenty of things I'd change/fix/improve, but I don't, so this is what we're left with.

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I need advice in Geneforge Series
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #3
Useless skills:

Dexerity
Missile Weapons
Battle Shaping
Luck (get one point)

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Time Zone in Tech Support
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #1
No. The board is set permanently to pacific time: GMT-8.

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Contest Discussion in Blades of Avernum Editor
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #14
TM and I were talking about three categories: BoE, BoA small, and BoA large. That is, if there are problems getting judges as-is.

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Shapers keeping secrets in Geneforge Series
Triad Mage
Member # 7
Profile Homepage #8
Shaping already makes people go crazy. It's not like it's a good thing. And people don't just stumble on Shaping. They work on it long and hard (serviles can give themselves magical powers through self-flagellation) and then go crazy.

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