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Using BoE to Create E4 in Blades of Exile
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, May 2 2006 03:14 Profile Homepage #8 Please don't revive two-month-old topics just to say what everybody else has already said. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Forsaken: in Blades of Exile
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, May 2 2006 03:12 Profile Homepage #2 Um, he needs to know who the murderer is if he's going to confront him and progress in the scenario. So actually, your answer is stupid, not the question. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Music: a legitimate poll in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, May 2 2006 01:48 Profile Homepage #3 What, no barbershop? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
May Day Poll in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 1 2006 23:17 Profile Homepage #5 Real communists drink vodka. Except for Gorbachev, but nobody likes him. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
US and Sudan in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 1 2006 21:01 Profile Homepage #42 The UN doesn't have its own army, you know. If major countries like the US don't support it, its real power is pretty much limited to writing strongly-worded letters. What do you expect it to do? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Avernum V in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 1 2006 20:45 Profile Homepage #270 The main problem with making it is that it'd have to be a very large scenario, and my free time is limited. I'd rather work on something smaller in scope than start something massive and maybe never finish it. Besides, I've already got one BoA scenario in the works. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Avernum V in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 1 2006 14:03 Profile Homepage #267 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: That actually doesn't sound half-bad. I'd like to hear the backstory, though... Well, it's a little off-topic, but since I've already started... It's set in an alternate universe where the heroes of Exile 2 failed to close the unstable rift after destroying the portal in the Portal Fortress (the player doesn't actually know this at the beginning of the scenario -- it's a big reveal toward the end). Now, if you've ever tried not closing the rift, you know the description you get just before you die mentions massive cavequakes devastating both Exile and the Empire. The quakes open huge cracks in the earth, causing the oceans to literally pour out and flood large regions of Exile, which was fairly bad for the surface but even worse for Exile. The quakes also released deeply-buried spores of a highly aggressive fungus that attacks from underground without warning (this was one of the neater technical tricks I put into the scenario -- wandering monsters set to "attack immediately", so that as soon as they were generated the party would be attacked without a chance to avoid the encounter. At least, it was neat in theory; it'd probably get annoying in practice.) The Empire blamed Exile for the disaster and continued to wage war on it, still led by Garzahd (initially human, since Exile 2's party never survived long enough to kill him, but he comes back as a crystal soul after the scenario's party bumps him off). Also, there were, as previously mentioned, aliens, who'd managed to enter Exile through the dimensional rift created by the destruction of the portal, and were now trying to colonise it. Essentially, the plot mirrored that of Exile 1 or 2, with the party dealing with three major threats (the fungus, the Empire and the aliens), and having a bunch of towns to save, NPCs to pick up and sidequests to do along the way. I should stress that the setting was very much an apocalyptic one; civilisation in Exile was reduced to a few scattered holdouts, and the first quest given to you in the scenario was to find a reliable source of food for your village. Man. Talking about the scenario like this almost makes me want to actually make the damn thing. [ Monday, May 01, 2006 14:13: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Your musical tastes in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 1 2006 13:34 Profile Homepage #65 quote: Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas: Ozzy was a god, he has recently buried himself into a grave made out of manure. For a brief moment, I thought you meant that literally. It's the sort of thing he would do. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Question 2: Imbalance of Wealth in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 1 2006 07:35 Profile Homepage #80 Hey, nobody ever convinces anybody of anything in these topics anyway. So I may as well support positions that no sane person would ever agree with, if that's what it takes to make people think. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Question 2: Imbalance of Wealth in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 1 2006 06:56 Profile Homepage #78 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: Thuryl, did you just say, in effect, "I may have just said something really stupid, and you may have just called me on it, but WHAT'S THAT OVER THERE!" Took you long enough to figure it out. Frankly, I'd just assumed everyone had noticed I was trolling in this thread and was deliberately ignoring me. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The new armor system. (50% + 50% = 75%!?!?) in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 1 2006 05:57 Profile Homepage #4 quote: Originally written by AncalagonTheBlack: Does this way of doing things work for armor, too? It certainly seems like my tank with 96% armor took hardly any damage, ever, at least from melee attacks. That probably has more to do with your Parry skill than your armour. Parry reduces melee damage by a lot, even when it doesn't block an atttack completely. Try it; a mage wearing comparable amounts of armour to your fighter but without Parry will take significantly more damage. Hell, your fighter could probably walk around naked and still take less damage in melee than your mage. quote: And, finally, I also think it should be true for traits, as well, which could allow you to go back to allowing multiple traits on one character. Not sure if I agree about this one. Back when there was no limit on number of traits on each character, players tended to take all the useful advantages and all the harmless disadvantages. (8% more XP in exchange for a slight increase in vulnerability to poison? 15% less XP in exchange for ludicrously fast HP regeneration? Yes, please!) Now that there's a limit, players occasionally have to make difficult choices about which traits they want. [ Monday, May 01, 2006 05:58: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Question 2: Imbalance of Wealth in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 1 2006 04:54 Profile Homepage #76 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: Thuryl: "Donate savings and become an aid worker or shut up." I share the scorn for earnestness that is no more actual use than apathy, but I'm baffled by the premise that my joining the millions of people already in Africa would help them so much. It is my experience that people who ask how to solve the problem of world poverty do not actually want to solve the problem of world poverty -- they just want to feel better about its existence. As such, whether or not the course of action I suggested actually helps anybody become less poor is immaterial. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Coin Cap at 30k? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 21:32 Profile Homepage #7 quote: Originally written by My Spleen: That still doesn't explain why a few more bits don't get allocated to gold. Well, that can be readily explained by the fact that, frankly, Jeff isn't much of a programmer. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Question 2: Imbalance of Wealth in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 21:26 Profile Homepage #74 quote: Originally written by My Spleen: *I really think it's ethically acceptable to have unequal treatment. I feel no obligation to do good at random* when I can do good to people towards whom I am inclined to do good. But isn't doing good even when there's nothing in it for you the very definition of morality? If you're only doing good because you feel obliged to, you're not really being moral. [ Sunday, April 30, 2006 21:31: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00**
Coin Cap at 30k? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 20:17 Profile Homepage #5 At least part of the reason for lower caps in earlier games is that a few things sold for an awful lot of money. With a cap of 30,000, selling anything with a sale price of more than 2767 coins would cause a wraparound (this happened sometimes in BoE, and was pretty annoying). In A4, where nothing really sells for very much, this isn't as much of a problem. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A2 tower of Elderwhats his face. in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 18:45 Profile Homepage #3 Getting to the artifact when you needed it might be problematic, though. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Avernum V in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 18:42 Profile Homepage #265 Oh, and there was a giant fungus the size of a city which could only be killed by setting off quickfire inside it. Actually, that was probably one of the better parts of the scenario. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Are Geneforge and Avernum related? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 18:38 Profile Homepage #19 The thing about scrying is that you still need to know where to look. As far as I know, there's no evidence that it's possible to scry a wide area just to look around for things that might be there, like new continents. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Coin Cap at 30k? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 18:36 Profile Homepage #3 If you want the real reason, it's because of the way that numbers are stored in computers. Your current coin total is stored as a signed two-byte integer, which can only go up to 32767 before it wraps around and becomes negative. To prevent wraparound bugs, a cap is imposed at 30000. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Question 2: Imbalance of Wealth in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 04:10 Profile Homepage #55 Thank you. It's refreshing to see that you're willing to admit your limitations. Now if you'd just listened to me the first time I replied to this thread, this never would have happened. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Saving The Quest Rewards in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 03:49 Profile Homepage #1 Seems a little pointless to me. You'd be keeping yourself behind by quite a bit of XP throughout most of the game just to be slightly ahead at the end, and the endgame isn't that hard anyway. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Strength and wheels that controll gates. in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 03:48 Profile Homepage #1 I believe there are a couple of them that can be opened with high Strength, but most of them aren't supposed to be opened, and there's always a way to get past them without opening them. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Knowledge Brew Alchemist in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 02:48 Profile Homepage #10 Is he shown as hostile (red circle on the automap)? Are there any other hostile monsters around? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Vahnatai Lexicon in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 01:48 Profile Homepage #1 http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/index.php/Novah Is that what you want? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Question 2: Imbalance of Wealth in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, April 30 2006 01:41 Profile Homepage #53 quote: Originally written by Cairo Jim: Would you not look after your own family before looking after someone elses? No, and you shouldn't either. Realising that your friends and family are no more or less deserving of special treatment than any other people is an absolute requirement for a morality that goes beyond gratifying your own selfish desires. All human evil stems from valuing one person's happiness more than another's, whether it be oneself, a family member or a member of one's own country. You love your family more than strangers. Hitler loved the Aryans more than the Jews. The difference between the two of you is only in degree, not in kind. [ Sunday, April 30, 2006 01:45: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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