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Avernum:4 vs Blades Of Avernum which is the best? in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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 written Thursday, January 5 2006 16:00 Profile Homepage #42
Someone's actually written a paper about how people tend to use different kinds of non-lexical sound in different social situations. It's quite interesting, although most of its findings aren't altogether surprising.

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What is your best team of 4? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Thursday, January 5 2006 15:49 Profile Homepage #11
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

That's why I don't like archers/throwers in BoA. They run out of ammo in the most inconvienient moment, or are weighed down by carrying a lot of it.
Slings, dude. Slings.

Sure, their damage is a little on the low side, but if you have two slingers in your party you're still outputting more damage per round than one archer. Unless you're a cad and decide to use Adlerauge, in which case you don't have to worry about ammo anyway.

Oh, and magic only "always hits" when you're not fighting an enemy with ludicrously high resistance to elemental attacks. Good luck winning Bahssikava's final battle without an archer, for example. :P

(Admittedly, there are also a few things that are immune to physical damage. That's why it's nice to have a mage around, even if I don't use his attack spells under normal circumstances.)

Oh, and I'll grant you one more thing -- mages are fairly effective at low levels, when fighters are still unreliable and a couple of castings of Ice Lances can wipe out most things. At high levels, they become increasingly disappointing.

[ Thursday, January 05, 2006 16:03: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Encumbrance Av2 in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, January 5 2006 13:11 Profile Homepage #6
Well, if your mages have Natural Mage, you can armour them up all you like without fear. If not, though, then you should make sure that you're not encumbered.

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The Enduring Priest-Tank in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, January 5 2006 13:02 Profile Homepage #16
The only status effect Prismatic Shield gives is elemental resistance, which Arcane Shield also gives, so if the former does in fact reduce the chance of being frozen, so should the latter.

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Mertis Spiral in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, January 5 2006 12:57 Profile Homepage #8
The weakening actually happens at the point when the undead takes its turn, though.

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Who else hates the job board? in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, January 5 2006 12:55 Profile Homepage #3
Another thing that annoys me about the job boards is that many jobs don't appear until other things have happened, so if you want to finish every quest in the game you have to keep checking all the job boards regularly.

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terrain script problem in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, January 5 2006 12:52 Profile Homepage #9
He's right. That line should read:

if (get_flag(get_memory_cell(0),get_memory_cell(1)) == 1) {

That could easily be causing an error that's reported as being in line 58; BoA isn't good at working out the line number of an error due to a missing right parenthesis.

[ Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:53: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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terrain script problem in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, January 5 2006 12:52 Profile Homepage #9
He's right. That line should read:

if (get_flag(get_memory_cell(0),get_memory_cell(1)) == 1) {

That could easily be causing an error that's reported as being in line 58; BoA isn't good at working out the line number of an error due to a missing right parenthesis.

[ Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:53: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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What is your best team of 4? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, January 5 2006 12:38 Profile Homepage #8
Damaging spells in BoA cost ridiculously high amounts of spell energy relative to the amount of energy that a spellcaster can reasonably have, so I never use them. I like to be able to dish out damage until the cows come home without worrying about running out of energy, so mages don't suit my playing style. I mean, if even when you're at a high level you can only cast 10 Fireblasts or so before your spell energy runs out, what's the point?

[ Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:40: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Star Wars Photoshopping Project in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, January 5 2006 12:35 Profile Homepage #3
Only 13 minutes elapsed between the time you posted the topic and the time you asked why there were so few replies. Do give people at least a little time to see the topic and compose their replies.

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variables and SDF's in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, January 5 2006 00:53 Profile Homepage #20
Exactly. Because if you divide 569 by 10, it divides 56 times and the remainder is 9. So 569 % 10 = 9.

(And 569 % 100 = 69.)

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variables and SDF's in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, January 5 2006 00:53 Profile Homepage #20
Exactly. Because if you divide 569 by 10, it divides 56 times and the remainder is 9. So 569 % 10 = 9.

(And 569 % 100 = 69.)

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Exodus Progress in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 23:52 Profile Homepage #23
quote:
Originally written by Thralni, chicken god prophet:

1) You will present the Slith language in the scenario at some point. Now unless you don't actually let the player learn a bit of the language, the player wouldn't know what you are talking about. now you said youi would offer a translation with it, but that doesn't make sense. How is the party supposed to know what it says, or do you learn the language at some point?
The party is supposed to be the same party that finished Bahssikava. In that scenario, you were supposed to learn the ancient Slithzerikai language. (It was possible not to do so, but you missed a lot of the plot if you did.)

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variables and SDF's in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 23:47 Profile Homepage #18
Anything % 10 is just the last digit of the number, and anything % 100 is the last two digits.

(i - (i % 100)) is i rounded down to a multiple of 100. Should come in handy if you're doing what I think you're doing (although actually, I think BoA always rounds down when doing division, so it isn't necessary to round manually if you're then going to be dividing by 100 anyway).

[ Wednesday, January 04, 2006 23:50: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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variables and SDF's in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 23:47 Profile Homepage #18
Anything % 10 is just the last digit of the number, and anything % 100 is the last two digits.

(i - (i % 100)) is i rounded down to a multiple of 100. Should come in handy if you're doing what I think you're doing (although actually, I think BoA always rounds down when doing division, so it isn't necessary to round manually if you're then going to be dividing by 100 anyway).

[ Wednesday, January 04, 2006 23:50: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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German review translation in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 23:45 Profile Homepage #3
http://games4mac.de/content_g4m/reviews/avernum4.php

The link from SW's news page.

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Removing "drunk" effect in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 23:39 Profile Homepage #1
As far as I know, the only thing you can do is wait for it to wear off.

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Postaroni, Pizzabella! in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 17:36 Profile Homepage #55
Rosy's still on MSN occasionally.

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The Enduring Priest-Tank in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 16:45 Profile Homepage #12
Nope, no added benefit. Arcane Shield is the only spell in the game that gives mental shielding, though. (Except for Mindshield, which is in scroll form only.)

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Oh come on! in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 16:43 Profile Homepage #2
What he means is that in A4, you need to have 5 action points in order to even try to attack, rather than an attack using up 4 action points if you had that many, or whatever you had if you didn't, but successfully attacking anyway.

In other words, in A4 you need at least 10 AP to attack twice, whereas in A3 you only needed 5. (And in A3, if you only had 1 AP, you could still attack or use an item. In A4, if you're encumbered down to 1 AP, you can't do anything except move one space.)

(And actually, in previous games, an attack cost 4 AP, not 5.)

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Unique Item Locations. in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 16:38 Profile Homepage #30
From the tunnels that lead to Rentar-Ihrno's final fortress, head south instead of north. If you haven't been there, you've missed a major subquest.

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The Enduring Priest-Tank in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 16:32 Profile Homepage #10
Arcane Shield gives blessing, shielding, mental shielding and elemental resistance all at once.

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Avernum:4 vs Blades Of Avernum which is the best? in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 16:22 Profile Homepage #37
"Like", in some contexts, is practically a non-lexical utterance by now.

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Unique Item Locations. in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 15:41 Profile Homepage #28
Sure they're useful. They're just not useful for very long. :P

Oh, and there's another Robe of the Magi on the Lich in the ruins of Erika's Tower.

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To keep or not to keep. in Avernum 4
Thuryl
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 written Wednesday, January 4 2006 15:38 Profile Homepage #8
If you want to nitpick, I'm not so sure that graymold counts as mundane either. :P

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