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Alchemy in Avernum 4
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Hmm. I wonder if that might even have been what Jeff intended players to do. Three or four rounds is certainly ample time to run past him in combat mode, grab the Chestguard and get the hell out of Dodge before he starts attacking.

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Unsolved quests in Avernum 4
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Well, I've finished the game and completed almost every quest, with two glaring exceptions.

1) Rat Hunt. Is there any place where Scavenger Rats respawn? I think I killed them all before getting into Formello and taking the quest, and hence didn't get any tails off them when I killed them, and hence can't complete the quest.

2) Where in the flying blue heck is Terella Venia?

Thanks in advance.

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Athron's Familiar in Avernum 4
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He can regenerate the pylons? Huh. I killed him so fast that I wasn't even aware of that. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. :P

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It's the A2Template! in Blades of Avernum Editor
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quote:
Originally written by Akai Hoshi:

The most recent version of the BoA editor period has not "fixed that".

How the hell do I get around it?

Send the scenario to CPeters or Kelandon and get them to import the Castle into it for you before sending it back? :P

Just a thought.

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It's the A2Template! in Blades of Avernum
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quote:
Originally written by Akai Hoshi:

The most recent version of the BoA editor period has not "fixed that".

How the hell do I get around it?

Send the scenario to CPeters or Kelandon and get them to import the Castle into it for you before sending it back? :P

Just a thought.

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Game Life in General
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What, it isn't enough of a perk that Nature Lore makes wandering monsters non-hostile so you can pick them off one at a time and harvest their skins at your leisure?

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It's the A2Template! in Blades of Avernum Editor
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Ah, the Large Town Importation Corruption Bug. I coulda sworn that a recent version of the 3D Editor fixed that.

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It's the A2Template! in Blades of Avernum
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Ah, the Large Town Importation Corruption Bug. I coulda sworn that a recent version of the 3D Editor fixed that.

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Alchemy in Avernum 4
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Don't feel too bad. I'm nearly at the end now, and Nociduas is definitely the hardest fight I've had in the game so far. At that point in the game you just don't have the resources to survive being hit for 100 damage on one character or 60 damage on your party every round.

[ Friday, December 23, 2005 18:11: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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need help geting soul crystal in The Exile Trilogy
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For that matter, are you sure you're talking to the right person?

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Chemistry at home, part 12 in General
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The Dewey Decimal Classification, whilst a neat idea, is not exactly what I would call an unbiased system. :P

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Where is the key ? in Avernum 4
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My special items list has an item called "Giscard's Key", so it would appear that a key does indeed exist. :P

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Chemistry at home, part 12 in General
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Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Biology deals specifically with living things (or that closely relate with living things). It's a very broad field. You can narrow it down into fields like ecology, natural history, biochemistry, etc. I've never heard of biophysics, but there must be something like it.
There sure is. It's used a lot in sports medicine, for example. (I'm sure you can imagine some reasons why it might be important to have a knowledge of physics in order to maximise an athlete's performance.)

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The End is near... in General
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Technically, gravity is a law, not a theory. There's no good theory to explain gravity yet. :P

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Bug/oddity (possible spoilers for Spire) in Avernum 4
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Bug report sent to SW. It's not a showstopper either way, since Spire isn't really that important, but I figured I may as well bring it to Jeff's attention.

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Item Question in Avernum 4
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There's also a Cap of Farsight, which gives a +1 bonus to Bows and Sharpshooter.

But neither item has anything to do with seeing through walls.

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Haggling in Avernum 4
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Personally, I prefer the gameplay style of A4 (if not the plot). De gustibus non disputandum est.

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Trainer skill listing in Avernum 4
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Originally written by Slartucker:

I am always tempted to play these games without ever reloading saves when something bad happens. That increases the challenge quite a bit, and suddenly all those magical items that never seemed useful become life-savers.
I managed to win Angband after several attempts over the course of a month or two. It's a frustrating experience, and after proving to myself that it's possible, I'm not particularly inclined to play in that style again for a while. :P

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The End is near... in General
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Keep in mind that when scientists talk about a high probability of an asteroid hitting Earth, they still usually mean a probability of one in a thousand or less.

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Chemistry at home, part 12 in General
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Originally written by Scumble:

Calling physics a subset of math is problematic. Physics certainly depends on math, but pure math is divorced from non-theoretical applications in a way physics is not.

—Alorael, who expressed that poorly. More succinctly, physics can depend on experimentation and math cannot.

That's not so much the case any more, though. Experimental mathematics, involving the use of computers to find results too computation-intensive for humans to find on their own, is a growing field. And while the old guard of pure mathematicians may be throwing a blue fit about this, it's probably here to stay.

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Trainer skill listing in Avernum 4
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Eh, I'm unconvinced that the gains are that big. You're going to be raising other stats (Spellcraft, Magery) as you're raising spell levels, so that'll confound things. I'd be more impressed by results immediately before and immediately after raising spell levels, with spells used on the same monsters by the same character.

Also, you have to question whether you actually need all those nifty boosts. I've used Mass Healing maybe 3 times in the whole game -- in general, one or two characters (usually my fighter) are taking all the hits, so it's more efficient to just use Minor Heal. A really powerful spell that you'll never need is still a spell that you'll never need. Part of this boils down to different strategies -- I hear a lot of people extolling the merits of Daze and Strong Daze, but I've simply never needed to use either of them, so I didn't waste my money. Know which spells you'll use and don't spend anything on the ones you won't.

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Trainer skill listing in Avernum 4
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The number of spells you actually need to buy is surprisingly low. Looking at my spell list, the only spells I haven't found at least one level of at some point in the game are Spray Acid and Return Life. (I can tell this, because those are the only spells my fighter doesn't have on his list.)

Moreover, the higher-level a spell was, the more likely I was to find a spellbook with it before finding a place to purchase it, so buying only the most absolutely essential spells and waiting for the rest isn't that much of an imposition.

At one point, when I had a lazy 20,000 gold and nothing to do with it (around the time of the Fort Remote mission; lots of nice treasure there), I dropped it all into raising levels of spells that I already knew. If I'd had any skills that I was able and willing to train at the time, that 20 grand would have bought a lot of training.

And if I get desperate for cash later down the line, I've got 5000 gold worth of energy and invulnerability potions that I've never used, plus a few thousand in herbs, fine steel, fine leather, gold bars, rubies and emeralds. I can always start selling those. So yeah, there's enough boodle to go around, as long as you don't compulsively buy everything that can be bought.

[ Friday, December 23, 2005 05:19: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Bug/oddity (possible spoilers for Spire) in Avernum 4
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The engine is certainly capable of making a large number of hostiles go friendly all at once -- remember the slime-feeding quest, for example?

I'm not entirely sure why it doesn't in this case. Maybe the intended behaviour is for Spire to go hostile and stay that way regardless of exactly how you assassinate Annatolia. Maybe not. But the way it actually works at the moment is just strange.

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Chemistry at home, part 12 in General
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quote:
Originally written by Thralni, chicken god prophet:

Thuryl: I was wondering for a long time if you actually study something, or that you just read a lot. You seem to know quite a lot about thes things, so, do you know it because you had to learn it, or was it books, tv and internet?
I have a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Science and will be commencing an Honours year in Zoology next year. As far as my knowledge of other fields goes, well, I pick it up here and there.

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Bug/oddity (possible spoilers for Spire) in Avernum 4
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When talking to Queen Annatolia after getting Crewl's mission to assassinate her, you get a conversation option to tell Annatolia that you're there to kill her. If this conversation option is selected, the whole town of Spire goes hostile. On the other hand, if you just initiate your assassination attempt by whacking her with a sword, only she and her guards go hostile and the rest of the town stays friendly.

Just a little peculiarity (with fairly significant consequences) that I thought I'd mention.

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