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| Displayed name | Thuryl |
| Member number | 869 |
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| Postcount | 9973 |
| Homepage | http://thuryl.desperance.net/blades.html |
| Registered | Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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| BoE Editor, again. in Blades of Exile | |
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written Monday, August 29 2005 01:28
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quote:Unfortunately, this is largely true. There's some rhyme and reason to what goes in the fields in the node editing window (all the Affect PC nodes work pretty much the same way, for example), but mostly it's a bit of a mess. For one or two nodes, the Picture field is even used for things other than pictures. Stuff Done Flag A and B fields are indeed used to set and check Stuff Done flags, but not every node can set or check a Stuff Done Flag. [ Monday, August 29, 2005 01:29: 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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written Monday, August 29 2005 01:04
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quote:Okay, here goes. Now keep in mind that I was about 6 years old when this happened, so my recollection may be a little hazy in parts. Dad parks outside a hardware store. Unfortunately, he decides the sensible thing to do is to angle-park in a parallel-parking area of the car park, and in the process drives over a small concrete barrier that was designed to prevent people from doing exactly that. Since he drives over the barrier at a considerable speed, the barrier just feels like a little bump. So anyway, he goes into the hardware store, buys whatever it was he needed (I was waiting in the car.) He leaves the store, gets back into the car, starts it, tries to drive out. Unfortunately the car is now wedged between the kerb on one side and the barrier on the other, and has no space to build up enough momentum to get over either of them. He figures the barrier is a little higher and less curved than the kerb, so his best chance is to back up onto the kerb and use the space this gets him to speed up enough to get over the barrier. But try as he might, he can't get the car onto the kerb under his own power. So he comes up with another bright idea; push against the road with his foot to help the car along. He's a big guy, and he figures he'll provide a pretty good amount of leverage. At this point, you folks in the audience may well see trouble brewing, but my dad's not always so bright, especially with machines (he's blown up two washing machines and a glue gun, but that's another story). He shifts the car into reverse, opens the driver side door, takes off his seatbelt, leans halfway out of the door, and sits with one foot on the brake, the other foot on the asphalt, one hand on the steering wheel, and the other braced against the car door. He takes his foot off the brake, slams it on the accelerator and uses his other foot to push against the road with all his might. I guess he must have been pushing pretty damn hard, because the next thing that happens is that the car jolts up onto the kerb and all 140 kilograms of my father disappear underneath it. One way or another he manages to extricate himself from under the car and inspect the damage. His groin's black and blue from being clipped by the corner of the car door as he went under, and one side of his body's had most of the skin taken off it by the surface of the asphalt. On the bright side, the car's up on the kerb now, so he has enough space to force the car over the barrier and drive home (after which he heads to the nearest hospital in short order). The story has a happy ending -- apart from a bit of nasty bruising, his injuries were superficial. After a couple of weeks' rest and copious amounts of antiseptic, he was back in working order. [ Monday, August 29, 2005 04:00: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, August 29 2005 00:27
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quote:It really is. Union House alone is practically a supermarket and social club rolled into one. There's even a theatre. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, August 29 2005 00:10
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3 months away from graduating from university. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, August 28 2005 03:50
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Ooh, car crashes. Those are fun. I've only had one so far (plus several near misses, mostly while making a particularly unpleasant U-turn across 6 lanes of traffic on my route home from university). I was pulled up along the side of a highway and my brother was trying to pull up in front of me (I was supposed to be following his car and had managed to get in front of him, so I pulled over to give him a chance to catch up). I took my foot off the brake for a moment, my car slipped forward, and his rear bumper bar clipped the front of my car. The front right-hand side of my car is now mostly concave, and the door on that side makes a funny squeaking noise when it opens. His car is just fine, thank you very much. Oh, and my father was once run over by a car while he was driving it. Have I related that anecdote on these forums before? [ Sunday, August 28, 2005 03:53: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, August 28 2005 00:37
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Ah. Yeah, the state that specobj calls should be a state in the town script. The comments at the top of specobj.txt mention that it's a town state. [ Sunday, August 28, 2005 00:40: 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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written Sunday, August 28 2005 00:37
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Ah. Yeah, the state that specobj calls should be a state in the town script. The comments at the top of specobj.txt mention that it's a town state. [ Sunday, August 28, 2005 00:40: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Av 2. Is there a bug where items disappear. in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Sunday, August 28 2005 00:35
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Which is downright hilarious when they happen to be carrying an invulnerability potion. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, August 28 2005 00:34
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I don't think there's anything particularly interesting behind the doors. An SDF is a Stuff Done Flag. It's a value that Geneforge stores in a saved game in order to record whether something has happened or not. For pretty much everything you can do that the game remembers, a different SDF is associated with it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, August 28 2005 00:34
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I don't think there's anything particularly interesting behind the doors. An SDF is a Stuff Done Flag. It's a value that Geneforge stores in a saved game in order to record whether something has happened or not. For pretty much everything you can do that the game remembers, a different SDF is associated with it. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, August 27 2005 22:38
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You actually put the file named specobj.txt in the scenario folder. You don't put it in the town or scenario script -- terrain scripts are called separately from these. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, August 27 2005 22:38
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You actually put the file named specobj.txt in the scenario folder. You don't put it in the town or scenario script -- terrain scripts are called separately from these. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| two computer problems in General | |
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written Saturday, August 27 2005 22:02
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Windows does indeed use virtual memory, although he'd have to have an awful lot of programs open at once to reduce available HD space by a gigabyte. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| My how far we've fallen... in Richard White Games | |
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written Saturday, August 27 2005 16:48
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I've been having intermittent problems with Polaris too, and I'm on the same ISP as Spring. It's likely a DNS issue. [ Saturday, August 27, 2005 16:50: 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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written Saturday, August 27 2005 14:56
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Please don't start a quote pyramid. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Pralgad or Pralgrad? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, August 27 2005 14:25
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quote:I think Vantanas is already about as close to Vantanas as it can get. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, August 27 2005 14:19
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In order to actually get back to Galthrax after you've left town, though, you'll have to either edit the scenario or use the walk-through-walls option (shift-G) in debug mode. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, August 27 2005 05:06
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Well, um, okay. I'm not sure why you wanted help for a game you weren't planning to continue playing, but you're welcome anyway. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Bahssikava in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, August 27 2005 05:02
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quote:It's hard to make a good recommendation for party level, because different players are differently skilled. I was able to beat Bahssikava on Torment difficulty with a level-25 party, all of whom had no advantageous traits, multiple disadvantageous traits, and items and spells straight out of the HLPM (no fancy artifacts). Mind you, I was sweating blood throughout the first few dungeons of the scenario, but I like it that way. [ Saturday, August 27, 2005 05:03: 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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written Saturday, August 27 2005 04:59
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quote:You're carrying an item that diseases you -- probably either Pyrrhic Gauntlets or a Uranium Bar. Get rid of it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, August 27 2005 03:49
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Could you please describe your problem more clearly? How far into the scenario had you managed to get before you had to use the Leave Town function in the editor? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, August 26 2005 22:06
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Seems like the RNGs heartily agree with your suggestion. They've even made you say it twice. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, August 26 2005 22:05
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Presuming it was some kind of radio-related publicity stunt. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, August 26 2005 22:01
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I agree that Vahnatai PCs would be neat, and I don't really see why the plot wouldn't allow them (even if the Vahnatai are the villains after all, not all the Vahnatai hate humans). They'd need either a serious XP penalty or some other disadvantage (reduced HP?) to balance them, though. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, August 26 2005 20:50
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That sounds suspiciously like it belongs in the same category of "fixes" as rm -r *. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |