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| Displayed name | Thuryl |
| Member number | 869 |
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| Homepage | http://thuryl.desperance.net/blades.html |
| Registered | Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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| Exile for the PDA? in General | |
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written Sunday, August 29 2004 01:13
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It's an idea that's been floated before. Probably not. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Requests for BoA Scenario Format 3 in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 20:32
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Referring to people by names instead of numbers is just an "aesthetic thing", too. Do you want to start barcoding people? Because my attitude toward a message's dialog picture in BoE was honestly analogous to that toward a person's name; it may not carry any real information, but it's surprisingly important to your overall impression of them. [ Saturday, August 28, 2004 20:33: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Requests for BoA Scenario Format 3 in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 20:32
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Referring to people by names instead of numbers is just an "aesthetic thing", too. Do you want to start barcoding people? Because my attitude toward a message's dialog picture in BoE was honestly analogous to that toward a person's name; it may not carry any real information, but it's surprisingly important to your overall impression of them. [ Saturday, August 28, 2004 20:33: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Grapgics files in Tech Support | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 17:16
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Is this for Blades of Exile? You'd probably have better luck asking in the Blades of Exile forum. Make sure the custom graphics files are in the same folder as the scenarios, and in the correct format (.bmp for Windows, .meg for Macs). Also, if you use a Mac, try using a different program to open zipped scenario files; older versions of Stuffit can damage .meg files. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| To hit in Geneforge Series | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 17:08
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You might want to consider putting more points into shaping skills to make your creations more powerful. Also, make sure your creations have plenty of Dexterity. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 17:08
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You might want to consider putting more points into shaping skills to make your creations more powerful. Also, make sure your creations have plenty of Dexterity. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Requests for BoA Scenario Format 3 in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 15:59
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You've obviously never played BoE. Dialogs have enormous value, both practical and sentimental. Play a BoE scenario like Doom Moon II or Falling Stars and tell me it'd be the same without the dialog pictures. And the "workaround" bloats file sizes horribly if it's used for more than a couple of dozen dialogs (some BoE scenarios have used literally hundreds of dialogs with custom images.) To give you an idea of just how important an issue this is, at least two respected designers have threatened to stop designing if dialog pictures are not implemented in BoA. Maybe, just maybe, you should trust the word of people who know what they're talking about. [ Saturday, August 28, 2004 16:01: 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 28 2004 15:59
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You've obviously never played BoE. Dialogs have enormous value, both practical and sentimental. Play a BoE scenario like Doom Moon II or Falling Stars and tell me it'd be the same without the dialog pictures. And the "workaround" bloats file sizes horribly if it's used for more than a couple of dozen dialogs (some BoE scenarios have used literally hundreds of dialogs with custom images.) To give you an idea of just how important an issue this is, at least two respected designers have threatened to stop designing if dialog pictures are not implemented in BoA. Maybe, just maybe, you should trust the word of people who know what they're talking about. [ Saturday, August 28, 2004 16:01: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| The Election-save files in Blades of Exile | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 15:06
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Yes. The plot assumes that the party is a 1-PC named Vandell. He should also have the Chronic Disease ailment, but you can do without it if it annoys you (which it will). Apart from that, stats don't really matter. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| The next RP and the future of Spidweb RPs in General | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 14:35
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She is a veteran with a new account, by the way. She's been around longer than you, anyway. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| The Election-save files in Blades of Exile | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 12:34
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DB, the "Exile II save file" message is a known bug in BoE. There are different versions of the save file for Mac and Windows. Do you have the right one for your computer? Stats aren't very important in this scenario anyway. Just use a normal low-to-medium-level PC and name him Vandell. By the way, if you don't want to use magic, you'll have to get by without using the healing sceptre, unless you can justify it in non-magical terms. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| The next RP and the future of Spidweb RPs in General | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 12:26
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Tu autem. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Working for Spiderweb Software in General | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 12:20
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If you send Jeff an idea, then legally, he cannot use it unless he can prove he came up with the idea first or signs a contract with you for the rights. And he's not going to pay you royalties. So don't send him ideas. [ Saturday, August 28, 2004 12:20: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Some Musings on Tactics in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 06:01
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That's been discussed before. It seems as if Cloud of Blades has a component of its damage proportional to the monster's HP; this is pretty noticeable on, say, Licgan in EM as well. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Poll: Password protected scenarios: what do you think? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 04:27
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Well, so far there have only been 5 designers for BoA. Jeff Vogel didn't use a customised editor; Khoth, Eldiran and TM have, and I don't know about Erik Westra. :P It's naive to demand that every scenario design tool be regularly updated just so that it's usable at all. In any case, a reasonably secure scenario encryption system requires more changes to the engine than you seem to think. For one thing, encrypted scripts would no longer be editable in an ordinary text editor, so Jeff would have to create a whole new user interface just for editing scripts -- something which he's clearly expressed an unwillingness to do. [ Saturday, August 28, 2004 04:28: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| A problem: making game remeber where are the items in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 04:17
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Just because the BoA engine can recognise them doesn't mean that scripts can. An item within a scenario is a unique number; a custom item from another scenario is just a list of stats. [ Saturday, August 28, 2004 04:18: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| A problem: making game remeber where are the items in Blades of Avernum | |
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Just because the BoA engine can recognise them doesn't mean that scripts can. An item within a scenario is a unique number; a custom item from another scenario is just a list of stats. [ Saturday, August 28, 2004 04:18: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Poll: Password protected scenarios: what do you think? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 02:25
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I don't think designers should have the right to prevent cheating. If a player can't progress in a scenario, looking at the scripts or even editing them to get past a tough spot helps both the player and the designer. The player benefits because he's able to continue playing, and the designer benefits because one more person has been able to finish his scenario. Anyway, how would you want the password protection to be implemented: by encryption (which would make all the customised editors, which more than 50% of designers ALREADY use, completely useless for future scenario formats), or within the editor itself (which would mean that all of the customised editors would simply bypass the password check, making the password protection useless)? [ Saturday, August 28, 2004 02:27: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| Nature Lore in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, August 27 2004 18:23
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The overall level is most important. Scenarios can check the amount on a single party member, but it's unlikely that many will. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, August 27 2004 17:00
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Spiderweb Software has 2 employees, not counting Jeff. One of those employees is his wife. I'd say your chances aren't great. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, August 27 2004 16:26
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Probably mine. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| PC People in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Friday, August 27 2004 16:22
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This is the Avernum Trilogy board, you dunce. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| How do I rest? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, August 27 2004 15:20
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You can't have a prolonged, full-healing rest indoors like you can outdoors. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| A problem: making game remeber where are the items in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Friday, August 27 2004 12:58
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Pay attention -- what he wants to do is check items on every single space in town. That's a lot of runs through the loop, and it's the number of instructions that's counted for the single script length limit, not the number of different instructions. It'd take forever to run anyway. And items from other scenarios can't possibly be detected by scripts because their data isn't stored anywhere in the scenario. [ Friday, August 27, 2004 13:00: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
| A problem: making game remeber where are the items in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, August 27 2004 12:58
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Pay attention -- what he wants to do is check items on every single space in town. That's a lot of runs through the loop, and it's the number of instructions that's counted for the single script length limit, not the number of different instructions. It'd take forever to run anyway. And items from other scenarios can't possibly be detected by scripts because their data isn't stored anywhere in the scenario. [ Friday, August 27, 2004 13:00: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |