What feature that the Avernum series lacked would you most like to see in BoA?

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Author	Topic: What feature that the Avernum series lacked would you most like to see in BoA?
XYZ Warrior Member # 2570	written Saturday, June 21 2003 22:47 Profile #127 quote: Originally posted by Desert Plah: It sounds downright naughty. A rating betwixt "PG" and "R". I've got the dilemma of feeling guilty and rating a scenario an exaggerated "R", or a misleading-and-harmless-sounding "PG". Sorry for the last post.I was tired(posted it 22:34 at local time) and when i'm tired all kinds of stuff like that amuse me to no end.But the scenario is not for kids anyway.Four words:Concentration camps and bordellos. -------------------- Speed and power! Galaxies explode! And Kekkonen shall descent to punish us all! It's armageddon,it's armageddon! It's the Day of Kekkonen! "But Dirt Dragon rulz 0k.Dirt Dragon would HäX0r HAL 9000 in 10 seconds if he would get a keyboard!!!!111111YAY DITR DRAONG RULZ 0K YAY LOL OMG WTF!!!!!!11111" Join our wonderfull "party" at The Club of All! Join our lovely Cult at Dominions X! Iä, Iä my brother... Posts: 166 \| Registered: Sunday, February 2 2003 08:00
XYZ Warrior Member # 2570	written Saturday, June 21 2003 22:50 Profile #128 quote: Originally posted by Eldibs: Here's 2 things I think BOA should have: The ability to make an item run a script through a special ability, and the ability to change an items abilities through a script. That way, you could have more realistic (or strange) weapons, such as a sword that levels up, or a mace that gives you 500 gold for every 7 golems that you kill. That would be SO nice.I could finaly make "Brew of Visions" that would do all kinds of funky stuff like healing the drinker and few steps later poison and dumpfound him.And the leveling up sword is already in Amazonian Saga,or that is what i hear. -------------------- Speed and power! Galaxies explode! And Kekkonen shall descent to punish us all! It's armageddon,it's armageddon! It's the Day of Kekkonen! "But Dirt Dragon rulz 0k.Dirt Dragon would HäX0r HAL 9000 in 10 seconds if he would get a keyboard!!!!111111YAY DITR DRAONG RULZ 0K YAY LOL OMG WTF!!!!!!11111" Join our wonderfull "party" at The Club of All! Join our lovely Cult at Dominions X! Iä, Iä my brother... Posts: 166 \| Registered: Sunday, February 2 2003 08:00
XYZ Warrior Member # 2570	written Saturday, June 21 2003 23:04 Profile #129 Actualy,ability to define both gender and ability to use the race of your characters in scripts would be well enough for me. -------------------- Speed and power! Galaxies explode! And Kekkonen shall descent to punish us all! It's armageddon,it's armageddon! It's the Day of Kekkonen! "But Dirt Dragon rulz 0k.Dirt Dragon would HäX0r HAL 9000 in 10 seconds if he would get a keyboard!!!!111111YAY DITR DRAONG RULZ 0K YAY LOL OMG WTF!!!!!!11111" Join our wonderfull "party" at The Club of All! Join our lovely Cult at Dominions X! Iä, Iä my brother... Posts: 166 \| Registered: Sunday, February 2 2003 08:00
The_Nazgul Infiltrator Member # 2940	written Monday, June 23 2003 15:17 Profile Homepage #130 The ability to make an item run a script through a special ability, and the ability to change an items abilities through a script is a grat idea. Think of this, you could have a particular weapon clasing and bashing sound for your special weapons. For expample I could have the sword Soultormenter to sound like a wind blow or have it play at least two difrent wind blows randomly when hitting a target, or have it gain levels with each monster killed exept for magical monsters with no soul. So in the item creation options you could have strength, weight, damage, special abilities and all those basic options plus an advanced options menu containing scripts such as play sound when hit, play sound when miss, trigger special when used kinda options. BoA could also limit the number of SPECIAL items and the triggers they have to prevent weird crashed or exesive memory usage like playing absurd long sounds or long specials one after another with every hit the weapon makes. -------------------- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." Posts: 469 \| Registered: Thursday, May 1 2003 07:00
demonslay3r Guardian Member # 2238	written Monday, June 23 2003 16:22 Profile Homepage #131 XYZ, please avoid posting multiple times in a row. It's looked down upon. There is an Edit button to, you guessed it, edit your posts to add more. I'm only the messenger... -------------------- DEMON PLAY, DEMON OUT! Posts: 1582 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 13 2002 08:00
FFX2000 Warrior Member # 3138	written Monday, June 23 2003 17:14 Profile Homepage #132 quote: Originally posted by Kennedy: I'm trying to remember if Exile allowed characters to choose where they could drop things or not. It would be nice if you chould choose where you drop your items rather than just having them all pile up at your feet. I also would like the ability to put things into containers. Then maybe you could create something like "recycling bin" where it gives you 1 coin for each pile of trash you put on the space. I agree, especialy on tjhe put thing into dressers, drawers, etc instead of just taking them out. i e-mailed Spiderwed and requested that! I'm glad someone agrees with me -------------------- Help me out, click Here Join it and get me some cash, and have fun! Posts: 151 \| Registered: Sunday, June 22 2003 07:00
XYZ Warrior Member # 2570	written Wednesday, June 25 2003 07:05 Profile #133 quote: Originally written by EEP_Karzoth: XYZ, please avoid posting multiple times in a row. It's looked down upon. There is an Edit button to, you guessed it, edit your posts to add more. I'm only the messenger... OK,dad... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... OK i won't do that again... And i have pestered you enough. Sorry.And i like many smaller post over a single giga post. -------------------- Speed and power! Galaxies explode! And Kekkonen shall descent to punish us all! It's armageddon,it's armageddon! It's the Day of Kekkonen! "But Dirt Dragon rulz 0k.Dirt Dragon would HäX0r HAL 9000 in 10 seconds if he would get a keyboard!!!!111111YAY DITR DRAONG RULZ 0K YAY LOL OMG WTF!!!!!!11111" Join our wonderfull "party" at The Club of All! Join our lovely Cult at Dominions X! Iä, Iä my brother... Posts: 166 \| Registered: Sunday, February 2 2003 08:00
demonslay3r Guardian Member # 2238	written Wednesday, June 25 2003 09:38 Profile Homepage #134 I agree. But like I said, I'm only the messenger. The moderators don't really like multi-posts. I can see why but it's not my place to say anything about it. I mean hey, when I first came here I got told the same thing. -------------------- DEMON PLAY, DEMON OUT! Posts: 1582 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 13 2002 08:00
Dac Vin, Unofficial Forum Lurker Warrior Member # 3096	written Thursday, June 26 2003 06:11 Profile #135 quote: Originally written by xxo: quote: Originally posted by y0d1n2a3: 1. Only the Vahnatai may cast Capture Soul and Simulacrum (if these spells are going to be kept). They won't be. Why? It WAS in BoE IIRC (and you didn't need a soul crystal to cast it) -------------------- You go in, You go out, Repeat if necessary. - The Official Moron Guide For Sex Be disgusted! (Not really) Posts: 103 \| Registered: Wednesday, June 11 2003 07:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, June 26 2003 07:03 Profile Homepage #136 ADoS said that Capture Soul and Simulacrum will be replaced, and maybe Terror too. The former two spells are at least as useless as the third, IMHO. While many players insist that Summoning sucks, I actually think it's useful in some places. CS&S, however, is ridiculously overpriced and gives only one monster. And when you are actually able to get the really powerful monsters captured, you'll usually not need them any more because you're strong enough to mash the enemies yourself. And with 30-40 spell points paid for summoning a single creatures, you can usually do a lot more useful things. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The_Nazgul Infiltrator Member # 2940	written Friday, June 27 2003 18:07 Profile Homepage #137 :eek: WHAT!! Simulacrum and Capture Soul eliminated!?... :( Those spells were fun, and proved very usefull many times, ever tried using and army of hasted Ur-Basilisks!! or those acid spitting slugs!...its a lethal combo, thats how i got rid of the Doomguard and many other nasty monsters, I know, its energy consuming and to some its kind of weak and cowardly to hide behind summoned minions but hey, thats the purpose of magic!! to blow stuff up and summon creatures from a safe distance...waste terror, its useless, but dont waste Simulacrum and Capture Soul. ;) A posible solution could be uniting both of these spell in one Mirror Soul Spell or something like that and fix the exesive energy consuming problem with an item like a ring of feedback that could reduce in 1/3 the energy cost of spells!! [ Friday, June 27, 2003 18:08: Message edited by: The_Nazgul ] -------------------- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." Posts: 469 \| Registered: Thursday, May 1 2003 07:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, June 27 2003 21:50 Profile Homepage #138 First, you need to FIND the Ur-Basilisk, then you need to stay alive long enough to cast capture on it several times until it works. Basically, you can capture soul monsters only if you're able to kill one of them without breaking a sweat. Giant slugs are useful, I agree. Never get spell-casters however, they all spend their time blessing and hasting themselves instead of attacking the enemy. The period of time between the point where you're able to capture, and summon useful monsters, and the point where you don't need them because you're strong enough, is rather short. In any case, from what I've heard that CS&S is going anyway, it's a decided thing. And if you've ever tried persuading Jeff to make a change, you'll guess what it's like to persuade him NOT to make one. :P Good luck... :P [ Friday, June 27, 2003 21:51: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Dac Vin, Unofficial Forum Lurker Warrior Member # 3096	written Monday, June 30 2003 15:27 Profile #139 My first double post! YEAH!!!!!! [ Monday, June 30, 2003 15:31: Message edited by: Dacovind ] -------------------- You go in, You go out, Repeat if necessary. - The Official Moron Guide For Sex Be disgusted! (Not really) Posts: 103 \| Registered: Wednesday, June 11 2003 07:00
Dac Vin, Unofficial Forum Lurker Warrior Member # 3096	written Monday, June 30 2003 15:29 Profile #140 quote: Originally written by Arancaytar: First, you need to FIND the Ur-Basilisk, then you need to stay alive long enough to cast capture on it several times until it works. Basically, you can capture soul monsters only if you're able to kill one of them without breaking a sweat. SEVERAL TIMES????? I could catch anything (almost) in one try with CS at level 3! OOC: If you're interested: quote: Dacovind's list of best CSed monsters: Ur-BasiliskDark WyrmGazer/Mung Demon IC: While we're talking about changing spells: What about adding a Deva with the Divine Host spell? :) (With a better AI for the shades when he's alive?) silence Damn... :( -------------------- You go in, You go out, Repeat if necessary. - The Official Moron Guide For Sex Be disgusted! (Not really) Posts: 103 \| Registered: Wednesday, June 11 2003 07:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, June 30 2003 15:50 Profile Homepage #141 Cool idea. Now the next question: How do you script that? ;) It's hard enough writing a good AI, it's harder to make it act stupid on purpose... :D -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Dac Vin, Unofficial Forum Lurker Warrior Member # 3096	written Monday, June 30 2003 17:15 Profile #142 No idea. :cool: Maybe like this: -------------------- You go in, You go out, Repeat if necessary. - The Official Moron Guide For Sex Be disgusted! (Not really) Posts: 103 \| Registered: Wednesday, June 11 2003 07:00
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, July 1 2003 14:24 Profile Homepage #143 Something like that, and I use 'like' broadly here, would be in the code. However, that doesn't save someone from having to program the differences between Intel and Idiot. —Alorael, who isn't sure there is a difference between Intel and an idiot. Oh, wait... Ignore that OS discrimination moment, please. It was all for the sake of a bad pun, really! Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
The_Nazgul Infiltrator Member # 2940	written Tuesday, July 1 2003 15:05 Profile Homepage #144 Maybe it could be done this way. if Deva Hostile=Alive ShadeAI=Hostile else ShadeAI=Neutral* if Deva Friendly=Alive Shade AI=Friendly else Shade AI=Neutral* (neutral meaning it will attack the nearest creature hostile, friendly or even neutral.) That would be easier to do and it will give the creature a new berserk feel to it when the Deva dies. :cool: -------------------- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." Posts: 469 \| Registered: Thursday, May 1 2003 07:00