Developer's Update (March, 2004)
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Board Administrator
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written Thursday, March 11 2004 15:20
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Due to depressing events beyond my control, I got slowed down for a few days, but I am currently putting together the first release candidates for Mac Blades of Avernum. The editor will ship with the source. It won't be clean or well commented, but it will be there. Of course, no source for the game. There will be $10 off for registered Blades of Exile users. The editor documentation is about 160 pages long and is in both Word and .pdf format. The editor ships separately from the game. In addition to saving us massive bandwidth, it makes it easier for me to update the editor when needed. There will be a contest. It will be basically just like the contest for BoE. We are heavily reworking the scenario evaluation online form to make it just generally more secure and better. I should have put up new screenshots a long time ago. Sometimes, I'm just dumb. -------------------- Official Board Admin spidweb@spiderwebsoftware.com Posts: 960 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Thursday, March 11 2004 16:48
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Forgetting to put up screenshots is not dumb. It's just being forgetful. Creating a crappy movie, loosely based on a video game series, that costs $150,000 to make and being surprised when you only get about $30,000 in ticket sales is dumb. I won't say who did it or what the name of the movie is, but I'll say that the company's name rhymes with FlareEnix and the movie's name rhymes with Whinal Fantasy: The Spirits Within. I hope you weren't intending to do something like that. Are you going to remove the damage cap? Please? -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Thursday, March 11 2004 17:19
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Aside from agreeing about Whinal Fantasy, this is some nice information that should keep the noobies from begging for at least a little while. -------------------- DEMON PLAY, DEMON OUT! Posts: 1582 | Registered: Wednesday, November 13 2002 08:00 |
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Guardian
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Aside from agreeing about Whinal Fantasy, this is some nice information that should keep the noobies from begging for at least a little while. -------------------- DEMON PLAY, DEMON OUT! Posts: 1582 | Registered: Wednesday, November 13 2002 08:00 |
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Guardian
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written Thursday, March 11 2004 17:21
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Aside from agreeing about Whinal Fantasy, this is some nice information that should keep the noobies from begging for at least a little while. -------------------- DEMON PLAY, DEMON OUT! Posts: 1582 | Registered: Wednesday, November 13 2002 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Thursday, March 11 2004 17:28
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HA HA KARZOTH HAS FOULED UP Is there a script limit, like there was a node chain limit in BoE? -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Post Navel Trauma ^_^
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written Thursday, March 11 2004 22:46
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Yes, but you shouldn't come close to hitting it. -------------------- Barcoorah: I even did it to a big dorset ram. desperance.net - Don't follow this link Posts: 1798 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Friday, March 12 2004 12:48
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Not me, but my computer. I just felt it needed 3 times the emphasis! -------------------- DEMON PLAY, DEMON OUT! Posts: 1582 | Registered: Wednesday, November 13 2002 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Saturday, March 13 2004 12:50
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Can't wait for the release.... Must control..... Really though, i can't wait. I've been checking almost daily for signs of BoA's release. It's kind of sad I know but this really is going to be one of the best. I don't want it to be rushed, and know it can't, but I also don't want to wait anymore. It's like an eternal battle in my mind, slowly driving me to insanity, well, further in. I wish I had gotten in on the beta testing, but I probably wasn't picked due to my lack of experience with the BoE editor. -------------------- Returning again after being away for a very long time. “Define Reality” Posts: 70 | Registered: Tuesday, August 12 2003 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Saturday, March 13 2004 12:54
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What is the damage cap? And I agree, the Whinal Fantasy movie is BAD BAD BAD! The SNES/PS games are *Put in random number over 900000000 here* times better! I have acses to FF1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10 and 10-2 (Yes I am an addict). I have a feeling there is an tremendous amount of grammar errors in this post... [ Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:56: Message edited by: Order of the Black Griffon ] -------------------- 33111-CRUSADER-4849 Posts: 662 | Registered: Friday, September 13 2002 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Saturday, March 13 2004 13:51
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Off With Their Heads
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written Saturday, March 13 2004 16:07
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I think he meant, what does it mean to have a damage cap? What does it do? The damage cap puts a limit on the amount of damage one hit can do. So, let's say your level 50 fighter wielding a Black Halberd hits a goblin and assassinates the bejeesus out of it. You might normally do 1500 damage to the wimpy little goblin. A damage cap of 199 (as I believe we had in A3; it was lower in A1 and A2) means that the 1500 damage is reduced to 199 (or usually something like 197 or 194 or something -- if someone knows how that works, I'd be interested to know). A damage cap of 999 means you can't do more than 999 damage in one hit. This is all guesswork based on playing the games. If someone else has better info than me, feel free to correct me. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Saturday, March 13 2004 17:00
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quote:It was definitely not lower in A1 & A2. In fact, I don't think A1 even had a damage cap, because no matter how much I beef up my skills, the damage inflicted is getting higher and higher. And my skills are beefed up big time, going into the thousands. And it would be nice to have the damage cap removed altogether. Speaking of caps, does anyone know how much gold you'll be able to carry around at one time? -------------------- Austrian Alex Posts: 1307 | Registered: Tuesday, May 7 2002 07:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Sunday, March 14 2004 01:59
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quote:I believe damage is reduced to 199 and then armor is taken into consideration. Displaying four digits of damage makes the engine ugly. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy Encyclopedia Ermariana - Trapped in the Closet ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Sunday, March 14 2004 07:21
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Aw man, I was looking forward to Final Fantasy 3 style damage! -------------------- 33111-CRUSADER-4849 Posts: 662 | Registered: Friday, September 13 2002 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Sunday, March 14 2004 09:05
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quote:Yes, and we all know how challenging that game turned out to be in the end... really a good lesson on why damage caps are a good thing, or at least not to make your final bosses laughable. Four digits make everything ugly not only because it is simply too big, but also because it is an even number. Odd numbers of digits (or anything for that matter) with a "middle" digit are always more attractive to the human psyche. And you don't really need four digits worth of damage- progressing into the thousands is really unnecessary to achieve the effect that your characters are growing in strength, which is all really high scales of attack-power/damage vs. stamina/endurance/life/health really does. ---Your rambling maniac, Necris Omega -------------------- Razordisk Frisbee Golf Posts: 168 | Registered: Saturday, October 26 2002 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Sunday, March 14 2004 15:32
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Two digits is an even number. So he should cap damage at 9! Yay! -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Monday, March 15 2004 21:59
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quote:I'm sure if you wanted more damage you could easily search the executable for the number 199 ("C7" in hex) and change it. Though if the compiler does what I think it does you could only jump it up to 255. [ Monday, March 15, 2004 22:01: Message edited by: Frobozz ] Posts: 117 | Registered: Friday, November 2 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, March 15 2004 23:55
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Searching for a combination of only two digits in such a large file would be pretty hopeless; you'd find dozens, if not hundreds, of places where C7 occurs. The chance of ruining the file rather than taking away the damage limit would be relatively large. [ Monday, March 15, 2004 23:55: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Tuesday, March 16 2004 10:03
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999 sounds like a fine damage cap to me. A1 was kinda odd in that only high magic scores or a high bows skill could produce hit over 100, so I found myself constantly doing 90-something damage in melee. Hooray! Now to plan work on a terrible, armored, acid-spitting boss monster with huge amounts of hp! -------------------- Fly beyond the ocean, over the mountains, past the moon and across the face of the sun, never to come home again. Posts: 161 | Registered: Monday, October 8 2001 07:00 |