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Dry Peak, Soggy Bottom

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  1. Hey RedBeard -- the user you keep tagging is not Jeff Vogel 🙂 That said, please do not repeatedly tag the developer. Or anyone else for that matter. Some people find it annoying. Just a friendly mod request. Tags probably aren't going to get you a response anyway. If you have something that does need Jeff's attention, email (support@spiderwebsoftware.com) is probably the best way to reach him.
  2. This is impressive. I was surprised at how much each of these images immediately conjured up for me the corersponding original pixel sprite, despite not having looked at them in a look time. Honestly pretty cool. Also, I appreciate the quantity of references to Shirley as original artist. Ha.
  3. That's understandable, but you may notice it's the same people responding to most of these topics, so you're really just making anyone who follows the forum read it twice. Speaking as a mod: please don't do this in the future. Thanks.
  4. Please don't post the same exact thing in multiple topics. Thanks.
  5. There may be no single best build... but there are definitely bad builds. This is not a game where your stat/skill point choices don't matter.
  6. FYI - as the ".dat" might suggest, it's a data file. The contents are not stored in text form, so opening it with a text editor won't make clear the values that are stored in it.
  7. I'd guess they are stored in the Settings.dat file from the saved games directory, but maybe not. Did you wipe that along with the saved games?
  8. If Anaximander is telling you you can return to the Tower of Magi then you have reported at least one plague victory to him. The question you need to ask Levy is: "Have my achievements merited a reward yet?" EDIT: I don't know where in his dialogue tree it is, but it looks like it should always be present. He will either respond: Levy looks through a large book, checks again, and looks back up apologetically. "Nope, you've done nothing yet to merit a reward. Perhaps you should do some adventuring and check back later." or e.g. Levy looks through a large book, finds something of interest, and produces a potion from under the counter. "Well done! Here is the reward for dispatching the Alien Slime." The rewards for the early quests aren't that amazing. For the slimes it's an Invulnerability Elixir and for the roaches it's a Ring of Skill. So I'm wondering if you could have already picked them up and just not realized it?
  9. Yeah Berra is completely irrelevant to Levy. Has Anaximander directed you to go to Levy for a reward? Also, are you playing original Avernum 3 or Avernum 3: Ruined World?
  10. Hahaha, so many shades of "I can't imagine remaking the Tower of Magi one more time." And yet...
  11. This was discussed on a previous page; this is theoretically possible, but has some plausibility issues.
  12. Thanks. I've just discovered that I do still in fact have the files for this. I'm not sure I have the time to deal with the last 10% of stuff necessary to get it finished, but in the crazy event that happens, I'll PM you.
  13. Summary of the old G2 Awakened victory from this chart: The Council puts you in jail and executes Zakary if he is alive. The Awakened activate the Barrier of the Winds. Rising surrenders to them and Barzahl dies if he is alive. The remaining Takers flee. The Awakened obtain victories over the Shapers and arrange a prisoner exchange for you. You spend the rest of your life fighting a war against the Shapers; apparently neither side can obtain decisive victory, but the Shapers aren't willing to back down. I do think G4 and particularly G5 show that, if a war is pushed far and long enough, the Shapers are not beyond pragmatism. So I agree with alhoon that initially most Shapers would be willing to cross the mountain and die... but the Shapers aren't actually stupid, and the longer that goes on, the more of them won't be willing to. This is especially true because the Awakened will obviously try to communicate that they don't actually want to fight, and as we have seen, the Shapers don't really have much ability with propaganda, or much control over news; they just have their baked-in culture and that's it. When facing the Rebellion, if the Shapers stopped fighting, they would lose literally everything. When facing the Awakened, if they stopped fighting, they would lose things, but they would all be abstract: some pride, and some orthodox principles. That changes the calculus a lot. The old ending text does however establish canonically that, if the PC helps the Awakened realize the BOTW in G2, the Shapers are unable to crush them. The imagined scenario about gradual losses simply isn't what happens.
  14. The issue wasn't that you were avoiding spoilers. The issue was that you thought it was appropriate to vehemently argue about the very same topics you were avoiding spoilers on!
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