Edgwyn

Congratulations, that is quite an accomplishment. Is this your first published book (as opposed to articles and dissertations)?

This turns out to be my 1,000th post. When I joined in 2013, the most active time of these forums was past but there was a lot more content like this than there is now and a lot more opportunities to interact so I did not expect it to take 11 years to get to 1,000 posts. This is of course not a great topic to have for my 1,000th post for the various reasons that have been given in previous years about this compass, but to respect the tradition 2024 Economic -2, Libertarian -1.9 2019 (0.13, -0.26) 2015 about the same as 2019 2014 (-0.88, 0.10) Also, in previous years I used to complain about the compass as much as Slartibus is doing. Now I am just happy that we are having a poll. Speaking of which while I was searching for my previous scores I noticed that we are two years overdue for the grand demographics poll.

And of course many of you have been Jeff's testers for a long period of time and know the games really well

I am sure that Jeff will get feedback from the play testers on how his attempt to implement lockpicking is working and hopefully will take that feedback into account. In most of the games money has been fairly abundant and I generally don't spend it, so I could live with spending coins on lockpicks, I would be more concerned about them taking up previous space in my inventory unless they stack. Using a combination of tool use, luck and spells to enhance the effectiveness of my lockpicks would be fine with me from a role playing standpoint.

The lack of move mountains and dispel barriers may be an issue. Piercing crystals dispel barriers, but I do not recall if they work on the rock piles

Continuing Randomizer's thought, maybe as players we will be able to focus one of two different paths "Greed" and "Glory" with how we interact with the more minor characters and story telling while still needing to defeat Rentar to complete either path.

Yes, what TriRodent said, I am sorry to hear about Ess-Eschas

It is certainly possible, it is the right vintage for Jeff but I do not know if he has mentioned it anywhere else

The big drop off between Geneforge 1 and Geneforge 2 must be concerning also

Make sure you and your party are equipped with the limited amount of armor and weapons available to you at this point. Equipped items show on the diagram of your person. Things that are just in your inventory are useless in combat. It may not be much, but it will make a difference. Like Randomize it has been a long time for me, but any character that is going to fight hand to hand should have at least a dagger, preferably better. You Sorceress and Shaman should have a wand so that they can use ranged attacks in addition to the special abilities (spells) that they can cast. Keep the Sorceress and Shaman away from close range and as Randomizer said, experiment with their special abilities now. Also, the difficulty level is adjustable.

With E1 and E2, A1 and A2, A:EFTP and A:CS he was kind of locked into that geography because of his original map making. He could have broken out of that for E3, A3, A:RW but it must have been habit by then.

Didn't Jeff say somewhere that the A4 remake is going to keep the combined indoor/outdoor map?

Finishing QW, GF3-5 and A4-6 would take up that entire 10-12 year span. I would love to see a new Nethergate, but it does not look like there is time for it

The descriptions of slith lairs definitely seem to reinforce a reptilian not mammalian cycle. An argument could be made for some fish aspects but I think that something along the lines of turtles would be closest breeding wise, definitely not any biological reason for nipples or navels. It does make sense that a AI with a lot of furry art is going to have a mammalian bias.

I found it interesting that the Freeforms had substantially more scales/rougher skin than the non-freeforms