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You're right Vlish, except they pretty much make pc133 SDRam compatible with pc100 now, so when you want to make small upgrades on old machines you at least gain a little more - and they can stop making that one extra old type of ram. From what I've seen, its actually really hard to buy pc100 now, since most companies seem to just make pc133 which is compatible for the motherboards using pc100.

Mac Beta Test call was Sept 23, this release is almost 2 months after that. Pc Beta Test hasnt been called yet. You cant really look for a release date when the large-scale testing hasnt even begun.

I'm going to miss going into rooms and doing the following; UPLEFTUPLEFTUPLEFTUPLEFTUP-UPRIGHTUPRIGHTUPRIGHTUPRIGHTUPRIGHT-RIGHTDOWNRIGHTDOWNRIGHTDOWNRIGHTDOWNRIGHTDOWN-DOWNLEFTDOWNLEFTDOWNLEFTDOWNLEFTDOWNLEFT

Accio Firebolt!

Quote: Originally written by Ephesos: Sometime in December, I believe. Note: under a month to go Speaking of which, it'll be a Mac release, with PC generally some 2-3months behind. Will it be runnable on a pc on any mac emulators for the excessively impatient?

Dishonouring the Anama brings an overal sense of honour towards avernumkind Stealing from bad people is ok, right?

One wonders just how much of this conversation should be public domain....

Topic resurrecting: Unpopular. =/

I found that across Avernum, Shields simply didnt do enough good to warrant not using huge polearms/greatsword types. Until damage maxes out, and you scale down in weapons, I always found that huge damage > slight protection, but nasty encumbrance.

The 2 mage/priests was in reference to PART of a 4-character party, accompanied by 2 melee characters. It would be a harder 2-character party to play, pretty much for the sole reason that you lack melee. Nuking or running your way through dungeons is tedious at best. Potions are "teh suck". To answer Alorael's question (regardless of probably rhetoric as he gave his own answer) I like to buff my melee characters. It is particularly enjoyable, to make god-warriors, then just pick off any stragglers with the odd Flame Bolt. Offensive Spells tend to come into play when there are excessive ranged or caster enemies. I am a traditionalist. Augmented hack'n'slash all the way!

Quote: Originally written by Increditable: Kel's suggested party is my favorite party, pretty much. If you make a mage, you might as well make it a priest at the same time. What you do with the two beefy hack and slashers is your own business. —Alorael, who usually makes a sword guy and a polearm guy, then arbitrarily assigns one to be the archer and Tool Use repository and the other to be the outdoorsy type and often the Arcane Lore repository. Ditto, 100%. What's better than 1 Mage starting with Haste, and 1 Priest starting with Blessings? 2 Mage/Priests starting with both

"avernum master" the irony.

Quote: Originally written by Arancaytar: Quote: Originally written by Glitch, technical: Tolkien and his closest imitators are the ones who capitalize Men, Elves, and Dwarves. Some others capitalize Elves and Dwarves but not men, which is strange, and more just leave them all lower case. —Alorael, who also enjoys pointing out that elvish and dwarfish are words. Elven and dwarven are not standard English. For consistency, it should be elfish and dwarfish, or elvish and dwarvish. You are forgetting the key point though: it is based on the English language

Mmmmm, 3 totally horrible drinks mixed into one ultimately horriby drink. shame on you for mentioning it =/

I want to bud a Gold Vahnati, to beat the Black Vahnati.

Quote: Originally written by Niemand: ...Of course buying everything several times takes so much money that to do it much becomes prohibitive without money from the character editor, but then you could just give yourself the potions, or even just give yourself the skills. . . If my memory serves correctly, not too far from Silverlocke, there is an Empire camp, which is an unending encounter. Probably very difficult to take out on a singleton, but it allows you to pick up a lot of Steel armour/weapons/arrows etc, to make gold to buy potions from Silverlocke. Good loop, when you're looking to boost your characters a bit more.

I did, and I agree with you on that point. I found them very interesting. The subsequent derailment, however, borders on ridiculous imo =/ Unfortunate, to say the least.

Amidst periodic lurking, I've been searching through A4 topics and posts. Short of numerous plot theories by forum members, the only official points of reference I could find, were confirmation that A4 is being worked on, and that it will run on a new engine. Am I blind, or is that all that is known at this stage? Forgive me if I have overlooked something major, but I am interested to learn more, particularly from a plot/contextual p.o.v, and simply could not find anything.

In brief; Slithzerikai + Nephilim = Philosophical discussion about creationism theories and philosophy? Interesting... What next, George Bush = logical?

I'm at work. I was worried the DL would finish before i could take a screenie, lol. Anyway. I fail to see how an ftp would "work for some but not others" without the problem being at the client end, not the server end...

Just took screenshots of BOTH E1 links downloading too... Do i really have to post those as well? Seeing as NeVeRLiFt KnOwS eVeRyThInG aNd CaN nOt Be wRoNg CoZ lEeT.

Damnnit some people are stubborn.

Just for the sake of it, i clicked both Exile 2 links from the SW Page. Downloaded fine. Don't be so quick to accuse someone.

To over-simplify it, Greta can "kill things good", Alwan cannot. Greta.

Thanks Kel, sometimes one wonders if their humour is actually comprehended. =/