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?????? I am certainly not incorrect the tweet is still there for everyone to see.

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Ben Massey ‏@Lord_Bob 3 Sep 2016

@spiderwebsoft: I literally bought Nethergate Resurrection off Steam today. Now I learn it's abandonware. Wasted five bucks!

There may have been some separate incident involving the original, but jeffs tweet is clearly in response to resurrection.

In case there was any remaining doubt how Jeff feels about someone distributing Nethergate, we can now say that as of 3 September 2016, the answer is ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Didn't Jeff say that in response to someone offering Nethergate Resurrection and not the original Nethergate?

Apparently it all started when someone tweeted him something like "I just bought nethergate resurrection and its already abandonware", so it's hard to say if Jeff is willing to release the original version of it unless someone asks him about the right version.

Whenever I see your name I think of shampoo.

Jeff should have expanded on it further I think. If you keep it for too long your hair starts falling out and you get a -30% stats disease, and then later on you get a -50% stats disease that can only be cured by completing a quest to find a hermit who can give you chemotherapy.

I've just relocated for a new job so I can't right now. The last one looked really good though. The weakest part of Jeffs games is usually the balancing so it's great to see that improved upon.

Did making a remix for Avernum 2 make you reconsider anything you did the for Avernum 1 remix?

I do miss death, but I don't miss items dropping all over the floor.

I'd like it if in modes above normal, when you die you need to use a scroll or healer to resurrect the guy - but when he dies his items stay on his person.

I'm sure it's possible to edit your party location to put them to the other side to see if anything is actually there. If it's there to taunt people there won't be anything on the other side.

Do any of the games hint at what happened to the great heros?

Assassinated by the empire? Or bodies found in a dungeon with a hint that it could be them?

I think Vahnatai Lore not counting is more likely than not a bug.

Is there massive spellpoint inflation compared to Jeff's past games? I never seem to run out of energy and i'm pretty sure I had to manage my energy better in past games. If so I guess that contributes to magical efficiency being weak.

I really liked that spell. You could use it to steal spellpoints from enemies, and whoever ran out of spellpoints first was dumbfounded. How likely you were to win the duel depended on your intelligence and your target's intelligence.

Does anyone know if you can close doors in this one?

I just spent several hours going through this, and it was very interesting. I made a number of changes to Avernum 2: Crystal Souls based on it.

 

I almost never copied the exact changes you made, but I tried to keep the spirit alive. I replaced resistances on many items with more useful skills, and raised the resistances on items where they remained. Fatigue costs are generally lower. Different weapon types now have different characteristics. Javelins/razordisks still use charges, but I made their effects much more damaging and dramatic. High value artifacts are generally better.

 

A lot of the changes were sort of baroque and clearly meant to provide variety to people who've played my games for a long time. I generally left those changes be, but I encourage you to make a mod set available for Avernum 2: Crystal Souls to put in a bit of zazz for players bored with the old stuff.

 

All in all, a very cool project. Thank you for all of the hard work you put into this.

 

- Jeff Vogel

Would it be possible for you to port any balance changes you felt improved Avernum 2 over to Avernum 1 when you release Avernum 2, as a balance patch?

Please consider adding romance to geneforge if you remake it.

There should be the option to see your creations as equals. They fight harder the more you look after them and they begin to love you.

Maybe there can be a marriage system where you have a permanent bond with one favorite creation until it dies. If you marry a thad for example he will jump in front of ranged attacks that would hit you and maybe if you get knocked unconcious an intelligent creation would perform CPR and bring you back if they manage to finish the battle on their own.