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Mr. Vogel, your comment (read 'Ha ha, you ignorant fool, you obviously have no idea what you're talking about because I designed these games!') was directed towards one of the most prolific and widely-played Blades designers in the community. I'd like to point out that Blades would have sold horribly had it not been for the scenario designer community. They are paying customers, but that's less important than the fact that they are not A but THE draw to your product. No one will buy BoA for sheer hack-n-slash action; they'll say 'this is buggy, unreliable, short crap' and stick to the series Avernums. No one is going to buy two copies of Avernum 3 to make up for lack of sales draw on BoA's part. If I were you, I would make strides to alienate your designer community a LOT less -- there's a HUGE amount of discontent with your attitude among the best designers and they do NOT grow on trees.

I'd proposition you if that sort of thing weren't illegal in Texas. Excellent work, and likely to be invaluable in establishing the BoA Arena.

Fixed it. It was either an ActiveX issue or lack of video drivers -- which of the two, I doubt I'll ever learn. Moderator may lock this topic, if they choose.

A while ago, I got a new hard drive. 80 gb, w00ts aplenty. I installed Windows on it and used it as my primary from then on. Problem is that it didn't have any of my software configurations on it, so I ended up copying my old Windows directory into the new one. BIG MISTAKE. There was an ActiveX haywire of some sort, and installing XP over it didn't help much. So I installed a new XP on my old, now empty primary, and things, for the most part, are working pretty well. Problem is that, with quite a few games, my computer works fine for a while, and then after about 30-60 minutes (there's an exact number, I think, but I haven't bothered finding it out), it hangs without any kind of preamble or warning. I don't mean that the game hangs, I mean that my entire damn computer hangs and it has to be force-restarted. I've tried reinstalling DirectX, which hasn't changed matters. So far, the games which cause this are, but are not limited to: Fallout 2 Might and Magic 6 Warcraft 3 Since these games really only have the fact that they're all full-screen in common, I'm kinda stumped as to why they all crash. (It's not all full-screen games, either: Call to Power works just fine for hours on end, and Europa Universalis II hasn't had any problems I've noticed.) Any suggestions? EDIT/NOTE: Say 'Get a mac' and I'll punt you in the penis.

Geneforge 3 needs a 'push' command, I think; kinda like Fallout 2's, to prevent this from being necessary. Alternatively, you could love the servile and stroke him and listen to his ideas and perhaps he might move.

For all I can see, the only crimes seem to be stealing and physical harm, and they seem to count for just as much.

I recall you being able to shoot one person for free, and the next one turning the town hostile. I did this to make guards in Drypeak fight each other once.

Might be, but it is now. I'd get it if I were you -- it has all sorts of nifty features, and it's a lot more stable.

You use Moz, don't you, Dingy? Netscape is abjectly awful.

Is it registered? If so, there's a .dat file I think you need to save, but I don't know which, which will preserve that if applied to a downloaded demo.

Ya. Dofina-se.

Isn't there a setting with one's computer which allows one to invert mouse control for easier use for southpaws?

I feel uncomfortable with creating this kind of list and history, and here's why: There are too many histories of the Empire; and any 'official' one would break a lot of good scenarios' plots. If a scenario relies on the Empire collapsing hours after Prazac dubs the party Dervishes, who's going to stop them? There's no canon to argue with that sort of thing. Furthermore, TM and Stareye have both done a great job of filling in backplot, to the point that emperors who aren't even mentioned in Echoes get filled into charts and fleshed out. The priblem is that they're far, far too conclusive; if we are to limit the plot to the confines of the imaginations of Stareye and TM, we might as well limit the creation of scenarios in the Exile and Avernum universes to Stareye and TM. It's fine and good to make these plotlines, but so far as I can see, only two good, coherent stories about the Empire past the Exile/Avernum series are around, and they're impossible to reconcile with one another. I agree with *i -- we shouldn't create plotlines unilaterally here, and we certainly shouldn't expect anyone to go by them. TM, in case no one has told you this yet, this is fan fiction. You are not a SW employee; your work might be particularly interesting fan fiction, but it is nonetheless non-canon. You want to create a plotline for your own scenarios, open a topic called 'The Empire According To Echoes'. It's dangerous to a community like this to start calling third-party plotlines canon. Just my $.02 here.