Mea Tulpa

How exactly do carriage returns make things any harder for the computer?

"Replace in all open files" is definitely not the same thing as batch find, and in Jewels' case the quantity of files involved makes opening them all impractical to say the least.

Originally Posted By: Trottoisie GREP TO THE RESCUE! batch grep, specifically. Look for a Windows text editor with batch find and grep functionality. I'm sure one exists.

Originally Posted By: Celtic Minstrel ...but it still doesn't make sense that it does two different things depending on who it hits... Originally Posted By: Tri-Consonantal Rout Why not? Originally Posted By: Celtic Minstrel I'm just saying it doesn't make sense. Not to belabor the discussion, but I really am curious why it doesn't make sense.

Why not? Anyway, the point is it's that way for a reason, whether or not you like the reason. By all means create a new special ability that does what you're suggesting, but leave the old one; somebody might have used it as it was intended.

Divinely Touched is very different in A1-3/BoA, and A4-5. I'm not so sure about the first category, but I think it just gave a slew of bad abilities. In A4-5, however, it gives: A flat 20% armor bonus +1 to Blademaster, Magery, and Sharpshooter at level 1 An additional +1 to Blademaster, Magery and Sharpshooter at every multiple of 4 levels Thus, at level 36, you can expect +10 to Blademaster, Magery, and Sharpshooter. That means an extra 10 dice of damage with every attack you make. In comparison, if you don't take it, you might have an extra 2 levels worth of experience, which translates to 10 skill points, and a small fraction of additional HP and SP. Divinely Touched is orders of magnitude better than not taking it.

In the US, that would fall under fair use. However, in the US, you also can't copyright an ancient epic that you personally didn't write. You'd need to look into Indian copyright law, clearly.

This happened to me in a previous game. Did you use any cheat codes like "exitzone" or "backtostart"? They can sometimes cause this. Nobody has ever found a solution other than restarting, I'm afraid. Jeff will reply to your email though, give him a day or two.

Does India's copyright system allow an epic of not entirely known authorship, penned at least 1600 years ago, to be copyrighted by someone today?

The intention is a curse, so that makes sense. If they allowed you to heal any targetable PC for far fewer action points than spells consume, they would actually be quite a good item.

I think it's clear that many people find your lists to be invaluable, probably including untold numbers of lurkers.

Actually, I think that's a hit. Marie-Cecile Vidican teaches at Princeton Day School, which is not far from Rutgers, where Jeff went to grad school, and where he was when he wrote Exile 2. MOREOVER, look at this link: link The book mentions Marie-Cecile Vidican, and the author (Tom Means) also mentions his wife, Aimee -- not the most common name. Okay, this is a real stretch and could easily be a coincidence. On the other hand it would explain how Jeff would come into contact with a high (?) school teacher. Edit: Also, Jeff said that Aimee was a colleague at Rutgers, so this fits perfectly.

Actually, I think Synergy is onto something, or at least sort of. We know that Jeff's playing habits have changed and that in the past decade he's spent time playing WoW and Planescape: Torment and the like, whose atomsphere-mechanics do reflect changes in society, and little (if any) time playing classic RPGs. It makes sense that his own games would reflect that shift.

I don't know about anybody else, but I am sick of giving you advice when your response is to 1) tell me I'm wrong about things that are in fact correct and 100% proven 2) ignore other advice, despite claiming you appreciate it Basically, I don't see how I'm being helpful, meanwhile you argue, argue, argue, in posts that are hard to parse, and you talk about how great a player you are and how your incredible skill means you don't have to listen to good advice. Well, most of the advice you will get from is already recorded in Strategy Central. Just read those topics if you want it. Sorry to be harsh, but this is the truth.

I think there were some cursed arrows made at some point designed to heal instead of hurt, without making that explicit. So I wouldn't call that a bug either, just poorly advertised.

This is a normal, widespread problem as Dikiyoba said. It has nothing to do with this forum software. The problem is that many e-mail clients, whether or not they are browser based, have trouble with links whose addresses don't fit on a single line -- something that applies to the majority of email verification links. Copy and paste the link into your address bar and it should always work.

If your character's spells are missing frequently, you probably haven't invested much in spell skills anyway. If you are an Agent/Infiltrator/Sorceress, you should remedy that immediately. If you are a Guardian/Warrior/Shock Trooper, you should probably be casting few spells anyway.

What, they don't call it backstabbing anymore? Lame.

One exception: For the cheapest creations it has occasionally been useful. In G4, Cryoas were such a good value, and had a low enough essence cost, that giving them a few levels of strength could be a good deal. Likewise for Artila, if you used them. In G5, every point of purchased stat for all creations has had its essence cost reduced by 1, which improves things. On the other hand there is less place for the cheaper creations in G5, since most of the expensive ones can be around for much of the game. However, Cryoas and Vlish can still benefit from the change while you use them. Clawbugs are not such good candidates because the damage scales so slowly with physical attacks.

I'll add those. Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Originally Posted By: Toby-Linn Is the A2 cameo one of the teleporter codes? I can't really remember. There's no cameo involved, but yes, the easter egg is a teleporter code. Actually, I believe this one may be different in the 1.0 and 2.0 releases of Exile 2. I have a distinct memory of that code taking you to a lava filled area which also contained numerous copies of both Jeff and Shirley Vogel in the guise of townspeople. I thought they could be talked to, also. Shirley got a lot of credit for her work on the graphics. Naturally this would be removed in 2.0 since the graphics had changed, as had the Vogel household. Unfortunately, although I have a copy of Exile 2 with the old graphics, it is just a 2.0 copy with the old graphics file subbed in. Does anyone have a copy of an 1.x version of Exile 2 they could send me so I could check this in the code?

I thought it was short for "process."

Tamil is an Indian language, yes. It is not, however, Hindi. I thought the Jeff Vogel eas ter egg was in X2? Is there an X3 one?

Rowen: I would agree, except that most of this conversation hasn't been about strategy. Most of it has been about black-and-white quantitative comparisons. Whether or not dodging is possible in the second half of the game in Torment is not something you have an opinion about; there's an answer and that's that. Comparing Good Constitution and Divinely Touched is again, not a matter of opinion; preferring GC is the FFXI equivalent of saying "well, I have this medium strength sword and this superpowered sword that also buffs all my stats. I think the medium strength sword is better!" Meanwhile, Abhi has declared: Originally Posted By: Abhi Answer is:my combat skills.I never loose not even in tormet...I have patience to handle my foes.They dont handle me.I handle them in the way i want... But in doing combat,i think i am too good.I have strategies which i found better than strategy central. I think that speaks for itself.

Hmm. You may be right about that. On the other hand, with the sole exception of Exile 3, every new game story Jeff made through 2001 or so was full of right-feeling settlements and atmospherogenic little people. By G3 and A4 they were cut out entirely, and even though more recent games have been better received than those, the little people haven't come back. So I'll wait and see. I hope you are right and they will be back in the new series. I fear they are gone for good, disappeared into Sylak's portal.

Tyranicus probably knows. You might ask on Shadow Vale.