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Petoffen

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  1. Thanks for the responses. I'm really surprised the game description doesn't answer that. I'm gonna buy it.
  2. I didn't look all that closely, but the graphics look like the same style. What are the improvements in the remake over the previous version? The site's description, the Steam decription, all seem to just desribe the game without reference to 'remake'.
  3. Rather than put up a list right now, I'll note that some presidents have very mixed reviews - for example, Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower have a lot to praise domestically, while they were pretty monstrous on foreign policy, such as letting the Dulles brothers greatly worsen the cold war.
  4. Originally Posted By: Dantius 1. I am firmly of the opinion that Nixon did more to end the Cold War than any other president at the time. Detente, China, drawing down Vietnam, etc. It's sad you don't know the history of Nixon - how to help himself in the 1968 election, he secretly conspired with the South Vietnamese government to sabotage the peace talks LBJ was having, which was treasonous. JFK was the real and only president to fight the cold war. Right now, go watch his speech at American University.
  5. I'm feeling it's time to get a package, with them on sale. Years ago I played a couple demos. Avernum and Geneforge each had their own feel and neither jumped out as 'the one to get' over the other, I could see wanting both. I tend to like the 'pet' angle of one, but the way the story goes made for some hard choices (pet masters seem to tend to be a bit evil/authoritarian). The prices for the three packages on sale range from $33 to $56 - each more than I usually spend on a new game, and if I were to get all three, $140 - not to debate the value of 11 nice games, but that's a lot to spend especially when playing one or two might go a long way, hard to see playing them all (but we like to own them...) Is either the first or second trilogy of Avernum 'the one to get where you won't miss the other a lot'? Any tips for what to get, or is it pretty much get it all or miss out.
  6. There are a lot of ignorant people who express opinions on the coffee lawsuit based on wrong ASSUMPTIONS that it was just normal 'hot coffee'. This is how proapganda works - a believable lie used to manipulate people, in this case wealth corporations who don't want to be help accountable publicizing this case misleadingly to try to sway public opinion into supporting legislation to cap their liability, which actually punished the public from being able to get fair compensation when wronged, but which they're told is to cut the costs of their products from greedy lawyers getting outrageous awards. As I recall, this lady had her groin skin melted off and skin grafts from other parts of her body required to repair. Now I want you to think a moment about your groin being melted off for spilling coffee. Any problem? The lawsuit made clear the recommended temperature for coffee, and McDonald's profit motive for superheating. It'd be nice if so many people weren't such suckers to fall for this propaganda so easily.
  7. On the 'if you're using cannisters', I've seen nothing in game so far to say there's any disadvantage to doing so. If that's not the case, I'm not looking for spoilers, it'd just be a note that maybe the game should warn you (maybe it does).
  8. Thanks, it's an intermittent thing. I don't think it was a background download going on, but I did have Firefox open.
  9. OK, I mean fresh to me from other non-Spiderweb games:)
  10. Originally Posted By: ~Nalyd~ Fresh monster? Cryoas are old, at least from G2. Spinecores are from G3 at least. How can you call our Cryoas monsters? I'm referring to the flowers that use those 'buds' to regenerate.
  11. Originally Posted By: Tyranicus You will not be able to use the same code, but you can contact Jeff (spidweb@spiderwebsoftware.com) with your purchase info and your new unregistered game code, and he will send you the new registration code. Thanks. Seems like a bit of overhead for him:) Can you do that a couple times, I might get a computer for the living room and one for the computer room. I'm not sure if it's licensed for one person on two computers at the same time (not playing at the same time, but licensed concurrently).
  12. Thanks; I would but don't think my guys can take the hits from the main flowers while killing the buds. So, new plan, I'm gonna use those blue ice crystals along with the two cryoa's, that should kill them in one round. The haste and move back would probably work too, but I have more crystals than haste:) Compliments to Jeff for coming up with the fresh monster, we've played enough games that you don't see a lot fresh:)
  13. If you buy a game online without a CD, and specify the 5-digit code, and then buy a new computer, what happens? Are you able to use the same code on a freshly downloaded copy of the game, do you contact CS, or what? I do see in another thread someone was 'generously' given a new registration code for this, what's the policy?
  14. Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Your cryoa has two attacks. The breath attack does cold damage, which the undead is immune to, and the bite attack does physical damage, which the undead is not immune to. Does that explain the difference? Dikiyoba. It doesn't, because the cryoa was only seen using one attack per round. The damage I described wasn't 0 damage then 41 damage as two attacks in a round, it was like 1 damage in round 1, 0 damage round 2, then maybe suddently 39 damage round 3, 41 damage round 4, and so on. Anyway, I got the two cryoa's, and that's great, but I went into the mud pit, and that's not so great. Those flowers that eat buds to regen are a problem. My two cryoas can *almost* kill one, but then it full regens and fears them or wipes them out before long (I found the crystals and summoned two fresh cryoas, but...) My char sort of stands there twiddling his thumbs after a battle buff, since he does little damage, little in heals, etc. Maybe he should strap on the sword and take a wack. Maybe this is a set of battles deserving the use of those speed spores...
  15. I may have to try for 2 cryora's soon. He's doing very nicely, but there was one enemy, an undead guarding a belt, and it was strange. He'd regularly only do 1 damage the first attack, maybe 0 the next; ok, then I'd think his attack just doesn't work - but later he'd start doing 39 damage and 41 damage. Weird that it'd be so varied. He's also not as helpful with crowds, since he kills 1 per round.
  16. Originally Posted By: Thuryl Originally Posted By: Petoffen It'd be nice with these names to know in game whether the creatures are fire magic or physical, but I can look it up. Each horizontal row on the creation screen corresponds to a class of creations. The row that starts with fyoras is all fire creations, the row that starts with thahds is battle creations, and the row that starts with artilas is magic creations. I guess I meant at the trainer in his menu, too. Well, I got a cryoa, good stuff. And now the tradeoff is getting less clear after I got an improvement to it. My original cryoa is level 20, 130HP, 12/12/12/10, 10k exp. My new croa is level 16, 118HP, 13/13/11/11, 15k exp. So the new one has better stats (by 2) but 4 fewer levels, 5k less exp, and 12 fewer HP. I guess the old one is better.
  17. I meant the next step up fyora. The original was level 11, and the new one was level 12. It'd be nice with these names to know in game whether the creatures are fire magic or physical, but I can look it up. This guy's (fyora) a terror and fun! Now to figure out where his stats are best. Currently str>dex>end>int, balancing all.
  18. Thanks again. I started a second char concentrating on fire creatures, and have barely started, but the same question comes up pretty quickly - I saved up enough for the first improvement to the first creature (fyora?), but the one I'd summoned I think went up a bit in levels doing the first few quests, so worth it to summoned the 'improved' one? Dunno. To update the above, I did a save and summon and compared them and the new one had better stats all around, slightly.
  19. Originally Posted By: John S Originally Posted By: Petoffen It happens anywhere at any time once it starts. It was happening last night for hours; today, it's not. No reboot, no other programs (it is acting a bit like you might expect if you were installing a program in the background too). Are you on a Windows machine? Maybe you could use Task Manager to start closing programs at... random. It sounds bad, but maybe it'll eliminate the problem? Yes, Windows XP. There was really nothing to close. If it were some background program, I'd see it in other games, too, but I don't. I don't have a lot running. It's the sort of slowdown you see when the computer is having to swap a lot, but with 10GB free disk space, 1GB RAM, I wouldn't think this game is stressing the hardware. Originally Posted By: Petoffen It does seemsort of disk/swap related; the cursor freezes during the hangs as well. Any ideas? Just because I'm superstitious, I would also check the CD drives and make sure there's nothing running in there. When the skipping starts, does the sound coming from your computer change? Not the speakers, mind you. The actual computer. Can you hear more fans running, or more loudly? There's a Turbotax CD in the drive, but the CD wasn't being accessed. I do notice disk activity during the pauses, not fans.
  20. A general comment on game design: Two approaches are both valid, one where 'quest items' are clearly noted as such for the player, and another where there's a problem-solving/exploration/mystery element to figuring out how to use items for crafting. But the approach that doesn't work for me is when you have far more items than inventory space, and no way to discern which ones to save other than arbitrarily guessing and having to not keep some items that are useful while keeping some that are useless, until you find the quests and can use the information when you replay the game. I find that an exercise iin frustration and futilty. Not aiming the comment at G4, but just expressing an opinion on the issue. Thanks for the responses. I'm still a bit fuzzy on the pet with experience versus the new model pet tradeoffs.
  21. It happens anywhere at any time once it starts. It was happening last night for hours; today, it's not. No reboot, no other programs (it is acting a bit like you might expect if you were installing a program in the background too).
  22. I'm playing the demos for A5 and G4, and while on an older computer (AMD 2600+ 1GB RAM), especially after playing for a bit, the games frequently get 'mini hangs', lasting 2 to 5 seconds, and sometimes about 30 seconds. It gets very annoying, as they're complely random - every time I go to walk half a screen, or talk to an NPC, or whatever activity, every 5 to 10 seconds, it stutters like the threat topic. I don't think it's just the machine, as it plays many other games without that (e.g., World of Warcraft). It does seemsort of disk/swap related; the cursor freezes during the hangs as well. Any ideas?
  23. I like the whole 'lifecrafter' thing, following my magician (read pet summoner) in Everquest (see name). Anyway, on to my newbiew quesitons: - Does it make sense to blow all my gold on training 'upgraded' creatures? (I'm guessing I should concentrate on 1 or 2 types of creatures, probably magic and/or fire) - Is it harmless of costly to unsummon a pet (er, creature) and resummon others to see them and experiment? I notice the creature has exp points, adding to his attributes, so I'm concerned that getting rid of it will lose that. - How do I know what items to keep for future crafting, and which to sell for gold? Some are obvious like sell unneeded weapons and keep herbs, but things like rings, bars of iron, trader equipment with the description vaguely alluding to 'useful for people doing research'... maybe it's for someone to use to research a creature. Most games seem to make a point to give you an idea about that, and those that don't are often infamous for frustration (how many EQ players had bags full of 'just in case' items early on?) They eventually added a 'used in crafting' tag on items. World of Warcraft, in contrast, used the 'gray/white' name convention to distinguish.
  24. Thanks for the info. I'd reiterate that the game could benefit from that info being clearer to players. For all we know, that's the one platinum ring we'll see and it important for an item. Or, that 500g is important for us to get important upgrades. Who knows? So, the gold ring is safe to sell for 50g? I also notice that arcane lore is still in the game. Are you saying it's not useful now?
  25. One pet peeve of mine is when you are stuck what to do with items for lack of information. Playing the demo, I found a gold ring and a platinum ring, which say they (rings) might provide magic bonuses. Now, how can you tell, is that a generic description, and these rings have no bonuses since none are listed? Or would a higher arcane lore skill find a bonus? Or can a townsperson put one on later? That leaves me, with a 500g value platinum ring, not sure whether to sell it and buy big spell upgrades, or keep it. Suggestion, unless the lack of information is intentional, that could be clarified.
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