Archmagus Micael

Quote: Originally written by St. Ashby the Martyr: Member 5219 was banned for using the name "Drakey", as well as being mean. I'm guessing an Administrator changed the name afterward. UBB, in its intricacies and general ununderstandability, maintains that his name is "Drakey". Sometimes. If Exile/Avernum is ever remade, the new product's name will probably be Hades. Or Erebus. - Archmagus Micael

Quote: Originally written by ThunderJoe: HEy, I just installed Avernum 4 on the primary user acct of a WIN XP Pro system, but my son can not save in his desktop; he can load an play, but gets an "Error 3" message on trying to save. Maybe he has insufficient permissions for the game to let him save it? WinXP does this at times. If he's not already, try setting him to "administrator" privileges, just to see if this is the case. - Archmagus Micael

Quote: Originally written by Randomizer: Another way is once you have the Orb of Thranli you can get over the mountains to approach from the east. The only check you coming up from the south. Obviously! They don't expect you to go flying over mountains!

Quote: Originally written by Kryten: so…… full download then? Yes. Download the latest full install, backup your old save files, and install (then copy your saves back in). Once you have a newer version than 1.0, any future patches you may need can be installed as any normal patch would be, but this one does need the v1.0.1 install minimum (the full download will be your only option). - Archmagus Micael EDIT: MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP YOUR SAVES FIRST, ELSE YOU WILL LOSE THEM!!!

Pyro, I put the file up here on my site for personal ease, but it won't bother bandwith or anthing like that if I host it permanately for you (gotta be better than that thing you're using. Just tell me if you want to use it or not. Pyro's Trainer: http://micael.tamarvalleyart.com/spidweb/Avernum/Avernum_4_Trainer.zip - Archmagus Micael

Pyro, I put the file up here on my site for personal ease, but it won't bother bandwith or anthing like that if I host it permanately for you (gotta be better than that thing you're using. Just tell me if you want to use it or not. Pyro's Trainer: http://micael.tamarvalleyart.com/spidweb/Avernum/Avernum_4_Trainer.zip - Archmagus Micael

Quote: Originally written by Frobozz: Actually I was just the opposite. I managed to get used to the interface by the time I was halfway through the goblin lairs. When around the Motrax caves it warned me about the shareware barrier was close and I just went ahead and purchased at that point. I think I had only been playing for about four or so hours. I personally love the new engine with everything being more or less on the same map. No more listening to stupid fanfare when I enter a city for example. I have to agree. I know it sounds awful, and I relaly like the old Avernum system, but I surprisingly loved Avernum 4 (except for the Lightning that isn't lightning). I ordered it a few days ago, and am just waiting for JV to see and then email me the code (darned weekends). So, apart from a few graphics issues, which I'm sure the spidweb boards have enough voluunteers to fix, I think Avernum 4's one of their best out. Not quite THE best, that's still got to be Exile 3 (my first) or Av2, but still good. - Archmagus Micael

Thanks.

I thought Vahnatai were tall and spindly, yet the Something-Boh guy I killed in Motrax's cave was larger than a slith, both heightways and sideways! Also, which picture is the one with the "lightning" spray on it. I can't seem to find it (windows version) but I want to change it to something more lightning-like. Thanks, - Archmagus Micael EDIT: I nearly forgot: I'd heard that the cheats were practically the same as in GF, but I don't now how to heal and energise myself using them. i need that for when I really can't be bothered to walk all the way to a friendly town past an area I've already completed. That the problem with no "rest" funtion!

Guys, Since I've now got half-term I was considering finishing off ETS. However, my BIG problem is dialogue. I just can't seem ot make dialogue work - ever (as anyone who's played UV can tell). Is there an easy-to-learn dialgue guide (not the cookbook or the docs) that someone stupid like me might be able to use. Also: What is the POINT of INTRO? - Archmagus Micael

Okay, I'm playing the Forsaken, and have got two real questions. One isn't as important, but the other is. 1) WHO is the murderer in that town near the beginning, and how do you Confront them? 2) Is there a way into the waterfall maintenance place in the west part of that HUGE city (gosh how I hate that city)? Magic map says it's barren, but magic map didn't help in the Spine one bit, so... Thanks! - Archmagus Micael

I doubt they'd put BoE as open source, but if they madeit open-source to a bunch of designers who want to upgrade it, but let JV still sell it, it would benefit both the community and JV. I still playBoE, even though it's outdated, but, like others, I think a patch (or totally re-done version) is well in order. - Archmagus Micael

Quote: Originally written by Micawber: The shaper sect are a nasty lot, basically. We've met shaper rebels, creation rebels and visitors from a foreign land (the sholai) who have all questioned the shapers' right to absolute power of life and death over their creations. So where are the human rebels? Surely we ought to have met at least one spy by now? Um, well, as you pointed out : the Shapers are a nasty lot. They probably exterminated any threat to them a long long time ago. - Archmagus Micael

Quote: Originally written by Spidweb: I was out of town, so I was slow getting back about the chitrachs. I like them and hope to use them. - Jeff Vogel That's about the only GOOD thing about getting our games later. Us Windows users won't get all these "bad" graphics and the like. We'll get nice ones. Like those great-looking chitraches (I couldn't imagine playing Avernum and fighting Clawbugs). Perhaps we could have a few more character models? I've read that there are so few of them it's like playing Exile 1. (or worse) - Archmagus Micael P.S. Could someone email me the graphics for Avernum 4 (only a few of monster + character). I'd personally love to give it a try. The only problem is I can't download the pics for teh game etc.

Ah, Okay. That clears a few things up. One other thing though: will this NPC stay with the party in Outdoor combat, or will it just simply fail to appear? - Archmagus Micael

Quote: Originally written by Thralni, chicken god prophet: yes, it can be done, you just didn't look closely enough in the docs. Look in "NPC's joining party calls." Adobe claims npcs don't exist anywhere in either of the docs. I'll redownlad the docs and see if they have it. Perhaps my verion got corrupted somehow. - Archmagus Micael

Guys, I've been looking for a way to get certain npcs to join the party (if the party has a free slot). It's kinda like those people in A2 who join (Becca or something). My only problem is - I don't see it in the documents. Is this capability even in BoA? Thanks, - Archmagus Micael

I am working on the Emerald Tortoise Scale still, but I had to stop because of massive schoolwork, and the fact that my dialogue scripting sucks. However, it's holidays at the moment, so I'm planning on carying on. I mean - with only the dialogue to play with, I'm nearly done - and then there'll be another of my scenarios around - hopefully a far better one than UV. So yeah - I'm around a bit, and will work on it as I can. That means robably a LOT of posts on help with the dialogue. - Archmagus Micael

Guys, By any chance could any of you mac users who have the game (us win lot can't ) take some screenshots of the Game and then post them up here. Just any old screenshots at random places in the game would REALLY be appreciated. I just really can’t wait – and the pictures on the main site haven’t been updated yet! – Archmagus Micael

Short of changing the scripts, no.

Personally, I found that simulacrum and summoning were the most effective. I would just simulacrum a few Vahnatai Warriors to hurt the "GINTS", while blasting the Giants with Divine Thud/Firestom. If there were too many Giants for this I would use summoning spells, and THEN the above. - Archmagus Micael

Like Thralni said (ish): Have you gotten a newer OS (like Win XP), or have you installed any lrge programs lately. Also, you could just try re-downloading your graphics drivers. Or your screen res might be too high (eg 64 Bit. - Archmagus Micael

Quote: Originally written by Thuryl: Added brackets to all of the while loops. You probably could have done that yourself, but oh well. You emphatically do not need a break statement at the end of state 10. It's supposed to continue on to the next state. This works fine as long as the next state in the script is the state you want to run next. But just to appease you, I've added a completely pointless set_state_continue and break statement. Thanks! I was wondering whether it needed a few of these: { or not, but I always thought the game refered to those as parenthesis, not brackets. Anyhow, I think I'll leave it without the break in, just cause it looks nicer like that. Thanks! (until my next evil problem). - Archmagus Micael

Quote: Originally written by Thralni, emperor of Riverrod: Yes. After every ending of a state, no matter if there's a set_state_continue call, there should always be a break. That's what I normally do, but Thuryl's code seems to do it differently, so I thought that I might as well do it as Thuryl's example shows. As it is, I think I'll just have to wait for Thuryl to post a reply anyway. - Archmagus Micael

Ah - Thuryl, The game's now whining about a while loop not having a bracket. Also, should there be a break or not before "beginstate 11 (in my caase 29)? Thanks! - Archmagus Micael