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Niemand

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  1. Like many other items (potions, wands, scrolls) you can use it from your inventory by pressing the small button by its icon. Do this while standing near one or more green gates.
  2. Originally Posted By: Death Knight Do ranged weapons like bows/throwing work with the assassination skill. No, they do not.
  3. Originally Posted By: Death Knight Do the other skills (lethal blow, anatomy) show up as a special damage modifier when it works. Anatomy does not, as it just modifies the damage done by a regular strike. Lethal Blow behaves like Assassination; it replaces the normal strike and so has a message of its own. I would second Nikki's advice on waiting to increase specialized skills; at low levels you need to put the skill points into basic skills first. Also, some of the secondary skills are much less useful than others. Quickstrike can be great, since it randomly gives your character extra AP, but Lethal Blow seems fairly useless to me, since it makes it easy to kill opponents of lower level only, being no help (or little help, I haven't tested this) against higher level opponents.
  4. Did you try Alint? It does a much better job on things like this that the game's parser.
  5. Originally Posted By: Necris Omega I did have the strange fascination with collecting every "unique" item I could find and stashing it in Hawke's Manse... Yep, me too. I was quite alarmed when I discovered the hard way that the game could only record a limited number of items per town and that the excess would vanish. My BoA party ends up looking ridiculous, laboring along under mountains of spare gear and a few hundred pounds of potion ingredients. I look at throwing things away, but for each item think something like "This sword is pathetic at my party's level. But it has the highest extra damage against demons of any sword! I might just need it. . . " I also make sure to have a potted plant handy at all times. They're just so nice and decorative looking.
  6. Originally Posted By: Celtic Minstrel However, the primary hurdle of a 1,400-line terrain script is mostly done and in the debugging stage Good god, man, I just checked, and your one terrain script is as large as the entire main script for BoR. That must be quite some terrain script.
  7. Originally Posted By: Death Kinght Im lvl 6 right now and am trying to get an area effect spell for my mage to help with problems like this. Strictly speaking (and I hope I'm not repeating something you already know) there are no area effect spells in BoA (with the exception of Cloud of Blades), unlike in the second trilogy games. Instead there are multiple target spells, which depending on circumstances can be somewhat more or less effective, since your targets don't have to be near each other. At any rate, you can purchase Ice Lances from Axel, in Sweetgrove, I believe.
  8. Originally Posted By: Valdain the King if you dont know what the skills are (which no one usually will) you will lose enough times till you cannot play the game anymore. This seems unlikely; I began playing A2 with no knowledge going in about the gameplay in terms of character skills and abilities. It was a little confusing at first, but between the game manual and the in-game tooltips I got the hang of it fairly rapidly. I wasn't frustrated; I was having so much fun that I was desperate to purchase the full game when I ran out of demo. Originally Posted By: Death Knight I mean the geneforge series is so imbalanced that i think jeff should allow all users that bought the originals to get the remake at 50% off. This makes no sense. If the games were that bad, no one would bother to complete the demos and them go on to pay for them.
  9. Originally Posted By: Tyranicus Originally Posted By: Niemand Congratulations! Thanks Niemand. It seems congratulations are in order for you as well, since you used your 2000th post to congratulate me on my 3000th. I'm glad you noticed. It seemed like too good an opportunity to pass up.
  10. 307. Scarab of Ra Ra Ah Ah Ah - Want your bad roguelike: Apparently Scarab of Ra was a first-person(?!) roguelike; combine this with the aforementioned song. It seems highly likely then that 327 goes with Want your explosion, although I don't have justification for this. EDIT: Include PDN in question.
  11. I've read a substantial number of Salvatore's books of that series/setting, but I found that their quality seemed to drop off steadily over time and so stopped. Also, I was never terribly fond of his fairly graphic (detailed?) approach to violence.
  12. Originally Posted By: Cpt Charles Hello, I am a new member for this forum. Welcome! Please leave your sanity at the door. Quote: I am making a new scenario, a very large, real world size one, as outlined not to make in Kelandon's sight. As long as you know what you're getting into. Kelandon mostly wanted to warn people that this can be a lot more time consuming than it looks at first glance, and since there have been so many plans for vast scenarios which have come to naught (released, at least) suggest that new designers should consider setting their sites a little lower. Quote: I am thinking of posting it as a work in progress, with a small portion of the scenario's universe revealed and the rest you can't reach yet. Should I do this The main argument against it is that since it can't be played or tested entirely, t may be best to just wait. In particular, a general release of a partial work lessens the impact when the full product is ready. However, there is also much to be said for doing early testing to eliminate problems incrementally. What you might consider doing is holding a pre-alpha test and asking a few people to test the existing part of the scenario and provide feedback. You could then continue testing when the rest of the scenario is completed, likely with the help of the same people. One thing to avoid here is endless cycles of testing in which very little is added to or fixed in the scenario; this makes testers frustrated and bored. On the other hand, if you really just want to release your work so far, it's your choice to do so. Quote: how do I post scenarios in the first place? On the forum, you can't. You will need to get the files hosted on some website. Technically, Spiderweb software offers to host finished products on its site, but to my knowledge no designer has bothered to send scenarios to them for a couple of years; we just handle hosting scenarios ourselves as a community. The Blades Forge is a good option for people who don't have websites of their own, or you can set up a small website for free with services like http://www.webs.com/, which several people around here use. Finally you could ask people who have their own sites to host it for you; I for one wouldn't mind doing so. It's worth noting that if you do decide to conduct a closed test, rather than simply releasing your work so far, the usual procedure is to just email the files to the people who volunteer as testers, which lets you defer the hosting problem until later.
  13. All of the texts I can recall reading in highschool, including a few short stories: 9th grade: When the Legends Die, Night, Tom Sawyer, Romeo and Juliet 10th grade: Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, a collection of greek myths, Antigone, The Call of the Wild, Macbeth 11th grade: Oedipus Rex, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter, The House of Bernarda Alba, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Death in Venice, The Fall of the House of Usher 12th grade: Hamlet, Midnight's Children, Heart of Darkness, Midaq Alley, Notes of a Native Son Of these, I hated When the Legends Die, Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Death in Venice, Midnight's Children, and Midaq Alley. Most of the rest I found largely uninteresting but not outright dislikable.
  14. Gah. I greatly regret that I'm going to have to withdraw from this contest. I was going to put some serious work into my as-yet-unbegun entry this weekend, but yet another in a series of urgent tasks for work has popped up and consumed the whole weekend so far, with no sign of relenting. (For related reasons I have now developed a hatred for convolutions. I seem to come out badly every time I tangle with digital signal processing, possibly because I'm largely clueless about it.)
  15. I personally like Bahssikava better than any of the ones you list.
  16. Excellent! Thanks for doing this Tyran! Of course you've now removed much of my excuse for not yet having played a number of these. . . EDIT: The entry for The Sorcerer's Apprentice is slightly misspelled, and claims to be version 1.0.0, although it actually appears to be the up-to-date 1.1.0.
  17. Sadly, a Windows version appears to be impossible because of the limitations of our 22 bit addressing system.
  18. They're there to be able to give an accurate error when the user enters a number outside of [-32768,32767]. The checks are a little messy because we're reading digit by digit, and 3280 and 32765 need to be accepted without error, while 32769 and 32800 need to generate an error.
  19. I think that this was the final version, but I've just dredged it up from the script where I was originally trying it out, so you should probably look it over just to make sure it does what it should. Code: get_text_response("Enter a number:"); b = 0; // parse status: 0=good, 1=good+negative, 2=format error, 3=range error if(get_flag(299,29) == 1 || get_flag(299,29) == 2){ //On Mac OS a = 0; // will hold the result value i = 0; // counter while(i<32 && b<2){ //limit input to 32 characters //read one character if(get_flag(299,29) == 1) j = get_floor(-6140,i - 32); else if(get_flag(299,29) == 2) j = get_floor(-6118,i + 46); //parse if(j == 0) //NUL termination i = 1000; else if(i==0 && j==45) //first character may be a negative sign b = 1; else if(j>47 && j<58){ //a digit if((b==0 && (a>3276 || (a==3276 && j>55))) || (b==1 && (a>3276 || (a==3276 && j>56)))) b = 3; else a = (10 * a) + (j - 48); } else //error b = 2; i = i + 1; } if(i==32 && j!=0) b = 2; if(b==1){ //need to negate result a = 0 - a; b = 0; } } else{ //fall back for Windows or unknown get_buffer_text(str); check_text_response_match(str); i = -1024; // <-the minimum parsable number clear_buffer(); append_number(i); while ((i < 1023) && (got_text_match() != 1)){ // <-the maximum parsable number i = i + 1; clear_buffer(); append_number(i); get_buffer_text(str); check_text_response_match(str); } if(i == 1024) // <-the maximum parsable number + 1 b = 3; else a = i; } if(b==2) //error was detected print_str("Error: Improperly formatted number"); else if(b==3) print_str("Error: Number outside representable range"); else print_big_str("number=",a,""); I had any sense I'd have been posting these things to my own website as well, but the Blades Forge was so convenient that i got lazy. . .
  20. After only seven months in a half released/half unreleased limbo, my entry from the Randomised Scenario Contest is now unambiguously available. You can find a copy of the newest version, which has some minor fixes, on this page.
  21. Originally Posted By: The Turtle Moves Niemand is apparently too modest to point out that you omitted The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Actually I was trying to avoid admitting that it's in semi-released limbo. . . and that I should have corrected that months ago. Uh, no, wait, you were right about the modesty thing. Yeah. EDIT: Okay, now it's released. Sorry that took so long. Also, it seems that there are other entries from the same contest to be considered, namely 'Oops', 'The Black Crown, Part 1', and 'Pilgrimage to Thrakos'. CM should get an official copy of Melliput Mobsters out so that it can be sensibly included as well. Hint, hint.
  22. Quote: The Seige of Copperpeak , I believe. What were the criteria for putting scenarios on this list?
  23. You know, it would also help if you numbered the clues. Also, are you looking to have people just state which clue goes with which name, or to elaborate on what is meant? Some of the easy ones: 4. 2600 Hertzballons <=> Hacker Nena (99 Luftballons is a song by Nena, 2600 Hz was a frequency used by part of AT&T's phone system at one time, which was exploited by phone hackers to make free long distance calls.) 12. Slartreuse <=> My color, liqueur, and mountain range (Chartreuse is a color and a liquor.) 25. Frosted Cryodrayks <=> They're brrrrrrrr-eat! ('They're grr-r-reat' is a slogan for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, and I assume that Cryodrayks are cold.) 40. 227 Chitrachballons <=> Adventurer Nena (Refers to the same Nena song as 4, and chitrach are fought by adventurers.) 46. Speaker for the Ed <=> Orson Scott Canned ('Speaker for the Dead' is a book by Orson Scott Card. Ed was (I assume) Canned, before being Banned.) 55 Love Parallelogram <=> Ménage à quatre (Four vertices, rather than the three of the love triangle.) EDIT: Okay, nevermind. My slow typing clearly renders my participation irrelevant.
  24. True, if there's no need to deal with things like leaving town. (Which seems likely to be the case for a combat situation like this.)
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