Dikiyoba

Does anyone else lay out the supplies they've carefully hoarded in organized piles spread out over the ground? Dikiyoba is glad that none of the NPCs are thieving magpies.

Quote: Originally written by arghhhhhhhhh: there's drakes? come on jeff you can do better then that! next you will have a mysterious cult of people who can create living beings and also fight vilish and their monster plaugers Drakes have been in the Avernum before Geneforge even existed. And the Vahnatai created monster plagues before Geneforge, too. Dikiyoba.

Quote: Originally written by Duality: I will say that the AI in A4 is about the dumbest thing I've ever seen. If an enemy sees one of your characters far away, it runs towards them until it runs out of movement points, usually stopping right next to my fighters so they get a round of free hits before it gets to move again. (considering it's inability to work together or make even moderately intelligent choices, I'd believe he wrote it in 5 minutes while drunk) The melee creations in Geneforge behave the same way. So maybe the AI was just copied from Geneforge. Dikiyoba.

Quote: Originally written by Duality: I will say that the AI in A4 is about the dumbest thing I've ever seen. If an enemy sees one of your characters far away, it runs towards them until it runs out of movement points, usually stopping right next to my fighters so they get a round of free hits before it gets to move again. (considering it's inability to work together or make even moderately intelligent choices, I'd believe he wrote it in 5 minutes while drunk) The melee creations in Geneforge behave the same way. So maybe the AI was just copied from Geneforge. Dikiyoba.

Nice sig, Delicious Vlish. Edit: Dikiyoba forgot to put on Dikiyoba's own sig. How embarrassing.

Nice sig, Delicious Vlish. Edit: Dikiyoba forgot to put on Dikiyoba's own sig. How embarrassing.

I think the Orb of Thralni quest (rescuing it from bandits, right?) either happens randomly or happens after you deal the cockroach infestation or something else late in the demo, because I know I got it in the demo without have to wait 160 days. It felt odd to get it so early in the game. Dikiyoba is working off of memory here and could be wrong.

Originally by Hume: Quote: [A] Vlish is no where as good as a drayk. It doesn't do three types of damage. Vlish is no where as good as a drayk. It doesn't do three types of damage. Its ranged attack only does magical damage. Since a guardian nornally has little skill points and equipments to boost your creations, a vlish will have difficulty even to hit its opponents. But if I were you, my guardian would use no creation at all. I think Jaid was refering to the slow attack of a regular vlish, the terror attack of terror vlish, and poison damage from the melee attack. Jaid does have seven vlish and seven creations of any type can probably do serious damage. Well, maybe not fyoras or thahds. I personally find that vlish are excellent back-up creations. If I have trouble tackling a specific fight, two or three vlish hanging back to slow/terrify enemies while my guardian is up front and absorbing damage is very useful. Since they are only temporary, all that is needed is a bare minimum of essence for blessings and healing. The vlish can be reabsorbed right after the fight. Or, since they take experience from you, I attack them and get experience for killing them. Dikiyoba.

I believe dexterity will help both missiles and melee blows to hit an enemy. Dikiyoba.

Hmm. I've usually been able to clear the zone just by walking through it. That is, I enter from one side and leave by the other. You shouldn't need to kill Ezog to clear it, because the Takers eventually give you a quest to kill Demel and free Ezog and the others. Dikiyoba.

Originally by Takeru Takashi: Quote: as to Dikiyoba's Theory: Slith couldn't have been creationof the Vantahi, because they camefrom a diffrent world entirley, and were banished there, making them the only real aliens in the game. If you ever got to the one place, Old something in A/E or E2/A2, i forgot which one, then you'll get it. It must have been E1/A1, since I've played A2. Try Bahssikava for BoA. The whole scenario is Slith history. As for my "theory," it wasn't intended to be serious. Seriously. Dikiyoba

I just downloaded the A2 Template. I feel like I'm home! It's so nice to wander around in old adventuring grounds again! I haven't gotten very far, just around the A2 Tower of Magi and outside of Mertis. However, I did find a bug. My characters are in the outermost hall of the A2 Tower of Magi, traveling west. As they reach the westernmost turn in the hallway to go north or south, my characters suddenly get taken outside, straight into the middle of a pillar. This is a problem. I went to the editor and adjusted the town boundary. When I went back to the tower to try again, I got the same result, even though my characters are a few spaces away from the town boundary. Anyone have any ideas? Help! Dikiyoba is stuck in the middle of a pillar and can't move. Anyone have a shattering crystal?

No offense, Niemand, but if your scenario has the basic plotline I'm thinking of, it's been overused even before A4 came out. Don't panic though. If it's good (that is, not thrown together and really boring), I'll play it. It's tough trying to come up with reasonable plots for BoA scenarios. Dikiyoba wants to see Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Zombies. That would be weird.

Originally by SNM: Quote: They're going to end up uniting the two worlds, sad as that may be. Seriously, they keep on sharing graphics, and today I had a dialogue where a Vahnatai told me he was not a Shaper. Capitalized, and without mention of crystals. You'd think that JV would start to avoid stuff like that after these silly conspiracies start floating around unless they're true. It's obvious. Most Shapers are going to end up using a few too many canisters, which will give them gray skin, bulbous eyes, a skeletel frame, an inability to survive in the sun, a love for crystals, and will flee underground, where they will call themselves Vahnatai. The only thing they will retain of their previous identity is the title "Shaper" for their wizards and dislike for common humans. Shoali and the non-Shapers of the Shaper lands will meet up, evolve into one powerful society that takes over the entire surface of the planet and call their country the Empire. Drakons will become dragons. Drayks will become drakes. Clawbugs will become chitratches. Battle alphas will become giants. Fyoras will become various annoying reptiles. Eyebeasts and gazers will become, well, eyebeasts and gazers. And giant rats will still be giant rats. Demon-summoning will become perfectly legal. Nephil and sliths will have been created by the Shapers/Vahnatai. Etc, etc. Then the Empire will stumble upon the underground tunnels and say, "Hey, why don't we get rid of some annoying people?" You know the story from there. Dikiyoba wonders where the other class of Vahnatai magicians, "Keepers," came from.

I was actually disappointed to see that Avernum 4 is more like Geneforge, since I liked the worlds being distinct. Oh well. As soon as the Windows version is out, I will try it anyway and will probably enjoy it. Don't worry. Dikiyoba will live.

I don't sign most of them that way. And I already apologized to Alorael for signing a few of my posts that way. The wording just sounded awkward the way I prefer to sign this time around. Dikiyoba usually prefers to sign off more like this, which is a little different, at least. And Dikiyoba is not Alorael and should not confuse people like that. But enough about me. Let's talk about Haakai some more... Edit: Fix awkward sentence.

Quote: Originally by IRA Witch Herd: A lot of series that become too popular tend to go rapidly downhill and becomes naught but fodder for the desperate and uncritical reading masses. What distresses me is that such series continue to sell well enough to warrant future vacuous volumes. Probably a bit young and stupid for you, since you seem to like hardcore fantasy and science fiction, but the best example I can use to demonstrate that statement is Harry Potter. The first three were pretty good, the fourth was fabulous, but the fifth one? Ugg. The sixth one? Pretty much the same. At least we know there can only be seven and the seventh one has to be better because it has the climax of the whole series in it. Edit: Forgot to credit quote. Dikiyoba

I'm active in that I still mess around the the BoA editor. I'm not active in that I probably won't ever get a complete scenario done, or at least anytime soon. I'd rather write stories instead. Take it however you want. Dikiyoba

I play a singleton guardian on normal in G1, use the best melee weapon available and only a few spells, and make only a vlish or two whenever I encounter something a little too tough for me. Mostly just those 800-hp Augmented Sholai in G1. My eventual goal is to play G1 through as a Shaper with no creations, no items except for armor and swords, and no magic while on torment. Dikiyoba apologizes for being off-topic but can't resist.

I play a singleton guardian on normal in G1, use the best melee weapon available and only a few spells, and make only a vlish or two whenever I encounter something a little too tough for me. Mostly just those 800-hp Augmented Sholai in G1. My eventual goal is to play G1 through as a Shaper with no creations, no items except for armor and swords, and no magic while on torment. Dikiyoba apologizes for being off-topic but can't resist.

There never seem to be enough human children to replace all the adults that die of old age or battle or monster attacks, even in the Empire. There must be spontaneous generation. Dikiyoba

Quote: Originally by Alorael: Magical, intelligent, unfriendly, putty. MIUP! Maybe crystal souls should be described as Intelligent Magical Unfriendly Putty. IMUP! It sounds better. Dikiyoba, who hopes Alorael can forgive Dikiyoba for using a similar mode of ending some posts in a similar way as Alorael.

Quote: Originally be iluvhorses: the game automatically launches me into combat mode and I have to scroll the screen around to figure out where the enemies are, and sometimes I still can't see them. I prefer running in one direction. Either you move towards the baddies so that you can see them, or you run away from them and can end combat. Dikiyoba, who hates entering combat for minor foes that you can beat with one wack, which sometimes happened in G1, though maybe not A4.

Quote: Originally by Thuryl: Oh, and I remember there being exactly four graphics for both Nephilim and Sliths in BoA -- just the right amount for an all-nephil or all-slith party. Actually, A2 and A3 have four slith and nephil graphics. BoA has five, but that fifth one looks distinctly different than the others. Dikiyoba wonders why all NPC nephil are all brown or yellow, while three nephil graphics are gray.

Quote: Originally by Thuryl: Oh, and I remember there being exactly four graphics for both Nephilim and Sliths in BoA -- just the right amount for an all-nephil or all-slith party. Actually, A2 and A3 have four slith and nephil graphics. BoA has five, but that fifth one looks distinctly different than the others. Dikiyoba wonders why all NPC nephil are all brown or yellow, while three nephil graphics are gray.