Grain of Salt

In my opinon, something that is used for "intelligent cannon fodder" most definitely does not rule. If it did rule, it would likely change the rules so that it was no longer cannon fodder.

I've found Greta and Alwan to be invaluable at the beginning of the game, when you need all the firepower you can get, and moderately useful in the middle. I didn't even bother to go and fetch one of them after they died on Dhonal's Island, so I don't know about the late game. You can talk to various people that will upgrade their attacks. Dexterity, I believe, at least increases the to hit % of missile attacks like Firebolt. I'm not sure if it increases the damage or not. Alwan deserts you if you help the rebels at Harmony Isle, and Greta leaves if you kill them. It'd be possible to have them both, I think, up to the Dhonal's Island Creator, where you have to pick sides. EDIT: Beaten to the punch.

Not to the NPC merchants. They'll pay very large amounts of money for assorted body parts of exotic creatures.

Quote: Originally written by Robinator, #034: And a plethera of bugs didn't stop a number of kickarse scenarios being made with it. BoE is better. Amen.

And Jeff is going to keep using color shifts unless he dethrones EA. Graphics are expensive.

How about we replace the Vlish's melee attack with a weaker one and use the current one for Clawbugs?

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You have to find the real one. The best way of doing this is whacking them all. The one that takes the most damage is the real Absynthe. Get her down to 1 health and wait for her turn.

I like the tactic described in the rebel no-canister ending. Go to each and every village and give them the choice of surrendering all their shapers to your army and surviving, or being obliterated. All loyalists are killed with minimal innocent life loss.

Trouble is, it's not very interesting. I'm sure a leveled-up Clawbug has slightly different statisitcs than a battle alpha, but they still play the same.

With Geneforge you can have a different story and a dfferent character each replay.

Wow. This is a great idea. Jeff could even release it as a patch. (Yes, Jeff. A patch. Don't be scared. It won't hurt you.) What's the "Vlish telepathy" thing, though?

This seems cool. It would certainly add some reason as to why the player can shape in the middle of an enemy fort, but other shapers apparently require labs. Discovering new creations would be awesome and add replay value. However, a minigame would need to be more than just lining up genes. Bleh.

Hmmm... I can understand how Jeff would reason Thahd Shades not being posioned or going rogue (they're undead), but Searing Artilas? They're blue worms. Maybe it's typo.

So, how would we fix the Vlish? I'm thinking much less damage for both the long-range and melee attacks. Vlish should be specialized hitters, not durable damage dealers.

If you want to slow a massive amount of things, Vlish win, due to the roamer not having a slowing attack. In my opinion, the only real reason to choose roamers would be sniping at fat things with acid. It's fun, but Vlish could probably tear that same fat thing apart. (And asking DV if Vlish are better than roamers is like asking the CEO of Budweiser what kind of beer he prefers). EDIT: I guess I'm wrong.

When you take away everything that does fire or ice or magic damage, though, all you can really dodge is turrets and guards.

I thought the mods do an account ban first, then an IP ban if the person comes back under a different account. I could be wrong, though. But the member numbers are awfully suspicious.

Are you posessed the spirit of Ed by any chance?

Maybe this'll stop the rampant "biulds".

Quote: Originally written by Ghezuarah Mehnzuh: Umm ... yeah ... i use the word ''biuld'' becuase i play another game called FlyFF (flyForFun) and its 100x better then this game. but .. i play this demo cus its kinda cool. and in Flyff you can biuld your guy the same as this. str sta int and dex, and alot more.. i have a a good account on it and lots of people have ''biulds'' on there forums.. go to other game forums and find out things that are new.. instead of staying here and say that i say biuld becuase other people here say it or some ****.. Ladies and gentlemen... I present you with our... TROLL OF THE MONTH! Yes, come one and come all to see the mighty troll! Brought all the way from N00bland for your most exquisite entertainment! But be careful... do not feed the troll! It may grow bold and accustomed to human food and attempt to bite off arms or legs. (Max/Can't spell your other name: Just because a certain strategy works on another game doesn't mean it will work in Geneforge. Don't flame other people for understanding this fact.) P.S: It's "build".

You played Geneforge 1 without any canisters? Wow. Hats off to you.

According to this FAQ (written by Schrodinger?) Learned Darian offers you a chance to switch to the rebels on Gull island. EDIT: And the "hidden path" sounds awesome. Is it Awakened? Or... something else?

Quote: Originally written by The Almighty Do-er of Stuff: It has disappeared. Gizmo now hosts a BoE graphics archive on her website. Ah, I thought so. In that case, it would probably be good form to replace the broken link with a link to Pixel Profusion.

And make sure that the identity of the custom graphics in the .meg file is 1, not 128. That's tripped me up a lot.