Dintiradan

By Nick Ringer: Quote: Tyrannosaurs in F-14's FYT. -------------------- I'd sure like to be a walking endorsement. - Calvin

That's not the half of it. Just wait until you find the Geneforge easter egg in the Imperial Spire. You can only find it by casting X's Anvil scroll on Garzahd. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: I will explain to my guards that most people have their eyes in the front of their heads and thus while searching for someone it makes little sense to draw a weapon and slowly back down the hallway. (T-7)

Prepare to be swamped with replies. When I'm not experimenting on BoA, I always make 4 customs: a Nephil archer with some sword skill, a Slith pole-fighter, a Human priest, and a Human mage. It's probably not the most powerful make, but it has a nice spread of skills, and I'm able to use pretty much every item that comes my way. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: I will build machines which simply fail when overloaded, rather than wipe out all nearby henchmen in an explosion or worse yet set off a chain reaction. I will do this by using devices known as "surge protectors". (T-8)

(Looks at G4's weather effects.) (Looks at scenario's puny efforts to create fog.) (Weeps.) Really, the hype for this game has made me actually consider playing through the first three, just to get to the point where I can play it. I have yet to hear a bad thing about the beta. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: I reserve the right to execute any henchmen who appear to be a little too intelligent, powerful, or devious. However if I do so, I will not at some subsequent point shout "Why am I surrounded by these incompetent fools?!" (T-10)

... I knew that. (Bangs head against wall.) Thanks. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: My force-field generators will be located inside the shield they generate.

Okay, I can find the activate_hidden_group call in the docs, but I can't find any call to hide a group in the first place. Either I'm not looking hard enough, or I shouldn't work on the scenario that late. Probably both. -------------------- Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[a-z]\n[a-z]/s//_/'... but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution). Larry Wall: In the first pass, install perl.

Sure, send a copy to 'dintiradan(at)yahoo(dot)ca'. I probably won't be able to work on it until Monday, though. EDIT: Forgot to say which OS. Probably Win98, though I can test on XP as well. -------------------- It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader. - Larry Wall

After going through the entire game hoarding and selling every item the party came across, resisting the lure of the treasures in the Imperial Spire was the worst. I'm serious, actually. The first time I tried it, my party was swamped by the contant flow of reinforcements. The second time, I just made a beeline to Hawthorne, weeping all the way. -------------------- End the wicked and unjust persecution of the Chuch of the Divine Lucre!

By Ephesos: Quote: Rushing is relative... three weeks, however, was just insane. Three weeks from basically nothing to everything. So if you've already got a fair amount done, the deadline is completeld doable. Quote: Of course, second year workload might have something to do with it too. -------------------- 'Nuff said.

By Salmon: Quote: What interests me is that everyone is so careful to only release good scenarios. BoE has quite a few pieces of crap, and the author not only learned from the mechanical aspect of the process, but by the critical reviews of the the work. So, by all means work on those scenarios, and finish them. Once released, they can only make you a better designer. Or kill you. Either's possible. I'm not too sure. I'm not going to beat myself up if I release a scenario that everyone hates; it'll be a learning experience, as you said. However, I can look at my scenario and see a lot that is wrong with it now. I'm not a perfectionist, and the scenario is puny anyways (one outdoor and four towns), but I'm not going to release something I know I'll regret (I'd rather release something I think I'll regret). If I wanted to, I could put several hours into my scenario straight, and then send out the beta. But after hearing Ephesos say that DoK could have been better if he didn't rush it, I'm not going to attempt to make the deadline. Of course, second year workload might have something to do with it too. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: I will be selective in the hiring of assassins. Anyone who attempt to strike down the hero the first instant his back is turned will not even be considered for the job.

The narrator? I don't remember meeting the narrator in the beta... By Smoo: Quote: I have actually considered making a demon scenario that would concentrate on why the demons are "evil." I'll probably never make it though since it would just turn out to be another monster plague scenario. And I'm up to here with (my) monster plague scenarios. Speak of the... demon. This sounds like the puny scenario that I'm constantly revising and will never be released. Just be glad I didn't release what I had half a year ago... (Shudder.) -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: If my Legions of Terror are defeated in a battle, I will quietly withdraw and regroup instead of launching a haphazard mission to assassinate the hero.

If you're the type of person to do every side-quest in the game, you need to play Torment to keep the later parts of the games interesting. The only trade-off is that you need to adjust your strategies at low levels. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: If I ever MUST put a digital timer on my doomsday device, I will buy one free from quantum mechanical anomalies. So many brands on the market keep perfectly good time while you're looking at them, but whenever you turn away for a couple minutes then turn back, you find that the countdown has progressed by only a few seconds.

Now I'm curious. EDIT: Of course, this post just had to be on a new page. Quotes for context. By Imban: Quote: I voted for Kharprev because I liked (making fun of) his old name. By Ephesos: Quote: Eventually, people will forget that. I'm sure of it. (flees) -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: I will not send out batalions composed wholly of robots or skeletons against heroes who have qualms about killing living beings.

Salmon: Quote: ... anyone caught making out in a closet while leaving their station unmonitored will be shot. The key point is that they let their station become unmonitored, which is a considerable security issue. In fact, I encourage employees to make out in the closet, provided they find a replacement for their station beforehand, since this helps uncover any heroes who happen to be hiding in said closets. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: I will not, under any circumstances, marry a woman I know to be a faithless, conniving, back-stabbing witch simply because I am absolutely desperate to perpetuate my family line. Of course, we can still date.

Nioca: It'd be a lot harder to implement than a simple arena battle. Sure, that would work if the only scripts entered were like your elitenpc. But something like my bullrush script (that is, if I can get it working) would be useless in an arena; the script's meant to stop the party from reaching something/someone. The judges would have to make a separate arena for every single script entered. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: Employees will have conjugal visit trailers which they may use provided they call in a replacement and sign out on the timesheet. Given this, anyone caught making out in a closet while leaving their station unmonitored will be shot.

To expand on Kel's point, good villains actually do stuff. The party should interact with the villain, whether directly or through foreshadowing, lackeys, reading private writings (Myst, anyone?), etc. Seeing the resulting carnage sometimes works too. A villain who you never hear about until you meet him at the end is useless. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to beat my head against the wall for an hour because I was stupid enough to make a scenario which has that sort of villain. EDIT: Gah. Here I go posting, thinking that the topic is still on one page. I'll leave my incoherent rambling up anyway. Though I must state that by Emperor T.'s definition of villain, the best villain would be someone who causes the maximum amount of harm to the maximum amount of people in the shortest span of time. Somehow, I don't think that a villain whose character is defined by running around with an Uzi spraying bullets in a crowd would be a good villain. Evil, probably. But very little depth. Quote: The Silent Assassin believes that even the most powerful Evil Overlord must have some sort of soul... Or maybe I'm confusing him with Ghandi again. I have a whole collection of them, actually. -------------------- People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. - Robert Bloch (often quoted by Stephen King)

Sounds great to me. I have a few that I can generalize from my scenario. Same deadline, or will it be pushed back for scripts? -------------------- Obfuscated AvernumScript Contest! What?

THE LICH GUY!!! And Artifacts Hall does have a villian. Why else do you think TM's there? -------------------- Argh. Class.

If you don't have a text editor that keeps track of parentheses, get one. I recommend Programmer\'s Notepad , but it's far from the only one out there. -------------------- IT'S SNOWING!

Argh. Doesn't seem like Notepad wants to put in line breaks. Care to tell me where line 407 is? Without knowing that, all I can recommend is checking the spelling of your calls (I had the toughest time figuring out why get_buffer_str() didn't work a while ago). -------------------- You idiots! You captured their stunt doubles! - Spaceballs

I used to use Editpad, but I've switched over to Programmer's Notepad 2 for everything code related, and I'm not going back. In my opinion, it's the next best thing after an AvernumScript IDE. Once they release the documentation for making schemes on the site , I'll make one for AvernumScript. -------------------- IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD: All crones with the ability to prophesy will be given free facelifts, permanents, manicures, and Donna Karan wardrobes. That should pretty well destroy their credibility.

If I recall correctly, there is a secret passage on the north side of town that will get you to the chest, with traps I think. You don't need to confront Meena (though I did; by that time I was at a high enought level to wipe out all of Spire). EDIT: Nevermind, misread. If you can't leave by the secret passage, then you do have to fight your way out. -------------------- I just read about Howard the Duck on Wiki. From now on, I will only respond to 'Dark Overlord of the Universe'.

By Slarty Quote: How dare you compare a dysfunctional villain like Rentar-Ihrno with Slartibartfast. Rentar and bistromathematics... pshaw! The Nine-Headed Cave Cow is not pleased, and He or She has indigestion today, so you'd better watch out for bovine retribution. EDIT: Quoting problems. -------------------- (Goes to Milliways and enjoys a nice juicy steak.)

By Archmandrite Micawber: Quote: Do you think Rentar really has a heart of gold? How improbable. Rentar has no need of the Heart of Gold and its feeble Improbability Drive, for she has discovered the secrets of Bistromathematics. Unfortunately, Crystal Souls can't eat... EDIT: Added a quote. Here I am, brain the size of the board, and the post I'm quoting is on the previous page. (I've really got to get around to watching that movie. It's been too long since I read the books.) -------------------- So long, and thanks for all the Vlish.

I have a .pdf copy of the Cookbook, if that needed. Don't know what version it is, though. And if I got a dime for every time I changed a script but didn't change the .sav... -------------------- Chicago Checking on Elderly in Heat - Headline