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Only if you've already played the game with steam online at least once. If you've only played a game in offline mode, the stats will not be recorded. Recording of achievements from offline mode is also pretty iffy and can be affected by all sorts of stuff like computer crashes/restarts and steam updates.

Offline mode.

You should definitely go to the Eastern Gallery first. My party was around level 13-14 when I got to the Tower of Magi and I tried to go west and found the enemies there a bit too tough. The enemies in the Eastern Gallery were much more manageable. Plus, Fort Dranlon has some cheap spell teachers.

Are recruitable NPC's back?

Probably some vague power with wide ranging implications like energy manipulation.

Jeff should at least pitch the idea to a comic book company.

Has Jeff ever considered trying to expand his franchises to other mediums? I think Geneforge holds the most promise. A Geneforge comic or animated series would be really great. Maybe he should try to pitch the idea to an animation studio.

g and i are already bound to picking up items in the inventory screen.

Well, it looks like the Windows version of Avadon is finally... Ava-done. YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!

I remember dumbfound being quite useful against magic users. Web was great since no one can resist it. Magic map was an incredibly useful spell. I always carried a couple of sapphires with me. Mind duel lets you stockpile spell points. My favorite spell system has to be the one in Realmz where you can adjust the power of every spell you cast.

I'm guessing that owning multiple (operational) computers will be a plus.

Killing both Melanchion and Gladwell seems to be best for Avernum. I doubt the people of Upper Avernum would bow to Gladwell so the treaty with the Empire will likely dissolve. Melanchion has no treaty with the Empire so there's nothing stopping the Empire from killing him. The Empire still has that fortress Dorikas left behind from which they can spy on Avernum and launch any preemptive attacks. I found the whole idea of the Empire fearing Avernum pretty ridiculous since the only reason why Avernum managed to kill Hawthorne and beat the Empire in a war is because the Empire banished some of their most powerful mages to Avernum. Now that all those mages are gone and they didn't leave any worthy successors behind, the Empire has little to fear from Avernum.

X is my favorite wizard but Gladwell is the only true wizard in this game. Most of the wizards in the new Avernum trilogy pale in comparison to the wizards who in the original trilogy. The original five archmages banished to Avernum helped build the nation, created much of the flora and fauna, tamed the eastern gallery and the great cave, held back the Slith Hordes, fought legions of demons, and banished the demon lord Grah-Hoth. There were several wizards who could have been their successors like Linda/Aimee, Mahdavi, X, Sixus, Ostoth, Thompson, etc. However, the ones who didn't die seemed to have just disappeared, leaving Avernum in the hands of a bunch of amateurs.

Originally Posted By: Drakefyre There's about to be an explosion of breakthrough research in the field of neuroeconomics, especially with increased fMRI time available for researchers at many of the big research universities. I'm sure there will be a lot of early adopters trying to make a buck based on their findings, and then we'll get to see how applicable these studies really are! It's funny how neuroscience just reeks of legitimacy. People don't even question it when a scientist uses an fMRI to tell them something about the brain. I just wonder what will happen when a person says that he like Coke but an fMRI image of his brain says that he likes Pepsi. Are they going to believe the person or his brain?

The funny thing about the economy is that psychologists have influenced it far more than economists. Businesses rely more on BF Skinner's theories than most economic theories. Heck, Las Vegas is practically a shrine built in honor of Skinner. Any economic model is feasible if you can manipulate the population into the right mindset. Plus Benoit Mandelbrot's theories are probably going to supplant most other economic theories.