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Originally Posted By: Doom Warrior Quote: Those are stats (e.g. +1 to int), not abilities (e.g. Acid Shower). They have NOTHING in common. Yes, in fact, they do. it_stats_to_affect 0 = 94; That line ( including the addition line) Will give you the ability to create a gazer. Heh, poor choice of example because you can't do that one as an item ability. But I concede that changing a stat linked to a spell has a little bit in common with using the item to cast it.

Originally Posted By: Doom Warrior No, the thing is (this actually took me a while for me to find out) this. Look at these lines. <snip> Those are stats (e.g. +1 to int), not abilities (e.g. Acid Shower). They have NOTHING in common.

Because items can only have one ability (you'd have no way to use the other ability even if they could have more than one). May I suggest using two items?

Originally Posted By: Blurb Sneak? Never occurred to me. Do you pass the the golem guard in battle mode? Yes. It won't follow. In fact, nothing will seek you out until you kill a control patchwork. Quote: The only scary part might be the potential lightning attack of the shock patchworks. Standing behind the door and sending Corrupted Thahds could work; anything else will see you and all your creations dead within two rounds. Lightning is _death_ before resistance spores and Banish Affliction.

Unless you're a fan of sneaking around. Which you should be, because the loot is GREAT at that point in the game. Plus killing a few of the patchworks one or two at a time is entirely doable after finishing everything else in the demo.

Originally Posted By: Doom Warrior In the game, there is only one area where you absolutely have to get a reputation to move on in the game. That is when you are talking to Alwan when you come back from Gazuki Uss. It's only needed if you want to join Alwan or Ghaldring, I think. You can get to the Dera Reaches just by killing the guards in Perikalia Orchards, right?

Originally Posted By: madrigan Well, I'm nearly to the endgame as an Astorian, I'm level 35 How do people keep doing this? I _really_ have no idea how you can avoid so much of the XP the game keeps throwing at you. Go clear some zones, maybe the ones that have artifact ingredients. Quote: I think G5 is freaking hard. I think it's ridiculously easy.

Another Geneforge wiki? Woohoo!

Not even that. You just need to see the escaped Shredbug. Originally Posted By: z29seclabdlg.txt text1 = "As you explore, an escaped creation sees you. As it approaches, you see no reason to worry. It looks like a beetle. It's about four feet long. A respectable size, to be sure, but it's still just an overgrown bug."; ... if (gf(100,13) == 0) sf(100,13,1); Originally Posted By: z42Tstormhdlg.txt condition = gf(42,12) == 8 && gf(100,13) > 0; question = "The reports are true. There was a drakon outpost in the Shadow Road.";

Originally Posted By: Dahak I'll keep working on a way to powergame the other two factions... The kicker is the Shredbugs. It's been done already. Thing is, your suggestion to purge the Shredbugs makes no sense. There's no quest to do it. And incidentally, it might be best to do Alwan first after all; it seems like you can finish his Taygen quest and even go to the Shaper Council with him after leaving his faction.

Originally Posted By: Dahak Originally Posted By: Randomizer The Control Core B quest can only be done if you ask to join Alwan's faction and he only does it for pro-Shaper reputations after the Mission to Drakons quest in Gazaki-Uss. The Trakovite version can't be done until you do the other quests in their quest chain. I believe this has changed. From what I see the quest after Control Core B is the first chance you get to swear to Alwan. All Alwan requires for Control Core B is a rep of 103 (adjusted by 50% of leadership) or better and completion of Journey To the Drakons. Can someone playing the Alwan path confirm? You're both saying the same thing (_ask_ to join != swear. It's the "I'm eager to blah blah blah" phase). And yes, you're right.

Read the reactivation instructions backwards.

Having used a Geneforge and lots of canisters years before the game even started is considered heavily shaped.

Originally Posted By: Slarty Alorael vetoed the only creations that start above 32 Rotdhizons (34). With their large hp bonus, they're more likely to hit the critical percentage of health and stay alive long enough to blame you for it. That said, anything strong enough to nearly kill a Rotdhizon is probably going to be a hazard even without your creation going rogue.

Originally Posted By: jlsgaladriel Basically it gives Astoria special Trakovite love... Well, the Trakovite ending is the best she can hope for after you leave her faction. Besides, she still won't be very friendly.

Never tried to kill a creation that went rogue from my own attack, but ones that go rogue because of too much damage and not enough intelligence definitely do. I got something like 90 XP from my own Clawbug. Further proof they're overpowered.

Originally Posted By: Randomizer Now in Basilisk's Eschalon: Book 1, you take massive damage from being trapped under a door like that. Not only you, but enemies too. You even gain XP for it!

You can attack *anything* with the attack button. The creation will go rogue (unless it's a melee attack that gets aborted when you run out of AP). Exploit: killing your own rogue creation gives XP.

Originally Posted By: Doom Warrior For the mental focus charm, you have to pull two levers around the foundry, and a door leading to it opens up in the middle. More specifically, the levers and the charm are in the Foundry Repository.

Originally Posted By: Dahak Well I'm afraid the problem may lie on your end. The links work for me using both Firefox and Safari. Opera, IE and Chrome, too.

The Ornks give pretty good exp, too. If you kill too many of them, everybody gets mad at you (I think killing an Ornk is equivalent to stealing an item).

Edit: This post may no longer be deleted. What, did somebody see it or something? In any case, it is made pointless by Dahak's post above.

Define "second half". After Kratoa Stoneworks? There are at least two charms you can get by sneaking (Mental Focus Charm in the Foundry, Guardian Stone in Gorash-Kel) before then. The Clawbug Charm is near Kratoa-Kel, the Gruesome Charm is in Okavano and the Shielding Trinket might be in Chapter 2 as well. You need to kill a servant mind or three to get the Cryoa Claw Charm in Storm Plains.

Hostile Effects Resistance.

Originally Posted By: Randomizer The Guardian Claymore is dropped by Guardian Hrognar if you help the Rebels in the White Wastes to escape the Shapers. I wonder if "helping" the Rebels, then killing everybody left alive would satisfy Taygen's quest.