Triumph

While I'm asking questions...

Does the "Day" counter on the map screen in Geneforge 3 MEAN anything? I've never noticed anything that indicated the passage of time affected gameplay...yet it would seem peculiar that it was thrown in for purely cosmetic purposes.

Ooh, interesting. Thank you much for this information, Mr. Slarty, et al.

Aloha!

I've seen several references around these boards to 10 as stopping point for raising stats - that the returns dimish after that point. Is this true of all Geneforge games, and specifically of G3?

How does the diminishing work? A single steady drop? Gradually continuing to decline? Is it true of the effects of ALL stats, or only some (as in, are the some stats worth raising higher than ten?)?

I couldn't find anything that clearly explained the mechanics of stats...but I apologize if I missed something.

Thanks.

Doesn't the G5 PC seem to recognize the Geneforge when he sees it? And seems to know how to use it (realizes to go over and touch it)?

This means the PC is someone familiar with the G4 era Geneforge - which was the first Geneforge to be operated by touch with a bare hand.

The G1 forge needed special gloves, as did the G2 forge that the Drakons made in imitation. The G3 forge required immersion by a Drakon. The G4 forge, for humans and serviles, was the first Geneforge that one used by touching it with a bare hand.

This might be reading too much significance into the G5 PC's apparent familiarity with this kind of forge, but it seems to support to me to support the idea that the PC is someone one who had been shaped by the rebel G4 forge, and thus very possibly the G4 PC. It would at least rule out anyone who hadn't ever encountered the fourth-generation Geneforge.

Unless I'm missing something really obvious.