Khoth

I want playable Doomguards.

Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity Osama bin Laden had pretty clearly similar status to an enemy soldier fighting against the USA in a war. I'd have more sympathy for that sort of argument if the USA wasn't deliberately muddying the issue to try to make their treatment of their enemies fall through the gaps in international law.

In the UK you won't have to rank everyone. I'll most likely go for my actual first choice as number 1 and then the major party I hate least as number 2, and leave the rest blank. There's no real point in me expending effort working out how much I like all the random independent candidates I don't know or care about.

Originally Posted By: Impudent Strumpet! Of the two, I think I'm going to vote to stick with FPTP. AV just seems overly confusing and unnecessary - a lot of people I've spoken to about it don't really get it (because they're not used to it, I suppose), and I don't much appreciate the thought that my vote will get transferred to another party. What's so confusing about it? "Number the candidates in order of preference until you don't care any more" isn't terribly hard to do. For the counting, it's just repeated "Eliminate the least popular candidate, everyone who voted for them gets to choose someone else instead". (It's worth noting that the No to AV campaign has described the system in the most confusing way they could get away with, so if people are getting their information from that, it might explain why they don't understand it) I do appreciate the thought that my vote will get transferred to another party. Letting me say "I'd like A to win, but if that's not happening B would be my second choice, and C is terrible" is better than letting me say "I'd like A to win, but if that's not happening completely ignore the rest of my opinion", and better than "I'd like A to win, but because I don't think A will win, I'm going to have to lie and say I most want B to win, to keep C out".

Either way, we'll be stuck with the voting system that gets chosen for ages. If No wins, the story will be "the people have spoken, and don't want electoral reform". I think AV is still better than FPTP though, so let's go with that.

Originally Posted By: Venom What's with all the Google Translate workarounds? It would end up an inferior/nonmarketable product anyways. A Google Translate version would, however, be very funny.

I have no plans to trick google translate into doing something they don't want it to be used for.

Originally Posted By: Randomizer Originally Posted By: Khoth I was going to make a little program to automatically convert all the scripts like that, but it turns out that Google doesn't like people doing that. You might have better luck with Basilisk Game's Eschalon:Book 2 since the texts were placed in separate files to facilitate translations instead of having to pick them out of Jeff's scripts. Picking the texts out of the scripts is easy. The problem is that after the first 20 or so, the translations coming back were all "Suspected Terms of Service Abuse"

I was going to make a little program to automatically convert all the scripts like that, but it turns out that Google doesn't like people doing that.

It was google translate from english to japanese to english.

Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith I assume running the entire script through Babelfish isn't an option? Finally, you are just a huge stone in his halls of Redbeard, standing in front. He does not expect you. He is a large man over six months Ino Hiroshi feet and shoulders. As being named after his beard and hair, which is expected to fiery red hair. He looks as if only a few years older than you. It is given that he is the keeper of Abaddon almost 60 years, is a little strange. But the strange thing is his mood. Despite his confusion inside and outside the fort, he is strangely hilarious. Does not seem genuine smile leave his face for a moment. He is looking forward to a repeat tap on the shoulder. "Welcome, Welcome to the new hand Abaddon."

Originally Posted By: Metatron I also want to mention that in Avernumscript, the interpreter is capable of detecting (or guessing pretty accurately) when an infinite loop is encountered. Whenever more than 32,768 lines of user-written Avernumscript are run, BoA stops running Avernumscript and reports in the text field that you encountered an infinite loop. I'll point out that Avernumscript is written for just the Blades of Avernum game, and was designed without speed in mind; if you don't care about speed, you can of course run checks to see if you're taking up too much memory or still in the same while loop. Be careful here - you don't want to give the impression that Avernumscript is solving the halting problem by not caring about speed.

I think the pointfulness of leadership/tool use depends very much on the game. In the Geneforges, it's a big thing, to the extent that it's possible to win the games without actually killing anything in combat. In Avadon, lockpicking is just a little thing that lets you get a bit more treasure from places, rather than something you'd build a character around. Whether to get lockpicking or not isn't a terribly interesting choice, and I suspect most people will maximise it early then forget about it anyway. Sure, Avadon could have been a game with diplomacy as a big thing, but it would be a radically different game. Incidentally, I suspect some resistance to a "leadership" stat comes from how making decisions in a game is generally the domain of the player, not the character. I don't know how to cast a fireball so it doesn't break suspension of disbelief to have to have the character learn to do it. I do know how to talk. (And finally, I'm perfectly fine with complex games. My favourite game has 24 races, 28 classes and when you die you stay dead)

In combat mode, having one character go into the library and get the book, and another character leave the zone.

I completely failed to notice the switch, and used combat mode trickery instead.

Watch the movie Cronos. That's what scarabs are.

If an item is useful for something other than selling, it'll tell you so in the item description.

I was disappointed that I couldn't get a bribe to not kill her, then turn round and kill her.

I like Ad, Ad2

It opens up a little trick for tough fights - have one character run/teleport away out of sight, while the other two try to kill as many enemies as possible before they go down. When they die, end combat and have them resurrect/heal, then go in again.

Jeff is sitting in his lair reading your posts and laughing about how Avadon has actually been finished for years.

Someone still made them up. Might not have been one person, and might not have been the guy who wrote it down, but why should that matter?

I didn't make any resolutions last year. This year, I made one. I've already done it. Next year, who knows?

I don't like stuff that's designed to be addictive. I'll play it, but afterwards (and often during), I'll regret wasting the time.

Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba You unsellable trowel. Just wait for Avadon. It lets you take an unsellable trowel and sell it anyway. Edit: Originally Posted By: Dikjstra My point today is that, if we wish to count posts, we should not regard them as "posts produced" but as "posts spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.