TriRodent

Most of the main points have been touched on upthread (evolving social media, lack of 'new' games, many traditional topics explored over the years (favorite books, movies, polls, etc)), but I don't know, the demand for 'anything' Spiderweb is there. Twp days ago Jeff set up a Dischord server. Now maybe I'm just old & don't understand the chaos of one thread for each of the game series', but there are 75 people online there right now & another 150 offline...after two days. I'm reasonably sure that those numbers are going to fall off a cliff in a few days once the newness wears off, but the people are out there wanting 'something' that relates to SW (me too for that matter). I'll be the first to admit that I don't participate all that much around here except for when a new game comes out. As one of Jeff's (windows) beta testers, I'm more than happy to help out/share my experience deeply playing the game (however Randomizer generally gets the answer out well before the time I wander by...), but that only goes so far once the initial excitement dies off (as it pretty much does a couple of months after release & most people have finished at least one playthrough). But with, for the most part, nothing but specific questions to answer, what's there to talk about? Solutions? I have no idea, maybe it's just the way of things to evolve & die away. But I'd love to see the forums thriving once again if possible.

Sword mage is good for your front line guys, if you're like me and give them at least a few levels of mage skills to be able to toss an AoE spell early in the fight. You'll want them in heavier armor, but the option of being able to toss a fireball or a cloud of ice is nice to have.

(It's been a little while since playing QW so...) I thought that the highlighting of a stunned (for instance) player was more of a flicker and the announcement that that character lost his/her turn. More of a 'didn't forget about you/your turn' kind of thing than a bug.

She's going to give you three quests. Whatever she's looking for is in a chest/box/container that you've already looked in if you've already (completely) cleared that location.

Cool. I (obviously) didn't chase down those links. Good to hear he's still tweaking things. Thinking about this a bit more over the past hour and when it's time to say 'enough' - have you ever read Arthur Clarke's short story 'Superiority'? It's online somewhere and an amusing way to spend ten or so minutes.

I say this from a position of complete ignorance, I just don't know. That disclaimer aside, I saw that Jeff was looking for Beta testers for the iPad version of QW. Given that, I'd assume that his focus is on that rather than minor tweaking of a relatively stable/complete game at this point in time. Will there be another patch at some point, yeah/maybe/possibly. But baring some big problem that slipped through the extensive Beta testing and all the gameplay over six weeks since the release...I wouldn't count on it any time soon. While we as players/consumers would like a perfect game, Jeff, wanting to keep a roof over his head, is going to say sooner or later that ' this is good enough'

That's how I tried to do it too, roughly the same location in each fort relative to the southern exit. And today was the day I learned about the banners...doh

Is Rusty the guy just south of the general? If so, I don't think he ever sent me on a quest...well, other than to go wash my hands.

Lady, (can't easily edit quotes on my supposedly smart fone...sigh, so not going to give everyone a big block of text) As mentioned, there are plenty of uses for spare skill points. Everyone should have some healing ability if for no other reason than to spread around energy usage before combat ends. The first tier of both combat and magic have a skill that everyone should have for the passive bonuses. Etc. Worst case, ship them off to me and I'll make sure that they don't go to waste...

I suppose, although if you're that close to levelling up, a loop from Formello to Ft Draco down to the destroyed fort and back to Formello a time or two would probably give you enough wandering monsters to grind enough xp on. Even if you can get to the tower (discounting the xp for finding it), you're nowhere near strong enough (iirc, it's been a while) to even get to the point where you're told to come back later. Six of one, half dozen of the other I guess. Point being, there's no reason for Mechalibur to restart the game.

If you haven't even gone down the river then there's really no reason to get to the tower now. You need royal clearance to talk to him and you're a loooong way from that. Come back later and the monsters probably will have wandered off, at least enough for you to land

My first and second playthroughs I went to the Ukat first (1st only because I happen to be in that side of the map, 2nd because I knew I needed iron). On the third I went to the Vol because I knew I needed to play things differently for testing purposes. For personal playing (as oppose to testing) I go to the Ukat to get the Ft and a mine or two producing iron. Then off to the Vol for stone for buildings. After getting a couple of quarries producing I 'might' head over to open the woods or (50-50) go back and get another mine or two producing. Iron is so important to maintaining the 'must have' fort shops/improvements.

If you've talked to each of the people on all three regions, it should be reasonably clear just who caused the calamity. Did you get the hint book? It tells your what's next if you're stuck. That said, now that you've got local vassals, you may want to go talk to whoever you left in charge to see if they have any idea about what's going on. Perhaps see if two or three of them can come up with a consensus on how to save the land again...

What I did was open up a Wordpad file, write the code down in the document, and then save it with a notation (1st game, supported 'x,y,z') and then saved it into the save game folder so that I could find it again further down the line. The notation would be important if you wanted to play multiple games supporting different factions to see what changes in QW2. Yeah, I did the same thing on my first beta playthrough. I got a note back from Jeff... "Uh, you missed about a third of the game..." Reload a save from before you went back to see Queen Mom & go have a serious chat with the mage in Ft Haven...

Not sure where they are in a Mac, but after the game is installed in windows, there will be a spiderweb folder in your documents, the save folders will be in there to transfer the file into.

6ap in combat? I thought that the normal was 5.

Right clicking on it should equip it also (I know it will if it's in your inventory already, not sure if it will directly from a box/chest). But as SK just mentioned, typing the letter of the slot in the box will put it in your inventory, then you can right click.

Switching equipment through the inventory page (say from a sword to an axe) iirc costs 6ap (so can't be done in combat) switching between your sword to a bow (already equipped on your person) is only 2ap. 'Switching' really is only changing from a ranged to melee weapon (or vice versa), not readjusting inventory during combat.

Iirc, there are six that you have to talk with (two from each region). Each region has one true answer and one false. It may take lots of running back and forth to check, but eventually you should hit upon all the right answers.

Jeff is either cracking up or furiously taking notes. You have to wonder if the original plan for QW3 just went out the window. One hell of an extrapolation to wake up to, well done (seriously).

Yeah, there should be at least some grunting spiders somewhere /as they haven't learned to talk yet... //and any that I ran across couldn't really be classified as 'friendly' ///maybe by a Hagrid type of person

Hmm, I don't know. I'd suggest installing the game onto the Windows machine so that it knows where to look for the save files and then copy one from your Mac into one of those slots. My first thought is that it won't work, but it probably won't hurt to try. Worst case you have to reinstall the windows version to overwrite those slots with those icky Apple files in them.

Hmmm, very interesting. We'll have to see if your brother or sister have a child named Hawthorne somewhere in QW2 or 3. Hell of a way to wind up a career if that's the case (as all the GF remakes along with 2 & 3 will take him to close to age 65-70ish), bringing everything in a full circle to where it all began back in 1994.

Expanding on my 'extracted from my nether region' thinking... which factions you support here could easily carry into QW3. Did you support the groups that Mom originally did who would then throw their loyalty to the established line of succession. Or did you for instance put the Owen into power and now their loyalty moving forward is more to you personally as 'you', not your brother/sister, freed them from that system. If the choices you make here carry forward... you're assembling your army for how strong you are going to be in 3. Wow, this is going to be great.

Yeah, I definitely see QW2(+) off in new areas as trying to send everyone back to our current playground but with their own endings taken into account would be a programming nightmare. Starting people somewhere new where their major actions from QW1 were taken into account would be easier (which factions you supported, letting the Nisse live, etc). Pulled from my butt predictions, QW2 is similar to this one in that you are sent somewhere to pacify the natives/put down a rebellion/etc. At the very end of 2, mom dies and 3 is about who is going to take over the throne. There were just too many places where 'you' (your character) were asked/told/given a chance to talk about your desire (despite being #3 in the line of succession) to become king/queen. It'll be interesting to see how Jeff weaves the tale to get to the final point when all is said and done.