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Originally Posted By: Lilith Even if it could be shown to work, is systematically lying to people an ethical or sustainable thing to do? No, see, my theory here is that the common interpretation of the statistical numbers may very well be the actual lie, so I rather propose to tell the truth, which just isn't reflected by reality yet. My theory is that today (not 30 years ago, but today) achieving tenure in a science or engineering field is as a matter of fact exactly as difficult for women as it is for men, but that a lot of qualified women will decide against even applying for it. Many will rather go for other options based only on the public conception that this path would be more difficult for them. On the anecdotal evidence side (feel free to ignore this of course), I did read in a recent article on female math Professors in germany that the one point almost all (95%) of them have in common is this: They found in the early stages of their career a mentor who would regularly encourage to them that they should follow a career path in their field. All of the interviewed women agreed that this was a mandatory condition for them, whithout which they would probably not have considered applying for a teaching position. Sadly the article did not note if male professors report the same, neither did it interview any potential female candidates which decided not to apply, or applied without success. So it is admittedly not very conclusive. Originally Posted By: Lilith How far do we go with that? Do we deny women access to research on income statistics, lest they learn the horrible truth? Deny access? No. But stop reducing those numbers to unhelpfull simplifications of live, maybe? For example, people that get their income statistics mostly from television news may be convinced to live in a horrible patriarchic society where women become 75% of the pay that men get, for exactly the same work !!! (Exclamation mark intentionally trippled). This is a very famous number that is often repeated, and is, technically, a fact. Very few person will use their access to dig a little deeper and find out that the average payment of a young woman without children is about 95% of that of a young man with no children. Those people also might find out that the reason of discrepancy is not a different pay for the same position, but rather the fact that there are lower income industries whith predominantly female employees and higher income industries with predominantly male employees. So "Women on average earn 75% of what men do" is a version of the truth, "If you get the same job as a man, and take off the same time he does for breeding purposes, you will earn the same amount as him" is also a version of the truth. Which one of these two versions a woman knows and believes, both conciously or subconciously, will affect her live decisions, like career trade-offs. This is maybe best documented in the medicinical literature as the placebo and nocebo effects. If you communicate to a patient that he will heal because you give him some pills, or homeopathic drink, or you stick needles in his chakras or just because you pray for him, he is more likely to heal indeed. If you tell him that you cannot do anything for him, his illness is more likely to degrade. Originally Posted By: Lilith Is there really no better way? Nope, I am a certified genius, just trust me on everything I suggest.
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Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity Here I exactly disagree. What exactly is wrong with a binary split? The important question here would be, what is the importance and relevance of a binary split? And why is it so important for gender, but not for other criteria? Why is there no protest about the under-representation of introverted personalities in tenure and upper managment positions? Or about the fact that only a negligible part of these positions are held by persons that grew up in low-income households, even though that group represents a significant part of the population? What about people afflicted with religion or other superstitions? The are surely massively underrepresented in the fields of Science and Engineering. Equality does not need to result in equity. Women in general do not need to become more interested in STEM careers any more than men need to become more interested in wearing skirts. The gender sepparation may be arbitrary and pointless, but the same can be said about most of our cultural and social agreements. That being said, I can not help but get the feeling that one of the main reasons why qualified female students of a STEM fields (OR rather STE here in germany, where math is slowly but surely becoming considered as a "typically female" field) refuse to continue on a path to tenure are the constant reminders that this path is supposed to be more difficult for them. If I were a young female graduate, considering between the academical and an industry career, or even if I am considering between a career and raising children, the constant reminders about the difficulties that I can expect would surely help me decide against an academical career. Considering that you can apparently lower a blonde persons IQ by 5 to 10 points just by reminding them (not even convincing them) of the "Blondes are less intelligent" prejeduice, it seems to me that one of the most critical steps of any program towards equality is to convince everybody of it's success, in order to give the formerly discriminated group the confidence they need to participate in the desired change of society. What happens in most cases is the exact opposite in my experience, with the media "informing" us that we just should not expect those laws that promise and demand equality to fully work in reality, that there still are obsticles and difficulties that make it more difficult for a woman to achieve a certain goal than it is for a man of the same qualifications. In that sense, ignoring the existing discrepancy and just telling any young girl that asks that it is merely a relict of ancient times and that her chances in the field are exactly the same than those of a boy of her age would seem the best course of action to me.
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A:EftP - Pyrog's spellbook
ShieTar replied to Fatman's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
Click to reveal.. Thantria: 1000c, chaotic halberd (+10% to critical hit chance. +1 dexterity) Rita: 200c, powerlash scroll - Reputation +1 Evyss: 500c, drakeskin cloak (10% armor) I am not sure if doing the Quest for Evyss will lower training prices there? I thought that is only connected to the six quests you get from Kyass directly. -
A:EftP - A Little Clarification
ShieTar replied to Parakeet's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
In my last playthrough I had 18 points over the whole party, and all my characters summoned and buffed in each fight, but continued to fight with bows afterwards- They never ran out of spellpoints due to first aid. It guess it would have much less impact if you expect your mage/priest to cast something at every turn in every battle. The Health regeneration coming from First Aid is actually very efficient, after any major fight I would regenerate more than my total number of hitpoints . -
A:EftP - A Little Clarification
ShieTar replied to Parakeet's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
Also, as a priest you can get First Aid instead, which seems to be easily as effective as Magical Efficiency in the long run. With FA you are not only regenerating spellpoints, but also you need to heal a bit less often. -
A:EftP - Pyrog's spellbook
ShieTar replied to Fatman's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
The Version is shown on the bottom right of the starting screen. But I think all the windows versions are supposed the newest ones, and the Mac Versions are still waiting for their update. -
The game does become easier in the third quater, but that is usually due to the fact that nobody manages to do quest exactly in their supposed order of difficulty. So after lvl 20 you spend some time running around and cleaning up stuff that you could have, and sometimes should have, done earlier on. At the same time you have probably powered through some quests that were more difficult earlier on, and defined that experience as the difficulty of the game. (There are a lot of posts in these forums here from guys who would rather spend several hours to try and figure out how exactly to beat this one boss than just go away for now and just train in other regions. I mostly love the resolve of this approach, and always manage to stifle any "Just go level up" response that I am shortly tempted to post.) Nevertheless, going for the dragons (or some of them), and two of the final three quests will step up the difficulty up again just nicely. Just you wait ;-) BTW: Congratulations to Jeff for actually managing to make the final quest feel like the toughest one in the whole game. In many games you go and over-prepare, and then your end up disappointed about the final job being too easy. No risk of this happening with the way the Emperor-Quest plays through I think, I loved it.
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Mmh, I guess you are corect if you use AoE as your main damage source. Which a fully specialised mage/priest should, I assume. Nevertheless, the summons, if you do have your party create 3 or 4, do in almost all fights give you the time to pick of enemies one by one. Specifically if the get of some AoE by themselves, they will pull away most or all of the enemies from your characters. I think there are two extremes of battle strategy here, either kill as fast as you possibly can, and hope that the enemy force is significantly reduced before your own party starts hurting too badly, or use your first turn(s) to fortify yourself with summons, buffs and crowd control, and then clean up on your own time. The later strategy worked like a charm for me in my first, normal play-through. I will now start a new game, using your remix, with a similar (but not exactly equal) strategy, but on torment. I'll let you know how it works out.
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I somewhat disagree with Slarty on the endurance of Summon Shade (and all other summons indeed). At least if you play on normal, and if you take all of the summoning traits, summons make very decent meatshields. I just played through with the original rules, without a single melee warrior in my party. It wasn't fast, but with 4 Summons, each at +6 Levels, I was pretty safe in almost all fights. Even against Dragons, Golems and the like, the summons tend to survive 5-6 turns without a heal. I assume we are talking about the highest level summons, not the Level 2 / Level 5 Spells? Torment may be a different story, havn't tried it yet.
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A:EftP - Pyrog's spellbook
ShieTar replied to Fatman's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
It does apply to the Steam-Version on Windows (v1.0S). Anyways, you can still only get the reward for one of them, but you do get the followup-Quest if any exist. -
A-EftP - Talking Statues
ShieTar replied to Wind Wolf's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
Though you do not need to question them at all for the brooch, there is annother way to find out who has the last one. -
A:EftP - Pyrog's spellbook
ShieTar replied to Fatman's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
Originally Posted By: Lilith Also, whoever you give it to, you'll open up future quests with them for different rewards. Actually, Evyss in Kyass did not give me additional quests afterwards, and Thantria gave me her other quests after I told her that I no longer have the Papers. -
A-EftP - New player question.....
ShieTar replied to baldy158's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
Also: Do not buy equipment, like Weapons and Armor. You will need all the money you can get to train skills and spells at Trainers. And there is a trait you can get at Level 8 which will increase the money you get from selling loot. It is generally advised to take it for all characters, and not sell anything (valuable) before you have it. -
A-EftP - Escaping (Spoilers)
ShieTar replied to Passive Fist's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
Have you tried to stuff mandrake roots into your ears and hop around on one leg while singing the national antheme of the empire? -
A-EftP - Sorry if this is Known
ShieTar replied to whitknight26's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
I would prefer to buy it on Impulse, where most of my Games are, but Steam will have to do for now. Though I wouldn't have minded to pay the 20$ on Steam. I am already playing for over 70 Hours, and still not quiet finished with my first playthrough. -
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A:EftP - Cure for dread curse
ShieTar replied to Fatman's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
Sorry for stealing the thread, but while we are on the topic, does the dread curse actually do anything? I think I have played with it in effect for hours before I got it cured, and never noticed any negative effects. -
Avernum 2: Crystal Souls
ShieTar replied to Lani's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
I agree that it seems very early to judge the overall sales figures. It has been less than 2 weeks since the release date of the windows version, and without the hype of paid advertising, big magazine previews or even television comercials, it can take a few months for word of mouth to get around and interested customers stumbling over it on Steam. Where do you read thing about the sales-figures of this game anyways? -
Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S Longbows do more damage than javelins. Short bows are inferior, yes. Hmm -- there aren't many longbows early on, are there. Maybe I should upgrade some short bows. Thanks for the suggestion! I'm currently playing four archers (Even without the Remix), and I found one longbow in either Fort Avernum or Silvar, and then just bought 2 and stole 1 more in Duvno. So I did get all of my longbows early on.
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Whoah, Whoah. Seems there is some dangerous misinformation in this thread: Originally Posted By: Master Ackrovan There's no money cap, so you can stack as much cash as you want. I just ran into the cap, it is 30000. (Windows version, at least). I was saving up to train with Erika, guess I need to get some other spending out of the way first.
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Quick Action Bar?
ShieTar replied to EarthAngel's topic in Avernum Trilogy (2011-2018 remake versions)
1) For Spells in the Windows version, right click the quick spell slot to choose a new spell for it. 2) For Item slots, you can drag and drop things into the slots shown below you charactrer when your inventory window is open.
