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Originally Posted By: Randomizer Welcome to Spiderweb Software. I guess it's too late to leave any sanity at the door. Which door? Or portal? Or ladder?

Yes, it would be very difficult to code, I'd imagine. I was just wondering out loud. Actually, since it's called "Torment" maybe every monster attack adds that damage over time lightning effect...THAT would be torment!

It would be a neat mechanic if, as difficulty increased, the strategy if the monsters changed as well as just a health/damage increase. Maybe they would be less susceptible to the warrior trait that causes them to attack the tank, or they would know to gang up on a priest or mage to knock out the groups healer/main damage source.

Originally Posted By: Earth Empires if searched with abyss and w/o time limit (that's must) then thread about that mage is around halfway on 1st page. Oh, with an advanced search. Neat.

Heh, when I searched for "Abyss Mage" with the quotes, it brought up this thread and its replies!

Originally Posted By: Darth Ernie anyone remember where he is? never mind i found him So...where was he? Put the answer behind a spoiler tag.

Originally Posted By: Lilith Originally Posted By: Slart of Glass RE: Return Life. Maybe if it had a reduced cost (or provided regeneration or buffings) at higher levels, it'd be more worthwhile? Or have level 1 revive characters at 1 HP, level 2 revive at half HP and level 3 revive at full HP. It'll only really matter if you're reviving characters in combat, but that's a very powerful application of the spell, so it's still a meaningful difference. Or casting return life does damage to undead monsters!

Originally Posted By: Earth Empires just wait until you goto Giants castle you might regret going there if you take wrong route. They have a castle? Click to reveal.. So far I've only beaten a giant fort...the one where when you walk in the front gate, you fall into a dungeon. Is the castle the one nearby that's across a pit?

Just an aside, but this area has been my favorite so far in terms of the layout of the dungeon. The undead spiral was pretty good too.

Originally Posted By: Lilith It can sometimes help you avoid fights that you'd otherwise lose, so that's handy. Ahh, I've never had the particular usecase happen to me. If I think a group of monsters roaming the over world is going to kick my butt, I stay well away from it!

This is one of those quests that seems like it takes forever to complete. After you do so, you can't enter a cave or fort without tripping over all the picks and shovels laying about.

Does anyone actually use the "avoid" option? I fight everything, no matter how one sided the fight is. That said, cave lore should let you avoid those annoying traveling merchants.

This game needs some sort of built in clock. Bonus points if it could be set to alarm at a certain time so I don't keep accidentally playing for so many more hours then I had intended to.

Originally Posted By: The Rev I found hard to be just right ... hard enough to present a bit of a challenge, but not so hard as to be frustrating. It's only frustrating fighting those stupid eye monsters!

No, the Priest spell is turning water into Almerian wine!

Originally Posted By: Kreador The more technical problem to a "port to boat" cheat is what does it do when you have more than one boat? In this game, you need to get at least 3 boats in order to complete everything. Solution: Mage spell "Walk on water"

Or even better, a portal to wherever your boat is moored!

If you look at your journal, they should show up under the quest items section.

Try disabling vsync for your graphics card.

Originally Posted By: SapientCrow I meant like messages like you have received a medal... they seem to stay on screen for a random amount of time and often times very long. And that's it for speed? things move so fast I can scarcely read what npcs in towns are even saying. Is there any external program that would slow things down more? I feel like I am perma hasted... Oh and is it possible to disable auto save? Just out of curiosity, what version of the game are you running and on what platform/system?

Originally Posted By: ShieTar 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. I am the same way. I prefer to have all my games through Steam. I've even re-purchased games I already owned on discs. A:EftP happened to be cheaper on Steam, but even if it was the reverse, I still would have picked it up that way.

http://www.spiderwebforums.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=265420#Post265420 Check out the remix project!

I received the 5 cache achievement the other day, on easily my 10th cache, so there may be a bug. Either way, it is much more fun to play the game for the game and let the achievements come when they come.

Plus, there are probably many people who just don't know about it. I had never even heard of the series until I happened to see it on sale on Steam. $20 (or $10 from Steam) is NOTHING for a game as rich and deep as this. I can see the younger crowd being turned off by the simple graphics, but I doubt that's a big loss, since they're less likely to have the money to spend on games. (Of course, now that I am old enough to have the money, what I lack is the time to play them!)

Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S The equations used to calculate damage have already been constructed. Actually, they haven't changed much at all in the last decade and are pretty much identical to Avadon's. As it so happens, I just put together a FAQ on this: http://www.gamefaqs.com/mac/641825-avernum-escape-from-the-pit/faqs/64154 . Thank you for this! Great FAQ.