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G1 lets you control the number of living tools you want to spend on a lock, rather than the all-or-none of the later games. You might be able to use one living tool on the two-tool locks and then cast the unlock spell. Sometimes the spell will work if you do that, and it'll save you a living tool or two. There are plenty of living tools in G1, though, so saving a few isn't worth much.
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Oh, so in the later games I won't be able to use a combination of living tools and unlock? Dear lord that will wreck my OCD.
I tend to hoard living tools like gold. I remember the first time I played through the game I reached the west entrance of the geneforge and ran into a 42-living tool lock. I had been using living tools liberally and was never able to get past that door. Every playthrough since I have only used living tools in the most dire of situations.
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no no, I'm at "the hill", a little zone just east of power station and north of pentil. These levers are meant the open up doors in the zone. Thanks for the help though! much appreciated!
I went to another zone that had a lever not yet pulled (it took fifteen living tools before, now it only takes ten) so it's probably not a glitch or something like that. I know it'll break my poor OCD heart to do so, but I'll just have to break out the living tools and go to work.
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I want to figure out what determines a lock's "difficulty" how much each point of mechanics, mental magic, and spellcraft do. I think I may have a glitch but I'm not gonna run around crying just yet.
So I'm playing through geneforge 1 again and I came across the zone called "the hill". In this there are an awful lot of levers that said it takes about 2 living tools to unlock them. I fired the unlock spell and nothing happened. This is strange because I read somewhere that the unlock spell gains power through mechanics as well as mental magic and spellcraft. My mental magic and spellcraft were 3 and 1, respectively, and my mechanics was 11.
Since I had a level up coming soon I thought I would just forget the locks and buy some points in mechanics. The levelup came around at the hill and I increased my mechanics by three right there on the spot. I ran towards one of the levers and it still said two living tools to unlock the lever. I used unlock again and still nothing happened.
Is this normal? how does the mechanics skill work? How does unlock work? Can someone help me?
Abundance of living tools
in Geneforge Series - Originals
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So I just completed geneforge 1, and anyone who remembers my previous topic will know that my OCD took over completely and began hoarding my living tools to no end. I ended the game with about 150 living tools sitting in my storage room and I used a total of about 20, and that was mostly after I decided I had too many living tools.
Here's the catch: I don't want this crippling addiction of never using living tools to impair me through the rest of the series, but I don't want to use them so liberally that I run out completely and cannot access certain areas. I'm playing geneforge 2 as guardian and 3 as agent. How liberally can I use living tools without fear of running out?