A4 - my stats and greetings

[Jeran Korak]

long time gammer here on Avernum 4, here's my stats.

 

Party: Slith custom, level 25, nephil archer, level 23, Human rouge, level 23, human headge wizard, level 27.

 

just desroyed the shades and am in the abyss having just cleared the spire.

 

I store all my un-used items in individual box's in grindstones storage area.

 

so far I've got.

 

200 potions.

100 magical items

300 crystals in piles of ten.

100 odd fine leathers, steal bars etc.

50 odd rubys.

30 knowlage crystals and potions

130 wands.

90 bars of gold and gold items.

and all the rest....

 

anyway, a big hello to all of you, I'm very glad to be here

 

oh, and my cash is currntly 22830 coins.

[Peter Principle]

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Originally written by Nija_Halycron:
I store all my un-used items in individual box's in grindstones storage area.

Why Grindstone? Seems awfully inconvenient since there's no pylon there.

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so far I've got.

200 potions.
100 magical items
300 crystals in piles of ten.
100 odd fine leathers, steal bars etc.
50 odd rubys.
30 knowlage crystals and potions
130 wands.
90 bars of gold and gold items.
and all the rest....

I was packratting like that for awhile, too. In fact, that's usually how I play games like this. I always think "I'd better save it for something really important" but when something important does come up, I never remember to use it. El oh el. So now I either sell all those wands I never use or I just say to myself "OK, I don't care what the next combat is, it could be a single warped wolf, but I'm going to drink this potion of invulnerability, go crazy with this null wand and finally get these things out of my inventory!" Heh.

[Jeran Korak]

heh heh I like to have a goooooood lloooong gloat somethimes, mine all MINE!

 

I recon I've got some half-million or so stored up as a singleton in A4 now all I have to so is woo that pretty metris girl....

[Sudanna]

-X- urges you to use proper Grammar and Spelling. Otherwise, you will eventually be flamed into nonexistence.

 

And people have gotten a lot better than that party at the end of the game. Especially if you're playing on "Easy". No offence, but it's true.

[Alorael at Large]

Maybe, but how many people can claim the same level of hording?

 

—Alorael, who can't quite manage it. Sure, he saved literally every potion, ingredient, and crystal he found except the skill increasers, and he did stockpile arms and armor, but wands too? That's madness! And in Grindstone? Dedicated madness!

[Dikiyoba]

Originally by Nija_Halycron:

 

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anyway, a big hello to all of you, I'm very glad to be here

Oh, that's just asking for the mandatory greeting. I can't resist. "Welcome to Spiderweb Software, leave your sanity at the door!"

 

Originally by Alorael:

 

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Maybe, but how many people can claim the same level of hording?

Dikiyoba can come close in the Geneforge games, where Dikiyoba collects even the trash other worthless items and stores them. That's only the madness level, though, not the dedicated madness level, because moving between zones is so easy.

[Dintiradan]

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It's a game, people. Not a way of life. In other words... you fill in the rest.

 

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I just ate your salami sandwich. What? I was hungry.

- The Xian Skull

[Nioca]

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Originally written by -X-:
-X- urges you to use proper Grammar and Spelling. Otherwise, you will eventually be flamed into nonexistence.

You don't need to tell him. Besides, most people here are rather tolerant of mistakes (Thank god) and perfect spelling and grammar (by the way, Doomer, neither are capitalized.) are not necessary. Just decent, understandable posts.

[Randomizer]

I don't think I could get through Avernum 4 hoarding that much. Even as a singleton I spent almost everything I could find that I didn't need for potion ingredients or to use in combat. I did keep some items so I could swap armors.

[Ephesos]

Real hoarders use Hawke's Manse.

 

But yeah... that's insane.

[Emperor Tullegolar]

I love hording in most rpgs. However, when it comes to Spiderweb games, I tend not to. Why? In the Exile series, you could pick up items like trash, leave the zone, and when you came back, new trash will have grown back in it's place. Very disheartening. Now, I just habitually don't pick things up unless they are of value. I cheat to get money anyway, but I do still pick up things like gems, but that's probably because shiney things impress the ladies.

[Jeran Korak]

I'm a magpie when it comes to glitter.

 

I store EVERYTHING!

 

not trash or simple items but stuff like:

 

Steel armour.

blessed items.

steel weapons.

blessed armour

ALL potions and wands

gem's and crystals.

magic bow's and long-bows.

several amasingly powerful bit's of armour and weapons.

 

and yea I own Hawke's Manse. in avernum 3 and I've got everything in neet, orderly box's like:

 

gem's in one box.

magic armour in one box.

steel armour on a rack

steel weapons on a rack

magic weapons on a rack

wand's in a box

potions on a dresser (600 at the last count-heh heh)

trash in a barrel then pushed into a pond. (blasted stuff keeps re-spawning ARRRGG!!!!

 

the same in all the avernum games.

 

plus all the stuff I missed here.

[The Mystic]

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Originally written by Nija_Halycron:
I recon I've got some half-million or so stored up as a singleton in A4 now all I have to so is woo that pretty metris girl....

She's all yours. As for me, my gal's in Formello.

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Originally written by Behold the Inescapable Pump:
Maybe, but how many people can claim the same level of hording?

Obviously, you've never met me. I've been known to take hoarding to an art form. Remind me to post a screenshot from GF1 when I'm near the endgame.

[Jeran Korak]

art?

 

tell me more (drools)

[Kelandon]

I tend to hoard magic items (from potions to magic weapons), but this ended up not being very much in A4. In A3, my Hawke's Manse was insanely cluttered with dozens upon dozens of items. In A4, I had perhaps ten or fifteen items that I was keeping around.

[Nioca]

In A3, I just used that abandoned farmhouse somewhere near Sharimik. I cleaned out the bones and trash from the stables so I could keep my horses there, and basically made myself at home.

[The Mystic]

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Originally written by Nija_Halycron:
art?

tell me more (drools)

First, clean up your drool (digitally hands you a virtual towel).

Second, it's really a rather simple art, it's more just a way to get some quick cash when I need it. As I've said in previous forums and threads, all I do is take anything I can get my hands on, even if it means stealing (when I can get away with it, of course). If I can equip something better than what I currently have, I do so. Then I separate everything else into 3 categories: treasure, possibly useful stuff, and junk. The treasure and possibly useful stuff gets put in a cache, the location of which depends on the game; the junk gets sold. If I need money, I sell treasure. If I collect an item that I think might be useful but later find out it isn't, I sell it.

That's all there is to it. I'd show you my aforementioned GF1 screenshot showing what can happen, but I don't know how to post an image here without first posting it on a website.

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Originally written by Ephesos:
Real hoarders use Hawke's Manse.

To each their own, I guess. We all have our favorite places to use as caches.

I just use that room in Fort Emergence out of force of habit from playing E3. Plus, overall, I find it's by far the easiest to get to.

[Dikiyoba]

Originally by The Mystic:

 

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That's all there is to it. I'd show you my aforementioned GF1 screenshot showing what can happen, but I don't know how to post an image here without first posting it on a website.

Just do a search for photo hosting. There are plenty of places out there.

 

Dikiyoba happens to use TinyPic.com .

[Alorael at Large]

I actually have had treasure stockpiles in Exile/Avernum games because of the low gold/coin cap and the relatively few money sinks. I always sold my treasure immediately in A4, though, and in G4 I always seemed to be barely squeaking by with cash.

 

—Alorael, who ran a very, very expensive shaper. Actually using items became immensely tempting with the AP changes.

[Jeran Korak]

*hands towel back*

 

thank you.

 

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—Alorael, who ran a very, very expensive shaper. Actually using items became immensely tempting with the AP changes.

who's he?

[Alorael at Large]

He's my character in GF4. Was that unclear? You may address him as Ralogellut.

 

—Alorael, who did not initially give him that name. It was a later addition based on the way his creations always ended up. Geneforging does funny things to people.

[Jeran Korak]

no.

 

Alorael

[Nioca]

Behold the Inescapable Pump and Alorael are one and the same. He just changes his PDN often.

 

EDIT: Are. Not is. Are.

[Jeran Korak]

I think i get the idea.....

[Nioca]

You can always identify him by his ever-changing signature, or by his 12000+ post count.

[Drakefyre]

Or him being member # 335.

[Alorael at Large]

Don't believe them! I'm just another bot by Aran. The real Alorael is too busy with his skribbane and his pedestrian targets.

 

—Alorael, who has become a Silent Assassin gimmick. He would like it to be recognized that he was in the assassinating business first, however.

[Randomizer]

I piled up all these items in GF4 thinking they might be needed later on in the game (you can see part of one pile in the screenshot - your own army). The next time through I was rich since I knew what I could sell so I could buy all the training I could ever want. I still have piles of items I'll never get around to using or making into other items. It did help when I needed that obscure quest item near the end of the game.

 

In A4 I was always short on money until the Giant Lands. That's probably one of the reasons I always converted pylons into crystal cash.

[Emperor Tullegolar]

Hording items in Geneforge is not so impressive an accomplishment. Those games are much smaller than Avernum games physically (less enemies and places to explore), plus there are hardly enemies at all that respawn (the ones that do don't drop that much). Am I the only person that feels obligated to drink every potion I come by?

[Randomizer]

Geneforge 1 and 2 had the additional problem of a limited economy so shopkeepers ran out of money. I had a big pile in GF1 of unsold items that I had no use for in the end.

 

Avernum 1 to 3 had too many items that I never sold because of the money cap, They just piled up waiting until I could find something to buy in the endgame.

[Delicious Vlish]

Human rouge? Any relation to Moulin Rouge?

 

Wow, they sent an Avon Lady in to Avernum. Must be nice for covering up their pale grey skin.

 

Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya dada

Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya here

Mocha Chocalata ya ya

Creole lady Marmalade

[The Mystic]

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Originally written by Dikiyoba:
Originally by The Mystic:

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That's all there is to it. I'd show you my aforementioned GF1 screenshot showing what can happen, but I don't know how to post an image here without first posting it on a website.

Just do a search for photo hosting. There are plenty of places out there.

Dikiyoba happens to use TinyPic.com .

Thanks for the tip. Here's the screenshot:

And would you believe that's only about a third of what I gathered? The rest went towards bankrupting every shopkeeper in the game, leaving me with about 10,000 gold.

Edit: The picture appears to not have posted right, so here\'s a link to the picture.

Edit #2: There are even several items I stole in this picture! In the realm of RPG gaming (and only there), I'm not above theft to get some good items.

[Dintiradan]

EDIT: Gah. Once again, I post thinking that the topic hasn't grown past one page.

 

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You know what the best thing about being a skull is? I don't either.

- The Xian Skull

[D Pliss]

I store everything in every game. In A4 I have approximently 3800 flawed crystals, 2500 lovely crystals, 1200 beutiful crystals, 25 ruby's and so on. Not much different in real life either!

[Jeran Korak]

So says "Small Fry" lol!