butterfly

Well said. At first blush it appears that Obsidian is attempting to accommodate the outermost tips of the character generation Bell Curve by decoupling character statistics from reality. I fully support the idea of making all the character statistics important in some manner, but this appears to be tossing verisimilitude right out the window as stronger fighters should do more damage in melee than an asthmatic wizard whose most physically demanding activity of a typical day is affixing his wax seal to a letter. One ring to rule them all worked for Tolkien, but one variable to govern the efficacy of flails and fireballs? Hmmm... Decoupled from reality? If want wants to on can as easily blow holes in the verisimilitude of D&D stats of any edition. Their reality is merely a story packaging up a set of mechanics and we don't even know the story surrounding P:E's mechanics. The only thing we have is a glimpse of the mechanics and it's intent.

The fact that the attributes will be consistent in what they do should allow them to design a better system by make it easier for them to measure the impact of the attribute system. Resulting in more difficult and thus more interesting choices when assigning attributes . I would think anything would be an improvement on the D&D attribute system, which was rather an unbalanced system.

He already clarified it,you quoted the clarification. In which he didn't mention shielding or for that matter regenerating. He didn't exclude them but he didn't exclude a great many things.

Do you lack basic reading comprehension? These quotes do not, in anyway, describe a shielding mechanism. You take damage to stamina, you take damage to health. INDEPENDENT of each other. Your stamina is NOT shielding your health. if your health is 1 and your stamina is 100, you're going to die with the next hit. In fact you're going to die no matter what you're stamina is because it doesn't matter.

What is the confusing part? At the moment they are more giving general ideas, as oposed to completely worked out systems. So we can't tell you how it would work, neither can the devs. Talk to them in 6 months for specifics. I don't actually know how things work in CounterStrike.

They haven't said that losing stamina would weaken you (except when it reaches zero). In fact i remember a remark by sawyer saying he thought it was too harsh (in the context of a comparison with darklands).

No, in ME you only take damage when your shields are down, the shields shield the health. In the other system it doens't matter what your stamina value actually is, for the health stat it is like there is no stamina(and vice versa). see

In fact stamina, as i understand it is basically equivalent to hp in the infinity engine games. Can't really see any difference with the information we have now. It's the health bar that has been added.

Short term hitpoint management. It's a completely seperate independent hitpoint bar. You can see it as 'tactical' hitpoints vs 'strategic' hitpoints. It's about managing hitpoints in a single fight vs managing your hitpoints for a series of encounters.

There is no stat shielding hp in the described system. When you take damage your stamina stat is irrelevant in the calculation of the damage to health.

Can someone explain to me how a system where there is no healing hp outside rest (e.g. no healing spells, no potions) and where there isn't some kind of shield stat is stubornly being perceived as "regenerating health"?

I count 6 races and 8 companions(and 9 classes).

It's 6 races actually

Actually I seem to have the same problem.

If only I was that much overpaid. No i am just a sad, sad europhile. This info i got from my newspaper, apparently this is a proposition to spend part of the budget on a ipad or a similar product(they mention a cost of about 350000

"A parliament spokeswoman denied that there were plans to obtain iPads for MEPs in the

The scribbley childs drawing of a tree is for the conservatives. The red rose is labour. What kind of moron thought up those symbols? Ha, I thought it was the reverse! The red rose is a traditional socialist symbol.

There are several European institutions (EU and not EU) that have a Secretary General none that are really important. The European President presides over the European Council (not to be confused with 'Council of the European Union' nor the 'Council of Europe'), basically the gathering of all the heads of state of the member countries. The function of the european president was previously alternated between the different member nation. First at two per year, later as the Union growed three per year. The role of the new president is basically what the same as the role that the swedish prime minister played in his appointment. He seeks a consensus and steers the agenda. Yes i checked wikipedia, which is what you should do. Although i already knew most of this stuff I did confuse it with the Council of the European Union, most notably it is the Council of the European Union that coapproves laws with the European Parliament . As an aside, European sceptics rejoice, the Lisbon treaty also includes a secession clause.

Apparently The Times is now a tabloid? I meant things like this.

The people who cry out at specific undemocratic decisions would not make them if given the choice? No... it's almost as though they don't want these things done at all... and represent the popular will... No country can honestly call itself democratic unless it has functional voter recall anyway, so I don't see what the point of discussing how democratic these guys are or are not is. I find it hypocritical to criticise a system for being undemocratic if you don't actually want it to be democratic but just have it cease exist or reduced to irrelevance. Either you want the EU more democratic or you want your sovereignty back. Can't have it both ways. And as for representing popular will, in England maybe. In contrast european federalism is the dominant opinion in Belgium. But most europeans are apathic to the EU. Now that i have seen some articles about Van Rompuy in some british tabloids the fervor of british euroscepticism makes more sense now. Apparently they get away with grotesque and ridiculous lies and so distort people's visions of the EU.

I like how a prime minister of a founding member of the Union is termed a nobody. As for the appointment being undemocratic: -He was elected by the governments of the member nations, who were elected by the people of europe(some directly, some indirectly). -Most leaders of the european member leaders are NOT elected directly, some like e.g. brittain don't even have a goverment that is supported by an absolute majority of the voters. I certainly would have liked to have had a direct election by the people, but it would never have passed in the current political climate. (I suspect that those who now cry undemocratic would have been and will be the strongest opponents to such an arrangement).

The 'United States of Europe' concept wasn't something invented after the Union was founded (EGKS). But was the dream of many of the leading figures who drove the formation of the union, and not particulary a secret dream. Those people had observed that nationalism was a strong factor in the starting of wars and other ills. I can't say myself that i can find many redeaming factors in nationalism.

No i can not replace or delete wininet.dll, that's the problem. qwb,

This morning avg recognizes a "virus", wininet.dll. After i let avg solve the problem my system becomes unstable: explorer.exe stops working. Luckily i can still start firefox with the taskmanager so i go to www.dll-files.com and replace the file. On restart explorer.exe keeps restarting every 3 seconds, damn. So I dig up my windows cd to replace the file with the one on the disk, now windows refuses to replace the file claiming it's in use. Anyone has any suggestions how i could solve this problem? qwb,