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From the ground level it looks really nice. As for the sunken wagon wheel, if you cannot adjust it by moving the placable or adjusting the terrain height (which can throw somethng off elsewhere) little things like that can be hidden with a grass placable. Are you using any plug ins for area design?

I haven't seen the Cards play this year yet but they surely came ready today. I thought Atlanta would have an easy time with them. IIRC the Cardinals only won one non division game this year. I would love to see them go all the way at this point just for the conversational value.

Kelverin, I guess you are flying high right about now. Amazing, without LT at 100% I was sure the Colts would have cleaned your clocks. The bolts were peaking at just the right time in the season.

Babas Chess. I've got my rating up to 2050. I don't know if that means I'm that good or the competitions is that bad because I still get my tail whipped on chess.net somewhat regularly.

Ooh... Flying Dog. I love their Porter, and I'm not normally a big porter fan. One of these days, I'm going to have to drive out to Frederick for the tour of their brewery. Road Dog Scottish Style Porter. That is exceptionally good stuff. My favorite of theirs is In Heat Wheat, but I also love Old Scratch. The IPA is their signature brew but to tell the truth I just do not like it. Too bitter and flat. The rest of their brews I can take or leave but I've got to give this new one a try.

This truly sucks Wals, you have my deepest sympathies.

Wait what? A game or a movie? Ah this has been done before: http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Modul...ail&id=3396

When Empires Total War comes out I'm going to be out of it for at least a month.

Has anyone ever used this software? Or even heard of it? I thought this might be just the thing for creating World Maps. http://www.profantasy.com/

Check this out!!! I have my own beer now! How cool is this: http://www.flyingdogales.com/beer-gardedog.asp

So I joined a modding group two days ago. We are calling ourselves Southern Adventures ( I kinda like that, like a travel agency or something). Anyway, the plan is a series of short but tight standalone mods that utilize the new features from SoZ; the Overland Map and full party creation. The setting will be the Shining South of Faerun. There is a definite advantage to using full party I've found, there is no need to write hundreds to thousands of words of party banter and dialog. That is a plus. Anyway, my job in this group will be scripting and the overland map. No offense Obsidian guys, but I actually don't care for it. That said I do have a fairly good grip on using it now. Children of Winter is still a solo project and will remain my primary focus since the group will only be working two mornings a week. Hopefully there will be some news on the vault concerning the first mod within a month or so.

I honestly don't know. The best way to find out would probably be to load MotB and SoZ modules in the toolset and check their values. Thanks Josh. I tried that last night. I created a mod with one area and a dinosaur (SoZ content), another with one area and a Fell Troll (MotB content) and a third mod with one area and both. All three have Expansion Flag = 0. Maybe it dosen't do anything?

Save your breath Dagon. Rostere and Gorgon are just displaying the typical condescending arrogance you find in people who are incapable of seeing beyond politically correct group think. The truth is you hit the nail on the head when you pointed out that they sleep every night without fear of rocket attacks on their homes. I am sure if there was a legitimate chance they could die from the cowardly attack of an implacable enemy they would be a little more sympathetic towards people who have an actual need to defend themselves.

Thanks Tig, it may come to that. I was hoping that Josh, Joseph, or one of the others might answer this. It is their board after all.

I have a question which has been asked over on the NWN2 boards several times and never answered. Hopefully I will have better luck here. In the Module Properties window there is an Expansion Flag variable. What should the number be for just MotB? Just SoZ? Both? Neither? An answer would be greatly appreciated.

This is a good point. Hamas rockets killing Israeli civilians barely makes the news. Israel responds and the world laments.

So, let me get this straight Kill. You are claiming the actions in Iraq and Afghanistan were pointless? Should we have done nothing after 9-11 then? There is a historical precedent for that. After the first attempt to bring down the WTC in 1993 Clinton did nothing. After the Khobar towers were bombed in 1995 Clinton did nothing. Two US embassies in Africa were bombed leading to large loss of life and Clinton did nothing. The US Air force barracks were bombed and Clinton did nothing. The USS Cole was bombed and Clinton did nothing. Each attack was progressively bolder because they saw how weak our leaders were. Finally 9-11. And no you say we should have done nothing then? Nice to see you place so little value in the blood of your countrymen. I imagine you would have done nothing after Pearl Harbor was well. If people like you were running the country we would have suffered how many 9-11s by now? Three? Five? Dozens? Which one would have stirred up you ire? If Clinton had been man enough to go after them after 1993 or any other of the nine major attacks he did nothing about maybe 9-11 would never have happened. Now after two wars, most of Al-Qeada are either dead or in prison (you know those nice people you want to set free) and Iran is militarily surrounded by US controlled Iraq, Afghanistan, and US allies Turkey, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan. A lot better than doing nothing I would say. Oh, and in case you failed to notice (or perhaps you hate your country and countrymen enough to account it a bad thing) once we put away Clinton's white flags and started fighting there have been no more terrorist attacks against us.

Thanks. I have a good feeling about this one. I think it will be less pay but much greater stability. It's a government job.

Actually this is only true of custom content like added textures and creatures or animations. Some such as Rogue Daos lip flappers add a lot of immersion for just a few lines of code. On thing I've found is that if you are going to use several haks it makes sense to merge them into one. It seems to prevent a TON of trouble and is so much easier to do now with the ERF editor.

Received a call for a job interview. Not a head hunter or a contract job this time. Hopefully this will be a better opportunity than the last two have been. The first one I told no because of onerous contract conditions, the second was OK but they insisted I start right away and obviously, I can't. I am getting a little nervous as the end gets closer.

Absolutely false on it's face. The US had nothing at all to do with the Baathist revolution. If the US could be blamed for anything at all it would be arming Iraq when they were fighting Iran. And that was done because Iran was being armed by the USSR. It's a damn shame that war ever ended. If it continued on hot and heavy for another twenty or so years we would never have needed to worry about either country.

Hmmm. All of the regular Afghan Taliban fighters were repatriated in 2006-2007. That means what's left in Gitmo are Al-Qaeda through and through. Everyone left was captured either in the commission of a terrorist act or in training for one. They have been indoctrinated with the absolute worst kind of anti-western hatred imaginable. Doesn't sound like the kind of people I'd want living next to me. Unless they are just trading Gitmo for Australian Parisians. It did not sound that way to me. Good luck with that guys.

This kind of attention to detail is so important in my opinion. And so lacking in even the professional games (refer to my comments about Tanari'i and Baatezu fighting side by side in NWN2). I've always hated seeing creatures that are frankly out of place or acting out of character so to speak. Like you pointed out, random encounters just to fill space do not make good game play.

No the romances are strictly there to spice it up. Although it does add a little poignancy to the story particularly for the female PC option. However, both of the romance options will at the very least become close friends with the PC because of the nature of their relationship and their shared cause and danger. That much at least is required by the plot.