Serdan

Nope. Saying that *blank* (fill in any noun you like) is unnatural does not automatically have negative connotations as to be natural is not automatically good, and to be unnatural is not automatically bad. The car example was fine as it demonstrated that unnatural doesn't equal bad. I don't think I've ever seen a reference to people as unnatural that was explicitly non-judgemental and the converse is usually true. I briefly considered asking for clarification, but the prior for Striker genuinely not being aware of the connotations is just so incredibly low. Could you give an example of someone who isn't a bigot and who refers to people as unnatural?

What? Just... what? Using the rhetoric of bigots is a predictor of being a bigot. Do you actually disagree with this? And do you acknowledge that the car analogy was terribad? Ohhh... That's very interesting. Please define this "hypersensitivity" that I am apparently guilty of.

Have you been living under a rock? It's the language used by bigots when they advocate for making homosexuals second-class citizens. And people are not fricking cars. Using "unnatural" about a person is extremely loaded with negative connotations. Re underlined: Interesting qualifier. So you agree that prior experience could lead one to reasonably assume that people who refer to some particular group of people as unnatural are most likely bigots? You actually comprehend that context is a thing? Well, that's a pleasant surprise. As for insisting that the two sides must somehow be equal... Whatever. It's so ridiculous that I can't even feel insulted.

Calling it unnatural is bigotry. Are you really that oblivious?

Pot, meet Kettle. If the shoe fits. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/75387-controversial-limerick-discussion-2/ Go read that thread. Several of the posters explicitly express their bigotry. Then consider that the main argument is about free speech, which is patently absurd as I have already explained. You missed/ignored his point. Both sides do so love throwing insults at each other in attempt to dismiss the opposing viewpoint. Don't even try to argue that only one side has resorted to ad hominems. Nice mind-reading. I'm not a 'side'. He addressed me specifically, so the implication is that he thinks I hurl insults. It is reasonable to assume that he was referring to my use of the word "bigot".

An item can have 1 enchantment from each category. The "Quality" category is special in that you can overwrite an existing enchantment with a better one.

Yup.

Yeah, cloak and amulet take up the same slot. It's not intuitive, but I don't really see the problem. As for AI... Yeah, we need that badly. Hopefully it will be added in a later patch.

A DA-style tactics editor is... not simple. I'd rather they spend their resources elsewhere, but at a minimum we really need BG-style scripts and an AI toggle.

Please be careful with the spoilers.

Pot, meet Kettle. If the shoe fits. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/75387-controversial-limerick-discussion-2/ Go read that thread. Several of the posters explicitly express their bigotry. Then consider that the main argument is about free speech, which is patently absurd as I have already explained.

Uhh... aren't there 4 creators?

All attacks/spells/abilities use accuracy to beat one of the target's defenses. For physical attacks your accuracy has to beat the target's deflection. For mental attacks (charm and similar) your accuracy has to beat the target's will. For (some) AoE attacks your accuracy has to beat the target's reflex. For poison, knockdown and similar your accuracy has to beat the target's fortitude. All abilities have "vs. [Deflection/Fortitude/Will/Reflex]" in the description. The wiki is suppoed to list the defense for each ability, though it's not complete. http://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com

How is it not a free speech issue when you have a left-wing extremist group creating such a hostile climate that everyone is compelled to cater to their every whim. How's that for a balance of forces in society? PC is a mob rule. http://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity/mods/28/? That's why it isn't a free speech issue. No one's free speech has been violated. The right to free speech does not give you the right to use another's platform for your speech. Obs are completely within their rights to edit any of the game's content at any time for any reason. The insistence of the bigots that this has anything to do with free speech completely undermines their legitimacy (or it would, if they had any to begin with). A reasonable discussion could be had over how complaints of offensive content should be handled, but the bigots are demonstrably more interested in hurling insults. The narrative you are trying to sell is ridiculous btw. How did Erika (who is a woman, so you should use female pronouns) impose her opinion and how is it different from how the bigots reacted?

The engine is capable of both. I'd love to see BG/BG2 in PoE's engine, but it would be a huuuge undertaking.

The game saves to the "Saved Games" folder, which is a special Windows folder that you can change the location of. Go to your user directory. Right click "Saved Games", go to "Location" and "Move". Probably only works on Win7 or newer. That's the only way I can think of.

Do you seriously not understand what free speech means? Free speech is the right to express yourself in speech and writing without being censored by the state. The right to free speech does not give you the right to use another's platform, nor does it give you the right to be listened to. No one's free speech has been violated here. The proof of this is that less than a day after the patch was released a mod was published that reintroduced the limerick. Additionally, if Firedorn was so inclined he could go get his own platform (e.g. a blog) and publish limericks to his heart's content. Anyone who complains about free speech is either grossly ignorant of their own rights or simply dishonest.

I see that the bigots are still at it.

Doing away with XP entirely and just handing out levels? Not... reeeaaalllyyy..... But it'd be an even harder sell than changing the leveling curve. And does come with some additional problems (such as no granularity whatsoever - there's a lot more quests than levels, so not all quests would have a level reward. And if you start handing out fractions of levels you're basically just back to XP). It's not a system I'm opposed to, persay... I enjoyed Shadowrun: Dragonfall a ton, and it used a similar system. But that game actually didn't have levels, just Karma (skill points, attribute points, and abilities all rolled into one). So while there's nothing incredibly wrong with it or anything from a conceptual perspective... I don't think it'd work with PoE at all. You'd hand out levels based on % content completion tuned to land the players in certain level ranges at certain points of the game (if there are 10 quests and you want the player to progress 5 levels after completing all of them, then you hand out a level for every other quest). I just completely fail to see how that wouldn't work for PoE.

Matt, are there actually any problems with my suggestion?

What an inane post.

That is a great approach for TTRPGs, but terribly constraining and uncomfortable for CRPGs. (So I'm surprised Sawyer hasn't done it already.) How so? If you want players to be in the level range a-b at point x in the game, then you just make sure that % completion of the content up till that point lands them somewhere in that range. I don't see how there's any practical difference (from the player's perspective) between doing it that way and perfectly tuning XP gain and level curves.

Another solution would be to just do away with XP entirely and hand out levels at appropriate intervals.

Very enjoyable. Bitter much?

If that is the case, then I'm pretty sure it's a bug. Here are my specs: Crucial MX100 512GB (SSD) Core i7-2720QM (2.2 GHz) Radeon 6770M 8 GB RAM Windows 7 64-bit The save file is around 3MB in size. I timed it and it takes around 15 seconds to load and around 5 seconds to save. Area transitions likewise take around 15 seconds. Unless it is doing some heavy compression/decompression under the hood, I don't understand what can be taking so long. Also, if I click through the opening screens on startup, it takes around 3 seconds merely to load the list of saves. The SSD is operating properly in all other contexts (e.g. a cold boot of Windows takes about the same time as loading a PoE game, maybe even a little less) so I think there is something wrong here. That are the save/load times I get on my system - with a 7200RPM HDD. Shouldn't a SSD speed it up by like a lot? I have something similar to that. I just wrote a quick app that loads a file into RAM and times it. Loading the largest assetbundle (~304mb) takes about 0.17 seconds. Whatever the problem is I'm pretty sure your storage device ain't the bottleneck. EDIT: The point is that people underestimate how fricking fast even the old spinny devices are.