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Daroowise

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  1. Its not certain unless we do it 992 more times. C'mon now, didn't you see the last presidential election ')
  2. The original sf had the wheel... you had to align up the planet with a particular object... or was that constellation? I forget, but yea... the original had one of those crazy wheels. Brilliant copy protection. What's that... pull it apart and copy it. No, they'll never figure that out. The thing I really hated about sf2 was that you had to use diskcopy and dual floppies (unless you were lucky enough to have a HD) all the time for restoring, backups, etc.
  3. Did I mention how I loathe 3e and up. Monsters shouldn't get classes unless they're unique or boss-esque monsters. I could see a cheiftan or a shaman having a class but a general run to the mill standard fodder for my party goblin is just that. I say this because... simply that they're scouting doesn't mean they actively train in observation and wilderness techniques? Granted, they're not exactly brutishly dumb but they have no rogue societal standard by which to train. Even as scout, they don't make attempt to hone in their skill or readily train, rather they're more likely just the ones who pulled rotation to look for food/fodder/loot/etc. According to 2e societal rundown, they're really just hunter/gatherers with a unique standard pecking order and lots of in-fighting for dominance. If nothing else, I'd almost say they classify as purely as a fighter of lesser rank. But I'm fully willing to admit being skewed in my perception of the lesser races if that be the case. Somehow I just have a hard time wrapping my head around a society of goblins/gremlins/orcs/kobolds/trolls/etc actively persuing anything other than their own survial and bashing stuff with a rather good deal of voracity. As for the rats thing... I've no idea why in hell that cropped up so popularly. I mean really, what's wrong with some old fashion goblin whackage. Hell, even lame human bandits make for a better kill than wasting time on rats.
  4. Not really... I rather enjoyed killing her, and the receptionist However, I didn't have to kill her right away. Rather, I just walked away after killing her boss and then came back to her later on after I was humoured by the fact that she'd also still spawn in the cantina as if nothing had happened yet.
  5. Yea... they'd just say it's worth me paying someone to take it off my hands. God, that thing brings back such memories... painful, tormenting memories. I can't tell you how slow EOB was on that... nevermind that I tried to play starflight II on it for almost a year before upgrading to a 386.
  6. More than anything its going to depend on the situation. L1 mage vs goblin (1HD -1, ave 3-4 hp), I've got a maginal chance of just nuking him with my magic missile. The warrior still has to roll 14 or better to even hit. Pit the mage vs kobold and you've got an ever greater chance the mage will nuke him (they're 1/2 HD). There is no save vs magic missile and its instantaneous casting with a range of 70 yards minimum, which is good room for retreat in case you don't get the job done. Granted, ranger's could probably be that accurate with a bow, but you've still got to roll to hits... 2e anyway.
  7. Wow... I'm so pleased so see I'm not the only one who can remember such antiquated technology. What's sad is that I still have a functioning tandy 1000 HX sitting in my closet... complete with a snazzy rgb monitor
  8. Yea... its all about toe to toe and initiative really. Seems like the 2e casting time is 1 round, don't ask me about 3e because 3e is just stupid broken wrong (thanks wotc!) The mage is pretty powerful no matter what level imho, you just have to know how to play them effectively. Oh, and L1 fighter still has to hit you to be effective... more so than the mage (magic missile, burning hands...). Granted, L1 mage has like an AC of between 20 and 16, but there's always a chance for miss.
  9. roflmfao... c'mon now, hillsfar was at least in color
  10. Yea... it needs some serious adobe tweakage... Ima see if I can't sharpen it up and repost another linky edit: or not, even using unsharpen to jack the pixelation the best you can make out is the contour of the landscape in the bottom image. The top image is just arse all around. Well... just cause I said I would: http://www.arende.net/rlsala/nwn2b.jpg
  11. http://www.nwnwiki.org/Image:Nwn2ad.jpg As per some thread at bioware's nwn2 board.
  12. http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewt...&forum=95&sp=30 Yea... its just sick wrong that absolutely NO ONE wants to buy this game. I'm in the same boat as another in the thread linked above. I was all pumped to buy it until I played the demo. Thank you Atari for saving me 49.99 and tax.
  13. Yea, I voted Jeremy Soule but not so much for the work on k1 but his overall works... I suspect however, in time Griskey could put himself on very near an even keel.
  14. Off topic (since there isn't likely to be a patch in THIS lifetime), anyone plan on purchasing any of the other LA releases like Republic Commando or BF2. IMHO, both look good but I'm a bit jaded now... of course, everywhere gives both of these an impressive review, but most of those same places just eat whatever LA spoonfeeds them so as to get exclusives.
  15. Desperate for something to stir your creative posting processes?
  16. I had emailed LA about two weeks ago... got the standard reply (which I posted here somewhere) from cs. Before that, I had made three phone calls and an email which went unanswered. In a nutshell, they pointed out there is no live team for this game and thus no support. They claim they're happy with the end result (ie, quit bugging us because we're not doing anything about it.) *shrug* Though they did claim that mysterious sound/movie patch was coming eventually (ie... whenever we darn well feel like doing it).
  17. In regards to ls/ds factors... I am not 100% certain to this nor how it would calculate, but it would seem your party member's ls/ds is based in part on your influence... so if you set it too high in an editor, the values becomes skewed. I say this because first time I messed with KSE, I jacked everyones influence up to 1000 and as soon I grouped with a party member, they became insta 95% DS. I didn't bother to play around with it much beyond setting all the align's to zero (Kreia's always defaulted to neutral regardless) and jacking influence to 100 (LS character, mind you... I imagine it would work either way?)
  18. And can you really call it bashing when you're stating fact? Not that there aren't wild accusations aplenty...
  19. Pfaw... M5 was just wrong... by the time I got there I could force wave large groups to death. Sion was easy enough... force wave, master speed, master valor, in... Kreia was the only thing that gave me trouble and only because I kept failing against her stasis/choke... round two with her wasn't all that difficult however. Before I read the forums about all the cut content I kept waiting for this choice I had to make... certainly it couldn't have been which corridor I was going to wander aimlessly down as I waved sith minions out of my way.
  20. Ooooh... I wouldn't blame either of them really. They're making dough off the game and LA has had some success post K2. I understand that they'd be eager to move on to the next project, all things considered. What I don't understand is that in regards to Lucasfilm Ltd, Lucas himself goes on and on about the quality of the sucktacular saga and how he waited because he wanted things to be just right and the technology to be there and then he waited again on the DVDs because they really wanted it to be superb quality ... yatta... yatta... yatta, yet some asshat at their subsidiary had one of their products hacked and slashed to meet lofty deadlines all in the name of the bottom line. Granted... k2 isn't a blockbuster phenomenon like sw:e4 but if you're going to slap your name on a product, shouldn't you at least do everything you can to make sure it measures up to the standards you claim to hold for all things derived of said company? I was going to rant about the old days when programs were concise and carefully designed to fit into meager amounts of space and how the microsoftian coding mentality has pretty much ruined coders forthwith but I find it moot and fruitless at this point. Accountability in the industry is something unheard of... much like Rodian Jedi Masters
  21. well... boy howdy, I did... but that's ok. They don't want to support it, I don't want to make my friends go through the agony of buying... so it works out. Now, who needs a free copy?
  22. http://www.davesdaily.com/pictures/412-windows-vista.htm Buddy sent me that awhile back... typical, yes?
  23. Yea... I'm of the opinion that the industry shouldn't get away with releasing crap. It astounds me as to how many gaming rags (mags) that praise these games for their innovation and creativity. Then when the final product comes out, its glitchy, rushed and really NOT a refined final product at all. Then they follow up by awarding them for their failings. *boggle*
  24. I would have to agree with you had I emailed PR, but considering the only two people I emailed were NOT in the PR department... *shrug* forwarded and botted? I can hardly attest to that.
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