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Why are you assuming that you are being trolled? There are all kinds of people and all kinds of opinions. You are defending a humanistic ideal here. Yet you seem to give little thought to the possibility that someone may simply think differently instead of trying to bait you.

Changing the core game is indeed a bad idea. PoE 3 should absolutely be a traditional CRPG. Such experiments should only be done as a spinoff or optional DLC.

When the game says that men and women have equal physical abilites this is in the context of the player characters. These are not average people. Pallegina is not an average woman. She can indeed be stronger than many men. So it is a convenience to just say that men and women have the same physical abilities rather than trying to be more realistic and look for ways to balance them by giving the men more max strength and women - more max dexterity or something like that, so that they are balanced in the end. For me, this is the source of the confusion and people thinking that men and women should be considered equally strong in fantasy games.

Wait a minute. You are saying that it is indeed possible to overstock medical supplies and simply lose money as a result? Didn't know that. If this is so, this needs to be fixed regardless of whether it is a bug. To cause such frustration isn't a good idea. Yes you can overstock (or in other words throw money in the sea) and it makes sense considering there is a limit that depends on your ship. All that is required is simply paying a little attention to the resources that are already in your hold and adjust your purchases accordingly. My advice don't stack to the limit (it's almost impossible to run out of resources anyway) because you will be able to pick some supplies on the map. Yes, it is not a big problem. I just worry about the new players. This can cause confusion and even if it is a small thing, it is better if the UI just prevents you from selecting a larger amount than what you have room for.

I have thought that they could release a DLC that keeps all the side quests and companions but removes the main quest. Instead of the main quest there can be goals, like becoming king of Huana tribes and uniting them. Or becoming director of Valian Trading company and forcing the natives into submission. The four factions politics are already there. This way the players will be able to choose whether they want to play a RPG or a strategy game. Or both.

Wait a minute. You are saying that it is indeed possible to overstock medical supplies and simply lose money as a result? Didn't know that. If this is so, this needs to be fixed regardless of whether it is a bug. To cause such frustration isn't a good idea.

Not by you. However it was implied by other people that the post was trollish and dumb. Afterward the poster was called a troll directly. Nice point.

True, but they wouldn't "disappear" if that was the case? Well, I indeed assumed that OP was talking about food and water.

The whole post was basically a question. Nothing in the post is aggressive. Nothing in it deserves such a response. Just tell them that you do not like this particular idea. Tell who? The troll that posted once and then never reappeared in the thread? Give me a break. I would never reappear in a thread after such a response. Aww diddums! Seriously. Why would I want to talk to people who insult me on sight? Without knowing nothing about me?

When you buy supplies they go into your personal stash, not to the ship. This is done to give you control over what is being used by the ship crew.

But how are you sure this particular person is a troll? What if it is just a coincidence? You just discouraged one new fan of the game to post on this forum ever again. All of this could have been avoided if the first responses were calm.

The whole post was basically a question. Nothing in the post is aggressive. Nothing in it deserves such a response. Just tell them that you do not like this particular idea. Tell who? The troll that posted once and then never reappeared in the thread? Give me a break. I would never reappear in a thread after such a response.

The whole post was basically a question. Nothing in the post is aggressive. Nothing in it deserves such a response. Just tell them that you do not like this particular idea.

You started with a good approach and then ruined it all with that one silly sentence. I fail to see how these are appropriate responses for something like this. OP just shared an idea, maybe not very well thought out. Since when is that to be shamed and discouraged? What happened with the notion that there are no dumb questions, only dumb answers?

That was just an idea thrown along with the others.

It seems to me that OP just wanted to share some ideas and you guys immediately shamed him/her, thinking about those other threads on the forum. I don't see something particularly awkward with this post. Or am I not sufficiently sophisticated?

I wanted to keep him in his position, but because of RP I felt forced to admit he dealt with slavers. I thought this would ruin his chances but instead it seemed to earn him points with his seniors. They probably thought that some exploitative and unscrupulous bastard is exactly what they needed.

As good as any reason to nuke it from the face of the earth, but then you'd miss the enjoyment of reading everyone slam dunking on it... Maybe it should be moved in the Stories section.

They got lazy and forgot their fighting skills during those five years, as Tagaziel said. However, during the course of the game they remembered everything very quickly. I was level 9 before I knew it - with just a few battles Try to accomplish this if you are really starting from scratch!

Another goal was to reduce micromanagement. Josh Sawyer explained that the decision to reduce party size had to be taken when the custom AI system didn't yet exist or wasn't developed enough. Pathfinding for me is a practically solved problem but because of the engine changes, not because of the reduced party size. I mean this specific problem where a unit couldn't manage to get close enough to its target and started to run around all the combatants instead. This was especially annoying for me. Picture clarity is still a problem. I hoped that visual effects would be toned down significantly more. All in all, retrospectively, it seems that the party size reduction wasn't really necessary.

Spoting, it is understandable that you are frustrated with the bugs. It is also understandable that you want to punish a company for doing something that you consider unethical. However, are you really certain that Obsidian is the right target for such punishment? This is a company that focuses on making niche games which generally don't bring huge profits. It was even on a brink of a financial collapse not so long ago. It doesn't have the means of the larger game studios that also release buggy games. One goal of these RPGs is to give the player as much freedom as possible - which means great possibilities for bugs. To find all those bugs on time, they are going to need an army of testers. Can you really compare 30 or 50 testers to 30 or 50 thousands of players? Who is going to find more bugs? To me, and probably to other Obsidian fans, it seems that these attempts to punish Obsidian are simply misguided. That they aren't going to teach companies to be more ethical but will make it even harder to produce this kind of RPGs. Please also consider the fact that these isometric RPGs simply weren't made for like 10 or more years. Game publishers were convinced that there's no point to make them. I hope you can understand why such complaints can be taken as irksome. They can feel like attacks on the very existence of this kind of RPGs. Of course, this is probably overreaction - and yet we are hoping to get PoE 3 and this is not a sure thing. It depends on the success of Deadfire.

Great. So it is impossible to know what someone means when using that word without asking for definitions first. Nah, if the word is used in a gaming or MMO context, this is always the meaning I found a counterexample From Deadfire ability tree no less. Mob Stance "The fighter changes to a more aggressive stance, apt for handling groups of enemies. "

Wow. 50+ replies already. It is amazing how some people are able to create such engaging threads.

In PoE 1 expansions were middle game. Many people assumed that the expansions continued the story and were disappointed. It was possible to load your "almost final" save and go play the White Marches though. I think the planned DLCs will be just additional content to the main game in Deadfire. More islands or dungeons probably. Since they are now called DLCs, hopefully less people will assume they are a continuation of the story.

I was to trying to eliminate some variables. The point of the bow was to force her to stay on the backline so that we can see whether she would heal reliably with the script I posted. So what happened? Did she start to heal the wounded party members?