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All well and good, but reality makes a stronger argument than theory in this case. It's what people make of these characters that matters, not the creator's intent. But if we argue that they don't work as designed then we need to look what they were designed for. If they work fine in role where they were designed for but not in the roles where people use them, then there is no problem in them, it is just people playing game in non-optimal way and there isn't necessary any reason to make changes in class because of that fact, meaning that people are free to play as they want but the game don't necessary need to make that play style as good as other play styles. But if class don't work fine even in role where it is designed for, then there is problem and it could also be argued that if class don't work fine in its intended role, but it works fine in some other role then there is also problem in its design, but not necessary as big.

Are they? They have quite a bunch of AOEs that are arguably more powerful than some in the wizards arsenal. And don't forget mindblades, dead cheap, since it's a second level spell, but quite deadly to vessels and kith. It is how Josh Sawyer the lead designer of PoE described his intents for the classes. But as it also become intend to make classes so that they can perform other roles that they are designed for, they also gave them abilities/talents/spells that let them do that. But it is stated that intended roles for classes are following Single target DPS: Cipher, Rogue, Ranger Fronline: Fighter, Monk, Barbarian Crowd Control: Wizard, Druid Leaders of party/support: Priest, Chanter, Paladin You can check this from Updates about classes in Announcements and News section.

As ciphers are meant to be single target DPS casters and Druids and Wizards crowd control casters, the question is do ciphers have ability to do more damage against single target than wizards and druids and if they do, do they do that higher damage in such marginal that they are optimal choice over those two in that role. Another question is that do wizards and druid bare better against group of enemies than ciphers and do they bare so much better that one would chose them over ciphers in that role.

Democratic systems all have one thing common, which is the fact that after an election there will be somebodies that complain how unfair the system is. Systems that give more places for parties that have gotten more votes get complaints how they cause individual people who got more votes than some members in popular party not get place in parliament (or what ever election is for), and systems that put votes that individual people get over overall number votes that parties get, get complains how it is wrong that parties with smaller number of voters behind them get more seats than more popular parties, just because their candidates individually got more votes. And systems where there is only one electoral district, get complains how smaller communities and rural areas have hard time to get representatives, where high population areas just dominate election, and systems where there are multiple electoral district that get equal representation in parliament (or what ever), get complains how parties get higher percentage of representatives than their percentage of votes in whole country was. So regardless of what democratic elections system you choose there will be people that complain about it after election that didn't have result that they wanted.

It is because Rautai is for some reason written Ruatai in files that check backgrounds, which causes that you don't find them when you search Rautai from the files. Kana's conversation is only one, I think, that has background checks for Rautai. EDIT: There are 9 Rautai checks, from which 8 are with Kana

Documentary is quite insightful. Especially part about making sneak speak trailer for the game.

Alpha Protocol 2 is nearly impossible dream, as Alpha Protocol is SEGA's IP. So best hope is to make game with similar theme but that don't actually have any ties with AP.

Unity has support for vorbis, but it doesn't have one for opus. So if they would want to use opus they would need to port codec themselves in the unity. Was also one of my thoughts. Calling libOpus should not the hardest excercise, but if you have vorbis at hand … It becomes harder when you don't have access to source behind engine's APIs, but instead you need to write separate module that you use for handling audio and make it work with engine's other APIs.

Unity has support for vorbis, but it doesn't have one for opus. So if they would want to use opus they would need to port codec themselves in the unity.

BBC says 66.1%

I would guess that reason behind loading times are number of assets bundles that is loaded per map and how they are loaded. So I would say that environments and how they are made play quite small factor on loading times.

That is bit stretching as in 99.99% of steam games less than 0.1% (Steam don't offer more accurate information) of people playing the games actually use their time to get all the achievements. So it may be important feature to some, but not actually that many, especially if you take consideration that there is program freely available in internet that you can use to mark those achievements achieved. Even at this moment under 50% of all players of PoE in steam have gotten achievement that they have finished Act 1, most achieved achievement is hiring adventurer and even that is achieved by under 50% of the players. so because there is over 300k people that have played PoE in steam (according to steamspy), it means that over 150k people haven't even finished first act. And there is four achievements that are achieved only by under 300 people, which is not many it is very niche punch of people and it's impossible to say how many of those used that freely available hacking tool to get those achievements.

Joss Whedon makes characters that some people like and some people don't like and because of that he will receive praise and criticism, which some is well though and some is just thought vomit and amount of that criticism and praise is massive because millions of people know his work and has opinions of his work. It really don't have anything to do any political/social/economical/etc. movements/ideologies, although probably every movement/ideology at least in western countries have people that have opinions about his characters and when they express those thoughts they are often wrapped by their world views, which usually causes them to be single sighted and highly interpreted by those said world views. Which of course don't necessary mean that their interpretations anyway represent movements/ideologies that they believe, but that they have hard time to see whole picture because of their base like/dislike towards said characters, which is why they try to make up reason for their dis/like by using world views as reference point. (I know, there is no better way to express my thoughts) So for example feminist that likes Joss Whedon's female characters will find reason why those characters are feminist and feminist that don't like his characters will find reason why they are anti-feminist. You can find examples of this from many feminist writings about Buffy. And you can find out that this is not something that is unique for feminist movements/ideologies. I believe Joss when he says that twitter is distraction and addictive thing, which distracted him from things that he likes to do more, because it can give you constant feed of messages that are easy distraction, even though not very meaningful and not necessary that fun, but that easiness of way how it distracts you can be very sneaky and it is very easy to slip back to it, because people have ability to access it from everywhere and they can access it fast and it gives feeling that it don't really take any time to do so, even though it is easy to spent hours in reading messages and commenting things. And same goes to many other successful social media platforms and things aren't made better by fact that many people communicate many of their acquaintances/friends only by social media. Anyway people that attack other people in social media or other internet services are in my opinion idiotic that should learn to behave better.

Every place in PoE has meaningful name, even if you don't know what that meaning is. They have alien sound because of that, and that alien sound makes setting feel much better than using some English phrases, because that would drop history behind the setting. It is similar mechanic that Tolkien used in Middle-Earth to make it feel that it has history behind it. If you don't appreciate such effort fine, but in my opinion you don't just understand what makes good setting.

In my opinion they should go with all in crafting system, where you can enchant all the wearable items and have ability to put about any enchantment that there is on them, but I also think that they should make enchantments recipes such that you can find them all around world and some you need to buy/learn from masters. And they also should go back to their original vision that you need forges, labs, etc. to enchant and craft items. And of course materials for better enchantments should be rare or even unique. Current solution to limit enchanting to make findable loot feel more special don't seem to have desired effect within players so as compromise didn't work so I do see little point keeping it in the game anymore.

Pigs were one of animals that often had parasites in past before better domestication and medicines that were dangerous for humans, which is speculated to be reason why Jews considered them as unclean and I would guess that it was similar reason for early Muslims. But one don't write in holy book that you can't eat this meat because it may make you sick or even kill you, but that some holy power has deemed animal to be unclean/dirty/etc.. And threat from those parasites has not yet fully disappeared. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/05/110502-wild-pigs-parasites-animals-pork-science-health-nation/

0.1% of game owners in steam have unlocked it and you can find several guides how to do it from these forums. Still at that percentage its a very rare one to be had. Not for the weak hearted Yeah, although only 6.3% of owners have even finished the game at first place.

But you can stack deflection from shields, hatchets and rings/cloaks/etc..

it does poor job to describe world outside of Dyrwood area. I'd say that's intentional. For Obsidian it's better to be vague now so they can adapt the setting as the games progress. Yeah, but my message was only to point out that if you are interested about other parts of Eora, than Dyrwood region, then that book will not help you much.

0.1% of game owners in steam have unlocked it and you can find several guides how to do it from these forums.

That is right they don't count against solo achievement

Yes but it don't mean that topic is not worth to talk nevertheless Remember the definition of Trolling on these forums for some people is when someone makes a point you don't like, agree with or just don't understand I am not Trolling, I stand by my points on this topic. I may be wrong thats not the same thing as trolling I took it more that you try get people give their reactions, opinions, objections, etc. for the topic without actually giving your view point for the topic. In other words fishing reactions, which is something that is at least past considered as trolling. Trolling isn't inherently bad, even though it meaning and how people react towards it is changed quite lot in past two decades, as now internet troll seems to mean criminal, people that are offensive towards other members of forum/social media/etc.. Internet vocabulary expands and evolves so fast that it is nearly impossible to keep up with it. Okay maybe, I never thought of Trolling like that before. I see Trolling as a negative thing where people make a point just to get a emotional reaction and have no intention of really debating the issue And in this case I have stated my own opinion but I am still interested in what others have to say Getting people mad by making outrageous claims is probably what is caused trolling become synonym to all bad behavior in the internet. But when I started use internet forums in middle of 90s trolling was usually used in reference of people starting topics asking opinions of something without actually giving clear indication what they think it themself and after initial reactions they offer partial version of their opinion to get people continue and so on and so forth. So something like what interviewer would do in focus group interview, but because people haven't consented such they start to feel that they are played or in other words trolled.

Yes but it don't mean that topic is not worth to talk nevertheless Remember the definition of Trolling on these forums for some people is when someone makes a point you don't like, agree with or just don't understand I am not Trolling, I stand by my points on this topic. I may be wrong thats not the same thing as trolling I took it more that you try get people give their reactions, opinions, objections, etc. for the topic without actually giving your view point for the topic. In other words fishing reactions, which is something that is at least past considered as trolling. Trolling isn't inherently bad, even though it meaning and how people react towards it is changed quite lot in past two decades, as now internet troll seems to mean criminal, people that are offensive towards other members of forum/social media/etc.. Internet vocabulary expands and evolves so fast that it is nearly impossible to keep up with it.

it does poor job to describe world outside of Dyrwood area.

Yes http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pillars-Eternity-Hero-PC-DVD/dp/B00QGNX0P2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430745273&sr=8-1&keywords=pillars+of+eternity+pc Although it is steam bound. Some backers (those who paid to get one) will get DRM and service free physical copies of the game.