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    Intact Soul Bigots; those with fractured souls are fuggles....
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    It sounds like there may only be a limited number of skills in PoE, so I'd like to see some means of refining a character's skill set. One way to do this would be to provide a set of skill specializations that provide a minor bonus. Rather than spending talents on these, the game could allow one specialization for every X skill ranks, where X is something in the range of 3 to 6. Thus, a Locksmith specialization in Mechanics could provide a +1 bonus when using the Mechanics skill to lock or unlock a door. There could be Mechanics specializations for Locksmith, Contraptions, Arcane, and Traps, for example. Epic levels could allow grand master specializations with a +2 bonus. To limit this somewhat, the specializations could be limited to preferred skills for each class. Or they could be controlled by means of rare lore books.
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    A few thoughts regarding the subject: In a setting that mixes soul magic, backwards superstition, and diverse humanoid races, much unique lore may have arisen regarding sexual practices. For example, some might (falsely) believe that the godlike are the result of illicit unions with different races, or that the type of soul your child receives is dependent on your past sexual practices. The races could each have unique sexually transmitted diseases that can not be directly communicated to other races. In civilized nations, this could have come to provide a motive to engage in casual sex with a different race. Some may exploit this by recruiting (or enslaving) non-human prostitutes for brothels in human-dominated areas. Some form of sex-related soul magic may have developed, which results in unique empowerment lasting for some period of time. Strange cults may have developed around this effect, while sexual predators may be motivated to gain additional soul power.
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    Troll continues to troll. *shrug*
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    I tend to think that sexual themes are more interesting when the author neither avoids the subject nor deliberately seeks it out, but rather it happens as a consequence of the plot thread. Quests designed to titillate the player in a generally non-erotic tale seem juvenile to me.
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    Trollariffic...
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    Summoning tempest in a teapot...
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    How about beverages or drugs that only intoxicate specific humanoid races? Like Feyskrae for elves or Jupins Malk for Aumaua. For all others it is either sickening, mildly unpleasant or harmless. These materials bring additional profit when sold in the corresponding communities.
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    For all you know the presentation showed spoilers that some of us don't want to see yet. We will all see the product at some point; you're all getting exactly what you paid for, which is a game. The entertainment is extra, and it is basically up to the developers, and their public relations, as to what they show and to whom. Then show us some random encounter from early in the game and done. This excuse is pretty weak. And yeah I will get what I paid for but that does not mean I will support more and future projects because I really do not like how they handle this situation while so many and even much smaller studios do it so much better. This is no AAA top secret project but they are really treating it like that. Which is just sad in my opinion. Ah, rubbish. They've fed us plenty of information. I'd much rather they spend their time building a good game than wasting lots of energy trying to slake a few poster's sense of entitlement. We'll all see the same results in the end.
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    For all you know the presentation showed spoilers that some of us don't want to see yet. We will all see the product at some point; you're all getting exactly what you paid for, which is a game. The entertainment is extra, and it is basically up to the developers, and their public relations, as to what they show and to whom.
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    Unity supports C#, Java, and Python. In fact the documentation is significantly more robust in Java. I certainly hope this game doesn't have any dependencies on Java; tired of patching that oozing sore.
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    I believe what they are doing is raising and lowering the water level. I don't think the sand is moving, but there's some sea foam in the mix that, in combination with the wave flux, may make you think it is.
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    Sweet! Nice update. That ocean motion effect looks really good. Thanks for keeping us informed.
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    A level up in sophistication would be for each settlement to have its own exchange rate for different currencies. If you want to get the most value for your currency, you'd travel to where the exchange rate is best. A simplified approach would be for each settlement to have a "preferred currency"; all others are exchanged at, say, 80% of value.
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    It's almost like you're all boxed in...
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    A bulky barbarian warrior, new to the city and armed to the teeth, walks up and starts asking the PC the same sort of questions you normally get to ask a random local.... What happens next?
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    The cities may be big, but that doesn't necessarily mean the city game areas are going to be profuse. We'll probably see a few highlight areas and some adventuring locales in each city.
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    There were multiple currencies in F:NLV. I suppose it added slightly to the sense of having different cultures and governments, but beyond that it didn't make much of a difference. It was really just an additional set of numbers in the inventory. Having a second currency that only certain vendors accept might provide some cultural atmosphere, particularly if the variation was geographical in nature.
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    Hopefully it will be more advanced than that limited selections; something akin to the formation editor used in ToEE perhaps.
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    Date night...
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    I don't think they need to put a mob everywhere, but one city area with a large ambient crowd would be a nice touch. Like a market place.
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    That's a great idea. Their party name could have been the "Goon Squad" and they would be world renown for only fighting on the side of reviled dictators and tyrants. In battle they would constantly fling insults as well and when one of them died they would say "I am suspending my belief!" Led by a great flaming Troll named Xedoc....
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    There's no evidence for that, it's just pointless speculation. They could do two paint over passes for each resolution asset and it would look better but I doubt they will because the benefits aren't worth the cost, they'll just downsample the painted 2560x1440 backgrounds. Yep. They can also ship a single asset size with the game then provide a higher resolution as a supplemental download. That will address the potential disk space issue.
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