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I hope we see a variety of racial-specific talents, particularly of the spell-casting variety. Seeing significant differences in how the races play the same class adds a sense of distinctiveness.

Bhwa?

I can't say the name is any sillier than Temple of Elemental Evil or Dungeon Siege or Legend of Grimlock or Planescape: Torment.

I definitely like the turn-based combat with the hex maps, and what I've read of the companions sounds pretty interesting. It's a game I'm looking forward to playing, once it reaches patch maturity.

Yeah, about 8 times faster. Firearms in that period had muzzle velocities of about 450-500 meters a second vs arrow speeds of about ~60 m/s. Mass of a bullet is ~5g; mass of an arrow is ~650g. Since KE = 1/2mv^2: 10 times the velocity equals 100 times the energy; 100 times the mass equals 100 times the energy. Thus it seems like they'd be roughly equivalent, energy-wise.

You mean I can have somebody steal your car, change the tires, and then it's okay to give it to me? Heh, sounds like a challenge...

I am so going to rob a bank tomorrow. When they catch me I'll them the reasonable thing would be to ask for the money back "ok, you caught me, here you go" . Jail time? Not gonna happen. Yes, copyright infringement is totally equal to actual robbing and stealing. Totally. Yes. Yes it is. Robbing and stealing is the unlawful act of taking something that doesn't belong to you. Copyright defines a certain form of ownership. Illegally taking something under copyright is robbing and stealing. It doesn't matter if you received it second-hand; you're merely complicit in the act. Deal with it.

The Chanter class seems somewhat Sorcerous/Bardic in nature, at least in terms of not requiring a spell book.

Personally I'm okay with handling multiple level-ups at once. But they could add an option to do random level-ups in Expert mode. Basically, each character receives a random seed between 0% and, say, 25%. When the character reaches that (hidden) percentage of XP toward the next level, then they are able to level up. As an added option, the player could go to some designated location and level up the character right away.

Your basic a$*h0le must belong to the SIlver tide then, I take it?

I'm okay with the mundane details like food being abstracted in a system like this, along with minor repairs, finding water, making camp, and so forth. Such matters are better for use with a single-player game.

If the characters start out with different base XPs, then they are bound to level up at different times... at least at lower levels. Thus the developers could varying the starting XP appropriately to encourage this effect. I.e. level = PC level, plus or minus some fraction of the XP needed. Ed.: oops, I see this has already been suggested.

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A population simulation that doesn't take geography into an account is mostly suitable for microbiology.

If the weaponry is historically correct, then I'd expect that smoothbore firearms won't be very accurate at extended range. They may turn out to be better suited for fighters and rogues.

you know, I've heard and seen this come up a bunch of times, and I don't think it's true When you break up an asteroid into a lot of tiny little pieces, you increase the surface area by such a large amount, that I believe it would burn up a significantly larger portion of the meteorite in the atmosphere, rather than if you can one big chunk with a limited surface area. I'm pretty comfortable leaving this whole scenario in the hands of rocket scientists. It probably should be in a different discussion than "funny things"...

^^^^ I remain skeptical about the reality of that one. You'd need an audio exploit on the remote system to break in, and the audio components would need to support ultrasonic transmission and reception.

This. You're busy trying to control two sets of actions--body movement and head facing--that are normally performed by different sets of muscles. Trying to control both just through your hands will always be less effective than how you do it IRL.

From a budgeting perspective, it might make sense to implement a point-and-click map on the initial release, then think about something more sophisticated for the enhancement release. That will give them an extra selling point and give us something to look forward to.

Choosing the Right Name for your Story Pretty good advice.

I do like the rotatable isometric view in Wasteland 2 though--it has the viewpoint advantages of 3D games with a minimal level of camera management frustration. (Just use the arrow keys to turn.) If future publishers could combine that CRPG approach with the artistically enhanced details in IE and P:E, it could make for some very nice game play.

I think they can simulate an overhead canopy fairly readily by using moving shadows/light patches on the ground and just presenting trunks that fade with altitude. Some streaming, shifting light beams would help as well.

Dang it, now they're going to make me replay it yet again...