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  1. My experience was quite similar to yours, and I very much remember you as an active member during PoE development on these forums.

     

    I had exactly the same experience with the backer NPCs. I wanted to engage, but quickly realized there was nothing to interact with.

     

    I've played the game over 3 major sessions, the last one when WM2 released, and still haven't finished it. I'm fairly completionist, the first session lasted until I left the first major city and got really sick of the meaningless trash mobs everywhere. This somewhat mitigated in later patches, and I picked the game up again and completed Twin Elms up to the "point of no return". The last time I picked it up I went into WM and completed half of it. I've completed all of Od Nua and other side content.

     

    I hated the idea of an "upgradeable" stronghold when the stretch goal was released, and the implementation lived up to my expectation. I play "deep" RPGs in order to get away from the feeling that games are just thinly veiled spreadsheets.

     

    I didn't mind the combat, and thought the dialogue was very well written. However, I feel the narrative designers of the game were making the same rookie mistake that many new novelists do, where protagonists only exist in order to be carried through their idea of a good story, rather than actually being part of it. When your main character turns into a 'convenient plot device', it's usually bad.

     

    That's where I'm at right now, and I'm still waiting for any kind of feeling of wanting to pick it up again. I have a few companion quests, WM part 2, and the content after the "point of no return" left. I really liked the game, but I did not have those commitment issues while re-playing BG2 before PoE release.

     

    As an ending note, I want to mention that I approach games very differently now than I used to. Few, if any, can hold my attention for long. I don't get that same hype, or warm feeling in my stomach, that I did as a kid when going into a world of adventure. I found myself putting it down and picking up a good book a number of times. This makes me chalk down most of my misgivings with PoE to just having changed as a person, not that it was a bad game. It did, after all, hold my attention for more hours than any other game in many years.

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  2. Just want to add my thoughts on the "ships log" and littering of NPCs. I would hope people have learned from the memorials and backer NPCs of PoE1 and will shy away from feeling like they have to put a mark of their own inside the game. It can be neat, but horrible when tens of thousands of people all feel the need to do it. As we've seen.

     

    I'd suggest trying to make sure this collaborative effort designs something that would actually fit into Eora, rather than seeing it as a cheap opportunity to force your own touch onto it. Immersion in PoE1 was fragile at best due to all of the highlighted things that you needed to avoid clicking.

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  3. I did this quest earlier today and didn't get the cut scene. Unfortunately I have no save for it, I knew I missed something as I was on mumble with my friends when I finished it, and decided I didn't really care.

     

    Is there any way to fix this in post? BG2 has console commands for every possible quest state (or maybe that was only with the fixpack?), does Pillars have anything similar that I could use to set the quest state?

  4. I'll describe the issue quickly, and if it hasn't already been reported I'll upload save files etc.

     

    I summoned a creature that has abilities, and when I save/reloaded in the area I summoned it, its abilities doubled (instead of 3 abilities, it had 6, each other one being a duplicate).

     

    The summon also doesn't expire, travels with me through areas, and persists after resting.

  5. I'm a (front-end) web developer with some extra time on my hands, and I'm considering the idea of putting up a PoE portal (I have a domain name in mind). I'm wondering if you guys have any thoughts/wishes for such a site. Ideally, I'd like this to become a resource similar to the Planet Baldur's Gate of old.

     

    My quick ideas so far:

     

    News (curated and aggregated by myself & volunteers) including:

    -general news

    -patch updates

    -mod updates

    -community developments

    -community highlights (videos, fan-fic, art...)

     

    Forum (Discourse / phpBB / bbPress (if using WP as CMS))

     

    Mod Database (unsure of software, likely to require external host)

     

    General Game Info / Media (not wiki)

     

    Walkthroughs

     

    Is there an interest in the community for a site dedicated to bringing all PoE resources together in one place?

  6. I love the work you've done on this UI, and would love to see it in the game.

     

    However, I can't help but ask myself, what would you come up with if you were asked to scrap it, and come up with something from scratch? I do realize this is a lot of work, but I'd love to see a "version 2", so to speak, based on what you learned crafting this.

  7. I really hope the regular backer physical box won't look like in the first post :/

     

    It's, frankly, not a great display piece. I assume everyone who paid for the physical box did so because they would actually like to have something to display for it, so it should be tailored for purpose rather than store shelves.

     

    Is the (non-CE) backer reward going to have all the PEGI 16 PC DVD-ROM logos and information on the outer box? It seems like a terrible idea for something that's not going to hit store shelves, but be delivered to people who already paid for the game.

     

    I was certainly hoping for something more similar to the originally suggested box art that was more reminiscent of the BG2/ToB box art.

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