majestic

This is probably the worst thing I've ever posted in this thread, but YouTube put this in my suggestions, so you shall suffer too: I lack the words to properly describe how offensive this is.

But what about the mystery ? Surly you must agree it is super exciting !

Indeed, we're also giving all the presents on the 24th. The other two days are mostly for family meetings and feasting.

The only thing you really need to do is the marketplace, and perhaps a certain random encounter (but that might even be unmissable) before the inn attack. You can then proceed and do what you want afterwards. Well, the Tower of Estrod might be part of the timed event. At any rate, do the marketplace, go to the tower and things should be peachy. Don't worry about the time limit, unless you really want to skip the battle.

@SChinOne of the advantages of the current broken state of the forum is that it makes it possible to actually reproduce the 'post eating' behaviour fairly easily. Edit one of your posts, add one of the lines that are currently causing the 403 Forbidden error to appear, like so: This will then give you the aforementioned error, like described on the prior page: If you click "OK" you will notice that the button is stuck on "Saving..." The edit post function throws back 403 Forbidden: Now, if you want to post something, it accept the post as normal, but simply not add any reply, just the same way it happens when the forum randomly eats a post. Press submit, nothing will show up. Reproducable like this on Edge and Firefox. Now, this isn's particularily surprising as people seem to have that issue without breaking a post on Safari by the looks of it - there were a number of reports that entire posts go missing and that one cannot react to content at all. The error message from reacting to content is "Something went wrong" which is the same exception (at least the same text, that is) thrown back form the second POST attempt on the screenshot: checking for new replies in the thread. I'm going out on a limb and say this is exactly what's been causing the random post eating for posters here all the time, particularily when the posting in a thread generates a new thread. Something in the function that checks for new replies breaks, the post goes through but does not show up. Since that reply check is happening only periodically, it on and off happens randomly. What causes the issues I don't know, but it's probably also some sort of issue with checking the reply count or replies in a thread when the page changes. Not necessarily only that as I've had posts eaten on new pages just as well. Either way, as long as the forum is broken like that, it might be possible to observe what makes posts disappear that apparently go through but then don't, and prevent it from happening in some way.

Hilor is always present once you reach Defender's Heart (first at the tavern, then at your crusade camp, later in the cites), and as far as I know there's a certain amount of free respecs you get before he starts charging.

@SChin I originally wanted to post this, but it also does not get through, and it's getting too late to play around and figure out what causes the issue. This post as written in the screenshot also causes the forum to spaz out.

all hands to battle stations) testing something (this gives no error, right? well, let's see.

Okay, since this also produces errors: And it also procudes a 403 Forbidden when using only a single break, not a new paragraph by using shift+enter, I'm assuming that we're running into a problem whenever the forum produces a paragraph element and at least one of them begins with an open parantheses, and one ends with a closed parantheses. Because the request sent for the above text in the image is like <p>(okay so...</p><p>this is weird)</p>. But only if in the proper order, because this works: As does adding a space here, for some reason. Yay. (

(test) is it maybe also the end) (or only the beginning without one?

Doing anything that annoys the backend in an edit gives back the usual response when you're trying to edit a post that is in a locked thread or has been removed. The server replies with a 403 Forbidden for some reason. I'd laugh, but it makes posting really annoying.

There (maybe is) another (issue) with more than one ("parantheses") per line. Edit: Odd, it's hard to reproduce any of the weirder behaviours. Single line within () works well enough, but everything else is behaving weirdly. {{}} "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" Uuh...

It's a problem of scaling. Take your paladin there, for instance. If you slap one of the heaviest armors on him that you can find, you'll get +15 or something AC. Sounds nice, yes? If you take the character you made, add a level of Scaled Fist Monk [CHA to AC, when not wearing armor] and Oracle with Nature's Whispers [CHA bonus works as DEX bonus] and remove the armor, you're now at +10. Essentially, you're starting the game with an Adamantine Full Plate, and the Paladin abilities provide a really nice saving throw bonus. You're wearing your charisma as armor, basically. Your AC is 10 + 2 * CHA-Bonus, and if you spend all your points in charisma and add a +6 item you're looking at 30 CHA (or 32, with a Kindred Half-Elf) without any buffs or other abilities, giving you +20/22 AC, and your smites a +10/+11 to hit against pretty much every enemy in the game that warrants it. There's no armor speed penality on your character, no armor penalty for skill checks and it leaves you open to add other sources of "armor" - like Bracers of Protection or the best option there probably is, the Archmage Armor mythical ability that adds your mythic level (goes up to 10 over the course of the game) to Mage Armor, which adds +14 over the long run and although you're not spending a whole lot of time at Mythic 10, but you're getting to +7 or +8 AC out of that ability rather quickly. Any character can procc Archmage Armor as long as they're the source of Mage Armor, so potions work for everyone. On the other hand, you can just have Lann turn into a Divine Hunter and have a leopard pet, that starts out with 31 AC and can last you for a while. Arguably the entire game on Core if you buff the pet well enough, and here's a tip: treat your pets as well as your characters, they'll be really helpful. But, actually, that's not even what I meant, although it is a part of it. Core was not designed to be played like this: You don't need to go all the way and break the game in every way possible like you would if you wanted to do a full unfair run - like the CHA/AC scaling which you could do simply because it's easy and convenient and you have the charisma for it anyway - but you should have a more than decent idea what you can and cannot do in the game. Play around until you get a feeling for what you want to do. Drop back to normal when the going gets too tough. Enjoy the game. Nobody's going to laugh at you for not playing on Core. Paladins get two different mount choices: horses, and black horses, but that is not bad, horses are good because you can still ride them when enlarged, provided you and your mount are enlarged by the same size factor. PARANTHESES ARE DEATH.

There's something wrong with her design? There's an episode down a ways where a guy starts talking to her and she goes "I'm not as cheap as I look!" and that had in me in tears. I'm not sure that was intended as comedy, but I laughed. Hard.

The charisma is fine - maxing charisma is pretty much a must on a paladin (for Smite / Mark of Justice). Heavy Armor might be a bit lacking as defensive mechanism later in the game on Core. Are you planning on getting a horse?

Maxwell Fraser/Maxi Jazz. Guess he'll finally get that sleep. Man, feels weird when people from one's childhood start dying.

The joy of old games with no internal game loop speed limit. DOSBOX works, but not always perfectly. I thought SM1 was fine, SM2 is really annoying and a lot less enjoyable overall, but that's perhaps biased. It took me a while to get Secret Missions 2, I only had the base game and Secret Missions 1 for the longest of times, and when I finally got my hands on SM2, I was disappointed. SM1 manages to make you feel like you're on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. For a game that old, the atmosphere is top notch.

Good, uh, luck on Core.

Build buildings that increase your recruitement pool. Don't have more than one army and general until way later in the game, use a sorcerer general and ranged units are better than anything else. When you get the upgrade options, pick marksmen. Recruit marksmen. Win.

Oh, come on. No Medal of Valor? Due to the game's hilarious medal system it's possible to walk away with a Medal of Valor and 18 other medals while still ending up on the losing path of the campaign. The weird counting of the tally system makes it so that losing your wingmen in certain missions is actually required to get them. One on the winning path, two on the losing path work like that, but it's basically a design oversight as those missions were not meant to award medals as their required points total is impossible to reach unless very specific conditions are met that give more points than they should.

From what I've heard, that mission is intentionally almost impossible to complete properly so players understand that there's a mission tree with different cut-scenes in Wing Commander. It is possible to complete, but it was intentionally hard, or at least so Chris Roberts claimed at some point. Just eject to get the medal for surviving. Well, and have Halcyon complain at your face that ejecting saves the pilot, but not the expensive fighter craft. I think I've played the original Wing Commander two dozen times, of not more, and I never really saw all of the missions. There's 13 systems, but any given run has a maximum of eight, and a minimum of six. Failing Kurasawa 2 gives you one extra system to go to.

There are two expansions, Secret Missions 1 and 2. The first one is better, and arguably Wing Commander at its finest, although overall the second one is probably more polished. As much as games from the era can be considered polished nowadays. Heh, okay. Not really used to people using the full names for the games. You're lucky if your wingmen don't crash into you or just die from their own stupidty in the first games. When I played the first game, I did not have a joystick, so I just played with keyboard, which was really awkward. The trick with both asteroid and minefields is just to just hit the afterburner and rush through them. More often than not you get through without taking damage. Mine fields are less problematic because all of the ships can take a hit, and you're not getting hit more than once most of the time. Asteroids can just insta gib you, but it's still faster and less frustrating to just try to afterburn through than playing 'properly' - especially on a keyboard.

「for good measure」

[these] <all> {work}

Fun an quick way to get the forum to display the "Request Blocked" error: At any point in your post, begin a new line, and put some text in parantheses, like so: "(THIS WILL CAUSE THE FORUM TO ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL)" Just without the quotes. -> @SChin -> tagging you in again. Some other combinations may cause this too, but this is a really simple way, at least on the latest Firefox. Edit: Does the same on Edge, so it is not a browser problem.