Sarex

That is so stupid, in fact it made me wanna give the game a try more then it did anything to discourage me.

1.Why would difficulty change xp? 2.If the creatures are accessible beyond the confines of the quest (which makes sense if another quest can "share" them), ie. by exploring, then I wouldn't count them towards the total xp of the quest. Are we giving xp for picking locks/disarming traps/etc.? Even if we do those, the question would only matter on maybe level 1 through 3, as the xp rewards for those actions would be inconsequential. 3.I don't understand your first sentence, you need to reword it. The algorithm already exists for the IE games, why would you need a new one? Why would the system be bolted on. It's not like there is an xp system already in place for the BB.

Ok let's try this again. Combat =/= walking. I mean quests are also unavoidable and I didn't see you compare them to walking. Ok so what is the problem there? You kill monsters whenever you come across them, you are rewarded with xp, they are monsters they will attack you anyways. Not really following what you are trying to say here.

So is anyone here going to watch the movie?

Well how many times did you hear the main theme of the IE games, of course you are going to remember it better. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As for the music I haven't heard it, but I will be comparing it to the best IE music (IWD2).

There is a difference between the 2 wouldn't you agree? Walking doesn't cost you anything, while combat can kill you and will spend your resources, not to mention that it's harder then the former. How does it encourage it? Only if you have some type of OCD and need to get all the possible xp in the game. It will at best get you 1 levels worth of xp. Again you are confusing things, we are not talking about quest here, we are talking about trash mobs. Quests and their xp can always be tweaked so that all solutions are viable. I don't get how you jumped to it being useless. It's a reward, it encourages exploration and alternate ways of playing the game.

Sensuki I wouldn't really try with Tart, he has some issues.

Ah you mean when you move the cursor it flickers. Ugh, I think there was even a fix for that, but I can't remember on what forum that was.

http://zeckul.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/icewind-dale-2-ultimate-installation-guide/ Follow step 6.

The first bag of holding you get on the bridge after the goblin fortress. I never had a problem with the forest because I had a druid with wildernesses lore maxed out. As for the graphics glitches those happened with the coming of windows 7. I talked with the nvidia driver guys about fixing it but they only did a partial solution. Though there is an easy way to fix it, I just need to do some googling to find the program for the fix, I'll come back to you on that.

Plus they weren't as clear as they could have been during the KS. They left a lot of things open to interpretation and did little to correct people who where getting the wrong picture. Only after it, did they start to solidify the image of PoE. Now I'm not saying the guys at OE did this on purpose, but it's what happened, for better or for worse.

You had 2 bags of holding, scroll cases, potion cases, and gem bags in IWD2.

Though I never did that, I always dropped the less valuable loot for that of more value. There was never a case where I needed to drop something that was over 5000 gold(high tier item), because there was no space. This is of course for a party of 6.

No one here is asking for more. They can try their hand at making a better xp system in the next game, when they have time to think about it more.

Now see that is just a wild guess you are peddling as facts.

Yeah it's work like doing anything else in the game, but it's not as complex as he is trying to make it seem.

Lol, you are trying to think of how to make it sound complex and it's showing. Also this is not combat xp only system we are talking about. As for how you do the xp system, it's pretty easy. First you look at the main quest line and all the creatures on that quest line, then you make it so that doing quest line you end up somewhere, xp wise, where all the encounters are passable with only the main quest line xp. Then you focus on side quests and the rest of the creatures, here you are focusing on there not being too much wasted xp, ie. you are trying to not get over the xp cap too much. See not that hard, when you are not looking to make it sound complicated.

EU sent a letter to Serbia not to export any cheese or milk products to Russia, ie. anything that Russia has banned the EU from importing, we can't import either. Just lol, guess the EU really does care about it's market share in Russia. The sad thing is even if we exported everything we had to Russia it would still be 0.4% of their imports.

As Stun said IWD2 already perfected the inventory system, I really have no idea why they are trying to reinvent the wheel here. But w/e, this is something that I can personally live with, even if I don't like it.

Just hope that fraction of people doesn't turn in to most people, ie. just hope that us Grognards don't make the majority of the player base that is already niche as it is. As for the original post, well I don't know, the xp system is just numbers after all. The main question is going to be if there is enough time to do both systems. Though from what I have seen and heard from the beta, I seriously doubt the game will be released this year, so then again maybe there will be more then enough time.

The problem with that line of thinking is that there are trash mobs and they are unavoidable. You are going to fight, a lot. Also the kill xp doesn't make you do those things, that's a false assumption. No one is making you go and kill everyone for every scrap of xp.

You did too Lephys...

You could do that in any of the IE games, though I remember that you couldn't really do that in the HoF mode, unless you cheesed and went full mage party. It all depends on how you want to play a game, after all looking at guides isn't that hard really.

I know that this is extreme nitpicking, but wow she has a high forehead on her.