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Buon Natale?

clickie So much for consoles not suffering from update bugs. "

Individuals only pay tax on their income (although the British government tried to tax on revenue for contractors with their IR35 legislation, and I have also encountered "provisional" tax, whereby the government expects to be paid their tax a year in advance!

Lots of Obisidian customisations + lots of new version features = complex upgrade path.

Is that meant to be irony? "

I expect it won't be released in Italy next week, so I'll be beyond temptation (such that it is " ); anyway, I think this is a discussion that might be continued (if there is any steam left in it) in the movie topic.

Free updates will end in the new year. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What? How dare they take away my free updates!? EDIT: Are they actually stopping the free updates? I can't find anything to that effect. Version 7.1 is being discontinued, but there is still version 7.5 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh right... ok then ignore what I said. For some reason I was under the impression 7.5 would not be free. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He's a witch!

Further to this, one could roll for all the various parts that make up the whole conversation / plan. For example, if there are 20 dialogue diplomacy checks, passing more than eleven (10.5 is the average roll of a 20-sided die) would be successful to a lesser or greater extent. The perpetrator might agree to come down the station and even tell you his name, but disagree to tell you his address or known associates, say.

Because even if the player is unskilled in speech, it can be that his character is a master of diplomacy, because he isn't good in talking he will have a harder time than simply just roll the dice, but still he will have achance to succeed. I want to encourage roleplay and dialogues, not to banish people who simply can't do it better. Anyone has a chance to accomplish anything. This way its easier for roleplayers, taugher for those people who are not so good in it/or are beginners, but definetly it isn't impossible. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As long as the players who are not so good in person are able to succeed with characters that are excellent diplomats (for example).

Charisma should have a correlation to seduction, though.

There is definitely an influence check before, as well.

There is an influence check at the time of the battle. Either she leaves or joins them, I suppose.

Drills!

You can't really "breach" common law-- common law just decides whether a contract exists and whether there has been a breach of that contract. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Rules Lawyer ... :D My antecedent should have been the subject, and vice versa, then?

Sounds like Spain ... "

Poor version management, then: the "Check-In, Alert-Out" (CIAO) is used to track the modules as they are worked on, trying to map the the pre-requisite and consequent variables used in each.

Fixed!

I know Tasmania has (or had) 70% of the world's legal production of the poppy (for medicinal Pethidine and Morphine use in medicine). I believe Pethidine is up there with Heroin in the abuse stakes, too (large percentage of which are doctors self-medicating).

That's the nature of all improvements in a complex software project.

Not a mushroom?

I wonder what he was eating for those seven years?

Well, Im sorry to see that you are "narked" but if you expect me to take your "facts" at your word without you providing any sources then most likely any serious discussion you and I have will end in you becoming narked. If you come in and throw random numbers around (that sound absurd to me), I will question you on it. It doesnt mean I dont "get you". Ive read and understood your point, I simply disagree. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What are you calculating as part of the costs? Because the poppy is tantamount to a weed that grows prolifically: the most expensive part of the process is cultivating the crop (which is currently done mostly by hand). The cost-to-market would be comparable to any grain. And that's not supposing the West just purchase the existing crops from Afghanistan, to remove the Taliban from the process. (Helping prevent the use of more funds and young soldiers' lives to keep the Armed Forces over there.) While that may be true, its beyond the scope of our discussion. You say free drugs is the cure to: 80% of prison overpopulation, organized crime, prostitution, bad breath, etc... Fine. I say free drugs are already readily available and yet these conditionas still exist. What gives? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It does make a difference but, because of the limited scope of drug rehabilitation schemes, lots more is needed. So you can provide more expensive and equally toxic methadone, or cheap heroine. Recall that article I posted above(<{POST_SNAPBACK}>):

Medieval: Total War II has lots of bugs, then? Because Rome: Total War didn't.

I'd add an observation to this: one very obvious metagaming tip with all the conflict areas (internal "dungeons", like Fihelis' house) is that all the pieces of the "level puzzle" will be in that small area. I guess this is a design decision: smaller puzzles are fed by the local region, otherwise it would be far too easy to lose a vital piece because one didn't explore that outhouse around the back of the castle that only appears according to a map that must be discovered when the PC is travelling through the deepest part of the forest at the conjunctional new moons ... but then again, Ultima did this without too much negative press and some significant appreciation.