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Relative to the implementation, put a field of each damage type to the encounter table, inestead of doing complex manouvers to a single field..:P I'm not sure I follow this bit, or you may be making assumptions about how damage works that aren't true. Currently foes have attack and defense power, j...

Eh? Clever in what way? I think the odds are good the answer is yes (and by policy I'm happy to encourage people to always assume so

) but I'm not sure which particular facet of cleverness you're thinking of at the moment.

Actually, I haven't decided yet. It's gonna be one of three things. 1) like you suggest (perhaps with a cap short of 100%) 2) the "element" part will only be some fraction of the damage. Perhaps 50%. So 100% fire resistance really means you take 50% of the damage--the physical half. Or the...

So if it's just a dream, does that mean you wouldn't keep any stuff from ascension to ascension? Next I suppose we'll have to postulate some sort of "dream catcher" that snags money and items right out of your dreams and deposits them into your "real" life, which is of course its...

You know, I was thinking about it. Of course, both the term and the concept are too KoLish. Er, if by KoL-ish you mean "completely stolen from Nethack." Well, maybe not the precise mechanism, but certainly the name and general concept. Long term, I probably won't call it ascension. But wh...

Yeah, sorry, that's the one drawback of the system at the moment. Once we've got ascension going, you'll have plenty of opportunities for all variety of rewards there. But in the immediate future I didn't want people to be able to get all the other rewards repeatedly, nor do I want that to be an opt...

Quanti a nn i hai? (How many years do you have? {the italian expression for "How old are you?"}) being pronounced as... Quanti a n i (How many assholes do you have?) Spanish has a similarly dangerous concordance between ano and what's pronounced "anyo" but is spelled nearly iden...

I do consider having a healthy chat important to the game, and I really would like to have it working better -- most especially the /who command. The main reasons I haven't done it yet is: 1) I haven't figured out how to tell if someone is logged in. 2) I also haven't figured out how to feed in and ...

that's "nuclear" but spelled to make it clear that it's being muspronounced, as it often is, as nu-cu-ler instead of the proper nu-cle-ar.

While I'm digging up old creative pieces, here's another one that I really dig. I should note that I have absolutely zero musical talent, but occasionally I'll end up writing what could be used as song lyrics. I like this one because there's something darkly humorous, and perhaps ironic, about a you...

I was reminded last night of a trek I took out to Glacier National Park, one of the loveliest places I've ever seen. While I was there I wrote this fun piece, about my friends and I getting eaten by a bear. I laugh every time I remember it. Bear Country (8-16-01) By the ember's dying light, three ca...

Man, that's a tough one to answer. There's definitely a lot of appeal to having the players really feel like they get to be a part of the world, up to and including affecting what's in it and perhaps how it works. There's also an equal appeal to making sure that the game maintains standards of quali...

Hmm. Actually, I was thinking that it made a certain kind of sense for the spell damage to be capped, though I think +damage items ougt to be above and beyond the base. It's a way for the more powerful spells to be more compelling. I do also personally feel that I'm about 0% likely to try a pathed h...

I'm sure there's a lot of good stuff there. I posted over on the KoL forums my theory, which I'll repeat here: It feels really painful right not because we're not just learning new stuff, we're un-learning old habits, and that's a very difficult and awkward thing to do. Habits take a long time to sh...

Yeah, that last one is so crazy I don't eve know where to begin. When you read stuff like that, and it has so little to do with the actual game, the ability to argue just kind of breaks down, because it's so far off base. I really don't understand where the author is coming from, but if the author h...

In short, Jick joked that he ought to hire me to work on the game full-time, so that I would produce regular updates. The problem being, he was under the impression that I'm currently between jobs, whereas I'm actually still finishing up the old job while also preparing to move. In about a month I'l...

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that the full movie was only as good as the short clips. I just think it's funny that they're essentially spinoffs from HotW.

JEWS IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE! :D Y'know, I was watching those teasers at the end of the movie, and it seems to me that Jews in Space is essentially Spaceballs and "Hitler on Ice" is essentially "The Producers." I kinda feel like Mel Brooks got three movies out of that first set o...

After watching Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part 1, I kinda wish someone would make a sequel: Mel Gibson's History of the World, Part 2, starring James Brooks. Or, at least, I thought that would be really funny. Until my wife pointed out that James Brooks is the producer from the Simpsons, and ...

Ah, you know, it's amazing where different people can find happiness. Devant's happy because he's getting a better title, I'm happy because I'm quitting my job. Icy's happy bringing order to the universe--starting with a very small corner of it--and I'm equally happy with the minor chaos I'm creatin...

That does indeed warm my heart and make it go all a-pitter-pat.

Thanks, Devant, for the reference, and Jick, for the kind words, assuming that was indeed referring to Twilight Heroes.

About you finding a job, have you considered working via the net? For accomplished profesionals, especialy web designers, there are many oportunitites of that kind...:) Ah, you make me laugh. Have I considered working via the net? Heh. Yeah, about 15% of my present income comes from freelance work....

Hoo-ee, this summer's gonna be interesting. My wife just accepted a job in beautiful Durango, Colorado, which is in the opposite corner of the state from where we currently live. We're not sure about any of the details yet, but the move is likely to happen around the end of June. I'm not sure what t...

I suppose it's possible. You just wouldn't be able to hit anything.

Well, considering most pocket-size modern lasers won't even make your skin warm, a slightly futuristic laser would burn but not be anywhere as immediately lethal as a big hole in your body. Yeah, I realize the whole thing is a little arbitrary, and certainly other weapons are nearly as deadly, but i...

Real Life arms: Well, where are M16 assault rifles? Chesterfield scoped rifles? M1 WWII rifles? Cobra double barreled carabines? I want my Uzi now...:P My brother and I made an intentional choice not to include modern firearms in the game. For one thing, they're simply a little too immediately leth...

No worries. Just keeping the facts straight. Eventually the Wiki will take care of that for me, right?

No, there aren' any, skills stop progressing at level 11 (or 10?) at least this is unless I seriouly misunderstood something...:P Sorry, Devant, but this isn't quite right. There in fact *are* other animal companions, and while most high-level skills don't exist, there are a couple that kick in bey...

Ah, nothing like an inside joke from a defunct forum to brighten a Sunday afternoon!

Sorry Ryme, but, c'mon, you need some balls]

Just a thought, but maybe you could put the equipment in the 'Wear things' section in the order they appear? So helmets would come first, then mainhand, shirts, gloves, pants, boots, offhand, accessories, then lastly talismans. Yeah, that's been on my list for a while. I agree it would be useful. I...

Those are some good ideas, Devant. I might not tie results to specific zones/foes (though occasionally that might make a lot of sense). But I do like that a variety of things can happen. As mentioned, going a different tactic than KoL is a good idea: not only for originality, but also because their ...

Don't worry, penalties will be coming. I just haven't bothered thus far because I figured I'd be nice during alpha testing. By beta, you'll have some disadvantage. Not sure what it is, yet, but it'll happen.

If you're talking about how the bulletin board software denotes things with the little icons, I'm not entirely sure. I think it's got more to do with frequency, but that requires a certain amount of quantity, too.

This is the place for players to put their creative ideas for in-game items, zones, effects, etc. (Like make-a-KoL, if you've been over there.) The management makes no claims about the amount of attention they will or won't pay to this thread. We pride ourselves on our originality and mostly feel co...

Technically, that post wasn't an introduction. It should be deleted! Hi, my name's Ryme and I invented this game. And by "invented" I mean "borrowed a lot from other games I really like to try to put something together that's original enough not to get me sued." I'm about to hit ...

It may be the positioning of the slashes, but I'm having trouble understanding what you're asking. How quickly what posts arrive? Forum posts? I'm not sure about the "how many have to be" part.

I tweaked things a little last night. Your best bet for memory tubes is still someplace that mostly isn't robotic (you'll have to take a chance somewhere else), but you can find them from at least one other foe in the more obvious location. Drop percentages might still need a little tweaking, and I'...

Ah, you posted the link right after I asked. So ignore me. Cool!

Ask again in, say, a year or two and I'll give it some thought. Right now things like that fall more into the "saves players time and energy because they don't need to take notes" category, which I do recognize as valuable, but not nearly so valuable as things like filling in the gaps in s...

I also do agree that the color coding could be a little clearer, but I don't want to make it too rainbow-y, and I've still probably got to add a couple more types of damage (had a few good ideas just recently -- acid damage and sonic damage).

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