The World of Avlis

*scratches his head*

Why do I always do stuff the hard way?

It has tons to do with the registry, if you're comfy with regedit you can roll through with the find function and pretty much nuke anything with nwn in it without much worry. NWN keeps (pretty much) all of its configuration information in files in the install directory anyway with the stuff in the r...

The Arcane Archer quest will be the first to go in, if it isn't already, but they've supposedly got folks working on pretty much all of them right now.

It doesn't seem as though there's that much to it now that I"ve played with it... that isn't obvious, I mean. I'd still like to see what features do and don't work on players and how they work differently on players than on NPC objects... but, eh. Now it's more a matter of doing it cause no one know...

I just want to be able to learn the nuances of the DM client without having to have real players around to assist, and vice versa. The learning process... grand, ain't it?

*grins* Problem solved, get a new Linux box. Just got word on a sweet deal that's gonna net me a pair of AMD (screw Intel) 64 FX-51 processors dirt cheap, basicly gonna pay %75 of the price of a single processor and get 2... I love my job :) Just gotta score some motherboards, or hold on until someo...

Prollem is that my Linux box is way too low horsepower to display a large module. It can handle serving them, but the graphics capability on it is shit. Ah well, I"ll figure it out.

The DM client pretty much has to be a switch provided to nwmain.exe at run time, anyone know what that switch is?

After even more digging in nwn.bioware.com's forums I came up with the answer... I'd already looked for half an hour before posting here.

ActionSpeakString("You have been given "+IntToString(vGoldAward)+" gold coins.")

I want to use ActionSpeakString() to spit out the state of some variables in my script for debugging and informational purposes... It's been so damn long since I've messed with anything coding related though that I can't remember what I have to do to get output from a non-string variable included in...

Yah, sneak attack dice I knew about... Otherwise the entire world would be dual wielding rogues with focus and improved crit in rapier or something.

Umm, you have to know the DM password on Avlis to log in to it with a DM client... so that's pretty much out of the question.

I have a dedicated server running on a totally seperate machine. What I wanna be able to to is have a player object connected to my server and a DM client connected to the server at the same time so I can test out various scripts and the like and see exactly how everything pans out in addition to pr...

Well, I can't get multiple copies to even try to run... never get a message about a cd key in any way shape or form.

I have like 3 sets of discs now, so the key itself isn't the problem. Did you all have seperate installation directories going or ..?

After looking at it for just a few minutes I think it will be easier for me (even though I'm 'new' to scripting) to just write the stuff. ScriptEase isn't for newbies to write scripts as much as it is for advanced users to keep track of scripts and script elements it seems. Though there is some simp...

Is such a thing possible? If I wanna run the DM client and a normal player client at the same time?

Are there any modifiers that get added to the damage roll before critical hit effects are calculated or is it strictly base weapon damage that gets the mulitplier? Greatsword +1 (enhancement) w/ Specialization and +2 Str bonus acheives critical hit.. Would it be (2d6x2)+5 or would the damage bonus f...

Pfear me and my uber-133+ scriptz!

According to the sources I have available, the store I work at will actually be receiving copies ON the 2nd... I don't really see how that's possible, but, since there's no street date restrictions on software and games I can buy it as soon as the box gets dropped (generally literally) off the truck:)

So, I had this concept I've been trying to work on lately about open ended quest type areas. The concept is that there is a key group of NPCs that doesn't change at the 'entrance' to a given zone set up as a random quest zone. They could be things like priests, mages, lords and ladies, etc... Perhap...

Hakpaks don't overwrite files, that's the point of using them. Instead of having to replace Bioware's content with customized stuff the creators of mods can put their customizations (replacements and additions) in to a hak pak which is manipulated as a single file and only extracted to memory (and p...

*shrugs* I can see why it wouldn't work, but if you read the name, it's Expertise... you know how to not get hit, at the expense of your attack ability. I'm not that pressed... As for why I'm in close combat with a bow, one has to be dedicated to one's weapon of choice and show extreme desire to use...

Damn.. expertise not working actually really bothers me. The whole concept is that you spend more time moving out of harm's way than trying to hit your target, nothing wrong with doing that with a missile weapon:( Wasted a damn feat already.

It occurs to me that some of the combat related feats don't apply to missile weapons, bows in particular. Now, this is fairly obvious with some, not so obvious with others. Here is a list of the feats which I have thought about acquring at one point or another that I'm curious as to their effect wit...

Bah.