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Predator is amusing. Massive STR/CON/DEX powerhouse, terrible at everything else. I have so much DEX at level 6 that I've managed to cheat five/six times in a row in Blackjack and not get caught (and just as I say that, I get caught every round... still, six corruption potions and two faith scrolls isn't too bad).

I get the feeling E+ has some subtler features as well. I've been seeing a lot more OOD monsters than usual, for instance.

If we do get games going, I hope we get some team ones in. Really opens up a lot of options.

The various expansions and collections are supposed to be compatible, but I wouldn't be surprised if the CD-less GoG version didn't work with the others. There's another known problem with playing online (the MS DirectPlay issue again), the easiest way of getting around which is via GameRanger.

Yeah sorry, I was thinking of localcood. I can't remember exactly how it's supposed to be done but localcood might have something to do with rescaling characters messing things up - I think it needs to be adjusted in some way, but I forget exactly how. Been a long time since I've done this.

Edit: Try making localcood match your resolution, see if that helps.

Depends on what you're dealing with, but I'm guessing you're using high-res characters. If that's the case you'll want to open the relevant character's cns file and change the xscale and yscale values until they're appropriately large (0.5 is usually good).

If it's window resolution that's the problem, you can change that in data -> system.def.

Semi-offtopic: I have no idea why the brony movement has attracted as much attention as it has. People have been doing exactly the same thing in regard to internet-related fads and fandoms for over a decade, and they've been doing it in meatspace since the dawn of mankind. An easy comparison: Any major anime fandom. Fans connect with characters outside of their usual comfort zone as the typical social constraints aren't as easily self-enforced in a medium that's inherently surreal. They run around and spout catchphrases and post image macros with childlike abandon until they realise they're overdoing it and/or get bored and move on; unless there are a lot of other people doing the same thing, in which case everyone ecourages everyone else to carry on doing the same thing, and the behaviour eventually becomes complex enough to be considered a sub-culture. Of course, this is true for "masculinity" and "femininity" as well, in that the established behaviour is a set of self-enforcing rules that've become so entrenched that they take a great deal of effort to shift.

There is no magical paradigm shift here. As kaijyuu says, such labels are just that: labels used to describe prevalent trends in behaviour. They have no inherent meaning.

The problem I have with econ first strategies is that you start off with a reasonably large amount of gold anyway - certainly enough for you to go straight to a city hall on week 2 after getting most of your dwellings. Not being able to afford to recruit everything isn't much of a problem so long as you have a general idea as to what you're up against and focus on getting only what you need; you're stockpiling creatures anyway, so there's nothing stopping you from being able to catch up later. If you get a bunch of gold first then dwellings, not only do you have less map control and therefore less access to items and resources, but you also don't have any immediate way of spending it (because you're essentially a week behind on population).

The only situation I can think of where I'd prefer early city hall/capitol is if my main hero has some trump card that can win the early game (ballistics I meant artillery, a specialist spell, etc.) and I want to powerlevel them via chests. In most other situations just having more/better creatures is more important.

There are at least three Shadow Dios, all of them different, and all of them worth playing. There's the ancient weirdass six-button one by Orochi Herman, another one by someone whose name I can't remember which is almost totally unique (based on Jojo arc 1 Dio), and then there's Warusaki's one (the EX mode of which took inspiration from the second mentioned here).

There aren't many Jojo conversions around besides the Warusaki3 ones, and those that aren't his are usually bad. The few that are neither generally aren't that technically sound. Playable, but usually a bit odd. It's a shame as most of them are pretty creative.

Related: There was a fad in the Japanese community a few years back that involved emulating Jojo characters via IaMP/SWR characters. Some of those were amusing.

I guess people weren't kidding when they said Centaurs were .10 ezmodo.


This was my first try. I got lucky with items early on (Black Knight's barding, +0/+9 slaying, etc.), but getting lucky with items is vital to any nonspellcaster. I didn't quite realise exactly how broken TSO can be in the extended game; I'd say that any reasonable melee character could convert to TSO and basically auto-win every extended branch. Zot:5 put up a surprising fight (mostly due to TSO not helping as much), and Asmodeus felt like the most dangerous individual encounter.