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Just discovered that you cannot see your responses to private messages. If you simply sent a message, you can see it in your sent messages folder. On the other hand, if you reply to something from your Inbox, you can't see it.

Unless I'm missing something. It wouldn't be the first time.

Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about the fact that different species do not change your stats?

Nope. I'm fine with purely aesthetic species, just like I'm fine with purely aesthetic genders.

Quote from: abculatter_2 on June 19, 2012, 06:54:36 pm

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RandomNumberGod
http://www.scp-wiki.net/random:random-scp

You evil bastard.

No-one's forcing you to click on them

I kid you not. This is the message I got when I logged in today after a few weeks of not being online:
DAAAAMN.

Also, both of my gladiators are alive and uninjured.

Mount & Blade hits quite a few of your criteria.

While the worlds are finite, they are definitely not small.
Armies are raised and destroyed, cities and fortresses are sacked and conquered, entire nations can crumble if things go badly enough for them.
Building on the above statement, you start as a lone adventurer, but before long you're leading mercenary troops and eventually entire armies. There is also no guarantee that your mission objectives will stay where they are; say you need to deliver a letter to the king. You ride to the capital to discover that he left with his army. You track the army down only to discover that the king was captured in battle. You can then track the other army, attack it, and free the king to deliver your message. Or you can say "nuts to that" and go kill bandits for a while.
Although it defaults to third-person perspective, you can go first-person if you want.
Cities are kinda lackluster, sadly.

Problem: When reloading the game after finding a Monster Zoo, the awesome music does not play. So listen to this while enjoying the carnage.



So here we are. The Stout Amphitheater. 28 monsters, a somewhat small zoo. Full of things that want to grind Hopson's bones for bread and possibly drugs.



Step One: Rocket-punch the Deth. It dies instantly, and a gap opens in the monster ranks. The rest move up, and a mummy launches some sort of poison gas cloud, which thankfully misses.



Step Two: Equip the Bolt of Squid.
Step Three: Unleash inky, tentacled doom at the nearest Mummy.



Hopson catches a little bit of the blast, but he's mostly unhurt. The monsters, on the other hand...



And with that, there are a mere 11 monsters remaining. And the bolt of squid is still active. That was the amount of carnage in a single turn of movement.
Two rounds later, just 2 monsters left alive. I got very lucky here however; Hopson got hit some more by the squid bolt, and was even put to sleep for a short time. If the bolt hadn't been so utterly devastating and some monsters got close enough, Hopson could have been in serious trouble.



The aftermath. Those darn wights were the only survivors, and Hopson quickly clears them up.



Done.



Nice shoes for a rogue, but we've got aluminum boots.

Well, that was fun. Tune in next time!

I'm not sure. My understanding is that you can only send bonds to other nobles when you're in a city with a bank, since sending bonds counts as a "financial action".

I sincerely hope this is fake.

Otherwise, the species is doomed.