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Probably just whatever smell wasn't common in the area max spent most of their time previously.

Geographic stenches are like accents, really. Everyone has them, but many will try to deny they're there.

Not sure what this has to do with the UK, though, unless it's even started smelling worse since the referendum :V

It's way out of your league MSH. You couldn't even survive being spread out over a small geographical location, never mind a whole state.

Uh, okay look I don't know.  My dad talks a lot, and knows, but I'm not going to ask-
It's a Kindle (r)...  My understanding is that Amazon stripped the Google stuff in order to support their proprietary app store and everything else.

Again, I don't know and I have a problem with finding out, but,
You need to root that shit.

Yeah, the kindle thing was amazon being a shit -- part of the reason I haven't registered this device with 'em. The PC thing's google being an idiot, though. There's ways around it that don't involve rooting the kindle, it's just a hell of a lot more effort than I should be expending on this.

E: I'm still going to do it, at this point more out of spite than anything, but still.

Huh. Saw some interesting figures somewhere else... wondering if someone better acquainted with the UK could confirm. Apparently they have a debt of ~1.5 trillion, with a 3% deficit (I.e. it'll go up by about 45 billion within the next year)... and an estimated impact of tax evasion pegged around 70b. Is this accurate? Could the UK actually completely erase their current deficit (and then some) if they thoroughly enforced their tax laws?

I... would hope not? Some things are better off in one piece, rather than split into parts...

... sequel? The manga ended? What?

Anyways, I could try to do another news round-up tonight if you want. Not now, work break's almost over, but if people are actually reading these/helped by it I wouldn't mind doing it from time to time.

Wouldn't be objected to, methinks. I've been reading over the posts, if only occasionally actually following the links, heh.

Necro sounds neat, ahaha. Definitely interested in minion classes, and ones with permanent ones (particularly ones with much in the way of customization) are fairly rare in roguelikes. Multiple ones fairly rare period. So it'll be nice to see. Does sound like they'll be less legion-of-undead-y, but... maybe some kind of later game global effect? Fertile domain except zombies! Ghosts flapping about bothering people (and/or helping out, too.). That sort of thing. Anything that twigs the Dominions vibe is good stuff, heh, though I guess scale wise it's more the mentioned MoM or AoW. Still.

And ah, to the EA. Saw the connection regarding the mentioned series' Infinity Archive, which plays a somewhat notable role in the things' plots. There's a handful of other similar termed/themed things throughout media, too, so it was worth asking if there was a particular shout out behind it. It being original is cool, too, though.

Good to know about the smithing -- definitely explains why I never managed to figure out what it did. Didn't buy or keep many weapons with a negative modifier on 'em. And that event must be pretty rare indeed... unless I just haven't been checking the right ones (so far I haven't messed with anything over goblin tier, for all those start throwing hoards of stone golems at you pretty quickly*), I haven't seen it yet,. Good to hear about the 0.4.0 stuff, too.

And re: Paradox... may be underestimating it a little. The parts I'd call interesting from a design perspective would probably be the later game stuff -- the various methods of anomaly management that the chronomancy classes (and chronomancers in particular) have. They've got some neat ideas of how to turn miscasts/failures into something that's more than just a punishment, and are fairly well tuned so you start getting access right about when it starts becoming really likely you're going to be running in the unstable zone. Far from perfect, but there's some neat ideas there, even if there's no place for 'em in numenfall.

Think relative to numenfall's current system, it'd look like something (probably later on, or fairly exotic) that weaponizes/utilizes magical imbalance, turning that inert energy into something more... energetic, ehehe, ferex. Or having high levels of imbalance starting to have a sort of general harmony/discord effect for the surrounding area**... stuff like that. It'd be something to tweak so it starts coming into play around the point it starts getting really likely you're going to be running high imbalance/saturation/etc., and implemented in a way that rather than punishing the player, it changes things. If there was any interest, anyway, which it'd be entirely understandable if there isn't.

*Actually, now that I think about it, how intentional is that? I've been finding that usually somewhere in the teens or so, character level wise, stuff like the goblin slave camps stop being populated by goblins and start being populated by large angry rocks... which tends to accelerate the effect, 'cause those golems are pretty good XP.
**It'd be really neat if there eventually ended up a way to just permanently break the balance of a certain area, with all sorts of effects from it, actually. Changes to potions made/used in it, all sorts of stuff. Or just having particular areas that are like that -- magical dumping grounds that are so infused with discord that harmony effects become unusable and discord ones automatic, ferex (with the extra bonus of functionally having 16 rune-thingies while you're in there, assuming the area corrupted the harmony remnants into discord fragments, anyway). Or a particularly wrecked area that has it fluctuating, ahaha.

E: Actually, on the subject of intent... are shop keepers supposed to attack you if you pass out in their shop while holding an unpaid item? Haven't checked to see if it's still doing that in this latest version, but it was in 0.3.7. Was probably the most amusing death I've had so far, I think. General store fellow took umbrage to the critter browsing their goods being potion drunk, I guess :V

E2: Ah, bug report! If you see it, anyway. Apparently if you try to autoexplore when you're in, at least, the top leftmost tile of the map, the game will crash.