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Picking up a lil'fighting, even with the HP boost nerf, is almost never a bad idea. If nothing else, it can let you save some mana when dealing with crap like bats.

Unarmed combat is really, really, good, though. Especially if you pick up one of the critter form transmutation spells.

Basically folks getting together into teams and having at the game, trying to achieve various goals for points.

It's really just an excuse to get folks together and really focus on playing the game, throwing in a lil'competition to spice up the process. Something to drum up some exposure for the new version and get folks into it.

There's no real rewards to it, outside of some banners or whatever. Just folks comin' together to have some fun, in a somewhat more organized manner than usual.

Plus it increases the odds of being able to watch some of the genuinely masterful players work their magic. CAO/CDO's observer feature is pretty bloody awesome, heh.

Okay, sorry for the necro, but I just downloaded this onto my new laptop and I'm getting some display issues. I can't seem to get the screen to update without moving it around, or playing fullscreen, but playing fullscreen changes the colors around. Does anyone know what is going on?

Some other folks have had this trouble. Haven't had any luck seeing a proper response to it, unfortunately. Give a shout out in the google group if you can. Julian comes by every once in a while to say something, or respond to stuff.

ETA on the new engine is either later this year or around the fall/winter line (october-ish) next year, maybe. Boss Mensch has had enough trouble with putting down deadlines that he's mostly stopped, heh, but Incursion has had this sort of development hiatus before without stopping. I'm hopeful, if not holding my breath too hard

I take it that since I'm the only person on woodcutters right now, my games wont actually be counted for points?
Edit: Another question: How do you kneel at altars? Never actually done that without the mouse.

I'm (fairly) sure at this point that your points will stay with you if you transfer teams, or if your team changes composition, or whatever, up until the 21st. You can also have single man teams just fine (there were plenty in last year's tourney), so just having yourself shouldn't be a problem.

For those waiting for their cap to get about, make up a lil'temp team and go at it. You can join the right one later. (I'm in 15th 18th place )

Last, but not least : No levitation during combat, unless it's purely for fun (aka : At a super high level, where we would kill the enemy anyway) and/or enemies are actually attacking levitating target (it's cool in that case)

What about climbing on to unassailable ledges via mad jumping skills (or that awesome super-jump spell)? That also works.

At the very least, kill someone that way with throwing stars or something, just to embarrass them. It's a humiliating way to die

Anyway, voted north. I haven't spent much time there, especially around the islands, so seeing more of it'd be nice.

EDIT: Done, my top line now reads:

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Ack, right. When 0.9 actually gets on CAO, it'll be frumple3, not just Frumple. Forgot to mention that

Nemmy? Nemmy's basically a freaking doom beast, probably the easiest god to get at least a three rune win with. Play Nemmy as something that doesn't really need all the corpses they find for food, and sac those corpses to Nemmy. This will give you summoning decks, which will effing destroy everything. I personally had about 45-50% of the bottom of the snake pit completely wiped out by a single summoning of red wasps. I've heard reports of those wasps annihilating an entire dungeon level. Getting bone dragons (and then hasting them) is also a great way of just bloody destroying something.

All the other cards are alright, I guess. Maybe. Whatever, screw all not-summoning but the escape decks. Maybe there was a couple other decent ones, but you don't really need anything but summoning decks and escape decks (and whatever normal abilities you have) to get a win. Draw three and stack five are your friends, eventually, and summoning decks are your omni tool.

Nemelex is just ridiculous, really. It's easy to get turned off by how 'random' the decks are, but some spoilerage as to the deck content and usage of Nemmy's god abilities will mitigate the risks involved pretty much entirely. Nemmy is made of win, plain and simple.

I remember doing 6 man LAN parties playing d2, starting with new characters, for hours, until we finish the game. So much fun. Trying that using internet, spliting a home conection betwen 6 people? Maybe in some freakishly limited portions of some count[ries], at horrendous cost, that is an option, but almost everywhere it is not.

Just to clarify. That sort of thing really isn't an option anywhere, especially not for anyone that's anything below an upper-middle class income. Not at anything approaching decent ping.

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I realize it won't happen, but I sorta' wish they'd just say up-front the whole online-only thing was a control scheme, just be blunt in that they're trying to push what limits of control the consumer is willing to accept, not (horribly) insult us with the response they gave in that linked material. Double-speak and 'marketing' and crap is a part of business and, yanno', whatever, but it's always kinda' painful to see that sort of bullshit shoveled into the gaming world. It hurts, yeah, it really does. Right here *pats chest*

And yeah, no, the primary reason isn't to stop cheating. That's the line they're feeding us, but that's ridiculous (because it won't work, these people aren't naive, and they know this) and even then, it wouldn't hurt, at all, to simply have an offline mode and no way to import those into MP. Maybe a day, half day, extra work for some lower level code monkey group. I think Blizzard could manage the time and money.

Anyway. Whole thing leaves a sort of bad taste in the mouth that doesn't have to be there. Covering the golden fruit in a thin layer of fecal matter, etc, etc. M'sorta' glad big gaming companies are taking hits here and there in their profit margins. Hopefully th'lot of 'em will collapse and clear the air a bit, for all that it'd hurt the grunt workers in those companies in the interim. Sooner a bad system breaks, the less inertia it has to build up for the wreck, et al.