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2 is more more deliberately paced and teamwork oriented with several more vehicles than the original, many of which require more than one person to operate fully.  There are also more types of deployables...  I think there's a working cloaking pack too.

Your words intrigue me. I used to play Tribes 1 a fair bit, but I utterly and completely blow at the actual FPS part; I lack twitch at the best of times, and adding in a Z dimension and 100 mph skating just ruins what I do have. But! Tribes had a helluva' mod presence, from what I remember. The ones that added junkloads of varying deployables and vehicles let me meaningfully contribute to the team, either by trapping the hell out of the home base (and the enemy's, if I was feeling frisky) or playing gopher/artillery with a big machine, stuff along those lines.

Does T2 have similar expansions? How genuinely useful is the fellow running around with a repair gun and no aimbot?

Is there a way to get in on this without having Steam? Last time I tried getting it to function didn't work well and I'd rather not try again

Regarding the skylands passwords...

Well, I got a +3 +2 Sabre of speed (gonna enchant it, don't think I'm gonna get any better non artifact weapons)... since it's 1 and a half handed, would it still be better to use a buckler?

Sabres are one-handed, not 1.5, unless this changed very recently. Scimitars are 1.5 (I think?) one handed too, but they're not short blades. So... yeah. Buckler. Sabres of speed are the best non-artifact shortblades in existence, according to the knowledge bot. Do note that, yes, most one-handed weapons count as hand-and-a-half for sprigs, but I'm going by normal size handedness, not sprig-size handedness. 1.5 weapons are two-handed for sprigs, etc.

Yeah, but effort

Focused printscreen is a three button affair on this lappie, and then there's opening paint, saving as something non-freaking-huge, etc, etc, etc. All the while, Minecraft's java sorceries are trying to make my laptop ignite. Silly thing. Maybe some weekend or another I'll see just how much time it'd take, but for now watching is enough.

Just to double check, isn't there still a casting penalty based on the -EV of the armor? As I understood it, the strength requirement was to prevent extra penalty on top of the base, not prevent penalty altogether.

Casting penalty also reduces as armor skill goes up, but how that relates to strength I'unno. Knowledge bot suggests that there's a multiplier to the base penalty based on skill -- the minimum is .45 at 27 armor.

Full formula via knowledge bot -- base penalty is the innate -EV of the armor:
Actually, looking at it, extra armor skill should simply reduce the effect of the base penalty -- 45/45 is 1, so if your strength is fine, there's no extra penalty for not having the skill. Mo'skill mo'betta', though.

Argh, math. May be reading that wrong, I'unno. "Base penalty plus up to 3 times penalty, minus strength, multiplied by 45 - armor skill, then take that lot and divide by 45?" Is that the (poor) english translation of that thing? I guess not having skill is a non-issue only if you've got the 3*strength, but if you've got less it makes the penalty worse than it would be?

Firstly, Iron is only found below sea level. Your best bet is to mine down to bedrock and then mine up and around for 20 blocksish start digging on the seafloor.

Offshore drilling time!

Gravel and sand makes this a much easier processes. I'm starting small; a little 9x7 hole a just a little bit away from the midget lighthouse that's still covered in lava in my attempt to make a perpetual lava mountain (Learned: Lava cools after a while without the source. Sadness.). It wasn't too hard to swim down, make a cobblestone anchor-pillar to the surface, then start dropping gravel to block off water. Currently about 3/4ths finished cleaning out the water. Soon (well, as soon as I go build some ladders or something), the prospecting begins!

In other news, does anyone have an elegant method of harvesting all the wood from the occasional giant tree the saplings produce? I've currently got this fugly dirt scaffolding surrounding the place, but... it's fugly. The trees are awesome, but a pain to clean up. They're huge!

EDIT: Talk about fortuitous positioning... there's a cave right under the spot I made the insertion point. That's going to simplify things. Iron deposit five blocks away from my landing point, too. This definitely took less time and resources than mining down

Yeah, iron only spawns below ground level[...]

Haa, thanks for that tip. Had been holding off doing much work in the mines because the local geography was massively more interesting than a series of 2x2 step stairways into the earth. Anyway, only took just shy of three stone picks before I hit some iron! Now I can burn things... maybe make some better tools or something. Mostly the fire, though.

<Minutes later...>
Oh. There's a cave a single block beyond the iron. Good thing I've got this map in peaceful mode...

EDIT: Oh dear. It's one of the freaking huge ones. Seen I think six branches so far, fully explored three, and this latest branch has both water and lava at the bottom... well, semi-bottom, as the branch itself seems to be branching in different directions. Good thing I brought the making for signs with me.

One of the branches... branches from the top of the cavern. I guess I'm also glad for those 160 or so cobblestone staircase blocks I was totin' around. Ceiling branch (Is it watching me excavate?) wasn't very large, though... wait. Waait. There was another end on the other side of a gap. Little bit of bridge work and... well, the branch is larger, but not really anything interesting in it. Oh well. Except more iron! Between that initial bit and the little deposits I've been finding in the other branches, looks like I'm walking out of this place (To go make a bucket to steal lava with) with a good 3050+ iron pieces. Nicelings.

Amusingly, ceiling branch's iron bits were on the ceiling.

Later edit: Good gods, it doesn't end! I have to go make more signs now.

Though I do wonder if a Troll wearing Troll Leather Armor was actually doing anything for me. I'm not sure if it works, and while on occasion I would see my HP tick up by 2 with a step, it was only a rare occasion that it seemed to happen.

Henzell says...
1. Speeds your regeneration, but also makes you hungry while doing so. All races can wear this. 4AC, -1EV. Light. Does not work on trolls or deep dwarves.
2. Increases nutrition rate by 1.5 while you are injured.

And ah, bad timing on Nergalle's point (from your perspective, anyway.). Only other thing that might have helped was that fear scroll to get the summons off your back. Probably was just screwed, though, heh.

I actually don't parse the uft-whatever's name. It's a 5 with a u and a bunch of jibberish after it for a name You-fitoo-bus? Fi-too-bus? No real need to remember what it's called, just to recognize it's a squishable lesser demon. Is it the yellow one that drains dex? That's the only really annoying one, at least from the player's side.