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  1. No system is good enough my laptop stays cool all the time i play TDM ;)

    Well not sure if i was high enough, that place was near inn. Just above the place with that man writing about how he watches hangings. Now that i read this topic through I think someone actually mention it here so i guess never mind about it.

     

    And i have to say map is a big bonus for a mission.

  2. So mission is great I like alternative paths very much, its big... But I get a lot of crashes and that really kills the fun. The other thing is loot. If you usually start with 100-300 loot where does all the loot go? I mean you have to have 5500 on expert. And it seems some textures in start of the map are a little buggy. I mean if you climb very high to where that ship steering wheel is (probably its there as some sort of mechanism for opening doors) and if you look down you get some funny things. Not even know if you should be able to climb there in first place. Sorry no photo as I forget to save it.

    That is all for now, have to play more but just got another crash so I took some time to write this. Anyway keep up the good work.

  3. 1. gothic 1,2

    2. morrowind more than oblivion

    3. total annihilation / kingdoms

    4. dungeon keeper 2

    5. some older tomb rider ones

    cant really say deus ex since i only finished it 2 or 3 times. and anno 1602. probably i will remember some other ones that could go to that list.

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  4. If the usual levels in TDM would be larger, it might be interesting. The way it is, a reasonably trained thief should be able to sprint through most levels without much problems.

    If it was used though, the guards, at least those in heavy uniforms, would have to be affected by it as well, and more than the player (since the thief usually doesn't wear chain or plate).

    But we burdened by lots of loot :D and its not just the weight that effects that but also how is weight arranged by body. If its arranged equally like in fine armour it should not affect stamina much. Interesting concepts that games miss. Its always just the weight.

    I think this could be interesting debate about what mechanics you want to see in RPGs. As said before not really interested to have that in TDM. Only maybe in case sprint is something faster than run. Walk<run<sprint where only in sprint you would have limited stamina.

  5. I played the original DeusEx - Human Revolution long ago. Funny enough, I'm one of the fewer people who thinks it was one of the worst DX games, despite having the best graphics and being very good uncompared to the others. The first ever DeusEx holds my best childhood memories when it comes to gaming, and I hope to someday create a TDM campaign in a similar atmosphere and feel. In any case, I still wish a warm good luck to this series!

    Em... one of the worst... Since there are only 3 DX games that means it was second best :D

  6. As for using the oxygen bar: if you fall into water after sprinting, do you then drown? Having a UI component used for one thing isn't necessarily a bad thing.

    Actually yes. You are out of breath and than you want to dive in that state... Fast drowning is what it happens.

    That would be interesting mechanics for some game - not for TDM ;)

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    Yes, good points. The average age of people you'd see on the street was a lot lower than now, and in most times and places you were considered to be adult after you hit puberty. A few jobs -- like abbot of a monastery -- had a minimum age of 40, but for the most part people were younger than they are now. It was common in the middle ages for hereditary lords to inherit in their 20s, and even appointed lords like bishops and chancellors were commonly aged 20+, for example. They probably average 55 now. The thing I was reacting to was a misinterpretation that you see all too often from writers -- even historians -- who should know better. They see the statistic that life expectancy was 40, which includes children, slaves, and migrants, and then they say that people expected to die at 40, or even that it was rare to see people over 50, which is plain wrong. People over 40 were rarer than now, but healthy people who weren't persecuted never expected to die in their 40s.

    There was much buying a position and that is why there were bishops in their twenties. Rich families bought them position with "little" donations to right people.

  8. With all respect, Yep religious books are hardly a trustworthy account of how long people live, is very easy to sugar coat the life expectancy and even deeds of the people you admire and revere.

     

    Melan i have no doubt there was people in the middle ages that lived to 80 or even more, but those IMO were the exception and not the rule, yes child mortality was rampant but was also disease, the black plague for example killed millions, leper was also very common, you could also die with a simple cold and small pox and let's not forget war, that was unfortunately very common on those days as well , why, because of conquest, more land more power and more taxes, and let's not forget the will to spread the religious thought, this also leads to, because of superstition and religious fundamentalism you could also die easily by being accused of witchcraft, blasphemy, being against the holy book, being a unbeliever, etc etc.

    The legal law was also very severe, you could easily die or lose members (leading to death by infection or by long lasting physical disabilities) by just stealing a apple, honor killings was also common on those days, who don't know the gentleman sword duels, what i'm saying with this is that, it was very easy to die back then and not reach more than 30 years old of age.

     

    Chance to die because of war was far higher in 20th century than it was in middle ages...

    All there rest - yes. With not so much medical knowledge people could die because of different diseases for which you get simple medicine now or vaccine. There was also hunger and mortality at birth. But there are people who never see doctor even now. Or maybe when they are very old... That kind of people could live to very high age even in middle ages for example Michelangelo died when he was 88.

     

  9. I think shape would be defined by where you want to transmit electricity. Maybe a iron tower with antennas shaped as megaphones. And some wires inside those megaphones. So each of those "megaphone" would transmit or receive electricity from maybe 60° angle.

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  10. Well, as you can kill people in all ways imaginable, maybe it's not really best suited for kids... i mean, not that they will not play it anyway, but if you'd want to set up an age rating, it should best be 18+. Though i always wonder how harshly games are rated compared to movies. In the first scene of Saving Private Ryan (rated 16+) you see people being torn to pieces and body parts are flying around, yet something like Call of Duty is rated 18+, the blood has been cut, and in germany, all Nazi symbolic is censored from the game. Weird weird. More and more they realize though that it's not more harmful than films, nor is it the reason why students go on rampage, because they played Counterstrike like millions of others. Maybe they more and more realize the commercial potential of games and the influence of too much censorship on sales too, dunno. Probably both.

    One possible explanation to this would be that in movies you only watch it in games you actually do it. Explanation on how those organizations rate games and movies and not how I would rate them.

  11. You might havre dragged-dropped it into another foles, I have done that a few times,.

    yes but searching folder or content of the folder should give me results than... only thing i can find are shortcuts to the folder but not the files in folder.

  12. Since i think you are good with computers here...

    I somehow lost one folder on my hard drive. Maybe i deleted it accidentally bur running program for getting deleted data back showed no trace of that folder. I mean no files no noting. I checked and its not hidden and hard drive got no bad sectors... So what else can it be?

    Any ideas?

    And i have win 8.1

    I was also searching files from that folder if it might be moved, but nothing.

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    According to http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=The_World_at_Large'Missions have established the date of the setting as around 1630 AD. The current calendar sets the year 0 as the date of the official formation of the Builder Church.' However, the tdm_throne_ornate_wood texture looks as though it says AD MCMXXVI. Therefore at least one chair already in TDM comes from the setting's future. :P

    well... no steam engines in 1630 :P that is why i do not see any problems if some things look more modern i mean if you use 1600s technology with ideas of our world that would be much different world. So i don not see any problems if chair looks a little bit modern but made with 1600s technology. I mean there already is something like that in game i think inventors guild are people using modern ideas (modern in from our world) to make them true with that old technology. Or at least i understand them as such.

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