My progress, spoilers Options

[Roy]

Hi

I am playing improved anvil right now.I finished IA3 and there's
certeinly a diffrence in it.It's tougher .

I'm playing with a sorcerer protagonist.I did the boo kidnapping
quest and right after I got in the grove the 3 trolls ran after
my sorcerer and ignored everyone else.

There's a bug where the trolls remain on near death and just won't fall
down.

After I got out from the irenicus dungeon I went to the graveyard
to look for items.On the getting out I was ambushed by suna sei
and friends and they killed me a lot.

I got lucky with a confusion scroll that got the somehow.
How did you defeat them in the beginning?Interupting them
from casting greater command and confusion?
The mages are a problem without breach and weak dispel.

I tried to go and get Keldorn but the party in the sewers is tough.

I got liliacor,rescued jan and viconia and little quests from
other mods.I think the next ones I'll try will be the circus and
trademeet.

Another question is with the oasis in TOB.Did it in IA3.There's
lots of gem golems and a few mages.I couldn't win it without serious
cheese.Kelsey mirror imaged himself,landed tons of comets
and all his spells,than I killed the image and did it about 10
times.

How do I win the battle?Is there a way to kill the golems faster?
I usually bring all the fighter on them with hammers,maces and it
still takes a lot of time to get rid of them.And than they summon more.

Some golem slayer kit or equipment or spells like reducing physical
resistence will be lovely addition to IA5.

The no stealing from shops came as a surprise.Usually in the beginning
I buffed a thief and took every usful equipment I could find.
Now it not even possible to charge the wands like that.

BTW,is there any progress with the Mansur NPC?

Edit:After a long fight and lots of reloads I defeated the founder
of trademeet.All of my party and summons to take his blows surrounded
him and it took lots of minutes and healing to take him down.

The tough thing about him was the magic resistence and he summond a lot
of skeleton warriors and I think he had physical resistence.

Is there a fast way of defeating him?

Edit2 21/4:

Finished thieves guild quest,was really easy.Tried the sewer party
again and got defeated again.My party is levels 10 so can't deal
yet with all the spells.The mages are tough.
I also did the murders in the bridge district and the ghost in the
grave yard.

Edit 24\4:Somehow my brother did hard disc cleaning and erased my saves
and BG2.So I'm reinstalling and restarting.This time to save time
in the beginning I'm not installing improved illych.

I started a new TOB game without IA.One character vs. Illesira and
she was ridiculously easy.When I did it with IA4.1 it reminded
more of a scene from a predetor movie with the addition of her 5
party members.

Edit 26/4:Been a bit busy.still got to install mod NPCs and IA
and start a new game.



Roy

This post has been edited by Roy: Jun 21 2007, 07:24 AM

[Sikret]

I'm sorry for misreading you post and for my reaction to it, Roy! The tone of your post sounded ironic to me and I was already too tired of many baseless things I read about IA in different forums.

Adding so much/many new content/quests to the game without even one single critical bug; creating such a big number of new creatures, items, scripts, encounters, fixes, tweaks, ...(et al) are what I am proud of. It took me so much time. I can't estimate how much money I could have earned if I had spent all these days and hours working for money elsewhere instead of spending it on creating this mod. Yet, every now and then I read things which really discourage me.

Thanks again for clarifying your comments, Roy; and sorry again for my previous reaction.

Cheers

[berelinde]

I can't estimate how much money I could have earned if I had spent all these days and hours working for money elsewhere instead of spending it on creating this mod. Yet, every now and then I read things which really discourage me.

Same could be said by every other modder. I've felt that way myself, on occasion.

[Sikret]

I can't estimate how much money I could have earned if I had spent all these days and hours working for money elsewhere instead of spending it on creating this mod. Yet, every now and then I read things which really discourage me.

Same could be said by every other modder.

Yes, the same is true to some extent for all modders, but it's not equally true for everyone of them. It all depends on the volume of the content (of the mod) and the required time to implement those content.

Heh, I was almost sure that someone would show up sending such a reply to me. It actually somehow proves the point of my previous post.

@ luan, Shaitan and Baronius:

Thanks for the very kind words.

This post has been edited by Sikret: Jul 16 2007, 08:29 AM

[berelinde]

I can't estimate how much money I could have earned if I had spent all these days and hours working for money elsewhere instead of spending it on creating this mod. Yet, every now and then I read things which really discourage me.

Same could be said by every other modder.

Yes, the same is true to some extent for all modders, but it's not equally true for everyone of them. It all depends on the volume of the content (of the mod) and the required time to implement those content.

Heh, I was almost sure that someone would show up sending such a reply to me. It actually somehow proves the point of my previous post.

Who gets to decide whether a modder who has given every free moment to modding, while attempting to keep a job or family from falling apart, has given enough time for their sacrifice to be meaningful?

When someone gives all they've got, it's still all they've got.

My point wasn't to discount your efforts, but rather to point out that many modders feel exactly as you do. Yes, you did put in a lot of time on IA. Well done. And the same goes for all the modders who pursue their hobby with the same dedication.