My experiences with IA 5.0, Continue Shadan's topics with similar name Options

[Ryel ril Ers]

When Shadan started to play with IA 4.2, he opened a topic for write his experiences. I want to continue this with the v 5.0. So everybody who want to share his/her experiences could write it in this place and don't opened hundreds of topics wich tells somebody walkthrough. I want to gather lots of information in one place. (Sikret's walkthrough is too good so i don't want write to that place), and the starter player see which tactics, parties and quest orders works, and how use his/her money.

I ask everybody who write in this topic:
-Use spoilers tag for the tactics
-Don't write down serious spoilers
-Don't write down statistics (like xy has 69% fire resist) and immunities. (except the weapon enchantment and spell level immunities)

This post has been edited by Ryel ril Ers: Aug 1 2008, 06:05 AM

[Sikret]

Though I think a stealable key places a nice roleplaying option to the game.

Quest-related items should not be stealable. Many of them were stealable in the vanilla game which I have already fixed. You shouldn't gain the big amount of xp for completing an entire quest (such as the windspear Hills) just by doing a simple pocket picking. This is cheese; it's not role playing. Why not to CLUA the xp if the player looks for such easy-gaining experience points? An IA player should not even think of such methods in the first place; otherwise, why to play IA at all? Gaining the quest's xp now and then returning to actually complete the quest much later is not what I would call "role playing".

I have already made many similar items "unstealable". It's a pity that this one had escaped my attention. The bad side of having excellent tactical experts as testers of this mod was that they didn't attempt such methods themselves during the game and consequently, they did not report them to me.

@Ryel

You can at least return there to fight with Conster as soon as possible before starting any other quest. This will (to some extent, though not fully) tighten the gap between gaining the xp and completing the quest.