Dasaria II - A NWN2 Roleplay and Story-driven Persistent World

Potions need to be on monster-drops only.

A) If you are worried that your character is unable to be as "buffy" as another character, then why are you playing a character who can't cast buffs?

Not all characters are designed to have buffs on them, all the time.


2) Get Rid of the Potions being ...

Selling all the various buff potions is the problem. It de-emphasizes the class abilities that can cast those buffs. Once you hit level 10-ish you have so much gold you could probably afford to buy 100 of each buff potion and still have some left over for lunch. I realize this isn't true at lower ...

...are there effects enemies can have applied that make targetting impossible where it used to be possible in NWN1?


Yes. I believe so. At least you aren't the first I have heard mention that difficulty.

You can't target enemies with spells if they are invisible or you have been blinded. While ...

*beats that horse into a paste then throws the stick away*

THERE IT'S GONE! It's Beta, the builders have probably been thinking about it.

They can't increase the price because then the lowlevel who want a few potions will be screwed. People will whine and complain.

They can't limit it because ...

Hmm...I see a trend here. It seems that caster level is used to determine the duration of potions. The problem is, some characters have no caster level...and somehow internally OE is assuming that means its infinite.

This should be reported to OE.

Also in the Orcs, if you get killed in the dream world you lose the spell failure debuff until you next rest or log back after a crash (I think the last bit is true)

Yeah, knew about this one but it doesn't really sound too important. You gotta die to "exploit" it so, if you want to do that, go ...

Eowade wrote:I don't see it working very well for a computer based game. In PnP you might fight 5 to 10 things in a night where in a computer based version you fight 50 to 100.

Thats a sweeping generalization. It may apply to dasaria, but not 'computer based games' in general.

There is one issue I didn't test with this, however...what happens if they log out/in? If supernatural effect wasn't good enough, I guess a variable would have to be tracked on the character object (or something persistent if you wanted it to be remembered across server resets).

After exiting the potion shop I was put into some guy's party, apparently at random. That's the first time it's happend to me and I have no idea what caused it.

This is just speculation but I thought I'd point it out....if you join someone's party (or you invite someone into your party) and you ...

Thanks for the explanation Kazak.

Regarding the new Shai area -
(as it might contain spoilers, i'll post it in black)

The place is just great till the last "dream" area. Nice level of traps, great mechanism to "enforce" grouping, nice touch regarding resting, great enemies and etc

I just dont ...

Agreed.

Now, how about we start a conversation about how we lower the number of spells casters get per day? Casters are only supposed to be able to rest once per day, right? Get thier spells once per day? Like in D & D, right?

Is this really an important issue?

I would prefer a full-day for ...

this was never meant to be a game balanced per class. Its a game balanced for parties. There isnt meant to be PvP quality balance amongst classes. It's not that game.

Agreed.

Now, how about we start a conversation about how we lower the number of spells casters get per day? Casters are only ...

As Rowan said, "Get over it. It's a game."


For everyone else who dismiss my idea out of hand, I don't think you've thought the issue through enough. This is not to imply that you must agree with me, but I really don't think that this tightens the screw of class imbalance. If anything, this ...

I agree the bigger problem is mass quantities of potions. Once you get above level 6, you should never have money issues. You should be able to get enough gold to buy as many potions as you desire...and keep yourself buffed throughout any adventure.

That is the crux of the problem.

And I'm sorry ...

If there was to go a way to change it, my advice would be to set it to 75% of maximum, so d12 = 9, d10 = 8, d8 = 6, d6 = 4 or 5, d4 = 3, however to modify the character amount woud require a 2da change and thus a hakpak.

A 2da change on the server doesn't require a hakpak, however there is one ...