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Elona: Part Roguelike, part JRPG, part Morrowind

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Karma is indeed a harsh mistress, I don't even know what I did to get it to -33, but now everybody hates me,

    and yeah esh, thats normal =( go in and out till there's a lower amount of enemies at the entrance, and be thankful your playing a warrior, my archers level 3 and still can't do jack shit on the first floor of that dungeon

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Esh wrote: »
    I waltzed into the Puppy Dungeon with my Warrior and got eaten alive. Too many monsters at once. Is this normal? Also, how do I equip my Little Girl?

    Press Z, move to the Interact option, select the girl, and then select Inventory.

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Man what..I just started reading the wiki and "Complete the main quest, at least up to the delivery of the letter to the King. This will give you a good initial amount of money to have for equipping your character and starting it off. " buh wah? theres a main quest? boy do i feel stupid now

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    Man what..I just started reading the wiki and "Complete the main quest, at least up to the delivery of the letter to the King. This will give you a good initial amount of money to have for equipping your character and starting it off. " buh wah? theres a main quest? boy do i feel stupid now

    Yup.

    There is a story to this game, amazingly.

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  • l_gl_g Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I'm kind of dreading reaching level 6, because I die enough as is.

    Is there a way for me to drop the money I'm carrying, like depositing it into my salary box at home?
    I don't like carrying around my few thousand hard earned gold and then losing a whole bunch of it to some death.

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Buy kitty banks.

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  • ChildrenChildren Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    how does the magic system work? each book you read gives you another level in that spell?

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    You read a spell book, and you get stocks of the spell. Once you run out of stocks, you can't cast the spell any more. Read more books to get more stocks.

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Oh man, I can ride my dog into battle? and he still bites people?! WHY ISN"T THIS IN THE OP! It makes things so much easier when enemies target the dog your sitting on instead of you =)

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  • BehemothBehemoth Compulsive Seashell Collector Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Ahahahahahaha

    I'm having a lot more success with my latest character, after activating the extra classes. He's a God, they're great at everything, and can use firearms right off the bat, but can only equip weapons.

    I bought an awesome machinegun, and now I'm trying to find some bullets for it, but all the shops have are arrows and energy cells.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Behemoth wrote: »
    Ahahahahahaha

    I'm having a lot more success with my latest character, after activating the extra classes. He's a God, they're great at everything, and can use firearms right off the bat, but can only equip weapons.

    I bought an awesome machinegun, and now I'm trying to find some bullets for it, but all the shops have are arrows and energy cells.
    Machine guns and firearms can use energy cells despite it making no sense.

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  • BehemothBehemoth Compulsive Seashell Collector Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    randombattle wrote: »
    Behemoth wrote: »
    Ahahahahahaha

    I'm having a lot more success with my latest character, after activating the extra classes. He's a God, they're great at everything, and can use firearms right off the bat, but can only equip weapons.

    I bought an awesome machinegun, and now I'm trying to find some bullets for it, but all the shops have are arrows and energy cells.
    Machine guns and firearms can use energy cells despite it making no sense.

    Oh. Awesome! :D

    If you're having trouble getting into this game, play as a god. It's like easy mode! It'll be harder later since I can't equip armor, but I haven't died once yet.

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  • Steel AngelSteel Angel Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    vhzod wrote: »
    Does anyone know what gene engineering actually does?

    It makes it so you can splice higher level pets to boost another pet's stats. The Gene Splicer machine itself is the result of a quest in Kapul.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Steel Angel wrote: »
    vhzod wrote: »
    Does anyone know what gene engineering actually does?

    It makes it so you can splice higher level pets to boost another pet's stats. The Gene Splicer machine itself is the result of a quest in Kapul.
    Basically you can mush 2 of your party members together like in The Fly to make some horrible 7 armed monster with 3 necks.

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  • l_gl_g Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    randombattle wrote: »
    Steel Angel wrote: »
    vhzod wrote: »
    Does anyone know what gene engineering actually does?

    It makes it so you can splice higher level pets to boost another pet's stats. The Gene Splicer machine itself is the result of a quest in Kapul.
    Basically you can mush 2 of your party members together like in The Fly to make some horrible 7 armed monster with 3 necks.

    Can you still "ask for hand" of your dogcatbeargirl pet?
    Can you pass on genes, then impregnate with alien, and then....
    .... what abominations I imagine.

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    So, do bows/crossbows ever get near as good as guns? Archers seem pretty pointless so far since they have fairly low perception, so aren't that good with firearms, and firearms seem to outdamage bows by a huge margin

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    l_g wrote: »
    randombattle wrote: »
    Steel Angel wrote: »
    vhzod wrote: »
    Does anyone know what gene engineering actually does?

    It makes it so you can splice higher level pets to boost another pet's stats. The Gene Splicer machine itself is the result of a quest in Kapul.
    Basically you can mush 2 of your party members together like in The Fly to make some horrible 7 armed monster with 3 necks.

    Can you still "ask for hand" of your dogcatbeargirl pet?
    Can you pass on genes, then impregnate with alien, and then....
    .... what abominations I imagine.
    I believe so yeah. I think there's some situations where you can't make genes (:winky:) but for the most part yeah dogcatbearaliengirl pets should work I think.

    Won't be pretty though.

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    So, do bows/crossbows ever get near as good as guns? Archers seem pretty pointless so far since they have fairly low perception, so aren't that good with firearms, and firearms seem to outdamage bows by a huge margin

    Err, I'm an archer, and perception is my highest stat. Dunno what you did.

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Raslin wrote: »
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    So, do bows/crossbows ever get near as good as guns? Archers seem pretty pointless so far since they have fairly low perception, so aren't that good with firearms, and firearms seem to outdamage bows by a huge margin

    Err, I'm an archer, and perception is my highest stat. Dunno what you did.

    Well, archers are listed as having little perception, as opposed to normal strength (which is what marskmanship and bows use afaik) and good dex.

    Right now in game my Str and Con are 17 and 12 respectively, and listed as only good, while my Perception is 9 and superb..So i dont know how you managed to get perception as your highest

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    Raslin wrote: »
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    So, do bows/crossbows ever get near as good as guns? Archers seem pretty pointless so far since they have fairly low perception, so aren't that good with firearms, and firearms seem to outdamage bows by a huge margin

    Err, I'm an archer, and perception is my highest stat. Dunno what you did.

    Well, archers are listed as having little perception, as opposed to normal strength (which is what marskmanship and bows use afaik) and good dex.

    Right now in game my Str and Con are 17 and 12 respectively, and listed as only good, while my Perception is 9 and superb..So i dont know how you managed to get perception as your highest
    Yeah the advantage to bows is that they use strength so a warrior can also have a ranged attack. But honestly just be the human people and take guns. They outclass the bows by far.

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    randombattle wrote: »
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    Raslin wrote: »
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    So, do bows/crossbows ever get near as good as guns? Archers seem pretty pointless so far since they have fairly low perception, so aren't that good with firearms, and firearms seem to outdamage bows by a huge margin

    Err, I'm an archer, and perception is my highest stat. Dunno what you did.

    Well, archers are listed as having little perception, as opposed to normal strength (which is what marskmanship and bows use afaik) and good dex.

    Right now in game my Str and Con are 17 and 12 respectively, and listed as only good, while my Perception is 9 and superb..So i dont know how you managed to get perception as your highest
    Yeah the advantage to bows is that they use strength so a warrior can also have a ranged attack. But honestly just be the human people and take guns. They outclass the bows by far.

    Yerles (humans) have the exact same starting perception as Eleas, which is what I made, which means the archer negative perception modifier should still drop theirs far below their strength. The only way I can see to get a higher perception is to start as either a fairy, eulderna or jeure

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  • l_gl_g Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    randombattle wrote: »
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    Raslin wrote: »
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    So, do bows/crossbows ever get near as good as guns? Archers seem pretty pointless so far since they have fairly low perception, so aren't that good with firearms, and firearms seem to outdamage bows by a huge margin

    Err, I'm an archer, and perception is my highest stat. Dunno what you did.

    Well, archers are listed as having little perception, as opposed to normal strength (which is what marskmanship and bows use afaik) and good dex.

    Right now in game my Str and Con are 17 and 12 respectively, and listed as only good, while my Perception is 9 and superb..So i dont know how you managed to get perception as your highest
    Yeah the advantage to bows is that they use strength so a warrior can also have a ranged attack. But honestly just be the human people and take guns. They outclass the bows by far.

    Does increased STR also give a bonus to bow damage?
    Or is it so slight that it doesn't matter?

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    randombattle wrote: »
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    Raslin wrote: »
    taliosfalcon wrote: »
    So, do bows/crossbows ever get near as good as guns? Archers seem pretty pointless so far since they have fairly low perception, so aren't that good with firearms, and firearms seem to outdamage bows by a huge margin

    Err, I'm an archer, and perception is my highest stat. Dunno what you did.

    Well, archers are listed as having little perception, as opposed to normal strength (which is what marskmanship and bows use afaik) and good dex.

    Right now in game my Str and Con are 17 and 12 respectively, and listed as only good, while my Perception is 9 and superb..So i dont know how you managed to get perception as your highest
    Yeah the advantage to bows is that they use strength so a warrior can also have a ranged attack. But honestly just be the human people and take guns. They outclass the bows by far.

    Yerles (humans) have the exact same starting perception as Eleas, which is what I made, which means the archer negative perception modifier should still drop theirs far below their strength. The only way I can see to get a higher perception is to start as either a fairy, eulderna or jeure
    Not so much having a high perception but them starting with firearms as a skill. That way you can start using guns to start off and kick major ass at the start.

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    ahh, i never even noticed they started with firearms :oops:

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Also, for pack-rats like me, strength is nice so you aren't constantly crushed by your hundred bottles of clear liquid >.>

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  • Trevor GoodchildTrevor Goodchild Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Raslin wrote: »
    Also, for pack-rats like me, strength is nice so you aren't constantly crushed by your hundred bottles of clear liquid >.>

    I have 24 str and am burdened by my regular armor +1.0 weight. I'm slowly getting stronger though.

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    ...Well yeah, I'm rarely not burdened either. But overweight is a whole different category

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  • Trevor GoodchildTrevor Goodchild Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Raslin wrote: »
    ...Well yeah, I'm rarely not burdened either. But overweight is a whole different category

    True enough. Does anyone know what Playback Discs are used for?

    Edit: Figured that one out myself nevermind, just t to use them.

    Double Edit: I just melted my goddamn pokeball, I am infuriated.

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    So, I finally managed to get through the tutorial without dying. I'm now scared to accept any quests. >_<

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  • RialeRiale I'm a little slow Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    So I have a couple questions

    A: Where the hell does the main quest start and when should I start it? I'm looking for a little direciton.

    B: Is there any way to get new/different pets? I chose the cat at the beginning of this character and I regret it now

    C: How the hell do I do anything with my pets besides watch them throw themselves at bats and kobolds?

    D: HOW I MINE FOR FISH?!

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Btw, am I the only one who doesn't use a pet? I hate pets/allies in games like this.

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  • l_gl_g Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Riale wrote: »
    So I have a couple questions

    A: Where the hell does the main quest start and when should I start it? I'm looking for a little direciton.

    The main quest can be started by reaching the 3rd floor of the dungeon Lemias and talking to the guy there. It should be just south of your house at the start.

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Riale wrote: »
    So I have a couple questions

    A: Where the hell does the main quest start and when should I start it? I'm looking for a little direciton.
    http://elona.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Quest
    B: Is there any way to get new/different pets? I chose the cat at the beginning of this character and I regret it now
    Yes, you can buy slaves and horses later, and capture monsters too
    C: How the hell do I do anything with my pets besides watch them throw themselves at bats and kobolds?
    Well,...if you have ride you can press A and ride them, which is awesome, as monsters will run up and attack them instead of you, while both of you attack them, you can also press I and give them orders, equipment etc. apparently feeding them is a requirment for levelling too,
    D: HOW I MINE FOR FISH?!


    Now for my own question, if you use an item that says for example "Sword that ends all was created in vernis at 12/18, is there any way to tell where 12/18 is?

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  • BehemothBehemoth Compulsive Seashell Collector Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Mwahahahahahaha

    Ashura's can actually wield 4 weapons at the same time. And they start with crazy-good dual-wielding so they actually get 4 attacks per turn, no more accuracy issues here!

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  • Trevor GoodchildTrevor Goodchild Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I'm having a hard time keeping food around now, think I need learn cooking or find where to buy Rations, anyone know where to buy rations?

    Also my name is Demolition Bitch, please to be voting that as coolest name ever.

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    since I got the cannibal mutation i've found food is no longer a problem =) also I think my wizard has finally found enough books to make him effective, oh, a kobold, you can 1 hit kill me, or you could if I didn't web you to the ground then hit you in the face with an ice bolt, bitch.

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  • RepoxRepox Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
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    fuck yes you are the best ranged weapon

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    O_o

    While fun, this game can be wrong on so many levels.

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  • BehemothBehemoth Compulsive Seashell Collector Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Frem wrote: »
    O_o

    While fun, this game can be wrong on so many levels.

    Oh ho, you have no idea how right you are.
    Apparently my male god is very... attractive...

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    ... though the consequences are pretty brutal.

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