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[Chevalier]

horred the plague We miss you!!!!!



Please Come Back!!!!! We have & for you!

[erebusant]

horred the plague We miss you!!!!!



Please Come Back!!!!! We have & for you!

Agreed! There are those who will snivel, and offer nothing in return except criticism, meanwhile never lifting a finger to do other than to cut other peoples labor down simply for the fact that they lack the capability to put anything of their own together.

Horred, don't let the few bad apples spoil the whole barrel for you!!! Their are plenty more who are just interested in putting BP out in it's full intended glory!

Edited by erebusant, 10 December 2007 - 08:33 PM.

[amazinggameguru]

hey horred, good to see you again. Don't let comments from posters like Bereth get to you. The people who actually mean anything or have made actual contributions to the community know what you have done. There's actually some cool stuff going on with new mods, we'd love to have you back working with us.

[Azazello]

OMG, horred is back is town! Hurray!

[Salk]

We all hope you might find again that special spark that gave life to Big Picture, Horred.

You know you belong here...

[melkor_morgoth75]

In essence, he knows plenty about programming but NOTHING about D&D or game balance.
He never liked that kind of scrutiny!

Hmm...why wouldn't he like that insulting kind of scrutiny, I wonder...maybe cause he started throwing dice way back in 1979. Were you even born then?

Don't like it? Don't play it. Nobody twisted any arms, and/or forced any fingers on the downloads button.

You know---I actually came here to look into bug reports, and to try and help---for the first time in well over a year. Haven't even had BG2 installed for well over a year, cause I got so sick of snivelling, non-productive crap like this one, that I lost the desire to even play the game I once loved so much. Nice to see things haven't changed.

Think I'll stick with NWN modding, where people are mostly civil, and/or at least attempt to act like adults--even when reporting issues they experience, however dismal. Even when they don't like your ideas. Sorry I wasted 5 minutes even taking a look. Sorry I wasted years of my life, making myself miserable in trying to make people happy, that are incapable of such emotions. I'll be sure not to make that mistake again.

Now, I'm going to attempt to play my first game in many many months. Unless somebody wishes to spoil the fun of that, for me as well? If you try hard enough, I'm sure you can find a way.

P.S: Sorry to those that actually do care about this, and have helped out over the years--even those that offered constructive criticism. This was not intended with you in mind. You guys were great. Couldn't thank you enough for all the kind words and assistance. But you can thank ones like *points above*, and their ilk, for my departure from this scene. Things like that just break my heart--and heart was the only thing pushing me to perservere, for many of the latter years I was involved in this.



-- An ex-BG2 modder, now fully retired

Horred ... i know u can't be serious ... just some words from an unknown guy cannot touch you.
U have (and WILL have) always respect by all of us, thanks to your hard (and great) work. Your departure from modding community was a big hit indeed ... and still the community suffers and miss you.

I really hope u're gonna having your BG game now ... enjoy it! And if ever u want to come back to BG community ... u know, u're MORE than welcome. (Honestly ... u're back would be needed, but i say it just in my mind ;-) )

Respect and hat for all your work,

mm75

[ronin]

Nice to see you Horred, I totally agree with you and wish you well in your NWN ventures. Its people like that sh!t head Bereth Darkides that ruin alot of things for alot of people. Dont let the b!stards get ya down.

[Graoumf]

Yes, there's several others "gems" of Bereth, deep in this forum. I guess he made the unanimity when he posted here...

I'm glad to see you, and wanted to thank you to traify your mod . I remember you did it in demand of SirLancelot and me.
We finally released the spanish and french translations few months ago. It was a great project we began with BPv161 no-WeiDU.

Thanks to you, french and spanish people can play to BP in their native language!

Edited by Graoumf, 11 December 2007 - 12:17 PM.

[Suluku]

So long Horred. BP remains a great mod and I still enjoy playing it

[kovarex]

I encountered this error when installing the ai enhancement.

[AR1303.BCS] LEXER ERROR at line 1 column 0-1
Near Text: IF
invalid keyword [IF]

[AR1303.BCS] ERROR at line 1 column 0-1
Near Text: IF
Parsing.Parse_error
ERROR: parsing [AR1303.BCS]: Parsing.Parse_error
Stopping installation because of error.

Using the newest version (177) as part of big modification pack.

Attaching my weidu log.

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[erebusant]

I encountered this error when installing the ai enhancement.

[AR1303.BCS] LEXER ERROR at line 1 column 0-1
Near Text: IF
invalid keyword [IF]

[AR1303.BCS] ERROR at line 1 column 0-1
Near Text: IF
Parsing.Parse_error
ERROR: parsing [AR1303.BCS]: Parsing.Parse_error
Stopping installation because of error.

Using the newest version (177) as part of big modification pack.

Attaching my weidu log.

Don't use the UB "Restored Minor Dialogs" component.

[Miloch]

Don't use the UB "Restored Minor Dialogs" component.

I looked into this. You don't have to avoid that component entirely. The problem is that the BG2 Fixpack and UB make the same fix, and UB at least does so via a somewhat imprecise REPLACE_TEXTUALLY statement. Meaning you end up with a duplicate fix and a script line that's too long and doesn't compile.

To fix it, just comment it out by putting a /* before COPY_EXISTING ~ar1303.bcs~ ~override~ at line 1125 in setup-ub.tp2 and a */ after COMPILE_BAF_TO_BCS at line 1131.

[kovarex]

Thx for advice, I will do it.

[Miloch]

Saying you can't get mad at the guy who promisses but doesn't deliver on his dates (even if he is one a a few willing to so) is what I call....asskissing!

Unpaid projects rarely have deadlines and I don't think anyone seriously expects modders who have lives outside of modding to meet such artificial time constraints even if they did exist.

Now, I don't know all the history here, but if the modder promised something on a specific date, didn't deliver, and did this over and over, then yeah... that might be disappointing and frustrating. But to get angry at him? What a waste of energy.

Finally, I don't think horred is the original author or sole contributor to BP, though he may have been a major contributor. That means you can't really expect him to finish such a big project and fix everything by himself. You think something should be fixed and someone's not fixing it fast enough to your liking? Learn a little about modding and fix it yourself - it isn't that hard. Or at least learn enough to make constructive criticism rather than that which doesn't really help or encourage the modder.

[Chevalier]

The Ego of some people!!!!!!!

Horred comes back after along time away and is put off by some posts by 1 person that seem to him to be negative (I think so also). Now the person sees the posts feels the need to add fuel to the fire!!!! It shows that he does have the best interests of the community at heart! If he did he would keep quiet or post an apology for anything that might cause offence.

[Azazello]

Heeey, Bereth has returned. My favorite spank-buddy.

[10th]

Just an oversight or intentional that you get no new spellslots at level 24 as a wizard?

23	  6   6   5   5   5   5   4   4   3
24	  6   6   5   5   5   5   4   4   3
25	  6   6   6   5   5   5   5   4   4

Moreover is the implementation of mxsplwis hardcoded or could one simply create an corresponding 2da for wizard-bonuspells?

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[Miloch]

Just an oversight or intentional that you get no new spellslots at level 24 as a wizard?

23	  6   6   5   5   5   5   4   4   3
24	  6   6   5   5   5   5   4   4   3
25	  6   6   6   5   5   5   5   4   4

Not sure what BP intended here, but this is what the vanilla game has:

23	  5   5   5   5   5   5   3   3   3
24	  5   5   5   5   5   5   4   3   3
25	  5   5   5   5   5   5   4   4   3

And this is what 2e rules has (per DM Option: High-Level Campaigns):

23	  5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5   3   2
24	  5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5   4   2
25	  5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5   2

Moreover is the implementation of mxsplwis hardcoded or could one simply create an corresponding 2da for wizard-bonuspells?

Well since mxsplwis is a .2da (table), it's not hardcoded - you can patch or overwrite it if you want. Stuff in the .exe is considered hardcoded. Though I'm not sure what you mean by bonus spells. Wizard specialist "kits" get one extra spell each level (not sure if this is in a 2da or hardcoded).

[10th]

With hardcoded I mean if you simply could create an mxsplint.2da which would grant bonusspells based on intelligence for wizards.

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