Circle of Eight Modpack 5.9.x/5.9.xNC General Commentary & Discussion Thread

@Ranth
Robbery at the hostel - u take it from darlia......
Frozen assets-a 2 in pack with the gnome's drow problem (same area of map)...
Family turmoil-u take it from viscont's idiotic child
Catching the 'cousin' yep involves canning both adviser and darlia(but that would be for the reason of plotting an asasination on viscont, but u can't know about that plan unless u do some dirty work for darlia, and of corse that involves geting past quests like :Robbery at the hostel; A framework for a murder (wich despite my hardest try seems imposible; if yr target needs to be canned while patroling the streets)
And i'm still clueless as to how i'm suposed to locate the slavers (my intuition points towards darlia but then again .... i could just be wrong assuming darlia and the slavers are part of the same syndicate )
About the guard kiling thing' well i only tried to nail guards patroling the streets(deserted areas no sign of any people in sigth) planted the dagger and left but somehow i'm magicaly' geting involved in combat by guards simply by moving on the streets (i presume since they atak me they some how saw me do the kiling despite no one was near those areas and it was night time :twitch

 

@Ank,

Thanks for all of the good info. I somehow screwed up the assassination quests due to bugs. I will try them again on the next run through.

If the slavers have the kids, do you think they would be hanging around a town?

Also, I have not done the quest involving placing a dagger on the guard. However, if you keep getting attacked on the streets, have you tried finding a building with an alone guard and killing him there?

 

Could you get some of the slavers to join your party if you attack the kids? I mean if you didn't attack the slavers and don't get close enough to them and go around them, coming up to the kids from the backdoor? Would they be like "Yeah! You're pretty cool! Can I join your party so we can kidnap, molest, torture and kill children together?"

 

I had totally missed this. Thanks for pointing it out. I thought that the signpost was simply a decoration or something on the side of the building.

I have experienced the same thing. I went back to the other 2 locations and found that the halfling paladin's body is back where you first find him but the elf is not. It just appears that the half-orc and the halfling's bodies do not disappear over time. I have seen this sort of thing before. Several versions back, I had Turuko and Kobort join my party and then I 'accidently' killed them with friendly fire. Their bodies made their way back to the Inn of the Welcome Wench and remained their for the rest of the game.

 

I never got the chance to arrest them. I was forced to kill them all on the spot.

I always wondered why I made the comment to the jailer about the prisoners being something else than criminals. I wonder if it a future quest in the making...

 

Just saw the patch notes... Amazing work Gaear!!! Thanks so much.

 

I have had three faction in a fight, but maybe you fixed it, when fighting a random world map encounter of 1 ettin and 8 hobgoblins. The ettin smashed and cleaved several hobgoblins, who were targeting my party and fighting the ettin at the same time.

 

That has actually been around for a bit. I have encountered it a few times too. I believe that players find the whole thing amusing so it has been left as is.

 

I think I found another bug:

20) on the fourth level of the temple, there is a room on Senshock's side that houses a very large group of ogre's and bugbears. The ogre that is in a small, open room which is closest to the west entrance does not battle. I have reloaded a few times now and redid the battle to be sure. He only comes out if you make a point of hitting him. After I had cleaned out the rest of the room, I was even able to walk right up to him and initiate a conversation. He responded with a floating 'What do you want?'

I also reloaded my game to a point before I battled Senshock and redid my fight with him. I got him to flee again - he simply yells 'No' and teleports away. I then went to VB and he was not in the Bazaar. Just reporting that it appears to be consistent.

I encountered a red cloaked person running out of the room I had purchased at Jylee's Inn. He disappeared so quickly however that I was unable to do anything. Just wanted to see if this should be the case.

Finally, I was reading over the posts on the money stockpiling and how the cost of the castle in VB takes a bite out of it. Just a thought, could its price be raised to something like 250,000 gold? I think that the castle is quite cool and is worth more than the present asking price.

 

100,000 too. Great minds think alike.

However, I had the backstory that forced you to clear out Robin Hood from the Grove for lumber and the dwarfs from the quarry/mine for stone.

 

Personally, I love it.

But since you prefer the old value, and other people might like it one way or another, I've set the function to read user preference from a file -

speedup.ini, located in modules\ToEE.

The file should contain a single number between 1 and 6 -
1 being the old speedup() value,
6 being even faster than what I posted before ("don't blink or you'll miss it" ).
2-5 are inbetween.

Also, added restup() function to t.py, which heals and memorizes spells for your party, and a teleport shortcut to the Hommlet moneychanger and to Verbobonc.

By the way, is anyone else using t.py?

 

Just read the changelist for 5.9.1, looks impressive as hell!

I should comment that the Verbobonc Signpost looks like some sort of mirror. I can see how some players would miss it (though I'd expect players to look around for a signpost, given how Nulb and Hommlet both have one; still, some apparently have missed it).

Oh, and regarding the Slavers setup - it could be amusing to have them fireball YOU with no advance warning, instead

Gives me an idea for a random wilderness encounter...