Circle of Eight Modpack 5.7.x General Commentary and Discussion Thread

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  1. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    I would say delete them all. There should only be one slot for quick saves, so everything with qwik in it is probably for that one slot. Some of them are jpegs, right? Little pictures of the map where you saved?
     
    Gaear, Mar 13, 2010
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  2. Kavok

    Kavok Woodland Mystic

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    Ok, ya'll. Not sure if I'm 'tarded or maybe just impatient, but when I tried to download the new 5.7.2 beta mod pack the download screen is just black. Never seen that before on a download screen, did I do something wrong, the scroll bar seemed to get a little smaller after a while so I let it run. It has been about an hour and a half, what gives? Is it downloading at all, how could that download even take so long, I must be doing something wrong.. Didn't see anyone else posting on this so not sure what to think.. Help please!
     
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  3. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    Did you try the "Click to download Circle_of_Eight_Modpack_5.7.2_BETA.rar if it doesn't start automatically or try another mirror" links at the top of the black box?
     
    Gaear, Mar 18, 2010
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  4. Kavok

    Kavok Woodland Mystic

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    Gaear, I cannot see anything on the black page. There are to white stripes running down the sides of the black page (on both sides). If I click on them it takes me back to the previous download now page. If I click on the blackness nothing happens, at first a small yellow text appears and says "Your download..." but that is the only text on the whole page and it doesn't appear after the initial time the cursor is placed over the blackness. I left the page up all night and nothing happened soo, I know it was not just downloading slowly. Is there another way to download the file? I was really looking forward to trying your mod pack, had this game when it first came out and could not handle all the bugs. Just re-bought the game so I could try it without all the frustrations.. Thanks for responding to my post, any other ideas?
     
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  5. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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  6. Kavok

    Kavok Woodland Mystic

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    Thanks Gaear, That filefront download worked perfectly, downloaded in only a few minutes. Now that I'm home from work, I get to finally try your mod pack out. I'll make sure to post some feedback, as I have only played the original version years ago. Thanks again for all the hard work!
     
    Kavok, Mar 19, 2010
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  7. Decado

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    Quick question: since none of the other player created content is included in this mod pack, does that mean they are incompatible (since some were in earlier versions)?

    thanks
     
    Decado, Mar 20, 2010
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  8. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    Not sure what you're asking - is what incompatible? You mean the old versions of the mods themselves?
     
    Gaear, Mar 21, 2010
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  9. wizgeorge

    wizgeorge Prophet of Wizardy

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    You can loadup the frontend with the mods you want and just activate the one you want to play. There's KotB and the Skull addons. Lot's of stuff. I still have 3.0.4. on my computer. It's little old (like me), but it plays well. All the mods are availble for download on the forum.
     
    wizgeorge, Mar 21, 2010
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  10. taltamir

    taltamir Established Member

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    Re: 5.7 Released

    actually it isn't.
    when making TOEE they first coded in the XP values as per PNP rules, then to balance it they just had a flat percent reduction by introducing a multiplier. If I recall correctly the default value in TOEE vanilla is 0.72 (aka, 72%). Starting at this version the TOEE mod changes it to 60% of PNP value... if you delete the file in question it will simply use the default value, if you change the value it will be whatever you change... that is, setting it to 1.00 will give you 100% of PnP values of XP, but it will certainly be more than the amount given in vanilla TOEE... I am currently playtesting with it at 1.00.

    I still got a TPK the first time I went to deklo grove with a hardcore min/maxed party. I retried the battle and the second time I killed the giant spiders readily... Things get easier as you level of course, since you have more levels to min max with... but I think a casual player should start at level 3, not level 1...
    Also saves you having to run around town doing fetch quests for 2 hours to gain enough fetch quest XP to reach level 2.

    actually, when I think about it I just don't think a casual player can play this game, period. You need to have some PnP min maxing experience to even attempt to play TOEE.
     
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    taltamir, Mar 24, 2010
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  11. Donatair

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    I'm using the nw 5.7 mod and i can't figure out how to get to verbobonc the usuall chraracters don't give you the cue to go
     
    Donatair, Mar 24, 2010
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  12. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    No Verbobonc in 5.7 I'm afraid. Look around the boards for sticky threads that say just what is in what modpack, or read release notes, etc. It's all there.
     
    Gaear, Mar 25, 2010
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  13. count

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    Hi, guys.
    Co8 will consist of two patches: bug-fixes (addresses the gameplay issues of balance and NPC interaction) and NC (new content, including maps, NPC and monsters).
    It's correct?
    And now in 5.7.2 BETA we have only map for new content (and can found it by game.areas[X] = 1 from console) without NPC and monsters?
    In this case, where we can get full new content? Only in previos version as 5.5.0?
     
    count, Mar 25, 2010
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  14. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    Sort of, except I'm not sure what you mean by "addresses ... NPC interaction," unless that's just another way of saying that we fixed some bugs having to do with NPCs, among other things.

    That's correct.

    Yes, you'll have to go back to 5.5 or wiat for 5.8. 5.5 and earlier had the new content rolled into the main mod; 5.8 and onward will have separate modpacks for new content; and 5.6/5.7 had no new content at all (of the major expansion variety). In those releases we were primarily trying to even out vanilla(esque) balance and get the new content properly separated/isolated, which is a bigger job than most people think.
     
    Gaear, Mar 25, 2010
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  15. ihsanmutlu07

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    Why new maps are excluded in 5.7.2?? :( I began the game again for new contents. So disappointing...
     
    ihsanmutlu07, Mar 25, 2010
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