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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #300 on: August 23, 2009, 07:46:58 pm »
Comes time, comes equipment... As long as people are not really regularly at the fortress, there was rarely much need for a full featured equipment yet. The fortress is not the outer limit of Yliakum, and when the Bronze Doors will open, it will just be an outpost for people passing through - and then the life starts there as well...
I've always thought it was the other way around: nobody stays there because there is no equipment to use.

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Music in Yliakum book inconsistancies.
« Reply #301 on: August 31, 2009, 03:46:30 pm »
The Music book in the Jayose library lists "dwarves" as all being a cross between drunken poetry and bashing drumbeats keeping pace with the life of a miner. There are two points wrong here.

1: There are two very different kinds of dwarves in the game. They would not share the same music due to their very different ways of life.

2: Hammers fit the description of drunken poetry and drum bashing  a little better, but Stones do not at all. Stones fit the mining 'flow' slightly, but the Hammers don't at all.

Hammers are warlike, not miners, and would have many martial beats and war chants in their heritage. They despise mining and would rather be out killing things or practicing the arts of battle.

Stones, on the other hand, are more folkish and would enjoy community-like and festive music that they could dance to (like the hobbits in LotR). They would have more work songs and chants for working in the mines than Hammers, but their true love of music would come out in the community 'flings', so to speak.

*edit* I was wrong in the following statement (and can admit it). It was a fellow editor, not the original author that had a tantrum and removed my edits between the time I made them and going ingame. Many pardons.

These issues were addressed when I edited the book before it went ingame, but that version somehow vanished in a tantrum from the original author.
« Last Edit: September 27, 2009, 02:43:35 am by Under the moon »

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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #302 on: September 01, 2009, 02:36:13 am »
One of the system messages is "Have you seen the Secret Garden?"

Hasn't it been renamed to Xiosia's Garden?


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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #303 on: September 26, 2009, 07:08:34 am »
Moon,

I'm the orig author on that one, and it got its final edits way before it went in-game, so it may need a review at some point - who knows. And I try to avoid tantrums :( .

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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #304 on: December 18, 2009, 04:49:52 am »
Asking Octarch Iragdun "About Octarch" yields this...

"The Octarch of the first level is Iragdun Salikarios, who is by all accounts a wise and efficient but somewhat reclusive leader."

Talking about himself in the third person?   :whistling:
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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #305 on: December 18, 2009, 09:24:03 pm »
Asking Octarch Iragdun "About Octarch" yields this...

"The Octarch of the first level is Iragdun Salikarios, who is by all accounts a wise and efficient but somewhat reclusive leader."

Talking about himself in the third person?   :whistling:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_plural ?

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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #306 on: December 20, 2009, 02:07:54 am »
majestic plural doesn't count for singular :P

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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #307 on: February 02, 2010, 05:27:33 pm »

Not sure if you consider this an inconsistency or not but there is nothing in game that would make gold and platinum valuable aside from the price that npc's pay. Given its rarity, and uses, I would think it would be worth less than Iron. ( you cannot make anything practical with gold because its so soft, and platinum is only useful for Ynnwn customers )

It might make more sense if either it was used to make useful/valuable items within the player's economy ( like magical items ) or else if the Oct was somehow using it outside of the player's economy ( ie. trading it with another government for some sort of goods or service, making a golden temple to entice/befriend one of the gods  etc...)

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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #308 on: February 03, 2010, 01:07:08 am »
rigwyn, gold is just as useful irl. it has no purpose but to look pretty. :P

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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #309 on: February 03, 2010, 03:23:57 am »

Sarras, wrong. Irl gold has real value due to rarity and demand.
In ps there is no real demand aside from npc's buying it for no apparent reason and it is not rare. Its about as plentiful as iron.

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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #310 on: February 03, 2010, 06:21:43 am »
thats game mechanics for ya, i dont think the devs can put a number limit on gold or plat, rp wise, gold and plat shouldnt be as plentiful as iron, but game wise, its infinite
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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #311 on: February 03, 2010, 08:25:55 am »
OOC: In the modern information era, gold has an extreme technical value -- for bonding chips. No other metal has the same conductivity with the same ductility.  Something unimaginable in medieval times, though.

IC: Of course we are still missing jewelry making. But that will be implemented "soon (tm)" like everything related to crafting.

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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #312 on: February 13, 2010, 12:15:44 am »
Hamel Warson complains about having lost his hammer (quest: A Hammer for Hamel).
He must be extremely forgetful, because he is holding one in his hand.

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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #313 on: February 13, 2010, 11:48:05 am »
In "Selected Beasts of Yliakum Vol. 2 - L-Y" it says that "Rivnaks are coloured bright yellow, orange or dull red."
All the ones I've seen are a dingy brown

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Re: The Great inconsistency hunt is on!
« Reply #314 on: February 13, 2010, 01:28:34 pm »
One person's dingy brown is another's dull red. ;)

Hamel may be holding his master crafted hammer while he wants an ordinary one to do routine work with.  :P

just my opinion of course.