"many pardons, captain, but someone's cut the mainlines to our sails."

"tis not a worry, ensign. nature takes care of her own. let's sail the currents for a time."

welcome to IW, richard. i appreciate your frustration, and clearly you have more experience with sir-tech than i do. i'm sure the dose of reality will keep us all from getting overly excited. [img]graemlins/crying.gif[/img]

still, i hope your experiences with wiz1-8 have been positive enough that you are still hopeful of wiz9 being released. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Forgive me. Of course I am hopeful, and I apoligize if I threw a wet blanket on your exuberation. However, reality will set in about the 30th time you ax the guy at Best Buy if they have the new Wizardry, and he tells you he's never heard of it.

I really really like the series. Except for Return of Werdna. Playing the bad guy, and going backwards out of the dungeon was just plain goofy. And the stupid code books you had to read out of everytime you started sucked, too.

I was also disappointed with the import functions on this latest series. I had saved my characters faithfully since Cosmic Forge. In Crusaders, I made an Uber team. Called em my swim team. If anyone remembers, there was an ocean you had to get a boat across. And it really spoiled that portion of the plot if someone, say me?, took every member of their team into uber-swimming. One step into the river, and then back out, until the stats were up to 100. We could actually swim across the ocean in that one. All maxed out stats in every category, and I get some silly error message saying they can't be imported? That sucked.

It's been 15 years or so, but I don't think I had that problem with Cosmic Forge. I know I didn't going from Proving Grounds to KoD and Llgamyn. (And that was 20 years ago)

I know I should probably start a new thread, but did anyone else try to import and fail? It's a moot point now, as I've solved the new game some time ago, but I'd be interested in trying again if there were someone out there with advice for the barely computer literate.

My hope is that the new game is released soon enough that the media that I've saved these characters on isn't obsolete.

I imported lot's o'parties, never failed. I copied them directly into the Imports folder in the Saves folder.
I had many Uber-parties, with class-rotated to have all stats max, and even some parties with hacked items; they all made it fine.

The book... erm, has been put on a hold. I tried to get a lot done over the summer, but i started too late and school is now taking up most of my free time. Rest assured, when christmas and spring break rolls around, i'll be pumping out pages by the second.

I'm planning to take this book far. Not only will it cover wiz 8, but my own theory of Wiz9, which is secret...

Hear is my other theory for a possible wiz9.

Someone so powerful rises up somewhere in the universe, that he becomes almost unstoppable. The cosmic forge has no affect because he is from an entirely new universe, and has opened up a portal from this world to the others. Who can save the day, none but the cosmic lords, who realize alone their powers can stop them. Of course, after milleniums of writing, your back to level 1 because you kinda forgot how to fight.

...or maybe you have to fight this new superentity in their universe, so your existing skills and items arent entirely transferable... [img]graemlins/showoff.gif[/img]

Love the idea Sulan. Opens up all sorts of possibilities for new roles etc. Hope they do thay one!!!

cheers, wildrose, but we've gotta give secretmaster the credit - he's the real guru [img]graemlins/happyspoonboy.gif[/img]

i understand school has been a pain. take your time.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN Y'ALL!

The idea from SecretMaster about the story seems intersting. But wouldn't change such a story the meaning of the Wizardry series ? I like the combination of sword, shield and hightec and IMO the invasion of a superior race from an other universe will raise the game into pure SciFi .

Um...
The story of the Dark Savant may end in wiz 8.

But hes just one villain. Theres a whole universe of funky stuff going on in wizardry.

Theres a next story no problem.