*sigh* I had a nice faerie ninja going, had her around level 18 or 19, and just lost the savegames due to some technical errors with my harddrive. I seriously do not look forward to defending against some crabs again.

Anyone else experienced some sort of annoyance like that?

Oh shit...that´s really bad. Sorry, no hint from me in this case...bullshit :(

That really is a bummer. Did you have autosave on? Or did you lose every save you had? That is very odd, I hope your drive isn't failing. If you have any sort of data recovery software, you could try to get back at least one save intact to continue. Good luck.

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It was when I tried to install Linux alongside windows XP, something went wrong and I couldn't access the C:\ drive anymore, so I eventually resorted to deleting all partitions and giving up on Linux. So there's no way to get them back now. Still, I still have that desire for a powerful character, I'm sure I'll be able to restart again in a few days.

The most annoying thing was that I couldn't continue the game with the characters I had played with in the demo of the game.

"I'm sure I'll be able to restart again in a few days"


Nice one...this is what I want to hear :D

My condolences.

Am I really the only person paranoidic enough to make daily backups of his savegames? I have CD slowly & steadily filling up with Wiz 8 saves. The added bonus is, obviously, that if something goes wrong with my current game, I can easily return to any earlier stage in the game (without cluttering up my HD with save files): the saves are nicely organized into daily folders. Then again, I have been paranoidic enough to make backups of everything even remotely important/unique since 1990...

As for the Linux issue, you could either
1) buy a cheap second-hand computer for Linux (this is what I did); Linux is not quite as hungry for CPU power/memory as Windows tends to be, so slightly older hardware should be ok
or
2) use a removable HD system (i.e. a separate removable hard disc for each operating system); these are not very expensive and tend to cause much less hassle than trying to have both OSses on separate partitions

[ 01-15-2004, 03:43 AM: Message edited by: seclists ]

LOL i just had a mental image of OS's wrestling for drive space and having a shootout at the CPU...

haha :D . Well, I might try Linux again but I'll make sure I get help first. I know a few people online who use Linux so I'll get some info from them.

As for restarting, I think I'll try a different party before I start the solo again. I planned on doing them after the solo anyway, I'm going to have a party of four hybrids, so that I have all four magic realms as well as some steel [img]graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

A friend of mine just decided to stop using Linux altogether, he said it was too much of a hassle. Something about kernel and definitions or something or other.

And that's a great idea! But won't party progression be slow with only hybrids?

I need to try that [img]tongue.gif[/img] Right after my other fifty-eleven projects

[ 01-15-2004, 11:47 AM: Message edited by: Ragash ]

Well, it is only four of them so it should speed it up a little.

I have 2 hardrives and Ghost them . Hmm need to do that!its been awhile.

I'm runing 4 hybreds right now. It is harder as majic is a lot slower coming around. My poor Nija
is doing triple duty. as the lockpick/ alchemist/frontline fighter . its hard to decide where to spend your bonus points.

Well, you can practise Alchemy easily, so you can save them there. L&T practises pretty easily, just very boringly, so if you're patient, you can save some there.

I love four hybrids. Or 3 and a Bard. Some of my favorite parties were thus. Though it's been a while--i'm down to thinking even 3's too many to divide the XP by...

That's exactly why I'm trying to keep party-size down, Scatter.. sharing xp is a pain [img]smile.gif[/img]