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SixOfSpades · 03-11-2003, 01:25 PM

As I was walking home last night, I realized that I really should apologize to weimer. Some of my comments were more inflammatory than constructive (such as my "first-person shooter" remark), and were more likely to cause weimer to never speak to me again than to listen attentively and try to work out a solution. This may have been due to the fact that I'd had something of a bad day (In my Speech & Argumentation class, my debate partner who went before me accidentally researched the same part of the topic that I was supposed to research, thereby stealing most of my key points and forcing me to ad-lib more than half of my argument, which of course made me look like a bozo), so last night, my Inner Troll was restless, and just begging for a chance to Run Free And Unfettered.

Now, with that said, let's get down to the second reason for this post: Sooner or later, weimer, you're just going to have to face up to it--you are a powergamer. Several factors (such as the fact that you still haven't corrected the way that Rings of Preservation can be worn with magical armor) prove this quite clearly. Now, it's one thing to create overpowered items; I can understand that, as many members of your public are powergamers themselves, and keep pushing you for bigger and badder stuff. Obliging them is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. But it's an entirely different matter when you come to the forums and argue that something like Tsuki no Ken (or Throwing Impaler, or Imp. Kitthix, etc) is not overpowered, or that you don't see how it makes the game too easy. For a clear delineation of where you stand on the powergamer/roleplayer continuum, take a look at the stats you gave Solaufein, and compare them with the stats that jcompton gave Kelsey. Even *IF* Sola's stats are his original, unMODded BG2, he's still quite clearly a "powergamer roll:" The stats he wants are 18, the other ones are 10. Kelsey, however, is quite the opposite: Only one of his stats, CON, is at its effective maximum, and even that's only due to his Cloak.

03-11-2003, 01:25 PM	#35
SixOfSpades Dracolisk Join Date: September 16, 2001 Location: Bellingham, WA, USA Age: 48 Posts: 6,901	As I was walking home last night, I realized that I really should apologize to weimer. Some of my comments were more inflammatory than constructive (such as my "first-person shooter" remark), and were more likely to cause weimer to never speak to me again than to listen attentively and try to work out a solution. This may have been due to the fact that I'd had something of a bad day (In my Speech & Argumentation class, my debate partner who went before me accidentally researched the same part of the topic that I was supposed to research, thereby stealing most of my key points and forcing me to ad-lib more than half of my argument, which of course made me look like a bozo), so last night, my Inner Troll was restless, and just begging for a chance to Run Free And Unfettered. Now, with that said, let's get down to the second reason for this post: Sooner or later, weimer, you're just going to have to face up to it--you are a powergamer. Several factors (such as the fact that you still haven't corrected the way that Rings of Preservation can be worn with magical armor) prove this quite clearly. Now, it's one thing to create overpowered items; I can understand that, as many members of your public are powergamers themselves, and keep pushing you for bigger and badder stuff. Obliging them is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. But it's an entirely different matter when you come to the forums and argue that something like Tsuki no Ken (or Throwing Impaler, or Imp. Kitthix, etc) is *not* overpowered, or that you don't see how it makes the game too easy. For a clear delineation of where you stand on the powergamer/roleplayer continuum, take a look at the stats you gave Solaufein, and compare them with the stats that jcompton gave Kelsey. Even IF Sola's stats are his original, unMODded BG2, he's still quite clearly a "powergamer roll:" The stats he wants are 18, the other ones are 10. Kelsey, however, is quite the opposite: Only one of his stats, CON, is at its effective maximum, and even that's only due to his Cloak. __________________ Volothamp's Comeuppance Everything you ever needed to know about the entire Baldur's Gate series......except spoilers.