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Originally posted by The Kiwi:
If you have DSL, Cable, or T-1 Connection, more power to you; they either have such slow servers (Coleco Adam, maybe?) or such huge traffic you take forever doing anything there.
K.
Today, this afternoon, this forum is bogged down as badly as Sir Tech's forum! But there is good news, so far. I previously was only able to move armor bits and weapons around in a single one of my six player characters' inventories. The other five inventories seemed "fixed in stone".
(A little detail on that. I had bows in the inventories of characters who couldn't use bows, and no bows in the inventories of those who could have used one. My Ninja had very little bow skill, did have a bow, but was so poor with it that I left the Mystery Ray in his hands until it sucked his stamina to almost nothing, then handed him the bow instead. The "swap" worked, but I wanted him to have his sword for close range, and the Mystery Ray for long range, but when I clicked on stuff in his inventory, made no difference what it was, it wouldn't "stick" on the mouse pointer.
(The only character whose stuff I could move around easily had no bow to hand to anyone else, so I initally didn't try passing something else from him to one of the others {and I was wondering how I'd keep the right ones equipped with arrows} then later I ignored the red border around a staff and passed it to my mage - figuring I could take the curse off with my Bishop, but forgot and handed it to him first, after which I found out the Bishop wasn't strong enough to do it yet.
(But when I restarted that particular game to go back before handing off the cursed staff, I discovered that besides the Psionic and the Mage, I now could move my Ninja's stuff around. I did get bows into both Lords' inventories finally, but those two were the last whose stuff wouldn't move when clicked on. I almost gave up on the game after quitting an extremely long fight with a never-ending stream of "Metallic" Slimes that sapped all my party's spell points, wore down their stamina, and was on the verge of killing them all. Then the very next re-start, the Lords' inventories were "unstuck".
(I still find some of the battles seem practically endless sometimes, and don't remember such long, extended fights from prior Wiz games.)
Anyway I had simply "played around" or "played past" the complication of Inventory for a time, since even though my party was imported, they weren't from any "game-completed" cycle, so they started in the monastary (the beasties so far are moderately dangerous, but for the most part not huge threats), and I COULD eventually "run" at the bad guys to get my slicer & dicer boys in among 'em (only one ranged weapon, period, but I was slow on the uptake about how often I had to click on the icon for moving, and was getting to actually move rather seldom).
It now seems that with each further step in the progression of saves further from the entry door to the dungeon, I got another character's stuff "loose", at least it began getting better after the first couple of long sessions. The party's ranged attack capabilities still seem quite weak, though, so I'm still needing to get right in the monsters' faces, just not as precipitously as previously.
Although it's not my recollection that I even HAD anything like a Trainer in 1993 (did anyone have such?), maybe I did hex-edit some of the goodies, like weapons codes, to suit myself. I'm wondering if the game save I found on the floppy was semi-corrupt one way or another and the import procedure brought in some problems. It's a fact that magnetic media lose data over time, and I didn't have the floppy in question stored in a lead-lined box! Maybe a few zero's crept in where one's belonged!
Kiwi
P.S. Yes, I may test the Sample Party to see about Inventory lockup, but only if the "fix" comes undone. Meanwhile, I will be out of town all this coming weekend, and getting ready during the rest of my free time before then, so I won't be playing it again until Monday (I wonder if I have enough room on my laptop's HDD for another copy of the game? Naah! I wouldn't have time to do anything with the laptop copy anyway!)
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[ 02-07-2002: Message edited by: The Kiwi ]