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Sounds/looks pretty impressive Chattius! Not sure if I have any "projects" other than our third child (~10 weeks old), not turning into a fat ####### (we bought an exercise bike a few weeks ago & I've got up to two sessions of 20 mins a day ~7km each, not too shabby concidering I wasn't doing any exercise this side of uni) & we'll probably have our loft/attic converted into another bedroom at somepoint in the next year or so when the mortgage fixed term ends (since you then don't incur any fees for switchin mortgage providers)... Oh & the kitchen needs painting...

I'm with Silver on this one. Changing to specific xp would be almost as large a change as moving from timers to mana for CAs.

Chattius, I wonder whether you've been able to make any more progress on the original topic (understanding what the flags at the end of each token mean)?

Perfect, thanks for that, it seems I was looking for the CA name when I should have been looking for it's animation type ("ANIM_TYPE_SM09" for Archimedes Beam).

That's what I wanted to know, thanks. I don't suppose someone could upload a copy of that file so I can have a poke over lunch (I'm at work).

Does anyone know if it's possible to change a Combat Arts animation? For exmaple, Archimedes Beam has a duration of 3 seconds (per Spells.txt), but what determins the duration of the CA in this case is the animation, which is fixed at 3 seconds. So even if you reduce the duration in Spells.txt, your TG will stand around with his arm out for the full 3 seconds.

Like, I don't know, making phone calls?

I can easily receive 500-1,000 meg of mail in my work account during the ~3-4 days of month end & since we only have a 2 gig limit I have to delete stuff...

Home Premium it is then... One final (not particularly related) question, since I've kinda decided to reinstall XP anyway (since we're doing housework), what XP services can I disable to get things running faster/better/etc?

Since my install of WinXP is on the fritz, I'm thinking of asking for Win7 for my birthday (in just under a month) rather than re-install XP now. I'm not sure which version I should get though: Home Premium, Pro or Ultimate. I would get the 64-bit version regardless ('cause I want moar ram!). So what's the difference between the three versions?

As I mentioned on the SIF, I don't know what "Special Offer" does, or as Loco says whether it's yet another thing that wasn't implemented. I don't remember asking about shopping, just item drops in general & comparisons to S1 (though shopping uses similar code to item drops).

Personally I always thought that Speed Lore should have the same speed bonuses as the other speed-boosting skills (ie, the Speed Lore bonus at infinity is +30%, Sword Weapons at infinity gives a bonus of 120%, four times more bonus & the attack speed cap is ~2.4 times greater than the run speed cap), or give an attack speed bonus for all weapons (albeit a much lower one than the weapon-specific lores).

There's no mention of the fix in the 1.40 PS 3 patch notes here.

I'm not sure if it would be a good thing or a bad thing if an aRPG on an Iphone/etc required you to rotate the camera to look around, or swing the phone up & down/side to side/etc to do melee attacks (no that you would then be able to see what's happening on the screen, but you get the idea).

Given that many people complained about Sacred 2's tiny text size, I'd imagine that it would be infinitely worse on a PSP/etc.

That would be the publisher's responsibility rather than Ascaron's.

I wouldn't worry Gogo, not much has been announced. And by not much, I mean nothing...

Like Legendaries? IMO, one of the good things about Sacred is that if you find the "perfect" unique/set item for your particular build you know that it's possible to get it again later on but with better stats, rather than games like Diablo where you'll find a set/unique & it'll only be useable for a few levels. As to the numerical max level, that's a red herring, the amount of time it'll take you to actually reach it (or 3/4 of it, etc) is more important & how well (or not) the game is balanced for that.

Jonny & I are playing Lotro as well, also on the Snowbourn servers. I've got a level 52 Hunter (Llamabyrt) & a level 2 Guardian.

The screen is always centered on your own character (ignoring the abomination that was the boss camera).

Are cards with RFID chips in them particularly common over there Gogo? I think Barclaycard & Visa have been advertising them over here but I don't think they've taken off particularly. It is easy to do, but it's also easy to defend against, all you need to do is to put the card in a Faraday Cage, one of the options when googling that was for Faraday Cage wallets...

That's excellent news Gogo. I wish I could get some exercise, but since I do the morning run with the kids, that cuts that out & when I get home from work I just don't want to do anything like that (especially in winter)...

I think that one's preference is probably for the version that you started with (either S1 or Sacred 2). Sacred 2 did have a lot of improvements (being able to manipulate the camera, modify the CAs, several of the new item mods, shared stash, more ranged weapons, buffs, diminishing returns on rune-useage, higher values of +CA from higher difficulty runes, being able to port to the island in MP), but for me most of the S1 CAs were more interesting & Sacred 2 just didn't feel as "fun", it was lacking something somewhere. For some reason it just didn't feel like it was more than the sum of it's parts & I have no idea why.

Thanks mate.

A million ships? Nice! Was that my old account (which would be even more impressive if you managed to turn a miner account into a fleet)?