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I have 2 jobs: One to do the maths for explosive welding and the other which I do when walking with the dog or at weekends is to care for the forests which are around our village. This second job is demanding frozen ground in winter. Treecutting, trunk transport is only done at frozen ground in our forests: less damage to the soil. Some of the trunks are transported by horses for same reason. The forest is owned by an earl, who doesn't really need the money. So no clearcutting is done. Clearcutting would be to cut all trees in an area. The forests are mainly leaf trees who need centuries to grow and no quick growing needle trees. So all interests for big trees are collected and it is my job to work out a plan how to reach these trees for cutting and transport without damaging too much of the other trees in the forest. Needs some maths: Steiner ways are shortest connections between a set of points. Steiner ways have 120 degree crossings (lile honeycombs). This has the second advantage that there are no long straight roads which divide the forest in squares. A storm blowing along such a straight street can gain additional power and make trees falling. Also the 'streets' are way shorter, less money needed. Outer parts of forest are areas with quick growing trees for wood heating systems. 17 areas and each year one of them is clear cutted and newly created. 17 is again maths: its a prime number. Several insect which damage wood have cycles. So by doing a prime number it is less probable that the cycles of different insects would ruin all wood. About the snow: lot of it. Kids had great fun using our Leo's (120 pound Leonberger dogs) to pull kicksleds(?) through the snow. Don't know if you call them kicksleds. Selfmade from old crosscountry skis where our daughters grew out. I added an aluminium frame and a seat. Also a quick release system for dog ropes. The system will release the dogs if the direction of the rope moves to the side (fallen kicksled, and stuff like that). Our third still can't do normal skiing after her car accident so we thought that such a kicksled would be a good idea. Looks a bit like this which I found in wiki Except Leo's are way bigger dogs.

Compared to other mana leeching Combat Arts dislodged is higher by a factor of 10, so I think it is really 5% and that it is a bug.

Beside wounds, there is only one entry for NPC doing physical damage over time in spells.txt : One player spell: Clustering Maelstrom with its modification: Gash - Adds bleeding damage (damage over time). (42 + 21 per CA level physical damage over time (+damage modifiers))

Think the difference between my place and yours is: North america lacks a mountain range in west/east direction. So any polar storm can move unhindered all the way south. Mid germany has a west/east range so clouds arriving from atlantic have to climb at these mountains, releasing water (snow, hail, ice) when doing so. The problem is: we live in this cloud barrier...

The TG was a deadly spears variant which used left click knife attacks for RegPerHit. If I would create a build around knives: armour piercing ...but the dryad has it in a combat art already, That's the way the Kungfu does its pure physical damage. To unlock armour piercing on knives sword lore would be needed in most cases.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think I read in the GSF that animation and attack speed of every two weapon combination is same: So 2 knives would be same speed as 2 swords, as 2 axes, as sword and axe... I played a TG with ONE knife and it seemed that one hand fighting (and weapon/shield) the weapon classes have different animation speeds. The damage should be enough, given that even a Kungfu is playable in Niob with carefully choosing good "damage x-x/nice second modifier' rings.

My weather alarm did this: translates: Condition red, strong snow falling, places above 400 metres. thursday 12:00 to friday 00:00. Starting after lunch 8 inches snow are predicted till midnight, Storm with speed of 65 kilometres per hour, icy roads and trees may fall from snow weight. Avoid car driving. Schneeverwehung, hmm snow banks, snow drifts ? I will work from 5am to 11am today. School will end earlier today for kids so I will pick them up on my way back home. Then I will drive our Unimogs close to our house in case we need them to clean the forest road to our house. Emergency power supply is filled with Diesel, short wave radio new batteries, reserve oven can be fired with wood, no electricity needed. Cross country ski's controlled. Probably I am a bit paranoid, but with 5 kids I do no riscs.

Lar's Hammer: Lars Hammer was an audio designer at Ascaron I think. Same name in german version. Regnif Dlog's Goldbringer: "Regnif Dlogs Güldenmacher" (gold/money maker) in german version. If you read it backwards you get Goldfinger, a James Bond Movie. Unyielding_Wall: In the german version it is called "Wall des Westens" means wall/rampart of the west. In german you can write it as one word too: Westwall. The Westwall is named Siegfried line in english. Hitler promised that the Westwall was an unyielding rampart.

Even I speak no norwegian: Räuber is german for thief, so with a B->V shift Rover, Sprache is german for speech/language and close to sprak. I wonder if someone can program a translator which is not using lists but language and sound rules.

I don't know if it are the same, a turkish friend gave me a bucket full around 3 years back in exchange for some fruits I grow in garden. At least they look the same. In germany you find them mainly in shops for turkish people. We did a lot of experiments (forgot to ask what to do with them), cooking in water and they were slimy, cut in pieces and frying in a pan and they weren't. Our daughters disliked the slime. Our favourite was: Ghoulash. After some tries we found out that we could thicken a ghoulash soup with the slime the okra's produce at cooking. So after 2 more tries we went from soup to sauce (with noodles) to something you can eat with a fork and a knife together with Knödel (potatoe dumplings) to a stand alone dinner. Last variant: Marinated venison and boar beef in fruit wine for 2 days, cut the beef to pieces, short fried in an pan to close the pores, roasting some onions, put all in a lasagne form, added the cut okras, tomatoes, paprica, powdered nutmeg, salt, pepper and some fruit wine and put all in an oven for 2 hours. My wife considered it as a bit too spiced and so I mixed in some left over boiled potatoes from the day before into the mass. Was enough for sunday afternoon with 20 friends. Since they asked me for the recipe it wasn't too bad I think. - Why I am always asked for recipes if I do experimental cooking and never when I just do something from a recipe I took from internet.

I think the :Impaler_of_Heroes is named "Spiesser" in the german version. A Spiess is the german word for a long pike. In 14th and 15th century town people were quickly equipped with these weapons. Even before Martin Luther there were tries of reforming the church. So at revolts the town people equipped themself quickly with easy to make long pikes. They had great success in the early battles against the noble cavalry which was send against them when the pope called out a crusade. A Spiessbürger, short Spiesser, was a town people who was equipped with a Spiess. With the coming up of black powder and firearms the tactics of the Spiesser failed more and more. In modern german the word Spiesser stands for a person who lives in the past and can't/doesn't want adapt to modern times. This is a bit paradox because it were the 'Spiesser' who started the most revolts and wanted a change in old times. But already in the early 19th century when the Brother Grimm wrote down the fairytale "Die sieben Schwaben" it was joked about Spiesser. In the faerytale 7 town people equipped with a single Spiess leave town to search for adventure. In a grass field they hear movement and preparing for a battle they line up along the Spiess, bravely they stood together, holding the Spiess in direction of the enemy, which proved to be a rabbit: Thinking about it, could it be that Monty python got their idea for the killer rabbit from this?

Maritha's Stake -> in german version Martha's Pfahl= Martha's Stake If you speak the german name it sounds like Marterpfahl which is german for a stake which american indians used to tie people at. Then these people were tortured (gemartert). Because of all the Winetou movies and books we consumed as kids in germany the totem pole is often mistaken for a Marterphahl. Picture from an old Karl May book:

Please, if I start to speak 'manisch' not even germans would understand me. English forums are a way for me to learn a bit english, so it would be nice if correct writing would be used and not too much slang expressions. Special languages are as old as mankind I think. Rotwelsch or Gaunersprache (from the german Gauner "criminal" and Sprache "language") is a secret language, a cant or thieves' argot, spoken by covert groups primarily in southern Germany and Switzerland. I crew up around Wetzlar, lived 2 years on the Gummiinsel (rubber island, from the rubber factory mid in river) which is a part of the town Giessen. People on the Gummiinsel spoke nearly exclusivly manisch which is a variant of rotwelsch. So we, my sisters and my brother, used it as a secret language when the work of my dad made us moving around germany. I am no longer able to speak it fluently, lack of training, but I can still follow conversations.

Our daughters play a fireball elf with damage lore. Modified for a single maximum damage fireball to get most out of damage lore. Funny playstyle.

I know this more from out kids. They have to do a little gift for a classmate around 10 euro. Family games: We played this game as kids and still now as parents. I bought it as a x-mas gift for my nephew: You lay out a 7*7 square with 49 square-formed digit cards. Then you draw a number from 1 to 49 blind. The players have to find a combination of 3 digits which give the drawn number by one multiplication and 1addition or subtraction. For example 17: 1*9+8, 2*9-1, 2+3*5, 5*5-8, ... So 198, 291, 235, 558, ... would all be winning combinations. Trains maths, memory and is a lot of fun. Book: Douglas Adams, "Last chance to see". The BBC 2008/9 did a documentation on animals which are endangered to die out, each chapter of the book a 45minutes episode. Douglas Adams 1988 somehow got in talk with animal researchers and they came to the conclusion that people would care more for these animals if they would know more about them and how beautiful and funny they can be. So the humour of the maker of the "Hitchhike Guide through the Galaxy combined" with a beautiful documentation of animals. No joking over the last 10 years I bought the book around 30 times as gifts for nephews, nieces, godchildren, ... You can't do a mistake, people who like the SciFi books laugh about the animal descriptions, people who love animals but dislike Scifi read the book too. About the Kakapo, new zealands parrot which can't fly: Postcards: Still prefer a handwritten one over emails. Here is one which combines x-mas, fun and mathematics. A bag with 10 different ones is around 10 euro. Toys: A bag with 5 different of these rotating wheels for 10 euro. They do optical illusions and normally are tried out right away if you do them as a small gift at a party (age 8-80). So one bag is in reserve if one of our kids forget to mention an invition for a birthday party it got, or if we are invited ourself.

Can't use them at our house, allways forced to climb a hill or move around half of a hill. We use an old using telephon wires at home and in case a fallen tree breaks the wires, short wave radio and walkie talkies as reserve. Cellular phones can't be used at work when working with explosives too. So what is left is working in forest (at least the places which are covered by mobile net), sales traveling (which I hate because it keeps me away from family) and being reachable which can't wait till I look at my email. I got me a Sonim XP2 Spirit 3 weeks ago. It's not too small(can use it with gloves), european Tri Band( had to travel europe last 5 weeks so I bought one when I was frustrated of no net for my old one), robust and speakers are loud enough to listen in presence of motor saws. I saw a german video about a phone (Sonim XP3) put in a washing machine at 70Celcius, cooked with spaghetti.... which made me browsing a bit. And a video about people trying to destroy a Sonim XP2 Spirit: Decided to go for the one in the second video. Better fitted to my hand size and I tried it with gloves. Still have to get used to it, haven't tried even half of the features yet. But I wanted few and big keys and I can work a bit on it: drilling one edge to allow opening beer bottles and shaping one edge into a sharp point: to smash car windows when sinking into a lake. Probably your emergency hammer is in the rear store room of the car and a plastic phone in your hands which can't smash a car window.

Chance for halve regeneration time is not shown in the tooltipp. It is allways full regeneration time which is show. Would be a bit confusing if it would read: 8s with 30% chance, 4s with 70% chance. If you look at the timer clock, it will jump to 6 o'clock if halve reg time kicked in and regeneration starts from there. Then there are two regeneration systems now which complicqate all a bit.

Neither halve regeneration time nor reg per hit does anything to cooldown. If you have an Acute mind with 20s cooldown and 4 seconds regeneration time and a 100% halve regeneration and 4 seconds reg per hit: The 4 seconds are halved and then a weapon totally removes the regeneration time. But the 2 seconds reg per hit which would remain are not affecting the cooldown.

I got interested into languages when my german teacher interrogated me at blackboard and I did no answer correct. The class following german was physics and I always read into the experiments for the next class instead paying intention to the german class My german teacher was the class-teacher, main teacher or however you call it of my older sister. So the very same day her class teacher whined at her what a stupid brother my sister would have. And then my sister asked me what the hell I was not understanding, sound shifts and language theory would be rather mathematics and logic than reading german. So she explained me in half an hour Grimm's law and variants and I wrote the best test of whole class the next day. Something the teacher for german failed in 2 month. I did a post of language history already here: http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15255&view=findpost&p=6912194 The most common language law between german and english is a shift from B or P to F or V. Starting with exceptions: latin tabula->english table (word was in britain already at time of romans) -> german Tafel (germans got the word from romans) latin canabis-> english hemp -> german Hanf (a first C->H shift and then a B->F), english and german word share the first shift from C->H, but english didn't do the second shift from P->F because the word was already in britain at the time of the romans. But in most cases german has a B and english a V. Rabe->raven Liebe->love Weib->wife http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_change So with these language rules one can understand the origin of a word and when it was brought to a country. Many schools here are named Brother Grimm, mainly because of their researches and less because of their fairytale collection. Sadly I had only latin as a non germanic language at school. So idon't know if there are easy rules for other languages too.

@Sirius If you are interested in germanic languages perhaps read into Grimm's law and modern variants of it. The brothers Grimm collected the fairytales while doing language research. After 2 world wars their maps and collected material is the main research stuff for german linguists. For example: In germany we have 2 words for saturday: Samstag and Sonnabend. Samstag is a variant of Sambaton, old greek for day of saturn. Sonnabend is from a time when germans had a day starting with the evening. So it was the evening (Abend) belonging to sunday. After the Varus battle the romans did a fortified border line (limes germanicus) which divided our state Hessen in 2 parts. One north of the limes remaining germanic and one south of the limes getting affected by roman and greek words. The limes is 550 kilometres long and the third longest building world wide: after chinese wall and hadrian wall. This is a card of Hessen showing the distribution of the 2 words in 1940. http://www.uni-marburg.de/aktuelles/unijournal/7/Sprache/Sprachkarte1 And this in 1990 http://www.uni-marburg.de/aktuelles/unijournal/7/Sprache/Sprachkarte2 The wars made many people fleeing and settling elsewhere so the old researchs are the only chance left to find out where certain tribes settled. The Grimm's interrogated farmer people because they were the least likely to have moved. So when they did their maps they found old 2000 year old borderlines between tribes. A research which can't be done anymore nowadays, at least here in germany.

Seems canola is used in america for what we call 00-Raps. Raps is rapeseed in english , but hasn't the second meaning rape has in english. Raps, 0-Raps and 00-Raps are all just called Raps in normal german language and only food producers and farmers know the difference. 00-Raps is very low on dangerous oils, 0-Raps has an very much lowered amount compared to normal raps but is 3 times higher then the 00-variant. So in germany 00-Raps would be close to what is Canola in america. Never trust a dictionary or wiki. If I do german wiki for Rapsöl and then click on english I am at Colza oil, but when doing english wiki for Canola and click german I am at Rapsöl. In european community farming gen manipulated rapeseed is not allowed where in Canada it is up to more than 80% gen manipulated. In germany we make a difference between Sommerraps and Winterraps. For Winterraps, which is most of the 00-Raps, the seed would be brought out in autumn to be harvested the next summer. Different sizes of fries was the reason that I normally preferred a pan.

I wrote how I got my name and avatar here already : How I got my avatar. My cousine is named Katja. When IRC and internet chatting started when she was a student she needed a nick name. Since Katja was already taken by someone else I made the joke that she should nick herself Chattia. Chattii (latin for wildcats) was the german tribe who lived in our area. So Chattia would stand for a female wildcat to show where she is from. With to chat having just a 't' less it was a funny and unique nick at this time. Brother Grimm did a famous law of sound shifting and it says that a C/CH was changed to H with time and a T changed to S. So the Old Chattii are now the german state Hessen. So when I did a nick for myself I was choosing Chattius. Katja is the godmother of our second daughter and our second daughter has Chattia as a second name. Sadly my nick is not so unique anymore - a company had to change its name and changed Hassius to Chattius and other people had the same ideas. But I have IRC logs dating back 20+ years. So I was first and I am allowed to keep my nick The chemical element 108 Hassium was first disvovered in Hessen. It should be named after the state Hessen ... After several tries Hessium - Hesse was the name of the second nazi after Hitler, couldn't be used Chattium - was to close in some languages speaking to cadmium ... Then Hassium was taken, part of it was that Hass is german for hate and the discoverers hated the discussion about the name and said quickly yes when the midage latin writing of Hessen was brought into discussion. So I am lucky that I haven't to explain to chemicians why I nick myself Chattius when the element would be named Chattium.

Eigenharp reads like it is 'only' a new input device and software for a synthesizer. It's not like a Theremin, which doesn't need a synthezizer. The Eigenharp is more like a laser-harp where your fingers are hold into laser beams- great for life shows. And surely the eigenharp is not the best to have if stranded on a lonely island without electricity Hope our third doesn't read this, she is our little musician genius. When she was 3 we bought a Zither on a garage sell out for 50 euro. We thought this would be cheaper than a training guitar. (All of my family starting from generations back play an instrument). My brother told me that we accidently bought a 100 year old 42 string concert zither. And after small repairs he considered it at 3000 euro. Our daughter likes to play the zither and experiments a lot with it and other instruments. And I always considered a Zither as strange.

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The buildin attack value from weapon Combat Arts doesn't replace the normal one: it adds to them. But a level 20 weapon_ca has around the same base attack value than 200 points in strength. The last kill window does only show the normal hit chance and not the one for a weapon ca. The one for a weapon ca will be way better. I would take the focus for the black hole effect. The spell damage is quite low compared to weapon damage eve nwith the lore. But with the focus you will get a better buff (higher level) buff to reflect spells and melee. Yo uwill also be able to get a higher level doubleganger (don't do the doubleganger as a buff) when needed. The range of a polearm is even better if you sit on your spider.