Do you perfer a sharp chedder or perhaps a mild camambert?
FredSRichardson
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Over the years I feel like I've gone from the full bore "cheese bearded munchkin" to more of a cheese connoisseur. That is picking and choosing certain types of cheese that I think go well together.
So, for example, I don't usually take both the shield of Balduran and the cloak of refelection but I have picked one (I guess the cloak is more powerful). I no longer exploit the merchant in the sewers - though I might on a Bard solo run through. I'm willing to roll for a good long time to get uber stats (my goal is a 92 though I find 88 hard enough to get most of the time). This gets boring and I would actually accept a mod that just gave me 92 with a random 18/xx for STR (with Ctrl-8 you always get 18/100 even if you don't spend all the stat points).
So I admit to some ripe cheese, but I do still turn my nose at other cheese.
So where do other people see themselves? I can see a range from "lactose intolerant: I avoid cheese and vomit every time I unknowingly consume it" to "cheese lover: I like it all old cheese and new cheese".
How do mods factor in?
I haven't dared try SCS yet as I don't think my cheese palate is well enough developed for it =D
So, for example, I don't usually take both the shield of Balduran and the cloak of refelection but I have picked one (I guess the cloak is more powerful). I no longer exploit the merchant in the sewers - though I might on a Bard solo run through. I'm willing to roll for a good long time to get uber stats (my goal is a 92 though I find 88 hard enough to get most of the time). This gets boring and I would actually accept a mod that just gave me 92 with a random 18/xx for STR (with Ctrl-8 you always get 18/100 even if you don't spend all the stat points).
So I admit to some ripe cheese, but I do still turn my nose at other cheese.
So where do other people see themselves? I can see a range from "lactose intolerant: I avoid cheese and vomit every time I unknowingly consume it" to "cheese lover: I like it all old cheese and new cheese".
How do mods factor in?
I haven't dared try SCS yet as I don't think my cheese palate is well enough developed for it =D
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It allows me to experience a lot of weird new things, without growing dependent on them.
@decado - I think I might have used this before because I wanted to learn scrolls without fail, get max HP on level up and I wanted to get the all the strongholds that matched my multiple classes. Appropriate for this thread I think =D
But I'm a bit worried on how well these mods will interact with BGEE and BG2EE, any ideas on this?
BTW, here's an interesting fact. The probability of a generic Human with all min stats of 3 of rolling 92 or greater is 1 in 100,000. The probability of a Human Bard rolling 92 or higher is a little less than 1 in 100. That comes from three min stats of 12, 13 and 15.
The problem with the BT2Tweaks min stats hack is that you can't min-max =P So, a setting of 12 means no stat can be less than 12. With a roll of 92 you can max 3 stats and have 2 points left over (and the odds are 4 in 100 that you roll 92 or higher, not bad but it drops off quickly to less than 3 in 1000 to roll 94 or higher).
As an alternative, I wouldn't mind setting the min STR, DEX and CON to 14 for everyone. All my CHARNAME's look like they go to the gym a lot =P (this would give a > 2 in 100 chance of 92 or higher)
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/49693/v2-0-update-release-notes-attached
@thedamages - I'm with you, I find myself rolling over and over... I think @BillyYank has given us a solution. It's worth a few hours time hacking the UI to save so many hours later on!
Now maybe if I can learn to play through BGEE a little more efficiently - the game is burning through so much of my life =P
@Freche made a variation to Dee's design that shows the rolls as they go by.
Personally, I find the version I ended up with at the end of that tutorial (the one in the last screenshot, that says "Cheater!" on the screen) to be the most interesting one. I took away the + and - buttons, which had the exciting effect of making rerolls meaningful despite having a fixed "total".
Current I have... took awhile to get it to roll up. Req is 95 points. I sat there stunned when I saw my first 90 pop up and went *how high can I get* I stopped there.
Edit: And no. That's not a shadow keeper or any kind of edit. Pure role off char creation. Took about 15 mins of tapping reroll. (Fie on the editors, play it glitches and all!)
Edit edit: Droid phone too version too.
Editx3: I almost feel cheese using him. But he's a legit roll so I don't feel too bad... and I can't meta game since the last time I played this was on Pc back when integrated pentium 3 processors were the bomb so I can't remember half the stuff.
I had to.... I'm gonna try a black guard solo and 6 reroll in... this hits...... Droid phone no hax..... *drools*
Ended with this. Keeping Imoen till out of dungeon. Yoshi for swap and only a single npc for quests. Ai off.
Stat allocation as such... wish me luck:
Definitely feeling.cheese on this roll...Edit. .. not sure what the heck to spec for weapons in....
2hd ofc. .. gotta go that... katana maybe and sword n board?
But common 92 only takes roughly like 20 mins to roll out, and that's on a human. Okay more like 10mins, but I must admit I missed 2 92s prior to that, so my bad there.
Also isn't 8 int bad for dealing with mind flayers...would that blackguard get his brains eaten so fast?
A 98 is hellish to get, imho @FredSRichardson
Most often, people keep their rolls when they get a 91-92, no more
Don't the stronger mind flayers have like 4 attacks per round too....Id make sure to have some kind of Protect against magic weps. That's supposed to help.
@marzbarz - skeleton summons might do pretty well against mind flares (high level ones much just tear through them though). I guess sucking down a potion of mind focusing or genius or whatever might also help.
Ah well. I can get in the mid 90s usually after about 5 mins or so clicking. The 98 was pure fluke and sadly I was drunk while doing it so his weap choices are mentally challanged. Oh well.