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Bullion

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Impossible to find anytthing!
« on: December 20, 2007, 01:10:00 pm »

Why can't i find anything in adventure mode?

anything at all? this sort of thing needs to be toned down a bit.

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Zereth

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Re: Impossible to find anytthing!
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2007, 08:12:00 am »

quote:
Originally posted by Covenant:
<STRONG>Although you don't go into specifics, I think you're right, in general. It's a very realistic and convincing simulation, but IMHO there needs to be more structure, ironically, to get more variety between games. Example: At the moment, your adventurer might wander into the nearest cave, kill a few kobolds, and get some crappy copper weapons and stone jewellery. To find something truly 'special' seems hard.</STRONG>

I think the issue is more with, once you've talked up the locals and they've pointed out the general location of the kobold cave, actually finding the damn thing. Whenever I try, I end up wandering around for ages and never finding it.
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Ravious

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Re: Impossible to find anytthing!
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2007, 08:32:00 am »

Once you get a quest and go to that area, press I believe "Q" then "z"?  Basically you want to pull up your map/quests book then zoom in on the region.  It will give you a much more precise area to find the cave, etc.

I agree that it does need work, but there is also a little help built in you might be missing.

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skeightmachine

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Re: Impossible to find anytthing!
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2007, 05:24:00 pm »

A few times I got a quest to kill something in a cave. Although I go to the map square where the cave is supposed to be and cant find the V entrance... :P
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ThePaladin

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Re: Impossible to find anytthing!
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2007, 10:07:00 pm »

Yes, this often happens. I can only advise to search all 9 highlighted squares.
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Vodalian

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Re: Impossible to find anytthing!
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2007, 09:32:00 am »

It's not as hard as you make it sound, you just need to learn all of the keys, such as "Q".
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Sean Mirrsen

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Re: Impossible to find anytthing!
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2007, 11:33:00 am »

Adventure mode has barely received attention from the developer. It will need several secondary features before an adventurer will be able to feel "at home" in the wilderness.

For example, roads and paths in sites. A town without roads is pretty bad as is, but even a cave without paths leading to it (normally there would be a trampled path from all the creatures going in and out) is proving to be a problem.

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