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[Mictlantecuhtli]

Does anyone have the link to the Elona + .zip download? Can't find it anywhere, or at least that's what the search engine says.

This should work.

[Tarran]

Wow. Just... wow, I think this game is out to get me due to what just happened and what happened throughout my game. Sure it PRETENDS it's fair by giving me a wish and yada yada, but this one takes the cake.

What is this amazing thing that happened to convince me you ask? Well, I was going to identify stuff, when ONE TILE away from the wizard he's assassinated. One tile. Out of all the other NPCs that could've died, it had to be him, and it had to be at that exact time. This is even worse than one of my pets dying to a well shortly after reviving him.

[kcwong]

I love NPCs getting assassinated. They can leave behind some great stuff.

[Markus]

What is the requirement for an NPC to be assassinated, anyways? If I remember correctly, it's dependent upon the amount of Doomed equipment they have on, right?

[LordBucket]

What is the requirement for an NPC to be assassinated, anyways? If I remember correctly, it's dependent upon the amount of Doomed equipment they have on, right?

http://elona.wikia.com/wiki/Curse

Only 1 equipped is needed. Multiples just speed up the process or make it more likely.

[Tarran]

Speaking of NPCs with curses, why do they get curses on their equipment over time exactly? It seems as time goes on, even the most boring of people just get more and more junk that's cursed.

[Kaitol]

Sleeping most likely. They were too stupid to take the exorcist? feat.

's my theory anyway.

[SirAaronIII]

If it gets really bad, you can pickpocket the cursed stuff off them. For some reason they can't take it off themselves, but you can just lift it right off of them.

Not sure if giving them scrolls of uncurse will work. It probably won't work because they're not that smart.

[LordBucket]

platinum

Wow. So I used cheat engine to overcome the platinum problem. Went around to each town buying up skills with the plan to train them to 200% potential, that being the starting point for skills a new character starts with.

It took thousands of platinum. I'm not even sure how many thousands because I gave myself 200-250 at a time thinking it would only take a couple hundred. No, it took so many times that I got bored pushing keys and stopped with several skills over 100. And I didn't even finish buying skills. I still have guild skills so tht's another couple hundred.

The platinum thing is way out of control in this game.

[etgfrog]

platinum

Wow. So I used cheat engine to overcome the platinum problem. Went around to each town buying up skills with the plan to train them to 200% potential, that being the starting point for skills a new character starts with.

It took thousands of platinum. I'm not even sure how many thousands because I gave myself 200-250 at a time thinking it would only take a couple hundred. No, it took so many times that I got bored pushing keys and stopped with several skills over 100. And I didn't even finish buying skills. I still have guild skills so tht's another couple hundred.

The platinum thing is way out of control in this game.

using plat for train skill is a bit of a waste for reasons you've just saw...really if you were going to do something like that, you could have just given yourself bonus points and used those, but overall i've found the most effective way of dealing with skills is to just use the bonus points from level ups and only use them on skills that drop below 50%

however...in my game...i now have 2 "good" ether disease...one that decreases DV by 55 but increases damage by 23(i still have 82 dv after this) and the other randomly sets weather to rain, which is great for training swimming...aka training speed.

[SirAaronIII]

The advice I've heard is to save the bonus points from leveling and use train skill on the low potential ones, and then train everything through use, like etg said.

And not many things have more than 100 of any skill, until you start messing around in South Tyris with the level 100+ regular enemies.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

I find ten platinum to level new skills potential is generally more or less what you'll need, if you count bonuses from having a good bed which can add 10+% a night you shouldn't find an issue with the potential. Even with huge potential [150+%] it takes for-goddamn-ever to level skills at a certain point, though, so it's probably best to just save it for buying the skills and then sleeping a bunch [especially good if you get potential adding dreams!] with a good bed.

I currently have 4 pets [50 Chutzpah hooo!], each with 100+ DV/PV. Know the bad part? They still aren't helpful in 20+ level dungeons. I've been engineering them, too. There's simply got to be a better way to make allies useful mid-game, the damage-equipment types are ruining them, mostly because they keep melting my artifact equipment since they're so stupid with it.

I get to solo the Minotaur Nest now, wish me luck.

[Blaze]

You could make it acidproof by dipping said artifacts in acidproof potions or using material-changing scrolls to get materials that are acidproof by default.

[LordBucket]

Even just buying skills and not increasing potential works out to a couple hundred platinum. I remember when I originally elona, without cheating, feeling like the vast majority of my ply time was spent simply grinding sidequests. Now I know why.

As for pets, I've read  lot of good things about them, but personally I found them to generally not be worth the trouble. It seems to take a lot of energy to make them useful and I generally found it to be far more effective and much less effort to simply develop a heavy armor gunner who can walk into most places and hold down the fire button until things stop moving.

[Tarran]

My pets certainly make the game far easier for me.

They block melee enemies, they distract others from me (player death is far, far worse than a pet death and I'm possibly the heaviest hitter), they serve as a place to drop the stuff I don't want to use but would never/don't want to give away, and in some cases they're really powerful. For example, I think my Little Girl I had since the beginning is a higher level than me. And in a battle versus 7 level 15 or so enemies in a pet battle, they won (despite being roughly 16, 10, 10, and 8 respectively).

They are especially useful with my Shaking Bow, which teleports enemies to me, where my pets promptly smack down the teleported enemy the same turn.