When I repeated it on another Chaos node I picked up a retort of Node Mastery. Heh, now I can use the same tactic to off Great Wyrms in Nature nodes. (Too bad Sky Drakes are magic immune, but you can’t have everything.)
Only trouble with Magic Vortex is that it can blunder around refusing to hit what you want hit. I got lucky with the 8 Great Drakes above but less so with a later bunch. But now my wizard has the skill to cast it twice per combat, it’s less likely the monsters will get away with it.
Yup, even after all these years I can still geek incessantly about the game.
Yeah, for the Star Control II CD, I think you end up with a black-and-white version of the map, in PDF. Being a total geektard, I printed it all out, trimmed the pages where necessary, and taped them all together to get one big starchart that I stuck up on my wall, complete with annotations about what was where. My room mate thought that was kinda weird.
I remember the manuals that came with flight sims used to be worth the cost of the game. Detailed information about all of the different planes, important officers, historical overviews of what was going on in the game (the Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator manual had some wonderfully random trivia, like the variations made to golf rules in England during the Battle of Britain, making allowances for using a new ball if yours lands near an unexploded bmob, etc.)
I’m glad you didn’t provide a link to the site–thank you for that–but we’d prefer not to have posts encouraging the downloading of copyrighted software. The site you mention does not have the permission of (most of) the copyright holders to provide their software; what they’re doing, in a lot of the cases, is illegal according to U.S. copyright law. Because of that, I’ve removed the site’s name from your post.
No worries. I just took a peek and, yeah, it is misleading. It gives the impression that since no one is actively looking after the rights of the software, then it’s (legally) alright to distribute it. It’s kind of silly, actually, that the article about the site doesn’t even mention the most telling part of the first FAQ:
Thanks. Have another look up the thread, I’m afraid you’ll find the word [Name deleted - Skip] still lurking about. (And here too, but you can edit it out of here easily enough.)
