Ok, now this is very simple, when you've done all the deeds that can be done at any particular moment in the game, what do you do to pass the time as you wait for the next event?

My personal choice is to fight in the desert for the first 12 days, and then just use the map to move from the Fighters plaza to the Palace plaza, which passes the time very quickly.

Till next time stay cool

If my stats aren't up to maximum, I work on whatever I can to improve them. That usually means fighting in the desert and working out in the guild - or practise casting spells... or practice being stealthy.

When my stats are at maximum, and I'm still waiting... I become very good at tapping my fingers on the computer desk, getting up, doing something else, peering back at the computer to see if a particular day has arrived...

That's the major reason why I find Trial by Fire isn't my number one QfG game.

Usually I have enough money from looting Carcasses, that I can spend money on about 10 waterskins, and about 50 each of the Vigor and Healing Pills, and I'll spend 3 days straight fighting Uhura until I'm needed.

It is interesting isn't it? As to how a woman can never, ever get tired from practice

Oh, and do you practice other skills? Like throwing?

Till next time stay cool

Not really, since my typical hero's a mixed class Fighter/Wizard. I find throwing skills unneccesary, since you have Force Bolt.

As for raising my spells, I posistion the mouse, type the command, then put a paperweight on the enter key. Take a pill when needed, and repeat.

That's why you can go to the inn & sleep as much as you want! I do that all the time. Too bad you can't do that in Raseir.... Oi. I hate that part of the game.

But that's hardly heroic! I mean, heroes are supposed to be training and working out to make sure they fight the bad guys, but... sleeping it off, who would think you a hero after that.

Till next time stay cool

It means you're a hero...

... in your dreams. <grin>

Well, it depends on my char. If his training is still lacking in some parts, I'll keep training. (Alternating between desert mainly for the spellcasting and training with Uhura.) Once I've done all the training I can do, I sleep!

But fighting monsters is good. It gives your pixalated hero a chance to wipe the desert clean of vermin... but given the fact that there's an unlimited suppy of such monsters, that can prove problematic, hmm...

Till next time stay cool

I tend to play as a thief-mage, so I found I could spend a lot of time wandering around and picking random locks to boost my lockpicking skills.

I use all the free time my Hero gets (when there's no other deeds to do at the time) practicing with Uhura at the Guild Hall

That way my Hero's strength and other abilities will increase and by the time he will need Issur's bellows he will have 120 + Strength and he will be able to arm wrestle him to get them

Plus I always like to give my Hero the best amount of skills he can get

And I think it's boring to have maximum stats. Just boring.
A Hero must be unique. Must have his own name and his own stats.
For ex., I have a hero and you'll not find the same hero somewhere else.
His name is Roberto, he's a paladin with magical abilities...
...and he has a Thieves' Guild license, an Acme 2 Tool Kit and very good acrobatics.
Really cool, isn't it?

Okay, staying on topic...
I love to practice with jackalmen in the desert. They're just like goblins - staying in a row and waiting while I'll rip them to billions of zillions of pieces When I'm tired of practicing, I ride my saurus and go deeep to desert to see Persian Golfer

The Persian Golfer is definitely fun.

What a pity there isn't a Mirage Hotel out in the desert, too...

You know, I almost never run into anything to fight while wandering the desert. Is that a problem for anyone else?

Perhaps my game is broken. Or perhaps I am.

At first I get my stats up to the maximum amount (takes a few days to do them all (not including all spells though)). Then I fight in the desert to get lots and lots of money and use that money to buy more pills to practice the spells until they are all maxed. Then I tend to just sleep in the Inn until important events happen.

That occasionally happens to me too, but in most cases, there is no end to enemies trying to kill my hero.

Till next time stay cool

Yeah most times my Hero just travels through the desert with nothing bugging him too

By the way I don't try to get my Heroes powers maxed out - not most times anyway

But I do try to make him strong enough to face anything that comes in his path

When it comes to the 150 strength part though in Qfg 2 is sort of like a standart for me - I want all my Heroes to have at least 150 points of strength

But a maxed out hero is the best

Till next time stay cool

Fighting in the desert is fun, and I'm very glad that the combat in TbF is as fun as it is. I can just sit there for hours doing nothing but fighting.

So that's usually what I do when I'm waiting for events. And wander throughout the desert looking for the elusive moose which was mentioned in the manual.

The moose shows up in the Adventurer's guild occasionally too.

I enjoy fighting with Uhura for days straight. If I need a break I'll go out and fight Jackalmen in the desert. Which brings me to another point in my list of annoyances. Some people tend to act as if the demi-human monsters (like the Cheetaurs, Jackalmen, and Crocs) are mindless animals that are non-sentient. Uncivilized is a better term for them. They are as intelligent as any katta, centaur, or liontaur; they just do not cooperate with human civilization. They are like the Tusken Raiders in the Star Wars universe, and they have chosen the life of the predator.


"Never assume that what you think and feel is real." - Doreen

To get fights you just have to stay in a screen for a while. I usually fight one screen away from the Oasis. That way I can fill up on water when I need it (and also throw rocks at the dervish if I'm bored)

I wasted many years of my life looking for that moose also

Water will last a while, you don't have to wait right next to it's source. Besides, I always carry four full waterskins whenever I go to the desert.

Till next time stay cool

I walk one skareen to the left or right of the city overview screen. Then I walk back and forth from mountain range to the next. I don't bother with the saurus, throwing me off and runing away got on my nerves a lot. I carry 4-5 full water skins.

I hate to admit it, but I sleep. Something significant happens, I get up and do it, go train at the guild, go back to the inn, sleep, eat, listen to poetry if there is any, sleep until morning, repeat the process.

I was really disappointed in Rasier, as it took so long if you resist Ferrari's drink, and even then night doesn't come soon enough. And there's nothing to do there!

I practice until I get bored, then tend to sleep while waiting. Like many others here have mentioned, waiting for time to pass in Raseir was like pulling teeth. You can't sleep, wandering the streets risks getting lost, and I never wandered out in the desert once there.

Additional question: I have done the game both with resisting Ferrari's drink and drinking it. Does one or the other affect your score and/or dialog? I can't remember.

sleep is the easiest and fastest way to pass time.

I practice my stats. A lot. A whole, frickin' lot. And then I just say, "Oh, the hell with it!" and I sleep.

No, I have no problems with encounters. Even standing on screen will eventually cause critters to run out and jump you.

Usually while you're practicing your magic or tossing daggers.

Anyways, I chose OTHER. The other is whatever I need to do to amp up my stats, so that means either in the Guild Hall kicking the tar out of my fave punching bag OR in the streets lobbing or casting stuff. If I need money, I'll go out into the night desert and hunt down some jackalmen (and pray the game doesn't crash).

What I do while I wait is I sneak around the town improving my stats as a thief by going to WIT or arm wrestling Issur. I also spend some of my time making a map for the alleys of the town of Shapeir. This can usually last me for most of the time, I also try to look for events that happen on specific days.

well i ussually practice in the guild hall but once my stats are ful and it's no longer fun I either go out in to the desert or sleep...depending.

In Rasier though it's abit different I fight in the desert until I lose my Visa then I spend several minutes trying to eat everything I see (tables, people, dead parrots) then when I run out of things to try to eat i try to kiss all the same things, then when i run out of things to try and kiss...I wander aimlessly around the city, become lost then get in trouble for being out at night...

PW's just waiting for his kiss

Really?

Till next time stay cool

If a girls talking about kissing, and PW ain't involved... He'll try what he can to BECOME involved

*runs before PW gets here*

/me stuff Ori in a microwave!

Hehe... 3 and a half hours to late!... I'm already halfway to Bora Bora by now! <grin>

I am an almight Dragon god. I've simply teleported to your location.

I am an almighty King, and my servents have restrained your "Dragony-godness" with holy chains, which block all magic, and I've changed course to Fiji! <grin>

You're lucky that I like your sig line image(s) or I'd make a few "changes." And there is no way that humans could bind me.

If you need a better reason than me being a Dragon god, then it's because I have the divine nector of life!

w00t for Pepsi!

What are you talking about? I don't see anything.

.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
I couldn't resist, plus I don't like seeing a little comment telling everyone when I edited my posts so I just deleted it.

Bah... all you.. people! I can't stand to sleep a lot, I only sleep from midnight to noon, then I have to go find something to do. And I fail a lot, so maybe that's why I'm as crazy as I am.... oh well. And I've never seen hide nor tail of the jackalmen bug, so.... Haha.

I never ran into it either.

I did... once.

Quite unfortunate, because I just hacked through five of them too!

I've taken on three big groups in a row before. I got some nice gold.

I'm just hoping that AGDI works past this bug...

"AGDI" At the moment I'm not sure what that is. Or are you refering to the version that you're (re)making? I remember you saying something about edit one of the games before.

AGDI is Anonymous Game Developers Interactive, the group formerly known as Tierra Entertainment

Yes, I do have to finish up my edit of QG1 EGA... I've only got a few more sprites to go, then It'll be ready... Of course... I just have to find the motivation to do it

Ah.