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  1. Red Beard

    Legacies: Tides of the Serpent

    A long time ago on b.net. This game used to be very popular. It would be hosted at a very regular pace and the games were always full. Then it died. The promise of a sequel went unfulfilled and travel to the fabled "Razor Coast" became a dream. WoW came out, and suddenly Legacies: ToS...
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    automated response or not? (email)

    I applied for a job online at about 8:30-8:45 ish tonight. At 9:15 i recieved an email saying I wasn't accepted. Even though the due date for the application was august 1. (there are many gripes here but I will stick with the technical one) How can I find out if an email address is an...
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    Scanning tips

    Port Ahoy! So, as the year is closing fast, I have an innumerable amount of assignments to complete. After much looting and pillaging, I have aquired some documents that could save me some time. Only they are in document form, and I would like them to be loaded into the computer for...
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    Compile Script Errors

    Righto, first off i know nothing about Jass. I imported a spell, "powerbash", having already implemented Vex's spell thingamajigger doovelacky whagemacallit. (castersystem) Now, all of Vex's spells work just fine, but the imported spell doesn't. I get 125 compile errors. Line...
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    Adding Items to Merchant

    Righto As a reward from a quest, the local potion shop sells a greater variety of potions By using the Trigger Event: Neutral Building: Add <item> to <shop> with (x) in stock and max stock of (y) The 'level' of success determines the amount in stock and its max stock. However...
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    Multiboard Icons

    Righto, So I am fiddling around with the multiboard (thankyou Senkin and Ryoko for your invaluable posts, triggers and tutorials) Anyway, I was wondering is there a way to assign a players hero icon to the multiboard. I am thinking along the lines of some trigger function (jass gui...
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    Which variabletype will work

    Choosing variable type Solved. Thanks. Just a related Question Hmmmm, right so i have an ability that when used, bolts of lightning are created on all units with a particular buff. After reading the tutorial on leaking. I realised that, my map would be like a hole the hull in my ship...
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    Breath of FIre/Drunken Haze combo. Info help.

    Ahoy there scurvy ol' sea dogs, I got me a question, and if ye no answer it.... you can be going to visit Davey Jones. :nuts: Righto. It is commonly accepted that Drunken Haze and Breath of Fire are 'linked' abilities, where their effectiveness, and effect (damage) is altered when...
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    Identifying Boss Wave (variables)

    Yahar ye scurvy ridden rum scullin ship rots, this old sea dog needs a hand.. (its me wooden leg help me down the stairs) :nuts: Anyway. So i got distracted one day and decided to make a quick time filler game... (you know when u got a group of friends wanting to play a game.. but...
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    Losing Imports

    Blistering Barnacles!!! I was working on my map... testing a few things out. I went into my object editor and............ all the icons that i had imported were not showing on the respective items and abilites. "hmm thats funny" i thought. So I ventured into the import manager and...
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    Make an Item look like a corpse

    Hmmmm, Well I have been searching through the models/doodads etc on WC, and I cant seem to find a decent 'carcass' model. Is there a way, I could perhaps use a dead units model as an item? u follow?
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    changing an item ability to a units one

    Ahoy there landrots well, i have wanted to change the item; 'scroll of regeneration' (human tier1 item) to a normal 'activatable' ability for a unit, however, my priest wont cast it unless in combat :confused: go figure i would rather not make a dummy unit, but i will if i have...
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    upgraded to weu and dammit

    Well after a long time debating between myself and my alter ego's someone prevailed and i got myself WEU. I was so STOKED... it was so much nicer and gave a greater feeling of control................ until i tested the map for a new ability.. I discovered that a previous ability of...
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    My computer is 'grumbling'

    My faithful and dedicated friend has recently become quite irrate and moody about certain tasks, making some irritating grumbles at the most inconvenient and worrisome times. Basically, for the greater duration of the time, she is perfectly happy humming and whirring in unision with the...
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    Randomizing waygates

    I know how to setup a normal waygate. But my question is, could i setup the waygates so that each time the map is played the waygate destinations are different.
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    a nice charge/rush ability help

    well, basically, i have been trying to create an ability that i can use to 'charge' an enemy, knocking them back, a stun isnt necessary, but the charging and knocking back is. any ideas on how to develop this? i have tried a few methods, but im not happy with my results so far
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    Get corpse/ Cargo hold unit problem

    Ahoy there landrots! I am trying to have a hero have the ability of getting corpses and storing them. Basing it off the meat wagons ability. Why does WC crash when my hero tries to load a corpse? Its essentialy the same ability, just with a changed range even the 'normal'...
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    Throw me some abilites

    WEll hi there...... just a request...... but with a difference some ability ideas lead to highly powerful UBER abilities. (time stop, Running death etc) My particular map, is incredibly LOW POWERED, (ie survival map). so, this could be the challenge.... we can all think up cool big...
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    could i attach a healing ward to the body

    self explanatory really............ the healing ward has the animation that I would LOVE........ but i dont want to create one....... been having problems with scaling, size and spawning location....... then it hit me.......... could i attatch a very small one to the casters body...
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    Tri attack balance system

    Bad headline i know...... but cant think of better way to describe basically i have 3 'races' to be vague they are small medium and large where small beats large beats medium beats small etc etc....... I have looked at the types of attacks ( pierce normal hero etc) and the...
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