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Stat gains msotly seem to depend on the character in question, but even then the only stat I've noticed to differ by a large amount was stamina.

Yeah, it turns out that berserk and chop use different skills, whoops. However, berserk does share swing's hidden skill. As for going through DM, if I didn't practice levelling then my characters would be mere artisans on reaching Lord Chaos... don't know about any of you but I'd like my characters ...

Interesting tips for playing solo. However, a lot of the recommended tactics do not build some of the hidden skills, more on that later. The rope's actually one of the best ways to get quick ninja levels, and builds a skill that seems to be devoted exclusively to the rope. As for fighting actual ...

I'm fairly human last time I checked, so I guess that's out of the question. Although I hear Alpha Centauri IV's alright. And I'm not going to Mars, I read bad things about what goes on there. I don't really know much more than that in Sol or nearby systems. Although I have an idea for a solar-wide ...

Do you have a shirt that says "I went to Saturn and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"?

I've levelled characters to level 13-14 in all disciplines in a previous version of CSB, and I can tell you that the answer for hit points and stamina is "maybe", a definite "no" for mana.

The reason for "maybe" for hit points and stamina is that some characters have hit point and stamina bonuses ...

Armor Strength: The armor value (0..200) associated with the item. Some items (Shields) have the "Ignored" keyword, meaning that the item's Armor Strength will be ignored when calculating armor.

Does this mean that a shield doesn't contribute to a character's defense if it's equipped? I don't ...

The good news of the update is that damage resistance doesn't oscillate anymore. The bad news is, my characters no longer have the truly rediculous levels of damage resistance they used to!

Haha, actually, thanks for the fix. Really! It's good to have armor, shields and the like useful once again ...

I tried to have some fun mechanics in RTC where the dragon had a 'tail' so that it took up two squares, and if you were standing at it's side and it turned it's back on you, you'd be swiped sideways and damaged

a cunning plan, with only one tiny flaw (no monster directivity on pads)

another one i ...

Beginning mana is easy to solve. Just go down to the first dungeon level and do warcries until they reach novice priests.

Wow, that explains it then. There's no delay for using ropes, so that means it wouldn't be resetting the adjusted damage resistance, and why a high rope skill corresponded with a high damage resistance. Thanks for following the lead on this!

I DL'd the 9.8v29, but it doesn't seem to have changed the character damage resistances from what they were before. Also, I'm a little confused about that download because it only uncompressed to release notes and the sword icon labelled 'CSBwin'. Is that all there should be to it?

EDIT: I was ...

Under the 'about' menu it says that I'm using CSB version 9.8? That's odd, because I just downloaded it from the dmweb.free.fr site less than a week ago. I would have thought they'd automatically have the latest version. I'll DL this file and double-check though.

Ok I think I have an idea what might be causing the damage resistance to vary so much. I've been training Stamm today and noticed that his damage resistance went down, up, down, up, then down again just like with Sonja. More importantly, the damage resistance for Stamm changed at the same rope ...

Hmmm.. this all seems very strange. The game has a certain amount of randomness thrown into it's calculations, how can you possibly tell that something is broken against simply being a random spike?

There are actually 2 more things that help me ID the problem. First, slamming a door on my party's ...

I guess you're right about on-forum e-mail not allowing attatchments as I just checked yours. Anyway, I've finally got two savegames with working damage resistance and one with the malfunctioning damage resistance. I just checked again for the save where damage resistance isn't working correctly ...

I didn't run the game in record mode, so forgive me if I don't have that information. Also, I would have sent the savefiles to you but for the fact that your e-mail doesn't show in your profile or a forum search, although I could be using the forum search incorrectly. It's just really annoying ...

Re-playing CSB it seems I had some of my information faulty after all. I'll post corrections later.

Account: done. As I wrote, I'm not sure where to upload the savegame.