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[BrokenAngel]

ammm could sum one pls help and tell me how to dis able sounds on exult? ive managed to get the game going in exult but its too slow...i wna try and disable the sounds maybe it would speed the game up. pls

[Roadkill]

Just dont download the sound patch (which is optional with exult and you have to download it to get sound) there is one trick I can suggest to make it speed up

press ctrl + alt + del

find the exult file that is running the game, right click on it and set the priority to high - do not and I repeat do not set the priority to realtime, it will most proabably crash your p.c.

if that doesnt work, run it in dosbox and set your cpu cycles up.

[jslind]

I have a few questions:

1) How do I open the metal door to Serpent's Hold's armory? I tried lock picks, but nothing happens (doesn't unlock, but the picklock doesn't break either, it just doesn't say anything at all). Poweder geg won't do anything either.

2) Food. My party members keep saying they're hungry, however I haven't fed them at all and they still haven't starved So am I missing something? What's the reason to feed them at all?

3) I'm trying to solve the murder in Trinsic. I did everything at Trinsic and then went to Britain as the Hook had taken the ship there. However at Britain I come to a dead-end. The shipwright guy says the ship hasn't come there afterall. Now what? (just tell me if I'm missing some lead, don't spoil the whole thing by just telling where the Hook is If I'm not missing anything and I'm just supposed to wonder around Britannia looking for him then that's fine)

4) How do I get more mana?? I just noticed my mana is down to 2, and even sleeping or eating won't reastore it

5) Then a bit of rant: The combat system is awful! I go to combat mode and before I barely know what's happening, I have either won the battle or I'm dead.

It just goes by so fast that I can't even dream about actually controlling my character there (expect by opening the inventory). Sometimes when I try to make my character to attack some specific target by double-left-clicking on one, my character just stops and doesn't attack anyone at all (maybe I miss the target because they just run around on my screen so fast!)

They should have just kept the combat system as it was in Ultima 6 :angry: There's a huge difference. In Ultima 6 you could actually think about what's the best action etc, now basically you can just WATCH (plus cast some spells every now and then) :not_ok:

[Tervez]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jsl @ Nov 22 2006, 04:18 PM) [snapback]268239[/snapback]</div>

1) How do I open the metal door to Serpent's Hold's armory? I tried lock picks, but nothing happens (doesn't unlock, but the picklock doesn't break either, it just doesn't say anything at all). Poweder geg won't do anything either.
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If my memory serves me correctly, one of the fishes in the kitchen is facing other direction than the others. Open it up, take the key, and use it on the door.

2) Food. My party members keep saying they're hungry, however I haven't fed them at all and they still haven't starved So am I missing something? What's the reason to feed them at all?[/b]

They take damage ( I think) when their stomachs are empty enough. So yes, there is point in feeding them.

4) How do I get more mana?? I just noticed my mana is down to 2, and even sleeping or eating won't reastore it [/b]

Hmm. Have you trained you magical skills at some trainer?

Sorry, couldn't remember about the murder at Trinsic.

[jslind]

It seems that my mana is slowly restoring in time... Strange that it doesn't restore while sleeping though.

Another question:

6) What (stat?) affects on from which circles of magic I can cast spells from?

Edit: I found the key from the fish - however it does not unlock the armory door! :blink: What's going on??
Edit 2: I did some googling and found this:

In the pub, open the fish (the only one looking up) for a key. Fly to (177S, 36E) and land (it is possible), now go into the cave. Go to the right and around all the water to get to the Locked Chest, which opens with the key we found in the fish. Take the key inside and go back to Serpent's Hold. Now using that key you can open the door to all those Magical Weapons![/b]

So that's solved

7) Stealing. It seems somewhat buggy... For example: I'm at some island (Valorian Islands I think) that's inhabited by hostile pirates. I turn on the combat mode and my party attacks and kills them. There's some food on the island, so I decide to eat it and feed it to my party members. This is when it gets strange: Some of my party members start complaining that I'm stealing! They say "Is that virtuous?" and "Avatar?!". I mean wtf... They had no problem with killing the pirates, they had no problem with me taking the pirates' gold, but if I take their food they complain that I'm stealing!! :blink:

Another example was when I rescued the baby from the shrine south from Trinsic. There were two bodies there so I thought I'd drag them to Lord British's castle and see if he could resurrect them (he couldn't). When I moved them in the castle, the jester and the guards started complaining, and eventually attacked me and took me to prison!

Edit: I just noticed a funny thing: When I scroll my mouse wheel, I can move the screen like with Mage's Eye spell :P Can scroll north and south as far as I want to without moving my party anywhere.

8) Can't you go into solo-mode in Ultima 7?? :blink: Like you could in Ultima 6...

For example I'm now in Serpents Spine and there's a lever which I have to pull. But there's fireballs coming out from near it so I have to go by the wall so I don't get hit. But my partymembers will get hit if they come with me in that triangle formation! :tai:

[The Fifth Horseman]

You can edit your own posts - like you did - and add the new questions to them. There is no need to triple-post like you did.

[mika]

Do edits appear on the "View new posts" page? If not then I prefer the triple posts. I think edits should be just for fixing something, not adding new content, otherwise people miss it.

(hehe - kind of like my spelling :P)

[Tervez]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jsl @ Nov 22 2006, 05:30 PM) [snapback]268249[/snapback]</div>

6) What (stat?) affects on from which circles of magic I can cast spells from?
[/b]

I think it's only the magic skill.

7) Stealing. It seems somewhat buggy... For example: I'm at some island (Valorian Islands I think) that's inhabited by hostile pirates. I turn on the combat mode and my party attacks and kills them. There's some food on the island, so I decide to eat it and feed it to my party members. This is when it gets strange: Some of my party members start complaining that I'm stealing! They say "Is that virtuous?" and "Avatar?!". I mean wtf... They had no problem with killing the pirates, they had no problem with me taking the pirates' gold, but if I take their food they complain that I'm stealing!! [/b]

There's a plethora of tips how to steal properly here: http://www.it-he.org/

8) Can't you go into solo-mode in Ultima 7?? Like you could in Ultima 6...[/b]

Just talk to your party members, say leave. Make sure to say that they must stay at the place they're now.

[jslind]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ Nov 23 2006, 01:29 PM) [snapback]268384[/snapback]</div>

You can edit your own posts - like you did - and add the new questions to them. There is no need to triple-post like you did.[/b]

So you had to delete the posts completely. How nice of you.

[The Fifth Horseman]

I haven't deleted them. I'm evil, but not that much.

None of the questions you posted are gone, as I copied the content of second and third post into the first one.

Only then the other two were split from this thread and moved into a location where only mods & admins can see them.