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A Valley Without Wind 1 & 2 / Mercenaries are too expensive (and uncertainly priced)

« on: December 31, 2012, 07:18:38 PM »

Price: my PC says 25 merc coins, the help menu says 75, and when I bought a merc I ended up spending all of my ~50 coins.

What's worse is that my merc left me when I got nicked several times, to little effect, by a blade trap at an entrance.  I apparently nudged the controls a little too much for my invincibility to continue.

As for how effective mercs are in general, I can't tell since I killed monsters before he could fire a shot.

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A Valley Without Wind 1 & 2 / Are excess perk tokens lost forever?

« on: December 26, 2012, 05:26:50 AM »

Suppose I go into a pyramid and pick up three perk tokens, but I only have two perk slots left.  Will that extra token fill up a slot when I reach the next level or is it gone forever?

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AVWW Technical Support / No consciousness shard graphic or mission success

« on: May 08, 2012, 11:48:25 PM »

I've uninstalled/reinstalled AVWW, then manually updated the game.  Unfortunately not only are the consciousness shard just ugly pink boxes but the game no longer records my mission success.

On a related note, is there a way I can download a stand-alone version of this game even if I've downloaded it via Steam?

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A Valley Without Wind 1 & 2 / Difference between shelves and shallows (and finding the latter)

« on: May 04, 2012, 08:45:47 AM »

I have access to a continental shelf but not a continental shallow.  I've sailed around my continent and have found no shallow.  How do I access the shallows?  Do I calm the wind?  Deploy buoys?

What do the shallows look like?  Are they the rocky squares in the middle of shelf squares?  If 'yes' then I think I can figure out how to access them.

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AI War / How can I configure scouting paths?

« on: December 21, 2010, 08:57:45 AM »

When I send scouts somewhere I can only control the end on the path and not which path they take.  Is there a way of controlling their paths without micromanagement?